Awakeri School

Room 14 in 2011

Who are we?

We are Awakeri School's class of the century. Our class is made up of year 7's and 8's ranged in age from 11 to 13 year olds. We all have our very own talents. Some of us are dancers, singers, soccer players and much more. We are a bit of a noisy but friendly and creative bunch. We have a great teacher (so far ) Mr. Hawkes. He is a fan of the Wellington Phoenix and likes music. I think most of the year 8's are looking forward to a great year. So hopefully every one in our class will have an exciting and fun year.

Class news

12th December Unfortunately this is the last lot of news to be put on this page for the rest of the year. We have been reading the novel "holes" and today we plan to start watching the movie. We have all really enjoyed reading the book and i think we will enjoy the movie just as much.We are all looking forward to socail and fancy dress, especailly the gay gordan at fancy dress. We would like to thank Mr. Hawkes for teaching us, we had a great year.

1st December We have been studying radio stations and what they have on them. We had to make our own radio station. The people that have a good enough radio station get to do it in front of the the whole school. Some people used themes such as Sports, Cars and even being normal. Some people told jokes and made times and peoples names up.When we were "broadcasting" we sat in the cloak bay and used a micraphone for words and we had to put the micraphone up to a stereo if we wanted to play songs.

18th November Lately we have been doing technology challenges with Mr. Sheather like on Wednesday we made light houses the class was divided into two groups, then the groups were divided into teams the team that got the highest from the first group was Dylan Hoefsloot and Edgar Smits with 163 centimetres, Then the second group the best team was Ashleigh Dixon, Mekaela Learmond, Daniel Perkinson and Dillon Murray with 174 centimetres. So the record is now 1 metre and 74 centimetres and the two teams with the best scores, each person got a little moro.

An. . .interesting photo of Dillon.	You guys! This is school, you're not meant to be having fun!
Nikoli had better speed up. Jordan has almost caught up to him!	Don't fall asleep, Edgar!

31st October Lately we have had Mrs Broadhurst and we were doing rubbings for art. What you have to do is draw a picture then layer the picture so it looks 3D. Then you put a piece of thin paper over top then rub a crayon on the piece of paper the imprint should come though on the paper.
Lately we have been studying radio stations. We will be making our own radio station in the next few weeks. Today we listened to Mr Hawkes radio station from last year - Faint Radio. He made it after Brad Bateson's incident last year. More will be written about the radio stations later.

6th October Lately we have been studying slavery and we got to write stories about it. Scroll down to Students Work and you can read a few. I hope you enjoy reading them. With our slavery study we have been reading stories about a girl named Sarny. The first book was called Night John and the second, which we are still reading, is called Sarny. We have also been learning about slavery in New Zealand which was when there was Maori Warrior fights the losing tribe would be turned into slaves. We have enjoyed our slave study and I will put some more stuff about it later on.

20th September Jalen is back from his painful holidays after getting his appendix removed. He spent his time off doing nothing because he couldn't do any physical things and he will not be allowed to do any more for another 2 weeks. So boring for him.
Production tonight first show so that should be fun for him to miss, ha ha no he gets to watch us.
On Friday about 13 year nines from Whakatane High School came to our school for some fun maths stuff. So we have something to look forward to next year. Here are photos from it.

14th September Lately we have been doing our calender art we have to think a message and then show it with a picture. They range from "Music can solve all the worlds problems" to "Smiles make the world go round" and most importantly "SOCCER RULES". The Rugby World Cup is quite a big thing for our class considering most of us are ambassadors and we have to find out the scores of our countries games.

6th September Today we have been doing some maths to do with the rugby world cup like finding out who is playing in their first world cup and lots of other cool things. We are just leaving for tech, the boys are finishing their vibrots and girls are making ginger beer, so that will be fun.

30th August Today we had tech it was a lot of fun the boys made vibrating robots and the girls made bread. Also Edgar Smits and Daniel Burgess were left alone... DUN DUN DUN.

29th August Today we have Mrs West, we are doing some fun maths, which involves, making a dice game, Hannah and Katy's was one of the best ones so the whole class played it. We are also writing imaginary conversations, some examples are, Cicada and the tree, the book and the reader, the pen and paper, etc. Tomorrow we have Tech, so far this term we have made: Bread, Butter ambrosia, cheese, ice cream, and vibrating robots!

