Ki O Rahi Tournament

To end Matariki we had our Ki O Rahi tournament.  Four Teams faced off in a round robin tournament with the two finalists being the teams with the most accrued points.

Team Red; Talia, Ashleigh, Nikita, Patrick, Te Aute and Vaea played Team Blue; Hugo, Mrdina, Ethan, Jess, Fergus, Jeremiah and Alison in a hard fought and exctiting final.

At the end of full time the scores were tied at 2 all.

We played an extra minute each way to come up with a winner, in the last 30 seconds Team Blue scored the deciding point. Team Red were gracious in defeat and played a great game.

Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow 2014

On Friday the 27th of June year five and six got to go to the science road show at Royal Oak Intermediate. When we got there we watched a show called “Are we living?” We really enjoyed the show. After the show we could walk around and look at the different science experiments on display. At some of the displays, if you understood how it worked you could get a little card and go up to one of the teachers and explain how it worked to them and if they thought you understood they would clip your card and you could enter the draw.  Looking at the displays was really fun and most people liked the display where you chucked a little ping pong ball into a large funnel and then you pushed a huge lever down and the force [the air] pushed the ball out of the funnel.  After looking around we watched another show about our body.  We had a lot of fun.

Gymsports Competition

Gymnastics

Ten children, Talia J, Hugo M, Jessica Mc, Ella L, Amie H, Leilani F, Alice B, Luca L P, Natalie S and Josie G went to Tristar gymnasium to compete on three apparatus; vault , beam and floor. Hugo did two floors, since he is a boy he does not do beam.  We all had to compete against many schools and try to earn ribbons. Gold is the best you can get and is excellent, red is the second best and is very good, blue is good and green is merit. Amie and Ella also competed in trampolining and both got gold’s. Everybody had great fun just being there and we would like to thank all the parents that helped. We could not have done it without you. We would also like to thanks Mrs Stennard for organising it and Tristar for doing it.

MOTAT Trip

MOTAT Trip

On Thursday 19^th of June 2014 room 9, 8, 7 and 6 went to MOTAT for topic. We all saw so many great things to do with the past and the present. We also learnt about how things worked. We went because in topic we are learning about how things function. We also went there to learn how things have changed over time.

Medina Ihaia

Matariki

Matariki 2014

To celebrate Matariki room 7 had a fun.  We began with a round robin tournament playing Tapuwae,
this was followed by a shared lunch with room 6. 

Congratulations to Fergus, Hugo, Evie, Talia, Belle and Jeremiah who won the Tapuwae finals - can the repeat their amazing performance next term?

The round robin tournament playing ki O rahi was postponed until the beginning of next term due to bad weather.  Stay tuned to find out the winning team.

Big Foot Cycling

Bigfoot Cycling

By Amelia Kelly

On the 12^th and 13^th of June, we were really lucky to have Bigfoot Adventures come to our school and do a cycling program with us. It was a really good opportunity for people to refresh their skills, and even learn from scratch. It was really fun, and taught us all some really important skills that we didn’t know. We were taught how dangerous it can be why’ll you’re riding on the road, how fragile your brain is and how important it is to always wear a helmet properly. Everyone learnt something new, and was left smiling.