Fun athletics day hooray!!!

Yesterday we had our schools district athletics day.It was so windy yesterday that it was blowing our windows opened at my house.My longest jump was 1m.

By Stephanie Cole

Athletics At Kaikoura Primary.

On the 25th of November we did athletics at Kaikoura Primary. It was a tradgic windy day!
My longest jump in long jump was 2.70 meters. I got 3rd in the 50m sprint, and i also got 3rd in the 100m sprint. I threw the discuss 10.9 meters.
By Amelia

My awesome athletics day.

Yesterday we had our schools district athletics day. It was so windy that the high jump mats blew away.
My longest jump was 2m and 75 cm.
My high jump was nearly one metre.
I got 6th in the 50m sprint.
I got 3rd in the 75m sprint then in the finals I got 5th.
By Collette Riddell- Ruston

Our Special Quest!

On Thursday we had a special visiter called Ronald Macdonald.
We sung some songs with him they were about road safety. One of the songs were "click goes the seat belt". We also showed him our vege garden.
written by Amelia Cole

Hannahs Pak Choi

We planted Pak Choi, Courgette, Lettuces, Tomatoes, Dwarf beans, sugar snap peas, Mustard cress, Radishes and we might plant strawberries. We wrote a plan on what we are going to do and how fast they grow. The plant that I am working on is Pak Choi.
By Hannah and Amelia

Weeding our Edible garden!!

This term we are learning to plant an edible garden.
This is me and Amelia holding two big trees that Mr Manuel helped us pull them out. They were hard to rip them out so Mr Manuel had to. After we weeded the garden we had to put better soil in the garden because the old soil was bad.
By Monique and Collette

My Bean

This is me holding the beans that I planted.It is black and they are small.We are having fun planting the garden.My bean has not grown.By Stephanie cole

Taking Care Of Our Garden

On Tuesday the 14th of October we have been working hard on our garden for our environment.
Written By Monique

Jessica's fun cross country race!

I like my story. By Jessica.

Monique's Cross Country story!!

I liked the Cross Country. Here is my story. By Monique

Stephanie's cross country run

Listen to Stephanies cross country story, it will be great if you listen to it.

Hannah's Story

Listen to Hannah's story on her cross country race.

The Cross Country!!

On Friday we had Kaikoura Districts Schools Cross Country. I came second. I was so very happy with second. I had lots of fun and a very enjoying day!! Thank you and well done Mrs King for all your hard work!!!!

Yay cross country

On Friday we had a cross country at our school.We were all proud of our selfs. It was the 8 year olds race

Balls in the Bucket

Hannah, Monique and Ollie aiming for the buckets. How many did they get in?

Old Memories Come Flooding Back

Mr Manuel showing off his old school skills on the stilts.
How do you do that Mr M?
By Monique

Sports with Hapuku school

This is Jessica-Rose, Ravyn and me. We are on the tyres. We have made an obstacle course. We kept wobbling on the tyres. It was so much fun playing sport with Ravyn and Jessica. I liked the old school games. They were cool!
By Stephanie Cole.

Woodbank visits Hapuku School to enjoy Old School Games!!!

Yesterday Woodbank School went to Hapuku School to play old school games! Rose, Ariana, Amelia and I were in the same group. We played on the tyres and had to balance ourselves. We then had turns at pushing each other off the tyres. It was awesome! We had a great day at Hapuku School.
By Collette Riddell

My fun day up the mountain

This is me about to throw a snowball. I went skiing with my class to Mount Lyford on Friday. I had an awesome day. ~*By Stephanie.*~

My Skiing Adventures

On the 29th of August Mrs King took Woodbank School skiing. It was Jessica-Rose's first time at skiing. Mrs King took Collette and I onto the other ski field for advanced skiers. This field was called Paradise Slope. I had an absolutely fantastic brilliant day. Thank you Mrs King.
By Amelia Cole.

MY TRIP SKIING!!!!!

Woodbank School went skiing on Friday the 29th of August at Mount Lyford. It was awesome. There was just one little problem and that did not harm us one little bit. It was that we could not see very much. We had a fantastic time. Thank you Mrs King for taking us up the mountain. Woodbank School goes skiing and skis for two days straight.
This is me.
By Collette Riddell Ruston

Me Skiing

It was fun skiing. Now I know how to ski. I had such an awesome day!

