Awakeri School

Room 12

We are maths loving (wink wink) quiet caring year 7's and 8's. We are enjoying our days at school. Our wonderful teacher scary Merry I mean Mrs Merry enjoys art and maths and always encourages us to do our best.

23 November

Barbara Kendall talked to us today and she showed us that you can achieve whatever you want to do but first you have to find what you are best at. She was awesome and she told us some pretty embarrassing times that happened while wind surfing. Today Mr. J came to our school again to teach us more about graphics and he is willing to sell us these drawing sets for $10. Sam is feeling a lot better now and he is back at his house and will hopefully be back at school before it ends. We hope that we will get our book Sunwing read before the end of the last term. There is only 3 weeks of school left (celebration).

18 November

Mr. J the teacher who teaches us at tech came to our school to do some graphics with us. We learnt what different types of pencils were used for and we also learnt how do draw straight lines using different tools. We also drew a 2D and 3D rectangle. We had some fun doing that. Tomorrow the seniors have interschool athletics and hopefully it won't get canceled (fingers crossed). Next Monday Barbara Kendall is coming to talk to us about what she does............. WIND SURFING! I think that will be great to know about what she does.

16 November

Sam liked the cards we made him and he is feeling a lot better now. Most of us are on to S.R.A cards and there is only about 8 of us who still need to finish off their novels. In one and a half weeks the year seven and eights have intensive which will be good. We get to choose to either go to golf or go to the skate park most of us chose to go to the skate park.

11 November

We are starting a new topic called wise shopping. We will be learning about what to buy being wise especially because it is around Christmas and most of us will be buying presents. We are also making get well cards for a member in our classroom who is in hospital. They are looking great.

9 November

Athletics was an awesome day doing the different activities like shot put, standing jump, vortex, high jump and long jump. There was a couple of records broken. We did another experiment and that was making a tornado in 2 bottles and this one worked. It looked pretty cool. A lot of people are on to painting their masks now and a couple of them are very close to finishing. The people who have finished their novel study are doing S.R.A cards now. Our results for the end of the year maths test was pretty good with most of us getting in the twenties. We also did one of our Star reading test this morning. We are having a good week 5 of term 4.

29 October

Yesterday we did an exciting experiment about rising and falling air. It didn't really turn out to what we thought it would but it was still interesting. We have a couple more experiments to go and today we are doing another one. We have kicked into softball now and we are hoping to learn all the rules to play the game properly. Most of us are ready and excited about athletics next week and hopefully some of us will break some school records (that would be awesome).

21 october

Here are some lovely photos of our class pupils on Ag Day.

This is Briar posing with her cat Cody on Ag Day.	This is Aroha and her cat U.b on Ag Day.

19 October

We have started a new topic called Extreme Weather and we are learning about what weather is. Today we also typed up our term 3 summaries. Some of them are really good. We started athletics yesterday and most people are really enjoying it. Ag Day was really cool and luckily it wasn't raining.

15 October

We are back to school and we are ready for another busy exciting last term. These people came and taught us how to play African drums in the event centre. Today we created all our interesting objects to put on display for Ag Day, they all looked great! Kara Sanson was won of the winners for the Ag Day covers (congratulations). Everyone who has an animal is ready to bring them along and have an awesome day (hopefully it won't be raining). Some of us did baking and they look delcious with the icing and lollies on them. Yesterday we had Miss Robb and we had a lot of fun with her and we started writing our term three Summaries. We also had to tidy the sandpit and make it all nice for long jump.

24 September

It's the last show tonight and we are aiming for a 10 out of 10. Yesterday's show was great and everyone enjoyed it. Today we all moved of desks to where we want. We all reckon Sam and Rico won't last there long! We have heard that some of the rooms had a great time at the air force today. Never mind the weather. This afternoon we are just carrying on with our masks and a game if we are lucky. Everyone have a good holiday and a safe one too.

22 September

Our first production is tonight!! Today we have to have our reviews done about the Rose Noelle and our calendar art. We won't be doing much this week because of production but we are still working hard on what we are doing. Mrs. Merry was telling us all about term 4 so we are very excited. Some things we are doing are athletics, Ag Day, year 7 and 8 intensive and social (disco).

