Awakeri School

Room 12

We are in the final term of this year. This term we have 24 students. We still have a mixed class of Yr 7 and 8 students. We have a lot happening this term and we are all excited. It is the final term EVER for the yr 8's at Awakeri School.

15 DECEMBER It is only 1 and a half days until school ends. Tomorrow night is our yr 7 and 8 social. In class today it is our last day for magazines. Some of the mag's are great!!! Have you seen our part in the school magazine? We hope you enjoy it!!! We have been doing some creative songs this after noon. Mr. Hawkes has given out the homework awards. Here are the results:

1ST: Kelly Stanton
2ND:Brodi Muschamp
3RD: Melanie Roberts
And a big thanks to all of the rest of the kids who have done or done most of their homework. Tonight is fancy dress. Be here early (More information on the news page). That's all the news for today.

5 DECEMBER This year will soon be coming to a close. Today is our last day for our people who changed the world unit. The class will present their study to the class in a 30-second speech. We also have today the final four people doing their radio broadcasts. All of the radio bradcasts have been great so far and we hope that these final four will wrap them all up well. We have been making magazines. These mag's have to based on a theme, like books, clothes, etc. Our class and also the rest of the senior school a practising hard out with our fancy dress folk dancing. We're doing the Grape Squashing dance and the Patticake Polka, as well as the Gay Gordons.

21 NOVEMBER Gymnastics today, we started putting together a sequence of five moves on the mat. We also did some interesting vaults over the box. Leonard, Bradley, Luke and Rorey showed their class!

19 NOVEMBER Today is the deadline for making our maths games. Some of maths games are not finished, but they are looking good!!! Most of the class will present their games this morning. We had the decision to make a card game, like BLACK JACK, or a board game like Monopoly. Our class continues to present their radio broadcasts. Some broad casts names are:
99.3- Nemo fm
Pink piggy radio- 33.3 fm
What's on?- 99.3 fm
Hows it go'in- 99.9 fm
Thats all the news for todays folks, click on again to Room 12, Awakeri School website FM!!!

17 NOVEMBER Our class have been working hard on our radio broadcasts. Most of the broadcasts are finished and ready to be presented to the class. Our class is also starting a new study. Each class member will select a person that has made a difference in the world. Our class are looking forward to filming our class movie. We are also making maths games using cards or board games.

14 NOVEMBER Yesterday, our exciting first day's filming of the movie based on Kelly Stanton's story was meant to happen. Unfortunately Mr Hawkes had to spend them day sorting out some behaviour problems, so we have cancelled the filming.
We have been writing radio broadcasts, and on Monday two people will present theirs. The two brave people are Amy and Chaye. Today Neil and Nathan were going to recite their favourite poems at assembly, but we ran out of time. Maybe next week!

3 NOVEMBER Today our class, room 12, are the first class to have the Maturation talk. The maturation talk is an every year health unit taken by the public heath nurse. Room 12 are getting cracking with their short film. The film will last no more than 10 minutes and is an exciting experience for our class. We, and the rest of senior school, are having our fun rasising day this Wednesday. Some stalls on the day will include the following:
Mr & Mrs Awakeri, Fight for life (Wresling), Haunted house, Dress up Modles, Fear factor, Slip 'n' slide, Target shooting, gumboot obstacle course, Apple bobbing, water battle arena, mural painting. Senior school promise the day to be enjoyable and a lot of fun!!!

31 OCTOBER Today our class went on a trip to Norske Skog Tasman paper mill at Kawerau. We went on a tour of most of the factory. We went to the paper part of the factory, but unfortunately we could not go to the pulp part. We went and looked at the lakes at the far back of Tasman. There was a bit of drama trying to find a place for the bus to park, but we won't go into detail about that. Over all it was a great tour.

28 OCTOBER Today is wet, cold and horrible. Our class today, with Miss Pinny, have been yet again working on their inventors projects. Our projects are looking GREAT!!! We are also starting a new art project. We are making small comic strips. So thats our day. Not very big, but oh well.....

20 OCTOBER Today is Monday for all those who think it's Tuesday! Our class today is yet again taught by the excellent Miss Pinny. With Miss Pinny in the past week we have been making Microsoft power point presentations on an inventor of our choice. We have been collecting information about our inventor and transferring that information into sentences on our slide shows. We will be presenting the end results to the class and also be giving a speech on the inventor. So far we have put in a great effort!!!

16 OCTOBER We are underway with an all new term. Some events that are coming up this term involving our class are:
Movie making- Story based on nerds and cool dudes by Kelly Stanton.
Trip to Norske Skog (Tasman)- Trip based for our forestry study.
Athletics- On most days; practise for our athletics day this term.
Maori- Te Taima.
The fm 1&2 intensive- involving rms. 10, 11 & 12.
Fundraising day- involving rms. 10, 11 & 12.
Manual- Glass making.
Fancy Dress- Involving whole school.
We are all looking forward to an exciting and enjoyable last term of this year!!!!!

.Please click here to see our class camp photos.

~ RADIO BROADCASTS ~

Here is Ihipera's radio broadcast poster. Great to see a real kiwi title. (Poster 1)

This is the very pink, as you can see, piggy radio. (Poster 2)

A nice, bright star for Ride it Fm. (Poster 3)

~POSTER KEY~

RECENTLY ROOM 12 WENT FOR A TRIP TO TASMAN. WE LEARNED A WHOLE HEAP OF NEW STUFF . HERE ARE SOME HIGH LIGHTS AND TOPIC WORK FROM OUR TRIP.
WE LEARNED THAT:

Not much of the term left. We look forward to the fancy dress night and the senior social. At the fancy dress, the Year 8s are presented with their leaving certificates. I have to think of something to say about them all. Any suggestions? Bribery acceptable! The school magazine is out and looks really great.

Last Year, Room 12 had a pretty cool page too.Click here for a look.