Category Archives: School Sporting Events

HAPPY Dance!

Division 7 & 8’s Grade 3s, 4s rocked their smiley-dance019dance on Friday!smiley-dance018
Everyone performed with enthusiasm & wowed the crowd of students, teachers & parents!
Click on the dancing smiley to see a video of our moves!
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Thanks to our awesome teacher Joanne!

Soccer with Cliff Avenue

On Friday Nelson Primary students were lucky to have a visit from Kevin from Cliff Avenue Soccer Club. We had lots of fun as he took us through some soccer drills! Check out their programs @ www.cliffavenuesoccer.com
Click on the smiley below to see pictures of our soccer skills!

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Division 8, what’s your favourite sport to play & to watch?

Calling All Athletes!

0_EmoticoneEmoticone_com (18)Nelson had it’s annual Intramural Track Meet on December 12th & the students participated in relays showing off their basketball, football, skipping & agility skills while competing for house points.
Division 8 did an awesome job in all events & were great cheer leaders for their team mates (special shout out to Red Team for their non-stop encouragement!)!
Click on one of the smileys to see us in action!!

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Primary Christmas Skate

IMG_4568Primary students travelled by school bus to Bill Copeland Arena on Wednesday, all bundled up & ready to skate! After lacing up our skates, we were ready to show off our skills!
Click on the picture to see us all in action on the ice!
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Cross Country Intramurals 2014

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Nelson students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 participated in our annual Cross Country competition on Friday afternoon. Division 8 had lots of fun racing for the 1st time against other grade 3s & all did an awesome job! Click on the runner below to see everyone fly!

 

TERRY FOX RUN 2014

Terry Fox Run LogoNelson students participated in our annual Terry Fox Run last Friday. smiley_runningAfter a late start to the year & only a few days of fundraising, bringing in Toonies for Terry & collecting pledges, we raised $1097 for the Terry Fox Foundation!! Incredible!! Our fundraising in the last couple years has been:
2011 ~ $502
2012 ~ $642
2013 ~ $1430.
We easily surpassed this year’s goal of $800! I’m so proud of all of your hard work!

 

terry-fox-run-logoClick on the picture of Terry above to see our runners in action!

G is for GAMES

IMG_8715G ~ 2 days full of GAMES! We celebrated with the run through of Primary Sports Day, learning 7 new GAMES as we went through all the stations, & then on Friday we had our annual SPORTS DAY!!

I had so much fun during my first year at the scorekeepers table with Mrs. Lentz & I hope you all had fun participating in all the stations & competing in the tug-of-wars too! Congratulations to RED HOUSE on their big Sports Day win!
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Speed Demons 2014

Nelson students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 participated in our annual Speed Demons competition on Friday afternoon. Division 8 had lots of fun racing against other grade 3s & all did an awesome job! Click on the runner below to see everyone fly!sports_run

BOWLERAMA 2014

Mr. Gurniak & his students put on another great BOWLERAMA!!
Click on the Bowlerama sign below to see pictures of us bowling!
IMG_7817After a week of practice we participated in the official event on Friday & had a blast knocking down those pins!

Check out our top scorers!!!
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Jump Rope 4 Heart 2014

On Friday, March 14th, for the 32nd year in a row, Nelson students participated in:

Participating in Jump Rope for Heart helps Nelson students learn the importance of physical activity, healthy eating and giving to others.

We jumped with our buddies & friends from 1:15-2:45 in the gymnasium & competed in challenges given by Miss Cornell & Miss Tsakalos.

Click on the below picture to see us having fun & exercising our hearts!