Year 8 Graduation - 2020!

After a fun day for Team 5 at Swimarama, the Year 8s made it back to school along with their whanau for our last big event for the year - Year 8 Graduation 2020!

It was a special celebration with speeches from our prefects, rangatahi leaders, Mrs Tele'a, Mrs Samuels and Mr Burt. 

Check out the video below from Mrs Lagitupu for some highlights!

Sonnia and Paschal looked amazing and did a lovely job of introducing Ms. Tapuke - what a fabulous turnout of Year 8s from our Room 2 whanau for 2020!

Back row: AJ, Paschal, Sonnia, Ms. Tapuke

Front row: Mr Burt, Maddy, Jarreka, Sione, Shania, Isaiah, Caleb, John, Nesi, Mahoe
Absent: Damien

Maths - Measuring Up!

Check out today's learning in Maths from Paschal:

For today's task we had to measure the two line's and find out which line was longer and found out that they were the same length. Then  we had to measure five other objects which were the door frame, door latch, number two sign, width of the desk and our hand span.

Visit Paschal's blog and leave a comment about his measuring skills.

IN THE NEWS... Current Events with Paschal and Kauri

IN THE NEWS this week is a story about Rocket Lab is a Kiwi-American company with an office near us in Mt Wellington, Auckland. Check out what Paschal thought of their recent launch attempt.

Read Kauri's impressions about an ordinary Kiwi guy stepping in to save our national Kiwi bird.

MATHS - Properties of 3D Shapes - Paschal

Paschal shares his learning today about the properties of different three dimensional (3-D) shapes.
Visit his blog and leave a comment for him.  Test your own knowledge of faces, vertices and edges!

TAHA WAIRUA - Healthy Spirit - Words with Meaning: PASCHAL & JARREKA

Paschal and Jarreka have a new TAHA Challenge to share today to help build our TAHA WAIRUA for a healthy spirit.

Challenge: Share a poem, prayer, bible verse or inspirational quote and explain why it is important to you.

Visit Jarreka's blog and leave a comment about her Cook Island translation of the Lord's Prayer.

Bloggers of the week: SIONE, PASCHAL, ARTHUR Te Whare Tapa Wha

Our inquiry topic for this term is TE WHARE TAPA WHA. We are interested in finding out how we can balance our lives physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Read posts from Sione, Paschal and Arthur to see which areas of Te Whare Tapa Wha are strengths in their lives and which areas they could try to improve.

SIONE
Taha Hinengaro is a strength in my life. I enjoy seeing heaps of motivational speeches when i watch videos. It makes me have the spirit to get up and do some fitness to get fitter and faster, stronger. The most motivational part is getting use to all the strength you have to make yourself a better person than the past. last, but not least stay healthy and take responsibility for health too. Beauden Barrett is someone that i look up and listen to, because he has many possibilities on what he's doing. When it comes too his big games he has thoughts on what time the training begin, where the balls going and his position.

PASCHAL
Taha wairua is a strength in my life. I go church on Saturday and Sunday, on Saturday morning we go to church and have prayer meeting and bible study. I can improve in Taha hinengaro by having good thoughts and by making the right choices. Another Taha I am strong on is Taha whanau, I am strong in Taha Wairua because I always go church with some of my family members and friends. I also like playing video games or board games with my family and friends and those are my strengths in the Te Whare Tapa Wha.

ARTHUR
Taha wairua is a strength in my life. I go to church every Sunday and every second Sunday is my Sunday school. Sometimes I walk to church. While i'm walking I'm thinking to my self who is gonna be there? Is my friend Finn gonna be there? or is my other friend Tyler gonna be there? but I dont know because i'm not at church yet to see who is there. When i'm at church everyone always have to respect our pastors when they are speaking. I have to improve by taha hinengaro which is making right thoughts.

Prize Giving 2019

This week we had Senior Prizegiving, the first of our school End of Year celebrations. Our senior kapa haka group, Manaia-ki-te-rangi opened with a stunning performance.

Students from Room 2 were amongst those honoured for their sporting and academic achievements in 2019. Tino pai to mahi - AWESOME!  We are very proud of their accomplishments and excited to know that four students from our Home Class will be part of the school leadership group in 2020!

Class Awards

MARIA Citizenship (5th from left)

HOPA Best Effort (6th from left)

MAANAS 100% Attendance (8th from left)

Sports - Team Spirit

ASH Rugby

NYTRAM Rugby League

Academic

 MAANAS  Co-Dux for 2019

School Leaders 2020

NEVEAH, PASCHAL, SIONE, SONNIA - House Captains

We also got to see some awesome performances - the hard work from the tutors paid off! A big thank you from the Year 7s to Miss Timmi, Mr Wright, Shania and Tia and from the Year 8s to Toreka!

Check out the items for each year group below:

YEAR 7s

YEAR 8s