Stepz

Over the past five week all year 8 students have been attending "Stepz Classes" where we would learn 7 dances for the end of year 8 social. These dances have been really fun and diverse from one another,everyone enjoyed these lessons and wish there were more to come. But sadly today is our last stepz lesson, the next time we perform these dances will be on the 13th of December. We would like to say a huge thank you to our instructor Katie for helping us with all of these dances along the way!!

Seminars

Since the first week of term 4 we have been working on seminars, for the year 8s it had to be on a career but for the year 7s it could be on just about anything. I did mine on TV presenting, the criteria was it had to be based around 3 main questions and it had to be a minimum of 8 minutes. I was really happy with the end result of my seminar, I ended up getting the highest level for all the sections which I was so pleased with. This is the URL to my website which has all the information about my seminar. www.wix.com/shannc993/tvpresenting.

Athletics

On Tuesday 16th of November 300 students went over to growers stadium to compete in the schools annual athletics. There were loads of different categories you could enter such as high jump, long jump, sprints (100 metres), 200 metres, 400 metres, 1500 metres, discus, shot put.

You were either in the categories junior, intermediate or senior (boys or girls). A few records were broken by Kaitlyn Petherick, Havannah Pearson, Tauhi Lopeti. Everyone competed really well and supported eachother through out the whole day and we are hoping to have some good wins at zone athletics.

But whilst we were over at the high school the non competing students stayed back at school to have a fun filled day eith lots of activities to keep all involved very busy for the rest of the day.

Science at the High School

On Monday 15th of November, our class room 23 went along with room 30 over to Pukekohe High School to have an introductory science lesson to make sure we are up to date by the time we start next year, also to become more familiar with the routine structures and equipment.

Whilst we were there we also learnt how to light a bunsen burner, draw scientific drawings of each piece of equipment and we completed a few fun experiments to end the morning. We all have a bit more work to do in our booklets before the start of year 9 but all in all this was a very useful day which I'm sure every single person sitting in that classroom learnt something that day.

This morning we completed a current affairs quiz, it was quite difficult. I scored 6/10.

Te Paea's Farewell

This past few weeks the mentoring group have been organising a farewell shared lunch for Te Paea, who is leaving our school on the 12th of November to move to Australia. Te Paea was apart of a lot of activites and groups such as Rock and Water, Mentoring, Aims Netball, Touch Module Organiser and so many more. So some kids and Jack decided it was a good idea to get together some students and kids. The Mentoring Group, Rock and Water, the Aims Netball Team and her class room 5. It was a really great day and a big surprise to Te Paea. Good luck for your travels Te Paea, we are definitely losing a good one.