GYM FESTIVAL

What a day it was doing gym all day, way better than School. We all can't wait until next year!

Week 10 news and home work tasks

Wa hey! I have read all your homework arguments and, yes you have convinced me - this week is a homework free week. Congratulations. I was most impressed with your progress and achievements in persuasive writing. Your work shows you have learnt the correct structure, format and effective language tools of persuasion. There were some pretty wild exaggerations, lots of emotive language and good rhetorical questions to get readers thinking. Well done Room 7 - I guess I'm going to be in trouble now because you know how to use the tricks of the trade when it comes to persuasion! Parents be warned!

Touch the Sea

Learning about the deep sea was fun with Richard de Hamal. He thought of heaps of interesting hands on activities for us to do, each them teaching us something different about life in the dark, cold and mysterious sea.

Our career day

Jake at work with the forensic team at the Police Station

Thursday the 11 of June all of Room 7 went to a workplace that they have an interest in and might want to do that kind work in the future. We did this for work experience as a part of our Careers study. One business gave the school a $25 book voucher to say thanks for the work done by Hayden. Way to go Hayden!

Week 9 News and Home Learning Tasks

The penultimate week of Term 2! Holidays just around the corner - yay! Everyone has worked hard and we are feeling really pleased with our learning achievements.

What a work experince

Every body was buzzing as it was the day before our class work experince. We had been planning for what seemed like months. Mrs Hosie (our teacher ) thought it would be a good way for getting us ready for the real world and it was ... this is what happened. We each set off for the day at our own pace some with our parents others being taken by someone in a business.
As we set off the thrill began.
As I arrived the doors welcomed me from the cold streets into the calm and quiet veterinary clinic.
All you could hear were the fish tanks humming to themselves and cats and dogs who obviously did not want to be there.

That was my welcoming as you can imagine the others had a different welcome - some were welcomed by the sound of preschool children, others by policemen, business people or shoppers.
When we shared our experiences the following day everyone had learned valuable lessons and had a great time in their different work environment

Papa Ra's warm welcome

Papa Ra visited the school for a week and in the time he was here he got a great idea of what our school was like and how it worked. The main difference he noticed was the learning environment. One thing Papa Ra said was "Most of our teaching is outside in the real world". The main language has become, over the years, English, and a strong focus of some of his work is encouraging Cook Island Maori. There is even a Maori speech competition!

He not only visited the school but also had an opportunity to go to the Rippa Rugby Tournament in Motueka. He was noting down the rules as rippa had recently been introduced in his school, Nikao Maori School in Rarotonga. After seeing the game in action he thought he would have to tweak the rules to make the game faster for his pupils.

Papa Ra was warmly welcomed at school and the farewell was very sad. When his two week visit was cut short to one week following a death in Papa Ra's family it was still a valuable experience.

Week 8 News and Home Learning Tasks

Room 7's Love of Sport!!!

Room 7's love of sport has grown so much over the year. It is great to see people getting out there and being all they can be! Students in Room 7 participate in a wide range of different sports. The students participate in soccer, basketball, gymnastics, rugby , cricket, swimming, netball, motocross and many more.

I interviewed Lucy.S to hear about her thoughts on the sports she plays over the weekend:
She said " I play Netball and Miniball and I really enjoy miniball because you can get in their faces and support each other and for Netball I am good at defending and guarding the goal."

I also interviewed Jake to hear about his thoughts,
He said " I do Motocross, swimming, cricket and Rugby but my favourite has to be motocross because it is fun and I think I am good at it."

It was great to hear about peoples thoughts on Sports. It is always awesome to see people getting out there and supporting each other!

Written by Lydia!

Week 7 News and Home Learning Tasks

Another great week ahead. Everyone is looking forward to the work experience day on Thursday. Check out the rest of our news and homework tasks for this week...

Dancing at the disco

WOW the DISCO went great! EVERY ONE came with their dancing shoes on. The theme was black and white and every one came to the party dressed in amazing black and white outfits. It was a great night for everyone.

The disco just gets better and better each time we have a one, we owe our thanks to the House Leaders for this great disco. They gave up their own time for us, so make sure you thank them. They did a great job at organizing the activities, food and songs as well as keeping us under control (that can be hard some times). And the songs were much better than last year as they had a better beat for dancing. Thanks House Leaders, we appreciate your efforts.