Health Team 2011

The Health team had two meetings in Term One. At the first meeting we welcomed Brodie, Bailey and Breanna to the Health Team and we spent some time doing activities to get to know each other.

We also looked at the surveys teachers had completed with their classes with two focuses - what's cool at our school and what needs improved.

We made a list of the things the children feel needs improved and began to think about which ones we could do something about.

At the second meeting we looked at the possibility of making a vegetable garden at school. We went and looked at an area that we could put a vegetable garden and discussed what would need to be done to develop the area.

The other the team wants to focus on is the 'rubbish' issue. We now have a school worm farm which takes care of food scraps so is the food wrappings which seem to be the problem.

This year the team has decided that they will look at this issue by encouraging families to use recycable items to bring food to school in. We looked at a couple of websites with different food wrap ideas.

Watch this space!

PALS

PALS 2011

Near the end of Term One PALS got under way.
The PALS were put into teams of 3 and then working with Mrs Soper they completed some planning of activities.

This year PALS will be taking activities on Monday for Kiwi and Tui classrooms,
Wednesday for Pukeko and Kakapo classrooms and on Friday for Kea and Weka classrooms.

After working through one session with Mrs Soper each PAL group took an activity by themselves.

Next term we will be working with Lee King to focus on adapting games and activities for different age ranges and abilities.

The PALS will continue to work with the children during the week - look out for some cool photos.