Rippa Rugby and Waipu Clans

A Waipu primary we have four houses or clans. They are Argyll, Sutherland, Ross and Inverness. Each class collect clan points during the week and at our weekly assembly the winning clan is announced. Also this year we have had some clan sports competitions. Recently we have had a Rippa rugby tournament. We had a round robin competition and in the final Inverness played Argyll. It was a great game with a noisy supportive crowd watching. The final score was 36-21 to Inverness. Well done to Inverness!!

Special thanks to all children that played and to Zane, Johdi and Taine who helped organised and referee the games.

Waipu Garden Group

Garden group is a special place for children to enjoy the thriving life of the garden and still have fun .Also the garden group is competing against different schools in a gardening competition and have just been judged and will be again soon so make sure you stay in touch. Ill give you some pics and videos.

By Sam

Mathex

Waipu entered the hall of Bream Bay College for the first Year 5 and 6 Mathex competition. We were shown to our table. As I sat nervously, Mr Hooper explained the rules and soon the clock started, our team runner sprinted to the Waipu 1 marker and got the first question, that was one of the seven questions we answered correctly. It was very noisy as 25 teams put their maths ability to the test. We all really enjoyed it as both Waipu teams did well.

By Abbie

On Friday the 15th August two teams from Waipu school went to Bream Bay College to participate in the Mathex competition 2008. There were 25 teams from all over Northland. Our Representatives were Abbie, Bili,Zoe,Isobel,Anna,Kyle,Nathan and Brook.

Mathex is when you get into teams of four and try and solve as many problems as you can in 25 minutes. In your team you have a runner, a recorder, a calculator person and a thinker.

By Bili and Abbie

News board

Hi,

Today the stormy weather has got worse than yesterday. the whistling wind blows.

While the cold wet drops of rain drip down to the earths soft crust.

We are going shopping after this wet school day. I'm going to buy a big musha belly

and a smaller one. I will also get some colourful face paint plus something from the cheap and cheerful 2 dollar shop.

Mum will pick us up from the class filled school at 2:30pm.

If we're lucky we will get a dollar worth of lollies.

By Isobel

Abbie and Bili are two school leaders that took a junior class to play games that they learnt from a P.A.L [Physical activity leaders] programme that they went to in term 1.

Waipu's cross country winners!!!

Well done to the fantastic cross country teams.
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Cross country

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Abbie is a champion!!!! WoW

Waipu's 10 year old Abbie won the world Junior under 11 title at Malaysia's Milo all stars international age group championships in Kuala Lumpur. She played 6 rounds only dropping won 1 set. After only 1 days rest, she flew to Penang to play the Penang international junior championships, also winning the under 11 title. Abbie had heaps of support from other New Zealanders that also went, her friends and family and she thanks her Mum and Dad for taking her over to Malaysia.
Well Done Abbie!!
Room 4 are very proud of you

black friday

Last Friday was Friday the 13th. Waipu primary had a black friday and every body got to dress in black. This is what Room 4 looked like:

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Wacky hair day

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Logan at disco

Logan at Waipu

Zone swimming sports

Congratulations to all the kids that represented Waipu in the zonal swimming sports.The day was very successful and we had the whole team up a cheering for the whole of Waipu representitives. The first event of the day was the boys open medley thats where you start with breastroke and then you do backstroke and then you finish off with freestyle. Representing Waipu we had Johdi Howell, Norton Brown and Taine Williams and they did extreamly well and then it was the girls we had Abbie Palmer,Anna Worthington and Emma Wickham and again they did extremely well. Then the rest of the day was cool to and I would like to thank all the parents and our teacher ,Mr Kidd
BY BILI MOFFAT

Swimming sports

Swimming sports 2008

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Yesterday was swimming sports. Children dressed up in their clans colours. It was a great day.

Waipu school teachers

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These are the teachers of Waipu Primary School.

Tennis champs

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Well done to Abbie, Bili, Sophie, Rebecca M, Norton and Nathan for competing in the Northland tennis tournament. Abbie and Bili are the overall champions as they beat the Kamo boys in the final. What a fantastic result!

Newsboard

Every day we do news board. First of all we do a greeting, then describe the weather and then write a personal comment. Here is Zane's
Hi the weather is sunny, a bit cloudy, hot and nice for going to the beach. My uncle is training me and my brother up in case we ever get in to fights. Here are some things he does, drop kicks paralysed blocks and counter attack .

I hope you never have to use these skills, Zane- Mr Kidd

WHALES BEACHED!!

Our task was to read a newspaper article about beached whales.We then had to take notes and then put them into sentences. Here is Lucas's report:

Up north on a beach, five gray beaked wales washed up and sadly two adults and one calf died as a result of a lack of fish and squid.They must of ventured into close and were washed up. "One of the dead whales had a stomach ulcer like humans get when they smoke or have a bad diet" exclaimed DR. O'shea "The other juveniles were washed out before we could measure them" said DR. O'shea. The result of a bad diet may be because a lack of fish, krill and squid as a result of commercial fishing.

Room 4 2008

We are Room 4. We are Year 5 and 6 children. We are looking forward to having a fantastic year.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to 2008. We are looking forward to continuing the work we started last year and are hoping to make our class blog better. This year we have 25 Year 5 and 6 students in our class.
The blog will be an opportunity for children, parents and other family members to view all the wonderful learning that happens at Waipu School. Enjoy!