Mrs Megan Altenburg, Miss Fallon Braithwaite and 24 Newfield Park School runners will be heading to Donovan Park at midday tomorrow to compete in the Zone Cross Country. They will be running with runners from New River, Fernworth and Arowhenua schools. Have a great afternoon, we know you will do us proud – compete hard […]
and cross country weather is definitely here as well. Don’t forget a change of clothes each day as you are likely to get muddy and wet when out running. There are a range of different course being run this year, so there is a challenge for everyone – hard out athlete to genteel jogger. We […]
for sponsoring our new sports bags this year. They are being put to good use already! The Newfield Park Tigers touch team show off their team’s new sports bag.
It was a great success even though the weather was not helpful. It was an especially big effort as we decided to run with the athletics on the Wednesday rather then the Thursday as the planned postponement date. This was simply due to the weather forecast looking better for Wednesday then later on in the […]
Rooms 2, 5, 4 and 14, you start swimming on Monday. That’s right the first day back this term. You will need your swimming togs, your towel, goggles if you use them and a bag to put all your gear in. You will swim on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for the first 3 weeks of […]
Today Jane Naylor from Sport Southland was at Newfield Park School working with a group of Senior students on PAL training. This is a leadership opportunity that trains students in peer support in the playground – kids helping kids to get active and get involved in playground games. The driving rain didn’t stop our crew […]
We are busy practising our expectations about one of favourite past times at school …. EATING! Here at Newfield Park School, kids sit down and eat together from 11 – 11:10 at the start of playtime and then at 1 – 1:15pm at the start of lunch. There are teachers wandering around ready to help […]
Thursday, 7 March saw the Senior school participate in the 2013 Athletics Day. We would like to thank the parents and grandparents who volunteered to help on the day. The Zones Athletics are being held on Monday, 11 March at Ascot Community School. Miss Wild has posted the names of those students who are competing […]
Day three saw the group heaading off to Sandy Point with Venture Southland for an all day rotation of rafting, mountain bike riding, archery, vertical bungey and tuhoro digging on Oreti Beach. We were fortunate through the good will of others to get a permit to dig for tuhoro, later that night they were cleaned […]
Late one Sunday night, Miss Wild got a phone call from Borland Lodge to tell her that one of the access bridges into the Lodge had been damaged by water and was no longer safe. Miss Wild rang Ms Carey. The kids were supposed to leave first thing in the morning. There was no doubt […]