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THE HEALTHY FOOD SHOW VISITS WAIPARA
On the way to learning about making healthy food eating choices, we have to undergo a few magic tricks on the way!!! Here, Mia is amazed as this bunch of flowers came from nowhere…and disappeared just as quickly!! The healthy food message was woven between doves, rabbits, fire, money, water and a host of other interesting illusions. Well don...
NEW ADDITIONS TO WAIPARA SCHOOL
Two new hens, as yet unnamed, have made their home in our chicken coop. They are laying at least one egg a day so each family can be expecting to have a half a dozen eggs come home to share as a family. It is wonderful to have hens in our environs again!
GIRLS RUGBY SEVENS IN RANGIORA
Rosa and Jordyn enjoyed a morning in Rangiora with girls from other local schools as they practised their rugby skills with members of the Black Ferns...
KIDS DOING IT FOR KIDS
On Friday, the children of Waipara School dressed up as injured people to raise funds for Keira - a little girl who needs both kidney and lung transpl...
UP AND RUNNING WITH GARDENING
Mrs Duncan is organising both the gardening and Enviroschools programmes again in 2019 and first up were Harakeke children planting silverbeet, celery...
BIG DAY OUT FOR YEAR EIGHTS
The last week of the 2018 year included the famous Big Day Out for the Year Eight children in our school - a Principal's treat to thank the children f...
WAIPARA RAPTORS PLACED SECOND IN THEIR GRADE
The Waipara Raptors basketball team (Year 7 and 8) fought a hard battle in the final of their section of the Friday Night North Canterbury Basketball ...
KAPA HAKA CULMINATION DAY IN AMBERLEY
The Kapa Haka Culmination Day for Leithfield, Amberley, Sefton and Waipara Schools was held on Wednesday 12 December in the Amberley Tin Shed. All sch...