More Swimming

Room 11 & 12 students that are already confident swimmers, and have completed a water safety course get to learn either snorkelling, kayaking or diving. Here are a few pictures of today's swimming lessons.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 4

Here is the task sheet for this week: Weekly Tasks Term1, Week 4

Swimming at Kilbirnie

Every Tuesday morning in Term 1 we have swimming lessons at the Kilbirnie Aquatic Centre. Students that are already confident swimmers get to do Water Safety, Kayaking, Snorkelling or Diving. Here's a picture of Ben K leading an impromptu aquarobics session!

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 3

It's a full week this week, so there are a few more tasks than before. Make sure you plan your time so you can get everything finished by Friday lunchtime.
Here is the Week 3 task sheet.

Picnic!

We had a great time building sand sculptures, swimming and eating ice-blocks at the annual school picnic in Eastbourne on Friday.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 2

Here are the tasks for this week. We have the school picnic on Friday, so your work needs to be finished by Thursday lunchtime.

Reading Challenges for Term 1

To encourage students to read frequently and widely, we set a range of reading challenges each term. The challenges for Term 1 are:

10 Book Challenge: Read 10 books in one term.
20 Book Challenge: Read 20 books in one term.
Ye Olde Booke Challenge: Read a book written before 1970.
YA Challenge: Read 2 books from the Young Adult section of the school library.
Sport Challenge: Read a book that includes sport in a significant way.
NZ Challenge: Read a book by a NZ author.
Colour Challenge: Read a book with a colour in the title.
Friend Challenge: Read 2 books recommended by friends.

In addition, there are several year-long challenges:

Country Challenge: Read 10 books that are each set in a different country.
10 Category Challenge: Read a book from 10 different categories on the suggestion list.
16 Category Challenge: Read a book from 16 different categories on the suggestion list.
Date Challenge: Read a book from each of these date periods:
before 1900, 1900 - 1939, 1940 - 49, 1950 - 59, 1960 - 69, 1970 - 79, 1980 - 89, 1990 - 99, 2000 - 2009, 2010 - 2014.

Here is the book suggestion list.


All of the challenges are optional apart from the 10 book challenge - all students are expected to read an average-sized book (for them) each week. Longer books can count for 2 weeks if necessary,.

Welcome to 2014

Welcome to the Kauri Syndicate for 2014! We hope you had a great break over the holidays.
We still have our blogs from last year listed, but we'll be getting our new students to set them up soon.

The weekly task sheet for Term 1, Week 1 is here.