Swimming Lessons

The pool was closed for the first 2 days back, but luckily our awesome caretaker Brian managed to get it up and running for when the swimming instructors arrived! 

We are really fortunate to have awesome swimming coaches who can get in the water and work with us.

Here are some snaps from our first couple of days, learning how to swim:

Practising how to glide and kick on our fronts.

Learning how to float and kick on our backs.

Practising blowing bubbles and kicking using nice, long legs.

Our swimming instructors will be with us everyday (rain or shine!) for only 2 weeks, so it's important that we maximise this opportunity and
SWIM EVERYDAY!

Fun Run

In case you missed it, check out the highlights from our Fun Run/ Cross Country Races!

A huge congratulations to everyone who competed and gave it their very best effort! 

It was awesome to see so many Room 13 students get a place! 

Year 4 Girls:

1st place: Lorilei

2nd place: Vaisioa

Year 4 Boys

1st place: Ausage

2nd place: Sione

3rd place: Anthem

Cross Country Training

Cross Country Training is underway! Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday the Rata and Kauri Teams are hitting the pavement in preparation for our cross country that is happening on Friday 2nd September. That means only 12 days to go!

Nearly everyone in Room 13 has been persevering with running, and trying to set themselves goals and targets to achieve each week. It's great to see students pushing themselves and celebrating their success each time they run. 

Check out these action shots!

Basketball Super Stars!

This term we have been working alongside specialist coaches. They have been teaching us some basketball skills. We have learnt how to dribble, pass and shoot the ball.



You can check out our individual blogs to find out more about our experience!

Swimming Skills

Learning how to swim is an important part of the curriculum. New Zealand is surrounded by water and knowing how to swim is a basic skill that could help save your life.

Liam, Dushon and Rueben (aka Harry Potter) came in at the beginning of term one to teach us how to swim. We had 10 sessions with them in the water and we learnt how to float on our front and roll over onto our back. 

 

Practising floating on our backs

Some of us learnt how to do freestyle and some of us learnt how to do backstroke. 

Learning how to kick

Putting the kicking motion into action

Preparing to use our arms in freestyle swimming 

In our last session, we had to work cooperatively in groups to build a boat. This was a real test of our team work abilities!

 

                                    

                                    

We have been practising these skills every chance we get to go in the pool and we have all made some great improvements in our swimming!

Thank You Lynfield College

Last week we were fortunate enough to have some Year 9's from Lynfield College visit us. We got to spend the afternoon on the field with them learning new games that they had created. We had HEAPS of fun! When we got back to class we wrote them some thank you messages to show them how much we appreciated them coming to our school.

Cross Country Fun Run

The Amazing Race (Abdullah vs Fiky)

Hurry, hurry, hurry is all I’m thinking of, waiting for my turn, it’s taking too long.

If i come first I will be amazed that’s how I want to, that’s how everyone want’s to feel. I will do two laps if anyone tries to block me I’ll go through the gaps.

Finally my run has bumped into me. “Ready, set, GO!!!” “Boom boom boom!!!” I have to sprint incredibly quick, Hanok, Seoram and Fiky right in front of me, they all went past, I don’t want to come last. All of them are speedy, that's not perfect. To tell the truth it’s not all about being boost'y it actually is about pas’e and stamina. Jog, jog, jog is the word. I just started but I’m still coming last. Stand up and never say never because this race is going to get better, take a breath “Go!!!”

This race is weird because there’s up and down hill’s, before this day and race we had drills, run around people’s house and neighbourhoods. “Yes!!” I’m coming third, I’ll see if I can come first, coming last is the worst. Finally, my first lap has finished. “NO!!” that’s not pleasant my shoe lace is untied. I need to run as speedy as flash because Fiky’s behind me, but I can't waste my all energy. I’ll just run, run, run. Unbelievably I can't see Fiky behind me, he can’t be in front, he’s probably walking. “Woohh!!” I have time to tie my laces. “Nope”!! He’s not walking, he’s sprinting! I don’t have time to tie my laces because he’s catching up! I’m extremely close to finishing my second lap. That means I can sprint harder then flash. I’m nearly their, finished.

Fiky’s still running, wait a second, that’s not Fiky - that's someone else! My heart is pumping but it is worth it. “Yes!!” I get to win and wear a bronze medal. It feels awesome. Finally I get to rest. Now I can watch and cheer others. I have improved  from last year. I came third but I’m not going to say winning isn’t everything because the person that said winning isn’t everything never won anything and winning isn’t everything because winning is the only thing. 

- By Abdullah

Well done to everyone who participated in this year's fun run. An even bigger congratulations to our place getters from Room 13:

Brianna who came 3rd in the Year 6 Girls Race

Luciano who came 3rd in the Year 5 Boys Race

Lilly who came 2nd in the Year 6 Girls Race

Noah who came 2nd in the Year 5 Boys Race

...and a massive congratulations to the four boys (all from Room 13) who challenged themselves and entered into the 2 lap race. 

Hanok - 1st place

Seo Ram - 2nd place

Abdullah - 3rd place

Fiky - 4th place

These boys represented May Road School in the Zone Cross Country Finals.  

AWESOME EFFORT BOYS!!! 

   

Basketball Skills

During PE in term 1, we had a specialist basketball coach come in to teach us some basketball skills. We learnt how to pass, dribble and shoot. Check out what we can do now!