Junior School Athletic Sports

Friday the 27th of December was a lovely sunny day thankfully as it was the day chosen for the junior school athletics.

The children participated in a variety of events including: sprints, long jump, throwing, high jump, novelty events and games.

The children all participated with enthusiasm and had a great day. Here are the photos:

Junior School Athletics on PhotoPeach

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

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

Wacky Hair and Sock Day

On Friday 22nd May Welcome Bay School held a Wacky Hair and Sock day to raise money for Te Puke High School. Te Puke High School had lost several classrooms and lots of work and equipment in the school holidays to a big fire. We know how hard it is to lose classrooms in a fire and how long it takes to recover so we wanted to help!

Children brought along a gold coin and had the chance to wear wacky hair and socks. There were mohawks, plaits, pony tails and all sorts of colours, there was even a hair washing line! Socks were multi-coloured and stripy, some even had glitter and pom-poms.