18 September

For half of the day we had Mrs. Laurent. We also started our reviews today about the Rose Noelle. About eight of us have finished our calendar art (they are looking really awesome). Our masks a coming along really well. Three of us are on to painting and they look awesome around the room so far. We are enjoying our last days of term three and we are looking foward to next term, term 4.

16 September

Yesterday we had the Trident open day for the year eight students and today is the Whakatane Highs. For maths we have been doing a little bit of word problems. For language we are doing a review of the story (rose Noelle). Mrs. Merry is reading the Sunwing story the second story of Silverwing. Production tickets are on sale and next week we are in the Little Theatre, it's quite scary.

8 September

Our calendar art is coming along well. We have came to the end of our story of the rose noelle and wrote about what they accomplished and achieved. Yesterday was the twelve minute run, most of us improved and it was a 400m track this time. We raced with all the senior classes so we could challenge each other. Yesterday was also the council meeting about homework. David and Briar came back with some good feedback and ideas. The year eight's got there Trident enrollment packs. The open days are next week. We have started to do our own class production singing. We are really getting into practises now. Our masks are getting there, Bryce has started painting and alot people are onto white paper. For fitness today we had some practise with some softballs. Next term is the house competitions. On Wednesday we have a big production rehearsal practise with songs and dances and everything.On Friday everyone did well entertaining us at the talent quest on room thirteen's deck. The Arabian dancers (Briar, Abbey, Kara Kelsei, Kelsey) managed to get in along with Oliver the joke teller and Savannah the hula hoopiest.

3 September

We have had some fun making circuits with the brain box kits. We made all sorts of fun circuits like sound light and one group made one when you drop water on it, it goes.

24 August

Today we started doing our calendar art. We are getting photos of us and our friends and making them black and white, and changing the brightness and the contrast. We will glue the photos on another peice of paper and then we will weave around the photos. Our next subject for maths is Algebra (which we are all looking forward to). On Friday we didn't get the chance to do our masks so kind lovely Mrs Merry is letting us this afternoon. We had fun marking our homework, hearing all the different tounge twisters people came up with. I have never had my tongue so twisted saying them!

21 August

Soccer and hockey day was awesome! There weren't any broken bones luckily. The referees were awesome as well. Everyone was worn out from playing soccer and hockey games all day. Today Mrs West is our teacher she was wonderful and we all enjoyed her. With Mrs West we are going to do some interesting art. Today we also had our first talking run through for production. The talent quest for the production is in 2 weeks and we know a couple of groups who are entering it. For our masks some people are just about on to painting. Mrs Merry has hung most of them up on the walls and they will look awesome when they are fully finished.

18 August

This week on Thursday we have hockey and soccer day. The hockey is at Edgecumbe and the soccer is at Awakeri (hopefully there will be no broken bones!). Zac Fretwell, Sam McPherson, Sam Burgess, Kale Young and Bradley are the referees for soccer and Kara and Bryce are the referees for hockey. We are still working hard doing our geometry for maths. For homework we are doing tongue twisters. They are tricky to say. Everyone is up to editing for our Nursery Rhyme movies and some people have already finished.

13 August

We have all been judged for Science fair everyone's was great. Kara Sanson, Briar Walker, Jarrod Hall, Abbey Patterson, Daniel Reeves, Jesse Ingle, Nicci Hamond and David Klein Ovink all went to the Eastern Bay Of Plenty Science Fair in Whakatane. We got the results today of who got something and the prize giving is on Saturday. We have started doing Jump Jam every Friday for a little bit if fitness. Yesterday we had Mrs Bateson and we did a New Zealand Study and we got to create our own New Zealand flags aswell.

30 July

We are busy with our last minute preparations for Science Fair next Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday Morning. The judging is next Thursday.We had our last class with Shirley and Harold yesterday. We have learnt a lot about "keeping a balance". We are reading a new chapter book called Parvana. It is not a true story but what happens in the story can really happen in real life. Our topic is Refugees and we have learnt what a refugee is.

24 July

We are doing skipping for fitness and we are going to do a donation for the Heart Foundation. Today we are doing more on our masks and hopefully everyone will soon be on paper macheing. Science Fair is coming up and everyone has been working hard on them and we are excited to hear the finishing results.
This is some of the poetry we have been doing and these are some poems by Nikki Turpie and Kale Young. (Scroll down, they are under Students Work.)

