St John Ambulance Visit

Today some people from St John Ambulance came to Mangonui School to talk about what to do in an emergency.

First we looked at some pictures and talked about how the fire service, police and ambulance can help people.

Then we pretended that we were hurt and learnt how to put someone in the right position to be safe while we waited for help.

Lastly we used pretend phones to practise calling 111 to ask for help.

Our Trip to Butler Point

First we had our morning tea under the oldest Pohutukawa tree in New Zealand!

After that we walked down the trail to the flagpole and saw where Captain Butler had his shop.

From here we could look across to Mangonui.  We could see the church, the wharf, our school, the fish and chip shop and lots of boats.  

After that we went down to the museum and Captain Butler's House.  We saw a boat, whale bones, old guns and harpoons and pictures of whaling from the olden days.  It was very interesting.

Our final activity was walking up to the pa site.  We had seen a model of the pa in the museum.   There was another huge old tree up at the pa site that we all wanted to climb up!

Before we got back on the bus we saw where Captain Butler and some of his family are buried.

We had a wonderful day!  We hope we can visit again one day.

Camp 2018

Thank you to all our wonderful class whanau who made our camp so successful and memorable for the tamariki.

Swimming Sports

Yesterday Pukeko, Nga Ringa, Tuatara and us (Taonga) had swimming sports in our school pool.

First we got into the pool safely, then we hopped across the pool like kangaroos.

 

We had to swim across the pool and even do some lengths!

We did dolphin diving, we put our heads underwater and even pushed balls around the pool.

We used boards to help us with our freestyle arms.

We blew bubbles under the water.


We had to dive under the water to find diving rings.


We floated on our tummies and our backs like starfish.


Some of our whanau came to watch us.

We liked swimming sports because it was fun!