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

Moving Day!!

Wednesday arrived with much excitement. We had been slowly packing for a couple of weeks but today was the day. We were moving to our new classroom ready for the builders to come and turn us into a Modern Learning Environment.

The students were so excited and the noise level went up about 500%. William and Kylie decided that they would move to the library for a day. A wise decision!

First we moved all our desks out with the help of Kauri students. We had to carry them all the way to the school pool changing sheds. The water was pretty gross and Mrs S was there to make sure no one fell in. 

Next it was all hands on deck to move everything out of Totara and Matai, while Rimu brought there things in the back door. Everyone worked soooo hard. Lifting, moving ... what a lot of hard work. 

It took a few hours but everything was moved out, Totara was cleaned and Rimu were almost all in their new classroom. Almost everything was outside while a classroom or two were being emptied and the heavens opened. 

Luckily we have a wonderful school community and everyone rushed to get everything inside before it all got to wet. Yah Yaldhurst!

And then it was finished ... well not really but the move was. Now to finish sorting it all out.

 

Friendship Skills

We have been looking at Friendship Skills in Totara to help us be better classmates and playground peers. We have looked a range of things a good friend has. These include:

Friendship Skills> Talk - be interesting, keep up with what's going on around you, eg TV, sports, music, shared interests - so that you have something to talk about.> Share the conversation, so that you each get a chance to be listeners and talkers.> Listen to what your friends are saying and ask questions about it.> Praise your friends when they do something well.> Use your manners - say please and thank you. Friends like to be pleasant to each other.> Think of yourself as being a friendly person, look friendly and be friendly - and others will find you friendly.> Be helpful - do things for your friends without keeping a score on who's done the most favours.> Give back things you have used or borrowed from each other.> Be aware of others' feelings - think before you speak. (Sometimes it is a good idea to keep your thoughts to yourself rather than upset people's feelings.)> Handle conflict - by being clear about what you want and how you will compromise. Share your time with other friends.> Be honest about your feelings, eg. "I don't think this is a good idea because..." But don't always try to be the leader - try out other people's ideas.> Try to understand people by thinking about things from their point of view.> Don't argue and get upset if your friend doesn't agree with you about something. That's O.K. They have the right to an opinion too.

We then broke into groups and came up with some skits to demonstrate some of these skills. Check them out.

Fun in the sandpit