Christian's speech

Today the Syndicate Speech Finals were held, 3 people from each class were selected to take part. Everyone in Room 10 worked hard on their speeches  - special mention has to go to Brayden, Karine and Kody James for the great little speeches they gave, and to Lucky and Matamaru for making us laugh!
Shaneya, Iva and Christian represented the class in our Syndicate Finals and .... Christian was selected to go through to the School Finals next week!

Life Education

This term in room 10 Mrs Puke and the class have been visiting Harold and Shelly from the Life Education van. We have been learning about choices and how they influence us. When we first went to Harold we were excited because it’s been ages since we have last seen Harold in our primary schools.

At our first lesson we played a game which was very entertaining personally I stuck to FIJI, There were three places where we could go: Fiji, Los Angeles and North Island ( Wellington) First we had to pick where we wanted to go the most BUT there was consequences depending on where you went, Most of our class decided to go to Los Angeles with Shelly and Mrs Puke, BUT in the end we found out it was only a game.

 We made a burger with the Choices, Consequences as tomatoes, Influences as the meat patty and lastly Information as the lettuce. At our second lesson we learnt about the long term consequences of smoking and annorexia. At our third and last session we learnt about how smoking and drinking alcohol affects our body.

 Sadly we have to wait till next year to see Harold and Shelly again L L L L…

Collette and Demos

Year 7 Rugby Final

As the All Blacks took the field in the weekend wanting to smash France Room 10 were thinking the same as we took on Room 12 in our rugby interclass final.

We all set out to win but I think we all set our own goal to take down the mighty Seu.

We even tried to play like the all blacks with our Sonny Bill Williams  off loads (David)  Riche McCaws tackling(Christian & Jonas) and Cory Janes speed and running (Lorenzo,Ben,Shaq,Lucky).At least some of these moves must have worked because we were leading at half time.

Kody James today remembered to release the ball and didnt get penalised,well not for that anyway.

Shaneya had a great running and tackling game scoring 2 tries and good back up support from her mate Kowhai.

We were lucky to win with an awesome score of 9 to 1 to us. We did have to watch out for their danger players Seu with his mean run ups/ Shazier with his stepping style and Brayden with his good leader ship.

Great Final game Room 12 it has been fun playing rugby at lunchtime with a proper ref.  Thank you Mr Hopkinson for missing out on your lunch to come and ref us all, if it wasn't for you we couldn't take the field.

Thanks Mrs Puke for supplying mouthguards for those who forgot and Fisher for being as loud as a crowd even though there is only 1 of you.

Written by our rugby reporter - Jemaine

Shaneya in action...

The Team

All Blacks 37 - France 17

A much better effort this week Room 10 - some very close scores! This weeks winner was Collette and Ben was the runner up.

Interclass Rugby

We have all been watching the rugby world cup games that are happening around New Zealand but for today we were all focused on our own interclass rugby game.Hearty Room 10 took on the fancy footed Room 16. We took the field wanting to win to stay undefeated in the comp so far.

The first half saw us take the lead with our great tackling (shot Room 10 boys),good run up's and passing – though I admit I'm not the best at sharing  the ball.

This carried on into the second half but it definitely was more challenging for us.David Dewar came across to Tok Intermediate just in time being the best try saver of the game, shot D! Jonas Jonah Lomu is proving to be our key weapon charging through the opposition every game.Thanks to our courageous girls who played, if it wasn't for them we would not have a team to take the field.

We still have a few things to work on. Playing today we had a slight problem with Kody James not knowing when to release the ball. When he was on the ground he kept getting penalised for not letting the ball go.Hopefully he will remember to let the ball go next time but more importantly great running Kody!

Tyler Riki-Pahewa and Christian Manual were danger players for room 16 with very good skills and Tyler being the only try-scorer of the game for them.

Final score 7 to 1 to us!

Thanks to all players and our number 1 supporters Mrs Puke and Fisher Harris.

We look forward to our next  game  GO ROOM 10

by Jemaine

Kapa Haka practising for Poly Fest' 2011

The Kapa Haka group have been working hard all year learning their items for PolyFest'. They meet in the hall twice a week and this Saturday is the big day! They will be performing at the Putaruru Plaza.
Room 10 has 3 pupils in the group Kowhai- (seen here doing some ' pretty awesome' poi), Shaneya and if you look  carefully Christian.

Friction - our science topic