Building Progress

The Administration Block in the foreground & Junior Classrooms in the background

Progress on our new buildings is happening very fast. We came back from our week off after the earthquake to find that the timber framing for the Administration block had gone up and today the roofing iron came in on a huge truck for the Junior Classroom block. You can see in the photo above the crane attached to the truck lifting the large pieces of roofing iron up onto the Junior block ready to be secured into place.

Another building that has suddenly taken shape on our school grounds is the new Dental Clinic hub that is being built at the front of our school. It is enormous and will have seven rooms, each with its own chair and dental therapist. The Dental Hub will service all the schools in our local area.

The new Dental Hub taking shape.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Today Gem Knight, the new presenter from What Now, visited Woolston School to present our Duffy Books. This was Gem's first time at a Duffy assembly. She told us about why she thinks reading is so important and how essential it is for her job as a What Now presenter.
Gem handed out boxes of Duffy books to each class. We are very thankful to GE Finance & Insurance for sponsoring our Duffy Books.
After the Duffy Role Model assembly Gem stayed and signed some autographs and chatted with some of the students in the playground. She was awesome and a great role model for us.

Art Work in Progress

Art Week Fun

The aftershocks have continued since we have been back at school this week, but when we are busy most of us do not notice them. Everyone is staying calm, but we all know what to do when we notice a big shake.
Doing all our art activities has certainly helped to take our minds off the aftershocks we are getting.
Here are some of the activities students in the school are involved in:
Mask Making - Year 4    
                  Sculptures - Year 5
      Murals - Year 3 - 8     
Lino prints - Year 7 & 8
    Landscape Painting - Year 1
  Paper Mache Fish - Year 6 & 7
     Aboriginal Art - Year 2
Mosaics - Year 3 - 8
       Mounted Art - Year 5 - 8
Canvas Painting - Year 3

What We Did Well After The Quake

After the Quake

Students who returned to school today were happy to be back amongst their friends and to see how well our school stood up to the quake. Another positive for us was to see how much progress had been made on our new buildings while we had been away during last week. The walls of the administration block are now up and the roof of the junior classroom is nearly ready to go on.

It was also exciting to begin our Art Week activities and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.

Here a few of the our students, staff and whanau experimenting with ideas using pavement chalk.

ART WEEK

We will be having our Art Week programme this week which was originally planned for last week.

Students are reminded that they are able to wear mufti this week while we do our visual art activities. Wear old clothes that it will not matter if they get paint or glue on them!

If you have any clean ice-cream containers you could donate, please bring them along to school.

We are looking forward to having a fun and relaxing week back at school, creating some fabulous art.

Back to School

Nga Taitamariki o Roimata Perform

Our school kapahaka and Pasifika culture groups were invited to perform in Victoria Square on Wednesday, September 1st as part of the Gamble Free Awareness promotion.

It was a lovely fine day and we performed outside to a supportive audience. It was a good chance for us to practice in front of an audience before our performance at the Town Hall on Thursday night as part of the Christchurch Primary Schools Cultural Festival.

The sponsors of the event were very generous and gave all the performers a goody bag to take back to school. We also got a sausage and had our photo taken with the Gamble Free super hero.

Some students from Woolston School also won prizes in the Gamble Free colouring competition.

We were proud to help support and promote this event with its important messages about gambling and where to go for support.