Planting

"Done," say the students. This week the seniors students at Victory Primary School have been planting at Emano reserve and Murphy Street reserve. The students said done because they had finished planting. The people who helped were Gavin and Ruth. The students planted three or more plants each. There were three different kinds of native plants. Some students enjoyed it but some didn't. They didn't enjoy it because it was a lot of walking.

By Van Bawi and Sam

HOPE FOR A WIN

Victory School is hoping for a win at the rugby Sevens tournament tomorrow. Many students had a go but few made it in. The people who made it in are Tarwhiri,Tyxson, Baz, Anaru, Rico, Dyson, Connor, Zontay, Ben and Daniel. All talented players and hopefully winners too! The coaches are Matua Rangi and Matua Paul! Lets hope they do a good job!

By Daniel

Miniball

Victory primary school won the miniball tournament at Saxton stadium last Sunday. They beat all the schools they played including Stoke, Hampden St, Birchwood, Appleby and Central. The team that played was Libby, Portia, Russell, Shavarna A, Shavarna SW, Celia, Emmitt and Lose. The coach was Miss Dela Bosca. "It was extremely exciting, fun and amazing," said Shavarna Scott Wilson.

Written by Shavarna Scott Wilson

Netball hoops,defence and more

Fun exciting things happened on Saturday. Victory is actually what it means, they were victorious. I think you can guess why they were victorious, because they won. They played  Mapua. The score was 10-5.

"The defense was great I really enjoyed playing but .I can't take all the credit."said Ngawai.

The coach was Roimata. Otolose said that whaea Roimata always pushed her to the limit. She made training really hard and that's why they play amazingly well now.

Akotahi

Akotahi is the new class at Victory School. They say they like this classroom.  They have their own heat pump and it makes their lips dry. The tiger turf is only for the juniors.

Vision Quest

Victory Primary School  have an environmental group called Tiaki Taiao. Lately they have been working on a vision quest to help the school to become a better place. They have been doing this by creating a map of our school and getting kids to stick adjectives like sunny, muddy, fun and hazardous on it.

Tiaki Taiao have been getting teachers to pick five to ten students to stick an adjective that describes that particular place on the map.

Once nearly everyone has had their say on the map Tiaki Taiao will collect all the ideas up and try to improve the school with the students' ideas.


by Lewis and Freya

Mr Brown leaves for Wellington

Mr Brown is leaving Victory Primary School until the start of 2013.

Mr Brown is going to Wellington to be Chief Advisor to Schools and Community for the Ministry of Education, which means he will give advise to the Government, visit different places, talk to lots of different people and get people to understand the things that make schools run better.

He is looking forward to it but "it might stretch my brain a bit," he said.

Mr Brown is going to live in an apartment three stories up and only 100 metres from the Beehive.  He will be returning to Nelson in the weekends.

While he is in Wellington he hopes to see Te Papa, go to lectures at Victoria University, explore the city (eating places!) and visit places outside of Wellington.

Mr Brown said he will miss Victory Primary School and the fun things that happen here. While he is away he will  keep in contact by sending postcards, e-mails and Skyping, which he is just learning to use.

For the the rest of 2012 Mrs Taylor will be acting as Principal  and Mr Sullivan deputy Principal.

Victory's Hangi

Last Thursday Victory Primary School prepared the hangi ready for Friday. Victory was celebrating
Maori language week.

Room 8, Room 14, and Room 13 made the stuffing. They made it out of bread, herbs, onions, butter and salt. While they were making it, they watched a movie as well. Then the next day at 12:15 they headed over to the hangi pit to watch them take it out. When they took the hangi out the whanau classes said a karakia and sang some songs until it was our turn to get some kai. Everyone liked it. And it was a great week.

By Zontay

NZ Gold came to Victory

Sarah Ulmer came to Victory Primary School to talk about her time at the Olympics and winning gold for New Zealand last Wednesday. Plus she gave out prizes to kids who answered question correctly or asked good question

After talking about everything some kids were chosen to go on the Olympic bus and have a go on either the rowing machine or the bike. On the top deck was an iPad on which you could send a photo and a message to the Olympic team and the prizes were bottles, caps and beanies.

THAT WAS OUR FUN DAY WITH SARAH ULMER

Action, games and more....

Victory hit the jackpot because it had Nelson Girls teaching them sports skills.

They are only here this week. "We are focusing on netball and basketball," said Sophie, one of the Nelson Girls

The sun started to shine when they got here. People were smiling and enjoying themselves.


By Ngawai