Awakeri School Room 12 in 2006

Awakeri School

Room 12 in 2006!

Who are we?
We are an amazing super intelligent class with 31 children with one weird looking child in our class. (How else do you describe Mr. Hawkes. Hahahahaha) He even has his own teacher's message at the bottom of the page. Any way we are a well balanced class with year 7 and 8 boys and girls. There is a photo of our class below with more details about our cool class.

This is a picture of our awesome, handsome, fantastic, pretty (we're not talking about the teacher) intelligent, talented, unique and funny class. Isn't it wonderful. This photo was taken on the 23rd August 2006 during maths time. While we were drawing 3D objects. That may explain why people are walking around with blocks in their hands and with them on their desks. So thats a little about our class we hope you get the idea of how wonderful we are.
Kate and Selena are not in this picture, as they took it. Mr. Hawkes is also not in this picture that's why it's so good.

Class News
18th December 2006
Yah it's almost the end of school!!!!
Tomorrow we are watching our movie (Don't Answer the Phone) with room 11 and 10. Check out photos of making our movie.

15th December 2006
On Tuesday we played padder tennis with Mrs. Shaw. These people ended up getting to the finals. For the girls it is Jones (Asher) and Matthews (Kere) as one pair and Whitaker (Rhona) and Shaw (Selena) for the other pair. For the boys it is Etter (Stefan) and Brown (Matthew) as one pair and Christensen (Alex) and Glassbrook (Stephen) for the other pair. We are going out for the finals at 10am.
Also Mr. Hawkes has got a hair cut I repeat Mr. Hawkes has got a hair cut. He got it down at the Kopeopeo barber for $10.
Anyway back to class news.
This afternoon we are finishing off our magazines and the Mr. Hawkes will be doing his radio broadcast while we are doing our magazines.

13th December 2006
Yesterday in class we had 3 radio broadcasts (again) Rhys's, Kate's and Selena's. Today are our final 3 radio broadcasts Pawanpreet, Jayden and David.
Also there are some cool masks in students work. Scroll down and have a look.

11th December 2006
Today in class we are finishing off our masks with the designs of Paul Klee painted on top. If you would like to see how to make one of these awesome masks click here. Today was also our last day of manual (technology) for the year.
On Friday we had our first look at the movie!! It will need quite a bit of editing, since a certain camera person accidentally pressed the record button in a rehearsal last Tuesday, and then turned the camera off for each proper take of each scene! Woops! Still she has lots of rehearsals to choose from!
"Day after day I'm more confused, my name is _ _ _ _ _"

8th December 2006
Well today we have MORE radio broadcasts. Yesterday we had padder tennis with Mrs. Shaw instead of softball. 2 days ago we beat room 11 girls and our boys beat their boys too. Since we're girls we don't know their score and when we asked Mr. Hawkes he didn't know either, even though he refereed the match Shocking really. This afternoon we are doing music which means MR. Hawkes will be singing Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!!! He's not that bad at least he knows how to play the guitar.
For Maori at the moment we are learning the months of the year in Maori of course. If you want to see what we are trying to learn scroll down to students work and check them out!!! Also we are learning the days of the week!!

5th December 2006
Ahhh!!! Today we stared Folk Dancing!
We only practised one dance though. Tomorrow we are going through it twice,
But it wasn't really that bad. Most people actually enjoyed it!!
Today we have 4 more radio broadcasts by Rhona, Renee, Asher and Marie-Louise.
This afternoon we are playing softball with room 10, the girls in room 12 will be versing the room 10 girls and same with the boys.
Want to have a look at a radio broadcast? Here's Emma's one.

29th November 2006
Click here to see some cool photos of our stars in action from the movie.
Dont Answer The Phone. Also check in students work to see some radio broadcasts.Today we have Amanda , Emma and Edward for radio broadcasts. Also we have started making magazines. We have also started jump jam again which we have been doing every morning after maths. Here are some things that were said in them:
There was Eddie's horse race. Brown, Etter, Butler, Hawkes etc. were in it and Etter came out with the win, with Mower 30 seconds behind the winner, coming in last place. He interviewed Renee about the race and she said that she came last but was proud (she had bet on a horse).
This is only a few of the things that was on Edward's broadcast check more out each day we will be telling you about them.

28th November 2006
Today we are also doing our radio broadcasts and Stefan, Shuani and Miles have done theirs. With Shauni's one Matthew Brown was dancing to the music everyone was in tears of laughter!!!
Today we filmed some very interesting scenes for the movie. We filmed the S.S (super snoopers) flying we saw the evil but oh so beautiful witch and we saw Kate in a dress!!!!

23rd November 2006
Yesterday we started filming Rhona's movie Don't Answer the Phone... Today Jayden drove Mr Hawkes's car for the kidnap scene. The boy super snoopers had to bare their chests for their scene. Meron was grateful she is a girl!
Meanwhile in class today we have people doing radio broadcasts. Stephen went first and used a Scottish accent to impersonate Sir Alex Fergusson, the Man United coach. Toady we had Alex, Cameron and Matthew O. Cameron had a competition on his broadcast and some people got suckied into thinking it was for real!

16th November 2006
Welcome back fans of room 12 page. I've got bad news and good news. We'll lets start with the good news. We have just came back from the marae stay. We all had a wicked time. Bad news is Mr. Hawkes is staying there for the whole week. Other news is Mrs. Parker teaching us. The final news is Selena, one of the website monitors for this page, has left me (Kate) and gone off to Fiji (for two weeks) and I have to do website all by myself. So I'll try to make this enjoyable to read.

8th November 2006
We have a fun and a boring day today. We have cool spelling tests and boring radio broadcasts. Actually its more like the other way around. This is amount of people in the class that prefer to do spelling test instead of radio broadcast=
4 out of 31 people prefer to do spelling tests. Anyway in class today we are going over the marae stay, doing maths, writing our self assessments and radio broadcast the rest of the day is like everyday. Getting back to the marae stay this is what's happening on Tuesday morning we go to the marae with rooms 5 and 6 where we get welcomed into marae. After that we are staying the night and will be welcoming room 11, room 7 and room 8 onto the Marae. Hopefully everyone will have a great time.

1st November 2006
Yesterday we had Athletics for middle and senior school. Here are some of the people in our class that have broken a record this year:

Kere Matthews	11 year old Girls	Long jump	3.90m
Selena Shaw	13 year old Girls	Standing jump	2.18m

and these are some of the people that came first but didn't beat the record:

David Ernest	Shot put, Standing jump, Discus
Danielle Le Lievre	Standing jump, 1500m run
Stefan Etter	Long jump
Matthew Orr-Mckeown	Vortex
Selena Shaw	Long jump

So as you can see we are very proud of our class.
Scroll down and check out some cool photos of our athletes in students work.
Tomorrow we have the high jump for 12 and 13 year olds.

30th October 2006
Today is Monday so you know what that means. Yes you were right, the other half of room 12 went to manual while the rest of us stayed at school with Mrs. Parker. Today we had to do some problem solving which really got our brains Thinking. But you probably Don't want to know about what we did for maths, you probably want to know about what happening tomorrow. Well tomorrow is the senior and middle school athletics. Where our four school houses (Rata-Red , Rimu-Green , Tawa-Blue and Kowhai-Yellow) compete in field events (shot-put, discus, long jump , stand and jump, vortex and high jump) Then on Friday the whole school has the track events.

27th October 2006
It was really strange today in current events we started talking about fireworks and people were telling stories about what has happened other years from hedges catching on fire at orchards and fireworks being made into bombs. Loads of people were talking
about fireworks going into peoples faces.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Our teacher celebrates his birthday today. He is now 21 (yeah right, he wishes!!!) anyway getting back to the subject, it was really weird because we were meant to be talking about current events not ones that were about 5 years ago.

25th October 2006
We have finally finished our stories and we had three great stories that went into the finals. Rhona, Rhys and Meron were our 3 finalists and Rhona just won with a few more votes then the others. So Rhona is going to be making her story into a movie. She has got together some people that are going to turn it into a script, they are Rhona, Marie-Lousie, Meron, Rhys and Alex.
This morning we went out side and everyone jumped two jumps for long jump. Stefan got the furthest with 4.01 meters. We are going to be finding out what the average jump is for our class, what's the range, what is the average jump for the year 7 girls, and so on.(We are doing that for maths).
Today we started practising for the sprints for athletics. We went out with room 10 and 11. We practised giving the batons to each other for the relays and we did some sprinting. (200 metres) Then we got some teams together of 1 year 8 girl and 1 year 8 boy, 1 year 7 girl and one year 7 boy for each class. Room 12 wasted the other two classes!!!!

17 October Today we are finishing off our stories that we are going to make into a movie.
On Thursday we have a test for the guitar. We have to play a song to Mr. Hawkes we also have to SING it. We are also practising for athletics.
For math's at the moment we are doing algebra. Which is number patterns and things like that. We have to work out things like what is 3M to the power of 2 - 3 = 72. We have to work out what M stands for.

10 October 2006 Today we made some cool technic lego gadgets with Mr Sheather. Scroll down to see some photos. We also have to choose a song to play on the guitar for next week. Everyone will be practising hard. We are also going to be writing a story to turn into a movie. Today we looked at last year's cool Atishoo movie.

19th September 2006
Today we are starting our rate builders for S.R.A. For maths at the moment we are doing the perimeter and area of shapes. Some people find it easy and others find it quite difficult. Right now we are learning the days of the weeks in Maori. Yesterday everyone in Middle and Senior school went to the little theatre to practice for tonight, tomorrow and on Thursday night. Remember the tickets are on sale at the school office. Children are $4 and adults are $8.

12th September 2006
Yesterday the other half of room 12 that doesn't go to manual finished off their paintings for Robyn Hood. Check them out in students work.
Also Matthew Orr has died his hair BLONDE. There is a photo of him with his painting and cool new hair doo in students work.

7th September 2006
Yesterday we had Mrs. Parker all day. We made 3D shapes. It took us all day. What we had to do: first we had to get a small plan of the object we were making. Then we got a big piece of cardboard and we had to enlarge the shape 3x its normal size. One of the shapes had 4 parts to it. It was tricky. After we had drawn the shape onto the piece of paper we had to cut it out and colour them in. After we had coloured them in we put them together with cellertape.
In our class with Mr. Hawkes today we have diary, maths, Te Reo and current events until 11.00 and then we have production for the rest of the day. Hopefully everyone has learnt their lines for production. For art we have been doing our calendar art. we had to get a picture from the Internet and copy it onto a piece of A4 paper. We have to do it in an artists style. Also in class were making poster about our school production (Roybn Hood outlaw princess).Tickets are for sale from tomorrow at our school office. $8 per Adult $4 per child. For Tuesday and Thursday night. It should be a excited show. Also in class we have 242 yummy stickers so we're still in it. Also on Tuesday we learnt another two cords on the guitar we learnt D7 and E so now we know D,A7,G,A,C,D7 and E.

31st August 2006
Today our Robyn hood celebrates her birthday(Asher Jones). She is now a Teenager.
This morning in class we have been looking at how many litres go into a litre and how many grams go into a kg and so on This afternoon we have production practice again and I think we're meant to know our lines. Yesterday for maths we had to do a maths test. In the test we had to draw 3d shapes and draw objects. We had to rotate them and reflect them. And some good news we have now got 147 yummy stickers on our chart, while room 11 has about 500. At least we're not losing. This morning we also played a very weird maths game. You had to try and guess a number that the teacher had wrote down. It was challenging.

