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Koka Pip took Moana 2 for PE this afternoon.  There was a focus on teamwork, co-operation and communication because sometimes we forget these important things during sports games! The Blinded had to trust the rest of their team to head them in the correct direction! There was lots of talk and information going on in each team... after each 'run' there was a change in what steps were used.  Some of the suggestions we used were: sidesteps, jumping and then we tried leap frog!  It was a lot of fun for all...  Thanks Koka Pip!

Right across from the Okitu Store is where!! Once or twice each week, we have been heading to the track to practice for our upcoming school cross country race.  Today we went with the whole school.  The conditions for running were great - cloudy and cool. Everyone is improving in their stamina and distance... Koka Ngaire was very impressed that nearly everybody still had a smile on their faces, by the time we reached her for the second time, at one of the end points!

Term 3 has started and it is nearly cross-country time! We have been enjoying some wonderful winter sunshine and today we got serenaded by Steffen while we ran our laps! We have a great incentive with our cross country running this term - we are aiming to run as much of NZ as we can.  We have 5 different routes to take... we could choose from top of the north island to the whole of the north island and south island.  Koka Ngaire found out what the kilometre distance between each town would be and each lap that we do in practice is worth 20km of the total distance. We had to use some maths skills to add up the distances on our route and then we divided by 20 to work out how many laps we had to do each week.  Some of us went a step further and found out how many laps we need to target each time we run. We are all pretty keen to see how far we will end up running by the time our school cross country comes around in Week 6!