Healthy and Unhealthy foods/drinks

This term Te Ngahere have been going to energise every second Tuesday with our health teacher, Whaea Gina. We would go to the whare to have sessions about healthy eating and drinking. Whaea Gina is apart of a group called the energise program. This program helps young kids live a healthier and happier life. We all learnt quite a lot about what foods are healthy for us and what foods aren’t. We had about four of them based off our hearts, drinks/sugar, takeaways, and hummus. During all of these session Whaea Gina would show us examples of what she was talking about using photos or real types of healthy or unhealthy foods or drinks. For our first session she showed us a photo of a healthy heart and a unhealthy heart with too much fat on it and explained to us why it had too much fat. Then in our second session, she grabbed out three signs that said Everyday, sometimes, and occasionally and put certain drinks and food in either category. On our third session we did it about takeaways and what take out foods were good to eat or not. Not many students were here for the third session about hummus because our Kapa Haka rehearsals was taking place in Kaikohe for the roopu. After learning all about this we will use this knowledge now and in the future to help others. In your opinion, what did you find interesting about about what we learnt over the term?

Here is Jack & Mikaire's DLO about energize

Cross Country

Kia ora bloggers, On Friday the 30th of August Paihia School went to Bledisloe Domain to do our school cross country. We were learning to give something a try even if you don’t like it because some people like maths and reading and some people like sports. We set out around 10:55. When we reached Bledisloe Domain we set out our tarpaulin. Our PTA , (PTA meaning parent-teacher association) were cooking us some kai for after our races. The races started not long after we had arrived at the Domain. Whaea Becks and Mrs Williams assigned marshals , (marshals are people that stand on the sideline to encourage and show the teina what direction to go in) , we went in age groups. Whatever age you were on that day was the race that you were going to run in. We started off with our 5 year olds working our way up to our 13 year olds. Everybody gave the race a great try. We are so proud of all the students that attend Paihia School.