23 August 2006
Congratulations Mrs. Bateson. She is now a proud mother of little baby named
Joseph.(For those who don't know Mrs. Bateson, she used to teach half of room 12 when the other half went to manual) We know her baby will grow up healthy and strong, ready to play netball. Just like her.
Any way in our class we learnt to new chords on the guitar which are C and A. At the moment we are doing S.R.A and in about 20 mins we will being going to room 11 to do basketball while room 11 is coming into our class to do music with Mr. Hawkes.
At the moment we have 110 yummy stickers on our chart. We are very proud.

22nd August 2006
Lately in class we have been studying artists. We have been going onto Encarta and looking up artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, John Singer and so on. For maths we have been drawing shapes on a number plane and we are just starting to draw 3D objects. We are now starting to do jump jam every Friday and Tuesday. Today we learnt a new dance (Reach For The Stars).
Also there are some photos of our shark projects that we made a while ago in students work. They look really cool. There is also a story done by Harry Cotter in students work. It is great.

14th August 2006
Today we have Mrs. Parker again. This morning we played math's games and we had to solve some problems. This afternoon we are continuing with our art. Also this afternoon we have P.E.

9th August 2006
On Friday night Jayden Haddock was playing hockey, he was going in to get the ball off someone when the ball jumped up and hit his eye. He screamed and fell to the ground in pain. This is what happened from his point of view: On Friday last week I was playing hockey against Whakatane Intermediate boys. There was this boy that had the ball and he hit it in front of him. So I ran to get the ball. Then he ran and he got it. We were wrestling it out then he put his stick out on a angle and then the ball hit me above the eye. I dropped to the ground and I think I got knocked out. I couldn't remember what happened . I could only remember blood all over my arm. I stayed off for the rest of the game. The next morning I couldn't see and it was black and blue.
If you want to see a photo of Jayden's black eye, scroll down to students' work. Trust us it looks painful. Anyway to change the subject, in class at the moment we are reflecting and rotating shapes. We are still doing S.R.A and Te Reo. We are now learning the colours for Te Reo. Also another strange thing. Jayden collects the new 20 cent coins. He has 60 of them worth $12 and another strange thing David's chair lives no more! For funny photos, look in students' work.

4th August 2006
Today we have Mrs. Shaw.
This morning we had jump jam with room 11 and 10 in the complex we went over the dances that we had already learnt.
Between play lunch and lunch time we are going to be writing stories.
On Wednesday we had Miss Barlow. We made some pictures of a machine that would make something or a dream car of a house for a cat. After we finished some of us showed the class. She read us a story called granddads gift by Paul Jennings but we wont tell you about it because we don't want to spoil the surprise. We also listened to the wolfs side of the three little pigs. Then we pretended that we were the characters for the story while the rest of the class asked us questions. We had to answer them how we thought the wolf would answer them.
Yesterday afternoon we had powerpoint sharing in the library. Some people had finished some people hadn't. When we went back to class we had to fill in an evaluation about how well we did our power point. We had to answer questions like did you cover the criteria, who's powerpoint apart from your own covered the criteria e.c.t.
Also well done to Stephen for coming first in science for science fair, Jayden for coming third in the projects and Rhys cram for coming third = in technology with Chris who's in room 10 and Renee for coming 2nd in projects.

1st August 2006
Yesterday half of room 12 had Miss Bryson. We made different stories from the actual 3 little bears. After we finish them we're going to make them into a book. At manual the other half of the class is making puppets. In the computer suite we have been learning how to use logo which is a computer programing language. Also the science fair interviews are today. Everyone is so scared.

28th July 2006
Today we have Mrs. Shaw, who is taking over room 11 when Miss Isaac leaves. This morning we played bola maths with her and we went out and done some fitness.
Yesterday when we had Mr. Hawkes we learnt how to play a new cord on the guitar and with Mr. Sheather we made leavers and finished off our camp power points. For art we are still drawing portaits of people in our class. instead of drawing the whole body we are now drawing half of the body (the top half).

26th July 2006
On Monday half of room 12 made play dough for the little kids. We had to design a label for them and actually make the play dough. We could choose out of three colours blue, red and green for our play dough, meanwhile the other half of our class was at Edgecumbe College making beanies and pizza and rings. This afternoon we are doing volleyball with Miss Isaac. Look in students work for some photos of our cool play dough.

