The Last Day of Term

What a great day! We had a lot of fun team building, watching The Lorax and eating a lot of delicious food. Here is a run down:

We started with our Yaldhurst's Got Talent special Assembly. Below are some photos from the performances.

This is the new Te Pihinga all together in assembly.

The junior finalists.

The winners - well done Taylor, Catie & Julia. 

Then it was outside for team building time.

Lunchtime - wow, there was so much food. Thanks families for providing us with such a range of delicious food. We enjoyed having healthy and treats. Yum, yum!!

Sadly we had to farewell two very special people. Porter and Rivah we will miss you. All the best for your new school and town. 

Finally it was time to go outside for our whole school Jump Rope for Heart. What a fantastic way to end the term. Everyone looked great in their house colours and everyone should be much healthier after all that jumping. Go Yaldhurst!

Jump Rope for Heart on PhotoPeach

Keeping New Zealand Clean

On Friday afternoon last week the whole school headed out to participate in Keeping New Zealand Clean. Totara and Matai headed down the road to the Yaldhurst Domain. We were all excited about helping out and not really sure what we would find. A few of us were hoping that we wouldn't have to pick up anything to gross like dog poo. (Luckily we didn't).

It was a lot of fun and we picked up a LOT of rubbish. It felt really great to have participated in keeping our wonderful community clean.


Keeping Yaldhurst Clean on PhotoPeach

Winter Fun Day 2015

What a fantastic day was had by our skiers. It was such fun and we all did a lot of learning. Check out the photopeach slide below.


Winter Fun Day 2015 on PhotoPeach

YMS in Town

What an incredible day we had going into town today. We all jumped on the bus at 11:30 and headed into town. Everyone was in good spirits and excited about what was going to happen. 

We arrived safely and all hopped off the bus. The wind was very cold but we were quickly moved into the Christchurch City Council building. It was very large and we could hear Aranui School's Kapa Haka group singing their hearts out. They sound fantastic.

After a small amount of waiting quietly (and our students were so good waiting quietly) we headed upstairs to an area we could drop our bags and sit till it was our turn.

Finally 12:30 arrived and we were moved forward for our performance. Here are a few videos of the Seniors. Sadly my phone had too much on it and I couldn't capture the juniors. However other people have taken some footage and I will post them when I receive them. 

What a great performance from everyone. We looked and sounded fantastic. The parents that attended had big smiles and everyone clapped hard at the end.

Well done YMS!

We then headed for a brisk walk to the Botanic Gardens for some kai and a run around. The kids loved the walk and were commenting on all the things happening around the city they saw. 

Blake even found a new friend.

We had a great lunch and run around and then it was pack to pounding the pavement to get to the bus on time. Whew, we made it. Everyone was very tired by the time we got back to school and so we finished with some play and quiet time in class.

Fun in the sandpit