Bowled Away!

Good afternoon,

'Twas a lovely morning for a spot of lawn bowls!

And a good time was had by all!

Mr Grant

Great Day for Turbo Touch

We are so lucky to be enjoying these Turbo Touch Lessons.  Everyone is having so much fun.  Excellent participation.

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Paki Thursday

Good afternoon,

And a lovely afternoon it is too.

A great afternoon for some P.E.

Oh, and this just in...

Hello everyone,

Just a reminder about tomorrow's dress up day. Children can come as something beginning with one of their given letters. But if they are not wanting to dress up could they please come in their school uniform.
Rutherford team - letters S & P
Sheppard team - letters A and C
Batten team - letters H & D
Hillary team - letters B & M

Also please make sure to bring a Gold Coin Donation.

Sometime before lunch the Student Council will come around each class and judge everyone and also collect the gold coin donations.

At assembly prizes will be awarded to the most creative people.

Also if you wish to wear face paint for this event you may but please make sure it's relevant.

Thank you,

Your 2016 Student Council

Tuesday's Post Wednesday

Good evening,

It would seem that I have been a little remis with my regular updates.

Yesterday the Batten Team had a jolly good time with our final Hockey session - a wee tournament between 10 teams.

There were only some injuries...

We also started looking at the titles of the Holy Spirit.

As for today, we started off with some Meditation...

...continued with some reading...

...and finished up with some thinking.

Tomorrow the Batten Team Teachers will be out of our rooms as we plan for Term 2.

Forgotten Thursday (and Friday)

Good afternoon,

Just for the sake of completeness, here's what we got up to on Thursday...

...only about half of us got injured with the hockey sticks...

...and as for Friday...

There's 500 points up for grabs if you write a quick story about this. 1000 if it's a good one!

See you on Monday.

Rawa Wera Ratu (Very Hot Tuesday)

Ahiahi mārie (Good afternoon),

And what an afternoon it is. Very wera (hot). Which may have been mistakenly expressed as wera nui (big hot?). Opps!

Ah well, 'twas glorious anyhow.

A great day for some reading inside (with air conditioning)...

...and for hockey outside.

And a good time was had by all.

Oh, and we finished that Holy Week activity...


We caluclated the days based on the recognition that the Greek word translated as "sabbath" in Matthew 28:1 σαββατων is actually "sabbaths", that Passover (an annual "special" sabbath day - on the 14th of Nissan each year) was on the Friday (followed by the weekly sabbath day, Saturday), so Jesus must have been crucified on the Thursday. That also fits the "he rose again on the third day" of scripture (1 Corinthians 15:3). He died Thursday, rose again on the third day after his death - Friday, Saturday...the early hours of Sunday morning.

Competitively Cooperative Tuesday

Good evening,

As further preparation for camp, the Batten Team broke up into our camp activity groups to continue to work cooperatively.

We also continued to work competitively with a little bit of hockey.

And a good time was had by all!

Seeing as we have had our P.E. lesson for the week, we will be running a Tuesday afternoon programme of Thursday, so...please bring your uniform on Thursday.

By for now,

Mr Grant (with special thanks Mrs Marston for her Group 1 and 3 activity photos.)

Year 4-8 Swimming Sports

Good afternoon,

The Batten team, along with the Hillary and half the Shepherd, spent the bulk of the day down at the pool challenging ourselves (well, the children were, I kinda wasn't!) to beat our personal best.

And a good time was had by all!

Well done everyone,

Mr Grant