Our SWIS is one of the kindest people I know. That seems to be the way with the people that we have working in our school. On the lunchtime and morning tea breaks, when she is here, her office is absolutely chockablock with children and she usually has another seven or eight outside playing games with her.
Thank you Amiee. As Tricia would’ve said you have a heart bigger than Buckingham Palace
Monster Music held a lunchtime concert last week. It was sweet to see the children perform. We do have our very own rock’n roller in Violet. She plays, she sings and she rocks on.
First Aid Training
Six hours of training after school for those of us who are revalidating certificates and eight hours for the newbies. There’s always something new to learn. Our staff have to make quick decisions without the benefit of a medical degree or x-ray machine. It would be nice to have a CT scanner in the sick bay. Our tamariki get wonderful care from our staff who are often under pressure with incidents coming at them from all directions.
Whaea Libby’s baby Fergus, is in good hands. His mamma is ready for anything. Our trainer Jason has been a paramedic in New York (a fabulous city) and in Afghanistan.
Jump Jam
Our little team has been working so hard to prepare for the Jump Jam Competition which was held at Cashmere High Auditorium on Saturday 9 August. Thanks to Amy (and support crew Denali) for their mahi. On Friday, Brett Fairweather, the inspiration behind Jump Jam NZ came to their final practice to do some last minute coaching and to ramp them up, ready to perform.
Brett is super hyped and jam packed with energy. He just keeps on keeping on. He reminds me of my childhood friend, Billy Graham who is a NZ boxer and inspirational speaker. There’s no holding him back and just talking to him makes me feel exhausted.
The team won a technical award and we were so proud of them. Their timing had sharpened up and their moves were punchy and high energy.
Maddie (Madaline) Davidson Olympic Trampolinist
What an incredible role model and a really engaging public speaker. She talked to the children about the NZ Olympic Team values and her personal successes and failures. She cried buckets of tears over failing to meet qualification goals, or when she had an epic fail in the Olympic Competition, after working so hard to get there. Maddie has learned resilience through failure, and then having to work even harder to achieve her dreams.
Week 4 nearly done and dusted. Thank you to WSFW for their fantastic behind the scenes work to raise extra funds for the school and to support so many extra activities for our tamariki. These are busy folk, even busier with the extra work they do in the school to make this place special.
Sometimes one volunteers for something without really thinking it through. The ignition for our deep learning on "What In The World Are We Eating?" was a blind test, tasting competition.
Needless to say I was in last place. Glen was the winner but I think that the decision was rigged. It wasn't as bad as I expected, because I still remember the games that Jude Lange used to organise for the children on Year 5 and 6 camp and that involved blind tasting and feeling of objects that included sago, a sheep's eye, tripe and lemons. My goodness the children used to shriek. Oh how we laughed.
