You Can Teach Old Dogs New Tricks! by Damien

Last week, my teacher, Mrs Golder, was having trouble updating her Google Forms. It was so she could see if we were sending friendly comments to the other classes.

She asked me, being the IT guy and stuff, if I could help her. Eventually I did! She thanked me and I was awarded with a Principal's Award. You can check out what I did Here
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Music Can Drift You Anywhere! by Damien

Music has its ups and downs. But the most noticeable factor is the fame and fortune! Our school had welcomed a visitor to explain to us how music is the road to your future. The visitor is from our local area and his name came to fame when he was recorded on national T.V.! Tyrone Toka has won a few competitions. We hope to see him win the semi-finals on Homai Te Pakipaki! Good Luck Tyrone!

Madd Messenger

“You can do anything to change yourself.” We heard these wise words from Petia Wilson. He hosted the Madd Messenger show and encouraged us to make good choices and decisions that could change our lives.
By Damien

Water Sustainability by Damien

Waste Performance

Save Yummy Land, Make a Plan. 

On Monday Matt and Andy came along to show us the importance of wasting and recycling. They told a story of a land called Yummy Land. 
In Yummy Land there was a worm. His name was Worm. He was very hungry and was looking for food scraps that had been thrown away for worm to eat. But no food was put away for him. Instead the food was put into rubbish bins and the piles of rubbish bags had overgrown. 
Therefore Yummy Land was turned to Stinky Bag City. In the end Worm was saved by a human, Simon. He gave all his leftovers to Worm to eat, his rubbish piles shrunk and Yummy Land was saved.
By Damien

Interschool Soccer Competition

Football Tournament

Balls flying everywhere, supporters cheering here and there,  coaches shouting what to do, even though we scored a few.

After all the football games we played we felt weak. Then it was finally time for the manager to announce the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth placings. We were anxious for the host to report back where Ruapotaka School came.   Suddenly we found out that we came second. We were so amazed. Our team were all up and cheering. We were acknowledged for our second placing by being given posters and certificates.

We all had fun, even before it begun and now we are all proud, we started to shout out loud!!
By Elizabeth, Sini, and Damien

Tamaki College Orientation Day

                                            

A DAY OF FUN AT TAMAKI COLLEGE . 

WHERE ELSE WOULD YOU FIND A PLACE THAT'S AWESOME?                                          

When we arrived at Tamaki College, excitement was on our faces. When we arrived in the hall we received our name tags. Not long after that we heard, “Welcome to Tamaki College!” We turned to the front and a lady introduced herself. “I am Kathryn Moore, one of the Deputy Principals.”

Afterwards she told us to look at our coded name tags to see what groups we were in.

Later on we were all looking forward to all the sorts of subjects there: English, Art, Food tech, Social Studies, Science, Maths, Music and P.E.

For interval, Tamaki College students prepared us with tasty snacks like juice, and yogurt. For lunch we had one sandwich, an apple, a bottle of water and other yummy snacks.

After we ate our lunches we had time to talk about what we did and also take photos on our netbooks. Later on after our conversations we had to listen to Kathryn because she wanted to tell the leaders at the end of the day to present a student in their group with either a Chrome Book Bag or a Wireless Printer.

Our school was really lucky because two year eight students received a printer and two students received a bag. Our school was really happy that some of our students received prizes. At the end two students from Pt England each presented a speech thanking the Tamaki College teachers and students for having us there.

By Estah, Ofa, Mika, Kolotina, Chance, Don and Damien

'A' Grade Students

Our A Grade Certificate

We were overwhelmed that our names were announced by Mrs Golder.

We worked really hard to achieve at least five or more A grades in our homework. We shook our teachers hand proudly and the audience applauded us. We were pleased that we were awarded with A grade certificates. Our parents are very glad that we worked hard in Term One.

Our next goal is to get A grades for the rest of the year and to succeed so that we can have a better education. Every week we get Year 8 homework and usually we get A or better. Only six students were awarded with A Grade Certificates who were

,  Elizabeth, Ofa, Miria, Cypress and Damien

Be better Than Before!

Duffy Book Award

My Duffy Award

On the 9th of March at assembly I was awarded with a book for ‘Caught Being Good” at Reading. I was very impressed with myself because I always enjoy a good book. I love reading especially when I have a lot of them to read. Mrs Golder chose me because I did my homework reading all the time.

My award was a book given by Duffy who supports our school. The book awarded to me is called ‘ROCCO’. I still yet have to read it all. It says that the character was transported to another time and place.

Everyday I read at least half a chapter.  I have plenty of time to read it. I love my Duffy Books!

Damien

School Prefects

Prefects 2015

We are the prefects and we all have responsibilities. All of us have been chosen because we show leadership and encouragement. Our school depends on us to look after the young ones. To become a prefect you have to show the teachers that you deserve the role.

One of the prefect’s job is to solve people’s problems. Other duties of a prefect are to help others, listen to the teachers,  to change people’s attitude, to use polite words, to be a good citizen, to be honest, and take turns. All these things are related to what  prefects do to look after our school.

Our attitude has to be positive. We have to be fair to everyone around us. Prefects have to have discipline. We make sure everyone has to think first before they act, treat others like you want to be treated, be better than before and remember ACTIONS speak louder than WORDS!!

Always use your W.I.T.S:

W- Walk away

I- Ignore

T- Tell someone

S- Stand up for yourself
By Damien, Sini, Mika, Ofa, Suliasi and Quros

Class of 2015

We are the senior students of Ruapotaka School. Room 12 has 11 girls and 8 boys in total. Mrs. Golder is our teacher in our class. We are all year eight students who enjoy learning. When we work on our devices we always Learn, Create, Share our creations on our blogs.

Everyone in Room 12 is very kind and has a lot of good friends. We are very good leaders and we follow the rules. Our class has two prefects and another two to come. We enjoy laughing, smiling and having a good time with Mrs. Golder. We are all well presented students. We are all unique and special in different ways. We are a mixed cultural class. We are good volunteers. We have a positive attitude to most things.

Mrs. Golder teaches us the academic words which will be very useful in the future. We enjoy being a cybersmart class. We use our netbooks as a learning tool. Our netbooks are essential to our learning!

Written by the year eight students: Simon, Mika, Miria, Melelose and Damien.