Welcome to Room 10

 I hope you all had a fantastic holiday and have come back motivated and ready to learn. We have new students in our class this year so  Year 8's please make them feel welcome. 

Just some reminders to make our life at school that much more successful!

Success at school is closely linked to attendance. In short, the more often you come to school the better you will do. We  also all function much better when we have had plenty of sleep, drink lots of water and eat a healthy diet. 

2011 Overview

The last day of school for 2011 has come and gone. We have experienced many different things this year, including some fantastically memorable extra-curricular activities. During this year the students of Room 10, 2011 have taken part in many terrific things such as: Outdoor Academy, PrEP, Production, Leadership Conferences, BP Challenge, Interschool Sports, Cross Country, Tryathlon and of course who can forget the end of year camp at Eltham.

This year had many highlights below is a  glimpse of the year book for year 8s that was put together by Lani.

Term 3 Begins!

Term 3 is shaping up to be a very busy term. We have the interschool Netball and Rugby sports competition starting this term with the the first match against Puketapu School on the 19th of August. We also have the BP Challenge, Outdoor Academy Ski Trip and the practices for the production.

Kapa Haka

This year we have had so many students who have shown an interest in Kapa Haka that we have made two groups! Both groups performed at Taatarakihi and did a wonderful job. It was a great day. Taine and Ruth are the leaders of the older group and they did a great job at Taatarakihi. We watched some of the competition groups to see what we are up against when we enter the competition at Puanga next term. We were very fortunate to have some amazing parents, teachers and students who have put in a lot of time and effort into designing and making enough uniforms for the students of both Kapa Haka groups.

LEADERS CONFERENCE

Last Friday a group of students went to the leaders conference in New Plymouth. There were heaps of amazing and inspiring speakers. Brett Mcgregor even showed up and showed us how to make a couple of his favourite dishes. There were fun games and there was dance off between some of the high school students. It was an awesome day and we learnt so much on how to be a great leader.

PrEP

Term 2

Term 1 Highlights

Fonterra Science Fair

The intermediate team attend the Fonterra Science fair at Waitara High school. They were given the opportunity to experiment with the way technology works. Below are some photos of time at this event.

Christchurch Fundraiser

Today down at the Bell Block shopping centre Bell Block school put on a cake stall, Raffle and sold Black and Red Ribbons to help raise money for the people of Canterbury. We also dressed in the Canterbury colours (Red and Black). Thank you to everyone who brought cakes and brought from the stall.

Design and Refine

Design and Refine is our new Inquiry topic. We will be having our tuning in day on Friday the 4th of March.  Room 10 will be doing PrEP as part of this inquiry.