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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.

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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!

Awesome Arabella!

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The Fast 5 Queen!

Every Maths session, we start by doing our 'Fast Five' which is 5 maths questions that we have to do as fast as we can.
Every morning Arabella keeps coming first, taking out the gold medal.
Awesome Arabella!

Kelsey's putt-putt boat experiment

R14'ers go to Zone Day:

Jake is going to Zone Day for 1500m, 800m, high jump, discus and 200m. Anna is doing 1500m, 800m and discus. Olivia is doing long jump, and Kelsey is doing 1500m and 800m. AJ is also running in the 1500m and 800m.

Go Room 14'ers!

Group Day results:

Group Day was tiring for Anna and Jake, because they had to do every event. Jake won high jump, and was 2nd in the 1500m and 800m, and 3rd equal in 200m. He also came 4th in the 400m and 5th in the finals of the 100m.

Olivia came 1st in long jump and she fell over and bruised her tail bone.

Cody didn't go very well, because he came 4th to last - he didn't have any water. He learnt that he needs to drink water to help him win. He was also versing hard people, too.

Jamie-Lee was very frustrated because she was ONE cm away from coming 3rd in shotput!

AJ's first race was the 1500m. He shot out at the start with Jake. He kept his pace up and won by 200m! In the 800m, it was AJ and another boy out at the lead, but at the final sprint, AJ won!

Chris feels pretty good about coming first in the 200m.

Kelsey came 2nd in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m, and tied for 4th in the 400m.

Dana came 4th in the 800m and she doesn't know where she came in the 1500m. Group Day was exciting, because she was representing her school.

The Spelling Man Returns

The Spelling Man has now got 6 golds, 3 silvers and 7 bronze. Cody has been on target since his last update, and next week he hopes to improve by winning more silver, gold and bronze medals.
Good luck, Cody!

Sarcomere inhomogeneity is increased in failing cardiac trabeculae

Today, we had a special visit from a scientist named Alex Anderson. He uses rats and a special chemical to kill them. He then uses muscles from the rat to find out how the muscle reacts if he puts chemicals with the muscle. He has a really interesting job. He gets to work with lots of interesting pieces of equipment like lasers and microscopes that zoom in closer than a cell.
His dream experiment would be to design and build a robotic arm that is controlled by the brain and the nervous system.

Zyra paints Aimee

This is my painting of Aimee and it was inspired by Paul Gauguin. Paul Gauguin's style is painting the people around him, and seeing as Aimee was sitting next to me I painted her.

We had to do a black outline of everything, and not apply too much detail and use bright colours.

My painting looks cool and pretty, but I forgot to put Aimee's glasses on her.

Foaming Monster Experiment

PLEASE come to our Year 7 concert!

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Year 7 2010 Concert - Come, come come!

This year, the Year 7's are performing a concert for the parents and pupils showcasing our Commonwealth work and May is New Zealand Music Month work.
The Directors, Sophie and Eleanor, are giving you advanced notice so that you can come on:
1.45pm Thursday 9 December 2010 in the school hall.
They will send out a newsletter later this week.

Cody's medals

Cody now has 5

medals, 3 silvers and 6 bronze medals for spelling.

He is excited and he wants to get more golds than any of the other medals.

Science excites Students

Room 14 and Room 8 have been learning about Science and we've been split into groups of 4 to carry out the experiments.

Dana is writing up her results for making gloop and Olivia is using pulleys to lift weights.

It's interesting and exciting at the same time.

CJ's Spelling Success

Our new boy, CJ, has been learning new spelling words each week - it's not easy and it's not hard, he says.

Last week he learnt to spell 15 words correctly like present, which after he learnt how to spell it, it was easy!

His goal is to learn 20 words this week.

3 Gauguin inspired paintings

Athletic Champions

Tuesday next week, 10 students from Room 14 are going to Athletics Group Day at Sandspit School.
We are versing all different schools in Waiuku. Our goal is to get to Zone Day for some of the events.
Anna and Jake are in every event that is available. Jake wants to go to Zone Day for at least half of the events, and Anna wants to go to Zone Day for the 800m and long jump.
Good luck Room 14'ers!

