There is one particular favourite annual event at
kindergarten, one that everyone seems to love, it’s our Wheels-a-thon
fundraiser at the Kensington courts.
This year the event was held on Wednesday 22nd March 2017,
which had an excellent turn out and support.
Our wheels-a-thon is a special event that brings our
kindergarten community together children, families, friends, and teachers to
participate in an action fun event that generates crucial fundraising money for
our kindergarten.
“People coming together as a community
can make things happen” Jacob
Rees-Mogg
As
part of the build up for the wheels-a-thon we were lucky to have a visit from
the police, Constable Toni Bean, who spoke about the importance of how to keep
safe while riding bikes and scooters.
She explained and demonstrated how to correctly wear helmets, where to
ride safely and how to be visiable.
Before
the event our children seemed to enjoy watching footage from last year where
they noticed either themselves or friends who have since left. On Wednesday kindergarten was full of
anticipation and excitement as the children spoke about what wheels they were
bringing and what they might be wearing;
Jonah: “I’m
going to dress up as a pirate with a lookout”
Tilly: “I’m
taking my bike we’ve already decorated it”
Milla: “I’m
taking my scooter, guess what? It’s
getting dressed up as the beast”Arlo: “I just can’t wait, I’m going to be spiderman and my brother Theo is going to be batman”
Fortunately on the day we had great weather with wonderful
support from children and their whānau. It was lovely to see so many of the bikes or
scooters had been decorated thoughtfully with balloons, tinsel, streamers,
windmills, ribbons, plants and flowers.
Many of the children also chose to decorate themselves wearing fantastic
dress ups, some were so good that I didn’t even recognise them! After all the effort of completing many laps
of the courts, there was a refreshing ice block to help cool down.
I asked the children
what they enjoyed most about the wheels-a-thon, here are some of their
comments;
Raina: “Driving
around on my bike. I liked the sausage”.Maxwell: “I liked riding my scooter really fast”.
Noah: “I liked the ice block”.
Archie: “I liked riding fast, we went round and round”.
Elsie: “I could turn corners so quick on my scooter”.
A huge thank you to all the whānau who helped make this
event such a success through offering support and help with many jobs including
preparing the bread and onions, transporting the barbeque to the courts and
back, cooking and selling the sausages and gaining sponsorship. This year all monies fundraised will be used
to purchase moveable garden beds for our kindergarten.
“Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much” Helen Keller
Thank you to Christine for compiling this video from all the
photographs.
Mā te wā
Susie
1 comment:
what a cool afternoon it was, thank you team!
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