Awakeri School

Room 14 in 2013

Who are we?

We are... a happy class with 27 kids: 10 boys and 17 girls and we drive Mr Hawkes MAD (not all the time but most of the time) The website monitors are Toni Campbell and Ngaio Wilson.

Class news

18 December. Hmmm, radio broadcasts were incredible. Tommy Rosewarne was Tommy Beiber in one, then if that wasn't bad enough, he was Tiny Tim doing Tiptoe Through the Tulips in Isaiah's broadcast! Very very funny. We also had Sharni Gaga, lots of Possum ads and news items (thanks Nakisha), Sarah being dissed almost as much as Chloe Chocolate Brownie, Finn and Matthew being very funny, etc.
Bye bye lovely year eights. Happy holidays everyone from Room 14. Come back and visit next year when our room is three metres wider!

12 December Here is a drawing of an awesome unicorn by Emma Paine! She does the news page for the website.

Emma's awesome unicorn!

10 December Today's radio broadcasts were very entertaining, keeping up a great standard. Sharni Gaga even sang, Poppy Rika used a cool lively voice and Ruby Murphy produced Ruby FM. Ruby tried to sell her brother Ben in the broadcast, but there were no takers! He was cheap too.
For Homework we had to do our ten highlights of the year. Here are some of them.....
Room 14 Highlights 2013
Playing Spotlight at camp. Chloe B heard the leaves rustle. She thought it was a person, but when she looked up a great big fat red-eyed possum was half a metre away from her face!
Getting a letter back from a jubilee ex-pupil person.
Thrashing Rm 12 at rulz and flag wars and pa wars.
Ngaio's mum doing the moonwalk in the introductions game at camp. Ngaio's daily bus stories.
People getting thrown in the pool. "It was COLD!" said Chloe H.
The stunning last kapa haka performance.
Finn having his sugar rush incident at camp. He couldn't even write. Way too much jelly!
Seeing octopi at Otarawairere.
Matthew losing underwear at camp.
Slime wars at camp.
Practising the Gay Gordons!
Possums at night at camp.
Possum getting the ball out of the tree.
Finn being excited to be punished in the mock court at camp.
Lunchtime soccer, room 14 v the rest.
Finn stepping on glass at camp.
Someone farting in their sleep at camp.
Making people laugh in radio broadcasts.
Winning the international football game.
Being at Awakeri School when it turned 100. It was special performing kapa haka at the jubilee.
Mr Hawkes saying Yes Richie to Sarah when we were playing headbands. Sarah was Richie McCaw. Mr Hawkes started hitting his head on Matthew's table!
Sitting next to Tommy. He would always cheer Poppy's day by singing.

This year rooms 12,13 and 14 are getting made 3ms longer. Today Finn found out that each person has 4m3 of air in room 14. We are nearly at the end of the year and room 14 have just had their last lot of home work. YES!!!! Tomorrow is Poppy's and Ruby's last day. They will be going to Australia. Have fun. Fancy dress is on Monday, on Tuesday it is the year 7 and 8 dance and on Wednesday all the classes will be in a big end of year water fight. So bring your togs.

9 December Today before school, Ngaio and Nakisha sold books on the foyer. They sold quite a few but when Mr Fitz put them on the spot at assembly, "How many books did you sell?" They said "I don't know!" Every day Ngaio keeps us entertained with her latest current event. It is nearly always something exciting that happened on the bus. Today she didn't come to school by bus, but luckily, she saw something strange while driving through Te Teko. What was it" "I don't know" Describe it.... "I can't" After further questioning we were none the wiser.
Next we were writing diaries and Mr H said to Ngaio, "I hope you know what you are writing about". She assured him that she did know lots of things.
"I do know what one and one is..."
"What it is Ngaio?"
"One!"

5 December

Over the last couple of days we have been doing radio broadcasting. We had to write a script and then broadcast it to the class. We have had all sorts of themes like: Toast FM, Salad FM and lots more crazy things! Today Matthew, Finn, Courtney and Georgia all did their broadcasts. Georgia sang one of the songs. Finn's broadcast was hilarious.

Thursday 28 November. Well there was the usual number of people in our room before school, trying to solve challenges, write messages etc. Then Elana and Keely (both exRoom14s from last year, but they frequent our room anyway) started drawing the funny class photo on the white board. Everyone helped and this is it....

