Rippa Rugby Tournament

On Thursday the 28th of May we went to the Rippa Rugby Tournament in Balclutha. We had 5 teams of year 3-8 people. Two of our teams made it to the semi finals and one team made it to the finals against Rosebank. 

Here are some alliteration Rippa Rugby poems that the year 6 students wrote:

Ruggedly Rugby Rips Ripping 

Sneaky Slick Slippery Skills

Balls Bounced Badly

Memorable Muddy Messes

By Aidan

 Super seriously sneakily sliding

Roughly rambunctiously ripping rowdy rippas

Perfect play positioning players 

Sidestep spin sprint SCORE!

By Keeley

Blog written by Lucy & Daniel

Reading to the School

27.5.15

Our Senior Class Reading 

Today we did some reading, not just ordinary reading, reading the big books from the multi purpose room. On Friday we went up to the multi purpose room to chose the books to read to the Middle and Junior rooms. We started practising on Monday and on Tuesday we broke out the first books.           

 

 You feel a little nervous when you first begin to read but then you pick up confidence and start getting better. The reasons we are doing this reading is so we get better and more confident speaking to different groups of people,  we also read fluently and our expression gets better.

Reading in the Senior Class

We think that's a good idea and we are going to continue to do this until everyone in the Senior Class has read a book to both classes. What do you think of this activity? If you like it comment below.

Reading in the Junior Class

Everyone likes it (teachers, kids and more kids), some people hope it goes on forever.

Reading in the Middle Class

Blog written by Keeley and Lachlan 

Rippa with Rory

On Tuesday the 19th of May, Rory the Sports Activator came to teach our students some rippa skills.

We started off when Rory put the ball in the middle of a square and we were put into two teams.

He blew his whistle and we had to race for the ball, who ever got the ball had to score a try, we were practising our attack and defence skills.

Soon after that we played a fun game called draw and pass, it's when you are split into three different teams. There are two attackers and one defending team. The attacker with the ball at the start draws the defender into them and then the attacker passes it to the other attacker and then they hopefully score a try.

We had a few games of shark attack and they were quite fun, we had to dodge the shark with the ball, if tagged we were out. We had to use tactics to be a good shark and tag the others with the ball. The last one standing was the winner and the next shark.

Then we were practising ripping tags and the student with the most tags became the winner. 

To finish it off we had three games of rippa rugby, putting all our skills into practice.

We love when Rory visits and can't wait till next time.

Blake scores as Curtis almost rips him.

Macleod scores.

A successful rip for Keeley.

The rip game, Holly was the winner, six rips a great achievement.

Soccer Skills

Yesterday Rory, the Sports Activator, came to school to do some soccer / football skills with us. We started off doing some dribbling practice and then moved onto some different ball skills.

We stood in a square in groups of five, four on the outside and one in the middle, we would kick the ball from the middle to the side , back into the middle and out on to the next corner. After going round the square twice, somebody else would take a go in the ,middle, and the middle person would go out onto the side.

After kicking, we tried juggling, seeing how many times we could juggle the ball in our groups without it touching the ground, our group’s high-score was 6.

We practiced shooting at the goals, with and without a goalie, and then finished up with a fun, free for all, chaotic game of soccer.

By Holly

Yesterday the 18th of March Rory the Sports Activator came to Warepa School.

He taught us some football skills. One of the skills we did was to try to keep the ball away from the person in the middle of the square.another warm up game was to try and kick other people's ball away, but also try to protect your own ball.

Rory told us to get into two lines and we had to kick the ball to either him or Mrs A. We had Mrs A and she was suppose to kick it back and we would then score a goal. Mrs A could not kick the ball back far enough she encouraged us to do a rotation. i guess Mrs A's new knees don't work too well yet. After that we played a game of football with our new soccer goals my team won.

By Isla

Camp Borland Lodge

Last week we went away for our annual a Senior camp, this year we went to Borland Lodge, which is down the bottom of Fiordland between Lake Monowai and Lake Manapouri. At Borland, we spent four awesome days filled with fun and adventures, the things we did included kayaking, abseiling, climbing, archery, air rifle shooting, traverse, nature walks, low ropes, horizontal bungy, bivvy building, camp cooking and teamwork games.

