Thursday 24 September 2015

Tiritiri Matangi Endemic Birds

Room 1 and 3 shared presentations about the endemic birds on Tiritiri Matangi.
We learned facts about each bird and the sound each bird makes.
When we go on our exciting trip to the island we will be able to name birds that we see.


































Wednesday 23 September 2015

Market Day

On Wednesday we held a Market Day in the hall for the whole school to buy our products that we made during our inquiry Process to Product.
Room 1's four companies; Rock Pals, Dream Kites, Pom Pom Wonderful and Priceless Jewelers had around 30 products each to sell. All products were sold.
After expenses Room 1 made a profit of $156.20. The money is going to buy books for our school library.
We all had a great morning.

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Process to Product Inquiry Presentations

Butter by Cailan






Soccer Ball by Logan




Lewis Road Chocolate Milk by Summer





Pencils by Anna










Marmite by Lok Kie







Jellybeans by Karina



Marshmallow by Brianna









Chocolate by Katelyn




Linen by Marcus








Bowling Ball by Dontay


New Zealand Coins by Ryan







Wednesday 2 September 2015

Reps - Day One

Dontay is a representative for the Under 10 Counties Manukau Maori Rugby League team. His iwi is Ngati Raukawa. Dontay had his first tournament in the weekend. and has written about his first day. There are some great photos of him playing on their Facebook page. Well done Dontay, Mrs Poole is very proud of you for getting into a representative team. I am sure one day you will be playing in the NRL!

Reps - Day One

It was very very early on Saturday morning and I woke up to hear my Mum say, “Dontay it’s time to go.” I jumped out of bed with an excited look on my face. First we had to drive all the way from Auckland to a marae in Ngaruawahia to get our gear blessed and say a Karakia, then it was another 25 minutes worth of driving to the field and we accidentally ran over a wild rabbit. When we got to the field we did some warm ups and game plan drills.

It was our first game together as a team, as we kicked off I remember the big forward from the other team charging at me. My teammates were there to support me in the tackle, luckily for us he had lost control of the ball and now we were attacking. Boom a boy from our team busted through, all we could hear was “Go Stevenne go!” That try was followed by 5 more for us and 2 for the opposition. Yay we had won our first game. But the second game wasn’t so easy we lost 56 nil.

After that game we had a sausage in bread each and did stretches, warm downs and talked about how we could’ve won that game. It was coming close to our last game of the day, I gulped some water and ran over to my coach. He told us to not let the opposition play the ball and try slow them down so our team has more time to get ready to defend. I caught the ball from their kickoff and ran right into their defense line. I jumped back up straight away to play the ball, kapow! My friend goes right around them and took us to the goal line, they passed to me and I went straight through to score the try . Straight off of the next play our team pulls six more tries out of a hat the score was 42 nil.

 At the motel I was staying in, I was so battered and bruised I just wanted to lie down but as soon as I saw the animals at the motel a smile appeared on my face as stared at 4 peacocks, 1 pig and 3 roosters.

 By Dontay