Thursday 14 November Today half of our class are at interschool athletics sports at Edgecumbe. Lots of them have got ribbons, even Georgia, whose mum reckoned she wouldn't need a safety pin (meaning she wouldn't get a ribbon!). We have just started doing softball skills. We are getting better at catching with the mitt. Swimming started too. We are also studying human body systems. There are some pretty complicated ones, like the endocrine system, but everyone is learning lots about their ones. We are reading Holes by Louis Sachar. It's a cool story.

Thursday 31 October Today Poppy and Adele received replies to their letters to people who went to the jubilee. It was really cool that we got some replies. It sounds like the people who received letters really appreciated it. They wrote about what school was like when they went to Awakeri. Adele's letter said that the year 7 & 8 boys had to mow the lawns with push mowers, and the yr 7 & 8 girls had to clean the rooms and the toilets!

Wednesday 23 October

Our school jubilee is coming up soon. We will be doing parts of the production and Kapa Haka. Also the disco is on Friday!!!! We all cant wait!!! We have been practising athletics, we go in a rotation, today we are going to long jump and discus. Congratulations to the people who went to Group day in our class, Sarah, Adele, Tommy, Courtney, Chloe and Jadyn!! And a special congratulations to Emma For winning Supreme Champion for her dog!!!! Hope you all have a good weekend.

Friday 20 September

Today we played Trivial Pursuits and there were a lot of hard questions and some easy questions. We also are singing some songs in assembly, we are singing a song that goes:

" First you make your fingers click,
then you stamp your feet,
both hands slap your knees and clap on the beat"

It's a round. And the other song goes:

Late last night before she went to bed,
Mrs O'Leary hung a lantern in her shed
and then a cow kicked it over winked her
eye at her and said "There'll be a hot time in
the old town tonight FIRE, FIRE, FIRE"

Friday 13 September

Today is FRIDAY THE 13TH theres some scary stuff going on in class like our family of facts world championships 2013!!
Mr Hawekes gave us some pretty scary times tables!!! Happy Birthday to GEORGIA turning 13 on in 2013!!! We all hope she has a wonderful day at SCHOOL!!! Our Netball teams are having there break-ups this weekends, they are going to the pools. HAVE FUN!!!Thank you to the coaches of the sports teams that have coached our teams this year!!!

Friday 6 September

This week has been SOOOO busy with Production, Kapa Haka Intensive, Maths Celebration Day! Maths Celebration Day is when there were 8 activities and 16 teams and we all had to try and beat the other team that was on our activities. If you won your round then you got 2 points and if your drew you got 1 point if you lost well...that means you got zero points. But there was going to be a winning group at the end of the day!!! BUT.. there were three winning groups SO well done to these groups 1, 8 AND 13!!! WELL DONE!

Thursday 29 August

Man the year 8's are busy at the moment Chai, Kendra and I (Toni) have got back at about 10.30am from the Edgecumbe College open day. We got to see the gym cooking room, the wood work room. We went in to, what would be the class Mr Hawkes would Love to teach in, the music room and some more rooms that I can not remember at this point in time. We are making some Spanish Pepeha because tomorrow we are going to start the assembly. We are going to have a Maori Pepeha and a Spanish Pepeha. We do not know who will be doing it yet but we will find out tomorrow. We now get MILK each day it is nice to have something to drink with our Morning Tea. Hi Chloe we all miss you, some more than others. Can you send us another email? We would like to know were you are! Scroll down to students' work to see a Spanish Pepeha.

Monday 19 August We've been doing portrait drawing for days now, so today we had to draw our partner. We were trying to make the drawing so accurate you could guess who it is. We worked on shape, proportions, details and shading.

Sarah concentrates on drawing Chloe accurately.	Tommy is doing a good likeness of Isaiah. They've both got hats on.
Emma drew a great picture of Chrystal.	Georgia is working hard in her 12 minutes to draw Possum.

Thursday 8 August

Book day dress up as your favourite book character and bring some money to help next years lit quiz team. Well not very many room 14 kids dressed up I have got pic's of some of the weird and wonderful costumes. We had Mrs Heath today and she is wearing a lovely princess dress that she made HER SELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!In our class we have Robin Hood, a girl with red hair, a Ninja and Gandalf.

Mrs Heath in nice home made dress!!!!	Smile Toni.
	Don't shoot me Courtney.

