Augusta Mountainairs

Last week we were luck to get a lesson from three of the Augusta Mountainairs. Here is a video showing what we got up to.

Skills4Life - Week 3

Here is a video of the skills we worked on during Week 3 of our Skills4Life session. We have two more sessions working with Kelvin and Kate from Sports Taranaki. Week 4 will see Miss Ogle leading the session with Kate and Kelvin supporting our learning.

Skills4Life - Week 2

We have participated in Week 2 of Skills4Life with Sports Taranaki. Please view our video to see what new skills we have learnt.

Skills4Life - Week 1

Today we had Kelvin and Kate from Sports Taranaki: Skills4Life come to school. Kelvin and Kate will be working with our class every Wednesday for five weeks. We look forward to learning some great skills and activities with them.

Cross Country @ Manaia

On Thursday Milly, Luke and Jordan went to Manaia to participate in the MtSpa Cross Country. Well done to these three students from our class and all the other students who also ran.

Girls Soccer with Room 8 and 15

Today the girls were lucky enough to go and enjoy learning some more skills and play a game of Soccer. The Totara girls joined up with the girls from Room 8 to have a run around. Please view our video to see some of the highlights from our Soccer session.

Isla and Yeti

While we were at the Basketball on Sunday Isla managed to get her photo taken with Yeti.

Soccer - Week 7

On Friday we had another chance at learning some more skills while playing soccer. We started the session with Wall Tag. When we understood the rules and played the game for a while we then added a soccer ball for each person. 

In the last 5 minutes of the session we were about to get into playing a soccer game with each other.

OPS @ TARANAKI MOUNTAIN-AIRS

Taranaki Mountainairs Basketball - Game 1

Here are some of the photos and videos that were taken when students from Opunake Primary watched the Mountainairs play basketball.

Soccer - Week 5

We had our second session of Soccer on Friday. We started the session playing a game of Seaweed. Once we had run around for a while we got the soccer balls and played Seaweed using the balls. In the last 5 minutes we got to enjoy a small game of Soccer.

Look out for our next session of Soccer coming soon.

Soccer Skills - Week 1

On Friday we went to soccer training with Mick Curry a Soccer Coach. We did some training like "Dish & Dome", and 'Kill the Shadow'. We then got to have a quick game of Soccer.

We can't wait until they come next time.

Weet-Bix TRYathlon New Plymouth 2014

Here is some footage from the Weet-Bix TRYathlon in New Plymouth.
What a great event. Do you see anyone you know?

Photos sent in by parents

I have been asking for photos from parents who went to support their children at the Weet-Bix TRYathlon. These are some of the photos that I have received via email. 

Milly                                  Milly

Jaunte, Milly and Isla

Isla and Milly waiting to begin the race

Isla on her bike

Milly finishing the race

Opunake Primary Student after the race

Ria with Anna Harrison (New Zealand Netballer)

Ria finishing the race

If you have any photos of the Weet-Bix TRYathlon that you would like to send in then please email them to me at: kellyo@opunakeprimary.school.nz

Weet-Bix TRYathlon

It is great to see students coming to school today with their T-shirts and medals from the Weet-Bix TRYathlon. They had an awesome day and were very keen to show their medals to everyone.

Back Row: Zoe, Milly, Mahlee, Jordan, Cayden
Front Row: Joe, Ethan, Jaunte, Ria, Isla

If you go to http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/9898293/Youngsters-enjoy-their-Tryathlon you will see an article about the event. You might also see photos of students from our school.

Weet-Bix TRYathlon photos wanted

Room 15: Totara had many students at the Weet-Bix TRYathlon yesterday. To help celebrate the awesome achievement they did we are looking for photos of each member of our class to put on our blog. If you have some photos our our class could you please send some copies of photos to Miss Ogles school email address: kellyo@opunakeprimary.school.nz

Coastal Rugby Ball Skills

On Friday each class was lucky to have some men from Coastal Rugby come and run rugby skills with each class. 
Room 15: Totara worked with Room 8: Miro to have a great run. 

Watch the video below showing the great time had and the great skills we gained.

Shared Reading: 'Playing Flipperball'

This week for Shared Reading we have been reading the story 'Playing Flipperball'. While reading we had to ask questions using:

• Who
• What
• Where
• When
• Why
• How

We answered some of the questions when we found the information in the story. On Thursday we had to think about what we had read and come up with some rules for the game. On Friday we were lucky enough to go to the swimming pool and have a go at playing a game of Flipperball.

See our video of us playing Flipperball.

We had heaps of fun.

Thank you to Miss Carlson for running the game and thank you to some of Room 14 who joined in with us.

Final Day of Hockey

Wednesday saw the last day of working with Rhonda from Action Post: Hockey. We played a game of 'Horse and Jockey.' When we understood the game we were able to use hockey stick to play. We had to work hard to tap the ball around the circle. 

At the very end of the session we got to use all of the skills we have learnt over the last four days and play a game of hockey.

Thank you to Rhonda and Mark from Action Post for taking their time to teach us some of the skills of hockey.

Active Post: Hockey

Today we had day 2 of learning skills relating to Hockey.

We were introduced to a new game called 'Cats and Mice.'

After a while we then introduced the hockey stick in and used 'sticky' and 'tap tap' to get the hockey balls from one end of the court to the other. 

We have two more days of working with Rhonda from Active Post. We can't wait to see what we will be doing next.