Interhouse Flippaball

The 2020 Interhouse Competition has begun!  Flippaball was the first event as usual, and as usual, the competition was intense.  There were some epic battles and memorable fight-backs during the round robin part of the competition, with all teams desperate to make the final.

In the end, Matai bet Rimu in the playoff for 3rd place, and Kauri bet Totara in the final.  Well done to all teams and best wishes for the rest of the year.

Room 8 - Mostly Gorgeous

Fun Day Friday

We had loads of fun during Fun Day Friday last week!  We created a BOMB CHAIN, and tried to catch the tennis ball that was thrown to us.  This was our last FDF and we had a blast!

Life Comes At You Fast....

Kawhatau Camp Video

Kawhatau Camp Highlights

Dealing With Challenges

We know it's important to have positive mental health, but sometimes we have to deal with tricky and challenging and complicated and worrying situations - and we might become stressed out or upset.  If this happens during 2020, you should watch this video to remind yourself about some strategies you could use to help!

Kai Iwi

We had a really cool time at Kai Iwi Beach last week.  This was the perfect chance for all the kids in our class to work together on different challenges, and have heaps of fun.  We tried (and failed) to beat the class record in the 'keep the ball off the ground' game, made epic sand castles, dug massive holes, had fun with our buddy class and had a boat building competition.  What an awesome day!

Buddy Class

We had lots of fun with our buddies - Room 4 - in the pool recently.  We made whirlpools, had piggy back rides, had some crazy relays and an awesome time!

Fun Day Friday

One of the highlights of the week is Fun Day Friday.  This is we do all kinds of crazy, fun challenges and games in the pool.  Today we had an awesome time making human towers, doing relays and making an epic whirlpool!

Day 2

To be successful in today's team challenge, you had to have good communication, coordination and a bit of speed!  Some groups made this challenge look easy!

Day 1 - 2020

We've had a very busy first day of the 2020 school year in Room 8.  We organised a lot of gear, did lots of talking and sharing, visited the library, went for a swim, did a quiz, started planning our first piece of art and much more!  We also had our very first team challenge of the year.  Check it out!

End Of Year Items

Turangi Camp Highlights

Pet Day - Indoor Exhibit Awesomeness!

The Git Up Dance Challenge - ACED IT!

CO2 Cars - RACE DAY!

Social 2019

Movie Making Craziness!

Wheels Day

Thank you to the Kauri Y8 students who organised an awesomely cool Wheels Day!

Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award

A massive congratulations to Rhianna, the recipient of the 2019 Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award!

Making Movies!

Whale Song

We have learnt about how whales in the Southern Ocean communicate - they are very noisy and 'speak' an incredible variety of sounds.  We thought we'd have a go at speaking 'whale'...

Check out the real deal.  How  do we compare?

Prize Winners!

Our class has won the most awesomely cool prize - $1000 worth of stationery!  We had to enter a book review competition through Paper Plus, and we won!  It was like Christmas had come early as we opened up the boxes that were full of coloured pencils, fancy pens, books, markers - all sorts!  Thank you for choosing us Paper Plus!

(and thank you to Mrs Waugh for telling us about the competition!)

Technology Update

Everyone has now finished their CO2 Dragsters, and they look fantastic!  We can't wait to race these and find out who has the fastest car!

Tech Group B has also had some fun with Dubsmash today:

South Mak Sports Exchange

Our interschool sports event with South Mak was awesome!  The weather was great, we won some games (we lost some too, but that's okay), and the afternoon tea was delicious.  Well done Team Halcombe!

Colyton Sports Exchange

There was a lot of anticipation ahead of our matches against Colyton School today.  The games were tough, and we were a bit slow to get going in some games.  Once we had warmed up, we were awesome though!  We won our netball and hockey matches, and lost the rugby and football.

Thank you so much to the referees from Feilding High School, and our fantastic coaches.  Mr Oak took some cool photos too!

We are really looking forward to facing South Mak next week!

Gymnastics

We've had three sessions of gymnastics so far, and we have really got into our groove!  We've been practicing our forward and backwards rolls, cartwheels, handstands, balancing on the beam, using the high bar, doing sideys, straddles, leap frogs and long flies on the box horse, and performing cannon balls, pikes, dive rolls, hand springs and flips on the tramp - what a lot of technical moves!

Check out these action photos from our session today!