Swimming Time

Malo E Lelei

The Incredible Two's really love swimming. For some of us, it is our first time in the water. 

At our first lesson we had to build our confidence being in the water. These are a few photos of us revisiting our skills from Term 1:
1) Entering and exiting safely 
2) Building our confidence in the water.

The Fledglings giving Athletics a go!

Malo Ni, 
On a Monday of every odd week, the Fledglings get together after lunch for Sports. This term, we are focusing on Athletic skills such as; shot-put, discuss, hurdles, standing long jump and sprints. The children are split into 6 groups. Each group spends 10 minutes at each station learning the skills. Ask your child what skills they have learnt and help them practice these at home. 

Activ8 with Incredible Two's

Kia Ora whanau, 

We have Counties Manukau who come in every Tuesday's to run a programme called Activ8 for our Junior Team. This term we will be learning about Rippa Rugby. We started learning the skill of ripping tags off each other and seeing how it feels. It was really exciting. We look forward to it every week. Check out how active we are. Thank you Coach Gafa. See you next week.

Swimming with the Blazing Saints

Talofa Lava,
Rain doesn't stop us from learning! Even though the rain was pouring down today, we had swimming. Today we learnt how to glide and streamline without using a flutter board. Thank you to the Blazing Saints for helping us. We had so much fun!

House Sports Day

Ni hao family and friends,

Thank you to Whaea Lois and the House Captains for organising such a successful event. We started the day with Zumba with Mrs Sagote. We really enjoyed it and then ended at mini games where we had to use big balls and small balls. 

Thank you to Alfred and his buddy for helping us. You both did an awesome job. 

Here is a video of our fun sports day. 

Life Eduation Prgoramme with Harold

Bula Vi Naka
This week the Courageous Cubs and Incredible Two's had 2 sessions with the Life Education Programme. We learnt about emotions and how things are the same and different about each other. We also learnt about solving problems and talking it through with a friend. We were really excited about meeting Harold and learning alot about "Feelings". Thank you Hillary and Harold for welcoming us into your classroom. We hope that one day we will have some cool lights in our classroom just like Harold. 

Ask your child about what they learnt. Our new word of the week is 'Gluteus Maximus'. Do you know what that is? 

Check out our adventure with Harold.

Swimming - Learning to use the Flutter Board

Greetings family and friends,
For swimming today the Courageous Cubs and Incredible Two's learnt how to use the Flutter Board. We have become really confident in the water. We challenged ourselves at the end of the lesson by gliding without using a flutterboard. Our teacher kept reminding us that it wasn't a race. We were all focused today and we think that we have improved since our last lesson. What do you think? 

Thank you parents for allowing your child to participate. Our next swimming day is on Friday. We can't wait!

Here are some photos and videos of our learning today. 

Room 3 and 4 getting ready to go swimming

Girls

Carmen, Mahina, Dalcee and Sammi

Boys

Kenzo

Girls

Juwayne persevering

Juwayne feeling more confident with himself

Juwayne coming up for air

Kenzo showing the class how it's done

Chrisander giving it a go!

Nico practising how to hold the flutter board

Mahina showing the girls how to do it

Carmen feeling happy with what she can do

Look at us go!

Courageous Cubs and Incredible Two swimmers

Boys first attempt at swimming with a flutterboard

Girls swimming with a flutterboard

Class swimming with a flutterboard

Challenged ourselves to swim without a flutterboard

Swimming without a flutterboard

Fitness with Courageous Cubs and Excellent Eagles

Malo E Lelei, 

Today we had Excellent Eagles and Courageous Cubs join us for Fitness. We had so much fun.
Here are some photos and videos of our fun time together.

Small Ball skills with Courageous Cubs

Kia Ora Whanau

This week in P.E. we learnt about how to throw a tennis ball (small ball). We first practised in class before going out with Courageous Cubs on the field. We had to remember to aim and then throw. Some of us were really good but we all still need to practise at home. Parents, ask your child about what they learnt and practise with them at home. 
Here are some photos of our learning. 

Swimming Lessons in our School Pool

This term we have been learning to enter and exit the pool correctly using the ladder. We are also learning how to be confident in the water. For some of us, it has been a bit scary and a challenge but we have been supporting each other. 
Thank you to our parents who allow us to bring our togs to school because it is important that we learn to be confident in the water. 
During our second week we got to be a 'big brother and sister' helper. We showed and helped the Courageous Cubs during swimming time. It was so much fun.

Check out some of our photos for the first 2 weeks of swimming.

Teeraa showing everyone how to enter the pool correctly.

Helping our buddies in the water.

Nico showing the Courageous Cubs what to do.

Practising to blow the ball rather than spit at it. Boy it was a challenge!

Waiting to enter the pool using the ladder.