Pikopiko Afternoon Tea

After a week of such grotty weather we were very pleased to see the sun come out for our afternoon tea today :) It was fantastic to welcome so many of you along to meet, greet, mingle and drink great coffee! Thank you so much to all the families that came, it was great to see our wonderful community getting to know each other, especially some of our more recent additions to the team. A big thank you to Jo, Tash and our awesome student baristas who put on the drinks and provided such wonderful service. We hope you found it as enjoyable and valuable as we did!
Have a great weekend and we'll see you all back on Monday for another exciting week in Pikopiko :)

10,000 views of Pikopiko Blog!

This week we reached a very big number of views on our team blog - 10, 000 views. When we reached 5, 000 views earlier in the year we celebrated with a cake so today we decided because we had doubled that number, we should have another celebration. Jo worked with some Pikopiko friends to make a batch of delicious biscuits with M+Ms on top. It was a lovely treat on a wet day! It is wonderful to think that we can share so much of our learning with our Pikopiko families and friends. We love getting comments about what we are doing. We are hoping to see lots of the parents at our afternoon tea tomorrow, starting at 2.15pm.

Rainy Day Go Noodle

What a cold and wet day we had today! It was very disappointing for the big kids who had to cancel the second half of their athletics day. Because we were expecting to watch the running relays this afternoon we had cancelled PMP. But after a wet lunch time we all needed to burn some energy! So we headed up to the hall and did some GoNoodle megamixes. This was so much fun! We danced, exercised, did yoga, learnt secret handshakes and generally had a great time :) GoNoodle is something you can also have fun with at home. Head to the GoNoodle Site and sign up as a "Parent or Kid".

Don't forget we are having our Term 4 Pikopiko afternoon tea this Friday. We would love all our parents to come along and get to know each other, especially those who have just recently joined the team. There will be a free coffee on offer and some sweet treats so come on in from 2.15 and have a lovely afternoon :)

Welcome back Mr Lewis, and thank you Mr K!

We started the morning today with a special ceremony. Mr K has been our principal all year while Mr Lewis has been studying hard. Today we welcomed Mr Lewis back to HVS. It was also a chance to say thank you to Mr K for all his hard work during the year. Mr K handed over the special cloak back to Mr Lewis. Well done also to Rune and Natalia who spoke beautifully during the ceremony.

Please note that we are not going to have PMP tomorrow afternoon. Instead we will be heading up to the domain to watch the Year 3-8 students in their sprints finals. We might see some teachers running as well!

I Wish I Was...

Well what a fabulous and exciting day we had today! To support the Make a Wish Foundation we all came along dressed up to the theme of "I Wish I Was...". We had some super outfits today - superheroes, professional sportspeople, pirates, fairies, ballerinas and lots more! It was great to see what you all chose to wear and hear about your wishes :) The school raised over $200 so it was all for a good cause as well.

It was all action at Discovery today and we were very lucky to have the seniors run a playdough challenge. There were lots of tables set up with freshly made brightly coloured dough and different tasks to try at each one.

We all get a bonus day at home on Monday so enjoy your long weekends!

More Yoga Fun

Today we went over to the hall for our yoga session to see how it worked in a bigger space and it proved to be a huge success! Everyone had their own "bubble" that they could work in to stretch their body into all the different poses we practiced. It was interesting to see how you relaxed and quietly enjoyed the "down time" after all your busy play over the lunch break. We had a nice positive energy in Pikopiko team for the rest of the day. A big thumbs up for your participation everyone.

Enjoying the end of yoga calm feeling...