Showing "Aspire' at the School Cross-Country

Our B4 students got the chance to show our school value of 'Aspire' by training for, and running in, our school cross-country.

Our school values are match with the initials of our school name!

Reefton - respect

Area - aspire

School - self-manage.

Everyone worked hard and kept going even when they were tired!

What are your school values?

How can you show them?

Participating and Contributing - Athletics Day

Athletics Day gives the B4 children a great opportunity to display the Key Competencies of 

Participating and Contributing.

Mrs. McK was lucky enough to be with the Yr 3s as they went to each of the events.

It was wonderful to see the children competing well, and supporting each other.

What is your favourite athletic event?

We are Learning to 'Swim For Life'

This week we started our 'Swim For Life' sessions. 

Twice each week for the rest of term, we will go down to the town pool and have swim lessons with Hayley.

Some of us were a little worried that the pool would be too deep, but everyone gave it a go!

To our surprise, Hayley had some underwater stretchers for us to stand on, so that made us feel safer.

We are sure our swimming will improve this term.
A big thank you to the mums and dads who help with transport, and by getting in the pool.


B4 'Swim For Life' on PhotoPeach

Why is it important to learn to swim?

Where is your favourite place to swim?

Sporty Stick Figures

This term's art topic 'Sporty Sculptures' was inspired by the recent Commonwealth Games.

In the first activity, we started by looking at each other in sporty poses then used pipe cleaners to form our 

sporty stick figures.

Sporty Stick Figures on PhotoPeach

What sports do you think our figures were taking part in?

Giving It a Go, Even Though You Might Not Win

This term we are working in inquiry groups to find out more about our neighbouring countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Like New Zealand, some of these countries are 

members of the Commonwealth, 

so we followed each group's 'country' as they took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Some of the countries we followed have small populations, and only sent small teams to the Commonwealth Games.

Some of those countries didn't win any medals. 

We were impressed that even though the athletes probably didn't expect to win a medal, they came to the Games and competed to their best ability.

Why might athletes compete even if they don't expect to win?

Swim for Life

The Year 3's are having a series of 10 swimming lessons in a special program 

called 'Swim for Life'.

They are all trying new things in the pool and we talked about how some activities take a lot of courage if you haven't done it before.

Watch out later in the week for some student writing about  courageous moments! 

Tell us about your courageous moment!

CRASH!

Emily's dad has been training on his bicycle because he and a friend are going to be riding their bikes in Tibet soon.

He has been building his stamina for bike-riding, just as we build our Daily 5 stamina for reading!

But last week he came off his bike while training.

Look what happened!

Just as well he was wearing a helmet or his head would have got smashed!

Do you have a sport that you build stamina for?

What else do you build stamina for?

Have you ever had a big crash off your bike?

Swim, Swim, Swim!

The weather is hot and what better way to cool down than to have swimming lessons in the school pool 

three times a week!

Luckily we get lots of parent help so everyone can be in the pool for the whole time.

Mrs Wistrand is noticing that many of the students have improved their swimming skills over the summer.

Where do you like to swim -pool, river, lake, ocean?

What is your favourite swimming stroke?

Should all children and adults know how to swim?

Pass the Ball

In PE we've been practicing our ball passing and catching skills.

Which games do you think this passing technique would be used in?

Putting the Effort In - 100 Medals 1908-2012!

An exciting aspect of these Olympic games for New Zealand is that our 100th Olympic medal has been earned in the Olympics games.

We are a small country and our Olympic athletes become household names and role-models to many. 

Here is a video showing the New Zealand Olympians from 1908-2012 who have earned the 100 medals.

(Thank you to our friends in Room 24, TIS for the link to the video.)

Do you have a sportsperson that you admire? 

What are the qualities that person has that you find admirable?
What lessons can we learn from our Olympians?

Follow the Olympic Medal Map

Are you following the Olympic games?

Google have put out this handy medal map, so you can see where the medals are going to. 

Best wishes to all of our New Zealand athletes.

What are your favourite sports to watch?

Do you have a message for our athletes?

The World Cup Rugby competition is Starting

For the next six weeks the Rugby World Cup competition will be happening in New Zealand.

The teams have arrived, with the opening ceremony on Friday 9 September. 

Rugby is one of our favourite sports and our national team is called the All Blacks.

If you don't know about the game of rugby, you can find out more here.

Over the next few weeks the haka will be performed many times.

In Topic with Mrs Webb this term 

we have used the Rugby World Cup as a catalyst for thinking about 'Heroes and Role-Models'.

What qualities would a good role-model need?

For some more information and activities about the Rugby World Cup check out the links on our Topic Links page.

Does your country have a team playing in the 

Rugby World Cup?

Which two teams do you think will play in the final?

Who do you pick to win?

What are the popular sports in your country?

Athletics Day

This year, instead of  separate senior and junior sports,

we had a whole school athletics day, with both competitive and fun events.

The day started with a house relay, 

with 3 children from each year group running for their house.

Then we moved to the rotations in year groups, 

taking part (with adaptations for the younger children)

in sprints, high jump, long jump, 

javelin/vortex, shot put/softball throw, discus/gumboot throw, 

with an obstacle course, sack races, three-legged races 
and water slide for fun.

Luckily the Flat Stanleys from 2KM and 2KJ in Australia arrived yesterday, 

so they were able to take part too!

What is your favourite athletics event?

Two tryathletes

During the weekend two B4 students travelled to Nelson and took part in the Weetbix Tryathlon.
The Weet-bix tryathlon is an event for children.
It is called a try-athlon because we want kids to 'have a go.'

A triathlon is a contest that has 3 events.

The events were swimming, running and cycling.

Both boys got a medal each and had a great time.

Have you ever taken part in a triathlon?
What sports do you take part in?