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Swimming
Every day during the first term students at Peria School recieve lessons in swimming. It is very important that our children are confident swimmers as most live beside rivers and beaches.
Beach Day - 2010
Each year the school has 'Beach Day'. It provides an opportunity for parents and teachers to meet . Part of the day is spent picking up rubbish off the beach. This fits with the Key Competencey of 'Participating and Contributing', being involved in a project that helps out the community. Plenty of swimming, healthy kai and
despite some dicey weather it made for a very enjoyable day.
"It was hot at Coopers Beach and the sea was warm so we had lots of swims. We had a sand sculpture competition.
"
Pride of the community
All classrooms now have a new SMART Board interactive whiteboard, a large, touch-controlled screen that works with a projector and a computer. The projector throws the computer’s desktop image onto the whiteboard, and we can write on it in digital ink or use a finger to point, click and drag, just like using a desktop mouse.
Three Peria School classrooms underwent a make-over in 2007 .
Te Puna, Te Awa and Te Moana each got an upgrade, textured wall
coverings, paint, classroom furniture, fittings, sliding doors and windows, and
heat exchange units.
Rooms are known (in progressive order)
as:
Te Puna ~ stream
Te Awa ~ river
Te Moana ~ sea
Te
Rangi ~ sky
|
Te
Rangi |  
| | Te
Puna |
Te Awa |
The
swimming pool area also got a revamp:
~new changing shed and pump room
~extended public area and fencing
~new sunshade
~spectator seating stand
| 
out
with the old shed | 
and
in with the new | | SUMMER
2005-6
 
Wheel
chair ramps were added to all buildings.
Shade sails were installed over the
sandpit and the lunch area. | | A shade house
was constructed and was in use immediately under the tutelage of Chris Wilson.
Peria
School now has a wooden fence back and sides, while the road front features a
metal mesh number that is also used around Playcenter and the school swimming
pool.
This fence - completed summer 2005-6, does not show up on Google Earth,
which shows you how often they update their NZ satellite images. |
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St.
Barnabus across the road from the school. Peria's white Church is a landmark
visible from many viewpoints around the Oruru valley
Flooding
below the school.
If it looks like this, then the staff are ticking off
the flood emergency phone lists as the buses arrive to take pupils home early.
Make sure your family's emergency numbers are still valid. |
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