Awakeri School

Room 14 in 2018

Who are we?

We aren't only a class, we are the best class ever! There are 28 people in our class, there are 15 girls and 13 boys. We are a mix of year 7s and year 8s. All of us are friends. We don't exclude and we look after people if they're sad.

Class news

11 December We actually did quite well in the orienteering today, some pairs got through nine challenges. Mrs Petersen came in specially to take a lesson on Sir Edmund Hilary that she ran out of time for last week. Thank you Mrs Petersen!
Congratulations to our homework award winners! Ollie almost beat Cody for this term's race! The winners are in the Teacher's Message at the bottom of this page. Scroll down to read Mr H's final message.

10 December Our last week! Quite a few radio broadcasts being done, some great jokes and funny stuff. Some people also inflicted songs on us, sometimes to annoy us, e.g. Pineapple Pen! Today we were meant to do some orienteering, but the lock down stopped us doing anything for about 40 minutes, then we had to clear up some people's ideas about what way is north! Phoebe and Joseph had some interesting arguments that north would be in whatever direction you were facing. After several explanations and diagrams drawn on the whiteboard by other people, we had made some progress!

6 December Lots of memories of the year in our homework this week. A great game of 'Pirates' with Mrs Harvey today.

Asha's cartoon of the Gay Gordon dance practice! "Child abuse!" says the boy. "Boy germs!" says the girl. "Gay Gordon dance music" says the speaker!

5 December We have been doing lots of poetry in the last weeks, reading and presenting. We have also started presenting some radio broadcasts. Everyone has to write a script for a radio broadcast for at least three minutes, they then get to broadcast it to our class, including adding in a couple of songs if they want. Shivaun's was very funny yesterday!
We are also reading Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

15 November Good luck to the TEN students from Room 14 going to the interschool athletics today. Awesome to have so many going from our class.

3 November We are back into our last term. It has been so busy. Athletics just finished yesterday. Lots of great results, e.g. Elijah winning the 1500m (or 1,500,000 mm as Mr H put it on the whiteboard!), Tawa winning the relay, Odin breaking the 200m record, Mikayla J winning the high jump, watching Shaun Snow break the 13 year boys high jump record with an amazing 149cm yesterday, etc
We are studying slavery, reading Night John and Sarny by Gary Paulsen. We are doing algebra, e.g. solving 2x+5= 19. Some people can even solve equations with exponents. We are doing maths revision for the benchmarks test too.
We are getting really good at SRA rate builders. Some people have passed the top colour.

25 September We have now finished our surveys, please come and view the findings. They are on the windows of Room 14. Today we had a 12 minute run. It was good to see the students pushing themselves. Quite a few people reached their goals or beat their best distances.
Opening night tonight! Good luck to Asha and Jamie in their big roles!

Some of the displays of our maths investigations. Come and see them on our windows.

18 September Wow, we have been full on with production rehearsals, kapa haka intensive, etc. We are still doing the basics in class. We have a lot of data in for our statistical surveys, over 200 replies to our questions. We have one more class's surveys to sort then we can collate the information, and present our findings. You will be able to see the results to questions like:
Do people spend too much time on social media?
Do you know what 1080 is?
Should there be laws about animal hoarding?
Do you like to save or spend your money?
Do you get pocket money?.... plus many more fascinating questions.

6 September

Our virtue is Unity. Addison drew what Unity looks like in her home learning.	Myles said Unity looks like the cogs of gears that work together.

29 August We are good at finding means, medians and ranges in statistics now. We are getting to grips with making accurate graphs, including pie graphs. Soon we will start our big stats investigation, getting data from all the middle and senior school.
We have sent our last lot of penpal letters off the France. We have finished the Hobbit. We are learning to draw portraits of each other with good shapes and proportions. So far four of us have been models!
At the moment we are having a number oif days of relievers as Mr H is out taking the orchestra or doing kapa haka intensive. Ella and Jamie are assistant kapa haka leaders. Tino pai!

13 August We are starting a maths unit in statistics and have taken our pre test today. We are coming to the end of our Hobbit book and some of our maps look stunning. We have begun Smartwords with groups from H to V.

9 August We have been learning our Spanish pepeha (saying our family in Spanish), we are getting very good at it. Congratulations to Room 14 people who did very well at the science fair: Addison & Lucy, Jamie, Frank & Rhys and Ella are all going to the BOP science fair next Thursday.We have just started some drawing skills to get ready to start drawing portraits of people. We are also studying the different classifications of animals and researching three animals from different classes. Our letters are ready to send off to France too.

26 July Welcome back everyone. Scroll down for Mr H's newsletter to start the term.
We are back into Spanish, "De donde eres?" Soy de Nueva Zelanda!
We have just had letters from our French penpals arrive too, very exciting!

4 July Sadly on Friday we are losing one of our amazing year eight students. Megan Dreyer is moving to Tauranga. Megan is an excellent writer, so we will look out for her work in the future!
A big thank you to our football committee, who have helped Mr H organise the lunch time World Cup tournament. They have also refereed every game. It's been fun! Well done to Uruguay and England!

28 June Scroll down to Students' Work to read some cool little stories based on the first paragraph of The Hobbit, which we are currently reading and making an adventure map of. Some of the maps are amazing. Sharlee's story is amazing as well!

21 June This afternoon we were lucky enough to have Mrs King spend an hour with us. She has been a student teacher in Room 9. Mrs King is half Spanish, so she came to see how we have been getting on with our Spanish lessons. She answered a lot of our questions about Spain and taught us some new Spanish language. She also showed us a video of her father singing flamenco music at a festival in Spain, and she did an awesome flamenco dance for us. She enjoyed seeing two of our skits too. Muchas gracias Mrs King!

After Mrs King showed us a lot of pictures on a powerpoint, with answers to our questions, she performed a flamenco dance for us. Excelente!!	At the end of each verse we shouted Ole!!

12 June Good luck to our speakers tonight in the school speech finals: Jamie, Fearghus, Shivaun and Mikayla J.

Dressed up for book character day: Isak (army character), Asha (ladybird), Phoebe (Papatuanuku), Mr H (Gandalf).

23 May Congratulations to..... Asha and Addi, who did really well in the Kids Lit BOP finals last night. Also to our first speech makers in class today. They set a very high standard for everyone else. Megan was hilarious, finding her cue cards halfway through her speech and just dropping that into her speech.
Yesterday we had a great session with St John's on first aid. Max taught us what to do in an emergency. We practised doing CPR, ringing emergency services, bandaging. He also told us some amazing and sad stories about his experiences as a paramedic.

17 May Our letters are all ready to go to France. We are just waiting for one other room to get finished, so we can send them all.
We have been learning Spanish since the holidays. We can now use greetings, say our names and the alphabet, use numbers and farewells.
E.g. Buenos dias señorita. ¿Como estas?
Muy bien gracias. ¿Y tu?
¡Feliz!
¿Como te llamas?
Me llamo Asha.
¿Tu numero de telefono por favor?
Mi numero de telefono es 0800838383.
¡No! ¡Adios!
¡Hasta luego!

2 May We're back from a long 2 week holiday and can't wait to really get into term 2! This is an eventful term containing activities such as: speeches, start of the science fair and netball and rugby day. Parents better get their children ready for the big term. Our class has also began to talk to our penpals all the way from France. They go to College Le Calloud in La Tour Du Pin.

10 April We have completed our amazing fantasy pepeha, scroll down to Students Work down the page!

6 April We did some awesome writing this week with Mrs Petersen, based on the book If I Was a Banana by Alexandra Tylee. Scroll down to Students' Work to have a read. Quite a few students read their work at assembly today.
We did really well at the Fun Raiser last week. our class made over $800.

29 March A couple of painful photos have been added to our camp photo page. At lunch time today is the Fun(d) Raiser. Everyone is organised, we hope. Lots of people have brought money to spend, so it should go well. Our groups are: Sherbet Queenz, Wet Mr Fitz, The Very Scary House, Lolly Lovers, Games Kiosk and Sweet Tooth. Room 13 also have some stalls.

22 March Check out the photos from our awesome camp last week.

8 March Next week we are going to camp at Waihi Christian camp, we've had 3 newsletters go home and we're getting in our money. We have also been learning our Pepeha. We always have a word of the day up so come have a look to learn something new! We've started a book called 'The Fat Man' set in the old days of the Depression.

