Mattys Farewell

 Matty Beardsley has been our teacher aid this year. He has been inspiring and really funny. He has helped us with our learning and has been like another teacher!

Next year Matty is going to Otago University to study to be a teacher! He is going to be an amazing teacher!

THANKS MATTY!

Last Day Origami

This morning Ella and Zara taught us how to fold Origami Cranes.

It was a fun activity! 

They are going to take all of our paper cranes to make a mobile to leave at the school so that we can all be remembered and wish us all good luck! 

Flip City GRi11 2.0 Fun Day

On Thursday 8th December GRi11 2.0 went to Flip City for our end of year celebration. We had to go in two groups, so the boys went first and then the girls. It was so much fun! 

           

 The Boys had a flipping good time!

The Boys a little red faced after a great session!

The Girls ready to get their flip on!

Post flipping.... A little sweatier and red in the face! 

What a work out!

Thanks Flip City! 

Ganugapati Cup

A huge congratulations to Cole Phillips for winning the Ganugapati Cup. 

The cup was donated to the school by the Ganugapati family to be awarded to a Year 6 College Street kid who has excelled academically and in sport.

Cole received the cup at the Senior Syndicate Awards Assembly. We are really proud of him!

Cole with the cup in front of a Rose bush.

Cole in front of a Rose bush looking at the cup doing his hair. #combover

Interschool Athletics

Yesterday we had 9 GRi11 2.0 kids representing College Street at the Interschool Athletics Championships. 

It was the perfect day for it and they all competed extremely well! 

Congratulations to the place getters: 

Jacob 3rd in Shotput

Van 3rd in Discus

Ben 2nd in Hurdles

Costa 1st in 800m

There were lots of PBs. These kids showed exceptional sportsmanship! We are really proud of you all.

CSNS GRi11 and CSNS 2.0 Touch teams

This year we had 2 touch teams made up of kids from GRi11 2.0. Every Friday we would head down to Monrad Park to play against other schools.

It was a really fun experience and we definitely improved throughout the season. 

We would like to thank our coaches Miss Holder and Matty for giving up their time and expertise.

Kapa Haka

This year we had 6 member of GRi11 2.0 in the Kapa Haka. Brooke and Liam were chosen to be Kaia's.

It was brilliant to see them all perform with passion and expression!

Back Row: Liam, Kristian and Baxter
Front Row: Brooke, Ava and Lara.

Product Testing - Sumo Wrestling Suits

Two weeks ago we got to test out some new Sumo Wrestling suits. A parent at school wanted to see if they were suitable to hire out to kids so asked us if we would test them out (under close supervision of course).

We had a great time smashing into each other and slamming on the ground. We found that the suits were quite big and baggy and that the Helmets kept falling off. We gave feedback to the parent and suggested she get new helmets or a buckle!

#sumo #wrestling

Testing out the suits.

Slam!

All smiles!

GRill Domination

During our recent Assembly we received a huge number of awards! Athletics Day Certificates, Championship Athletics medals, Otago Problem Solving, Digi-awards and a Go For Gold award. A huge congratulations to all our winners!

Siu with her haul of certificates, medals, and trophies.

Siu taking a selfie on Mr R's phone. #payback

Manawatu Digi Awards Finals

On Monday, the 21st of November it was the Manawatu Digi Awards along. Our music video was chosen as a finalist along with a few other entries from GRi11 2.0 and College Street. We went to the Regent, all fancied up to await the results.

We were so nervous waiting for everyone else’s category. Our category was the last one so we had to wait for ages! We were really excited watching all the other entries on the big screen. Siu and Zahra’s ‘Anzac Day Book Launch’ won the Year 4-6 Graphic Design! Screams came from the crowd as we cheered them up on stage.

Now it was our turn...our hearts were racing now. As they were playing all the nominee’s videos, time seemed to slow down. Finally our one was playing… Now was the moment. “And the award goes to…Mean Music Video! Siu, Kristy and Maddi from College Street Normal School!” We couldn’t believe it! We started to fumble our way up the stage, handing out high fives as we went. We got our trophies and certificates and went back to our seats, buzzing from the excitement.

Next they announced that there would be Supreme Winners for each year group category. They took all the winners from the Year 4-6 age group and picked the ‘Supreme Winner’ overall. As they were showing all the entries that could win, we all looked at each other and were thinking that there was no way we were going to win.

“ And the Supreme Winner is… Mean-Music video! Siu, Kristy and Maddi from College Street Normal School.” We were shocked. We got up once again and we rushed to the stage to receive our awards. We got two more trophies and a chromebook for the school.  We couldn’t believe we won not only our category but the supreme award too! All our hard work had paid off; the careful scripting, the arguments, the scene ideas, the weather and making the story come to life!

It was such an amazing experience! Something that we will remember for years to come.

By: Siu, Kristy and Maddi

Check out our video here:

THE GRi11 2.0 Finalists

The Winners and their Awards! 

  

Jump Jam Champions!

Congratulations to the C.S.N.S. Jammers who came 3rd in the North Island Championships in Tauranga. We are extremely proud of everyone, but in particular our GRi11 2.0 kids; Ava, Milla, Amber, Terado, Joonoh, Kristy, Ivy and Anneka! 

Band and Open Mic Performances

Some very talented GRi11 2.0 kids have been out performing in our community. Terado, Hyacinthe, Kristy, Ivy, Maya, Zahra, Siu and Brooke have been performing in an Open Mic challenge over the year. Last Tuesday was the final showcase with scholarships up for grabs. They all performed extremely well and Siu and Hyacinthe receieved scholarships for next year.

The band also performed in a gig at the Stomach along with bands from Russell Street, Monrad, Roslyn and Mt Biggs.

Here is some writing that was published in the school newsletter this week by some of our talented musicians/writers!

Manawatu Primary School Table Tennis Tournament

On the 15/11/16 the CSNS Table Tennis team went to the Barber Hall on Waldegrave Street to play in Manawatu Primary Schools Table Tennis Tournament. We got there at 8:30am and started to practice against each other as a warm up.

Our first game was against Aokautere school. We all played 2 games each and umpired 2 games. We were all having so much fun. We won 10-6. Then we played Longburn Primary and Riverdale. We won both of these fixtures as well. All of us were stoked as we hadn’t played proper table tennis before.

After lunch we had a skill challenge. In pairs we started the longest rally competition, CSNS were so far away from winning this it was ridiculous. The longest rally was 457 shots, Mr R had to count them (we didn’t know he could count that high)!. The next one was who can bounce the ball the longest on their paddle the longest. 3 CSNS kids got in the top 5.

We had 2 games left against Tiritea and Manchester Street. We drew with Manchester Street and lost to Tiritea. They were very close games.

The final scores were announced and CSNS came 3rd in the Boys, 3rd in the Girls and 3rd overall. We all got bronze medals! I also won a voucher for showing promise during my games!!

The day was a great day and everyone had fun and learnt about table tennis. The GRi11 2.0 kids Gihara, Joonoh, Zara, Yutong and myself hope we can play table tennis again in the future!

GRi11 2.0 kids represent!

Cycle Safety

On the 2nd of November the Grill went out for a lesson on bike safety with Constable McFlinn. First we had to learn all the safety rules before we started to bike. Then we learnt the top of the T before me which means whoever is at the top goes first, Parallel roads and roundabouts.

We learned about the hand signals which are raise your hand up like a high five so they know that you're gonna stop.If you wanna turn left you have to stretch your arm out to the left and if you wanna turn right do the same thing but opposite sides.

In the afternoon we had to start practicing the safety rules on our bikes as if there was actual intersections with other cyclists trying not to try crash into others.