Awakeri School

Room 11 in 2005

Who are we?

We are a class of 33 students made up of 13 year sevens and 21 year eights . We work independently and have lots of fun. We are very special and intelligent in every way. Our teacher is Miss Isaac. Can you guess who we are? Answer: ROOM 11!!!!!!!!!!

Class News

22nd of November Kane has won a new bike from push play. How lucky is he! We have finished gymnastics. We showed off all our stunts and tricks. We have really enjoyed it. A big thanks to Miss Clancy and Mr Hawkes for organising it.

11th of November Today the debating R.E.P team will go head to head. This term we will be starting folk dancing which will take place near the end of the term. We have started a new maths game called, who wants to be a mathematician? What happens is that teams compete by answering maths questions. The winners are the team with the most points.

9th of November Today we have high jump finals and we will see who wins and we will see if the winner can break the record for the 12 year old boys record and we will see if the winner for the 13 year old boys can break their record. We have started to do gymnastics in the big hall and we have to do jumping and and roley poley's and also balancing.

20th of October We are starting athletics as athletics day will be taking place soon. We have almost finished our maths topic on Algebra. Our Algebra test should be happening this week. We have started doing some problem solving and a maths game called colonels and generals. In the problem solving challenges, if you get the answer for the problem correct you will go in the draw to win a prize. With colonels and generals you go in a line and get asked a maths question. If you get it right you will go in the next round but if you get it wrong you will go into the second chance group. Congratulations to all those children who entered Ag day. Especially to the kids who got a placing.

13th of October At the moment we are are writing poems including cinquins, seasonal poems and 575's. The poems are looking very cool!

22nd of September We have started debating. Six students including Casey Magee, Joshua Graham, Finn Kamphorst, name with held, Kayla Manson and Linda Saitta have gone through to the Class REPS as they did very well in our first debate. They will be debating the statement, "Adults are smarter than children." Affirmative team - Finn Kamphorst, Linda Saitta and Joshua Graham. Negative team - Casey Magee, Kayla Manson and name withheld. But well done to everyone because this only our first debate and we know everyone in the class will improve in the next debate.

9th of September We have started a new topic on marbling and the forces that can move marbles along. We have finished doing fitness on the playground and we are moving on to do some other type of fitness. Today we are finding out who student of the week is. Miss Isaac is having a hard time choosing who deserves it, because we have lots of people who have been so good this week. We have started doing a new system for getting a game on Monday after manual which is that we have to get 20 stars in a week and the maximum in a day is 5. We are getting closer to performing our school production which we will show pretty soon. We have finished learning about Guy Claxton and his 4 R's. In volley ball we have got even further and now we are having games and we are starting to serve the ball in the games.

31 of August We have sent off our environmental competition entry and we are waiting to see if we have won a prize. Also we are wondering who will get the student of the week. The home learning award which Kayla got was for her very good effort.

23 of August We are starting to learn the set for volley ball and we have started algebra for math. We have nearly finished our composting topic and we are soon to send our compost work to the competition we have entered. We are still learning about the 4 R's and for building learning power and we have been doing some drama skills.

16th of August Miss Isaac is teaching us about Guy Claxton's 4 r's - resilience, reciprocity, resourcefulness and reflectiveness. We have been learning about them in our building learning power activity which we do most afternoons. We have also been doing tessellations for maths which is really fun.

5t2h of August Our new teacher Mel Isaac is now teaching. She is going to teach us how to write an essay. Mrs Bateson is leaving today. We will miss her smiles, her niceness, her baseball and longball games, her art activities, her fun topics, etc. All the best for her holiday. But she will come back.

29th July We have finished our sport studies. Sadly Mrs Bateson is leaving. Our new teacher will be Mel Isaac who will be starting next week. We have started virtues. We are learning. Science fair is on at the moment. Good luck to all the people who are entered. At the moment we have been doing sketching for art. We hope you all had a good holiday.

30 June The speeches have been completed with Stacy Law winning it. Semi Finalists from our class included Micaiah, Casey, Emma, Anita and Vikki. We have started a sports study. They should be interesting.

14 June We are doing string prints in class. They are looking fantastic!!! Also we have started some art with pastels. We have just started going to life education. Our teacher Shirley is very funny and entertaining. Our topic is 'CHOICES' and how they affect you. We are going this Thursday.

10 June We have started our speeches and they are going great.

3 June Cross country went really well yesterday. Well done to everybody that participated in the running and especially those who got into inter school cross country. Speeches are coming up soon so everybody is gearing up for that. We are lucky because it is the Queens birthday on Monday so we get a day off school!!! Yah!!!

27 May We have started in a new topic called New Zealand and world geography. It has a lot to do with physical and political maps. The physical map shows the landscape and depths of the oceans and mountains, the political map shows where cities and towns are. We have started doing string prints. They are lots of fun. Our class's new Te Reo subject is time.

18 May We are back from camp, which sucks, because it was really fun at camp. The abseiling was awesome, and the high ropes were wicked, flying fox and lots of other things we did. I wish we could go back. But oh well we had the lots fun and thanks to the teachers and parents for all the help they did. Quite a lot of students got the leap of faith. One group did the red track on the mountain bike track and the red track is the hardest one. The group that did that was group 1. Group 6 won the amazing race, because the parents team cheated. Naughty parents!!!