22 July

Everyone has had a good holiday and zooming back into hard work. This term is a busy one with production,Ag Day and science fair. Photos were today (I have never seen the boys so tidy) and everyone look rather nice.Our new topic in Te reo is Nga Tae (colours) and we started writing all the colours in maori that we knew of. Last term Imentioned that we will doing poetry well we started writing out a poem about something est like smallest curliest and so on. We will be able to share some soon when they are done. In our topic we are learning about Refugees. We learnt what is one, and a paragraph about it in our books.We havent got manual this term but we will return next. Everyone has got a new seat and Mrs Merry hasnt had to move anyone yet hopefully she wont have to. For our fitness we have done some skipping learning all sorts of tricky moves with the rope. This term we also have jump jam. Usally in the morning our student teachers practise to learn the steps to teach the whole class and others. Yesterday we had life education and we are learning about keeping a balance. Everyone is working hard on our masks every Friday. There are still a couple of groups that still have to finish their Nursery Rhyme films.

29 June

We are all working hard on our masks, some people are already up to paper macheing. We have learnt how to use the program Excel. The program helped us to learn how to make graphs for science fair. For maths we have been doing relative frequency graphs. Good luck to the runners who are going to Manawahe. I hope the weather is fine (fingers crossed). The reward afternoon is on Friday and I hope it turns out well.

25 June

The dance troop girls were so excited because at their competition they got third (celebration). We did our exciting experiment today so it could help us learn what to do with our science fair projects that we are all working hard on. The results for the experiment were great.

24 June

It was good writing our term 2 summary. It reminded us all the cool things we did this term. We finished our topic on firewise and have learnt lots from it. We are finishing our non-fiction reading and we are now on to poetry. We are doing a bit of fair testing as a class to help us with science fair, our question is HOW CAN I INCREASE THE SPEED OF INFLATING A BALLOON USING BAKING SODA AND VINGEAR? Mrs Merry is showing us and then tommorow we will do it ourselves. Tomorrow is a big day for some of our class mates, the dance troop competiton and production auditions, I hope evryone has learnt their lines.

17 June

Its been a busy couple of weeks. We are doing activities on Firewise - keeping ourselves safe in a fire and making and planning evacuation plans. Thankfully speeches are over and we are on to semi finals. Congratulations to the people who got in. We are getting HEAPS of Nursery Rhyme books finished and they are looking BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! We have been doing a couple of Astle test unfortunately but I know deep down people enjoy them. We have started our mask making and we are coming along very well. Abbey rocks at rolling paper and Rico's are as hard as rock. The Manawahe team is training outside at 12 o,clock when its fine. Good luck to you guys.

8 June

This week we have kicked into speeches. We had six nervous people today. Shana was up first followed by Nikki, Emily, Sam McP, Briar and David. Mrs Merry wants our Nursery Rhyme books finished this week so everyone is working hard to get them all done. On Thursday we are going to Grease. It will be good for the seniors because we have production after. We have been learning about firewise at the moment in the computer suite. We have played activities and looked at a couple of film strips. Manawahe training started today getting prepared for those big hills. Carrie has moved somewhere near Egypt and she will be very missed. Abbey and Mikeala have done some beautiful writing about cross country..........

Yes it was cross country yesterday. I woke up all refreshed and ready to win my race. When I arrived at school I was so nervous but I was excited all at the same time. Before I knew it, it was my race. I lined up at the starting line with a knot in my stomach, Ready, set, GO and off banged the clappers. I raced around the goal post taking the lead but I was passing myself. I ran across the concrete and out on to the road, by then I was a bit tired. I had Kelsey Haddock chasing me most of the way. When I got closer to the school I started to run faster to win the race. My heart was pounding,my legs felt like jelly and the crowd was cheering and clapping when I thankfully reached the finish line. I won my race I was really really proud of myself.
Abbey Patterson.

WOW "what a day!" We had cross country and I was that excited that my heart couldn't stop pounding "BANG" the clappers go off and I cruise slowly around the track. I go through the track, Pass the road through the gate, and over the tables. I was in the 4th place and Emily Graham was ahead of me and i couldn't catch up. She had already crossed the finish line and i was close to it too. I was a few steps away from the finish line looking around. I hear clapping and cheering and Mr Sheather banging the clappers. My heart was pounding. I was so proud. That was the best cross country I've ever ran.
Mikeala Pinkerton

These mountain bikers are getting ready to go through the slippery muddy wet track. There are some big puddles guys. Watch out you don't get stuck!	Nervously leaning back ready to go down the abseiling wall.
123 leap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Aroha shoots for the bulls eye while Shana watches, cheering Aroha on, waiting for her turn.

