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Congratulatins to Connor Mahan who has recently won the tiltes for both the Hutt Valley BMX Championships and the Wellington BMX Championships. _________________________________________________ 2009 Elmwood Normal School Cups & Trophies
_________________________________________________ ICAS English and Mathematics Competitions _________________________________________________ William Fraser has had a successful gymnastics year 2009. William Placed 3rd in the CSG Tumbling Competition, 2nd South Island Invitational Competition, 1st equal in the Top of the South, 1st at the CSG Classic and 2nd at the Senior Champs. This enabled William to compete at the Nationals in Hamilton where he was placed 3rd out of 37 boys. William has been selected to go to Auckland where 8 boys will be picked New Zealand wide for a New Zealand Talent Squad. Earlier in the year, William sat his Grade one piano theory gaining 94%. _________________________________________________ Thomas, Yr 4: Tom plays Rugby League for the Halswell Hornetts and was selected to represent Canterbury Rugby League on the 12th and 13th of September 2009. We were all very proud of the children who drew the first game 18 all and won the second 32 - 2. It was an outstanding and fun weekend for the team who went across on bus only knowing a few leaving knowing them all. That's what it's all about. _________________________________________________ Orienteering Success Over the weekend (12th and 13th Sept) 7 Elmwood children competed in the Canterbury Schools Orienteering Championships at The Groynes and Pegasus (Bottle Lake). The two events attracted about 300 children from schools all over Canterbury in age grades from Under 6 to Senior High School. Our Elmwood team achieved some remarkable results in hot conditions on some tricky courses. On Sunday, Elise Dein and Gemma Scottorn scorched around their course in 18:13 minutes to come in third place against some serious competition in the Year 6 & under girls grade. Also on Sunday, Nicolas Davey ran a fantastic 16:45 minutes to come third in the provisional results of the Year 6 & under Boys grade against 55 other runners. Well done to all the Elmwood runners who had some great stories to tell when they burst out of the forest to cross the line. Linley Earnshaw (Librarian and Orienteering Coach). _________________________________________________ Elmwood Young Inventors Technology Expo Year 1-2 Year 3-4 Year 5-6 Very Highly Commended: Isla Hewitt and Portia Macarthur-Beadle Room 18 _________________________________________________ ICAS Writing and Spelling _________________________________________________ Joseph, Year 5: Joseph plays rugby for Merivale and Lincoln Junior Rugby Club on Saturdays. On Sunday 6th September at the prize-giving event he was awarded 'Forward of the year' for the under 10's . _________________________________________________ Cameron, Year 4, Rm 15: Cameron was recently awarded the 9th Grade player of the Year at Burnside Soccer Club. _________________________________________________ Oliver, Year 2, Rm 13: At the South Island Gymnastics Championship held in SBS Events Centre in Timaru on 7 September, 2009, Oliver achieved 1st in level 1 Vault, 2nd in Level 1 Pommel Horse, 2nd in Level 1 Rings and 4th Overall. _________________________________________________ SBS Fun Marathon Congratulations to the following children who ran the SBS Fun Marathon (2.5km). Bailey (1st in age group, photo above), Emily Shaw, Tara Keenan, Molly Leckie, Sophie Hill and Cullen Moody (2nd in age group) |
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