1 March Well done everyone. Room 14 have all passed their test of reciting the first two verses our Te Po poem, by Katarina Mataira.
The Space study is due in tomorrow, so a lot of people have been rushing around getting their activities finished off.
We now have enough adults for our camp in 12 days time, thank you very much to those parents who have volunteered. We are looking forward to kayaking, hydrosliding into a river, visiting a gold mine, riding on a train, do water safety in a deep pool, having a mock court, playing Murder, tramping in the bush, and of course getting to know each other a whole lot better!

21 February Mrs Petersen has had us learning about the census coming up. We were curious about how homeless people are recorded in the census. We wrote to the census people and they told us how it works.
Congratulations to Room 14 people who got into the Top School team today: Jamie, Elijah, Phoebe & Mikayla J.

16 February

Today we had a surprise visitor in class. Phoebe's puppy Riley, a staffy, 13 weeks old, came to visit. He met everyone. We are also learning heaps of interesting stuff about space. Today we learned about centripetal force and watched a man teaching us from the International Space Station! At assembly today Ella recited the first two verses of our Te Po poem, by Katarina Mataira. So far seven people have passed that test.

8 February

Starting off with a great year, all the students in the best class ever!! have been up to a lot of awesome work! In Room 14 we've been doing heaps of art we are doing koru art and shields at the moment. In the computer suite we've been doing personal profile profiles they are up on our wall so come check them out there pretty amazing!! Mr Hawkes is an awesome human being, another upside is he loves soccer.

Students' Work

Based on the first bit of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

In a castle far away there lived a monster. Not a fancy, clean, dry castle, filled with tiaras and royal garments with a lavender smell making its way through the castle nor yet a damp, crowded, concrete castle with nothing in it to sleep on or to eat: it was a castle with a monster in it and that means destruction.
Sharlee D

In a house near a hill there lived an Elijah. Not a dirty, old, nanny house, filled with knitting needles and used bingo boards, nor yet a clean, boring, bland house with nothing in it to do or to play with: it was an Elijah-house and that means broken stuff.
Fearghus B

In a forest as bright and magical as a thousand stars, lived powerful creatures by the name of faes. Not a forest with pixies flying about, sparks of magic, and incredible echoes of faint roars of dragons in the distance nor was it a foggy, mysterious, silent and peaceful forest with rumours passed from human to human to keep away: It is the forest of the light and dark faes and that means war.
By Megan Dreyer

In a cottage in the woods there lived an old man. It wasn't a small, smelly, rotting cottage, with bugs and rats crawling around, nor a huge, dirty, cold cottage with no furniture or windows to gaze out of: it was his home and that means comfort.
Addi D

In mountains in the hills there lived a bear. Not a windy, rocky, steep hill with rock slides and smoky smell, nor volcanoes, dusty, dry, mountains with nothing to sit down on or to eat: it was a bear's mountain and that meant free hugs.
Mikayla J

In a land far far away there lived a BFG. Not a nasty, grumpy, angry BFG that eats bugs and people nor yet a big, fat, deadly BFG who is not at all nice: it was a big friendly giant and that means cheerfulness! Phoebe Louise Te-Aroha Carter.

In a room on a hill there lived a Ruby. Not a clean, tidy, sparkling room, filled with nice furniture and a nice smell, nor yet a smelly, bare, boring room with nothing to do or sit on: it was a Ruby-room, and that means messy.
Lucy Jones

In KFC in town there lived a Kohen. Not a dirty, wet, yucky KFC filled with scoffing mashies and a dirty smell, nor yet a dry, deserted, dusty KFC with no one in it to serve you so you can eat: it was a clean KFC and that means food.
Kohen L

In a mound on the ground there lived an ant. Not a sharing, nice, caring ant filled love and enthusiasm nor yet a big muscular popular ant with muscles as big as the rock: it was a mean nasty ant and that meant loneliness.
Jamie J

Fantasy Pepeha:

Tena koutou katoa
No te Gold Coast ahau
Ko Mt Everest toku maunga
Ko River Thames toku awa
Ko crashed ship toku waka
Ko Spongebob toku koroua
Ko Addi raua ko Lucy oku kuia
Ko Prince Charles toku matua
Ko Princess Camilla toku whaea
Ko Princess Phoebe ahau
He pai ke ahau te kanikani
Kia ora
Phoebe