Information Communucation Technology

Every morning we get to go on our blogsite. Sometimes we make a new blog or we just look at the comments that people put on the blog. It is interesting to see what comments people put on the blog. Sometimes we stay on for a long time. Mr Manuel encourages us to go on every morning. I like going on our blogsite to learn how use the computer faster. When I go on it I sometimes have to share with the younger students in our class. They are learning very quickly.

Computer skills!!

Everyday at least once a day, Woodbank School goes on the internet to check out our blogsite and to see if anyone has left a comment. Sometimes we go onto other schools blogsites and leave comments. This is Monique who is the youngest student in our class putting on a blog.
By Collette Riddell

Woodbank School At St Jo's School Doing Sports

On Monday the 18th and Tuesday the 19th of August we went to St Josephs School Kaikoura for Sports Day. Hannah, Monique, Jessica-Rose and Stephanie were doing sports on Monday and Collette and I went into Mrs Gray's class. We did a lot of work. We were on the computers researching and learning about the Olympics. Collette and I got watch Jessica- Rose play soccer. On Tuesday Collette had our sports day. The first sport we did was volleyball and then Rippa Rugby. Mr Manuel was the ref. His voice must of been sore after 2 days of reffing. My rippa rugby team wore red tags and Collette's team wore yellow. The day was great.

By Amelia Cole

Beautiful Snow!!!

This is our class with our maunga (mountain) TAPEUANUKU in the background, with lots of snow on it. It is a beautiful view from Woodbank School. Woodbank School is going skiing on the 29th of August and the 2nd of September. It is going to be awesome! We are all looking forward to skiing. We hope that the weather will be fantastic and sunny.
By Collette Riddell

Sports Day at St Josephs

On Monday we went to St Josephs School to do sports. It was fun. There was gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, netball, croquet, sack races and rippa rugby. Miss Kensington did an awesome job organising the 2 days for our cluster. Way to go Jane!!!. Thank you.

By Hannah Graham.

My Dad At The Cafe

There was lots of food at the Cafe. Here is my dad, Mark, buying a quiche.
By Monique Graham.

(WOODBANK CAFE FOR A DAY!!!)

Woodbank School run our own cafe on Friday the 15th of August. It was an awesome day. It took us two months to plan and prepare for this day. We had more than twenty people who came to eat, drink tea, coffee and juice and a chat to catch up. We raised more than $100. We had planned this day by going to the Kekerengu store to see how to run a cafe. People in our community, Board of Trustees, Staff and parents come to join the cafe day. Thank you to all of you who came to support us. We had a magnificent time and really enjoyed the day!
By Collette Ruston Riddell

Woodbank School Cafe For A Day

On the 15th of August Woodbank School's 6 hard working girls ran a cafe day. But unfortunetly one of our students was away and so was Mr Manuel. It took us 2 months to prepare. Mrs King had to buy all the ingredients. We owe Mrs King 105 dollars. We had over 20 customers. On our menu we had vege soup,  white bread rolls, quiche, banana cake, fruit kebabs and tea, coffee and juice. At the end of the cafe day Mrs King saved us all a piece of cake,  a fruit kebab and a piece of quiche. Some of us didn't want any soup.

Written by Amelia Cole

Cafe Day

Last Friday Woodbank School had a cafe day. We had a fun day. There were lots of people who came to enjoy what we had prepared, baked and brewed.

Really sad Mr Manuel was working at Hapuku School but we saved him some cake.

Written by Hannah and Monique Graham

Jessica's CF poster

CF stands for cystic fibrosis. Jessica has got cf. She has got some name tags(which are necklaces) and pens for sale so we can help raise money for cf. Here is Jessica and Hannah standing by the cf poster at our school. By Hannah Graham and Jessica- Rose Ruston Boyd

Look at our beautiful veiw of the snow!

Woodbank has such an awesome view of the mountains. Do you think this mountain is beautiful? The Maori name for mountain is Maunga. "I can't wait to go skiing with my class next week"
By Monique Graham

How our Student Of The Week works.

We have a chart and when we work hard and display appropriate behaviour we get a sticker on it. When it is all filled up with stickers we have a special box with lots of goodies and we get to pick one of the goodies. They are all wrapped up so we do not know what we are getting. By Monique Graham and Stephanie Cole.

