Hockey

Today we had our first Hockey Skills lesson. We played some fun games to teach us the basics of Hockey. Take a look at the pictures!

Learning to dribble the hockey ball with control.

Playing Creep up Jack hockey style!

Learning the Hockey-Haka position

Holding our sticks with the correct hand placement.

Even Rainbow was getting in on the fun!

We look forward to our next lesson!

ASB Aquatic Centre Trip

The Junior syndicate went on a trip to the ASB Aquatic Centre. We had so much fun and learned so much about water safety, take a look!

 Here we are learning to stay together in an emergency.

We learnt to tread water and swim through hoops.

We had fun in the wave pool!

We practised jumping off a 'sinking ship' wearing life jackets.

We put big shirts on to see that it is hard to swim in clothes.

We learnt about boat safety. We learnt to always wear a life jacket, to take a form of communication and to bail out water from the boat.

Here we are rescuing swimmers 'in danger'. We stood on the rope when we threw it and pulled the swimmers to safety. 

We never get in the water to help rescue a swimmer in trouble, we use ropes or something else available to us. 

It was a great trip and we want to thank the ASB Aquatic Centre teachers for teaching us so many skills, and our parents for helping out on the day!!

We had a special visitor today at Tahunanui school, it was Ronald McDonald! He taught us all about road safety with a very funny story about a missing sock.
We learnt to stop, look and listen when walking by roads, to watch for sneaky driveways, to walk on the house side of the footpath and to use pedestrian crossings safely.  We all had a great laugh, what a good way to start our Monday!