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.

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.

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.

A great event on Wednesday June 3rd at Waihi College although rather chilly! Here are the Waihi East School pupils’ results.
Results:
Yr1 Boys 1st Hamish Brown, 5th Mark Orchard-Royal
Yr2 Girls 5th Alana Bellamy
Yr2 Boys 4th Jake Chappel
Yr3 Girls 6th Brooklyn Seath
Yr3 Boys 1st Blake Morgan, 6th Brock Kerr
Yr4 Girls 3rd Kaitlin Tamati
Yr4 Boys 7th Joshua Thompson
Yr5 Girls 1st Monique Kerr, 5th Sabrina Chapman
Yr5 Boys 5th Fletcher Morgan, 7th Kalem Tarrant
Yr6 Girls 1st = Lorielle Chapman & Petra McCowatt, 4th Angelique Landman
Yr6 Boys 3rd Hadleigh Morgan
For the complete results in pdf format click on this Dist Cross Country Results 2009 link.
Check out the slides below of the action on the day.

Schools’ Competition
All six of the schools in the Waihi and District Cross Country were part of a competition that took the results of the top seven runners in the girls and boys divisions, from year one to year six and compared the school’s overall achievement in the cross country.

Points were allocated for placings as follows 1st = 10 points, 2nd = 8 points, 3rd = 6 points, 4th = 4 points, 5th = 3 points, 6th = 2 points, 7th = 1 point. These points were counted after the results were in and the total number of points earnt by a school was converted into an achievement percentage. This percentage was worked out in relation to the size of the school using this formula – school’s total points divided into it’s school roll then multiplied by 100.

Well done to Waihi Beach Primary for coming first in the schools’ competition, but also Waihi East School had a strong showing only 2% behind Beach in second place with Waihi Central School in third.

Go to this Google Spreadsheet to see all the details of this competition.

We all had lots of fun at the soccer last week, thanks for the great organization Bonnie and Sacha.

Held on Friday 20th March at the Dave Hume Pool in KatiKati, primary schools from the northern side of Tauranga all the way up to Waihi took part in the year 5 and year 6 girls/boys categories. Here are the results. Click this Google Spreadsheet link to view the results.

Congratulations to Hadleigh M and Fletcher M for qualifying for the Western Bay of Plenty Swimming Championships this Friday 27th March. Our other East School representatives at the Northern Cluster Swimming Championships were Monique K and Reid S who competed well in their races.

Is on next Wednesday August 6 2008 for year 5 and 6 pupils. We will have 2 soccer teams playing at Morgan Park, 2 netball teams at the Kenny Street Netball Courts and 1 rugby team at the Waihi Rugby grounds. Some of our rugby players will join an ‘All Stars’ combination to allow the smaller schools to submit a rugby team. Postponement day is Friday 8 August.

Go to http:// waihieast.edublogs.org/cancellations/ to check for cancellation on the day if the weather is wet or ring the school message phone (863 6360) for cancellation details.

NETBALL

Nicky is changing ‘Suns’ training to a Friday afternoon at 3.15 until 4.00pm. Nicky is happy to drop
girls home. If games are cancelled Nicky will phone at 8.00am.
Please phone Nicky at home if you have any problems.
Draw for Saturday July 5th
10.20 Ct1 East Suns vs Jo Wais 1
10.55 Ct1 East Stars vs East Galaxy
Ct4 East Comets vs Beach Sharks

BASKETBALL

Draw for Thursday 3rd July
3.30 ChocThunder vs St Jos
4.05 East 1 vs Beach
Subs are now overdue, please pay asap. $20.00 to Sharon.

SOCCER

See year 3 / 4 draw in this blog for this weekends games, please note the year 5 / 6 soccer games have been called off for this Friday 4th July at Waihi College. The year 1-4 Saturday Soccer games willl be played this weekend (5th July) then we have a two week break over the holidays before resuming on Friday 25th July for year 5 / 6’s and Saturday 26th July for year 1-4’s.

Congratulations to our 2 Rippa Rugby teams who competed last week in the local competition. The weather did not hinder a great morning and the children played extremely well. Thank you to parents who transported children and supported our players.