Young Achievers

Congratulations to Olivia, William and Shelby!  They are our 2017 Young Achievers, and they received recognition at the Manawatu Young Achievers Award ceremony last night.  Here is why they received their awards:

Olivia is passionate about all aspects of farming.  She has raised a calf every year, and has an extensive knowledge of farm life.  Olivia regularly helps out on the family farm, and always has a story to tell about her latest farming adventures!

William was born to be a farmer.  He is very aware of environmental issues facing farmers today, and has helped his family to plant thousands of trees on their property, and fence off waterways.  He is also passionate about utilising new technology to help with jobs on the farm.

As a member of Marton St John, Shelby makes a positive contribution to our community.  Involvement in this activity requires commitment, hard work and many hours of training.  Shelby carries out her responsibilities with enthusiasm and dedication.

Small Ball Skills

We're all done with cross country running - now we're into Small Ball Skills.  We're going to get much better at throwing, catching, hitting targets and bowling!  Hopefully.

Cross Country

What an epic day we've had at the Halcombe School Cross Country!  We made the most of the training sessions we had, and this definitely helped to get us in shape for the big event.  The course was just as challenging as ever with plenty of prickles and mud and water and steep down hills and even steeper up hills!

Well done Room 6 - you can all be proud of the effort you put in.  Well done to those who pushed themselves, and gave 100%.  It looked like you all did!  A special congratulations to those who achieved their goals.  

Top 3:
Year 6 & 7 Girls - 1) Lucy  2) Jessie  3) Ashley R
Year 6 & 7 Boys - 1) Jack  2) Logan  3) Mitchell
Year 8 Girls - 1) Georgia  2) Willow  3) Gussie
Year 8 Boys - 1) Samuel  2) Fergus  3) Ben

Thanks for the photos Miss Fleet!

Pet Day

What an awesome day we've had!  Congratulations to all those who brought pets today - we know that raising a pet is really hard work, and you all did very well.  There were some really cute dogs, calves and lambs (and pandas)!  Well done to those who received prizes.

The Country Kids Challenge was loads of fun too, and as usual, the competition was red hot.  Competing in a range of 'rural' challenges, the teams blitzed through the course in an epic race.  We found out that:

• throwing a frisbee accurately is a wee bit hard in the wind.
• bobbing for apples isn't as easy as it looks.
• hay bales are heavy.
• some people know how to use drench guns, and others don't.
• some people weigh a lot and pushing them in a wheel barrow was hard.
• getting your team to move 5 metres while standing in a wool fadge is pretty much impossible.

And check out this cool video taken from William's drone:

Pet Day Indoor Exhibits

We have put a lot of time and effort into our indoor exhibits for Pet Day.  We have spent hours making our paper mache masks, and are really happy with how they have turned out.  We also took the time to frame our rural photos carefully.  Great work team!

Cross Country Training

We were so happy to see our old friend THE BOG during our cross country training run today!  

Photographer:  Miss Fleet

Masks

Today we got stuck into painting our paper mache masks.  We had to think carefully about what colours we wanted to use, and what designs/patterns we wanted to have.  We think they are going to look pretty cool when they're done!