Hello

Meet Franky our new class pet. We can feed him but don't want to feed him too much because he might get VERY sick.
It was great to see that 10 people voted on our poll about having a walking school bus. 9 of these thought we should have one here at Highfield school. We will see if we get any replies to our questions and then take our "thinking" to the school council.
Yesterday we had cricket coaching. We learnt how to bounce the ball onto the bat and how to hit the ball hard. We got given a bag that had a poster, cricket cards, a certificate and a game in it. We can go to cricket sessions starting next Saturday in the mornings - see our school newsletter for more details.

Walking School Bus Questions for Parents

Do you walk to school with your child/children?

Do you let your child/children walk to school alone?

Do you drive your child/children to school?

If Yes - what is your reason for driving them?


Please either respond below or send answers to school in a note or email us at
room6@highfield.school.nz

Thank you for answering our questions

Room 6 children

Celebrations

We are now doing some individual inquiries into different celebrations...Maddy has done a poster on Christmas and James has done a powerpoint on Halloween. Makayla has a speech on the Chinese New Year. Tomorrow we will start sharing them with the class.

We have had a few birthdays this week...Kaden's was on Saturday (so was Mrs Cooper's), yesterday was Hazel's and today it is Connor and Isaya. Just as well we had our party last week.

Congratulations to Joshua, Bailey G, Kaden, Nick, Jenna-Rae who will be representing Highfield School at the interschool Athletic Sports soon....they will have to keep training!

Class Birthday Party

On Wednesday we had a class birthday party. We had different things from other countries like a cake with a coin in, red lanterns, and fruit shaped lollies. We played games like pass the parcel, pin they eye on the donkey and musical chairs. After that we got to eat and even got given a birthday present. We made cards for each other and tried to say Happy Birthday from the country we had studied.

Athletic Sports

On Tuesday we went to the all weather track for our school sports. We had to be at school early and we walked up there. We had different events - long jump, high jump, shot put, baseball throw and 200m in the morning and then in the afternoon we had sprints and relays and then a house walk. Even Mrs Cooper did it for Green house.

Some of our class did very well and got places but EVERYBODY tried to be the best they could.