Kapa Haka noho marae

On Friday night the Kapa Haka group went to the Papa o Te Aroha marae, to get ready for the Polynesian Festival.

 First we had a powhiri. We had to wear black. The girls were in the front and the boys were at the back. A lady welcomed us on to the marae. Whaea  Awhina replied back. We sat in the marae and listened to a matua do his speech, when he finished him and two other ladies sang a song.  Mr O`Rouke replied back and we did our moteatea called Kangangahu. We all went around and kissed or hongied the hosts of the marae. We had a 5 minute break just to get out of our powhiri clothes and get changed into our P.Js. We went straight into practice. We had dinner and then supper and went to sleep. The boys slept on the left hand side and the girls slept on the right.

On Saturday we all woke up and had a shower and then went straight into practise. Had breakfast and then went for more practises.  After practising we went to the pools and stayed there until 3:00pm. Anton suggested that we do some skits just for fun. We all finished creating our skits but we weren’t allowed to do them because we had to have a dress rehearsal. Many of our parents and some teachers came to watch us.  After we finished our rehearsal we had some supper. We all went for a shower then had a MEAN pillow fight, but we had to go to bed because we were too loud. LOL!

On Sunday all we did was clean the marae and pack our stuff and wait for our parents to come.

It was a fun noho, the best we had ever had J      

Shaneya and Kowhai

Cupcakes for the SPCA.

On Monday, 29^th August the whole school community was involved in a Cup Cake Day to raise money for our local SPCA. Staff of Tokoroa Intermediate either donated ingredients or backed cupcakes and a lot of students baked as well. The outcome was amazing with some wonderful and colourful cupcake creations. We sold approximately 800 cupcakes to students and staff and raised $589 for the SPCA. Thank you everyone who supported this worthwhile course by donating, baking and/or buying cupcakes. And they didn’t only look nice they were yummy too!  

Logan

August 18, 2011 cross country

The Day it snowed in Tokoroa!

Today is the day it snowed in Tokoroa!!

Today at 9:30am we had snow. All the classes came out to play in the snow.

It doesn't snow very much in Tokoroa so this was cool for us.

 Some of us haven't experienced the feeling of snow before.



everyone having fun!!!



Best Friends having fun

Shaneya the snow queen



Joy and Nicole freeze!

"Oooh thats a large snowflake"

Yummy snow!!



Jonas,Shaq,Lorenzo! 

 

Woow amazing snow!!!!

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