The NEW Tom!

Miss Harris commented that Tom's behaviour and attitude has improved a lot since the beginning of the year. Ms Clydesdale says 'Well done' because Tom has worked really hard to improve his behaviour and attitude, and other teachers have noticed the improvement too!

Go Tom!

Potato Power!

Yesterday was Manual at View Road School and we had to plan our own potato dish. Arabella and Kelsey decided on something that they called 'Spudtastic' also known as potato puffs. They got their recipe from Alison Holst's 'Best Potato recipes'. Here's what they did:

We brought in all the ingredients that we needed that Miss Harris didn't already have. Kelsey cut the potatoes, so Arabella could make mashed potatoes. She also diced the ham, grated the cheese, and cut the crusts off the bread and cut the bread into quarters on 3 pieces of bread, then placed the 12 pieces of bread into cup cake cases, while Arabella was making the mashed potatoes.

When the mashed potatoes were done, we mixed the ingredients together with an egg that we had cracked into the bowl, and then we spooned the mixture into the 12 cup cakes cases on top pf the bread.

We put it in the oven and wait 20 mins, and put it on fan bake for 5 minutes to hold the ingredients together.

We took them out and paper scissors rock to see who would choose their 'Spudtastic' first - Arabella won, so she chose first.

Miss Harris asked if she could try one, because they looked really yummy and were delicious!

She said that they were really good, that we worked well together and we kept our area tidy and organised, and cleaned while they were in the oven.

When we got back to school, Miss Harris had already phoned Waiuku Primary School to tell our teachers that we were the best Year 7's in all of Waiuku!

We felt really fantastic, because there are lots of different schools in Waiuku and we were the best! Our teachers were impressed and both Kelsey and Arabellas' mums said that they have to make it for dinner one night.

Zack's information report on Sherwin Stowers

Grace's information report on Gabrielle Armstrong-Scott

Kelsey's information report on Jacko Gill

Cody's medals update

Cody has now got a total of 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals for Spelling!

Cody has been coming in before the 9 o'clock bell and doing his spelling so that he can win a medal. He is aiming for the most golds he can win.

Good luck Cody! We hope he wins heaps of gold medals!

NZ Tae Kwon Do champion Niketa beats the Aussies!

Room 14 recently welcomed Niketa into the class. She talks about her trip to Australia this year:

I was personally invited to go there by Mr Weston, a black belt instructor in Australia for the National Tae Kwon Do competitions. He met me at the NZ Tae Kwon Do competition in Wellington. He was refereeing my sparring match and he said that he wanted me to show his students, because I am really good.

I won gold in the NZ Nationals which is pretty cool!

When I got over there, I went to one of his club training on the Thursday before the nationals and I was given an Aussie jacket and an Australian Tae Kwon Do badge.

At the Australian Nationals I was entered into 3 events - specialty, sparring and patterns. In patterns, I went up against several people of a higher belt than me and I won gold!

In the next event, specialty, I had to kick a board that was abover my head with my foot and the other kick was a flying side kick. I had to run up and jump over a piece of string that was at my shoulder height and I got silver.

The last event was sparring and I went up against a few people who were taller than me and I got a bronze.

On the second day, Mum and I went to watch and I was presented with a Most Spirited plaque.

I was proud of myself, because I was the only person from NZ to go over and Mr Weston said he wanted to see me next year Mum said yes, we could go next year - I'm looking forward to competing there again next year!

Future for filming kids

About 12 o'clock on Thursday 4th November 2010 Teresa from the Franklin County News surprised us with a visit about our Gareth Kean video. She interviewed us and took some photos.

We told her about our roles and the steps - scriptwriting, making props, practising, filming and lastly editing all the parts together to make the movie.

We are excited and overwhelmed that our group was chosen.

Olivia's success!

My results in the Reading PROBE test today show that I read every night.
Teachers don't give just give you reading for homework for no point, they give it to us so we improve in our reading.
I'm surprised that it helped me and my family will be happy!

More results!

