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.