18th July 2006
Welcome back to a new term but we have some very sad news. Mrs. Bateson is leaving next week because maternity calls. In class we are starting geometry and for art we are starting self portraits. Last term half of the class went to manual and the other stayed at school the half that stayed at school made rock creatures with Mrs. Bateson. Thank you Mrs. Bateson for teaching us we will miss you.

29th June 2006
Our very own Danny Le Lievre is senior girls interschool cross country champ. She won by about 300 metres!
Yesterday lots of us auditioned to try and get a part in the musical Robyn Hood Warrior Princess. We should hear today or tomorrow, or maybe we won't, "Don't call us we'll call you," Mr Fitz said.

23rd June 2006
We have a winner Rhona Whitaker from room 12 of course won the speech finals.
She was marvelous, she was outstanding, she was wonderful but so was everyone else.
In class at the moment we have been doing our soccer world cup studies (s.w.c). We also had someone else in our class that did very well in the finals it was Marie-Louise. She came second, But we cant forget about Meron she also did very well. Today we are starting S.R.A. which is a reading activity. We are also publishing our favourite poems from some books that we have been reading over the last few weeks.

14th May 2006
Today we found out who was in the semi finals from our class for the speeches, we have
Lousie Barkema, Harry Cotter, Meron Mc Cardle, Rhona Whitaker and Kate Eggleton
So good luck guys. We all wish you the best in the semi final.
funny fact
Today we were saying the names of objects in the class in Te Reo and Mr. Hawkes asked Meron what is the word for computer. The right word was rorohiko which actually means electronic brain and Meron said rorokea which means bird brain. It was so funny for everyone but Meron!

13th May 2006
On Friday we had Mrs. Bateson. We did some work on tsunamis and then we made some posters about what you should and shouldn't do if a tsunami comes. We talked about how they were made and we read a story and a man named Jesse who had survived a tsunami before. When we finished our posters we put them up on the board and people voted for the best one. They couldn't vote for themselves though.
Today we had the last lot of our speeches. We also had a Te Reo post and pre test. It was hard. Most people didn't know much.
We have also started a new story called Pooh Bear. Now you may be thinking Pooh Bear for the most intelligent and wonderful class but hey you can't
argue with the teacher!
We have also started to think about science fair.
On Thursday we are going to the fantastic festival. We are seeing two people an author and a story teller. The semi finals for the speeches are on Thursday and Friday. We are finding out who is in the semi tomorrow morning.

8th May 2006
Yesterday we had happy country according to Mr. Hawkes It is normally called cross country. 3 out of four people won the races in our class. They were Jayden for the 10 and 11 year old boys, Danielle for the the 12 and 13 year old girls and David won the 12 and 13 year old boys. Kymberly from room 7 for the 10 and 11 year old girls.
We have also started our speeches. We listened to 10 people yesterday and we are just about going to listen to 10 people this morning. We are also starting to talk about science fair.
Last week we were making up plays using sentences we learnt in Te Reo.
Last week half of room 12 also brought home some beanies and some boats made out of metal. We are also studying the soccer (I mean football) world cup. We all drew a country out of a hat and what ever country we got we had to study. Just about everyone in the whole class wanted to get Brazil. It went around the whole class and guess who got it? Yep you were right Mr. Hawkes!
funny fact (new idea)
We have found someone in the class that has a weird talent. Harry Cotter can do the Mexican wave with his eye brows!

29th May 2006
Well the sports day and the carpet laying were mini disasters, with our players getting sent home from the sports venues because the organisers cancelled it late, then the carpet layer didn't get finished so we had two days out of our room instead of one. Now some of the carpet is falling off the bottom of the walls.
Shauni said to Mrs Merry this morning, "Our carpet doesn't smell as much our your room's does."
Mrs Merry replied, "That's because you didn't have as much glue!!!"

