Haumoana School Production: Time To Act

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the show on Tuesday night It was a great success. Thank you to James for being the Grandad, Will and Noah for being the MCs and of Mrs Irwin.

Our Instrumental group performing Funky Time



Year 6 girls singing Tama Ngakau

 

Written by Laura

Interschool Cross Country Champs

Interschool cross country champs

Hastings District Champs

Congratulations to all the children that competed in the Hastings District  Schools cross country champs. There was very tough competition with approximately 150 kids in each race.

Results:
Year 6,
Girls: Tessa 1st, Lauren 22nd
Boys: Wesley 4th, Will 8th, Reid 21st, Noah 35th, George 44th


Coastal Cluster Champs

Just a day after the Hastings Champs, our cross country representatives competed in the Coastal Cluster Champs. This wasn't as nearly as big as Hastings bur still tough competition.

Results:
Year 6,
Girls: Tessa 1st, Lauren 4th, Maddie H 6th
Boys: Will 2nd, Reid 3rd, Wesley 4th, Noah 7th, Barney 8th, George 10th, Lars 13th


Awesome job from everyone

 

Written by Laura

School Cross Country Champs and PHOTOS!

Dear Parents/Caregivers
Nic Head has kindly donated her photos of the recent school cross country to Room 6 as a fundraiser to help offset costs of next term’s camp at Kaitawa.  
Check out the photos at http://nic.shootproof.com/school  (The password is: ‘cross country’)
The cost is only $10 for an 8X10-colour print and 100% of the proceeds to go to Room 6!
You can order through the website and pay the money to Moira when your print arrives.
Thank you for your support
David Barclay


AND THE RESULTS


It was a close race for the boys with only seconds separating the top 3.  The girls field was decimated by illness and only had 7 competitors.

Winners are Grinners: Tessa, 1st, Lauren, 2nd, Maddie, 3rd.

Wesley, 1st, Reid, 2nd, Will, 3rd.

Haumoana's Got Talent Results

Winners are grinners! Congratulations to Frances and Laura for taking out the top award at the Haumoana talent search.  Maisie performed well with a solo singing performance to take out second place!

And the winners are . .

Maisie - 2nd place

THE BEAST

The Beast

An inhuman bug travelling human to human household to household. Many names it has: the flu, virus, sickness or disease. I was struck with “it” I had to stay away from school for TWO DAYS!!! I missed out on super duper fun trip to HNI tech tasters and not so fun cross country. Back to the beast its cold fingers crept up and down my throat making it difficult to speak. I hated that I had to stay in bed all day and all night only leaving bed to return a book and get a new one out. This beast is evil and the worst thing about it is that it gives now warning before it strikes.

It steals your throat just long enough to make you want it back. This creature is untamed there is only one cure. Coldral relief and horrible sickly sweet Pamol taken every four hours. Symptoms: Your throat will hurt so badly that you can’t eat and prefer to have cold liquid drinks rather than food.

By Maddison

North Island Cycling Championships

The starter went and the Haumoana team was away. This was on Thursday the 29^th of August and the Haumoana team was racing against year 7’s in a cycling challenge. There were 2 sorts of races an individual and a team time trial. The team time trial was the first to start off. The girls went first and then behind them the boys.

They were cycling on a motor racing track and had some tough competition. Most of the Haumoana team was quite sick so they weren’t at their best so they had an extra rider just in case, and they did need him. There were seven teams in the race and the Haumoana team had five riders but Noah, which was one of their team members, was too sick to race. So the Haumoana Team had only 4 members to race with. The names of the Haumoana team riders were: Wesley, Will, George and Reif.

The course was difficult but only had a bit of uphill, the corners were vicious and they turned round like when you go around a roundabout. The course only had one straight bit that was when everyone made their move to pass. The total distance of the race was 13km long.

They went around the course 4 times and on the fourth everyone sprinted their heart out for the finish. Haumoana came in 4^th and they only had 16 seconds and they would’ve had nicked 3^rd place on the podium.

Soon after all the year 7 team’s had finished the year 8 teams were on the track. Everyone had a great race. After the year 8 teams had destroyed the track the mixed teams came through.

In the mixed teams were HNI with a few ex pupils in the team from Haumoana School. They had a great race but ended up being too generous to the fourth rider. They probably should’ve taken it all out and that would’ve made space for them to be on the podium. But still they had a great cycle.

Next up was the year 7 boys individual race there were 44 cyclists in the race. Wesley, who was the only Haumoana pupil, had started off having a great race zooming everywhere but on the 2^nd lap he had a dramatic crash Wesley was riding in the front pack and someone swerved out in front of him and he went tumbling to the ground. His seat was out of place and he had some bruises and scratches on him but he still got to his feet and zoomed off trying to catch up to the front group. Wesley got quite close to the front group but was just behind and couldn’t catch up to the lead group by himself. 

Wesley crossed the line in 15^th position even when he was hurt and fell off his bike at 30km per hour he still did really well.  The Haumoana team was still proud of their results.