Middle Years
The new year has begun and our new Y9 students have successfully faced the
challenge of new home rooms, new routines and a day of problem solving activities.
The challenges are designed to get students working together developing their
cooperation and teamwork skills. They included activities that required thinking skills as
well as those which were largely physical.
All link back to the New Zealand Curriculum and the key competencies;
thinking, managing self, relating to others, partcipating and contributing.
Well done Y9 - a great start!
News from the mountain on Day 1 of our trip. Plenty of snow but we can only admire from a distance until Wednesday morning as the wind has been far too strong and the ski fields have been closed all day. Luckily, we have had alternative plans and as you can see from the photos, Adventure World has kept us more than entertained along with a dip in the hot pools and dropping into Huka Falls. Forecasts say that we can head for the slopes tomorrow morning so more pictures should show snow adventures by the end of the night!
On Thursday 4th August 8SPD and 8FOR drive to Waihi and went straight to the 
