The Epic Race

This film was created and directed by a small group of students in room 10- Kate, Agueer, Faye, Sione, Winnie, Mario, Limiteti, Uinita and Madisyn. The main message of the film is to have sportsmanship, courage and have team work regardless of the challenge. Music: We are the champions - Queen.

Matariki by Sebastian

Matariki

Matariki is a time we celebrate to start the new year

What do you know about Matariki by Ocyan

This is my photo and my picture of what I know about Matariki and my knowledge about. Matariki is when you see seven stars known as the seven sisters in the skynames are Tupu a nuku, Tupu a rangi, Waitī, Waitā, Waipuna a -rangi and Ururangi. They are our seven stars and they are legends.

Matariki by Kate

Hip Hop with Jess by Kate

Today we did Kiwi Sport, the kind of sport we did was Hip Hop dance. Our mentor/coach was Jess, she was awesome at showing us the moves! My favourite part about the whole dance was the last bit which was the Shoot/Hype.

If I were to vote who was the best to memorised  the dance (except for Jess) I would say Agueer because every time I look at her we both know the dance! We are going to do Hip Hop on Tuesdays for the next 6 weeks. I am going to be excited to memorise more Hip Hop dances!

My Mum by Sebastian

My mum is the best thing ever in my life
I would do anything even if I have to sacrifice.

She is kind and she is great
I wouldn't stop or even take a break

She gives me her love and even her trust
She  is respectful and sometimes likes to laugh

Lastly she is there and always has my back.
She will always keep me on track.

All About Love by Room 10

Room 10 wrote a poem on what they believe love looked like based on our 5 senses. Have a look at how we view love all around us...

Written and filmed by Joanlisi, Mary-Ruth, Konzay, Malia and Sosiua

Finding our way around Ruapotaka

Orienteering was fun for everyone. Learning about the symbols on a map, how to use a map, how to read a map and following north, south, east and west were all apart of orienteering. We always looked forward to our lesson with Leon because we were able to find controls all around Ruapotaka school.

We were learning how to read a map.

Following directions and finding our way.

We found a control and found ourselves in the corner of the multi-purpose room.

Liza learning how to read a map and find her way.

Asking Leon questions.

Still following our maps.

Learning about what orienteering is before we head out into the field.

A Day At The Zoo

We have been learning about predators and preys. We were very fortunate to see the awesome animals at the zoo especially because we have learned a lot about whether they are hunted or the hunters.

All we had to do was observe how the animals acted. We noticed different things including their interaction with other animals. How they treated each other.

The lion den was a class favourite!

The otters were sleeping most of the time but we were able to catch a glimpse of them at one point.

Giraffe drinking water.

These baboons were also a favourite. This was more funny behavior displayed by the baboons.

The seal was awesome. In this beautiful blue home we were able to see the seal swim and eat food.

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Playing sport with St Kents

Wow, we have been very fortunate to visit St Kents and do fun sport an team activities but also have them visit us at Ruapotaka and have more sport here!

Playing tag!

This was the human knot. Fakaola looks uncomfortable but she's just trying to get out of a team knot.

Here's another knot.

Watch out Solomone! Playing terminator tag.

Who's going to win it?

Weeks of training and building stamina has lead this group of hard workers to compete for the longest skipper. It was a very long skip off and to skip for that long only showed how much our winners had to practice. Awesome job to all students who participated.

First place: Limiteti

Second place: Fakaola

Third place: Meana

Well done!!!

Learning about the friendly island of Tonga

Malo lelei , we have just completed an awesome inquiry topic - Tonga! It has been very interesting investigating the unique Tongan culture. These are some of the traditional foods from the Kingdom of Tonga. A lot of us have tried it for the first time today and wow did we love it!

We had some visitors that have also studied this inquiry topic.

Kain looks like he's enjoying that lu sipi and talo.

It was definitely a new and different meal from what some of us normally have. I hope everyone enjoyed it!

Malia, Joanlisi and Mary-Ruth brought some beautiful colourful outfits to celebrate the occassion.

Farewell Dominic

On Wednesday the 31st of May 2017 Dominic left our class and our school. It was very sad to see him leave. We loved him so much. He was the coolest friend ever, if someone was sad he would help to cheer them up. He was the brightest person I have ever met. He was cool, amazing, funny and he absolutely loved the Lord.

We will miss you soo much Dominic!
I wish you luck at your new school and have fun.
Enjoy your life the way you want and take care! We will miss you.. a lot!

Sour science experiment

This is our week 2 science experiment. Lemon floaties! Find out if a lemon floats in water... We created and experimented ourselves. It's exciting investigating and experimenting.

Kicking off term 2!

We're back..

It's been an awesome start to the term. We're ready to learn! We're ready to create! We're even more ready to share! So look forward to an exciting term. With our inquiry topic being on Tonga we will have a lot of exciting new learning visible soon. We have science and arts to share! We also have our kiwi sport football starting week 2...

Edit and check!

We have been learning to become a strong writers and to edit and check our writing thoroughly. A lot of the time we miss mistakes and don't realize it. So here we have completed and checked the writing of a peer. This is helping us understand how we can help others improve their writing and also help us spot the mistakes we see in others writing and miss in our writing.

My Learning Goals by Tyra

My learning goal from term 1. I really want to put more effort into achieving my learning goals. My general goal I have already achieved  which is to encourage my friends now I will carry on. I will try my hardest to do all my learning goals so I can be more confident. This year,I want to be better than before.

My learning goals for this term by Mary-Ruth

This year for my goal is to encourage people,  if they need help and to show love to people when they are stuck on their work. My goals for maths is to do more than one strategy if their is a hard equation. I even want to learn my 6 to 12 times tables. For writing I have to add punctuation and to add more information so that my audience are interested and they can understand my writing and lastly for reading my goal is to understand the main text in the book and to read everyday at home and also to focus while while reading.

Focusing on my goals by Malia

HI these are my learning goals. My favourite goal is my maths goal. I want to focus on my goals all this year.