Crazy Hat Day

On Tuesday we had a "Crazy Hat Day". The purpose of this was to have some fun and also to acknowledge that some people in our wider community have not been as fortunate as us during the earthquake. Each child brought a can of food that will be donated to those in need. It was great to see the children get into the spirit of things.

Tennis Skills

Today at school Ryan and Fraser taught us some basic tennis skills like how to hold and swing our racket and how to control the ball in some drills that we practiced. We always enjoy these sessions.

Pizza, Pizza, Pizza!!!!

What a treat we had on Friday. Thanks to Mel organising the making session and getting all the ingredients together and to Peta for helping on the day, we got to make pizzas. A special thanks goes out to Sugar 'N Spice Bakery for supplying some of the ingredients.
Each of us got to make our own pizza and we tried to get creative with our ingredients. Once they were cooked we got to eat them and the general consensus was that they were "YUM!"

Hiwi the Kiwi

On Thursday we went to the Rangiora Baptist Hall to watch a show by The Minstrel about safe fishing/boating practice and sustainable fishing. It was both funny and informative and required a lot of audience participation. We learnt about what size a fish should be, how many we should catch and what safety gear we should take on a fishing trip. Thanks to the Ashley Banks Fishing Club for making this visit happen.

Fun Run Prizes

As part of the Fun Run 10 balls were available as prizes. For every $10 a child raised they got their name in the draw for one of the ten balls. Room 4 did well out of this - it was a random draw and today we got lucky!!! Five of the ten balls were won by us.

Ashley School Fun Run

Last Thursday the whole school took part in a fun run, that Mrs Tipping had organised, to raise money for technology within our school. We all donned our fluro safety vests (thanks PTA) and then completed our warm ups before we all took off on our walk/run. The year 2's went up to Dixon's Road and then back and the rest of us had to do the full loop. I must admit to thinking there may have been a few more children from my class walking - but alas I was left in the dust!! :) The children were so excited and so proud of themselves. I have photos of the warm up because I was there - and as for photos of our class on the way round - well I did see Jake and Dom briefly - but even then I had to ask them to stop so I could actually take the photo!!

Samson Comes to School!!

Last week we were treated to a visit from Abbey's new wee friend and much loved pet - Samson. He is a gorgeous 9 day old wild piglet who was one of many born at Abbey's house. Samson's mum needed some help to take care of him and so he has become a very loving family pet. We all thought he was just great and look forward to seeing him again on pet day to see just how big he is by then.