The Cable Bay Adventure Park excursion was enjoyed by all students and parents. At the start of the day, the students were put into teams, and the goal for the day was to collaborate with each other and be the first team to finish all obstacles. It started with a 1km run to the muddy obstacle course, followed by 13 challenging obstacles such as a tyre drag up a hill, climbing over inverted ladders, running through muddy ditches filled with water and much more. After a practice run in the morning, we stopped for a lunch break, and then the final race began. There was a lot of hard work put in by each and every team and everyone went home covered in mud. 

The Year 3-6 staff and students met in Nelson on Tuesday. Whilst the teachers were doing some Structured Literacy professional development, the students worked collaboratively on some thinkers’ keys related to our current Assignment – What Makes Us Human? It was fantastic to see how well the students were able to work together to complete the tasks. There was plenty of creative thinking going on, and it was a great opportunity for students to work with people that they don’t often have the chance to work with.     

On Tuesday 2^nd August the students from Westport, Greymouth and Nelson got together for some team activities in the classroom. This allowed the teachers from the four Upper South sites to take part in Structured Literacy professional development workshops with the visiting consultant from Learning Matters, Fiona Wilder.

On Wednesday 3^rd August the Upper South Junior School students and staff had a great team-building excursion. We were very lucky to be allowed to use the Saxton stadium facilities. We had lots of different activities to complete in our small groups. The activities were table tennis, basketball, hula hoop toss, hockey, soccer, Ugg boot toss and crossing an acid creek. The morning finished up with a massive team competition which involved the whole team crawling under a line of chairs then turning around and going all the way back again. We saw some fantastic teamwork from the children, and everyone was demonstrating the school values throughout the morning. A well-earned pizza lunch was waiting for the children on their return to school. It was wonderful for the children to be able to work together across the Upper South sites.

Muffins 4 Mums 

- For all mums, not-yet-mums and grandmums - 

15th August 2022 

Coming up on the 15th of this month is Muffins 4 Mums Day. Come along for a free breakfast and visit the kids at Nelson Campus. 

Who is invited? For all you hardworking mums, grandmums, and working girls alike! 

Further details will be sent out next week to everyone with the time and options available – so keep your eyes peeled! 

International day was an awesome day, enjoyed by students and the community. There was a great variety of countries and food stalls for everyone to taste different cuisines, and the students were dressed suited to their country. It was a great opportunity for the Blenheim students to go to Nelson for the day, and for each year group to collaborate and showcase the amazing cultures and countries. The day was a huge success, with a total of $2090.00 raised which will be going towards new sporting equipment for the Blenheim and Nelson sites, it was a great end to term two. 

It’s a “Winter Theme” day. We created snazzy snowflakes and applied mathematical language e.g. symmetry, axes of symmetry and rotational symmetry. The challenge was then to create a snowflake with eight axes of symmetry which was achieved. Could we create a snowflake with only three or five axes of symmetry? It was explained of why we couldn’t.  A student created a snowflake with 16 axes and rotation of symmetry!

After our snowflakes, we explored acrylic and watercolour paints to create a winter landscape. We learned about foreground and background positioning and using only cool colours along with black and white to give the impression of winter.

It was fabulous to have Dawn and Mrs Glue from the West Coast join us. Enjoy our creations!

2022 is shaping up to be a great year for our Annual Upper South Cross Country. 

We will be using the Kawatiri Coastal Trail Puwaha Section again this year, it worked so well last year we thought we would give it another go.

The race will be based at Carters Beach and include some of the best parts of the new Coastal Trail including bush, farmland and open trail. 

Students will run distances depending on age. Year 3-6 students will run 2km, Year 7-10 students will run 3.2km and Year 11-13 students will run 4.5km. We will have access to the Carters Beach Hall and amenities there, ample space for organised sport in between races and an excellent view of runners finishing the course at the finishing line.

The Westport and Greymouth Campus can't wait to welcome you to our special event, more to come in coming weeks, watch this space!

If parents log in to the Ministry of Health (MOH)  with their results the MOH will contact you letting you know who needs to isolate and who needs to go back to school.   Unite against COVID-19 (covid19.govt.nz)  Note:  Any reinfection after 29 days has to isolate.