This year the selection of House Captains was done a little differently.At the end of Year 7 teachers are asked to nominate their 'possible - probable House Captains according to a criteria that places an emphasis on being organised, being confident at public speaking and above all showing leadership by example in all aspects of class and school life. Any other children who felt they had the necessary qualities could also apply.
The students had to fill out an application pack; they had to rate themselves against the criteria, say why they thought they would make a good House Captain and get both their teacher and parents to write a reference for them.
This information was collected in and on our Teacher Only Day staff in each house selected their potential leaders, names of those selected were read out to the whole Staff and all agreed on the choices made for 2016.
As this was the first Assembly of the year, hosts were needed to run it and without hesitation ( just like their big sisters 3 years ago it turns out!!) Mya and Jadene volunteered to run the asssembly.
They helped organise their script and with the rest of the class acting as a practice audience - rehearsed their lines on stage.
Room 10 are particularly proud of both of these girls - standing up and running an Assembly in front of 330 students is no mean feat especially when you only arrived at Intermediate 4 days ago! 
Tokoroa Intermediate has 4 Houses, each named after a former Governor General Of New Zealand. 16 House Captains are chosen each year - Four for each House.
From Room 10 2015 6 children were selected (Maddi was away sick so missed the photo)
An extra special congratulations to Maddi, Elijah, Riley, Ashlyn, Aliana and Hoana - Rose!
Freyberg:
Grey:
Cobham:
and Hobson:
