Health Promoting Schools - 5 a day healthy eating

 Health Promoting Schools

The Health Promoting School's Team, lead by Mrs Todd, had an edible art competition last Thursday, to promote healthy eating and the '5 a day - fruit and vege' message. There were some wonderful creations by some students around the school, as you can see from the photos below. Well done to Callum and Joshua from Room 6 who are part of the team and helped judge the competition.

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Sports BOP

 Sports Bay of Plenty

Sports BOP runs a lot of programmes in schools designed to teach children basic movement skills and/or skills for specific sports, such as tennis, soccer, rugby and netball. These sessions are a great addition to the school's PE programme and also allow teachers to get ideas for their own programmes. These photos of room 6 and 5 are from an indoor session at the end of last term, promoting athletics skills.

Inter-house Cross Country

 St Mary's Cross Country - Redwoods

St Mary's School cross country went off exceedingly well as usual in the Redwoods. It was a wee bit nippy but the weather held out and we avoided the rain. Some splendid running, particularly by a number of room 6 boys who got high placings.

Enjoy the photos below.

Palm Sunday Liturgy

Palm Sunday Liturgy

On Friday the Palm Sunday Liturgy was jointly run by Mrs Tabuteau's and Mr. Bach's classes. It took place in the hall and gave the opportunity for lots of children, from both classes, to read to the whole school. The singing was great and the audience attentive, although unfortunately it was raining too hard to have our traditional Donkey Parade outside.

Assembly at St Mary's

 Assembly - Friday afternoon 2:05 - after 'Golden Time'

St Mary's has assembly every week on Friday after Golden Time, except when there is a mass on Friday mornings. Room 6 will be running assembly in week 9, so we will be working out this week who is going to read and participate, and what we will do as an item. Below are pictures from the special leader's assembly held earlier in the year, when the new year 5 and 6 leaders were sworn in and received their badges. If your child is a year 5 next year they may want to start thinking about whether they will take on any leadership responsibilities. If they do not really want to go in the formal leadership program, there are other options like First Aid, Playground Angel's and Young Vinnie's Groups. 

St Mary's Swimming Sports 2014

 Swimming Sports 2014

The swimming sports were a huge success last Thursday with the day proving quite mild early on for swimming and generally not too hot. The children were well behaved and in good voice for most of the day. Thursday eventually heated up to be a bit of a scorcher. Only a few minor injuries were to be reported by Mr. Bach the First Aid Monitor. Thanks to Mrs Gaston and all the other teachers and parents who helped make this a fantastic swimming day. Have a look below at a selection of the photos that Mr. Bach took throughout the day.