17 May Check out some of our camp photos

4 May Next week we are going to camp to Tui Ridge which will be great fun. We are going abseiling and rope climbing, mountain biking. We are also going to play some night games like spot light and we are also going to do activities. There is this flying fox that will be great to ride on. On the last day we are going to the pools and we are going to play on the aqua run. Cross country is coming up so we have started training up for it. Science fair and speeches and lots of other things this term.

8 of April Yesterday we went on a field trip to Ohiwa Harbour. We saw lots of animals including Crabs, Birds, Snails, Pipi etc. We did a sketch of the Harbour. Then we went out and played in the mud. Everyone got dirty. Thanks to all the parents that helped by taking transport. Click here To see some cool photos of the day.
On the 6 of April we had touch day. It was so fun. Also thanks to all the people that helped out on the day. We couldn't have done it with out you. The school holidays are coming up. This term has gone fast!!

31st of March We are going to go on a science trip next week to learn about mangroves. It will be taking place at Ohope Harbour. We still need a couple of parents to help. We are getting taught about Roman Numerals for math's. Our next subject in math's is statistics. We have a new Te Reo subject on numbers. It looks like lots of fun. Over the past week we have been practising for the touch tournament which will be taking place here at Awakeri School. We have also been presenting our ALL ABOUT ME studies. They are very interesting to read. Next term we are going on our classes camp to Tui Ridge with room ten. It will be fun on the High Ropes, Abseiling, Flying Fox etc. We hope everyone had a great Easter and a nice rest. Tomorrow we are off to Manual. That should be lots of fun. At Manual we do Electronics and cooking. It is a great experience.

24th of March We have started a new topic on Mangroves. They live in the swampy areas in salt water. They look like a little tree under the water. When it is high tide you can't see them but when it is low tide you can see them. Top School went really good and now the Easter holidays are coming up so it will be really fun filling ourselves on chocolate.

18th of March We have started a new art study on Vincent Van Gogh. Our poverty study must be finished today. Top School is coming up. It is this Sunday 20th of March. We all can't wait for top school on Sunday.

14th of March We have almost finished our women author study.

11th of March We are starting a new art topic. Today we are doing some work on a country called Malawi. Also we are having a game. Today our ALL ABOUT ME studies have to be handed in. Most of the class has finished all ready. Mrs. Bateson was letting us have some time in the computer suite.

9th of March We have nearly all finished our ALL ABOUT ME studies. We have to have them in by Friday. They are all looking really great. We have finished our self portraits and they are looking really awesome. On Tuesday we had the swimming interschool sports. Our best swimmers went there and competed against the other schools. We came 1st in the school relay which was really great and lots of other people got places too.

3rd of March At the moment we are doing the 40 hour famine. There are lots of new versions of the 40 hour famine, like the Tech famine, when you can't have t.v. Or computers, video games etc. The Theme famine, where the participants live like refuges in cardboard boxes and only get rice and water for 40 hours, the Food famine where participants only get juice and barley sugars, the Sports famine, where you have get a group of people to do a 40 hour ruination.

24th of February Tomorrow we are going to the Edgecumbe College pool for swimming sports. It will be lots of fun.The events for swimming are open 2 lengths freestyle, 1 length freestyle, 1 length backstroke, biggest splash, 1 width freestyle, width backstroke, 1 width flutter, open medley, nicest dive, 1 length breaststroke and house relays. We are making graphs for our study on food for tomorrow. It's amazing how many people die in every minute. Did you know that every 3.6 seconds someone dies. So in one minute about twenty people die. WOW!!!!

18th of February Yesterday we had the fund raiser for the senior students for our camps. We raised one thousand four hundred and twenty five dollars. We had lots of activities like food groups, water slides, jumping out the window and lots more. We had lots of fun organizing the activities. We had loads of yummy food to eat. We hope the rest of the school enjoyed it. Plaver Flavour made a whopping two hundred and fifty dollars alone. WOW!!!!!!!! Our first topic in Te Reo is colours.

9th of February Yesterday we elected our house our house leaders for Rata, Rimu, Tawa and Kowhai. Well done to all the students who were elected house leaders.

4th of February Our class is starting to do all about me projects which are about ourselves. We are also starting swimming. That will be lots of fun!!

Students work

We have started to do a project with room 10. We are in groups and we have to create a landscape of the country we are given. There is the Rhine River in Germany, Awakeri area, Australian Outback and Maldives. We have to study about these areas in the world and then we have think of some questions. We have to find out about their energy usage needs and create a way to utilise more renewable energy resources. We'll have to wire up solar panels to circuits and all sorts.

Student of the week

Term 4, Week 6: David Ernest. David is the current student of the week. David impressed the children in the class and I this well with his positive 'can do' attitude, his helpfulness and his work focus. He was an excellent role model for other students and made many positive contibutions to the classroom.

Teacher's Message

The children's hard work from Term 3 on creating designs for composting bins suitable for schools has been recognised by some environmental groups this term. Environment Bay Of Plenty presented a Kowhai tree to the class along with a framed certificate. The Kowhai tree is now planted in the native tree area. The certificate is displayed in the school foyer. We'd love to get a plaque for the tree so if any of you have contacts that could help us achieve that, please contact me. YHA and DOC have created special certificates for each child in the class and awarded them free Youth YHA membership for a year.

 

This is our teacher, Miss Isaac.