Y8 Moving On Conference

All Y8 students from across the South Wairarapa recently attended the 'Moving On' Conference held at Kuranui College. They experienced a variety of workshops focussed on career opportunities. These included such experiences as auto mechanics, dance, police and fire services, bridge building, robotics, cooking and much more. Gladstone students made the most of their day and each student took part in three different workshops.

Flash Flooding

It was incredible to see what the power of water can do as per yesterday's flash flood. The children were well and truly in awe of the damages around their school, especially to the bridge when they turned up to school today. The school insurers are looking into our repairs and hopefully everything will be returned to normal in the near future. Keep an eye on our school newsletter for details about this.

Y4 Dictionaries presented by Rotary

Each of our Y4 students were very fortunate to receive a pictorial dictionary from Rotary on Friday afternoon. This was an amazing contribution, given that we have 30, Y4 students. The students really appreciated this special gift.

Y1 - Y2 Athletic Sports

The Y1 - Y2 juniors had a great morning displaying their athletic skills, with run, jump throw activities at South End School in Carterton on Thursday as part of the Carterton Central Cluster sports. The wet weather meant that the event had to finish earlier than expected but our students showed how Gladstone School can shine by their fantastic effort and positive attitude.

Term 4 Underway with Pet Day & Athletics

The sun was shining and the children were very happy when the Pets came to school on Friday. It was a wonderful afternoon with everyone enjoying some fantastic displays of pet ring craft and care and rearing. Well done to all students who took part.

During the week we were fortunate to have Mark Harris coach the students as part of our PE & Health programme in preparation for the upcoming Athletic Sports. All these exciting events have given us a great start to Term 4.

Matariki Clebrations

What an amazing evening everyone shared on the last Thursday night of Term 2 to celebrate Matariki. The highlight for our students was the lantern parade. The students walked around the top field, with their whānau, under the stars, holding onto the lanterns they had made, sang songs and released three huge lanterns into the sky.

Principals Morning Tea Outing - Term 2

It was fantastic to be able to share the morning with the thirteen students on the last day of term for the Principals Morning Tea Outing. These students were nominated by their teachers for putting in a consistent effort across the term following our school rules and values. Gladstone - "We Shine".

The Gums Came Down

Everyone enjoyed watching the huge gum trees being felled on Friday in the developing carpark area.

Congratulations Speech Makers

Charlie Hintz (Y8) and Kayla Klue (Y7) represented Gladstone School at the South Wairarapa Semi Final Y7 and Y8 Speech Competitions on Tuesday. We are extremely proud of both girls as they have been selected (as one of the best top three speeches in their section) to go through to the Wairarapa Final Speech Competitions in Masterton tonight. This is a fantastic achievement to have two students at this event from Gladstone. Good luck Charlie and Kayla- Go Gladdy!

Farewell Gladstone Schoolhouse

Another piece of Gladstone School history took place today with the removal of our school house, being relocated Greytown.

Interschool Cross Country

It was fantastic to see our strong team of 40 runners taking part in today's  Interschool Cross Country at Tauherenikau Racecourse. Gladdy was well represented and with our students putting in a fantastic effort. Names will soon be announced for those competitiors who have made it through to the Regional Cross Country event later in the term.

Senior Leadership Camp - Y7 & Y8

The Y7 & Y8 students had the most amazing camp earlier this week to the Hamilton,
superbly organised by Lead Teacher Graham Brown. The students had some
fantastic experiences including the National Young Leaders Day 2018,
visiting the Tangiwai disaster site, viewing the Statue of Sir Colin Meads
in Te Kuiti, Kayaking on Lake Karapiro, visiting Hamilton Zoo,
the Hamilton Botanical Gardens and the Velodrome.
We were very grateful for the the great support
given by parent helpers Jo Fair and Kristjian Klue.

Earth Movie

Our whole school went to the Screening Room in Masterton to view the Earth movie. This was part of our Inquiry Learning programme for Term 3. We were all really engaged by this fantastic experience.

The Middle Hub students loved the movie about one day on our Earth.

Playgroup Visiting Room 1

On Wednesday morning Room 1 enjoyed a special visit from the local Playgroup children. Everyone had fun joining in the songs, dancing, stories and making elephant bands. Our new Entrant students thoroughly enjoyed showing the Playgroup children our playground and school chooks.

Room 2 - Putting signs on the drains

As part of their water investigation
Room 2 took action
By putting some signs by
our drains to let people know
that only water goes down the drains
and not rubbish.  this included
making pictures of the
eels that live in the water.
Great job Room 2.

ANZAC Service 2018

As ANZAC Day falls in the school holidays on the 25th April 2018, we held our Gladstone School ANZAC Service at 9.10am today, Friday the 13th April 2018 .  We were very fortunate to have Mr Bob Hill President of the RSA support
our senior students to run this event. Mr Hill spoke about the significance of ANZAC
and later answered questions form the children.

The Y8 students took the wreaths and flowers down to the War Memorial following our service later in the morning.

World Water Day

As part of their Inquiry Learning about water, the juniors of Gladstone School took action today on World Water Day, by clearing out the school drains of all rubbish. It was a great team effort by them all.

Room 1 Chook Whisperers

Room 1 were in charge of feeding the chooks last week and what a great job they did.  They even had the chooks feeding out of their hands.

Y1 & Y2 Swimming Sports

The juniors had a great afternoon in the pool on Friday, sharing their swimming skills with friends and whanau. The teachers are very proud of our Y1 & Y2 development in water confidence over the term

Annual School BBQ

Thank you to all the families who joined us for the recent Gladstone School community BBQ. What a great evening it was having the opportunity to catch up with so many of our school whanau. A special thank you to our fantastic FOGS committee for their generous donations of sausages and bread.

Waitangi Day Celebrations

We had a great afternoon celebrating Waitangi Day through a variety of activities including Koru mural making, STEM collaboration, Rakau, NZ Sign Language for the NZ National Anthem, and Taniwha design.

All our students rotated around six amazing activities in groups that had participants from Y1 - Y8, focussing on whakawhanaungatanga. This is a concept based on collaboration, team work and building strong relationships with each other.