Year 6 Ski Trip

On Monday 10th of September most of the year six children went on a ski trip to Porters Ski Field.

We had the option to do skiing or snowboarding,
most of the year us chose to do skiing.
Some of the parents joined in to learn to ski or snowboard as well.

When you did skiing you got put through three beginner levels and they
taught you to...

1.Put your skis on

2. Learn how to stop

3. Learn how to turn.

When you finished those three levels you could go off to the intermediate
slope which was steeper and longer than the beginners.

To get up to the intermediate slope you had to hold onto a pomer.
A pomer is like a flying fox but you don't sit on it, you hold onto it and it pulls
you up the mountain.

If you did snowboarding you would practice clipping and unclipping your
snowboard on and off. Then you headed half way up the intermediate slope
and sat down to clip in your snowboard.

One at a time you'd stand up and go down facing forward learning how to
stop and start. Once you reached the bottom you'd head halfway up again
and finish the lesson.

Thank you to all of your parent helpers. We hope you enjoyed the day as
much as us!

Mason Matthews

Chess!

Congratulation to Finn, Harry, Zodie and Riley Sc who are members of the
Waitākiri A Chess team.  

They recently competed at the Canterbury tournament and won.
This meant they get to compete at the nationals in Mount Maunganui.

The boys have also worked very hard to fundraising to pay for their flights and
accommodation.They held a black and white mufti day, a pie fundraiser and guess how many chess pieces are in the pot.

This is a really good opportunity for them. They also went to Ashburton where they came 2nd out of all of the South Island.

Cantamath 2018

Christchurch Individual Problem Solving Cantamath Display Competition

This involved choosing one of four problems and independently working on a solution.

Children had to write up their working clearly and include any calculations they made and what they had discovered. They then had to present this in either a booklet or poster format and include any models they created while working on the solution.

Once they had completed them they were taken to the Horncastle Arena and marked.

The highest mark able to be given out was an Excellence award and then after that was Highly Commended. Brooklyn, Ollie, Jake, Ihaka, Zoe, Finn, Daisy, and Aahneya received Highly Commended and Lucas, Ben and Gemma received an Excellence award.

Congratulations everyone.

Gaga Dodgeball

Gaga dodgeball is a game where you try to be the last one standing.

To play you need a dodgeball and an octagonal shaped pit.

Everyone stands around the edge and someone throws the ball in. You have to wait until the ball bounces twice and say ‘gaga’. Then you are allowed to run around and try and get people out.

There are pit rules and if you break the rules you get banned from the pit for a certain amount of time.

Rules

1. To get people out you have to hit the ball into to them. (It has to be below the knees)
2. If you hit the ball out of the pit you’re out.
3. You are only allowed to touch the ball once. If you make it into the top two then you're allowed to hit it twice.
4. You're allowed to hit it against the wall and then hit it again.
5. No teaming

Every day is a different year group so that the big kids don't hurt the little kids and that it's not so crowded.

On Mondays and Tuesdays year 6 and year 5 get a turn to use the pit at break times.

We LOVE playing!

By Mason and Oliver