Room 6 and lots of other children from the school discover the simple joys of creating their own entertainment - sliding down a grassed slope on a piece of cardboard.

"It was great to see you having fun with the cardboard boxes on the top field" Waikanae School principal, Mr Bevan Campbell, told the children, after watching their antics.

However as all things come to an end, the bare grass patches giving testimony to the number of children who joined in and the grass needed time to recover before the arrival of wet weather the area was likely to turn to mud.