Cross Country

Our school cross country took place in Term 2. All children trained hard around our school field. On the actual cross country day, the whole school walked up to Waipuna Park, where the school cross country was to take place. There was a pre-schoolers race before each year group had their race. All children did very well. Here are some photos of our children running:

Welcome Bay School's Cross Country Term 2 2009 on PhotoPeach

Junior Block Upgrade

During Term 3, the junior classes moved out and the builders moved in.

The entire block was gutted and 3 new classes, a shared office, 2 utility rooms and a resource room were created.

We have been in the new block for about 1/2 a term, and have really enjoyed working in our new spaces. We created 3 very different classrooms through colour - a green room, a blue room and a red room. We wanted to use bright primary colours in these rooms as they are children's rooms. We linked the rooms by using the same blue in each room. The office is a different colour - octane, as we wanted a "grown up" feeling in our workspace. We think they look great!! Have a look below:

Junior Block After the Renovations on PhotoPeach

Art Week - Term 3 2009

Our whole school was involved in an art week. We had an Environmental focus for this. The juniors decided that we would liven up our sandpit area and our fence behind the Junior Playground. Here are some before views of this area:

We invited parents and whanau to help the teachers and children with the enormous task that we had set ourselves. We thought of this week as a starting point....we were realistic.....we probably wouldn't finish this project in a week!!

Well, the week came, and we had fantastic support. We were able to get a huge amount of work done. Here are some pictures of this work:

During Art Week on PhotoPeach

After this huge effort, a few parents continued to help out - on a daily basis!! We have finally finished the sandpit fence and the fence behind the junior playground. The children also worked on cutout butterflies, bees, dragonflies and fish. These will be displayed behind gardens, the bag bays, and the junior shed. All children also painted a rock to put around our gardens. Look out for them in the photos below:

Post Art Week - Getting our art up on PhotoPeach