Kiwi Tennis starts coaching the Middle Syndicate today!

Gabriel from Kiwi Tennis arrived today and started teaching us tennis skills.

 He will coach us for the next 4 weeks so remember your PE uniform on Thursdays please!
Gabriel is one of the experienced coaches that also coach at Sunnyhills Tennis Club. Gabriel is all the way from Spain so we hope to teach him about our country too.

A busy start to Term 4 in Room 20

Room 20 have had a busy first 2 weeks at school! Badminton Auckland sent Kevin to teach us the skills of this indoor sport. We really enjoyed learning this sport. 

Our recycled plastic bottles from Term 3 are turning out to be great strawberry plant holders. The rain is not making them too soggy as they are hanging up and not on the ground. 

Super students in Room 20 this week!

Congratulations to all our children Chloe and Rosie for great learning in class! Hamish for winning a voucher for his family's huffnpuff donation to school and... 

Joshua and Carter who are part of our Year 3 gymnastics team who were placed very highly, 3rd, at the Howick Pakuranga Gym Competition and then took part in the Auckland Regional Gym Competition at Tristar Gymnastics!! We are so proud of our classmates! 

You just never know what you are going to achieve until you try! 

Thank you to our families who support us by driving us to events, take time out of their day to help us raise funds, help us with our home learning and getting us to school early for practices! 

Hockey Small Sticks Wednesday

Cam from Auckland Hockey has been teaching and coaching us through hockey this term and we love it! It's a great team sport for girls and boys to play. Cam has supplied all our specially sized hockey sticks and balls so we can learn at our own level. 

As you can see we are enjoying the game so much it's hard for Mrs Trembath to take a still photo!

Olympic Finale for the Middle Syndicate

Lining up in our countries dressed in the colours of their flag! Our teams were made up of children from across the Syndicate. We made new friends today! Mrs Trembath was so proud of everyone and how they participated upholding the Olympic Values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. 

It was a beautiful day and we had lots of games and sports to try around the playground and in the hall. We used hurdles, balloons, potatoes, horses, rockets, balls, frisbees which just goes to show you can make a game out of just about anything! 

I challenge you to make up some games at home and have a Family Olympics!!

Water water everywhere!

This group are learning about water safety if you are in deep water and waiting to be rescued - huddle together to keep warm. Oliver and Joshua did a great job of pulling people into the boat by their life jackets!

Wow what a big day! Water Sports and Water Safety!

Off to the Millenium Centre with R16

Kiwi sports on Thursdays with Mrs Grant!

Learning to work as a team and letting each person have a go is really important in Team 20! How long do you think each team could keep the balloon off the ground AND still hold hands?? Try it as a family at home! 

(Sorry my photos are a bit blurry but it's hard to keep still in this challenge)!