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

Celebrating William

Every week in Assembly 4 wonderful students get a certificate for their achievements; whether it is something social or academic. This week we had an extra special certificate.

William, who is Autistic, had worked so hard this week. He has been completing his work everyday, he is now learning List 7 of the Essential Lists and he has transitioned from completing one task and having a reward to completing two tasks and receiving an award. These are really big achievements and we wanted to celebrate them.

Because students receive certificates in Assembly we wanted William to also receive his certificate in Assembly. However assembly is very noisy and filled with lots of people, and that makes it hard for William to enjoy it. But Kylie, his teacher aide, and I thought we'd give it a go.

William did a wonderful job of going in. William's mum made it in time to see him receive his certificate and it was a very special moment for him.

Well done William! We are proud of your hard work and the way you came into assembly and received it.

Yaldhurst Model School Speech Finals

On Friday 11th September our school Whare Hui was filled with excited and expectant students. Who was going to surprise us? Who was going to persuade us? Who was going to win?

Each class put forward their best three students (well expect Mr M and Miss B, who couldn't quite count) to share their persuasive speech. Te Kakano students were sharing poems as this was the beginning of their speech journey.

In Totara we had worked hard and listened to everyone's speeches. They were all so good it was a difficult decision but the three chosen had the highest marks.

Well done Jedi, Julia and Eze for all your hard work and effort in writing and practising. You did Totara proud on the day.

You will be able to see each speech on our personal blogs by the end of the week. However we do have the winning performances here to share so check them out.

 Here they are with their winning certificates. From left to right 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Kai pai to you all!

Dog Safety

Do you know what to do when you see an angry dog? Do you know how to pat a dog? You might think you do but YMS students definitely do.

Last Thursday Yaldhurst students had 45 minutes with the Christchurch City Council Dog Safety team learning all about how to be safe around dogs. Te Pihinga went along unsure of what they were going to learn but boy were they excited when they saw Baxter the dog.

Baxter helped us learn how to do the right thing around dogs. Even those with dogs learnt a new thing or two. Mika showed us her skills in picking up doggy doo and Pania and Xavier showed us how to pat a dog correctly.

It really was a wonderful time. Thanks Christchurch City Council for putting on a great learning time for us.

PJ Day!!

What a great time we had being in our PJ's alllllll day! We felt very cozy and a number of us could have quite happily curled up and had a nap half way through the day. Check out some photos of us all looking snazzy in our pjs and onsies.

Cross Country 2015

Cross County 2015 on PhotoPeach

Easter Fun Day

Easter Fun Day on PhotoPeach