Room 14 2010 on PhotoPeach

Top Academic Year 7 Student

The top WPS Year 7 Academic Student for 2010 is Arabella. She is the top Year 7 student in Maths with Stage 8 in GLOSS and IKAN. Arabella is reading at a 14.5 - 15.5 years, and is writing at a 4A level. She also scored a stanine 9 in her PAT Reading tests at the beginning of the year.

Arabella was really proud to get the award, because she has tried to work hard and it made her feel like she is pretty smart (which she is!).

Congratulations Arabella!

And thanks to Mrs Stirling for teaching us how to make paper snowflakes this afternoon.

Farewell our lovely Whaea!

A big thank you to our lovely Whaea Josie for creating a wonderful kapa haka group. Her teaching in R00m 8 has been awesome and spectacular, and Room 8 has learnt so much. Jamie-lee will miss Whaea's great ideas, and thanks Whaea for inspiring her to sing.

We all wish her good luck for next year as the Deputy Principal at Pukekohe North School.

Nga mihi nui!

World Champion Cyclist Kaytee Boyd

World Champion Cyclist Kaytee Boyd cycled into WPS to speak to Rooms 8 and 14 this morning. She told us that if you put your mind to it you can do anything! If you follow your goal you can achieve whatever you want.
Kaytee got to meet all the athletes at the Commonwealth Games and she has heaps of medals and came 5th in the Womens Tour de France. Kaytee needs to put on weight because she is the thinnest on the NZ team. Kaytee said that you can do anything and she encouraged us to be good sports people.

Y7 Concert this Thursday!

This year, the Year 7's are performing a concert for the parents and pupils showcasing our Global Warming, Commonwealth and May is New Zealand Music Month work. Our concert is being held at 1.50pm Thursday 9 December 2010 in the school hall. Please join us as we celebrate our successful learning for the year.

WPS Year 7 Commonwealth Games TOMORROW!

Dear Parents and Whanau,
Rooms 14 and 8 are preparing to celebrate our Learning Matrix by hosting our own Commonwealth Games Event tomorrow Wednesday 8th December 2010.
9.15 The Opening Ceremony will start with the Waiuku Primary Year 7 Baton’s Relay.
9.30 The Games will begin.
9.45 The Male competitors go to their Field events.
9.45 The Female Competitors begin on their Track events.
10.15 Field and Track Events will swap over.
The countries being represented at these games are: Aotearoa, Australia, Jamaica, Canada, South Africa, and India. Scotland will make a brief appearance as the hosts for the Games in 2014.
11.00 Morning Tea
11.30 Sevens Rugby and Hockey Tournaments.
12.30 Preparations for Shared Lunch Begin
If you are available we welcome help cooking the BBQ and preparing for a shared lunch. A group of students from both Rooms 8 and 14 have volunteered to bring food indicative of the countries above, to share.
1pm Shared Lunch will be served
1.45 Relays
2.00 Medal Ceremony
2.30 Closing Ceremony
Parents are welcome at any time of the day to help as officials, spectators, or join us for lunch.

Room 8 & 14 Bottle Rockets on PhotoPeach

Tom speaks about his massive spelling achievements!

At the beginning of the year, Tom was getting 32% Tricky spelling words correct and now he has been re-tested and he spelt the 127 words correctly. That's worth 100% but doesn't count for the official results because it was a re-test.
Next year, when Tom is re-tested he is hoping to get 100% again.
Tom thought that his spelling sucked at the beginning of the year, now he has improved and he is as good as most of the rest of the class. Now he feels a lot more confident about spelling.
Go Tom!

Tom's massive spelling achievements!

Tom has had a massive improvement in his spelling this year. When he comes back from road patrol training, he will tell you all about it!

Maths Magicians!

Jaimee says that: Last week Ms Clydesdale told us we were quite behind on our maths work, so Jamie-Lee, Dana and I decided that we should take our maths home and do it there.
In the weekend, I did five pages of maths and so did Dana. Jamie-Lee had started doing her maths at home a bit earlier than Dana and I, so when we finish our maths and bring it into school, she marks it for us.
My dad wondered what I was doing, and he looked at my book and looking through the pages and he and my mum said that they were very proud of me, and so did Ms Clydesdale.
I am very proud of myself, too!

The latest on the Spelling Man!

The Spelling Man has now won 8 gold, 3 silvers and 7 bronze medals in Room 14's spelling programme.
The Spelling Man was presented with a certificate of excellence at the WPS assembly by our Deputy Principal, Mr Merchant.
Cody felt like a super heroe having the most golds. He has achieved his goal by having the most golds so far and he hopes to get more silvers and more bronze medals this week.
Fantastic Cody!

Sonny Bill's Foaming Monster Experiment

Taine's Archery Success!

A year ago Taine's archery club had a club day and during the day he had two shoots and after they ate their lunch they had a shoot-off. Taine says:

One of the people I was up against, Owen, is 54-ish years old and is one of the top shooters in our club. In the shoot-off, we had to get closest to the x-ring, which is the heart and I got closest to the x-ring, and that's how I won my trophy that I'm holding in my right hand.

On Sunday 28th November 2010 we had an archery tournament in Tokorua. That day, we had lots of fun shooting over rivers and down steep hills. At the end of that day, the adults had a shoot-off and after that everyone had a fun shoot at a flying pig. We then had prizegiving and that's when I got my trophy that is in my left hand, and won lots of prizes.

I like to do archery and I recommend it to other people to start, because it's great fun and you can win lots of prizes, too.

Anna at Zone Day

In the 1500m I helped Abbie run, because she wasn't breathing properly, so I helped her and I came 2nd to last.
In long jump, I came third and I jumped 3.41m!
Then in discus, I came 2nd and I threw 14 metres-something.
I feel happy that I did well and I'm going to the Auckland Champion of Champions.

Jake's 3rd place jump!

At high jump at Zone day Jake came 3rd jumping 1.25m high! The boy that came 3rd at Group Day came first at Zone day. Jake jumped 1.25m three times - he feels excited that he may be going to the Auckland Champs for high jump too!

Jake and AJ's amazing races!

1500m was the first race at Zone yesterday. Jake and AJ had 6 other people in the race. For the first 3 laps, AJ was ahead the whole time with Jake about 20 metres behind and on the last straight Jake caught up another 10 metres but AJ won!

The last race of the day and the BEST race of the day was the 800m. AJ and Jake were up against 5 other people. AJ was winning by 3 metres over Jake over the first one and a half laps, and then Jake caught up and passed AJ. But on the final 50 metres, it came down to a good sprint between the two boys and AJ won by a dive! How exciting!

Jake and AJ's successes mean that they go on to the Auckland Champions of Champions at Mt Smart Stadium next week - Go boys!