Last week of Term 1...

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Term 1 has ended, Week 11 was a busy one, we had to finish our written 'characterisations' and complete a Wordle using words from our writing that described ourselves. Mrs Puke is pretty pleased with the finished results.



On Thursday we went to the Waiouru Army Musem to learn  about the Anzacs and Gallipoli. We had a tour of the musem and found out what it was like to be a wounded person, a  medic or a stretcher bearer.We played in the tussocks and climbed on the guns outside at lunch time then on our way home we stopped at the AC Baths. We now know that  AC stands for Armed Constabulary. (not air conditioned !)

The hydroslide was everyones favourite!

Jonas being smart! (intelligent)

Josie putting the poppy down for our class
to remember those who died

Kody trying to lift up the heavy bag
(but he failed)



Joy Monroe!!



Josie and Michael

everyone having fun while they have the time

Jemaine i don't think your going to live
for long if you're up there

Logan trying to tip the tank over

 its a long way down!!

carefull don't drop him

lets go team im going to die

poor Demos, help him Lucky!

Oh no Kowhai that looks sore

I hope you can put your eye back in Fisher

don't drop Kowhai

you poor boys

Shaneya and Kody - The Quarter Masters - they handed out the uniforms!

Te Ina having fun on the slide

don't look so scared

the royal slide - our Queen Shaneya

Demos

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

.Survival Island was won by Jomicosh Island they lead all the

 way through the game- they had good ideas and more importantly co-operated. Rowie Island came last - they didn't even come up with how they were rescued so we think they ' died ' on  their island.They got a coconut to share !

Room 10 won the 2nd round of Year 7 Ultimate Frisbee- it was good to have Shaneya and Kowhai there for the finals this round.

Our ultimate frisbee champions

Haiku, Survival Island and the Bey Blade challenge!

Over the past few weeks we have learnt how to write a Japanese Haiku and played the Survival Island game.
We had to play Survival Island in randomly chosen groups and we had to work together co-operatively to ' survive' for 5 days. Points were given each day for how we solved our problems and for our map and log book. Our last task was to create a newspaper article about our 'rescue and return to New Zealand'. The winning Island will be announced next week.

We learnt that a Haiku has 17 syllables, we wrote some about the Japanese Tsunami and Christchurch earthquake.

Brayden and Jack have been bringing their Bey Blades, they were spinning them in class one lunch time and Mr Noke said his old fashioned wooden spinning top could spin for longer. They had a challenge- best of 3. Mr Nokes top won 2 out of 3 !!!

Week 8 - Coconuts and immunisation!

Coconut investigation...

We were playing Survival Island and no one knew much about coconuts. Mrs Puke brought some coconuts for us to try. We got one coconut per island.We had to open them, drink the juice then open them to get the meat out. We watched some videos on how to climb a coconut tree and how to get the green husk off, We learnt that a coconut is the seed of a fruit called a drupe.



Kowhai cracking a coconut.




Matamaru and Te-Ina are having a sip of coconut milk.




Joy, Brayden and Logan making holes in the coconut.



They just finshed cracking a coconut open.

head down bum up! it's our Fisher!

Michael, Collette and Josie having some of the coconut.

Karine and her  perfectly shaped coconut half.

Guest Speaker at Asembly

This week Marion Brown from Raukawa came and spoke to the school about her recent experiences in Christchurch. Raukawa sent some people and equipment down to help  Iwi members caught up in the earthquake. She showed us the water containers and toilets they supplied to people and we looked at photos of what it was like down there.

Immunisation

 We had immunisation injections this week.These protect us from tetnaus, diptheria and the whooping cough.

You look very calm Lorenzo.



no need to be scared Christian.!



Its all over now Demos !!

Tapu Ae, Ki O Rahi and Tug of War

Kc Maaka , Nicole & Vanessa from Raukawa came to teach us some traditional Maori games. We played Ki O Rahi and Tapu Ae.

We played some games that made us run, sweat and work as a team.



Grab The ball Boy.



Michael Gets a turn at sports.

Jonas what are you doing?

Josie It's okay

Joy is Airborne

Grab the ball Matamaru

The next Karate kid

Snatch the ball Te Ina

Protect the ball Shaneya

Grab the ball Demos

Tug of war
All the classes in the school took part in  a tug of war competition. In the Year 7 girls final we had to face Room 12, they had strong girls in their class- we came second!  The boys came second as well.  Room 9  had really big boys in their class, they were pretty hard to face.
We all did a good job and we had a lot of  fun as well.

Pull room 10

Taking the strain Shaneya

Pull Logan Pull!

go girls go

Ben , Jemaine , Shaq and Jonas Pulling

Don't fall over

Tough luck boys

Week 6 - Our Class Councillors Were Chosen.

Nicole & Jonas
Our Councillors



This week our class councillor was chosen, the candidates needed to say a speech, all the other students needed to vote for the person they wanted to be the councillor.

Nicole and Jonas were chosen, Nicole was voted councillor and Jonas was chosen to be deputy councillor,

As a councillor, you need to be honest and reliable.  Councillors have to go to council meetings and take the best & most improved books from our class.

some of the class of 2010 looking in!

Last week  the school House Captains  for 2011 were announced and presented with their badges in FridayAssembly, this week it was Team leaders.  Mrs Puke would like to congratulate the following  ex Room 10's :

House Captains  

Hobson- Camryn Nicholas and Cole Bain

Cobham- Danielle Lamont

Grey - Bailey Sneddon and Tiare Manu

Team Leaders:

Riley Neil, Brooke Baldwin and Amos Manu



our Ultimate Frisbee team
We have been playing in the lunch time Ultimate Frisbee competition- Mr Hopkinson organised this and Year 8's referee, we did really well until our final game, sadly Shaneya, Kowhai and Te Ina had to go to netball trials. The team missed them and we lost to Room 16, the good news is that Kowhai and Shaneya made it into the A netball team and Te Ina into the B's.



In class so far this year we have been studying Rules, Rights and Responsibilities - we signed a class agreement on these. We alo have been reading and summarising newspaper articles on the Christchurch earthquake.Now we are playing a co-operative game called Survival Island.