Rural Swimming Sports

On Tuesday 29 March, Year 4 and up went to the Rural Swimming Sports. In the event there were 6 main events which were: Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Relay and the Medly relay. In the relay we came 3rd and in the Medly relay we came
1st. Laura, Fletcher, Sean and a lot of others went into the South Canterbury.

Sam wasn't able to compete in the Swimming Sports for her arm was chipped. Other people didn't show up to the event because they were sick. There were also width races as well as lenghts. There was even a width relay as well.

Everybody Had a great time and was very nervous though!

Outdoor Education week for Room 4

Last week, Room 4 as well as Room 6 had an outdoor education week. On Wednesday and Thursday we went abseiling and kayaking. The rest of the week, year 1-6 played a lot of fun games like: Capture the Flag, Cougar etc.

On Wednesday we went abseiling, it was alot of fun but not everyone made it down. We had to walk along this track which led us up to the top of the hill. It was at Mt Horrible, we had to walk through a couple of paddocks to get there.

We did a lot of leadership games such as: leadership, climbing over the fence without touching it etc. Year 6's did the fun leadership games while the year 5's went abseiling. Then we swapped over at lunchtime.

On Thursday year 6's went kayaking at Centenial park. We got split up: the boys and the girls. We had to raft up when the instructor shouted " RAFT UP! " Once we had rafted up, people got to climb out of their kayak and run over the others.

We had a lot of fun with the polytech students!

Room 4 in 2011.

Hello everybody,this year we have a class with 21 students in it. Some are from Room 3 and some are new to our school. The new person is Kendyll Eady. Kendyll is a year 6.

Now we have 2 cricket teams. A boys cricket team and a girls cricket team. The first game was at school park against Bluestone. Mr Facer coaches the boys and Mr Edmonds coaches the girls. the girls have got a game on Friday the 11 against St Andrews.

We had a second Earthquake and that's when Mckenzie and Jenna came down to our school. Mckenzie and Jenna each stayed for 5 days.

In room 4 for maths,we have been studing geometry as well as place value. For geometry we had to make our own logo. For some ideas we went out to the car park. We went to see the symbols on the front and on the tyre.

Rooms 4,3,5 and 6 have all gone into the Kapa Haka. Mataua Dan came in and helped us with our Maori songs. We learned how to say the alphabet sounds in Maori which is :A E I O U.

Hopefully we have another great year in Room 4!

By Sam and Sarah.