Henry & Sean's rippa tournament 2010

Yesterday the year three's, four's, five's, six's, seven's and eight's went to the East Coast Grounds at Whareama to play rippa rugby.

We were in the year seven & eight team. Our team won one game, lost five and had one bye.

We scored about four tries each.

It was a fun day even though we only won one game.

Every Tuesday, for the next five weeks of this term, Wainuioru School has electives. Some of the groups are cooking, glass painting, camping skills and basic horsemanship. I was doing landscape artistry held by Kathryn Tomlinson and Mary Cook. In my group there is Ally Cates, Evie Tomlison and me. We are going to design the front garden of the school and for the last 2 weeks we have been going round to schools and kindys looking at their gardens to get ideas for our project. We have seen some really cool stuff like koru statues, bridges, boadwalks and big colourful signs. We are planning to have at Wainuioru School a stone garden with a fish pond in it, surronded by tussock grass and statues also we were hoping to have a water fountain somewhere. I have had a whole lot of fun doing the electives so far and the tutors are great. I can't wait to see what it will look like at the end.

My Elective, Girls Stuff.

At the moment we have a program doing electives and mine (Annika's) GIRLS STUFF.

On Tuesday we were doing nail care. We got a glorious and relaxing hand massage (aaaahhhhhhh), we pushed our cuticles back and did our nails. First of all I painted my nails with a nail hardner, then with a sparkly silver polish, which came out purple! I last of all painted a top coat. My nails are soo pretty now!

Annika is about to get a try!

On the 2nd of September of 2010 the years 3-8's from Wainuioru School went to Whareama for the Rippa Rugby Tournament. The teams that were playing were Whareama, Gladstone, Tinui and Wainuioru. The weather was very freezing but after we played a couple of games we all started to warm up because we were running around alot. I was in the year 7's and 8's team because they were short of players. We won 1 game and lost 5 games. It was a very good and fun day because none of the teams were too easy to play against, the only disappointing thing was that it was muddy and cold.

Whareama rippa tournament!!!

On September 2nd 2010 Wainuioru school years 3-8 went to Whareama for the rippa tournament. The schools we played were Whareama, Tinui and Gladstone. We played 6 games of rugby and on my team were Olivia, Jack, Charlotte, Annika, Morgen, Xavier and Sophie. We won 4 out of 6 games.

The best part was ripping the rippers off the other teams belts and I enjoyed running around.

2010 Rippa Tournament

Yesterday, the years 3-8 went to Whareama School for a Rippa Rugby Tournament. the schools that were there were Tinui, Gladstone, Whareama and Wainuioru. Each year group had a lot of teams and most of us played 6 games at least.

The weather was freezing at the start but we felt warmer as the day went on because we were running around so much.

'The day was fun but very tiring from all the running around. It was exciting when we got the tries" Annika Green.

Gretchen, Holly, Maddy, Sophie and Charlotte

On Friday it was Daffodil day and the whole school was wearing something yellow. We had a drawing of a daffodil on the tennis court and everyone was asked to bring a gold coin donation. We put all of our gold coins around the outline of the daffodil and it looked great. We also had a sausage sizzle for lunch and the proceeds went to the Cancer Society too. We raised $211.70. There were bunches of daffodils in each classroom and the smell reminded me of spring.