ASB

Every Friday this term Rooms 1, 3 and 4 got on the bus to go to the ASB Centre. We were split into two groups. One group worked with Will, who taught us ball skills, and the other group worked with Zoe and Emilia on gymnastics. To begin our ball skills session we did lots of warm up activities and played fun games like Octopus. We practised lots of ball skills such as how to kick the ball correctly and how to stop it quickly.  We did individual skills, then we worked with a partner and finally we played a proper game of Futsal. Who knows, maybe one day one of us will play for the All Whites.

Part of our gymnastic session included learning the basic movements such as pike, tuck and straddle and how to land in the "motorbike" position. It was fun playing on the different equipment including the climbing frames, balance beam and the swinging bar.  We also practised doing a forward roll.

Here we are doing our warm up activities and lots of different skills such as climbing, balancing and jumping.

Football

This term we were lucky to have some coaching sessions run by the Wellington United Football Club. The coaches taught us the basic skills needed to play football. We practiced our dribbling, passing and goal shooting, while playing fun games like stuck in the mud. When it was fine we used the top field and when it was wet we used the hall.
Playing football was really fun and we hope they come back to our school again.

Waste Heroes Performance

Last Friday we watched a performance in our hall about Ngake and Whataitai, the two taniwha of Whanganui-a-tara. The story was told with the two taniwha moving and dancing around the hall. Some of us were a little scared of the taniwha costumes until we realised they were just actors dressed up. The taniwha shared some good messages about looking after the earth, by recycling, composting and reducing our use of plastic. 
After the show the Taniwha presented a Taonga to our school which was accepted by Joe Barry. To thank our visitors, the whole school sang Ko Toku Marae Tenei which sounded so powerful and beautiful. 

Matariki Celebrations

Today at Kilbirnie School, we celebrated Matariki, which is the Maori New Year. We were all given the opportunity to choose 3 activities to do throughout the day. Some of the choices were cooking kumara, making lanterns, weaving Harakeke (flax) flowers, koru patterns, making stars, Maui and the sun art, a matariki mural, making a Poi, harvesting and cooking kai (soup).  It was fun because we got to work with different students and teachers.

At 5.00pm some of us came back to school to watch the Kapa Haka group perform in the hall. They were amazing. After the concert we shared kai including a sausage sizzle and homemade soup with bread.

                                    

Run-a-thon

The week after our cross country, our school held it's yearly Run-a-thon. It was a dress up event and it was wonderful to see all the different costumes the other children and the teachers were wearing. Before the event, we were asked to set a goal, telling the teacher how many laps we thought we could run in five minutes.  Then when the big day arrived we all gathered on the bottom court and lined up in our class groups. We were so surprised to see so many parents supporting us.  Rm 1 children ran first and we had to run around the track as many times as we could in five minutes.  Although five minutes is not a long time, it certainly seemed like it, when we were running.  Rms 3 and 4 followed, then we went back to class and our teachers called out the number of laps we actually did. Lots of us scored the same laps as we expected we would and some of us ran even more.  When Whataitai Hub and Matairangi Hub had run their laps around the outside of the school, all the children gathered in the hall and they announced the winners of the dress up competition and also spot prizes  Tom Oscroft from Rm 4  and Clara Bannister from Rm 1 were the winners of the dress up competition but we all agreed everyone looked amazing and we had so much fun.

                                                                   

The money raised from this event will be used for the development of the playground and equipment for lunchtime activities and extra curricular groups.

Cultural Diversity Day

Cultural Diversity Day

At Kilbirnie School we have so many children from different countries around the world.  To mark this special day we held our annual special assembly. We sang songs from different countries then each class was invited to stand up and share an item relating to diversity. In Rm 1 all the children  made a flag representing the country they were born in, or where their parents were from. They stood in assembly, said hello in their own language and introduced themselves, stating which country they were representing.  Some of our children even dressed up in their national costume.

Namaste my name is Sai and I come from
INDIA

Yassou my name is Gabriella and I come from
GREECE

Kia Orana my name is Millie and I come from the
COOK ISLANDS

                                                         

Cross Country

Every year Kilbirnie School holds its Cross Country Event at Hataitai Park.

We buddied up with Rm 10, then the whole school set off to walk over to the course.

It began with the Year two girls running first and after a warm up session with Mrs Patel, the race began.  We only had to do one lap of the course and it was so exciting listening to all our friends cheering us on. There were lots of parents there too.

Next race was the Yr 2 boys, followed by the Yr 1 girls and finally the Yr 1 boys. After Ngake Hub, the Yr 3 children had to run two laps of the course.  As we were very tired after running just one lap, we know we need to practice our running ready for next year.