Gardening on a rainy day

Today is it absolutely bucketing down outside and is FREEZING COLD. A nice day if you are a dairy cow but not if you are a group of kids!  We put the rest of the group to work on some self-regulated learning (the weather is  also not good for building skate ramps and such).

What to do....what to do.  we got the girls onto the drill, drilling holes in gumboots for our succulent area. Caitlyn, Emily, Aisling, Juliet and Gabby were in their element.

Here the girls are potting the gumboots with the cacti and succulent mix. Thanks to Toby and George who also helped but were a little camera shy.

Gardening Group

We worked hard spreading  pea straw around the gardens.

 

We put down some of the year three's mosaics

and sorted them around five tyres for succulents by room 5.

 

We mixed (very stinky) bokashi, leaves,

 wood chips and pea straw to make compost.

 

These tyres mark where we're going to

 put fruit trees around the scooter track.

Here we are digging out some swan plants to plant in the butterfly garden.

 

Cross country

The rain stayed away on Tuesday May 17th for the annual Cross Country event hosted by Lauriston School. We all piled in cars or the bus (the less said about the popped wheel the better) and headed on down to the course with butterflies partying hard in many stomachs. We planted ourselves under our flag. Look how many of us there are!

  Here are a few pictures of us BEFORE our event. Look how happy and excited we are. Most of us are even sitting up! Amazing.

 Go Maggie!

Here comes the winner  of the Year 6 girls' race...HANNAH HAYES! Well done Hannah.

AFTER the race. Note the horizontal position of some!

Cross Country Results

Year 6 Results (Boys)

Name                                                                                   School

Name	School
1st Oskar Trafford	Lauriston
2nd Jonty King	Methven
3rd Patrick Duff	Methven
4th Alex Mackle	Lauriston
5th Jack Brown	Methven
6th Patrick Currie	Methven
7th Hunter Lill	Methven
8th Leo G	Methven
9th Lochlain Hall	Methven
10th Jack Irwin	Lauriston

Year 6 Results (Girls)

Name                                                                                  School

Name	School
1st Hannah Hayes	Methven
2nd Maggie Hood	Methven
3rd Naomi Taylor	Methven
4th Samantha Roberts	Methven
5th Milly Farrell	Methven
6th Hannah Wareing	Methven
7th Makayla Hulme	Lauriston
8th Brooke Clark	OLs
9th Victoria Talbot	Methven
10th Paige Humm	Methven

Cross Country Results

Year 5 Results (Boys)

Name                                                                                   School

Name	School
1st Ben Walker	Methven
2nd George Fulton	Methven
3rd Henry King	Lauriston
4th Will Lemon	Lauriston
5th Cooper Perham	Methven
6th Tom McKenzie	Lauriston
7th Keith Batt	Lauriston
8th Zane Harmer	Methven
9th Jack Foster	Methven
10th Toby King	Methven

Year 5 Results (Girls)

Name                                                                                  School

Name	School
1st Nikita Burton	Lauriston
2nd Bella Casey-Solly	Lauriston
3rd Shellie Ermio	Lauriston
4th Alice Miers	Lauriston
5th Rose Dargue	Lauriston
6th Lucy Reeve	Methven
7th Sienna McGinity	Methven
8th Charli Hellyer	Lauriston
9th Rachel Keith	Methven
10th Steffi Furndorfler	Methven

Name

School

1^st Oskar Trafford

Lauriston

2^nd Jonty King

Methven

3^rd Patrick Duff

Methven

4^th Alex Mackle

Lauriston

5^th Jack Brown

Methven

6^th Patrick Currie

Methven

7^th Hunter Lill

Methven

8^th Leo G

Methven

9^th Lochlain Hall

Methven

10^th Jack Irwin

Lauriston

Name

School

1^st Hannah Hayes

Methven

2^nd Maggie Hood

Methven

3^rd Naomi Taylor

Methven

4^th Samantha Roberts

Methven

5^th Milly Farrell

Methven

6^th Hannah Wareing

Methven

7^th Makayla Hulme

Lauriston

8^th Brooke Clark

OLs

9^th Victoria Talbot

Methven

10^th Paige Humm

Methven

Name

School

1^st Ben Walker

Methven

2^nd George Fulton

Methven

3^rd Henry King

Lauriston

4^th Will Lemon

Lauriston

5^th Cooper Perham

Methven

6^th Tom McKenzie

Lauriston

7^th Keith Batt

Lauriston

8^th Zane Harmer

Methven

9^th Jack Foster

Methven

10^th Toby King

Methven

Name

School

1^st Nikita Burton

Lauriston

2^nd Bella Casey-Solly

Lauriston

3^rd Shellie Ermio

Lauriston

4^th Alice Miers

Lauriston

5^th Rose Dargue

Lauriston

6^th Lucy Reeve

Methven

7^th Sienna McGinity

Methven

8^th Charli Hellyer

Lauriston

9^th Rachel Keith

Methven

10^th Steffi Furndorfler

Methven

Hannah

Maggie

Cross

Friday Sport

On Fridays we have our sport option. Mr Straight and Mrs Robinson take a rugby group and Miss Leonard and Mrs Warburton take the netball group. In each group there are "experts" and those that have never played the sport before - this means that our experts get to share their skills and knowledge with the rest of the group.

We can't tell who these people are but it looks like fun!

Fergus, Cooper, Charlie and A.J practise their chest passes. Silver Fern call up any day now chaps!

Floyd, Caitlyn and Hunter showing off some skills

Last Friday the rugby group had a visiting expert Brenton Connell who came to share his coaching expertise with the kids. Thanks for giving up your time Brenton to help us out.

Nice pass to the face Victoria! Our visiting expert Brenton.

Sienna and Paige try out for the Black Ferns

Sam and Steffi in the thick of it.

Cross Country Training

We have our Cross Country on May 17th so we have been training on a daily basis. We all come together first to do some stretching and limber up.  Year 5 students must run 2 km and Year 6 have to run 2 km also. We have been talking about cross country strategies such as pacing ourselves and leaving a little bit in the tank for a sprint finish.   As usual it's held at Lauriston School.