What a blast we had at camp! The chilly weather didn't dampen the enthusiasm. The children faced a wide range of challenges and kept coming up smiling. The leadership on display and support the children gave each other was heartwarming. A huge thanks to our fabulous hard working camp parents. Also a big thanks to all the home bakers, your goodies were much appreciated.

A big congratulations to our Gold Leadership Award recipients! (Ashleigh too, she missed the photo).



What fun we have had learning about our Rugby World Cup countries and decorating our hub! Between interval and lunch today we made and sampled food from our countries, put the finishing touches on ourselves and our decorations, learnt more about our countries through a quiz and performed our show pieces. What talent and passion we have in Kauri Whānau!

Today Carisbrook School from Dunedin visited for our annual Year 7 & 8 sporting exchange. We had a fabulous morning of competition, fun and spending time getting to know each other. We were so impressed with how welcoming and supportive our students were. In the basketball, when Beckham surged ahead, our children started up an enthusiastic chant to cheer on Carisbrook. A big thanks to the 6 Year 10 students from Cashmere High who refereed our games. The competition was close, with Beckenham excelling in basketball, Carisbrook in volleyball and in netball it was a very close game, with Carisbrook winning by 1 point. Having already won the trophy twice, it felt right that it headed down south with Carisbrook this afternoon. We are looking forward to the next time we meet in Dunedin, during our April 2016 camp.

We had a fun filled morning on Thursday when we invited the Year 6s in for a taste of life in the Intermediate Hub.






The speech finals on Thursday afternoon where highly entertaining and informative. Well done to the finalists who all did a superb job. A special congratulations to the place-getters: Kara, Daniel, William, Tim, Mitarina and Jasper.

A big congratulations to the Beckenham Bobcats who were placed 2nd in the C grade basketball competition at Pioneer. They put their bodies on the line and gave it their all!