Cafe day

On the 15th of August we are having a cafe at our school and we are also fundrasing to go skiing. by Amelia

Ski Trip Canceled

On Friday the first of August we were going to go skiing. But the way the weather has been acting i knew it wasn't going to happen.We are going to go skiing in September.
By Amelia

Flooding Clarence River

Oh no! The Clarence River is nearly flooding over it's banks. Last week it was a raging torrent of dirty muddy water. There was lots of slips from Woodbank to Kaikoura Township. The High School kids came to school with us and Mr Manuel .
By Hannah

Telling the time

Every year we learn how to tell the time. This year I am learning to do quarter past and quarter to. This is Stephanie reading a clock.
By Hannah

Monique's bubble story

I like Monique's story and her bubble picture.I like her green border. She has used some good words in her story.
By Stephanie

Monique has started school

I like being at school.It is fun.
By Monique

Bubbles at Woodbank

Listen to Stephanie's wonderful story.

New rubbish bins

These are our new rubbish bins.

Arthurs visits

Every second week Arthur Barnfarther comes and teachers us Religous Instruction.We really appaiate Arthur coming thank-you Arthur.

Our Weta House!

This is our weta house. It has about 4 or 5 wetas in it. It's gross. Have you seen some wetas? They are black and they look slimy.
by Stephanie

Duathon at Ward School

On Friday Woodbank School went to Ward domain. This is me on Jr's bike. I am doing the Duathon. It was so much fun. I had some help from legend Steve Gurney.
By Stephanie Cole.

Ward Duathlon Day.

On Friday we went to Ward Domain to compete in a duathlon. Steve Gurney was there.
This is Jessica and Monique. Hannah`s dad brought Woodbank School student's bikes on his big truck. I got 4th. It was truly an awesome day of fun. By Hannah Powell Graham

A new girl yay!!!!

On Monday we have a new student starting at Woodbank School . Her name is Naomi Ward. Naomi is a Year 5 student and has come from Ward School. We are delighted to have another girl at school.
By Stephanie Cole

Our Great Music Teacher Mr Judge

By Collette and Jessica

Music with Mr Judge

Every Monday Mr Judge comes and teaches us how to play the piano. Mr Judge is a very talented tutor. We really appreciate Mr Judge taking the time to teach us.
By Collette Ruston-Riddell

Gill teaches Jessica-Rose

On Tuesdays and Thursdays Gill Horton comes to work in the office. Gill also likes working with Jessica-Rose who really appreciates Gills help.
By Jessica and Zoe

Ward School Duathalon

On Friday we are going to Ward School to do a Duathalon. A Duathalon is a two event competition that contains running and biking.
By Jessica Rose

Sad Problems

On Saturday night my sister's teacher died of a heart attack when he was watching rugby.         

He was  a nice man and he worked at Kaikoura High School.

We learn so fast every day and we are strong in every way .

Mr Manuel is teaching us enviroschools. In 2006 we got a bronze award and this year we want to get a silver award. By Stephanie Cole

Hannah's day at Woodwork

I am making a box at Woodwork. It was last Friday. To day Mrs King is teaching us.

Hemp and flax at Ward

On Friday Woodbank School went to Ward School. Stephanie did first aid, Zoe did Mosaics,
Hannah did woodwork and Collette and I did hemp jewellery and flax weaving.
At first I said it was hard but then Mrs King said to persevere and to keep trying and then I finished it just in time.

Monique starts school visits.

Monique has started her school visits. Monique comes to have her visits every Monday and Wednesday. Monique absolutely loves her school visits so much that she never wants to go home at 1.00pm. Monique has lots of friends here at Woodbank School and two very marvellous teachers.

Hemp weaving at Ward School

This is me Collette. I am at Ward School making hemp jewellery. I had such an awesome day. It was so fantastic of Ward to invite us. I made some new friends and it was a beautiful sunny day for us!

Packing up fun

This is Stephanie and I holding the gym mat. We are putting them in the storing room.

Ripping and running but not tackling

On Wednesday the 28th of May all the schools in Kaikoura went to ripper rugby . I was in the senior group and in the 8th team. Collette's dad was the coach of the senior group and the 7th team.
It was a bit hard to play against one of my best friends. Her team won.

We zoom fast all day. Hurray

Hi! I'm Stephanie and this is me and my sister Amelia ( on the edge) We are getting into our age groups for ripper rugby. We are wearing our Woodbank top's.