Results are coming in thick and fast for Room 14, showing how hard the Room 14 students have worked during the year.

Reading results to date:
Chris improved 3 massive year levels.
Dana has improved 2 year levels.
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Eleanor, Arabella and Sian have improved more than 1 year level.

GLOSS (Maths Strategy) results:
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Cody, Jamie-Lee, Eleanor, Arabella, Kelsey and Scott have all improved by one Stage.

IKAN (Maths Knowledge) results:
Chris improved by 2 stages.
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott improved by 1 Stage.

Basic Facts results:
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Jake, Tom and Cody all achieved Level 4A - well above their expected level of achievement!
Anna improved a massive 4 sub-levels.
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Tom and Sophie improved a huge 3 sub-levels.
Eleanor, Kelsey and Hamish improved 2 sub-levels.

Results still to come: Writing, Handwriting and the rest of the Reading results.

Impressive results Room 14!

We won 5-a-side soccer!

Last night our 5-a-side soccer team beat the Waiuku Primary School Rovers 2-0! Hamish scored both goals and Cody missed a lot of goals.

It was great to win becasue we are the only unbeaten team.

Chris plays goalie and he only had a couple of shots coming at him, and he saved them all.

One of the girls in the other team scored, but it was inside the D, so it didn't count - Chris nearly got to it though!

Two Golds too good!

We won gold twice in a row for our spelling in the morning - one for an oral test and one for a written test. As soon as they got to school, Chris and AJ tested each other.

It was like winning gold in the Commonwealth Games!

Spelling Man!

Since joining Room 14 at the beginning of Term 3, Cody has been doing his spelling and has got 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals.

Cody writes fast and neat, and aims to be the first one to finish. Since he got 4 bronze, Cody wants to get 2 more silvers and 3 more golds.

His strategy is to get to class and start to spelling before school, and hopefully to get first.

Good luck Cody!

Gardners take action!

R14 have been listening to Ken Ring's weather predictions, because he is a very accurate weather man, and he has predicted that we will have a drought this summer.

So the R14 gardners have discussed this with their whanau and decided to re-use water from their washing machines and their bath water, when they wash their dishes .

They are going to find out about mulching and how and why to use it.

5-aside Soccer

Last night we won 4-1 against Waiau Pa. In our first game we won 5-2 from Travis' own goal when he tried to head it away, it went into the back of the net.

Chris is our keeper and we don't really have positions in the outfield. We swap around so its fair, so everyone gets a turn to strike.

Some of the rules are that if you are the keeper, you can't kick the ball over halfway without it bouncing in your own half.

Another rule is that there are no throw-ins, only kicks, and you can't score from your own half or inside the D.

Our next game is against WPS Tom and MacKenzies' Rovers and we expect to win.

Tom achieves Silver!

I feel proud to achieve silver in my worst subject - Spelling!
I started before school and I'm proud that I had good accuracy.
My next goal is to get gold in Spelling next week.

Testing!

We have started testing to gather data for reporting back to whanau later this term and some interesting results have started to come through.
So far Room 14 has completed the IKAN test (Maths knowledge) and Basic Facts test.
IKAN results:
Arabella and Chris both scored a massive Stage 8 (the highest stage) jumping 2 Stage levels - they are expected to be at Stage 6!
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott jumped one Stage to reach Stage 6. The remainder of the class maintained their levels from the beginning of the year.
Basic Facts results:
Arabella jumped 3 sub-levels and scored 4A! Sophie and AJ improved 2 sub-levels and scored 3P.
Scott and Eleanor both moved up 1 sub-level, while Jaime-Lee, Tom, Jake, and Cody remained sitting comfortably on 4A.
At Year 6 the children are expected to be at Level 3, while at Year 8 they should be at Level 4, so for our Year 7's at this stage of the year, they should at least be sitting on 3A ready to move into 4B.
Remember that Basic Facts is a weekly homework activity that students so be doing, along with a minimum of 1 hour per week on Mathletics.

Screenprint imprints

I was inspired by the world wars and how we made friends and started to come together as one whole big family nearly.

