last term we had speeches. Simon, Brad and Brittany got through to syndacite finals. they were awsome but sadly they did'nt make it through to school finals. all the speeches were great well done guys!

Welcome back to term 4 !!!! We have a lot to look foward to this term. Louise, Ben, Josh H Adam and Kate have been selected to go to wellington for a raroa peformance. We have also got College testing, Athletics day, Pets day and our big year 8 trip to kaiteriteri at the end of the year. also we are starting athletics training this week. This term for fitness each class are making up games to teach to the syndacite. Its going to be an awsome term!

Poetry Finals

Congratulations to the 17 students who took part in the Tamanui te Ra poetry finals on Thursday! It was a very hard job to choose the four students to go through to the school finals as all of the recitals were of a very high standard. Congratulations goes to Paige, Riley, Tayla and Shanti who will be representing our syndicate at the Year 8 finals on the last day of the term. Well done!

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Over the next three weeks the whole school is having lessons from a programme called "Keeping Oursleves Safe". This is a programme that is taught in conjunction with the New Zealand Police and the local Police Educator, Mr Ian Mckitrick will be teaching in every classroom for two sessions during the teaching of this programme.

He will be visiting Room 1on Thursday of this week for his first visit.

This programme looks at how to look after yourself and how to make sure you are always in safe situations. It will also look at safety on the Internet which is called Cybersafety.

Last week of topic

This is our last week of looking at our class topic of "Our Changing World" and in particular our latest topic of VOLCANOES.

This week please post a comment below about something you have learnt about in this topic. Make sure you read what everyone else has written before making your post so that your comment is on something different. P.S. Don't forget your name!

How many different things can we list?

Week 6

By now all chocolate money should be in and any unsold chocolate returned to school. Hopefully we have sold enough to stay in front of the other Year 8 classes and earn ourselves that pizza lunch!

Last week we had our first Endball game against Room 13. We started really well and were ahead by 5 after the first three minutes and then they started to catch up. Luckily we had a strong defence and were able to pull through and win the match.

Week 4

Week four has arrived already and the selling of chocolate is nearly over. Congratulations to both Simon and Chontelle who had their names drawn out at assembly to colllect prizes. Well done to everyone else who has sold a box of chocolate as well. We are currently first equal in Year 8 and if we keep it up a pizza lunch will be coming our way! Keep working hard to sell as many bars as you can in the time that is left!

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!

How many boxes have you sold so far? Remember the race is on to sell as much as you can each week to get your name into the prize draw. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs!

We are fund raising for:

1. A sound studio in our new performing arts block.

2. More resources for the library.

3. More sports gear.

CAN we beat every other Year 8 class and win ourselves a pizza lunch?