Westland District Council Invite

We've been asked to pass this on to parents and the wider community.  The council will be hosting a public consultation meeting at the Kokatahi Hall on Tuesday June 11th at 7pm.

Click here to see the full size poster.

Cross Country in Ross

The weather was fantastic for the Cross Country in Ross!  The kids did a fantastic job running around the lake, through the stream and mud!  Thanks to Ross School for organising the day. :)

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If you have photos from the day that you would like to share, please send them to school and we will add them too!

An Olympic visitor

Juliette Haigh came to visit us.  She won heaps of gold medals and the bronze Olympic medal for coxless pair rowing in 2012.

The Olympic village was like a small town.  There was a tent for eating in that was bigger than our school field.  She was born in Auckland.  She started rowing when she was 14.  She has been rowing for 16 years.

Her rowing skiff is 10 metres long.  The oars are 3 metres long.  She uses one and her partner uses one.

In her first Olympic race she fell out!  She thought about all the people all over the world who were watching.  But... she got back in and finished the race.  The audience gave them a standing ovation.  The audience were very impressed that they didn't give up and in their next race they came second, and qualified for the final race.  

Juliette is retired from rowing and she is going on to have more exciting adventures.  

First Aid Kits

First Aid Kit orders and money need to be back at the office by Monday 20th May please. Remember there is a $20 Take Note Voucher for the family who sells the most!!

Uniform List

If you are looking for the uniform list, it has been added in the tab just above this post.
Click on the information tab, and you'll see links to the 2013 information booklet as well as the uniform list.
Let us know if you have any trouble accessing the documents.

Run Jump Throw VoiceThread

The Hoiho Class are learning how to use VoiceThread.  This is a Web 2.0 tool that allows us to create slide shows that the students can add comments to.  Comments can be made by adding text, voice recordings or videos.  We will be using this next term as well.  Here is one we started about our Run Jump Throw day.

Almost the holidays!

What a busy term!  12 weeks feels like a very long time and the children are feeling it too.  We have had a little chat about trying extra hard this week to be patient with our friends as everyone is tired and a little more sensitive than usual.

Thanks to all the parents who have helped make term 1 a success.  The kids have done some great learning and we are looking forward to a fresh start next term.

If you are looking for some kid friendly news stories, click the picture below.  It will take you to Kiwi Kids News.  This site has NZ and internationally based news, some funny stories and interesting games and videos.

We're being blogged about!

Check out Belinda's Blog where she is sharing about our success with her tutorial :)

Swimming at Ross

Thanks Ross School for hosting another great swimming day :)

It was really fun to have Kumara School there as well.  There were lots of exciting races and laughs through the day and all the children did really well.

Special thanks to Fleur who was our parent in the final relay and had a such a strong finish.

The total points earned by each school was divided by the number of children from each school.  This made a close finish with Ross School scoring an average of 4 points, Kumara School scoring an average of 4.51 and Kokatahi-Kowhitirangi School earning 4.8!!!  Less than a point between us!

Bring a comfy seat to assembly on Friday... there will be lots of certificates to hand out for swimming.

Great work!

Week 5 already!

Wow!  Term is flying past with such great weather.  The children are having a great time in the pool and a great time learning.  Here is some art the Hoiho Class have been working on.  Not only did they learn about mixing colours, this task was a great challenge for listening carefully to instructions! Inside the circles the students wrote characteristics they want to have when they are older.

This project was inspired by Belinda Fireman and her art tutorial.  Click here to see her blog. The art will be on display in the school office and library
 :)