Black Out Day

Today our entire school had the option to wear black to school. Its to support the All Blacks first game against Tonga tonight. We all look like we are ready for the game . Even the teachers dressed up creative.

Pt England Rugby Sevens Champions.

Last week the year 8 Rugby Sevens team went down to Tauranga to compete in the NZ AIMS games. They played against lots of school. They left on Sunday morning in two vans heading to Tauranga.They stayed in a marae for the week.

It was their 1st game against Cambridge Intermediate on Tuesday morning. Ms Tito had received a text message from Ms Va’afusuaga saying that the boys won their first game. They had won their second game, third game and so on. It was the semi finals and they had won. Thursday was the big day they played their grand finals. We were waiting for the final results.

The results had come. 'THE BOYS HAD WON!'. We celebrated for them it was a really proud moment for us, our boys were the New Zealand Champions. The coach for the New Zealand rugby sevens team 'Gordon Titeons’ watched some of their games. There was a rumour going around saying that our team was Gordon Titeons team. It was a real honour to have him watch their games.

At the end, our champions came to school and showed us their trophy and medals. We were very proud of them

Tuakana Teina Reading

Every Thursdays afternoons Room 22 (Yr 7 & 8 Class) and Room 7 (Year 2 class) come together in the library for Tuakana Teina Reading. Tuakana means Big brother/sister and Teina means little brother/sister. We were put into pairs with the juniors. There are a number of reasons why we do this.  The main reason is to work with the younger kids so they become whanau (family) and the second reason is so we (us seniors and juniors) get better at reading.  We have turns at reading to each other and it's alot of fun.  You should try it, maybe you have a junior class or senior class that you would like to start a Tuakana/Teina Reading programme.  It's for 1/2 an hour each week and we love it!

Reporter & Producer: Etta Manase

Why is learning about people in the global community important?

I think it is important because we need to have good relationships with different countries and people. I think it will be great if we could learn how to speak other countries languages. It’s also important to learn about people in our global community so that we know whats wrong and whats good like for instance if we were in a Samoan church and we started to text or to start eating in the church that wouldn't be the right thing to do .

Team 5 Challenge

‘Hooray!’ our class shouted when we heard Ms Tito say that today was going to be really fun. The whole of team 5 were going to have a fun challenge on the bottom field. After morning tea we were asked to get changed in to a change of clothes and line up. There were 4 stations we had to go to and at each station there was a teacher.

The first station we went to was Ms Tito’s. The point of Ms Titos game was to get any ball in to any hoop. There were different kinds of shapes and sizes of balls. 2 strong people had hold the big sling shot so that we could get in the hoop and so it wouldn’t be a hassle for us. The class who gets more balls in the hoop gets water balloons after lunch. At the end only Ms Tito and Ben got it in.

Our second activity was with Mr Harris. He told the rules and the instructions first so that we knew what to do instead of just mucking around. We had to get in to pairs. My partner was Maree. There was a piece of string, a spoon and a tennis ball. With the string we had to tie it around my left leg and her right leg then hold the tennis with the spoon and walk to the other side and back. Who ever came first were in the finals. Too bad Maree and I didn't come first.

My favourite station was Mrs Nua’s. It was my favourite because it involved getting wet. There was a bucket full of water in front of each line with a sponge inside and a empty bucket at the each of the line. We had to try get the water to the other side in the sponge by doing it in a routine. It was side, under, side, under. At the end line one which was my group had the most water.

I’d like to say thank you to all the teachers that were involved yesterday. It was a really fun day I really enjoyed it. Hopefully we get to do this another time.

M.I Test

At the moment Room 22 are learning about the multiple intelligences. There are 8 of them. They are Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Verbal linguistic, I.C.T, Body Kinesthetic, Visual spatial, Musical, Mathematical. My strengths are body Kinesthetic and Musical. The Intelligences I need to work on is Mathematical and Visual Spacial. Here are my M.I results.

Badminton

Room 22 had great surprise on Thursday. We were the first class to have a session with Laureen. She was a coach from the Auckland Badminton Club. She taught us some fabulous skills in our school hall.

She taught us how to control the ball by holding the racket upside down with your thumb facing down as well with your right hand and holding the shuttle with a straight hand on your left hand. We played a game when we had to try and get the shuttle in the bin.

Our next activity was to get a partner and a cone. The other partner holds the cone and the other holds the racket. The point of the game was to try and get the shuttle into the cone .
I had a really good time learning how to play badminton. Laureen was a great teacher I definitely can’t wait for our next session.