Check out more of our camp photos here They are cool!

25 May

Camp was a blast but it's good to be back at school. Even though it was SNOWING, it was awesome. Some people were like Robin Hood in Archery and I did hear some screams on that flying Fox. Mountain biking was wet and slippery with big puddles. Abseiling was scary but we had a beautiful view and High ropes was................HIGH. The meals were different but delicious. Everyone had nice QUIET sleeps but I don't know about that sleep talking Emily. The parents were a great help and really pushed us to reach our goals. The skits were funny and entertaining, We got to meet Hannah Montanna, aye Jarrod!
The technology challenge was cool. We had to make a container to put an egg in and the egg couldn't break. You had to drop it from the deck up in the school room, most went SPLAT. Now that camp's over and the stress is over, it's back to normal work. YES ROOM 12 THAT MEANS MATHS. Also that means back to cross country training. We have 2 Nursery Rhyme books finished. You can look under students work below and see some of our Nursery Rhymes.

Daniel has gone back to the seventies as he acts a character in someones Nursery rhyme.	Zac I have told you once before those puppy dog eyes don"t work.

29 April

YES Mr Hawkes some news. Anyway I'm sure everyone had a great holiday and ready for another busy term. We are getting right into camp work we are all going to try our best to work as a team and achieve our goals. We are in brand new seats so we are sitting next to someone new. It will give us a chance to get to know everyone. Some groups have started filming their Nursery Rhymes. Carrie's group is editing which is fantastic. Everyone is still working on their books. We are reading a new book called Silver wing, it's about bats.
Soccer has started so winter has arrived. Everyone is getting ready for Cross Crountry this term. I see heaps of classes practising. We wrote our term summary looking back what we did last term. Also today we did our number post-test, we all hope it went well. Next week I will get some Nursery Rhymes to share.

Holly looks like she is enjoying cream pieing Nikkis face.	Oink Oink says Sam as he acts like his twin.

27 March

We are starting our new Maori lesson which is Te Whanau (family).We got our homework on Monday. We had to do a mini study on the Dead Sea. It was so interesting and we learnt heaps. It is 28% salt and you can't drown, also nothing lives in the Dead Sea.

24 March

Man what a weekend. I think everyone had a great time at Top School and our cheerleaders and our team were fantastic. I feel sorry for the cheerleaders' voices cause I know they cheered extremely well. NO MORE SWIMMING it's getting colder in the mornings now. We are doing runs everyday to practise for the 12 minute run. Room 14 went to camp today, finally some peace and quiet! Our nusery rhymes are coming along well can't wait to hear them. We are getting prepared for interschool touch day and captains have picked their teams. We have finished our Ohiwa Study and got a books back. Mrs Merry gave us a mark. Well done Carrie! We are starting our NEW topic which is famous New Zealanders.

17 March

The Ohiwa Harbour trip was great. We learnt lots and really got a good look at mangroves and saw an oyster growing on one. We are half-way through Chinese Cinderella and everyone is excited to see what happens at the end. The pool is getting really cold and not many people are swimming.We are also starting to write our own Nursery Rhymes. Maybe we will share some when we are finished. The Top School team must be getting nervous. GOOD LUCK FOR SUNDAY.

24 Feb

We are just starting our new Topic- Estuary mangrove study. Soon we will be going to Ohiwa Harbour to have a closer look at mangroves and other creatures. We are also reading Chinese Cinderella. It's a great story and its based on a true story. On Tuesdays we are going to Mr Sheather's room for some drama lessons. We are getting prepared for Tui Ridge. It's near Rotorua.

12 Feb

The website monitors for this year are (drum roll please) BRIAR AND ABBEY.We have been doing art. We started with finger painting flowers where we could use our imagination and go crazy with our fingers. They are up on our wall and they look fantastic.We also did a Me collage where we had to tell people about our family, hobbies and where we live.We have also started Spanish and in Te Reo we are learning our Mihi. We have three NEW students: Sophie, Elise and Amber.

