It’s the last week of school but we still had Cross Country. Our annual Cross Country looked a little different this year. Instead of making all students compete this year, it was optional for them to run competitively. They just had to sign up. Our Year 6s had to run a total distance of 2km. Then, in the afternoon we had our very first Colour Run. This is the same concept as the Holi festival of colours. Students ran and were showered with coloured powder and some warm water. This is our Year 6 students last ever Cross Country at Weymouth. It was a great day. A big shout out to all our whanau that came to support.

Before the end of the term we had our biannual Matariki Market Day. We started planning and preparing well in advance. It was important for our learners to have some input into our class market and what that was going to look like. Ownership was on students to get into groups and decide what they were to create or make (or bring) to sell at our school market day. Learners brainstormed ideas, talked with their peers, asked questions to see what the consumer (other students) would be interested in buying. Once decided, they got busy planning, some making and preparing and creating posters.

We’d like to thank everyone that came to our market to buy something. All proceeds go to our class. We haven’t quite decided what we’re going to do with all the money we made but we are very excited! Watch this space to see what we do.

Some of the students in Room 23 and from other classes are playing rugby this year. They play for Weymouth Rugby Club, under the coaching of Sam Reid (Elijah’s dad). Here are a few clips from their games. Watch carefully to see which other children from our school play in this team!

Hi everyone,

at the moment Room 5 & 6 are plodding along with their films for the great film festival!

Our league tournament was yesterday at Mountford Park. The girls team came away undefeated and won all their games. The boys came 5th overall. Here are our stats. Shout out to our whanau for their support.

First game vs Wiri Central

Win: 32-4

Second game vs Rowandale

Win: 16-12

Third game vs Roscommon

Loss: 16-24

Semi finals to play for 5th and 6th

Game vs Randwick Park

Win: 24-20

Check out our highlights here and leave us a comment.

What an amazing week of learning about Samoa and celebrating this beautiful country and it’s culture. Throughout the week, we had challenges, sports (Lāpe), presentations: food, koko alaisa and even suafai made by our families to share with the school. We are so lucky and would like to thank everyone especially parents who helped make this week an amazing success. Check out our items from the week and please leave us a comment.

We have been hard at work today! We have been making keychains for the Matariki market in Week 10!

Today our Rugby boys team went to the MPSSA tournament. It was held at Bruce Pulman park in Takānini. Here are our results from the day.

1st game v Clendon Park: Draw 5 all

2nd game v Homai: Win 25-0

3rd game v Randwick: Win 10-5

QF game v Roscommon: Lost 20-10

Play off game v Finlayson: Win 35-0

5th/ 6th game v Hill Park: Win 10-0

So overall we placed 5th out of 14 teams. We’d just like to acknowledge our coach Marcel Faaofo for training the team and for being our referee on the field today. A big shout out to all our families that came out to watch, support and feed us too. We are so blessed. Please leave us a comment

Our Year 5 and 6 girls Rippa Rugby team went to the Counties Manukau Champ of Champs. We played 5 games as follows:

First game against Kauri Flats: Win 5-1

Second game against Puni: Win 5-1

Third game against Patumahoe: Win 7-1

Fourth game against Roscommon: Win 5-4

Fifth game against Papakura Normal: Win 6-2

Finals against Roscommon: Lost 5-4

We are extremely proud of our girls and their amazing efforts. As a team, we’d also like to acknowledge and thank our families who came out to support us. Please leave a comment if you can.

It has been a busy and “hands on” week in our classroom as we celebrated New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week!

Here is a little look at what we’ve been up to:

The Finger-Spelling Challenge

Our main mission was learning the NZSL alphabet so we could fingerspell our own names.  Some of our extra-brave learners even jumped in front of the camera to film a video of themselves signing their names.  Ka pai!

Signs and Songs

We love singing and signing the National Anthem of NZ and He Honore.  We’re becoming absolute pros and look forward to doing our best at our next school assembly!  If you’re free tomorrow afternoon, join us in the hall for our NZSL Week Closing Assembly at 1:30pm.

Ka kite āpopo!

Kia ora! This week is NZSL Week. Did you know that it was only made an official language in 2026? Some hearing people didn’t want deaf people to use NZ sign language because they thought it was too hard to understand. It’s great to see that times have changed here in NZ and we are more empathetic and inclusive of others. Check out our movie for our school challenge. Please leave us a comment.