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Monday 26 November 2012

Absolutely Positively Poneke

Our whole school went to Wellington.The highlight of my trip was visiting the Weta Cave.If you are going to visit I would recommend watching the movies that show how they create the creatures.We made our own movie of the trip.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Duffy Book assembly


After lunch we went to the hall for a assembly for our Duffy books and when we went down we saw Brenda Liddiard and Mark Laurent.  They played songs for us and they brought their little bear called Rufus.They played 4 instruments, the guitar,ukulele,harmonica and a new instrument we had not seen before. Finally they gave our Duffy box to the class.

Monday 13 August 2012

Olympic Reflections


After 16 days of competition the London Olympic Games closed with a bright,colourful and musical celebration. Looking back on the medal count first place was U.S.A, second place went to China and third went to Great Britain. New Zealand came 15 place. We had 6 gold for Rowing,Sailing and Shot Put, 2 silver for B.M.X and Sailing and 5 bronze. The closing was the best one of all. New Zealand ened with 6 golds medals after the shot put athlete tested positive and Valerie Adams was awarded the gold.

Monday 6 August 2012

Tamaki Olympic Opening Ceremony


On Friday 27 July 2012 we had our own opening ceremony in Tamaki Intermediate   school. Our whole school decided to have its own Olympic  Games. Each class is divided into two countrys room 8 was China and South Africa room 12 was New Zealand and USA and room 7 was Jamaica  and Australia.

First  we had to make  a plan to see what groups we were all in, my name was called out and I got to be in Australia and then I was so excited that my name was called out in the other group and my group was Jamaica and I was excited again,then we did our flag after that we got ready to paint our  face.After that we had to go to the hall but we went out side of the hall.

The first country to go inside the hall was China,South Africa,New Zealand,USA,Jamacia and then Australia.Mr Horran spok then Mr Utanga spok after all that talking we all went out side country by country.When we all went outside we had to sit in lines.We had to listen for the introductions.The first two people had to go were the starting line.In my group was me and Ianeta,we had to put our legs together and get a rope and tie it  to our legs.We came first so we went in the finals.

In the finals there  were two groups of Jamaica,two groups of USA and one group of South Africa. First that won was USA followed by USA again then came the bronze medal  was Jamacia. We were so proud of each other.

On Friday 3 August 2012 we had to go to the hall for our assembly.Then  we had to go out side and Mr Uatanga,Mrs Baker and Mr West gave us some introductions on how to play the games. Jamaica had to vs South Africa for lifting up sand with the buckets.South Africa won out of the boys and for the girls South Africa won because catalina  was the only girl and ofa did not  have a rest so that is why they won that round.

For the spoon and the tennies race.We had to sit in two line and Mr West told us the introductions.We had to see who was the fastes race.First was South Africa the first person to get to the line was Jordan.Then it was my group,Ianeta was the first one in my group.In the finals was two people from each countrys was Ianeta and Ili and in the other country was Catalina  and  Jordan.The first person to finished was Laneta.

For the frisbee game we had to line up in two lines,then Mrs Baker told us how to play the game.After that we played the game South Africa was winning  but we caught up to them and we won the game the score was 19 to 17 Jamaica was 19 and South Africa had 17.

We all had to go back to the shelter and we had to see who won for the lifting up the sand.The girls was first and Alyson won first then catalina and then Josephine.The first boy to win was Chris then Peter and then Jeffrey.

Monday 11 June 2012

Careers Expo


On Friday 8 June 2012 Tamaki Intermediate School went to the Careers Expo. First we all had to go to the hall so that we can listen to the teachers for instruction. We all travelled by a bus then when we got there we all had to get into class lines.Then we all went inside the expo. There were only a few people in the expo.We all had to get into our groups.My group went with Edward. Edward did 40 push ups so he could get a t-shirt.When we walked in we all got a bag each.
We all went our own way with our groups. We got lots of new things from the expo like pens, bands and lollies. The most important thing we learnt was information about jobs we could think about in the future.

Sunday 1 April 2012

My Term 1 Report

We had a lot of fun and we learnt about  different things. My Term 1 was cool because we had a lot of fun and we went  on a trip to the Auckland International Airport. We went to the airport to learn about the jobs that they do there. We had a sleepover the next day and a swimming carnival.

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Air Port


Wednesday 21st of March was the day Rm7and some of Rm12 students went to the Airport.
The airport is a place where you can fly in and out of New Zealand.
Around 12,000 people work at the Airport each week.
Tiana Samasoni is a school educator. Tiana Samasoni was the one who took as for a tour around Airport.She took us up to the sky deck  to watch the planes. And she talked about how Jean Batten  was the first women to fly a plane in  England then to New Zealand.We saw a plane take off and we saw a plane landing.
Our trip to the Airport was fun because we got to learn about many things.We left the Airport to go back to school.