I used the craft knife, which is a lot easier to do circles and because of the lighter colour, it made the imprint of the one that was before mine.

Screenprinting is real easy to do - you just need to think of a design and put a little bit of paint on the screen, then put your design under it and then go over it with a squeegee twice - once if possible, and you are ready to do another one.

I chose to screenprint because screenprinting is pretty cool and easy to do, and you can think of lots of designs to do and with the small amount of time, you can do heaps!

WPS Art Festival Award Winners

R8 & 14 wps art festival awards

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R8 & 14 WPS Art Festival Winners

The decision of how to award the certificates to for the WPS Art Festival was very tough with some R8 & 14 students having as many as 10 pieces of work on display!
Congratulations to the following students received awards for their prints:
Chanel - cardboard prints
Andrew - cardboard print
Savannah - sponge print
Zyra - string print series
Abbie - string print series
Grace - screen print
Anna - screen print
Dana - Kupesi
Hamish - Kupesi
Jamie-Lee - leaf print

WPS Art Festival

Last term, we have been doing our ordinary art (Printmaking) and we have selected some outstanding pieces of art to go on the big wall at the end of the hall, to be displayed to the public.

The exhibition opened this afternoon at 2.30pm.

We learnt different printmaking techniques and styles. We made string blocks, cardboard stamps, kupesi, junk prints, leaf prints, screen prints and scraper prints.

Each week, we rotated between Whaea Josie and Ms Clydesdale. We learnt a lot of different types of printmaking, which was interesting and fun, and our art work improved.

Jamie-Lee's art has improved and she learnt to take her time so her art was better quality. Dana learnt that art is really fun, and if we do really well with art now, you could be an artist when you are older.

Some lucky people made lithographs with professional artist, John Pusateri.

3rd Place Getters!

In the holidays, we came 3rd in the Weir Rosebowl Tournament. Auckland teams came 1st, 2nd and 3rd! We versed Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Northland, Waitakere, Waikato/BOP, and the top Auckland team.
I scored a goal playing against Northland - I was proud of myself, because we needed to win, and the other goal was a fluke. We lost 1-0 to the top Auckland team, who took out the cup.
We stayed at St Kentigens Boarding School - it was cool because we all got to be together after the games, and I'm a better soccer player now.
I'm the only boy from Waiuku to make it ever into the Auckland Football Federation. This was my goal for last year, and also to get Player of the Year cup from for my whole club, which I achieved.
At the moment, I'm going to athletics, touch and tennis. My goal is to get fitter and make it again into the Auckland soccer team next year.

Dana wins the WPS Learning Trophy

I have won the WPS Learning Trophy because I work well and always finish my work ahead of time to a very high standard.

Ms Clydesdale said that I'm always first to finish stuff and I set the pace for everyone to copy!

I feel happy that all my good work is recognised.

AJ's CGF jingle

Jake is an Auckland Soccer Rep!

I am in the Auckland rep team called 'The Strikers' in soccer. There is a big tournament up in Auckland from Tuesday 27th September till Friday 1st Octber 2010. We are versing regional teams and we will be sleeping in dorms for 4 nights, where we are playing. We will be versing Wellington and other regions.
I play centre forward, because I'm a good shooter. I was training with a team lower than me, called 'The Stars'. I didn't know that I was in 'The Strikers' till yesterday. I was proud of myself to make it into a higher team and to go to the tournament.
We had a friendly against The Bay of Plenty in Pukekohe last Sunday and we beat them 2-1!

Eleanor's athlete's jingle

Sophie's medal winning speech!

Hamish's Commonwealth Quiz

The Commonwealth Quiz

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Jacko Gill

Jacko Gill (born 20 December 1994) is a shot putter from New Zealand. At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, he won a gold medal in the shot put. He is the youngest ever male junior champion, beating the record of Usain Bolt. He threw a 5kg 22.53m at an event in Stockholm, Sweden which earned him the under 16 and under 17 world youth bests; he threw a 22.60m at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games to extend his record.

