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.

PMP

Each Tuesday and Wednesday the three Junior Classes participate in our PMP programme. We have fantastic parent helpers assisting with this programme. This programme consists of 5 activity stations. Eye tracking, hand/eye/foot co-ordination, fitness, balance and locomotion. We have found this programme very beneficial for our children. It helps with concentration, fine and gross motor skills and all round school readiness. Most of all, the children LOVE IT!!

Room 3 Assembly

On May 8th, Room 3 shared a slide show we had created in Kidpix. It is one of our favourite stories "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. Our copy of this book is very small so we decided to make our own one for the class library. We hope you like our beautiful pictures.

Hail at school

The hail came down and covered our playground on Monday.

Grace took this photo.

Buried Treasure

On Wednesday 27 April Room 7 joined the children in Room 10 for a "rubbish" experiment. We formed groups and each group was given a piece of litter to bury. After a week we went back and dug up our piece of rubbish to see what had happened to it. We will do this again for the next month and observe what happens.

Visit by Selwyn Ridge Children

On Wednesday 8^th April, 2 Year 1 classes came to visit us from our other local school Selwyn Ridge. We sang songs, did lots of fun activities, and some Selwyn Ridge children even did a play for us. It was a fun morning that was finished by a shared morning tea.

Junior Trip to the Art Gallery, Library and the Redoubt/Rose Gardens.

On Thursday 2^nd April, Rooms 2, 3 and 7 went into Tauranga to explore their environment.

The classes rotated around the art gallery, the library and a walk up to the rose gardens/redoubt area.

Some children in Room 3 wrote:

We went to the art gallery and we made our own art and my border had hearts around it. By Madison.

The redoubt was pretty. I liked all the roses because they smell sweet. By Abby.

My Mum went to the art gallery and I did some pictures with old tissue paper. By Cheynes.

The library was fun. The pop up books could not be taken out and there was a tv book when you close and open the book it looks like it was moving. By Michael.