Louis is the star of the week for week 7! Louis is a keen sportsman and you will always find him playing cricket or soccer at break times. Louis is an active member of APS and is one of our Senior Sport Leaders. The children in Nile Room had lots of positive things to say about Louis, here are some of them;
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Keep up the great work Louis.
Nicole started at Auckland Point last year when she moved from Vietnam to Nelson. She is a hard working member of our class and she always completes her work to a high standard. She is great at asking questions when she is unsure of anything. Nicole is a great role model for other children at our school.
Rowan is our star of the week. He is always working hard in class and participates actively in the life of our school. Rowan has taken on the responsibility of being a buddy to Alex in Trafalgar room and he is definitely someone for Alex to look up to. Rowan is a fantastic sportsman and an all round great kid. We really enjoy having you around Rowan.
Jazmin is the star of the week this week, for always having an excellent attitude towards school tasks. Jazmin, you are always polite and respectful, follow our class rules and routines with ease and always try your best. Keep up the great work!
Jazmin spent morning tea and lunchtime today taking photos of children in the playground. This photo is of Nicole in the hut her and Brearna have built on the back field.
This morning Caleb and Rowan went to the kindy to take some photos of the children working in there. The kids were all happy and doing all sorts of things. This is our favourite photo from our visit.
Shone is the star of the week this week for being an active participate at Auckland Point. Shone you are a great leader for other children in our school. You get involved in everything and try your best to achieve good results. Keep up the great work Shone.
Allan is the star of the week this week for having such a positive attitude towards learning and others. Allan you are a pleasure to teach because you follow instructions and always treat others with respect. You are kind and caring which helps make Nile Room a happy place to be. Keep up your positive attitude because people with positive attitudes tend to be the ones that go a long way in life.
Here is a group of kids playing nicely together in the sandpit at lunchtime.
We have been working hard over the last few weeks on our self portraits. These are a little different to what a self portrait normally looks like, they are funky and represent our individual style. We had to use contrasting colours to represent each part of our portrait. Here are some examples.
Welcome back to school for 2011. We have had a great first 2 weeks and enjoying the sun and refreshing swims in our school pool. We have started with 21 children in our class and we are all very happy to be back at school.
At our final assembly on Wednesday, we farewelled our 2010 Leavers. We wish them all the best with their next journey and hope they come back to visit regularly!
26 November 2010
Dear Mr Kokshoorn,
On behalf of Auckland Point School in Nelson, we would like to pass on our love and sympathies to the people of the West Coast.
This morning we had a special ceremony for the Pike River miners and their families. We all lit a candle in remembrance of the miners.
Most of our kids donated some money for the Pike River disaster. We have been following the news each day and we know that all the people involved in the rescue did the best job they could. You and Mr Whittall have handled the situation with great dignity. We would like to express our condolences and donate this money to help assist in some way.
Some of the children at our school have been to the West Coast and we like the scenery and the beaches. Our teacher is from the West Coast and she told us that the people on the Coast are incredibly special.
We hope that you will be able to put the 29 men to rest and recover their bodies.
We wish the people of the West Coast and the miners families all the best and our thoughts are with you all at this difficult time.
Best Wishes
Taylor, Solmaz, Buda & Rion
Year 6 Students
Auckland Point School
Nelson
On Friday we had a special ceremony for the Pike River miners. It was a great time for us all to think about the families who have lost someone special because of this disaster. We have been following the story since it happened on the 19 November. We collected $150 to send to the Greymouth District Council and we wrote a letter to the mayor Tony Kokshoorn. Mrs Wadsworth is going to the public memorial on Thursday in Greymouth.
Last Tuesday we went to Saxton Field for Inter School athletics. We were competing against the 6 other Nelson Schools. We got 3rd overall for the 11 year old girls. It was a really hot day and we were all exhausted by the time we got back to school!
Today we started an art project with Judy Keylock. She is helping us to create something special for the buildings around our school. We started today with paper clay and we got to create our own designs on them. Watch this space for progress!
Amir got 3rd place in the TVNZ Netguide Web challenge for 2010. He designed a website about our edible gardens here at school. Amir and his Mum flew to Auckland for the award ceremony.
Well done Amir, we are all very proud of you!
You can see the website here
We had the most amazing week at camp in Christchurch. The buzz is still going on in the classroom as we discuss the highlights of our trip. We worked really hard during the year to raise the money we needed to go on camp. It was well worth all the hard work as our camp will be one we will always remember. The highlights for most of the class was the ice skating and Adrenaline Forest. We didn’t feel any after shocks and the class was incredibly well behaved. Everywhere we visited commented on how great our manners were.
A big thanks needs to go to our parent helpers; Gabi, Vicky, Kay, Cameron, Sarah & Mal. Also a thanks to Georgina for all her help with fundraising and coming on camp with us.
Cowpat Bingo was another success this year. Caramel the cow stole theshow and was an absolute star. It took her 2.5 hours to do her thing and she even went to sleep for nearly an hour! When she got up from
her nap, a winner was determined. She did a great big pat right in the middle of square number 810.
