14 September Visit by Kevin Marshall, police education officer, to discuss Kia Kaha programme for seniors and a safety programme for the juniors.
4-5pm Sandra McDonald and Bev Blake began their course “Dancing with the pen” at Waiwhare School. This course is for the 4 local schools and is based on the book produced for the syllabus.
15 September Our school’s folk dance was held at Sherenden hall, 7-9pm, with a supper. Excellent participation and enthusiasm, a very enjoyable night for all.
19 September Kevin Marshall came out for further planning of courses. A group of children went with Linda Ward to have their photos taken receiving Write Price’s donation for fundraising. Children were Elesha Purcell, Tim Marfell, Sam Roil, Serena Goulding and Rochine De Vries.
20 September Kevin Marshall began the Kia Kaha programme with the senior class.
21 September Kevin Marshall ran the juniors safety-road travel etc programme, then checked the buses and ran through the safety drills.
22 September Cindy Good, of Kiwi Sports, brought out two Hawke’s Bay cricketers to take the senior class for an hour’s coaching. Very enjoyable and the children had a lot of fun.
23 September Brian Rorke spoke to the whole school re possum pest control and the laying of 1080 poison.
26 September I attended inservice with Ruth Sutton (Visiting fellow PNCOF), assessment principles, policies and practice for NZCF. Keren Wallace relieved.
27 September Attended another course by Ruth Sutton – managing school self review. Keren Wallace relieved.
28 September Senior class attended the science roadshow at Karamu High School. In the afternoon Kevin Marshall took the senior class for viewing the video “Kia Kaha”.
First afternoon of cricket after school for those keen (at Pukehamoamoa).
29 September Kate Holden, music adviser, spent the morning at school. Worked with seniors as a class, then discussion with Margaret on programmes.
Royce Lincoln came to do hearing and vision retests.
Kevin Marshall again in the afternoon for Kia Kaha programme.
7.30pm – BOT meeting.
5 October Bob Hitchcock of the Royal Life Saving Assoc. came for the first introductory lesson in resuscitation. Working with the S2 – F2s.
6 October Second lesson of the above. Children divided into two groups and working with the mannequins.
7 October Visit by Ms M Millar, Iona College, re Vanessa Fountaine’s enrolment next year. Afternoon – school visit to Sherenden hall to see the puppet play “Peter and the Wolf”.
10 October Margaret away on an oral language course, First Steps Literacy Project. Keren Wallace relieving.
11 October A group of eleven S2 – F2s went with Mrs Goulding to the Hastings District cross-country held at the Flaxmere Equestrian centre. Each event had over 100 runners competing. Our children did extremely well with placings 6th, 8th, 12th , 13th (3), 20th , 32nd , 41st and 100th . I took the remainder of the school while Margaret had day 2 of the oral language course.
12 October Third lesson and testing of basic resuscitation life saving.
14 October Locals schools’ cross-country held at Waiwhare from 12-2.30. Morning was fine but the weather started to change mid-day. By the time the last races were being run it was pouring down. We still managed to complete them all.
17 October Waiwhare pet day started at 9am with outside activities and judging of the inside activities. Senior class ran some small fundraising activities. Finished with a sausage sizzle and the F1 & 2s went to manual.
Brian Tolley and Ivan Gordon were the judges.
17 October Parents evening, 7.30pm, with speaker Constable Kevin Marshall talking about the “Keeping Ourselves Safe” programme. I explained to parents the new method of reporting children’s progress to be trialled next year. Thirteen out of the eighteen families attended.
20 October School was open but no children attended as it was Hawke’s Bay show week. Teachers had a ‘teacher’s only day’ instead.
26 October Day 2 of the afternoon professional development course “Dancing With the Pen” at school.
27 October BOT meeting, finished at 9.30pm.
28 October Principal’s release – visit by Christine Scott of Shortland Publications Ltd with science resources.
3 November Whole school rocky shore visit. Visited the Napier Aquarium first and had a talk given to us and display of some rocky shore creatures. Children were able to hold and touch creatures on display. We then went to Perfume Point where children had morning tea then explored abundance of sea life – even two octopus. We returned at 2pm to school. Excellent weather.
4 November Sports Day at Matapiro grounds. Excellent weather again with a very enjoyable day. Children all participated enthusiastically, with some really good personal achievements. All the relay teams did well but we had to scratch around for adults in the parents’ relay and had to draw on one of our older students, Scott Goulding, to run.
11 November Junior class visited the Dental Clinic as part of their programme and then went to the theatre to see “Animal Antics” put on by the NZ Dance Company and based on Lynley Dodd stories.
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