🎥Revealing Our Film🎥

On Wednesday morning the entire Ruapotaka School were very excited for a special event. The special event was the Manaiakalani Film Festival. It was an event where schools had been busy creating a movie. It was held at Sylvia Park. The Yr 8's  made a short film, and it was shown in the theatre room.

Our movies was about being a good player when it comes to sport. Everyone had to be respectful to the referee and their opponents. We also had to work hard and how to become a good role model. Vaimoana and Meafou were our presenters. Our movie was the best in my opinion because it shows everyone how to become a successful rugby player.               

Orienteering

On Tuesday we had orienteering, Mr Leon had gently placed down controls all around the school. Orienteering is all about knowing how to read maps so that you can get to specific places. Mr Leon presented us with a piece of paper. There were four sections to this orienteering, I left with full speed running as fast as I could.

I arrived at my first destination and I was already exhausted, sadly I had no time to rest as I quickly had to  dash  to the second control. When I reached it I thought to myself will it be too challenging for me? As I was sprinting pass people I decided to stop, turn around and help my classmates.

Jack and Azahar were standing at the rugby post confused about where to go next. So I ran over to them and directed them to the right place. At the end me, Jack and Azahar ran together to finish off the task we were assigned to do.      

Skipping (Update)

Today is Tuesday so it's the last day for skipping. Room 12 have been practising skipping everyday so that we can become better than before.  We are still working on our routine, for the demonstration. There is only one day until the skipping display. After every skipping session our energy drops, because we are skipping for so long. The skip off is tomorrow and we will be performing in our groups demonstrating our routines which we have been practising.

Skipping💪💧

 
In the afternoons Rooms 12 and 11 go outside for skipping sessions. We do all sorts of things, for example,  skipping forwards, backwards, side to side, practising a display and lastly a skip off.

 Everyone grabs a rope and lines up into three rows. Mr Reid stands in the  front giving us instructions while Mrs Golder is videoing us. 

In my skipping group there are Lupe, Mika, Pate, Saluselo, Dakbai and lastly me. We were not allowed to be in groups with all boys and all girls. 

🥛National Milk Day🥛

Today is National Milk Day. It is celebrated every year on June the first. It started in 2001.

Ruapotaka has been getting their milk from Fonterra. Rooms 11 and 12 drink their milk every week.

We drink milk every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Some schools don't have milk so we are lucky to be one of the Fonterra Milk schools.

Monitor Badges

On Monday afternoon it was assembly. We finally got this year's monitor's badge. As a monitor you have to make sure the kids listen and you have to make sure no one's doing the wrong thing. Rooms 11 and 12 went up and lined up to received the badges.  

Everyday Theatre

On Friday morning two visitors came into our rooms and started to entertain us with a play about family problems and how to deal with them. The characters were Dave, T, Maria, Becca and Brian.

The play was about T. who had lots of drama in his life. He was 12 years old when his parents Maria and Dave began to argue  a lot and then separated. T's. best friend was Jack who always tried his best to help him out with his problem.

Rooms 11 and 12 had to make a group so that we can make our own role play and actions that showed what had happened in the story so far.

In my group were Min Zin, Henry, Mika, Jack, Azahar and Lupe. Our action was Brain moving in to Maria's place. At the end of that entertainment we were given a small blue card and a badge that said, " Game Master."

Pest Information

For the past few weeks Rooms 12 and 11 worked together and studied pests. At first we didn't know what pests were so our teacher made us record our knowledge on the K.W.L chart. This is what I thought Pests were initially 
Pests are insects or animals that can destroy crops.
After some researching about pests my knowledge has increased by a lot. This is what I know about Pests.

The Destruction Of Pests

Pests are creatures that live in filthy areas, people’s homes, schools and other places. Pests are unwanted insects that carry germs can harm or kill humans. Pests bite, destroy foods, crops and make our lives difficult.

There are many types of pests like rats, ants, flies, fleas, wasps, cockroach, mosquito and many more. The most dangerous pest for houses and schools are termites, they have a good ability to chew through wood, flooring and even the wall unseen.

Rats carry many diseases that are called plague, leptospirosis, rat bite fever and many more. When rats bite humans their bite can give you headaches, fever, cause you to vomit, rashes and kidney damage.

     

Mosquito bites are very dangerous to humans because once they have bitten your skin they will start to suck your blood. It causes people to have a fever or itchy bites.This can lead humans to get malaria which can make you vomit, be sick, nausea and then eventually you will die.

Pest aren’t very kind to the environment because they overrun houses and destroy people's properties, and damage humans food supplies and farmers crops.        

Room 11 Assembly

On Monday Room 11 had to plan the  syndicate assembly. The hosts were Meafou, Isabell, Dakbai and Teremoana. Room 11 decided that they were going to do a singing competition. The singer from Room 12 was Vaimoana because Mika and Lupe left to do a job for Mrs Vickers. When her item was finished Room 11 had to pick the winner. A few minutes they chose the winner and it was Room 12.

Assembly For 2017

On Tuesday Room 12 had to present a class item for the first syndicate assembly for 2017. The host were Tyron, Meana, Mika, Vaimoana, Athens, Lupe, Azahar and lastly me. All of us decided we were going to do a freestyle dance off. After a long time of thinking Mika decided to choose Room 10 as the winner. 

Start Of 2017

On Thursday morning school started and I was still in bed. I rushed around the house searching for my bag so that I could get ready. Finally a few moments later I was all sorted and ready. As I arrived at school everyone started to say, "Hi." I was very happy to see my friends and start to learn with new classmates.

Film Festival 2016

For the past few weeks our team has been working very hard on the movie. At first our team didn't start off well but then we all decided to work together. When the film was done our team was very happy and we were excited to see ourselves on the big screen.  

P.A.T Test

On Wednesday I walked in class and saw Maths Test today. I was very scared about the Maths Test because I don't really like Maths.The year sevens lined up and got ready to go to Room 11 for the long Maths test. When we walked in Room 11, Mr Reid told us that the test was for 45 minutes.

Buddy Reading In Room 7

On Monday afternoon when lunch time ended we went inside and started to do blogging. When it was about 2:30 pm we went to Room Seven for buddy reading. When we were all packed up we went up to Room Seven. When they were all organized we went inside and chose a buddy to read with. Later on when we had been sorted our buddy started to read. Later on my buddy completed the book and took it back.  A few moments later the bell rang and we all went home.

I'm so Sad:(

On Wednesday morning I was getting ready for school and when I arrived I heard, "Soccer is cancelled".  When I went inside the class I felt a bit sad.  After the bell rang we had to do fitness. After we finished fitness we went inside our classroom but before we went in Mr Reid said, "Whoever is in the soccer team take a photo''. In my head I felt a little disappointed because I really wanted to go Inter-school soccer. It was my first time going to soccer.

A Volcano Eruption

On Thursday afternoon Room 11 came into Room 12 for a science experiment. What we did was a volcano, in my team it was Meana, Mele, Teremoana, Sebastion, Pepe and me. What we had to do was write a hypothesis about what we thought was going to happen to the volcano. After that we went outside to get the ingredients to perform the experiment. When we mixed the ingredients it started to rise. I thought that it would go really high but it didn't.