24th July Poetry

The softest thing in the world

The softest thing in the world is my little cat
She is soft like a pillow
She is colourful like the rainbow
She feels like polarflece
She tastes like fur
She sounds like a little mouse
She purs like a chainsaw
She sleeps like sleeping beauty
By Kale Young

Me

My Hair is like a million fluffy strands of shiney, golden string
My eyes are like beautiful blue gems shining in the light of the sun
My mouth is like a jack-in-the-box ready to spring open and talk on about nothing
I live in a ginger bread house filled with lollies
and I eat anything but vegetables
By Nikki Turpie

18th May

Here's some Nursery Rhymes.

Ding dong dave, Pussy in the cave, I pick up pussy he eats a bee and scratchs me, I'm running through the farm, With blood on my arm, I hit a tree, And fell asleep, A hundred years later, I feel much better, I look up and see a walking tree, How can that be, The people in town are robots, That eat pots, I think I'm going mad, I want to see my mum and dad, What's happened to me, I feel dizzy, I need to go home, I cant handle this day, I run into another tree, And fell asleep Were have I gone, Oh look I am hone and there is don. BY Sophie H

Peter Peter Pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her, Put her in a pumpkin shell , And there he kept her very well. Peter Peter saw a cow, But he was really wondering how, I've never seen a cow befor, But as he said this he slipped on an apple core. Peter's mum was furiour, But Peter was delirious, Mum Mum I saw a cow, But Peters mum said go to bed NOW!! Peter Peter went straight to bed, But on the way he tripped over big ted, Big ted went OW!!, Peter flew staight into bed. Peter Peter tied to go to sleep, Peter Peter Had to weep, SHUT UP! you creep said Peters mum, MUm I can't go to sleep because your banging on the drum!!!, Peter Peter finally stopped the weep, Then suddenly he drifted off to sleep, Peter Peter had a very amusing day, But hey it's still only May!!!!!!! BY Jarrod H

Pussy cat Pussy cat where have you been?? I've been toLondon to vist the Queen, Pussy cat Pussy cat what did you do there??, I frightened a little mouse under her chair. It ran up her skirt, She went berserk, She booted me out the door, And now my tail is very sore. Pussy cat Pussy cat are you all right, I hope you didn't put up a fight, Well it was sooo hard to resist, So I tripped her up and she broke her wrist. Pussy cat Pussy cat why were you so mean, I thought you were the nicest cat I've ever seen, I really do try to be nice, Well maybe once or twice. I just can't help myself, Like that time on May the 12th, When Jonhy Macow Stood on my paw. So we climbed into the boxind ring, Oh Pussy cat Pussy cat I don't want to hear this thing, Pussy cat Pussy cat please do stop, I don't want to listen talk to the mop. Okay mop now listen here, That Johny Macow shot my ear, So I had to go and see the doctor, I flew there in a helicoptor. The doctor said I'll fix you're ear, But just promise me you won't get into another fight, So he sent me home. But there was nothing to do cause I was all alone, So I curled up in my bed, And went to sleep instead. BY Holly D

21 October

Welcome to term 4 a very busy term. The children did very well with their exhibits for Ag Day and the hall looked great.We have an exciting term with athletics, year 7 and 8 intensive and the fancy dress and disco. Its hard to believe that the year 8's are nearly off to high school I'm sure they are looking forward to it.
Athletics is looking really good with maybe a few records going to be broken, the children are pretty determined to try their hardest.
Room 12's masks are nearly completed and the classroom is really livening up with big shapes and bright colours.
I would like to say a big congratulations all those children in the production, it was Awesome!!!!! Have a great term everyone.

16 March

We are well into the first term with room 12 working to a high standard. Room 12 has 30 childeren with a mixture of year 7's and 8's. We have already completed a 'fun raiser' where we made up a business groups' to sell a product or run an activity. Everyone worked very hard and even though the weather wasn't kind to us we had a great day.
The children have produced some great art already and are working towards having a multi-media picture of a group of friends from our class completed shortly. The Estuary study at Ohiwa Harbour was very interesting and everyone learned a lot about mangroves.
Keep up the good work Room 12 you have made a good start to the year.

Mrs Merry our teacher is about to do Abseling feeling proud and brave and thinking postitive.

Now we are Room 12. Have a look at last year's page 2008. We used to be called Room 10. Room 10 had cool pages in 2007, 2006 and 2005 as well. Have a look!