9th August Today we are doing katsushika hokusai art with Mrs Turner. His drawings usually involve, A mountain that looks like MT Taranaki/Egmont, Japanese houses from the late 1700's, to the early 1800's, canoe/boats, and a few others. Our Science Fair was today and the winners from our class, Technology: 1st: Nikoli, 2nd= Shane and Edgar, Science: 1st Lauren, 2nd Millie and Cara, 3rd Dan.

These are the four amazing students that are unfortunately leaving juring the holidays.	This is our last full class photo with Luisa, Matthew, Grace and Mikayla in it.

11th July This is our last week with four special members of our class. Luisa, Mikayla, Matthew and Grace are all moving away. It will be sad to see them go on Friday. Their new schools will be lucky to get them. We hope they appreciate that! Luisa is an awesome student, creative, artistic, friendly, helpful.... Mikayla is full of enthusiasm, she organized a whole school fund raiser last year for flood victims... Matthew is a really responsible person, who can do a good job of anything.... Grace just loves her music and dance. Good luck to these cool people.

7th July We are nearly finished our Fantasy adventure stories. They are looking really good. Here's a bit of Luisa's story called Slade. If you want to download the whole story, click here.

Chapter 3- Tour of Slade
He turned and walked at quite a speed toward the town centre. It was late in the day and only a few towns’ people mingled in the windows of heated stores. Xavier stood in the city square.
“This is the Slade, a wonderful, magical world of fantasy. It’s like the world that you humans depict in those silly fairy tales of yours. Anyway, this is the land of my forefathers that is now ruled by my selfish father soon to be inherited by myself.” He seemed to lose himself in his description.
“So, are you looking forward to it?” Alaina asked. Xavier returned to reality.
“No. I wish to see the world and not this world, your world and lucky for me you are going to take me there like you promised.”
“On with the tour first.”Alaina said reminding him of the agreement. They continued. They ended the tour by visiting the fruit stands outside the giant flower store.
“This is one of my favourite places in the whole of Slade.” Said Xavier.
“Really? The fruit stand? Are you serious?” Alaina asked.
“It’s not just any fruit stand, it’s the only fruit stand with the special knock-out berries which are great for pulling pranks on your little sisters.”

30th June Just lately we have finished reading The Hobbit story. These are some of our art from the story.

This is Dylan's picture of a spider out of the Hobbit.	This is Edgar's picture of The Hobbit and the dragon trying to kill the Hobbit and the Dwarves.
This is Luisa's picture of Gollum.	This is Mikayla's picture of the Dragon.

28th June The speech finals were last week Tuesday and all three place getters were from our awesome class.
1st Katy White
2nd Luisa Williams
3rd Hannah Van der Horst
Congratulations to them.

Over the last few weeks we have been doing Life Education with Shirley and Harold. We have been learning about WOF commonly known as warrant of fitness which is to do with cars, so we have been learning how our body is like a car that carries us on an interesting highway called life.
We have been learning about healthy food choices and keeping our bodies healthy.

Also just yesterday we finished our book called The Hobbit. It was a great story.

13th June Today we have found out who are in the speech finals. Congratulations to Nikoli Christensen, Luisa Williams, Lauren Hall, Mekaela Learmond, Millie Patterson, Hannah Van Der Horst, Katy White from our class. So hopefully they do well in the semi-finals and get to go to the finals next week.

30th May Hopefully every one has had a good weekend, because we have a lot going on this week.
1st We start speeches tomorrow.
2nd We have cross country on Wednesday.
3rd We can dress up as our favourite book characters on Thursday, to raise money for our Lit Quiz champions trip to Wellington.
And last but not least we have inter school rugby day on Friday.
So hopefully we have a good week.

27th May Yesterday we had a guy come into our class from the whakatane council. He designs bridges and he talked to us about what you should use to make them and why and how you build them, Because we are going to design and make our own cool Bridges with Mrs West. We all have some cool ideas such as roller coaster bridges, Swing bridges and much more. They are all looking good at the moment.

23 May lately we have been doing some graphics. We had Mr J from Edgecumbe College come and show us how to draw things using a Vanishing Point. We drew a picture of a corner store, we had to draw doors and windows that had to end up in line with the Vanishing Point. We drew nets and then made puppets out of them. Then we made puppet shows and went round the junior classes and showed them our puppet shows. Our puppet shows had to be to with firewise or a virtue.

10th May Yesterday we made our own little news papers with Mrs Turner. We included some stuff about sports, international news, entertainment and lots more. There was lots of interesting names of news papers to, such as Bacon and Eggs Beacon, Time Out and much more. We had lots of fun writing the articles and putting the whole news paper together.
This is the last week for our reading theme most of us have read at least one book, the ones that haven't have till Monday morning to finish. Then we will be writing an assignment about the book.

