Inner City Cluster Schools Athletics meet

On Wednesday 19th November, twenty-four of our Year 5 and 6 students took part in the Inner City Cluster Schools (ICCS) Athletics meet at the Takapuna Amateur Athletics grounds in Northcote.

After trials at school, that spanned lunchtimes and afternoons over the past five weeks, the  successful students in each discipline and age group were able to compete against students from other schools in a wide range of athletic events.  These events included the 800m, 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay, high jump and shot put.

Well done to Hunter, Evelyn, Te Whakapuru, Zaria and Caleb who reached their respective finals.  This meant that they were among the top 8 students for their age group across all the schools!  And a special congratulations to Savannah who came 3rd overall in the Girls Shot Put 10 years and older.

A special thanks to Madison, Sandra, Nicola, Lisa, Samia and Stefan who helped out with transportation to and from the venue and/or supervision support during the day.  We couldn't do it without you.

Bike Monitors video collaboration with The Bike Professor

Our Freemans Bay School bike monitors video collaboration with The Bike Professor, Rene van Rijn

On Thursday 19th November, nine of our Year 5 & 6 bike monitors participated in the filming of a video to instruct students and schools from all around New Zealand in how to: 

• properly store bicycles
• check that bikes are safe to ride
• choose the right bike to suit each rider  

After editing, the video will be available on Rene's website (https://nzbicycletrainingacademy.nz/fleet-bike-repairs/) and used as an educational tool for schools across Aotearoa.

What a great example of ako in practice, as our bike monitors use their expert knowledge to teach not only other students, but also the staff at Freemans Bay School and beyond.

Thank you Rene for the opportunity and bike shed make-over!  

Equipment from our Yummy apple sticker fundraising

Our sports equipment from 2020's Yummy apple sticker fundraising has arrived!

Thanks to our efforts we were able to spend $1518 on sports equipment from DG Sport.  This is the most that has been raised since we have started the yearly fundraising.

After consultation with our school student council, about the type of sports equipment students wanted more of, we chose:

• 36 hula hoops (for lunchtime use)
• 8 soccer balls (for lunchtime use)
• 24 basketballs (for teachers to use as a class set)
• 12 soft flying rings (safer than frisbees!)
• 4 cones

Thank you to all the whānau that helped collect stickers this year. We collected a record total of 12,340 stickers and a special thank you goes out to Emma & Jack Hopkinson's family who brought in 2,279 of those stickers themselves.

We'll be participating in this fundraising project again during Terms 2 & 3 in 2021, so please look out for this information next year.