Awakeri School

Room 14

Who are we?
We are a class of 20 year 8's and 9 year 7's. We are taught by the fantastic Mr. Hawkes and Miss Robb from England.

Class News

13 may 2008

Today we have Phyllis Johnston coming to our school to talk to us about her life being an author. Just so that we know a bit about her writing we are reading a story that Mr Hawkes owns called 'No One Went To Town'. We are only three chapters through it but so far it has been an awesome story! We have about two or three of Phyllis Johnston's books in our libary and I cant wait to read one of them called Dead Dan's Dee once Shannon M finishes reading it!!

7 May 2008

This term has started of really welll today a few things have happened; 2 adults came to our school yesterday to teach all the kids a few key skills in rugby and toaday we had our turn it was heaps of fun and they way all of us looked afterwards definitely made us look like we enjoyed our-selves which i'm sure we did!! Some of the things we did included running, tackling tackle bags, relays and passing a rugby ball facing different directions. Also today the building men have started building the astro turf and it sounds as if it will be ready some time next term so we are looking forward to that!! Also for the students playing soccer our first soccer games for this season are this saturday!! So goodluck to all of those kids!!

15 April 2008 Today is our last day of manual (tech) until term three. Yesterday we were writing haiku poems. Scroll down to Students' Work to read a couple of really good ones. Mr Hawkes also has a new teacher's message.

10 April 2008
Here are some cool photos of our camp. Hope you enjoy!!!

Also today we are going to start reading our new class book called The house at Pooh Corner. We have read two other books as well. Barney and the Eels and then we moved on to The Fat Man. Both of these books were very New Zealand like, which fitted perfectly in with our New Zealand topic that we are doing but will sadly conclude very soon!!

7 April 2008
Last week room 14 went to camp at Blair Lodge in Katikati. We traveled by car to the camp and settled in. Then we went Orienteering around Katikati. Most of the children ..........Well definitely me... have learnt things that we never knew actually happened!! We had four days at Blair Lodge and three nights. Day 1= Orienteering, Swimming in the river and trivial pursuits in the evening
Day 2=We had a bush walk. We had a treasure hunt in the bush. Some of the things we had to look for were an orb web, young tawa tree and a whole lot more! Then we went to Sapphire Springs we also did some water safety activities. When we got back to camp we did BMX for about an hour, but the thing is - showing off always ends up terrible. Well it still did!! Rory and Ari were told to go round the track once to show us which way to go. Ari went first then Rory followed. As you know BMX has jumps and some are pretty big. Well this one was fairly small and Rory was showing off. He tried to a jump over the lump of dirt and guess what happened........... you guessed it SPLAT!!! Straight into the ground face first! "OUCH" was all we could say plus a few of us were laughing although Rory couldn't hear us! We also played spotlight after a delicious dinner cooked by the parents.
Day 3=We went to the Waihi Museum then to the train station. We took a train ride to Waikino which is were the Victoria Stamper Battery ruins lie. Once we had walked right around there we went back on the train and then we went to the Martha mine. To make matters worse it was pouring with rain!!! But luckily the tour was mostly on the bus!! The tour was absolutely amazing!!!!!!! When we got back to camp we separated into groups and then we all did three activities: air rifles, BMX and archery.Our after dinner activity was mock court it wasnt all that good but hey it was a laugh!! Judge Keno with the help of prosecutor Hancox, henchman Luca and the juries found lots of people guilty!
Last day=We got woken up at 6:45, started packing everything up then had breakfast. We had to go right through our cabins and see if everything was picked up, then vacuum and mop the cabin. By the time we actually left Blair Lodge it was already 9:25. We arrived at Waimarino shortly afterwards. For the beginning of the day till lunch we did shore based activities which involved Ultra High, Dive boards, Slip 'n' Slide,Water slide, Volley ball and also an obstacle course. After lunch we went kayaking out in the river. We had to a few tricks like kneeling in your kayak, standing up in your kayak and also doing a wheelie in your kayak. After we had done that we had relays. We were all separated in to six groups of five. By the time we got back on shore packed everything up and got changed it was well past 3o'clock. We arrived back at school around 4:40 and I am sure everybody was ready to go home and get a good nights rest!!!! Watch out for some cool photos of camp coming tomorrow!
The new website monitor is Brittany and no longer David. He's doing Room 2.

