Every Monday Peta and Jenny from Sport Tasman come to our school with a sports trailer. It is loaded with $16,000 worth of sports gear. Peta has been teaching us how to be leaders and create games using the equipment. We will be able to take St Vincent and Trafalgar Rooms through some exercise drills.
On the 23rd of June, Nile Room went to the Suter Art Gallery’s interesting Mike Ward exhibition. There were four types of art there: graphical design, wearable art, sculptures and jewellery. Mike Ward is a politician and he designed our school logo. It has a few stick figures holding a sign which reads ‘Auckland Point School’. Mike Ward loves the environment and he tries hard to care for the Earth. He perseveres at everything that he is determined to do. The exhibition was interesting and fun. Mike Ward himself came to the exhibition when we were halfway through drawing ourselves holding signs. He seems friendly and we got a photo with him. A staff member of the Suter, Esther, told us about the exhibits and suggested some activities for us to do. We all drew a picture of ourselves holding a sign and we had to write down something that we think is special to Nelson. The exhibit was very interesting.
I have just got home from a 5 week adventure. I went to Scotland for my aunty’s wedding. My Dad hadn’t been home to Scotland for 14 years. We went from Nelson to Auckland first. Auckland airport is really cool. We left Auckland and Hong Kong was our first stop. I didn’t like it that much. It had a funny smell and it was really hot. When you went outside, it was like walking into a heater. It was hard to breath. Then we went all the way to London. It was an 11 hour flight. I didn’t get any sleep on that flight. This is where we met up with Grandma and Granddad. I hadn’t seen them for 3 years. We drove to Scotland from London. It was torture having to sit in the car for 8 hours to get there. When we got to Scotland I slept for hours. Grandma and Grandpa’s house was a cottage and it had this gravel type stuff on the outside walls, that attracted heaps of snail! On the inside it was like a fancy New Zealand house.
In Scotland I met lots of Dad’s family friends. I also met 5 of my cousins. In Scotland we visited East Colder, Edinburgh, Stirling and Crimond. We got to see the Edinburgh dungeon. It was really scary. I tried Haggis and it was disgusting. When we left Scotland my Dad was really sad and he cried. It will probably be ages before he visits Scotland again.
The highlight of my trip was my aunty Pamela’s wedding. It was really fun and I ate a lot of cake!
I was really happy to get home. I missed the smell of Nelson. I also missed Mum, Bamma, Tim, Wallace and my class.
By Mac
Today we had Simon Mannering and Michael Luck from the Warriors come to school. They spoke to us about themselves, how they got into Rugby League and what they enjoy about it. At the end we had a quiz and people who answered correctly won a prize and had it signed by Michael and Simon. Trey even got his cast signed! It was neat to have some famous New Zealand sports stars at school.
We have made scale models of what we think our adventure playground should look like, when it’s had an upgrade. We spent a lot of time planning our designs so we would know exactly what materials we would need. We worked in groups or 3 or 4 to create our designs.
Here are some photos of a few of them.
On Thursday 3 June, we went to the Tahuna back beach to plant trees. This is to help the beach from eroding. Steven from Nelmac showed us how to plant properly and we got into pairs and got started. Between Nile Room and St Vincent Room, we planted nearly 700 trees. It was really warm and sunny so it was good to get out of the classroom after all the wet weather we have had.
On Wednesday, 22 children from Auckland Point went to the Tahuna Playing Fields to play league. Andrew and Mike from Tasman Rugby League organised it. They came to our school last term to teach us league skills. We went on a bus with 2 other schools. Nelson Central and Tahuna. When we got to the playing field Mike organised the teams. Nile Room played Nelson Central and we won 3-2. It was an exciting but painful game. When you fall to the ground in a tackle it hurts. St Vincent Room played Victory. They lost 6-1. It was a good game and they all had fun. We cheered when Rowan scored his try.
On the way back everyone was so noisy on the bus. Some girls were singing Justin Bieber! It was annoying. We will be going for the next 6 weeks and we are looking forward to competing again next week.
By Rion and Mac
Here is our swim team who went to Hampden Street School last Friday. They all swam really well!
We had a very successful school triathlon and a large number of children competed as individuals this year. Mrs Wadsworth put all the cones out to mark the areas where we had to go. The juniors went first and then the seniors. We all finished up at the pool. After the triathlon we all had an iceblock. It was hard work but everyone had a great time.
We have had a really successful swimming season this year. We have enjoyed our upgraded pool and have been swimming 3 times a day some days! Lots of practice has been done on our kicking and arm strokes.
Today Andrew and Mike from Nelson Rugby League came to do some drills with us. They are trying to lift the profile of League in the Nelson Area. Today we learnt how to hold and pass the ball properly. They will be with us every Monday until the end of the term.
We have had a great first week back at school. The children are all buzzing and keen to get into work. We have spent the first few days learning about each other and our learning environment. We have been swimming each day and our new pool is fantastic!
