Last week

For the last 3 days of last week we have been having an exciting Olympic gathering. We went to our Whanau classes – which are mixed classes with years 1 -6, they are the same groups year after year.

Every class did a study on a New Zealand Olympic athlete; examples are Mahe Drysdale, Emma Twigg, Andrea Hewitt.

At some point over the first two days every class went out to the ‘sports arena’ while we were there everyone did shotput, a 10m crawl or 30m sprint and a standing jump. This was a measurement activity because we had to time each other and measure the distances.

Each class did different activities depending on the teacher, some of the favourites were, making Olympic torches with card, paper and colouring pencils (room 8), making a model of the London Bridge which had to hold a little car (room 11), designing your own countries team uniform (room 8), making a photostory of the events (room 4), making flags of your home country, because they studied Nick Willis who was our flag bearer (room 8), in Room 13 we made puppets of athletes which had moving limbs.

In Room 4 they had a New Zealand hockey player who played at the Los Angeles, 1984 Olympics – who shared lots of interesting information, including a small toy of the mascot.

On Friday we were meant to have a whole school mini Olympics but due to the horrible weather we had to have a mini mini Olympics with our buddy classes on the courts. The activities included badminton, relays, shotput, hurdles, discuss, high jump and speed ladder, which were led by the year 6’s.

It was the best days we have had this term because we got to go to different classes and spend time with different people and teachers. But it is nice to be back to normal.

Written by Caleb, Humo, Troy and Nicole.