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?

Welcome back for the start of another exciting term!

Hi everyone and welcome back. I hope you had a great break from school and are ready for another school term.

Please post a comment below about something you did in the holidays and something you would like to achieve this term.

It can be something to do with school or something outside of school.

This term our topic is called CHANGE & CRISIS and we will be starting the term off by looking at ANZAC day. Each year we celebrate the lives of those who went to war and did not come home and we celebarte the returned serviceman who fought in the wars and returned home again. On April 25 each year ANZAC Day servives are held in New Zealand, Australia and Turkey. Wreaths are laid, the Last Post is played and it is a chance for us all to remember the past and in particular those who fought for our country.

Your challenge is to attend an ANZAC Day servive this year.The dawn parade is often the most powerful service but so are others during the day.

At school we will be discussing the services and the ANZAC day celebrations so it will be great to have had as many of you as possible attend the service so you can contribute to our discussions. We will also be looking at the traditions behind the services and if it is still current and relevant.

What do you think? Should we remember the past?

Camp

Hi everyone and welcome back to the blog. We had a fabulous week at Totaranui last week and below is a selection of some of the photographs that were taken during the week. We had glorious weather, lots of fun relaxing at the beach and kayaking, abseiling, searching for crabs, diving for muscles, cooking meals, sleeping in the tents and walking parts of the beautiful Abel Tasman National Park.

Thanks so much to everyone who made our week possible!!!

One week until camp

Not long to go now everyone! Camp is only one school week away. This week Room 2 are at Totaranui and we hope that they have a a great time.

If you have not done so already, please bring into class two cans of fruit and a baby photo for one of our camp challenges.

Please make sure that you are starting to collect together all of the gear you will need for camp and making sure it is ready to go. On Thursday I will be checking your footwear, wet weather gear and warm clothing so please bring these along to school.

Welcome to Room One Mrs Andrew!

Starting this week we have a student teacher in our class. Her name is Mrs Andrew and she lives in Japan! We are lucky to have her in our room for the next 5 weeks and she is going to be coming on camp with us as well! We hope you enjoy being in our class.

Non stop cricket tournament

Today Room 1 had their first non stop cricket game against Room 13. It was a very close game and we ended up winning 92 to 91! We all played really well and are looking forward to our next game later this week.

Do you think we can make it all the way to the top?

Photos from the beach

Tamanui te Ra at the Beach on PhotoPeach

Camp - What would you like to eat?

As you know we are going on camp in Week 8 of this term (Monday 26 March - Friday 30 March). We will have four dinners together and one of those dinners you will cook yourself. I would love to have your input into what you would like on the other 3 nights.

Things to consider...

• there are 38 people to feed each night
• we won't have all day to cook
• preparation and dishes are done by you (while supervised of course) so don't make it too complicated!
• read other people's comments and if you agree then you can repeat what they have said as well
• please record a main course and a dessert suggestion and don't forget your name : )

What is your favourite subject at school?

Do you love Art? Are you an amazing chef? Is getting out and running around your idea of a great afternoon? Do you adore numbers and calculations or writing descriptive stories set in far away places?

Let us all know what SUBJECT you most enjoy at school and WHY by posting a comment below. Don't forget to include your name!

Welcome to Room 1, 2012

Hello and welcome to Room One's class blog! This web site will keep you up to date with what we are doing in class, up coming events and homework information. It is a place for you to leave messages to other students and as a way of communicationng your ideas in the form of a comment. I am hoping this will become a record of our year together.

Each week 2 students will have the pleasure of being in charge of the blog. The first two students will already know a bit about blogging and they will be teaching the other pairs when it is their turn.

What ideas have you got to make our blog cool, fun, informational and different from other blogs out there?

Our aim is to get the most possible hits each week!!!!