Star Board Term One Week Four

Athletic Sports Friday 3rd March

Year 7 & 8 Parent Information Evening

On Wednesday at 5.15pm a group of parents met with Doug, Georgie and Alison for an information meeting to explain the Year 7 / 8 Curriculum and school expectations. We went through the Curriculum and Student information booklets outlining what is offered and how the Year 7 / 8 year operates. Booklets were also sent out to the parents who were unable to attend.

While this was happening, the Year 7 / 8 students met up with the school Prefects at 3.30pm who had organized an afternoon of activities, a swim and a sausage sizzle. This was a great afternoon for the Prefects to get to know the younger girls and chat to them about their start at St Matthew’s. The afternoon finished with a sausage sizzle before the girls met up with their parents. The girls then took their parents down to look at their classrooms before departing for home.

Many thanks to our parents who were able to attend, hopefully we will me up with others at a later date.

St Matthew's Equestrian event

Another successful St Matthew's Equestrian event was held on Monday. Well done to all competitors and organisers.

Year 7 & 8 Camp

Last week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the Year 7 / 8 Department went on their bi annual camp to El Rancho at Waikanae. We travelled by bus over to Waikanae stopping at Maidstone Park for lunch and a play on the new playground. We arrived at camp at 1.30pm, unpacked the bus and then started our first activities at 2pm. After completing three different activities it was time to move into our cabins and a short rest before dinner. After dinner we were given our phones for half an hour to call home or play some games. After we handed our phone back, we had some indoor games until supper time and then bedtime. One of the games was making a marshmallow tower with 25 wooden skewers and 25 marshmallows. We had to make the tallest tower we could and it had to stand up for a minute before collapsing. During the games there was a massive earthquake and we all scrambled under the tables that were around the room. When it had passed we all settled back to finish the games. Everyone was given a chocolate fish before bed for being very brave and supporting each other.

The next morning, we were up at 7.30am to get ready for breakfast. After breakfast we cleaned our rooms and prepared for the long day ahead. This day we were all going to do six different activities.

It rained most of the day but we were still able to complete them all. The activities finished at 5pm we had quick showers in time for dinner at 5.30pm. After dinner we had our phones for another half hour and then had another night of indoor activities. Everyone was quite tired after their big day so fell asleep very quickly. After breakfast on Friday, we packed up our cabins and put all our bags in the hall before taking a leisurely walk to the beach. The weather was fine, so we were able to have our sand sculpture competition. We worked in our cabin groups to create amazing sculptures. When the sculptures had been judged we walked back to the camp in time to have our lunch at camp before the bus arrived to take us back to Masterton.

The best sand sculpture was won by Cabin 2 and the tidiest Cabin was won by 5.

Thank you to Mr Davidson and Ms Goulding for organising the camp and thank you to Ms Glass, Mrs Hepburn, Ms Goldsworthy and Mrs Wasson for coming along to assist.

PE

Y8-9s didn't let the weather stop them practicing for next week's athletics today! All Pe classes had a go at our events for next week, indoor styles! Followed by a game of bench ball.

Perfect practice makes perfect and being the best we can be!