Earthquake Hits Whakaari / White Island-By Faye

A number of earthquakes have hit Whakaari- White Island. White Island is New Zealand's most active volcano. There have been 196 earthquakes there since Thursday. Science have said that the earthquakes are getting stronger, and there are fears it may cause a landslide. Experts are closely monitoring the island.

Here's hoping it doesn't erupt!

What We're Learning In Extension Group? by Ana

Last Thursday our extension group was learning about the history of juggling. We had a bunch of activities involving juggling, we even got to juggle some balls. One of the activities was to write a legend about how juggling started.

Another activity we had to do was writing facts about juggling from online in to our google document. I had to share with my friend Kotipi because I didn't have a chromebook, which meant I only had to do 3 facts, while she did 4. While I was doing my work, I was learning how to do a rubik's cube.

I only got to do one side before I gave up. I felt so excited I had a chance to even try. Extension is going well with our juggling topic at the moment.

Designs For My Clock by Kotipi

Last week at tech my task was to draw different designs for my clock. I could do any design I wanted, but I couldn't copy from the internet. On a piece of paper I had to draw my four ideas. It had to be special. It couldn't just be a normal coloured clock. If the shape of the clock wasn't different, then the face of the clock had to be.

One of my designs was shaped like a sun and was coloured in red, orange and yellow. One of my other designs had Roman numerals, instead of the Arabic numerals. Around the numbers on my clock I coloured it in a nice light blue.

The Year 7's Host The Syndicate Assembly 2019! -By Limiteti

Last Monday the year 7's from Room 12 hosted the syndicate assembly. I was very nervous because I had no idea how to produce a syndicate assembly but I wanted to take part of it. In the assembly my part was telling the prefects to come up to do their job. 

Well done to Kotipi and Madisyn for receiving a certificate for their hard working in class. In the end I was proud of the syndicate assembly that the year 7's worked together on!

Skip Off

Kotipi beats big brother Pupuke and wins the Senior Syndicate Skip Off earlier this week. Congratulations!
1st: Kotipi
2nd: Pupuke
3rd: Agueer
                                                             

                                

Who Won? by Riiana

Friday last week was originally supposed to be the skip off but the rain had other plans. We were lucky enough to get all the Rooms displays done. Since we weren't able to do the skip off, we seniors did it on Monday which replaced fitness.

Congratulations to Agueer, Pupuke and Kotipi for placing in the Top 3!

If you'd like to see how it went down, here's the clip.