Everybody had an awesome camp, one of the things the instructors were really pleased about was that 100% of our class had a go at everything! They said that this didn't happen very often, Andy and Curtis, the instructors, were really cool, we had a fun three days hanging out with them.

Though some people were a bit nervous during the activities, the instructors, parents, teachers, and our classmates were really encouraging, and we were off doing whatever it was we were doing before we even realised.

One of my (Holly's) favourite activities was climbing, everybody was really supportive, and everybody was pretty fast on the easiest wall, the three fastest speed runs (up and down) on the easiest wall were:

First:       James, 19 seconds.

Second:  Callum, 21 seconds

Third:     Holly, 29 seconds.

We could also do the climbs blindfolded or just do them as climbs without being timed.

Everybody had a great camp and there are a lot of fun stories to tell about it.

By Holly

Opening of the Court Redevelopment- 8.5.2015

Last Friday we had the Grand Opening of the court.

It kicked off at 1.30 with speeches, a whole school dance, and demonstration sports.

Later we had a shared afternoon tea , with drinks, snacks and gourmet sandwiches.

Sue Adcock (Principal), Stuart Cowie official guest (past Board Chair, Community member and Clutha District Deputy Mayor, Craig Hyslop (Board Chair). Pupils Tyla Dodds (Junior Class Rep);and Shaun Bennett (Middle Class Rep), Keeley Puna (Senior Class Rep.) officially cut the ribbon and declared the court open.

    Speeches from Trans Power Rep David Suttie, Otago Community Trust rep Stephen Kornyei, Mr   

     Hyslop , Mr Cowie and Mrs A

    Whole School Dance ( Thanks to Kayleigh Broad  for teaching the children the dance.)

Problem Solving in Maths

Yesterday for Maths we worked in our 'Buzz Groups' to solve a problem Mrs A gave us.

The problem was that a girl wanted to buy a surf board for $850. She got $5.50 to travel on the bus everyday and $4.50 to buy a hot chocolate if she walked. She had to travel at least two days on the bus. 

We had to come up with a savings plan in our groups. Some ideas were - On the days she didn't have to travel to school on the bus she could save this money, if she wanted to walk to school she needed to buy an umbrella if it rained and a hot chocolate (but she could take the hot chocolate from home).

We set off into our groups to solve the problem by figuring out the most efficient way was to save $850 for the surf board.

Our group brought her an umbrella and then we went to The Warehouse and brought her a big tin of milo for $1, she used a thermos she found in the basement to keep her hot chocolate warm.

We managed to help her save the money for the surfboard in 80 weeks, and she had $70 left over which she used to buy sunscreen for at the beach.

By Jack & Vaughan

                                          Jack's group working the problem out

                                          Holly's group listening to Leah's ideas.

                                          James making a decision with his group.

                                                               
                                                    Holly and leah sharing their plan for saving the money, the problem solving strategy                                                         was to use a table to show their working out. 

 

Borland Lodge Fun Time Senior Class Camp

Our blog has been a bit quiet lately as we have been on School Camp, but this is a recount of some of our adventures last week.

We started off with a two hour long drive and headed off first to Clifden Caves.  We were caving for two hours, it was a fun experience.  We saw some glow worms and their webs and stalactites and stalagmites.  It was cool.  We then headed off to Borland Lodge where we were staying for the week.

Here we did fun activities like archery, air rifle shooting, rock climbing, abseiling, bivvy building, kayaking and horizontal bungy, and a nature walk.

Tom’s favourite part of camp was the horizontal bungy because he slid all the way back in the mud after firstly being tricked that he was hooked up when he wasn’t. Macleod’s favourite activity was abseiling because it was fun and it made him have an adrenaline rush and he has never abseiled before, the worst part was that we only got to do it once and he got lost coming back up.

By Tom and Macleod