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On Tuesday, all of the children in the Senior School were involved in the Remuera Zone Winter Field Day. Children competed against other schools in tournaments of their sporting codes - Netball, Soccer, Rugby and Hockey.
The children were bused to several locations around Auckland and they played on some amazing all weather turfs. The weather held on for us and was lovely for most of the day. Our children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and had many successes.
Thanks to all the staff and student teachers for their efforts on the day, and to all the parents/families that come to support their children and Epsom Normal Primary School.
Mrs. Boyte
Last Friday Epsom Normal School had six senior students compete in the Auckland Champions of Champions Gymnastics Competition. This competition is extremely tough with the best of each zone in Auckland competing against each other.
Our children had a fantastic day and performed beautifully. Well done to Monique, Stella, Claudia, Yalda, Luke and William for your hard work and enthusiasm towards your gymnastics this year.
Congratulations to William for achieving 8th Place Overall in the Year 6 Boys Competition!
Mrs. Boyte
The Green Kiwis are very busy at the moment with several events taking place.
Don’t Let The Pigeon Eat Your Lunch!
A group of Green Kiwis will be performing a lively play on Friday, 3 September, to entertain and educate the Junior School children about the consequences of feeding our resident pigeon population.
Cake Stall – Friday, 10 September
As promised earlier this year, the Green Kiwis are having a cake stall especially for the Junior School as they missed out last time! Children will be able to buy home baking for 50 cents and $1.
TravelWise Time Zone Map – Monday, 13 September
All the Green Kiwis will be working with the team from TravelWise to produce a Time Zone Map for the school detailing checkpoints within 5, 10 and 15 minutes walking distance from our school.
World Car Free Day, Wednesday, 22 September
Leave your car at home and walk to school along with people from all over the world! Even if you have to travel a way to get to school, you could leave your car a short distance from school and join the walkers! Once you arrive at school, there will be a welcome at the gates! Parents, you can have a coffee with other parents once you arrive.
It was a great day with perfect weather for cross country. The children and parents were wonderful supporters of all those who participated and we had some very close sprints to the finish line.
Congratulations to all of those who participated and the very best of luck to the students who will represent the school at the upcoming Zone Interschool Finals.
Please click on read me below to view the top 10 place winners for Years 4 -6.
Last Friday our Year 5 and 6 gymnasts competed in the Remuera Zone Gymnastics Competition. All our gymnasts performed at their personal best and had a fantastic day! We have many children achieving very high scores and places went to…
William (Rm10) 3rd Floor, 2nd vault, 2nd mat and 2nd place OVERALL!
Claudia (Rm2) 2nd vault
Yalda (Rm6) 6th place OVERALL
Monique (Rm6) 2nd beam, 1st floor, 1st vault and 1st OVERALL!
AND… Our Year 5 Girls Team made up of Monique (Rm6), Yalda (Rm6), Stella (Rm2), and Claudia (Rm2) were placed 2nd OVERALL TEAM.
A big congratulations to all the gymnasts and a big thank you to their coaches, Mr. Jephson and Mrs. Boyte.
Here it is, the quiz that you have all been waiting for. Get your team together and enter in for your chance to win fabulous prizes. Click on the link below to view the questions that will be used for your quiz.
Beware! There may be some surprise capital questions in the quiz…
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In Term 4, 2009, there was a competition to design a type of Koru to represent our school in some way. The winning design would be printed on signs all around the school. I was only allowed to use the colours red, black and white. I came up with a Koru design.
How did I get the idea? Well, I’m not entirely sure. It just came to me and I decided that I would use it.
I do remember drawing patterns inside the patterns. They represented water, plants, teachers, children and the Principal.
Click on read more to see me with all of my signs.
Lofa, Room 10
On Friday, 30 April, Epsom Normal Primary School’s wonderful sustainability group, the Green Kiwis, held a cake stall to raise funds. The funds are to pay for a fruit orchard that is going to be established at our school.
The cake stall was a fantastic success! It was open at lunchtime, outside the Hall for Years 4 to 6 children. We raised $335.10!
There were yummy cakes galore! Everyone had a real feast. We want to say a big thank you to all the children who bought cakes and also, for the parents who helped bake the cakes.
(Annie, Room 6)
Auckland City Council are also planting fruit trees all around Auckland at parks. They are going to give us some fruit trees for our orchard! We are going to plant fruit trees at the end of this term, on one of the Development of Talent days. We are planning on planting feijoas, guavas, apples, mandarins, oranges, lemons and perhaps an avocado tree.
Watch this space for the latest news on the Epsom Normal Primary School Fruit Orchard!
On Tuesday the 27th of April, Thomas and Yunes from Rm 6 and I went to the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour 2010. It was held at the Sky City.
We were able to see the real World Cup trophy and took photos with it. The trophy stands 36cm tall and is made of 18 carat gold. It is worth over 20million dollars and it weighs 6kg. We also got autographs from All Whites soccer players, Ivan Vicelich and David Mulligan, and we also got a free bottle of Coca-Cola.
I think we were very lucky to see the FIFA World Cup trophy because it has a very high value and it is a rare chance to have a look from very close. I will never forget this special day.
FIFA Soccer World Cup will be held at South Africa from 10th of June. Let’s all cheer for team New Zealand, All Whites!
By: Keisuke Rm2
Please click on Read More to see a photo of us with the trophy.
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On Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010 the Zones swimmers went to St Kentigern School to compete against the other schools. It was like any other Tuesday but I was so excited, I woke up real early and couldn’t go back to sleep. After I put my togs and my ENPS navy tracksuit on I was ready to go. I was very nervous and had butterflies in my tummy but my Dad was accompanying me which made me feel a whole lot better! My teachers and friends were also very supportive. “Come on Jesslyn, bring some gold”, “Good luck Jesslyn,” they said.
When we arrived at the pools, fortunately, we had a gazebo to sit under- all thanks to Julia D! When the first heat had started we all took our tracksuits off and ran down to the marshalling area. “Silent on the beep!” said the lady who organised the competition. Off went the first heat! Swimmers were swimming as fast as they could! Everyone else was cheering them on.