BOOK CHARACTER DRESS UP

Well done to those who made the effort and dressed up for our book day, it was fun, and a really good way for some to show their creativity skills.  

JUMP JAM CHAMPIONS!!!

Room 15 children did a fantastic job with their jump jam performance, so good we won the Year 5/6 part of the competition.  It was great to see everyone dressed up.  All the practices that we had paid off!  Enjoy the photos and short video, hopefully it works.

Rock 'n' Roll Dancing

We are learning Rock and Roll dancing this term, because it is the type of dancing that people would have been doing when Kaiapoi North started 50 years ago.

So far we have learnt that it is loose, that you don't hold onto your partner to tight, so that they can move freely.

Some of the songs we are dancing to are Elvis songs.

We have four great teachers from the Kaiapoi Rock and Roll Club who are giving up their time to come and teach us.

Last week we learnt to do the basic step and the  girls learnt to do turns.

We were a bit embarrassed having to dance with boys and girls together.  It reminds Mikaela a bit of ballroom dancing.  Its lots of fun and we are looking forward to our lesson today!

TERM ONE OVERVIEW

Wow what a busy term, camp, swimming, talent quest, lots of learning, goal setting interviews, rugby league and cricket and the disco.

It has been a hectic start to the year, hopefully term two will be a little less full on. Though we do have the KNS Jubilee at Queens Birthday weekend.

TALENT QUEST

What an event, what amazingly talented children we have at Kaiapoi North and very courageous to get up on stage in front of the whole school and perform. Well done to the Room 15 entries: Cheyenne, Mikaela, Alex and the 4 Elvis's.

Great performances!!!

SWIMMING AT DUDLEY POOL

So far Room 15 have enjoyed their time swimming at Dudley Aquatic Centre. We had a great lesson a few weeks ago where we got to learn some survival skills wearing life jackets. The children wrote some short recounts about the experience.

"Wet, wet, wet, wet," I said a I felt water trickling down my back. The life jackets were soaking wet from the other children that had worn them. I wanted to jump in but the instructors said no. My whole class stood there while drops of water trickled over all of us. Some life jackets were small and even some tiny. "SPLASH!" "PLOP!" I had jumped in like there was no tomorrow. After I jumped in I bobbled around like a big bouncy ball on concrete, but it wasn't hard. I loved it.

By Katie Falgar-Simms

Yay, we're here at the most coolest pool every, its Dudley Park Pool. Well we got changed, then we got called up. I have the biggest butterflies ever, I'm terrified. We each grab a life jacket. I put mine on. Ooouu its slimy, so icky, cold and sticky. We took a step in. I nearly screamed it was so cold. I can't believe it. Well I got over that but we had to sing our ABC's and huddle up and then scream. It felt like I just went deaf. I hopped out of the pool to get changed.

By Matthew Rawlin

NIKAU CAMP 2012

We had a great time at camp this year at Living Springs. We were extremely busy doing lots of fun activities. We learnt about many different things in the bush, we learnt how to work together as a team on the initiatives and low ropes courses. Some of the other cool things we did were bouldering wall, the monorail, the balanz bikes, swimming on the swimming pool doing our camp skits and much more.