What a great success Softball has been this term. Thankyou to the students for playing, also to the parents who watched or played each week. And thank you to Pania, Leon & Paula for their coaching & enthusiasm. We look forward to Term 1/Week 4 when we start again! Mid January 2010 : Casual Weekend softballs games at East School. Contact Bonnie if you are interested. All are welcomed.

We went down to the Waihi Skate Bowl as one of the activities on ‘Wheelie Day’ Cool Kids Afternoon. Thanks Mrs Steele and Mr McGougan for transporting and being with us at the bowl. Here are some slides of the action.

We also got some video footage using the ‘Flip Viewer’ so here it is.

Thanks Todd for taking us out to the Waihi Beach Skate Bowl here is movie of the action, the movie was edited by Regan, Kalem, Mitchell, Beau and Travis.

Travis M travelled down to Gisborne for the ‘New Wave Primary Schools’ Surf Champs’ on November 14-15th, he competed in the Boys heat 2 semi finals Travis placed 3rd. In the final of the boys division he took fifth and is in fifth in the overall  rankings in his division in Surf NZ competitions. Here is a video of Travis talking about the competition in Gisborne.

Here’s some video footage of the comp.

Here are some slides from the surf2surf.com website of the competition, three photos feature Travis.

Bonnie Milne is running afterschool softball/t-ball Thursday afternoons 3.15pm for approximately 1 hour at East School. Parents are welcome. No charge.

During ‘Wheelie Day’ a group of Waihi East School BMX and Mountain Bike riders went to the Waihi Beach BMX track for some fun. Take a look at the video below to see us in action.

Wheelie Day on the last day of term three was a blast, we had lots of activities at school and a group of BMX and Mountain Bike riders went out to the Waihi Beach BMX track by the Coastguard building at Bowentown. Here are some photos we took of the East School cyclists going over a jump.

Quinn, Chris and Travis took some photos at school yesterday (24th August ‘09), some were taken in classrooms with quite a few of Room 3 using the mini tramp and big mat for flips.

Our East School teams competed to the max in netball, soccer and rugby with two teams entered in each of the sporting areas, nearly all the senior class children were active on this day. The games were played at the Waihi Netball Courts, Morgan Park for soccer and the Waihi Rugby Grounds. Our year 6 netball team won their division, the year 5 netball team was second in their category and the over 40kg rugby team had a terrifically determined game only being beaten in extra time to finish second in the rugby. Check out some slides of the action below.

Two days of jammed packed fun at the Waihi Event Centre on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th July, while learning how to play basketball. Heaps of prizes and give-aways. Cost $15 per day. Contact Pauline on 021 223 7295. Collect a Registration Form at the school office.