Year 8 Leavers Trip

Our leavers trip has been a lot of fun this year! We watched The Hunger Games, went to Breakers for lunch and finished the afternoon with an amazing session at Flip City!

It was an absolute pleasure to spend the day with three incredible youngsters who we are proud to have as students of Alfredton School.

All the best for the future boys.

Remember 

The future is in your hands, it is yours to take and make yourselves whatever you want it to be. Be proud, leave with the knowledge you have achieved and can continue to do so in whatever you choose to do. We are all incredibly proud to say we taught you!

Prize giving

Xmas tree prize giving followed straight after our prooduction this year. I was incredibly proud of the behaviour of the children! Almost 3 hours of sitting and acting and they did beautifully.

Our award winners were:

Junior year 0-4 Excellence

Anneliese

Senior year 5-8 Excellence

Nick

Hull Arts Cup

Alex

Percy Male Sportsperson Cup

Caleb

Phillips Female Sportsperson Cup

Rapata

Citizenship Award & Principal Scholarship

Jerome

Congratulations to you all! These awards are not given lightly and we spend a lot of time talking about the winners each year! 

Production

Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits was a hugely successful production this year! Watch out for the video and still pics soon.

Pets day and end of year prep

Pets day was an amazing success!

There were amazing examples of well raised lambs and calves. We even had a possum make an appearance this year. 

Our indoor art activities were very well done this year. The children put in a lot of time and effort.

Congratulations to 

Charlotte

Dallas

Moana

Jerome

Who all won well deserved trophies for top points this year! Great work guys.

Now we begin to look to the end of the year. Please practice this song at home with your children to help them learn our song to sing in Santa! 

Thanks

Year 7 & 8 Moving Forward Conference

The Year 7 & 8 children had an amazing time at the Bush Principal's Moving Forward Conference.  They had hands on opportunities to explore Search and Rescue, Careers with Police, Pukaha Mt Bruce, Engineering, Science DNA, Mau Rakau, Dance and a range of other amazing activities! 
The children got a lot out of the day and certainly hope it is run again in the future.

Mrs Phillips doing Stop Motion Animation

E Pro 8 Engineering

E Pro8 Engineering

E Pro 8 Engineering

E Pro 8 Engineering

E Pro 8 Engineering

Search & Rescue

Search & Rescue

Search & Rescue

Search & Rescue

Hanging out...

Careers with Police

E Pro 8 Challenge

E Pro 8 Challenge

Search& Rescue

Search & Rescue

So you think you can dance

So you think you can dance

So you think you can dance

So you think you can dance

So you think you can dance

Swimming Pool

The swimming pool painting & repairs have finally been finished! Thanks so much to Rob and Glen who came down on short notice to help out.  This is such an amazing feat for our school.  With so many country schools closing down their pools it is a real credit to the board and community that we have overhauled the damage and repainted.  Watch this space for updates on the solar heating panels that ASCA have made a priority this term!
This is a wonderful example of what can happen when a community pulls together.  It certainly makes me proud to be here at Alfredton School.

Well done everyone!  We are hoping to fill it in the next couple of weeks after the revamped rails have been put on.

Week Two Term Four Certificates

Contratulations to Isabella, Moana and Makayla who received certificates this week.  Great to se you all getting them for being kind, caring, role models....   What lucky teachers we are to have you at Alfredton School.

Shake Out

We took part in the shake out on Thursday the 22nd.  It was great to see that everyone knew what to do!

End of Term Awards

Well done to our 4 recipients of Student of the Term.

Jupiter 1's student of the Term went to Bridie for amazing effort & work
Jupiter 2's student of the Term went to Henry for his excellent attitude
Mars student of the Term went to Caleb for being absolutely fantastic in everything he does
Principals Student of the Term went to Jerome for his excellent attitude and leadership.

Well done to you 4!  You all deserve this honour and I hope you are all feeling very proud.
Kia kaha

Maths Week Lucky Draw Winners

The lucky draw for those of us who got over 11 stamps during maths week happened at assembly on Thursday.  We had 2 board games and the teachers decided to do 2 draws.

The first winner was Anneliese and the second winner was Phoebe.
Here they are with their games!  Well done girls.

Maths Week Day Five

Wow!  What a week.  Miss Hawke had some amazing activities organised for the school.
On Friday we had our Amazing Race around Alfredton.  We had so many activities we had to complete.
First it started with the Bee Hives - we had to carefully construct the bee hives using all of the geometry skills we had.
Next we went to the Toothpaste Challenge.  Each group had to estimate how long we could squeeze out a tube of toothpaste.  This was lots of fun and created a lot of competition!
After that we went and estimated how much force/weight was needed to tow a person on Miss Hawke's dads steam train.  This was probably the highlight of the day for most of us!  We loved going for rides on the steam train.
We then did the bean bag throw just before lunch.  We had so many minutes to get as many bean bags in the bucket as we could - the adults kept tally charts for us.

Lunch was delicious!  Mr Hull and Mr Papworth cooked up a storm on the BBQ and we even onions with our sausages - YUMMY!

After lunch we kicked off again.  We started with an orienteering course around Alfredton School.  We certainly learnt a lot about reading compasses based on this activity.
Then we had out geometry treasure hunt where we had to find real life examples of geometric shapes - lots of creativity amongst the teams in the race to be first here.
Finally we did the water challenge!  We had to fill buckets with water by carrying it in a cup.  We didn't have long to do this and had to really get going.  It was loads of fun and ended up in a big water fight!  Here are some photos of the challenge: