End of year party and Merry Christmas!

We are very nearly at the end of the year now and today was our chance to have some fun and celebrate together with Kowhai. What an awesome afternoon we had!! We were fortunate to be gifted some money from Subway so we had the fantastic surprise of the Mr Whippy truck showing up at our school! Yum yum! We also had the very talented Magenta along to do some fabulous face painting for everyone - we had flowers, dolphins, rainbows, moustaches, frozen crowns and more! Everyone also had a chance to hop on their scooters and had a blast zooming around the school. 

Tomorrow is the very last morning of Pikopiko for 2015 so we'd like to take this chance to thank you all so much for being a wonderful supportive family community, and for being active readers and commenters on our blog. We've loved sharing our learning and it is so wonderful to get responses from home. We've all had an awesome year! We hope you all have a safe and happy holiday and a very merry Christmas. We're all excited for the Pikopiko and Kowhai adventures we'll have next year :) Happy holidays team!

A Wet and Soggy Day! And a few reminders...

Well today didn't go quite as planned! The weather was not kind to us and we had to change plans a little. The first part of the trip was fantastic - we got to the cathedral and everybody sang BEAUTIFULLY! Well done Pikopiko and Kowhai, you were awesome - especially in our Christmas is Coming round! The people at the cathedral said you did a lovely job as well so great work.
Unfortunately after that along came the rain! It started with a few sprinkles then once we were at the gardens eating our lunch it started really raining hard. So we had to give up and come back to school! That was a bit of a shame but we had a nice relaxing afternoon here. Thank you so much to all the adults who came along today we still had a really fun morning :)

Just a few reminders for the next two days. Firstly, you may have seen the email from Jude about missing shirts and unfortunately some still have not been reunited with their owners. If you have the wrong shirt after our prizegiving yesterday please bring it back so that they're with the right people before the holidays :)

Tomorrow Pikopiko and Kowhai are having a special end of year party after lunch. Part of that will be wheels time in the afternoon so you can bring along your scooter if you like! There will also be a special surprise :)

Finally tomorrow morning we have special end of year hot chocolates on offer from our barista team, so bring along $2 if you would like to order one.

See you tomorrow!

End of Year Prizegiving

Things are winding up in Pikopiko now as we are into our very last week of school. We have had lots of exciting things going on as we celebrate the awesome year we've had together. Today was very special as we had our final prizegiving and Christmas concert. We shared three special songs, a movie about our reflections on the year, and of course we gave out some special awards. What an amazing job you all did Pikopiko! You sang and danced beautifully and were wonderful on stage. Congratulations to the children that received awards, you have worked so hard, and well done to everyone in the team we are super proud of you all.

Tomorrow is another special day as we head in to the Cathedral to perform our songs with Kowhai. We are then heading from there to the Botanical Gardens for lunch, a play in the playground and a swim in the pool. Don't forget your togs and towel, your carseat, a big lunch, a warm sweatshirt and an unwrapped gift to donate to the City Mission. Put some sunscreen on before school! If you've put your name down to help we definitely want you along and will see you about 10.20 tomorrow morning.

Pet Day

We had an amazing morning in the juniors today :) We had invited everyone to bring along their pet to school for our pet morning. We had a fantastic variety of animals show up at school! Hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, puppies, kittens, cats, dogs, and even worms and a caterpillar. Lots of children also brought a photo of their pet or their favourite toy. It was lots of fun meeting all the animals and getting to know a little about them. Thank you to everyone who brought a pet to share and thanks so much for the adults who came along. What a fun event!

Disco Day!

Pikopiko have been so looking forward to their disco and the day finally arrived today! We all got to come in mufti in the morning so it was very exciting right from the start of the day :) Everyone had an awesome time dancing and playing games like Spin the Bottle and Dance Off. The seniors did a great job running it for us - thank you to them and Mrs Haddock for all the organisation! 

Next week we are going to be working on lots of Christmas activities and crafts and we would love to have a few parent helpers along. If you are keen to take a station next week please come and chat to a teacher. We will be running activities Monday-Thursday in the middle block 11-12.30.

Have a fabulous weekend!