ATHLETICS!!!

Athletics day was once again a huge success at St Albans School. Room 23 also had many successful results. It was awesome to watch everybody having a good time and giving every event their very best efforts. We are excited to have Alice, Grace, Neve V, Jordyn, and Michael in the team for Zone Athletics. Toby and Finley also have a chance of making this team as they got 3rd places in some events. Below are the Yr 5 results as well as some photos.

Alice - 1st in shotput, 2nd= in long jump, 2nd in high jump, 2nd in sprints
Grace - 1st in high jump, 3rd in sprints, 3rd in discus
Jordyn - 1st in sprints, 3rd in shotput
Neve - 4th in sprints
Michael - 2nd in sprints, 4th in discus, 4th in shotput,
Finley - 3rd in discus
Toby - 3rd in shotput
Jackson - 4th in high jump

Food For Thought

How healthy is the food we eat every day? Our trip to New World on Tuesday helped us work this out. We read the labels of everyday food items and occasional food items to check out the amount of sugar, fat, sodium and fibre that was in them. Using the rules we learnt last week (less than 10g of sugar, less than 10g of fat, less than 400mg of sodium and more than 5g of fibre) we could clearly see how healthy or unhealthy different food items were. We left New World with a new lunch box, a bag of apple slices and a wealth of new knowledge about food. Hopefully we can remember the food rules to help us make better choices about the things we eat each day.
Thanks to the parents/grandparents who provided transport to New World and who helped with label reading.

Living Springs

The Year 4's had a very busy and exciting three days on camp at Living Springs. It was so cool to see everyone challenging themselves, trying new things and working together with different people in the Year 4 team. I'm sure there were plenty of children, teachers and camp parents who were in bed early on Friday night! Here are some camp pictures.

Yr 4 Camp - TOMORROW!!!!

Dear Parents,

Camp tomorrow and the kids are super excited! Below is another copy of the gear list, with requirements regarding clothing and sleep gear etc.We noticed that there are not TSHIRTS on the list... sorry about that. PLease pack 3-4 t-shirts!

PLEASE ensure all your child’s clothing is named. 

Please remember that the children are not to bring ipods, Nintendo’s, etc. to camp.

Any medication your child requires should be handed to the classroom teacher in a named bag on the day we depart.

October 23^rd  – Departure Day

On the morning that we leave for camp we would like the children to arrive at school at the usual time and providing the weather is fine, take all their gear and place it outside their classroom (if wet take the gear into their own classroom). 

Parent transporters/ helpers are asked to drive into school after the 9.00 bell and park on the netball court ready for loading up, then assist in loading up with their passenger’s gear. 

We will have a brief meeting in the hall before departing about 9.30 for Governors Bay.

We will be met by the camp staff who will guide us starting from Governors Bay School/Jetty This is expected to take about 2 hours with talks from the staff and lunch along the way.

Parents providing transport

Thanks to those parents are helping us with transport,  please make sure you are at school by 9.05 tomorrow The transport list is below and shows who is travelling together.

See you in the morning

Kind regards

Louise, Jodi, Thomas, Ros, Trish and Joe

Transport To and From Living Springs Camp

Rm 23 Jodi BOTH Bella, Libby, Akki

Judy McArthur Caleb, Kairau, Quillan, Olly,Swastik

Karl Kitchingham Josh, Nikau, Beau

Dalwyn Sinclair Emma, Charlotte, Jada-Lee

CAMP GEAR LIST – LIVING SPRINGS

**  PLEASE NAME EVERYTHING CLEARLY **

PLEASE CHECK THIS LIST WITH YOUR CHILD AS HE / SHE PACKS FOR CAMP

ENSURE THIS LIST GOES WITH THEIR LUGGAGE TO CAMP, SO THAT IT CAN BE CHECKED OFF BEFORE RETURNING TO SCHOOL.

General Gear

• Pillow and warm sleeping bag
• Toilet gear: toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towel, suntan lotion, hairbrush/comb, facecloth, and handkerchiefs.
• Towel
• Two plastic supermarket bags (for dirty clothing)
• Light day pack (school bag)
• Pencil case, paper.
• Torch
• A board game/ Pack of cards
• Reading book

Clothing:

• 3-4 Tshirts
• Pyjamas
• Underwear (several changes)
• Socks (4 pairs at least 2 of which should be woollen or polyprop
• 2 Pairs of shorts
• 2 pairs of long pants (one of these must be warmer than jeans – e.g. track pants)
• 1 skivvy or warm shirt
• 1 warm woollen jersey
• 1 warm sweatshirt, rugby jersey or similar.
• 2 pairs of shoes (1 of which must be sturdy and suitable for hiking)
• 1 sunhat
• 1 warm woollen hat
• 1 pair of woollen or poly prop gloves
• 1 warm jacket, polar fleece or bush shirt
• 1 waterproof parka/jacket with a hood
• Swimming togs and 2 towels

 **Cut lunch, morning tea and a large water bottle for the first day**

NO LOLLIES ETC ARE TO BE BROUGHT TO CAMP.

CAMERAS ARE PERMITTED BUT TOTALLY THE CHILD’S RESPONSIBILITY.

LEAVE ALL IPODS, MP3 PLAYERS, NINTENDOS ETC AT HOME!

And in Sports News. . .

Our "Adopt a School" mate Belgium has left Canterbury rugby for a while and is back to playing 7's for the All Black 7's team. He was at the tournament that Ms A went to see in Australia during the holidays. He was pretty excited that his team won, especially since they beat Australia in the final. He says hello to everyone at St Albans!

Food for Thought

Today we had our Food for Thought classroom lesson. The first part of the lesson was about sugar in drinks. It turned out the the drink with the most sugar was lemon, lime and bitters! Of course Coke and V came next. We learned that the caffeine in drinks like V actually stops kids' bodies from absorbing calcium from milk and dairy products. So that's a big fat no to energy drinks.

The second part of the lesson was to do with the food pyramid. We knew heaps about that already, which was great.

In the last part we learned how to read the labels on packaging to find out if it is healthy or not. Healthy food has less than 10g of sugar, less that 10g of fat, less that 400mg of sodium and more than 6g of fibre per 100g. It's important to make sure we read the "per 100g" column when we look for the nutritional information.

After all this we checked out our lunch boxes and put each food item on the food pyramid. It turns out that most of our lunches are really healthy. It was great to see that there were not many packaged foods in Rm 23.

Next week we get to try out our label reading skills at a real supermarket. Then we get a $60 voucher and we can plan a healthy lunch for our class to eat. Awesome!

Kids Can Cook Kitchen

Last week Chris fro the Kids Can Cook Kitchen came along to show us some healthy eating tricks as well as some cooking tips. He made french crepes (yum!) and put grated apple and chopped silver beet in them! Believe it or not, nearly everyone liked them. It was Nikole's 10th birthday so she was chosen to be the Sous Chef, which is like the second in command. Everyone got to be a taste tester. Delicious!