27 March 2008
Last weekend was a five day weekend because of Easter. Also we have our camp Blair Lodge coming up soon next week. We have started to make camp booklets and are just about done. We are on the lookout for BMX bikes for on camp because we want some more. Also soon after camp we have touch day and fund raiser.

14 March 2008
Today room 14 had some fun relays in the pool. They had to find a group of three people and piggyback people across the pool. On Thursday we had Miss Laurent. With her we did we did some face drawings with charcoal. We have some very interesting ones as well.
We are studying how NZ authors bring NZ culture into their writing. Yesterday we wrote a paragraph using some NZ ideas. Scroll down to Students' Work to read them.

10 March 2008
Room 14 has been working on short stories. Eight people have finished them. We have finished our book Barney And The Eels and have started a new book called The Fat Man.

28 Feb 2008
Today 4 more people said the poem most of them finished it. So far we have had five people complete the poem. We have finished our Koru family art and have started some cinquain art.

26 February
Last week we had a cool trip to study the rocky shore at Otarawairere. Check out the photos here. Today we are at tech at Edgecumbe. We also had our first three people recite the poem Te Po this morning. Two passed out of three, so that was pretty good!

15 Feb 2008
Yesterday Mrs Sheather taught us how to copy a template of a shape. We had to make it half the size of the original shape. Today two new kids came from Turkey for a holiday. They wanted to come to Awakeri School for the day, to see what a country school with grass was like!

13 Feb 2008
Back at school again! This year will be exciting we will have a new astro turf and a new class room by the end of the year. We have started some Koru family art with a few more to be done. We have chosen 2 people for the Enviro Group (one was Jesse), and 2 people for the school council (Jarrod and Brittany). We have our swimming on Wednesday Thursday and Friday with library on Monday.


Students' Work

A Lump Of Dirt

On my motorbike speeding around is a lot of fun, unlike the time in Toatoa. I was riding around with my aunt, two uncles, four cousins, my brother, sister and my dad. My aunt was teaching me how to stand up on my bike. As she watched me she shouted, "Lock the bike with your knees Jesse!"
I turned my head around and shouted back,"Like this?"
All of a sudden I flipped over the handle bars onto the ground all because of a small lump of dirt. It didn't hurt but it was the shock that freaked me out.

By Jesse Ingle

NZ Stories
The Game
David Beckham ran onto the field only to find it overgrown with ferns."This is the field!?" he shouted as he stood in a cowpat.
By David Klein Ovink

The Simpsons' vacation
Bart has another vacation to N.Z. because he gets in trouble with the president. He takes a walk in the forest and finds out that the rata tree takes over its victims with its vine body. As he likes this, Bart tries to do the same on Lisa.
By Jesse Ingle

Teacher's Message
The end of term one already!! We had a very successful camp. Well done to everyone for pushing themselves to gets lots out of it. Some of my memories: Solo the kunekune piglet; Shannon doing the ultra ten times; Judge Keno's mock court; the Crazy Lady arguing that the all male jury would not be impartial; Rory's BMX demo; Apanui School singing a song on the Waikino platform, which we all enjoyed; Morgan's klingon tactics in the Sapphire Springs pool; Gino's spaghetti bolognaise; Brittany's long diving board decision; Jacob getting prosecuted for reading the girls' magazines; the eels at Waimarino; getting an April Fools text from Vicki: "We're in Opotiki, are we going the right way!?"; a fun group of parents and students!

Have a good holiday everyone.

Kia ora koutou katoa,
Barrie Hawkes.

Before we became Room 14, we were Room 12 and we had some cool pages in the past too, look at 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 or 2002.