Auckland Netball

At the start of this year there was a message on the notices about all the girls who would like to represent our school for netball and go up to Auckland every Tuesday and compete against loads of different school from all Auckland.

There were round 120 girls who signed up at first and that had to be cut down to 10. The first cut that was made, was if you were at a lower grade from Saturday netball then you probably wouldn't get a chance to trial. 120 girls got cut down to 30, period 1 and 2 in week 6 the 30 girls got together and had a hard trial with the coach Donelle and from that 10 girls were picked.

I was lucky enough to be one of the girls that got chosen for the squad and after we got in the team and the names were finalized and then we got told that this was also going to be the aims team that would go down to Tauraunga to compete in a big netball tournament!

I would like to say thanks to Mrs Pearson and Donelle for giving up their time to help us kids with the skills and co-ordination we need to be top netballers!

Student Learning Plan

Last night I had my parent teacher interview, I was VERY happy with the response I got from my teacher! One thing that helped me with my interview was my student plan, it showed my parents the goals that I'd stated, I wanted to achieve.

My goals were:
Reading- I would like to complete all my reading assignments on time and to a high standard.

Writing- Proof read my draft writing for punctuation, spelling and grammar.

Mathematics- Find out the correct meaning of a cube root.

Citizenship- To be organized and be able to work in a busy class time table.

Overall I think this learning plan was such a great help and I will definitely want to use it again for my next parent teacher interview!

Recent Typing Test

This afternoon we completed our "Sense Lang" typing test again to see how much we have improved from our first test back in December 09. My first score was 48 words per minute and my score from today was 53 words per minute so I did improve slightly but this time it was touch typing, so we had a sheet over our hands and weren't aloud to look at the keyboard. So I thought that I was prity successful and my statistics were 53 words per minute, 177 characters typed, an overall of 8 mistakes and a success percentage of 95%.

I am happy with my progress and I hope that I will progress even more at the end of Term 2!

Hara Mura Exchange

On the 20th March 8 students from Pukekohe Intermediate and 1 from Pukekohe High, got a student from Hara Mura Junior High in Japan. They stayed with the chosen students for 9 days and in NZ for 10. Today was the students last day in NZ and left there new families for a very emotional goodbye and were off to Waitomo for a good NZ trip.

I was one of the lucky students who was able to receive one of the students and be able to experience what is like to not speak the same language but having to find a way to communicate but by the end of the 9 days we all could understand and talk to them like we were having a conversation, not struggling to know what they are saying. As a group, with our students we first went to Miranda Hot Springs in the Franklin district on the sea bird coast and all the host families went and had a pot luck dinner on Sunday 21st the day after they came. Then we went on an Auckland trip and visited Kelly Tarltons, Bastian Point, the Sky Tower, Victoria Park Market and a quick tour of the Maori Display at the Auckland Museum. Then on Friday we went to Sunshine Ranch in Clevedon and went on a horse trek and then went on a flying fox and a rope swing then last but not least we went on the water activities which were basically water confidence course and as far as I know all the Japanese students and even a couple of teachers really enjoyed the challenge of the courses available.

The students who received students this year and a quite a few others who got students in 09 will be visiting Japan this year in September for round 16 days. Hara Mura Junior High is Pukekohe Intermediate's sister school and they have a group of students who come every year but our school only sends students every 2 yearly.

Overall I think this group of kids that came all the way from Japan were absolutely fantastic! They students were Saho, Chiaki, Kaho, Junko, Sakiha, Hagemay, Ushiro, Ryota and Shouhei. Thanks to all the teachers who helped made this trip happen.

Multiple Intelligences Test

Today the year 8 part of our class room 23, toke a multiple intelligences test, which told us if we were Naturalistic- Nature Smart, Kinaesthetic- Body Smart, Linguistic- Word Smart, Logical- Number Smart, Interpersonal- People Smart, Intrapersonal- Myself Smart, Musical- Music Smart and Visual/Spatial- Picture Smart. Your results were given in a pie graph and showed how much of each your personality was.

In some aspects I think they were correct, with my results basically, nothing was really out of place and I think they pin pointed me prity well. My top marks were Interpersonal Smart which means you will like to mix with other people and you will belong to lots of clubs. You like team games and are good at sharing. Also Logical smart which means you will be good at mathematics and other number activities; you are also good at solving problems. Another one of my strong points is being Musical Smart which means you will enjoy music and can recognize sounds, and timbre, or the quality of a tone. The last one that I think is one of my best is Kinaesthetic smart which is you will enjoy sports and are good at swimming, athletics, gymnastics and other sports. The other intelligence i scored reasonably high on was nature smart which I was quite surprised and I didn't really except to get that sort of score.

I've looked over my results and I think that, the intelligences I got tested on, I was great at some and then there are a couple that I'm okay at like Intrapersonal smart but all in all this test summed me up quite well.

I recommend that you try this and see how accurate it is for you!

If you would like to take the test then go to Google and type in "Multiple Intelligences Test" and the first link that's available click into it and read the instructions from there.

This term Mrs Pearson introduced us to a site called "Mathletics," and luckily for us the school funded the program for us to use, because if we weren't associated with the school we would have had to pay $99.00.

Mathletics has a number of activities you can choose from and if you receive 100% you get a gold bar and in total I have 5 gold bars and I have attempted 8 rounds activities. But if you want to verse someone from across the world then you can play live mathletics which means you choose a level 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. You could be faced with subtraction, multiplication, division and addition and you could have 2-4 players in your group.

You receive coins, when you play live mathletics you receive 5 coins for first and 10 points if you brake your record, also you receive coins from the activities you do. I have got 525 points this week but my highest score is 2040 points.

You can get certificates, (bronze, silver and gold) the possibilities of getting a certificate are good. If you receive 1000 points you receive a bronze certificate, then when you receive 5 bronze you will get a silver then when you get 3 silver awards you will get a gold certificate.

All together I think mathletics is a great and worthy site to use.