Random Acts of Kindness Day

I have just read in the paper that Monday 1st September is Random Acts of Kindness Day. I challenge you to record your random act of kindness for this week, under 'comments'. There is going to be a school-wide focus later in the term; this will be good practice! Hopefully random acts of kindness will be a habit, NOT something you just do on one day (or week). Start with doing something for those people who do so much for you... your parents! :) 

Fun with Books

Paris and Astin were the senior syndicate winners of the book character dress-up competition on the final day of Book Week.  Astin wasn't sure what his character was but he certainly looked like someone straight from a traditional tale! Paris, the witch, looks like she has come straight from Hansel and Gretel. What a wonderful week it has been.

 A huge THANK YOU to Miss Fesili for organising all those fun activities during the lunch hours.

Spooner Shield 2014

On Friday the 22nd of August  some of Porritt seniors competed in the Spooner Shield tournament, which involves schools from Tamatea, Greenmeadows, Taradale and Puketapu. The sports for the Spooner Shield were: boys and girls Soccer, Rugby, Netball and Hockey. The rugby boys won 3 games out of 7. The soccer boys won no games but played well. The Hockey players won 2, lost 2 and drew 2, coming second overall. The soccer girls also came second. The year five and 6 netball teams won 5 games and drew two. 

Thank you, Jake for being the official photographer. Hopefully the photos will be shown on the office tv.

Our year 5 netball team (with  help from Erika, Jada amd Sarah!)

Big Book Brain Off

Several room 15 children attended this annual event, last night. It was a very enjoyable evening, with special guest, Clifford the Dog, providing entertainment and giving out prizes. Emily's team came second, so she was able to choose a book as a prize. Thanks to Jordan, the photographer, we have some photos to share - even though he needed Clifford to accompany him to the dark and spooky classroom, to collect the camera...

The Bogan Besties - The champion... THIRD placegetters - minus one.

The markers - stay focussed, Mrs Groome. 

GORGEOUS!!

Emily and the Crazy Cops - second place getters

String Games and Knuckle Bones

Concentration!

Ella can do the four of diamonds with her eyes shut!

I think Sharnteigh might win the knucklebones championship...

Now that the Spooner Shield tournament has taken place, it is time to focus on other skills. As part of our physical education programme we are experiencing the traditional activities of string games and knucklebones. This is a great opportunity to learn about PERSEVERENCE, particularly with knuckle bones. We have some very skilful string gamers but knucklebones is proving to be quite a challenge. Parents and grandparents, show off your skills to the younger generation!

Great Websites

I hope children have been making good use of the www.ziptales.com website that I introduced them to last week. See Weekly News for username and password. We only have free access to this site for a limited length of time, so make the most of it.

Another site I have been meaning to introduce for ages is www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz - a brilliant site to help children keep up-to-date with current events, with easy-to-read text and great follow up activities.

Cheers!

Safe Cycling

For the first three weeks of term 3, Mr Marshall and Constable Chris have been teaching the senior syndicate how to ride their bikes safely. In this photo room 15 children are biking as slowly as possible.

        Kings
                     The highest score was 17 seconds: Courtney, Kings and Angus all had the same score.                                                                     By Courtney

           Courtney