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Book Character Day

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Pirate Ryan, Buzz Lightyear (Tom), Pirate Sam and Ben 10 (Levi) enjoy book character day.

We enjoyed another fabulous book character day this week with an amazing range of characters coming to school. Every student got up to share their character’s story with the King of Hearts and the staff took part in the fun as well. It was terrific to welcome a large group of parents to school to share in the day.

This year we combined book character day with our annual Daffodil Day fundraiser for the cancer society. We raised over $100 from our coin trail. Thank you to everyone who support the events.

Click  here to see a photo montage of the day.

We are sailing…

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The year six students round the mark.

Our year 5 and 6 students enjoyed their latest sailing and kayaking sessions on the beautiful Lake Karapiro. The year 6 students showed how much they have learned by sailing superbly in light and shifting winds. We would like to thank Craig from Cambridge Sailing Club and Richard from Boatshed Kayaks for providing the instruction and the boats.

Rebecca and Georgina show how it is done!

It was a SHOWSTOPPING sensation!

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Rebecca, Lily (obscured), Abigail, Jacob, Georgina and Hannah rock the house!

Rebecca, Lily (obscured), Abigail, Jacob, Georgina and Hannah rock the house.

We had a wonderful night in the tropical heat of the Karapiro Hall last night. Our students did a great job performing 16 show stopping hits before the packed house. All students were involved in  the show with some super dance moves and great singing. Thank you to our talented staff for producing the show, our fantastic parents and, of course, our hard working students.

The show was followed by a very entertaining speech by BOT member Scott Smyth before we farewelled our Year 6 students and presented the citizenship trophy to Etana. The evening concluded with a visit by Santa and a yummy supper. What a great way to bring the curtain down on a memorable year!

Christmas Parade

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Rudolph, Donna and Blitzen aka Lily, Rebecca and Abigail!

Once again we had a great turn out at the annual Cambridge Christmas parade. Our float had a night before Christmas theme and featured students dressed as Mary, Joseph, wise men, Christmas crackers, Christmas trees, reindeer, candy canes, Christmas puddings and angels. Thank you to Linnet, Jenny, Nicola, Steph, Cathy and the team who created such an amazing float and costumes.

All set to go!

Ag Day 2010

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Shalya Shaw with this year's champion calf, Mickey.

Yesterday we held our annual agricultural day and had a FANTASTIC turn out of calves, lambs, goats and other pets. It was our great pleasure to welcome 90 children from James Grey and Cambridge Kindergartens along with Room 5 from Pukete School in Hamilton. There was a carnival atmosphere with great indoor displays, horse and cart rides, face painting and lots of yummy food. Our annual ag day cake auction raised an amazing $1735 for our ongoing ICT upgrade. THANK YOU to everyone who helped to make ag day such an outstanding success and GOOD LUCK to everyone who will be competing at Group Day.

Read all about it!

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Hot of the press!

Students from Room One visited the Waikato Times earlier this week as part of their current newspaper study. They learned how the newspaper is created each day following the process from reseaching, reporting and editing right through to printing and distribution. After spending the morning at the paper, Room 1 paid a visit to their big city pen pals at Pukete School. Everyone enjoyed meeting their pen pals for the first time and then spending the afternoon playing soccer, making and enjoying a yummy lunch and completing some technology challenges. Room 1 students would like to thank the parents who provided transport on the day.

Meeting and greeting

BP Technology Challenge

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Our BP technologists and their recession busting Christmas tree!

Today we were represented by two teams at the BP Technology Challenge in Hamilton. Our teams had to use limited resources in limited time to create structures according to set criteria. Both teams did exeptionally well with the senior team of Jake, Owen, Erika and Gemma taking out first place for their construction of a very impressive Christmas tree. Congratulations to both teams and their coach, Miss Hanks.

Friends, Romans, countrymen…

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The 2009 Speech contest finalists

Yesterday we held our annual speech competition. All five finalists delivered excellent speeches. Each speaker spoke confidently and kept the audience entertained with fascinating facts, hilarious humour and/or amazing arguments.

Gemma spoke of her six years at Karapiro and how much the school has influenced the wonderful person she has become. Erika extolled the virtues of underwear and made us realise just how we take take our incredible undergarments for granted! Joseph convinced us that the humble goldfish is in fact everybody’s ideal pet. Owen shared his many ambitions as to what he hopes to achieve when he grows up. Our Eventual winner James shared his secrets about how you can successfully make your younger siblings life miserable!

James and Joseph will now represent us at the annual Rotary club speech competition in Cambridge next month. We wish both boys the best of luck!

Bike Day with Big Foot

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Bicycle fun in the sun!

We enjoyed a great day with the team from Big Foot Adventures learning all about bicycle safety and working on our bike handling skills. Students from Maungatautari and Whitehall Schools joined us for the morning. We would like to thank Nick and Theo from Big Foot  for teaching us new skills and also Linda from Road Sense and Megan from Waipa District Council for sponsoring the event!