Well.  It’s been a fantastic few weeks of competition and it has been GREAT to see you all get out there and give it 100% for your houses.  Well done all of you!!!  Here are your results…for the FIRST half of the season!!!  (You don’t actually think I was going to give you the overall [...]

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We were super lucky today by having Trent Adam, the Taranaki Dynamos basketball coach, at our school taking our own miniball teams through a few drills. We were amazed at how good he was and had a great time trying out the skills he was teaching us. Thanks heaps for your time Trent! We are [...]

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  Well done our Matapu Olympians of the future!  Good to see so many of you running in the Weet Bix Triathlon last weekend.  Here is a few pics of part of the team that went up, the second photo was with a certain New Zealand tv personality, do you know who it is???  I [...]

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    Congratulations to our swimming team who recently competed at the Opunake Swimming Sports last week.  We competed extremely well and finished with a number of placings in both the heats and finals.  Congratulatios to Ethan and Shianne who solved the “What is behind Wolf?” quiz.  It was a plug believe it or not.  Not [...]

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       Well done all you cross country runners!!  You all did Matapu proud in our Mountain to Surf cross country, great to see all those who ran this year who ran last year improved in their placings.  Great effort everyone.  Those who have finished your menus we (myself and Mrs Ward) have had a good [...]

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Good to see everyone pushing themselves hard in our running this afternoon.  Don’t forget to remember how many laps you ran so you can put it into your file tomorrow. Your challenge for spelling is to find the three exceptions to our spelling rule discussed today.  If you think you know, post your answers on [...]

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CO2 cars have arrived at Matapu!  Great to see some of the designs that the students have come up with already.  The question is, will they beat Mr C’s car (which is still under top secret construction).  Here is a snapshot of the design Phillip has created and it is looking pretty sharp.  Make sure [...]

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