Celebrating Race Relations Day

On Monday this week we celebrated Race Relations day with an afternoon of games and activities. Children were invited to wear clothes from their country of origin, and participated in games from around the world. It was wonderful to see those children in their Samoan and Tongan dress tossing the caber! Spider soccer and marbles (originally from Turkey) were some of the many activities children got to try. It was a fun afternoon and a great way to celebrate us all.

Corn Harvest

Kahu , Amanda and Chan'el enjoy the feast.

Green Team bounty.

Today the junior members of the Green team harvested the corn crop, the remaining broccoli, more cherry tomatoes, and four very large strawberries. Then we cooked up the corn and broccoli (minus the odd caterpillar!) and had a lunch time feast!! Delicious!!

Now the Team needs to work out what else we can put in the garden to grow over the winter!!

Art Attack 2010

Here are some photographs of our Art Attack 2010 for you to enjoy. What great artists we have here at Addington. Well done to you all.

Green Team Cook Up

Ms Heath in Sydney Australia

On Monday morning very early, 4.30am I arrived at Christchurch Airport ready to fly to Sydney for a tour of schools. We arrived to very warm weather and boarded a bus that took us to our hotel.

We were very fortunate to be able to go to the Hilton Hotel for a presentation by Apple. They gave a yummy lunch and talked to us for a while and then we got into groups. My group put together a Podcast, it was fun and I learned lots of new things.

On Tuesday we went to visit a school that goes from Yr 1 - Yr 12 called John XX111 and St Marks. It was a very new school with lots of lovely new classrooms. You will see some of the photos below. Later that day I went on a harbour cruise and saw the Opera house and had lots of fun.

Today is Wednesday and we visited a wonderful school called Methodist Ladies College and it had students from Yr 1 - 12 as well. Their junior school was only a year old and had an underground carpark for parents to drop their children off. The classrooms are called learning Studios and each space has two rooms working together. Their classrooms have no walls and are referred to as agile spaces. Check the photos below.