Showing posts with label YMS Heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YMS Heroes. Show all posts

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Back to School


Once school starts it heads away full steam. The paperwork comes along and the emails stream in. The phone rings. But more important than any of that is that the children come bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Steeper than it looks!

It was only a few days ago that I was being convinced to run down the side of a scree slope by Wayne Matthews. What an experience! Scared one minute and exhilarated the next. It was a learning experience - I had to draw on what I already knew and then be prepared to add to my experiences. Much like life really.

The hard work happened and then the fun begun. Steep going up and steep going down. And now I can't wait to do it again.


School is great. Children are happy and thriving. We have started the year with a new YMS HERO system  that sees our children acknowledged for being good citizens in the playground. Being good doesn't always need a reward but it is good to celebrate our students being good citizens.

We also are in the midst of the continual improvement of the playground. It seems that even though we try and have our contractors work in the holidays it does not always work out like that.

Our lunch area has just been asphalted to make it more serviceable. We have such a wonderful environment for a school and such a wonderful school environment.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Fantastic Start to Term 1 2011

Room 5 Beep Test Day One!
It was great to welcome back our wonderful students and families today. We started the day with a powhiri to welcome our ten new students. This was followed by a short assembly where we talked about the importance of being sun smart by wearing a sunhat and having sunscreen on.

Our theme for this year is Citizenship and we have begun by talking about how we can be YMS Heroes. This concept is going to be reinforced in the playground by the distribution of YMS Hero cards to children who are being good citizens. These cards will go in a draw at weekly assemblies and we will also keep track of which classes have amassed the most cards.

All the staff would love to see all of our families at our Meet The Teacher BBQ on Tuesday 8 February starting at 5.30pm.