At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, as a 15-year-old, Gill won the gold in the shot put (6 kg) with a distance of 20.76 m, beating 18 and 19-year-olds and becoming the youngest ever male junior champion.

NZ Commonwealth Oath

Old R14ers 'Fins to Feet' Entrants Honoured

Future House

This is what our house is going to look like in the future. This took us an hour and 15 minutes to build, after maths. It has 2 swimming pools and a jacuzzi, a movie theatre, a diving pool with a bungy jump, and an ice-cream truck, the world's biggest burger and a fireplace. There are 3 massive bedrooms and only one bathroom, because we ran out of blocks. We had a kitchen and a stadium.

Eleanor is our TOP student

Eleanor received the news this afternoon that she achieved honours in her keyboard exam - Congratulations Eleanor!

Her keyboard teacher said that Eleanor is the top student, because she got the highest mark!

Taine shoots for trophies!

Taine has been doing archery for four years with the Franklin County Archers. It's exciting, because when he does shoots, there are 3-D targets and lots of different 3-D animals. Sometimes he goes hunting with his dad and his two brothers, and he has shot a goat with his bow, and a couple of possums and carp!

He has won lots of awards, but they are mostly certificates. He won his first animal trophy two years ago, and won a competition trophy last year. Taine was shooting against one of the best archers in his club who is about 40 years old. He felt nervous, and was excited and happy when he won.

Taine shoots with a Browning Micro Midas 3. He brought his bow in to school and showed us, because he had been reading about bows and arrows in his reading group, the Chocolate Covered Reading Bananas.

Trash to Fashion Highly Commended!

Shannon, Brooke, Pagan, Rose, Ricky and Georgia were very glam as they attended the Final of Waitakere City's Trash to Fashion event yesterday afternoon. They were stoked when they received a special award from the Judges for 'research and sourcing of their materials'.

They spent hours and hours working on their garment and Shannon was a brilliant model with her blue makeup.

Our especially big thank you goes out to Shelly, who drove this group into making sure that they kept on task and completed the garment, as well as spending many long hours waiting at the rehearsals!

Have a look at the Trash to Fashion website:

http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/artcul/ae/trashtofashion/index.asp

2x2 algorithms!

It was a struggle to figure out how to get the answer. I had to practise the algorithms heaps and Cody helped me by showing me the columns - to go up and then across, because that's what I got confused with. Now I know how to do my algorithms and I feel happy now that I can do my work in time.

R14 Performs at the opening of the Waiuku Town Centre

Hesitation by the Chocolate Covered Reading Bananas

Waiuku Town Centre Opening

At the start of the term, Room 14 made up a dance and sang 'Momma don't allow' for our assembly item. Tomorrow we are performing it for the Waiuku Town Centre Opening. Today, we walked down to the Centre and practised it on the new stage that they have just built. It was scary, because alot of people could see us singing and dancing. A man came out of his office and videoed us, and will put us on You-tube. It was a good idea having a practise, because it got us a bit ready, because today we were doing it in front of strangers, and tomorrow, we will be doing it in front of even more strangers! And it was very funny, because a little baby jumped up on the stage and started dancing with us.

We are performing about 1pm Friday 27th August 2010, so if you are not busy, come down and cheer us on!

Thank you Jim Fisher - probably none of us have been put on Youtube! Go to Jim's link to watch our practise yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2LXhVRGkFc

Anna's Valerie Vili

anna's valerie vili quiz

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This is what happens when you learn a dance!

Zone to Champion of Champions!

Kelsey feels happy that she came 2nd in the Zone Cross-country for the Year 7 girls. It was the highest placing out of all the Waiuku Primary School students who raced today, but she is still annoyed that she didn't beat Savannah! Her dad cheered both her and Anna on, and her mum took them to McDonalds and they missed the prize-giving because they didn't know there was one.
Anna is proud that she came 16th and just made it into the Champion of Champions in Auckland with Kelsey.
AJ came 4th so he will be going to the Champion of Champions, too. He was right close to Finn until the end when Finn sprinted off and came 2nd. AJ felt pretty cool about coming 4th and in the Champion of Champions his goal is to make the top 10!

