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Awakeri School News 7th May For the last two days we have been lucky to have Brent McKillop and Exia Edwards here introducing rugby skills to everyone. Each class has had a turn, and we have all loved it! Rachael Griffen even got her knees dirty! 5th May Today
is the first day back for term two. This term there are only two bus
runs instead of three. The Angle/Putiki run have been split up between
the White Pine/Station Road and McDonalds Road bus runs. This means
there will be more kids on the bus but, luckily we now have bigger buses
so that it's not as crowded! All the students that go on the bus will
all leave at 3 o'clock instead of some leaving later. 18th April Today
is the last day of the term. After today we'll have a two week holiday
break. We'll be back to school on Monday the 5th of May.
17th April Yesterday was our senior Fundraiser. It was to fundraise for the senior camps, Blair Lodge and Tui Ridge. The senior students had to organize a stall, selling food or doing an activity for the rest of the school to enjoy. Because it's been raining heaps here, the stalls had to be moved inside or under the decks. We raised $1 400 to put towards our camps. There were stalls like Slurp 'n' Burp, Singstar, the Tunnel of Doom and Delishimo Cafe' (DC). Here are a few pictures of the fundraiser. 15th April Tomorrow is the senior school's Fun Raiser. Hopefully the rain will stop for an hour. We'll be having it anyway. All welcome to bring some money and have some fun. 11th
April Next
Wednesday is the senior syndicate's annual fundraiser to raise money for their
camps. The fundraiser occurs during the lunch hour. The fundraiser is when the
senior children get into groups and think of ideas to raise money for their camp,
things like food stalls, obstacle courses, sumo wrestling
in fat suits, or jumping out the room 12 window. Some of the senior classes presented
plays to advertise thir stalls at the school assembly. They were really creative
and energetic when presenting their plays, everyone seemed to enjoy them. 9th April Here are a few of Judy's cool photos of the touch day yesterday:
8th April Today is inter-school touch day. It is held at our school every year and lots of other schools are coming to play for a fun day of Touch. The PTA will be selling food in the canteen as well to fundraise money. It's for kids aged from about eight to twelve or even thirteen. It's a really fun day for everyone!! 4th
April We had a lady called Janie at our school to talk about the enviroment.
She talked about the water and how little we have to drink and share between so
many people. It was really interesting to listen to and she also gave us homework.
It was very interesting to see how many litres of water we all watse. She only
talked to the seniors and middle school as the juniors don't really understand! 2nd
April Yesterday Room 14 went to their camp, Blair
Lodge. It's near Katikati and is home to lots of animals like pigs, chickens,
donkeys. They'll be back on Friday afternoon. They'll be doing lots of fun activities,
like on the last day they'll go to Waimarino water park. There are other activities
like archery, slug guns, confidence course. And we can't forget the mock court
on the last night which is quite a laugh!! 26th March
Today's the first day back from our extra long Easter weekend. It was a refreshing
vacation from our regular learning routines. It was a five day holiday so I'm
sure we have all had a relaxing time with our families. And don't forget all the
chocolate we consumed over the holidays. 20th March
Yahh yesterday and today have been half days for the students because of parent
interviews. The lucky teachers get to stay at school for hours telling our parents
what little angels we've been (cough, cough). Tomorrow is another holiday because
of Easter weekend, we also have next Monday and Tuesday off, yahhh!! 17th March
Yesterday was our Top School, which was a really fun day.
Congratulations to our Top School team and cheerleaders who did really well in
their competitions. The cheerleaders came first, and the team came fourth. 14
March Yahhhh! Only a couple of days until Top school! Over the last
few weeks our Top school team and cheerleaders have been working hard ready to
represent our school on Sunday, so good luck to them, as well as all the other
schools entering. We're under way already with a lot of the field starting to
be set up for Sunday. A lot of work will be done tomorrow as well. 6th March
Yesterday B and C block had their swimming sports
at the Edgecumbe college pool. 29th February Jaime Clarke is a lucky leap year person. Today she had her 3rd birthday!!! We all sang Happy Birthday to her at assembly! 28th February Yesterday just after the end lunch bell had gone, the firebell started going. We all thought it was just the regular fire drill that we have every term but once we all got into our class lines and did the roll, Mr. Fitz moved us all onto the back court. This is when some of us thought it might be due to a real fire. We were all waiting anxiously on the back court, when we saw the big digger that had recently been working on the turf pop around the corner. Seeing the digger relieved us of the thought that it was a real fire. The real reason the digger also came to the backcourt was to tear down the big oak tree that was in the middle of the staff parking lot. The news monitors went to investigate the reason for the destruction of the tree, this is what we found out.... Why-
Because in place of the staff parking lot and the tree the school will be building
a new classroom for Extensions and enrichment. 26th February Last
week room 8 and room 11 went on separate camps to the Ohiwa Harbour. Room 8 went
on Monday and arrived back on Wednesday and room 11 went on Wednesday and came
back on Friday. Here are some photos from Room 8's
camp and some from room 11's camp. 22nd
February Today we found
out who made it into the top school team. Twelve senior students, six boys and
six girls, got chosen. Over the last few weeks they have been on trial, testing
their speed and accuracy. Lots of students tried out, but only twelve could be
chosen 19th
February Yesterday C block
( room 12, 13 and 14) went to Otarawairere beach. They went there to explore the
creatures and plants that live in the rock pools and to compare the creatures
in the high tide and low tide areas. We have some awesome photos as well! 15th
February 08 We have just received information of who our new House
captains are. Congratulations!! They are...
11th
February 08 The new website monitors have been chosen. Below is a list
of who they are and what class they're doing. :) 5
February 08 School is back!
Lots of happy students are enjoying catching up
with their friends, and no-one has got too lost with the new room numbers! Lucky
Room 14 and Room 13's year sevens are off to Tech at Edgecumbe College today.
3 February 08 There are a number of room changes for students, from those listed on the children's reports at the end of last year. This is because of quite a few enrolments in the senior school, and the resulting reshuffle of students down through the school. Please check the notice board out the front of the school to see which room you / your child has been allocated to. 30 January 2008 Welcome back everyone. School starts on Monday, get yourself ready!! Welcome to new teacher Esther Geerlings, who will be teaching in Room 5. Mr Sheather is the 'new' Deputy Principal in charge of the juniors.Welcome back to Mrs West too. 18 January 2008 The updated school calendar is online (click on the link to the left). The new room numbers have been put up too! Hopefully everyone will soon get used to them!! We will be changing the links to the rooms' pages on the website soon!! 9
January 2008 Old News Do you want to look at the news from last year and before that? It is reeeeaaallllly cool. Click here to find that interesting old news from 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 or even 2002 and before.
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