Tena koutou katoa
No te North Pole ahau
Ko Titanic toku waka
Ko Elf toku koro
Ko Mrs Claus toku kui
Ko Santa toku matua
Ko Penguin toku whaea
Ko Reindeer aku teina
Ko Odin ahau
He pai ki ahau te delivering presents
Kia ora
Odin

Tena koutou katoa
No Subway ahua
Ko Kilimanjaro toku maunga
Ko Nile toku awa
Ko Air NZ toku waka
Ko Donald Trump toku koroua
Ko Queen Elizabeth toku kuia
Ko Lionel Messi toku matua
Ko Jacinda Ardern toku whaea
Ko Elijah toku tuakana
Ko Rhys taku teina
He pai ke ahau te kai
Kia ora
Frank

Chur
No Hawaii ahau
Ko Tour Eiffel toku maunga
Ko Pipe Line toku awa
Ko Brazilia Clan toku iwi
Ko Rio de Janeiro toku hapu
Ko my uncle's boat toku waka
Ko my Tree House toku marae
Ko Josephine toku whaea
Ko Frank toku wahine
Ko Ella toku tuahine
Ko Rhys me Elijah me Feargus me Mitchell aku tamariki
Ko Ollie taku kuri
Ko Jimmy ahau
He pai ke ahau te teriaki chicken sub with lettuce, tomato, chedder cheese, carrot, onion with salt and pepper, toasted with BQQ sauce and a raspberry lemonade drink.
Kia ora
Jamie

Based on If I Was a Banana by Alexandra Tylee:
If I were a wolf, I would run free at the dawn of twilight, streaking through the trees in a flash of silver lightning, hunting with the pack. And at the time of the full moon, I would reside at the highest point of the mountain, and howl into the night for all the world's loss and sadness. Shivaun B

If I was a cloud, I would be a fluffy, white cloud. I would look upon the children laughing and playing. I would never be the angry cloud that makes a day dull and miserable. Ella F

If I was a Warrant of Fitness, I would stick on V8s and hot rods, as fast as the speedy wind. Odin H

If I was a plastic bottle, I would be the abandoned one, scrunched up and crunched. I would be the one on the side of the Desert Road. Empty and used. Phoebe C

If I was a wave, I would be a small gentle wave, and all of the fish would swim into me. Mikayla J

If I was a cricket ball, I would be shiny on one side and rough on the other. David Warner and his buddies would cheat by rubbing sandpaper on me. Fearghus B

If I was a wolf, I would be the fiercest of the whole pack. I would be the leader, leading the others thought the vast labyrinth of the forest. Megan D

If I was a pair of Nike shoes, I'd be the best ones ever. You would never have to replace me. I can help you run as fast as lightning. Jasmine K

If I was a dolphin, I would steal the surfers' surf boards and play with them. Mitchell DT

If I was a spider, I would not like it much, being small and disliked by people. I could be killed in ten minutes. Mia S

If I were a piano, I would play MAGNIFICENT music and people would dance around me, wearing smiles. Addison D

If I were a wall, I'd be ancient and mossy, with cobble stones and grass holding me together. Isak T

If I was Donald Trump, I would rule the whole of America. I would change all the rules from bad to good. Brodi T

If I was a jersey, I would be a warm one. I would be pitch black, like the night sky minus the stars. I would love to be worn a lot and to help my owner look slick. Elijah W

If I were a book, I would be a diary. I would let the writer confide in me and pour out their heart in my pages. Asha S

Of all the things I could be, I would be most comfortable being "ME". Short and brown haired. Lucy J

Teacher's Message

Dear Parents

Congratulations to Room 14 students on a very good year. A big thank you to all those parents wo have supported us with trips, camps, supervising your child's homework and in getting all those big tasks done (e.g. science fair, speeches, maths revision). Best wishes to the year eights heading to high school. Make the most of your opportunities there and you will do well.
Thank you too to our retiring teacher aide Cathy Fitz and to Ann Petersen who often did my release time this year.
Excellence: Our homework award winners: Cody Archer, Ollie Forsyth, Addi Dodson, Lucy Jones, Ella Forbes, Jamie Julian, Mia Sutton and Kohen Laurent.
Feliz Navidad! Prospero año y felicida! Kia ora tatou katoa
Barrie

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