Athletics Stories

Guy Fawkes!

Be careful with Fireworks this weekend. There is a fire Display at the Youth Centre Grounds this evening. The Twizel Volunteer Fire Brigade is hosting the evening.


It has been snowing and raining throughout the day so hopefully the fire risk will be low.
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RUBBISH SKIP
This was collected today. It was strange to see the Rubbish Truck drive past our Fire Exit door!

The truck picked the skip up and lifted
it up to the top of the truck.
It was noisy.

A hatch opened in the top of the truck
and the skip contents were shaken into the truck.

Then the truck drove away, carrying the skip.
It drove right past our fire door!

Upper Waitaki Athletic Sports 3rd November 2011

Yay! The weather forecast was for snow! At this time of the year! Fortunately it didn't happen and the sun shone so we all took part in the Athletic Sports. The wind was cold and blew the buckets we were using as skittles right across the court. They moved like bucket turtles.

Bowling the ball at the buckets.

We are waiting for our turn.

In the accuracy throw we used wet sponges 

to throw at the bulls eye.

Thank you Mr white for making our new 

target boards.

Lots of people used the new deck to sit 

on and view the activities.

Army visits Twizel 2nd November 2011

Two NZ Army LAV's visited Twizel as part of an army exercise in the area. They parked in the car park. Lots of classes went to visit them. 

A LAV is a Light Armoured Vehicle.

Fred got to go into the drivers seat.

It is high on top of the tank, but 
the soldiers looked after us.

The seats look very hard in the back! 

We are talking about camouflage with
Ms McNeill. She showed us the
camouflage nets on top of the tank.

Bailey got to wear  an Army helmet.
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Paint kit.

Two soldiers showed us their camouflage 
paint and hid behind some trees for us. 
Their uniforms are camouflaged.
Thank you.
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Planting seeds.

We planted some radish seeds today.
Ms Douglas hopes it will get warm enough 
for them to grow big enough to eat by
the holidays.
The radish seeds were round and pinkish.

We planted some carrot seeds today. 
Maybe they will grow large enough
to thin by the Christmas holidays.
The carrot seeds were brown.
They were smaller than the radish seeds.

Opening of the Refurbished PE Sheds

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After the Fire Drill we all went to the PE sheds.

They had a red ribbon around them.

Charlie pulled the ribbon to officially 
open the PE sheds.
He is the youngest student at our school.
Erica is the oldest student at school.

Then we all went inside to look at the 
changing rooms and toilets.

The vibrant colours were chosen by students.