Red Hill School Year 6-8 Students go Snorkeling.

Today the Year 6-8 students were lucky enough to take part in the mini dippers programme in the Rosehill College pools.

Some students were very good and others took a little bit of time to equalize their ears under the pressure from the water.

We had a fantastic time learning a new skill and hope that we will get to do it again next year.

The Friends of the School Waterplay Afternoon.

The Senior School Rainbows End Experience 2015

The Year 5-8 students visited Rainbows End as a reward for working so hard to complete their monitor duties throughout the year. We had a fantastic time together.

I Come From Poems

In Amua Whare we have been creating I Come From Poems to share who we are and where we come from. Here is an example of one of our fantastic poems.

Red Hill School and the Zone Athletics.

There were a group of Year 7 and 8 students that took part in the Zone Athletics Competition. Everyone took part with a positive fair play attitude and some have made it through to the Interschool Competition.

The School Athletics - The Tabloid Sport

As part of the School Athletics House Day we all took part in a series of tabloid activities for the first part of the morning. We took part in -
- jump jam
- discus
- shot put
- weight lifting
- hurdles
- the marathon
-moon hopping
- the obstacle course
- javelin
- basketball



It was a real neat start to our very busy day!

The School Whanau Athletics House Day 2015

Today we had the School Whanau House Day. We had a fabulous time with an amazing athletic track with professional line markings. Everyone took part including our preschoolers and parents.

The Girls Touch Team Compete at Zone Level.

The Year 7 and 8 Girls Touch Rugby Team represented North Counties at the Counties Zone Touch Competition this week. They were very competitive even though they did not come in the first three placings. It was a great opportunity to play against challenging teams from around the area and also have the boys as the coaches.

An awesome group of girls who had a super time!

Principal's Awards Assembly

Today we had a Principals Award Assembly at school. There were three students who received awards and they were all Year 7 Boys. Miss Kereopa and Miss Castle are so proud of all of the work that they have put in over the last three weeks to keep their learning progressing.

Jacob earned his award for having a positive attitude towards learning.

Roman received his award for positively sharing his learning with others.

Lelei has been experimenting with language and using complex vocabulary in his writing.

North Counties Year 7 and 8 Athletics Day 2015

The Year 7 and 8 students took part in the North Counties Year 7 and 8 Athletics Day at Massey Park today. Everyone put in their very best effort and we also had some that won their events. Well done everyone on such a successful event.

Jam Bus.............Hopeful.

As part of the Jam Bus experience some students were recorded in pairs.

Iziah and Munokoa had a fantastic time singing one of their favourite songs "Hopeful." We think it sounds awesome!

Click on the link to have a listen.

https://drive.google.com/a/redhill.school.nz/file/d/0B7Oq2SBy5w3hQXZBcGhvZmowU0k/view

The Term Three Superhero Challenge Artworks.

Our Superhero Challenge.

The Year 7 and 8 students were challenged to answer the following questions -:

If I was a superhero who would I be? (We could create a new superhero if we wished) What would mu superpower be and why? Here are some examples of superheroes and superpowers that we wished that we were able to be.

The School Cross Country 2015

Today was the School Cross Country. We had a fabulous time running the course, climbing over hay bales, zigzaging through tyres and crawling under tunnels.

Everyone did so well. 

We had a parents race too and they all ran like the wind through the course. 

The adults even did the obstacles. 

Well done to everyone!

Jam Bus Visits Red Hill School.

Today the Jam Bus Team of Jamie and Dan came to Red Hill School. The Jam Bus Team are a mobile recording studio that visit a whole range of schools. We were all very excited to be recorded and then to listen back to how we sounded.

We think we did an awesome job!

This is our Kapa Haka Roopu preparing to sing.

(We were very nervous)

The girls were shifted from the front row into the back row and then we got perfect harmony!

We can't wait until 2016.