Busy as bees bro! As my (Maori) cousins up on the East Cape would say. So busy that Room 11 students have only been able to edit their posts from yesterday on this frenetic Friday. We've managed to cram in a truckload of bees today though.
The day started off with swimming (we'll introduce you to our professional swimming coaches the school board pays to help teach swimming one day soon), choosing our student of the week (People's Choice), class photos, organising our assembly programme (Room 11's turn to run the Friday school assembly), and allocating assembly jobs (everyone got a job).
After morning tea scripts for speaking jobs at assembly had to be written, music playlists compiled, yesterdays posts edited, a House Day slideshow put together, egos massaged, anxieties calmed. By crikey we were busy. The arrival of Kirsty to take massage in schools (she teaches the kids how to give massage) was a welcome break and we definitely got more than the 15 minutes we were supposed to have. Then it was time for class reward to celebrate all 5 class groups reaching their points target the previous week. Thirty wet minutes of 'paint ball', but with water, crossed with capture the flag and Tigers had won. We snuck 20 minutes in the pool at lunchtime to finish off the class reward.
Our starring role as school assembly host was just one hour away after the 1.30pm bell rang. A few unfinished jobs and last minute problems later and we were in the school hall ready to have a run through. Halfway through the run through the first class walked in and after I was revived from my heart attack, we took care of most of the technological glitches except functioning microphones and the slideshow, which simply refused to be found (thank you Mr Thompson for helping out my AV techs with their problems - don't know how you run an assembly rehearsal and manage the inevitble AV hiccoughs with a class of 6 year olds). Some of the glitches were sorted as the assembly continued (some weren't sorted at all). Despite the absence of microphones and the number of audio visual problems I thought our students did a great job. Well done all 27 of you!
The one thing that does annoy me about today was that nothing was photographed or filmed except swimming (want to show the students what we mean when we're talking to them about technique). Time to go home now.
Emily making big progress after 2 weeks of swimming lessons.
