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Optimist Yachting

 

Last week the year 6’s got an opportunity to get involved with Optimist Yachting.

Everyday a group of year 6’s went down to Pandora Pond. Half of the year 6’s went on Monday and Tuesday and the other half went on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday a few lucky people got another chance to go.
When we arrived at the pond the first job was to get changed into our warm sailing clothes and put our bags safely away. Then we went through the safety checks, these were:

1.         Ears

2.        Lifejacket

3.        Bungs

4.        Centre board clip

5.        Mast clip

6.        Rudder clip

7.        Hat!

The reason we didn’t have to set them up was because Greenmeadows used them in the mornings. Except for Friday when they didn’t go and we set them up and packed them up.

Room 13 were proud to be involved in the first capsize in 3 years! Maxine and Kassie had a bit of a fall when they misbalanced their boat, spun around and tipped.

“It was freezing, but we just clung onto our boat until rescue came, Mrs Colliss talked us through what to do and Mr Anderson swum out and turned our boat over. Then we had the long (and boring) job of bailing it out” recalled Kassie and Maxine.

This all happened on Tuesday and we couldn’t blame them because the wind kept changing direction which made sailing difficult.
Over the course of the week, everyone’s skills improved as they completed the challenges.
Thank you to all the parents that came and provided transport and supervision.
We had an awesome experience and we are looking forward to doing it again at intermediate.

 

Written by Kathryn, Tyler, Maxine, Kassie

PrEP MARKET DAY!

Today we had our PrEP market day. PrEP stands for the Primary Enterprise Programme. Everyone in years 3-6 were involved in the selling process.

Over the last few weeks we looked at how businesses are run, examples of services and products, the consequence of taking out loans, how to budget and making smart choices. Over the course of the year we have been collect bleds (Bledisloe currency) to be able to buy supplies at the prep store and rent items to create products and services to sell today. We could spend our bleds at the market and the year 2’s also came to shop, Mrs Harris even gave the teachers some spending money.

There was an excited buzz in the air as people arrived this morning. Everyone had been counting down to this day all year. In fact it was one of the first things we told Mrs Colliss when she started. Some of the year 5’s have even started thinking about what they will do next year, now that is thinking ahead! The year 6’s are disappointed that this is their last year for PrEP

 

There was a huge range of products.

Ninja Stars – Te Manawa, Pasa, Liam and Tommy

Balloon Friends – Nicole, Shakira, Kassie and Maxine

Hair Ties – Kathryn, Caitlyn and Tyler

Water Bomb Throw – Sam, Foni, Caleb, Troy and Humo

Window Stickers – Kimberley, Ocean and Fallon

Comedy Movie – Michael, Ian, Ben and Felix

Pop-up Christmas Cards – Janna, Angala, Samantha and Shirley.

Shortly we are going to count up all our takings, hopefully we have made a profit, and not a loss. We just have to remember to pay back loans and subtract our expenses.

It was an awesome day!!!

By Troy, Foni, Nicole and Caleb.

 

Fallon meets Valerie

After the bell rung after lunch today (Friday) a small group of very lucky Bledisloe students got to walk over to Paper Plus to meet Valerie Adams. Fallon was lucky enough to be the Room 13 representative. After joining the long line they got to the front and were greeted by her strong, powerful handshake. Fallon got to place that precious gold medal in her hot little hands. Mrs Dingle purchased her newly released book for the school and Valerie signed it and wrote ‘To Bledisloe School’ making it a very valuable addition to our school library.