How many children will fit in a box?

Today Miss Smits brought in a big box for us to decorate for the school fun day on Saturday. We thought it would be fun to see how many children we could fit in the box before we started to decorate it.

We tried the boys first. We discovered 5 boys could fit in the box.

Next we tried the girls. We could squeeze 5 girls into the box as well!

Red Home Base Swimming

It's been a wonderful two weeks of water safety and swimming. The confidence in the children as increased as the lessons have progressed. The final day is water safety in life jackets and entering and exiting boats.

Balloon Badminton

For the last two weeks we have been having Balloon Badminton lessons with Carrie from Badminton Canterbury. We have loved learning all about Badminton and are now experts at underarm and overarm shots! Thanks Carrie, we had a fantastic time!!

Play dough Sculpture

Today the Yellow room had their second sculpture lesson with Miss Smits we are learning how to add texture to our Gruffalo using our fingers, toothpicks and popsicle sticks. We were so focused on our learning that we didn't want to stop for lunch!

Welcome

Today in our whole school assembly we welcomed Devante, Yinuo and Devon to our the Piwakawaka Team.

Devante and Devon have joined the Blue Room and Yinuo is in the Yellow Room.
We are so excited to have you all in our team!

Go All Blacks GO

To show our support of the All Blacks BPS had a black day. Here is our Piwakawaka Team ready to support the 'boys in black'. Go All Blacks Go!!

Swimming at Jellie Park

Our first week at swimming had gone wonderfully well. The children have coped well with the cold wind, rain and routine of getting in and out of the water.

The confidence of the children after three days is noticeable by the teachers (on the side of the pool).