4 August Congratulations to people from Room 14 who did really well in the science fair and who got parts in the school production.... Lachlan 1st equal, Finn 3rd equal, Sharni and Alex highly commended. Georgia is Professor Pecksniff in Windust. Finn is the Sheriff, Jack is Bandit Chief, Matthew is Mayor and Jadyn is Gunk. 16 of our class got speaking parts.

Tuesday 2 July

We had Life Ed with Shirley and the not so funny joke teller.... drum roll please... Harold the giraffe HEY HEY!!!!! Yes he is back at Awakeri. We are learning about making good choices.
We have now finished the Hobbit. I will not tell you the ending you just need to read the book or watch the movie. The book is very funny and I can not tell you much more.
Scroll down to Students' Work to read some of our responses to The Hobbit. They are really well written, just like the book!

Thursday 27 June

We just got back from a FIRE DRILL!!! It was not a real fire. Georgia said that if there was a fire she would stand there to keep warm because at the moment it is very cold!!!!!!!! It is now winter!! nooooooo.

Wednesday 26 June

Today for current events, Jadyn shared that a man walked ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON ON A TIGHT ROPE!!! He walked about a kilometre and if the wind blew then he would fall off and die. So we tried to see how long we could walk on a tight rope. We walked across the beam surrounding the Adventure Playground. 4-5 people fell off! Then we tried to do a rope that actullay wobbled. All of us fell off. Sadly. A big well done to Nakisha, Jack and Isaiah for getting into the NEXT cross country!!! Jack came first in his race, Nakisha came seventh and Isaiah came ninth!!!!! HI FROM ALL OF US IF YOU ARE READING THIS, CHLOE!!! Yes, Chloe is STILL overseas. She is soooo LUCKY. I think that all of us are SUPER jealous!!! She event sent us a photo of The Statue Of Liberty made out of JELLY BEANS!!!! Thats all that I have for you guys today. So, Bye. From Ngaio

Wednesday 19 June

Last night was the Speech finals and Matthew from our class got in to the finals. Sadly he did not get a place but made everyone laugh with his speech. He says that he got no laughs, not true Matthew! We have started to play the drums so we are making a lot of noise. At the moment we are planning debates in class.

Thursday 13 June

Hi can you get this " The rich need me, the poor have me, and if I eat it I die. What am I...... We have been talking about Science Fair and Fair testing because Science Fair is next term.

Wednesday 12 June

Today we got an email from Chloe H who is in America at the moment. She will be going around the world soon. She is sooooooo LUCKY. Mr Hawkes got some of us to send her an email saying we miss her and saying what we have done when she was been away.

Friday 7 June

This week has been about SPEECHES!! So far we have had 3 days with 6 people doing some very good speeches, like Lara with Pumpkin pressure. Very funny Lara HAHAHAHA. She was being smart about peer pressure. Today we have 5 people doing their speeches, we do a speech draw each day to see who goes first. Nakisha was hoping not to pick out number 1, and guess what number she got! That's right she got number 1. Shows if you do not want some thing you get it!

Friday 31 May

Last night was so cool because I (Toni) got to go to the kids lit quiz. It was the best time I had. The Awakeri B came 20th and the Awakeri A came 1st= and then had the sudden death quiz with Matamata. Matamata won and the A team got $80 and Matamata won $1000 and they get to go to Wellington. We are all proud for both teams and hope the year 6s and 7s this year bring home the prize next year. The categories and scores for our teams were:

Thursday 30 May Yesterday we had to play and sing a song to Mr Hawkes on the guitar. IT WAS SO SCARY!!!! He said some of us are really good singers too!!

Friday 24 May

Cross Country was on Wednesday. It was a ball, the people were so happy, tired and proud. The people that got 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10th ( 10th is the place that I came in my race yay ,yay !!! ) all go to Manawahe for the interschool cross country. A lot of training is ahead of us at school and at home. You will be fit enough to get a good placing but one thing there are a lot of hills to run up and down. We now are having our assemblies at 2:30 pm.
We are learning about Parihaka. Parihaka is a peaceful village that Te Whiti O Rongomai built in 1867 when the land wars were happening with the Pakeha. Parihaka can teach us a lot!

Tuesday 14 May Today Mr J was in our class teaching graphics. We started by practising with the equipment: drawing boards, T squares, set squares, different hardnesses of pencil.... Then we learning drawing conventions, like construction lines, outlines, hidden lines, etc. We practised isometric drawings. Finally we drew an isometric drawing of a house! We had to find centres of rectangles, midpoints of lines and so on. Here are some photos:

Chrystal is learning to use the T square and other instruments accurately.	Finn is practising isometric drawing. Emma enjoys the moment.
Mr J (Steve Jeffares) teaches the class how to do things....	like the conventions of drawing.
Jack is working hard, so is Georgia.	Nakisha picked up the skills well "My dad is a builder". She's helping Ngaio.

