Teddy Bear’s Picnic!

Today Mapua School had a Teddy Bears Picnic. The intermediate students now eat by their classrooms, so the teachers challenged them to organize days when the school can together to eat lunch and do something fun together. Tegan and Molly, both year 8’s, organized the picnic and then went around the classrooms and informed the students about the event. Everyone had to bring a teddy bear or soft toy to school and at lunch time they brought their food and their teddies and the school sat at the back of the field and had a picnic. After everybody had eaten, the children had a choice to either go and play or stay to listen to stories, read by some other Year 8’s. There was even a gorilla puppet, which Finlay carried around, that talked to people!

Everybody enjoyed the picnic and the fun it brought. All in all, everybody enjoyed themselves and had heaps of fun , and even though the weather was cloudy, it didn’t stop us from having a great day! It won’t be long before there is another event to enjoy, and the students are definitely looking forward to it!

Kelly Prosser

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