24th May 2006
Today our class voted for two people in our class to represent our class at school and enviro council. Stephen and Louise are our Enviro reps and Rhona and Selena are on the school council.

19th May 2006
Today Kate showed the class her play. She got some people together and they helped her make the play possible. It is about a class of four children that go to the beach and they go on a boat and something terrible happens. Sam (Kate) falls into the water and a dolphin (Danielle) saves her. They then see the dolphin giving birth. The cast is going to do it at a assembly today at 12 noon.

12th May 2006
Today we played versibility. Mr. Hawkes read us 3 lines from a poem and we had to write what we thought the next line would be. We had some very weird results. Everyone was laughing at at least one of them.

11th May 2006
Today Mrs. Bateson took us. We all paired up with each other and we had to do an egg project. It was really strange. After we had finished it we had to show it to the class. We had to make up a song, a poem and a cartoon character. The character had to have a message about eggs. At the moment Mr. Hawkes is reading us a book called Night John.

9th May 2006
Today we voted places in the school that needed improvement. The playground field and the bark on the playground were voted the most.

1st May 06
Today Mr Hawkes got an email from Jenny Eather in Australia who developed the excellent on-line Maths Dictionary that we are having fun using. Mr Hawkes had sent her an email saying how good the dictionary was.
This is what she said:
Just paid a quick visit to Room 12 and the amazing super intelligent class with 31 children.
Speaking of making maps you might like to check out the maps on my new Rainforest maths page at:
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/rainforestmaths/RFMG/RFMG.html
Have just spent 3 weeks in NZ - south then north islands - great holiday!! We missed Awakeri because we went from Rotorua through to Tauranga then west. Am busy now editing videos from our trip. Kia ora to the best room in the best school in Aotearoa!!
If you want to try the dictionary click here. There are loads of cool activities.

26th April 06
Today we're back with a new term and a marvellous teacher Mr. Hawkes (not) This morning we did a fun maths test (not) for statistics.
On the last week of term 1 we made Christmas stamps with Mrs. Bateson and the 5 best ones were sent in to a draw to win $500 for your self and $1500 for your school. Your stamp would also be made into a real stamp and would be posted out world wide.

31st March 06
Yesterday we went to Otarawairere to study the rock pools, animals and the plants. We had to fill in some worksheets about the animals and plants that we saw in the high and low tide pools. At the end of the day we went for a swim. That was everyone's favourite part.Check out the cool photos of the trip.
Selena is back from watching the commonwealth games live in Melbourne. .

6th March 06
We had a great time at camp. Everyone was enjoying themselves. Some people even did the ultra high which was 11m high. Mr. Hawkes is too chicken to do it. It was amazing to see that some adults were jumping from it. Most of the time we had great weather apart from the last day. For photos of Blair Lodge Camp 2006
click here

Students' Work

Days of the week
Mane, Turei, Wenerei
Ko nga ra o te wiki enei
Taite, Paraire, Hatarei
Ko nga ra o te wiki enei
Ra Horoi, Ra Tapu
Ko nga ra o te wiki enei.

Months
Hanuere, Pepuere, Maihe, Aperira
Nga marama o te tau enei
Mei, Hune, Hurae clap Akuhata
Nga marama o te tau enei
Hepetema, Oketopa
Nga marama o te tau enei
Noema, Tihema
Nga marama o te tau enei


Here is Amanda doing her radio broadcast to the class.	Everyone thought that Emma's broadcast was so FUNNY!!

This is Harry with his cool mask.	Here is Louises cool purple mask. It looks like she only has one eye!!!

Teacher's Message
Goodbye everyone! It's been a good year, a great bunch of students, lots of fun and achievements. Have a cool holiday. Take on those high schools with enthusiasm year eights! Have a good year as the big fullas of the school year sevens! Thanks to all the parents for their support.
p.s. Selena I'm still looking for someone to try this brain fork out on!
Barrie Hawkes

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Hi we hope you have enjoyed looking at room 12's page. We update it about every 4-5 days or when we get the chance.
Thanks for reading this message
Kate and Selena