Iron Brion

Hamburgers for morning tea!!!!!!!!!!!

Yum - a big THANK YOU to the parents who helped on  the day but also to the Lamb and Beef Board who supplied us with yummy food.

Iron Brion is really cool.

He taught us that we need a balanced diet.
1. Fruit and Vegetables - five + a day.

2. Meat and Meat alternatives such as fish.

3. Milk and Dairy Products.

4. Breads and Cereals.

At the end we even had a dance contest between the boys and the girls.  Here are the two winners with their stunning Iron Brion caps.  Go Aaliyah and Dakota.

Cultural Celebration Day

Go Fiji!!!!!!! 

We are awesome!

3rd Place in the school cultural day tournament!

Many thanks to all the whanau that supported us today, with food preparation, equipment, and for joining us at school.  

We couldn't do it without you.

Many thanks also to Mr D and Miss C who organised this day between them.  Thank you also needs to go to Sara who took the photos, there were so many to choose from, it was so difficult to just pick a few.

Come in and see the ibook in Room 3 of the day.

We had an absolutely fantastic day today, with lots of fun activities for all to enjoy, even the parents with the parade, class presentations and a few sack races.

The food was glorious, so much new stuff to try.  For myself personally I love Romanian meatballs, chop suey, sushi, and of course Fijian Honey bread.  (Yum see me if you want the recipe.)

 Thank you to the parents who were able to explain more about the food that they had brought along. It was amazing to see the correct way of getting in to a coconut, ummmm it didn't work the same when I did it Mrs Touli.

The activities that we took part in were, Sack races, Hoop throw, Gumboot toss, Sandcastle building, Egg and Spoon Race and Dress up race.

Tennis

The children enjoyed two sessions of tennis skills with coach Chris from the Ashburton Tennis Association.

Visit to the Showgrounds

We were so lucky on Friday, we got to show to the Showgrounds to see the Romanian Rugby team train, but we got there too late.  That was ok though because we got to talk to them and have our photos taken with them.

We even got to do the Haka and a song for them.  Yippee

Let it snow

Wow what an exciting time we had on the 15 and 16 of August with the snow.  I was so impressed with the writing that we completed after the snow.  Please make sure you come and read our work.

Here is a photo of Sarah making snow angels in the snow at home.

Thanks Sonya for emailing me the photo

VISITORS TO NETHERBY SCHOOL

Last Thursday we had a very busy day at school with two lots of visitors.

First thing in the morning we had Tracy and Koru the Kiwi come and visit us in regards to Swim Safe New Zealand.  Tracy talked to us about where we need to be safe, and Koru danced for us.  At the end of their visit we all got Tattoos.  They are so cool, and it seems that they last really well too.
Mr Leverton was all presented on behalf of the school a New Zealand Swim Safe Certificate.

Please come and see our Koru the Kiwi Stories which are hanging in Room 3.

Our second batch of visitors arrived at 11 am and we held a powhiri for them on the court.
They were a group of 15 year olds from Japan, who had come to New Zealand to learn about our culture, from their sister school which is Ashburton College.

They sang their school song for us and performed a dance for us.

After the powhiri had finished they came into each of the classes.  They taught us different parts of their culture.  In one room they drank green tea, in other rooms they did origami, calligraphy and in Room 3 we were taught a game that it very similar to badminton.  The funny thing about the game is that if you lose you get your face painted with a silly shape.  We all got to play the game and it was lots of fun.