What a great year!

It has been a pleasure teaching hub 6 this year. We have had many highlights including Waipara Camp, Cycle Safety, Travis Wetlands, Designing Native Gardens and many more. The following are some highlights from students. 

Sophie Muggeridge

2019 has been an exciting, fun, and a great year for me. My biggest highlight was probably the Gala because I was struggling with my dance quite a lot but when it came to the day of the Gala I performed well, My second biggest highlight was AVAILLL because it was something different for literacy plus we got to watch a movie. 

Arsh

2019 has been a pretty good year for me, even though I started school this term ( term four ) one of my highlights was the Yr 6 leadership program, in this program I was really focused and enjoyed learning about how to be a leader. My second highlight was athletics and the last one was the beep test according to the beep test I did quite well and best of I enjoyed it.. This year/ term has been a great term for me. Moving on to Yr 7 n’ 8 seems quite exciting. My teacher were also very nice and helped me with my mistakes and gave me confidence.

 Scarlett Anderson

2019 has been a great year for me. One of my most favourite highlights was definitely athletics, My strength is high jump, which I got to Canterburys for, I unquestionably enjoyed high jump, my highest jump is 126cm. I also got to the SW zones for shot put and sprints. Another of my highlights is camp, which we had in term 1 at Waipara Adventure camp, my favourite activity was certainly the giant swing, we got into a harness and were pulled up quite high, then dropped and it was like a massive swing, (hence the name) it was nerve racking. I also enjoyed free time, where we went into the lake, and the water was really really cold.

Madison McKenzie

The obvious highlight for 2019 was the year 6 camp at Waipara Adventure Center. Out of all of the activities there that was probably my favourite was the giant swing, a massive contraption involving going many metres in the air and swinging down. (In a harness, of course.) overall, 2019 has been my best year, and I’m really going to miss Oaklands next year.

Jerry Wang

2019 has been my favourite year at Oaklands School. I am going to leave school next year (2020) And it is a really hard thing to walk away from. Because I’m going to leave school, I’m going to miss my friends, teachers and ALL those fun things we do at Oaklands. My highlight(s) this year is The Year 6 Waipara Camp. The best thing of Waipara camp is probably Kayaking.

Logan Hargrove

Two thousand and nineteen has been my favourite year at Oaklands school, fun packed and ready for my year six to be epic! The best thing this year is obviously hub 6 Waipara Adventure camp, any year 5 should be very excited for this. last year, we went to Woodend this was fun but nothing compared to waipara! There was; giant swing, raft building,raft racing, canoeing, swimming,crate stacking,flying fox, waterslide & more. In my opinion, Wiapara will probably be the best camp I will ever been on future and past! If you ever have the opportunity to go there, do. 

Ruben Jennings

For 2019 my highlights are coming down to Oaklands and yet still being able to go down to the one and only Dunedin to see my best friends. As well as seeing my wonderful dad but Oaklands school has given a great 2 terms and made me feel welcome. Especially the students and in the future I will try my hardest to get a sports scholarship and play hockey in the olympics.

 Erica Yin

2019 has been by far my favorite year, everything about it made me love being a year 6! But my most favorite highlights are Winter Sports, Waipara Camp and the marae trip. For Camp it was a thrilling experience and I’d definitely like to go again with all my friends.

Winter Sports I was in the Netball B team, and we had some fair games. But it was an amazing experience with all my friends. We came third overall and I was player of the season!

With the marae trip, I truly enjoyed learning about all the stuff that the Marae had to offer. We did so many cool activities. My swimming this year has definitely improved, by me going to SW zones

Overall this year has been a blast and I enjoyed hanging out with my friend group and having cool teachers!! Thanks 2019 for a being an amazing year, 2020

you have some competition!

Yoyo Weng

2019 has been my favorite year yet !

Some of my favorite highlights for me this year is Waipara Camp & Winter sports. Camp started at the start of the year. It was really fun,awesome and adventure. My favourite thing at Waipara was probably the giant swing & raft building .I was scared at the start but it was fun after .When we finish building the raft we got on. Before we even started, Izzy and I fell in the water and it really cold . Overall, we came 3rd.

For Winter sport I did Netball we won some and we lost some games . It was so fun & I’m in the B team.We came 3rd overall.My favourite position is defender, but I don't really mind any position. I really enjoyed playing netball with some of my friends.

Isabella Laing

My 2019 was awesome

Some of my favorite highlights for me this year is Waipara camp in term 1 the hub went to camp it was so fun we were there for two days. My favorite was giant swing and abseiling. We did raft building it was fun when the raft went in the water I was in the water pulling it and the others were just on top of the raft . After camp, I was sad, it was over.

Esther Brocherie

My 2019 highlight for this year is winter sports because I have really enjoyed the Netball A team tournament. We came 3rd out of around about 20. Another highlight for me this year is Waipara Camp even though on the first activity and first day of camp I sprained my arm.Camp was so fun my favourite activity was the Giant swing for sure.

Aurora Tepania

Some of my Highlights are the Gala and camp. The Gala because we get to perform in front of other people. Camp because we got 2 nights away from home and we got to do activities all day and my favourite activity was the waterslide and sleeping.

Robert Maxey

2019 is my final year at Oaklands school and it ended with a bang the gala was an absolute treat our performance was a mix between dance,singing,percussion and drama I did percussion and it was really fun!

Jaxson

2019 was my favourite year here so far, At the year 6 camp The camp was nice with the giant swing, swimming, raft building and more. It was really fun to go there with my friends, my favourite part of Waipara was abseiling. We were at Waipara for three days and two nights the waterslide was one of the best waterslides I have been on it was really fast when you went down it.The camp was nice with the giant swing, swimming, raft building and more. It was really fun to go there with my friends.

Jaydeep Patel

2019 was by far my favourite year at Oaklands School. This year was Full of fun and adventures The best thing of 2019 at Oaklands School was definitely Waipara Camp. It made my year it was an amazing experience. Some of the activities that we did on camp were crate stacking, giant swing, canoeing, swimming, raft building, raft races, waterslide, flying fox, abseiling and more. For me Waipara camp was definitely the best camp ever and all year 5 students should look forward to going. 

Charlie barnes

Yr 6 was probably my most fun year so far. I liked all the different opportunities you could do e.g

Winter sport, communication team banqer and more. Also, I thought the teachers were really nice and let us do fun things.    

Patrick Corcoran

Yr 6 was a super fun year my highlight was probably camp I really liked the water slide and ga-ga dodgeball oso the beds were surprisingly comfy but it was hard to get to sleep because of the people in our room and at night we played a game called colours.

The end.  

Lukas Mullan

My highlight for this year was definitely the winter sport. I loved winter sport it was so fun. While doing winter sports, it was fun because I was with my friends.   

Robert Davidson

I enjoyed winter sport because, I am a football fan. I made the football team I scored lots of goals we work well together. After winter sport, I was sad because I like football.

Maia Ioane

This was a great year because, We did a lot of activities I liked winter sport it wasn't long before we won. When I was captain I had to hold the bag but it was worth it! 

Wilbur Hensley

This year was great because my fitness has improved, I made it to zones for athletics and made some new friends along the way. I really enjoyed the year 6 camp.

Zak Wright

2019 was all right, My fitness has gotten better because I bet my O.G Beep Test score I think I got like 8.7 or 8.8.

See Below for some photos and a video of all our adventures this year.