5th May Lately we have been reading a book called The Hobbit. We are making a drawn map of the adventure, most people are liking it.
Four kids out of our class are going to Tauranga for the Kiwi Lit Quiz tonight. They are Katy Rose - Jessica Robbie - Hannah Van Derhorst and Luisa Williams. We hope they will do our class proud.

3rd May A new term, everyone is very excited. We have started writing paragraphs to do with the royal wedding with Mrs. West and the people that aren't are writing about another celebration.

13th April Today we read a story called 'Bamboozled'. It's about a girl that goes to her grandad's and every thing is weird. So after we read it we had to draw a part of the room that had been bamboozled and we had to write a 6 word memoir.

8th April Dillon why am I writing this?? Today Room 14 students were very brave. They had to play me a song on the guitar and sing it. They did very well. Some people were surprisingly good singers! The different students sang lots of different songs that they have learned over the term: Surfin USA, Blue Suede Shoes, Proud Mary, Big Yellow Taxi, Ten Guitars, Delta Dawn, and so on. Lots of people played and changed their chords well on the guitar. Have a good weekend - Mr H.

24th March

Edgar making a freaky food shack sign

23rd March Lately we have been getting ready for the year 7 & 8 fun raiser. We have some interesting groups such as one of the activities is tyre throwing and we have a freaky food shack and stuff like that. The fun raiser will be held next Friday day at lunch time. Every one will be able to buy food and do activities.

16th March Scroll down to read two of our awesome camp songs, that people chose to do for homework. Luisa even did two, she enjoyed the challenge so much!

14th March Last Tuesday we (years 4 to 8) had swimming sports. It was a great day. These are all our people that got first 12 year old boys first freestyle Shane Hope, 11 year old boys first equal freestyle Liam Sanson and Tom Holani, 11 year old boys first back stroke and breast stroke Tom Holani, 12 year old girls biggest splash Mikayla Duffy, nicest dive 11 year old girls Millie Patterson, 12 year old boys nicest dive first Dillon Murray, 12 year old girls nicest dive first equal Mikayla Duffy and Luisa Williams, 12 year old girls breast stroke Luisa Williams, 11 year old girls width freestyle and flutter board Hannah Van der Horst. Kowhai won the house relay, because they are the BOMB!

7th March Today we are at tech. Here are some of our camp photos. Thank you very much to the parents who came with us to camp last week. More news to follow, after swimming sports tomorrow.

21st February Lately we have been learning about haiku poems. The Haiku poem is a form of Japanese poetry. It is made up of three lines. It usually has five syllables in the first and third line, and seven syllables in the middle line. A Haiku has a cut: two meanings which enrich the meanings of the first half from the second half. They also have a word to do with one season. Scroll down to Students Work to read some of our Haiku poems.

21st February The count down is on until our camp at Blair Lodge, it's 8 days away. The whole class is very excited. We will be doing orienteering around Katikati, swimming in the river, jumping on the blob (A pillow shaped object). One person sits on one end the other person jumps on it from a cliff onto the blob and sends the other person flying...

17th February The last couple of weeks we have been studying about the planets in our Solar System. We had to find out the average temperature of planets and things like that. One of the books we were getting information from said, "Jupiter's core can get up to a temperature of 20,000 degrees Celsius". We have to model what day and night would look like from space.
Two days a week Mr. Hawkes has been out taking tests and things. Mrs. Parker has been teaching us, we have been writing name alliterations. We had to write them around the outside of our name which we wrote and coloured in with pastels.

11 February There have been lots of elections this week. Edgar Smits is our rep on the Enviro team, Hannah is reserve. Millie Patterson and Nikoli Christensen are our reps on the school council, with Katy and Tom reserves. Nine of us were elected house captains. See the News page for those names. Dillon Murray has been appointed room 14's web site monitor.

Students' Work

Camp Songs:

Haiku Poems about the Christchurch Earthquake

Teacher's Message
We're half way through term four already! Class is busy and fun, with athletics, puberty talks, radio broadcasts, and the Year 7 & 8 intensives coming up. It was good to see lots of Room 14 helping the juniors with their athletics events. Soon I'll have to start writing reports. Bribery could be the way to go! No, Room 14's students shouldn't need to go that far!
Barrie Hawkes

Want to check out last year's page? It was cool. Click here: 2010 or 2009.