Printmaking Workshop

First, John showed us his printmaking and other famous printmaking, and then he told us how he did the printmaking. I like his ones, because he used layers of ink. John used slabs of limestone and then we got to try out the technique on foam. It was creative how it made a nice print on the paper. It was really fun. In many years to come, I think I will still be using his technique. John uses his art to show that birds are becoming extinct and we need to help them.

Thank you to Ms Yelchich for putting the time and effort into organising John's visit.

Go and look at John's website:

http://www.johnpusateri.com/

Farewell Shay!

Hi Shay.

We already miss you and hope you have had a good flight!

We haven't got used to not having you around, but you will always be with us in our hearts. We miss your smile and your laugh, and your pretty curly hair!

We hope you pick up the language super fast and enjoy your new school, and make lots of new friends.

Come and visit us in the holidays.

2nd at Group Day

We were determined to win! We lined up in our age groups and the clappers went. The first corner we got out in front, and Kelsey stayed in front all the way until the very end of the race. A metre or so away from the finish line, Savanah from another school overtook her and won!

Kelsey felt happy that she made it to Zone, but was disappointed that she didn't win.

AJ stayed out in front for the first half of the race, then Finn pulled out in front and started getting away from him. But AJ made sure that he didn't get out of site, and AJ was only beaten by 5 metres at the end! The last hundred metres, he couldn't feel his legs and felt like he would faint. He is a little bit disappointed because last year, he came first. He is going to beat Finn at Zone!

Gandhi was brave and a genius!

Mahatma Gandhi used passive resistance or non-violent techniques to get the British supremacy out of India. Gandhi got out of India, the most powerful country of the time, without using a gun!
He was courageous, persistent, brave, determined, tenacious, kind-hearted, a lawyer, educated, intelligent, legendary, visionary and disciplined. He was also a vegetarian.
Gandhi showed us that we don’t need to fight back and shoot people, that we don’t need wars, we can talk. He is inspirational to us and we still remember him now as the ‘Man of the Millennium’.

Cody says that Gandhi dressed like the poor people and ate with them, and looked like them. I would like to be brave like him.

Arabella's Lego Gymnastics!

I chose to do a diarama about gymnastics because it's a really interesting sport and you get to see all the people doing all their tricks, and there's lots of different types of gymnastics. I used to want to do gymnastics when I was little, because I thought it would be fun, but I never actually got around to doing it.

I used Paint to make the background and then just copied and pasted it, till it fitted the whole box. I tried to put in some of the different types of gymnastics, like rhythmic gymnastics and the rings.

My diorama is now in the office so everyone can see it. People's comments have been that they think it's really cool, it's incredible, etc. I got an A+ for it and it was worth the effort!

Group Day here we come!

Yesterday, we participated in the school's cross-country and out of the Year 7 girls, Kelsey was first, Anna was second, Dana was third and Eleanor was fourth - all these brilliant runners are from the one and only Room 14!

This means that we qualify to represent Waiuku Primary at Group Day.

We had to do 3 laps around the school and we were absolutely puffed!

AJ is the 1st Year 7 Boy!

At the start, I was determined to win. I knew I could win, because every morning at camp at 6am we went for a run and I was always first back.

When the beeper went, everybody sprinted but me, so I wouldn't blow my energy out at the start. Mat was ahead of me at the start, but when I went past him, he just faded.

In the last lap, I started to get the stitch, but I kept running hard and I WON!

When I heard fans (my family) cheering for me, I ran faster. I was happy because I thrashed the Year 7 boys and achieved my goal.

Kelsey comes first!

Yesterday was cross-country for the junior and senior classes. The Year 7 girls race was at 1.45pm. We had to do 3 laps around the school block and we had to hold our hand out and have a vivid line drawn on our hand for every lap. I came FIRST out of the Year 7 girls! I was tired around the last corner, because it's a bit of a hill, but the finish was only a little bit away so I kept running. I'm happy because I ran the whole thing and I came first. Now I'm going on to Group Day and if I make it into the top 8, I go on to Zone.