Skipathon

Today we had our skipathon to raise money for the Heart Foundation. 
It went extremely well and everyone had a fantastic time.

The year 8 and 4's got to lead our groups around each station. Thanks to Miss Rooney 
for organizing this event and to all the teachers and parents for making this as much fun 
as they could.

Helping Others

On Friday with my shovel in hand, I became part of the large group of volunteers to help clean up one of Christchurch's worst affected street in New Brighton. My son came with me and my daughter jumped on one of two buses heading out to Kaiapoi.
As you can see, the amount of liquefaction in this street was phenomenal.   Sadly many houses are so badly damaged that they can no longer live in them. The impact on the resident's lives is huge.
I know our contribution was small but every shovel full was one more closer to helping the residents clean up their street.   Truckloads of silt were taken out of the street. 

Sam Johnson from Canterbury University and his team of volunteers have done a fantastic job of organising the distribution of volunteers around the city.  Thank you to you all.
The only failure I had that day was the muffins I baked.  They ended up being baked for 1hr & 20 mins.  Muffins do not like being baked that long and came out looking like black mini discuses.  Moral of the story:  Don't leave your son in charge of oven timer when he doesn't know how to use it!  All is fine though.  He got to clean the pans afterwards.

Mrs W

No School until Mon 13th Sept

Oh my gosh Room 6.  What an unbelievable few days we have had since the big earthquake on Saturday. I sincerely hope you are all safe and well and have not had too much damage to your homes.  I am fine and my home did not sustain any damage.  
We heard today from the Ministry of Health that schools are closed until Monday 13th September due to unreliability of the water and the rechecking of structures due to the continued aftershocks.
Keep safe everyone.  Check the Civil Defence section inside the back cover of Yellow Pages to check that you are doing what you can. 
I am sure each and everyone of you will have an experience to share.  Talk about them with friends and family.   I hope to see and hear from you soon about your experiences during this time.  My husband and I were in Kaikoura at the time of the earthquake so didn't experience the 7.1 quake.  But we certainly heard from our children minutes afterwards.   Luckily we had an emergency kit that they could use and use they certainly did!  Did you have an emergency kit to use?

Mrs Welsh