Rugby FunYAY!!!

On Friday 7th May 54 Marshland students travelled to Burnside Park for Canterbury Rugby Funday. We were joined by 47 other primary schools who were just as excited for a Funday out of school to learn rugby skills, teamwork and have fun.

Marshland School was proud to enter 4 teams into the tournament; Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 & a Girls Team. Each team was able to play 3 games against a different school. We stopped briefly in between each game to have a bite to eat and re-hydrate before cracking on again.

It was so good to see so many Marshland students representing the school with such a positive attitude and giving everything their best effort. We would love to have just as many students attending next year too.

Have you played tackle Rugby before? Leave a comment and tell about your team :)

Photo Source: Mr Sutherland & Mr Bell

Terrific TERM ONE

 Kia ora bloggers, 

We have had a very busy term with lots of activities. A highlight for many of us was our school camp, so I have included some pictures of our adventures at Living Springs! 

Many of our tamariki set camp goals and a lot of them achieved them, which was awesome to see! Have you tried any of the activities we did at Living Springs? We did team building, archery, rifles, as well as a cool game called Animal Survival. 

Source: photos from all the Korimako teachers

Book Week

We have had a very fun week at Marshland School, we have been celebrating Book Week!

This week has been full of lots of exciting things. There has been a door display competition between the hubs, a dress up day on Thursday where we came dressed as our favourite book character and had a parade through the school. All of our learning has been based around fairytales as that was our hubs theme. 

Hope you enjoy these cool photos from our great week!

Korimako Team

Friday Winter Sports

We have now been going to New Brighton on Friday afternoons for Winter Sport. Students are doing a variety of sports including football, capture the flag, table tennis, netball and more. So far so good with great results and a lot of fun. Thank you to those parents who help out with the coaching, we wouldn't be able to go without you!

Epro8 Excitement!

This week we have begun our builds for the Epro8 challenge. Two teams have completed their build and we have one team to complete theirs next week. This year's challenge was to build a mechanical animal measuring 1-2 metres. It had to have a moving part that could be moved using a crank handle.

One team built a crab with a moving arm and the other team built Eric the eagle. Well done! We can't wait to see what our last team creates next week. What animal would you build if you were entering Epro8? 

Cycle Safety

Kia ora,

We are so happy to be back at school and to be back into the swing of things!

This week the Korimako year 6's have had the chance to take part in Cycle Safety lead by the Christchurch City Council. This is a two day programme that teaches students the road rules for when they are out cycling as well as basic cycle maintenance.

A highlight for the students has definitely been the opportunity to ride around the Prestons neighbourhood. It has been the perfect practice ground as they have been able to learn how to ride through roundabouts, make right turns and learn how to use the traffic lights.

Korimako Team

Korimako Art

This term we have been completing an art rotation every Friday. Students have had the choice of 3 options:
- Tangled Letters - Learning about doodling and learning how to shade with pen
- Colourful Koru - Researching different koru designs and using pastel colouring techniques
- Funky Portraits - Using Romero Britto as inspiration and using bright colours to make our portraits pop!

Students have enjoyed this rotation as they have had choice over which art piece they would like to complete.

Here are some of our fantastic pieces!

Korimako Team