Last Friday we had a beautiful day for our whole school Cross Country Competition - all of the children took part in this challenging event and we saw great effort (and emotion!) from our participants.  The winning house was St Francis and the individual winners were:

Year 6: Grace Greaney & Eamon Deevy
Year 5: Emilia Goldsmith & Calvin Quinn
Year 4: Jasmine Summerville & Joe Gregory / Ollie Norden
Year 3: Amy Towers & Micah Cocker
Year 2: Elsa Cooper & Ollie McLauchlan
Year 1:Harriet Florence & Reuben Rutter
Year 0/1: Juliette Goldsmith & Tate McKeown

Last week our performing Kapa Haka Group, who have been practicing diligently over the past few weeks, performed at the Remuera Library.

We raised $573 for the Child Cancer Foundation this Wednesday - thank you to all those who participated (we saw some FANTASTIC wigs) and to those who donated to this very worthwhile cause.

Our Year 5 children had fun this week harvesting the pumpkins from our School Garden and preparing them to be turned into Pumpkin Soup.

Our Year 4, 5 and 6 children visited Te Tahwai Marae this week as part of our 'People of the Land' topic.

Our Junior School children enjoyed a trip to the Auckland Museum last week and were treated to a cultural performance as well as an educational session and some fun 'moko' face decorating.

Our children had a LOT of fun when Science In a Van visited us during the last week of Term 1.  The Junior children were treated to a very enjoyable experiment of how to make a super bubble. The Senior children were introduced to the Periodic Table elements and the differences between Solids, Liquids and Gasses explained with a variety of exciting experiments involving dry ice and 'explosive' liquid nitrogen.