Lisa Carrington

What an incredible opportunity it was to have Lisa Carrington come and visit our school. YMS did shone! Well done everyone.

Olympic Fun Day

What an amazing time Thursday afternoon was. Everyone looked incredible in their House Colours and we could feel the buzz of excitement from the moment you all arrived at school.

There was a great range of activities for groups to 'compete' in. We heard a lot of positive comments about the obstacle course, throwing gumboots, dress up relays and the brick building. Thanks Mr Matthews for doing such an incredible job organising it all.

The best part was seeing so many of our students be amazing Yaldhurst Heroes and show sportsmanship throughout the afternoon.

Here are some photos of us in our house teams:

Book Week

Te Pihinga have started back at school in term 3 with fantastic and positive attitudes. We were glad to see happy faces all arriving on Monday morning. We are all excited about week one because it is Book Week! We are exploring lots of new books and texts in Te Pihinga during our reading programmes. 

On Tuesday we had a visitor called Helen Taylor- a New Zealand author and illustrator, we were lucky and grateful to have Helen visit us in Te Pihinga. We were lucky enough to see illustrations from picture books illustrated and written by Helen, we saw the beginning (fine sketches) and the end results after they had been beautifully painted! After our visit we had a lot of children wanting to become authors and illustrators. 

We even got to ask some questions: 

Corbin: What inspired you to become an author and illustrator? 

Travis: How do you get your drawings so neat? 

Hana: Where do you get your ideas from? 

Chloe: Where do you get your drawing ideas from? 

Below are a few images snapped yesterday.