Wednesday 8 May

Man two weeks off !!!!! We are in a new term and a new month. Sports Sports Sports! This term it is all about sports with winter sports and sports day. For sports day there are 2 sports netball and rugby, make that 3 because every one who is not in a team will be playing dodgeball . For the netball teams from room 14 it is all the year 8 netball team. For the rugby teams we have Jack, Alex, Jamie, Isaiah, Chai , Tommy, Sarah, Matthew, Dylan and Lachlan, maybe because he badly hurt his knee.

Thursday 11 April

Touch is now over for some of us. It was a big day on the 10th because we had the Bay of Plenty schools here, not all of but some of them. We all had a great time played our games and tried our best. At the moment we are reading The Hobbit and making maps to do with it all. Some kids have found other copies of The Hobbit and are reading along with Mr Hawkes.
We have just started to do Smart Words. We have 4 groups and we are all doing different things because we are doing a rotation. On Friday the 12 we have a teacher only day because the teachers have to go to school.

Thursday 28 March

On Wednesdays we all go to Mr Sheather in 2 groups: the north side and the south side. We go to Mr Sheather's for geography which is all about the Earth. We are learning all about places in the world and seeing where they are. It is really fun. We are also making up questions to do with volcanoes and eathquakes. After that we do music with Mr Hawkes. We are playing the guitar and at some point this year we might play the drums, one of the loudest things to play. At the moment we are playing touch. We have 8 year 7&8 teams and 4 year 6 teams. We all are trying hard and getting better too. Easter starts tomorrow and ends on Tuesday so we get a long weekend. No school on Friday and Tuesday so have fun, keep safe, eat Easter eggs ( but not too many at once.)!!!!!!

Friday 21 March

Yay, we have some kids in the kids lit teams, Finn is in the A team, Georgia is in the A team too and Courtney is in the B team. Good work!!! On Sunday this week we have Top School good luck to the teams and have a great day!!!!!!!!!

Monday 18 March

Today is a special day for Courtney because it is her birthday and she is turning 12. We been doing lots of things like maths spelling and reading. This week we are Reading Fantasy and Adventure it is really fun because we all get to read our favourite books.

Wednesday 15 March

CAMP WAS THE BEST! Sadly it was the last Awakeri school camp for the year 8s, but the others will have fun next year. We have the C Block fun raiser on the 14th March so can the kids bring some money to school so that they can be part of it too. Thanks a lot.

Tuesday 5 March Check out our camp photos. A big thank you to our ten parent helpers. The kids were great too.

Monday 25 February

CAMP IS TOMORROW HEY it is going to be fun.

Wednesday 20th February

COUNT DOWN TO CAMP IS ON!!! About 7 days and 168 hours till we hop in the car and are on our way to camp. I hope we can see Mr Hawkes go down the water side on a mat.

Friday 15 February

We have been doing swimming the last couple of weeks. We have been doing laps in freestyle and we have the groups of A B C and we do lots of dives and flips. Also touching our tummies on the bottom of the pool and handstands. Mr Hawkes has started to take down last years art work, about time!!!!!!

Monday 11th February

On Friday we got back from the Otarawairere. We saw 4 octopi. COOL. We counted 706 built in steps there and back man were we all tired after that.

Thursday 7th February

This week we are going on a school trip, with rooms 11,12 and 13and we will be going on Friday the 8th.

Students' Work

Spanish Pepeha
¡Hola!
Soy de Nueva Zelanda
Mi abuleos se llama Len y Eddie
Mi abuleas se llama Roberta y Jo
Mi podre se llama Wade
Mi madre se llama Pare
Mi hermana se llama Jade
Me llamo Poppy
Me gusta baloncesto
Adios!

The Hobbit reponses:

I Am poems

Teacher's Message
Goodbye Room 14! It's been a great year! Excellent attitude and lots of good learning. A bit of fun as well. All the best year eights, I'm sure you are all ready to do well at your high schools, whether its Edgecumbe College, Trident, Whakatane or even Feilding Agricultural High School (Go Tommy!)

Kia ora everyone
Barrie Hawkes

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