Our week

This week has been another busy week with lots of things on: During our reading time we have been doing research about an animal of our choice. We have to collect a range of information about our animal to display on a poster.

On Wednesday Emily brought along the biggest apple we have ever seen. It grew on her families apple tree and weighed 716 grams. It would be great for making apple crumble.

Studio 1 started this week and we had lots of interesting presenations. We are really looking forward to next weeks presentations.

On Thursday a large number of children competed in the TSSA Swimming Sports and East Taieri retained the sheild AGAIN!!

Year 6 Tirohanga Day

On Friday 12 February the Year 6's went for a leadership and team building day at Camp Tirohanga. They were in 4 groups and rotated around 4 activities spending 45 minutes at each. The activites included trust games, team building tasks, the confidence course and a dayline activity. The weather was fantastic and we all had lots of fund. Thanks to all the wonderful parents who took cars and helped on the day.

Highlanders Come to East Taieri

Yesterday the Otago Highlanders came to our school. They trained and signed autographs while the whole school watched on. Some children received 'Golden Tickets' which will enable them to get into a Highlanders game free if accompanied by an adult. It was really exciting to have the Highlanders come to our school because we got to see them up close and watch them train. They were way bigger than we thought. We were very lucky.

Room 1 2010

Welcome to Room 1s 2010 blog page. We are looking forward to an exciting year ahead with lots of learning and interesting activities and events along the way. Please keep checking our page to see what we have been up to.

1st Aid

Last week Belinda from St John's taught us some basic First Aid that we may need to use in the playground or at home one day. We learnt how to deal with a bleeding nose, put someone in the recovery position, treat a bee sting, tend to a cut or graze and assist someone who is choking. We received a certificate, a small first aid kit and created a booklet to take home.

D.A.R.E Fun Day

Over the past 3 weeks the Senior Syndicate has been involved in the DARE to Make a Choice Programme run in association with the police. We have been learning about making good choices in a variety of situations. To celebrate our learning we had a run day on which we watched a police dog demonstration, rotated around a wide range of activities and had a share lunch. It was an awesome day enjoyed by everyone involved.

Fun Run

On Friday 31 August the circus hit town as the children of East Taieri School dressed up for their inaugural Fun Run. The children each set running goals for event and collected sponsors. We had a great day with lots of children getting into the spirit of the day by dressing up. Everyone worked really hard to achieve their goal and as a school we raised lots of money to purchase new P.E. equipment.