Spooky Masks by Room 12

Isabella, Trinity, Ava & Melissa

Darius, Troy & Caleb

Lucy & Georgia

The spooky class....

Green mask-Paige, Sage, Jodie, Emily, Foxy - Holly, Sitiva

Lukas, Joseph, Byron, Tulaniu & Ethan

Danielle, Charlotte & Annalise

Luka & Riley

Room 12 end of year celebrations

Thanks Charlotte for baking a cake for all the class - massive effort.  (Great cake too!)

Awesome result Lukas Taiaroa

Well done Lukas Taiaroa - second place in the 9 year old 50m sprint at Canterbury.  The athletics were held last Wednesday....fantastic result.

Congratulations to Isabella

Well done Isabella for Most Improved person at St Johns.

Water Skills 2016 Room 12 & 10

Great start to water skills at the Rakaia Lagoon.  Hopefully more good weather tomorrow.  Lots of fun...thanks Karel....we are loving it!!!

The year 5s had a wonderful time at Beach Ed on Friday. Here's a few photos of our day at Waimairi Beach. Thanks to all the parents who came to help us on the day.

Room 12's Tennis Lessons

Today Rm 12 had a Tennis lesson. It was really fun but when we all started it got harder. Rm 12 did really well we all started by warming up. So we all had to jog to a line on the court and back. All of Rm 12 also did a side run just like the first one. After that we all did little activities such as bouncing the ball on the ground and above the ground. Next we did more activities but we competed against each other. Finally we did an activity called the Ham Burger it was a bit hard but all we had to do is put the tennis balls on top of the rackets until all the group had finished the task.

By Sitiva Mackenzie

The Book Parade

Today at Leeston School  we had a book parade. These are some dress ups that people were in.
By Bailey Stark 

More art work by the amazing Holly Johnson

This is a beach scene it took me three weeks to do. It reminds me of the time I went to Samoa with my family - Holly Johnson

Junior Athletics Day

Our on the spot photographers Ava Scott and Melissa Chapman took some photos of the enthusiastic junior students while they were participating in the Junior Athletics Day.

"They look cool!" - Melissa

"It's a nice sunny day and they look like they're having fun." - Ava

Awesome Artist

Holly Johnson has been doing special art classes every week this term...check out her amazing painting...ka pai Holly!

Leeston Legends Running Race

Well done to all the children and teachers who ran in the Selwyn Trust Fun Run.  Mr Marsden, Mrs J and Ms Davison were in the team event for the 10km run.  Mrs McClure and Mrs Stanford walked the 10km.....lots of Leeston children ran in the 5km and Kids Dash.....a BIG paki paki to Austin Ford for running 10km.....a fantastic effort.

(Ms Davison only managed to pass him at the 8km mark...he was too quick up until then...she was too scared to turn around after that in case he overtook her again!!! )

A Typical Literacy Morning In Room 11.

Room 11 have been working very hard this year on literacy. We have read and written lots and Mrs J is very proud of us. Great work Room 11.

Great Gardening Galore

This morning we helped Jonesy and Cd with weeding the garden,  We had to pull out stinging nettle, prickles and thistles.  We also had to pull some potatoes because they were in the wrong area of the garden.
The aim of our garden is to sell the produce so that we can have enough money for next year to buy more seeds and equipment. We need to keep growing the crops to sustain our garden.
We love cooperating because it's helping the environment and it's epic fun.

By Riley, Caleb, Luka, Sitiva, Ethan and Ava.

Leeston Jammers

On Saturday our Leeston Jammers competed at the Lincoln Events Center, along with 12 other teams from around the South Island. They did an amazing job and should be very proud of their efforts. Well done girls!

More marae photos by Annalise Robinson

Waikekewai Awa - Our Trip to the Marae

Today we went out to Taumutu Marae to visit Waikekewai Awa - our new syndicate name.  We also picked up rubbish off the beach....sadly we found 8 bags of rubbish.

On the spot reporters - Sage O'Connell and Lucy McMillan will share their thoughts on the excursion.

Sage: I thought it was really cold and wet.  I found a pretty shell and gave it to Ms Davison.  I saw the stream and it looks really cool.

Lucy: It's a shame we didn't go yesterday!!  I still enjoyed going to the marae again and seeing the Waikekewai Stream.  Unfortunately, I slipped off the log and got my left foot WET!