Mr Straw 's farewell, the Netball finals and Moonball!

On Thursday the school had a special assembly to farewell our Principal Mr Straw who is leaving us to go and be Principal of a school in Pakistan.The Kapa Haka group performed for him then Mr Fisher and some of the House Captains spoke about what Mr Straw meant to them and our school.
On Friday Mr Straw called into Room 10 to say goodbye...

Guess Who?


The Inter Class Netball Finals

Shaneya yelling for the ball

Kowhai fighting for the netball

Shaneya goes for the shot

Kowhai defending the other team

Ben day dreaming?

After all that because of room 10s awesome playing we won against room 17 Yay!!!
(thanks to the refs !)

Significant Day presentations

At the end of term 2 we started doing work on significant days. We had to do a presentation to the class on the significant day we chose.
We had some people doing Matariki, Guy Fawkes, Christmas, Mardi Gras, Valentines Day, Easter and many more. Some of us worked in pairs and some of us worked alone. We could do it as a power point,on a chart or using the  inter write.

This is Michael's presentation on Diwali - he finished it by giving the class some burfi - a traditional Indian sweet

Term 3... and interclass netball begins.

On Tuesday the 2 August room 10 faced room 9 in inter class netball. Room 10 had to bring together a team of 7 including boys. It was a fun game and most subs went on. At the end the day the score was 17- 13 with a win for room 10. The players that were on were mostly boys. The boys played an awesome game for their first time playing but some got pulled up by the refs too much. The player of the day was Shaneya Ihaka with her fantastic shooting and Lucky Uerata  with his great passes and centre position.

By Teina Morgan

Rakau Tu- another traditional Maori game and our end of term Social

KC Maaka, our local Raukawa iwi Health Promoter  returned to Room 10 today, she talked about Matariki and read the class the Legend of Rahitutakahina. It was pretty interesting, it includes a  taniwha, the giant eagle Namu and patupaiarehe. KC is going to work with our class next term to dramatise this legend... that'll be a challenge for us!
She also taught us another game Rakau Tuu, this required a lot of concentration and quick reflexes. Jemaine was the best in the finals!

Nicole 's Great Grandad

Week 10 A Busy Week Here in Room 10.

This Week has been a busy one here in Room 10. We have been finishing our Whakapapa and they are awesome.

some of our finished Gallipoli Diaries

our whakapapa

We have to write an information  report about a significant day we chose  like St Patricks Day , Valentines Day and Christmas..... and we are going to have to create a digital presentation to give to the class on our chosen day too


In Assembly on Thursday The Brass Band played some National Anthems to the whole school. Sadly there is no one from our class in the band, it is taken by Mr Noel Saunders, he has been taking the band for many, many years. It costs nothing to join and you even get supplied with an instrument.
The anthems played were:
God Defend New Zealand (NZ)
God Save the Queen (UK)
The Banner of Freedom (Samoa)
Advance Australia Fair (Australia)
The Star-Spangled Banner (USA)
one from the Netherlands
La Marseillasie (France)
All these Countries are participating in the Rugby World Cup.( I think they did a very good job.(Collette)


Mr Saunders and the Brass Band



Yesterday at Singing Assembly, we had Whaea Awhina teach us some new maori songs because it was  Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori  Maori Language Week. We learnt Wairua o te Puna and He Kakano.

Over the last week Room 10 have had Constable Louise in talking lessons  about bullying- Kia Kaha. Today we learnt about stereotyping people.


Constable Louise and some of the class

This Friday Was Muffi Day. It was for the Blind Appeal so we had to dress up colourful.We all brought $2 to donate to the Blind Appeal so that they can buy things like canes, Pac mates and Braille machines to help people who are blind.
This is something Room 10 has a good understanding about  because our Michael is blind, he has a cane which he uses to help him find his way around - he is really good at getting  around our school now and  he has a pac mate to help him do his school work with.

Michael and his cane

the colourful crew

well maybe not colourful but certainly original...

Kody the pig hunter!

In Assembly today our Guest Speaker was a former pupil of our school- Cameron Petley. He used to be in Freyberg House!
He talked to us about his recent appearance on TV's Master Chef programme. He also donated a cook book from the show to our school library.

a VERY  proud Valeska, one of our Freyberg House Captains and Cameron Petley

Cameron Petley telling the school about being on Master Chef

Written By Collette :) Captions By Logan.

Diary Reading: Demos,Jonas and Winston