Book Week

For Book Week we gathered as a class to create a poster to hang in the library. First we got a large cardboard from Mrs Golder to put our interesting information about our Author we chose. Our Author that Room 12 chose was Elisabetta Dami and she writes Geronimo Stilton chapter books. We chose her because we like to read her books. We worked on it for about 2 weeks because we had a lot of information to put on it and pictures were drawn by students so that took a while.

Syndicate Assembly

Yesterday 16 November was Syndicate Assembly. It was a short Assembly because we had a whole School Assembly. We practiced a song for prize giving and it is a Tongan and Samoan version of the song, 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas'.  We sang beautifully together with the song and it sounded amazing.

Tyrone Toka

Weeks Ago we had a special assembly, a boy sang a song to Ruapotaka School in the Multi-Purpose Room. We sat and waited till he sang. He brought his own instrument which was a ukulele. He played it very slowly and it was awesome. He had a talented voice and he performed on Homai Te Pakipaki. We really enjoyed listening to him sing.

Syndicate Assembly

Yesterday 2nd November was Syndicate Assembly in the Multi-Purpose Room. The classes:  Rooms 9, 10, 11 and 12 gathered and sat down ready to watch the assembly performed by Room 10. They read some of their work they done in class and showed us a picture that they drew in their class. We then sang some songs based on the  Rugby World Cup 2015. Certificates were handed out to the students who have been excellent in class and out at all times. After the Assembly finished we headed back to our classes. 

Rewriting a text using a different language style

Yesterday, the Bananas' group were with Mrs Golder on the mat and we we were given a task to do. The task was to rewrite a page from the Journal and the book we were reading: 'Why do I blush?' Together as a group we used words from the text to make up a narrative. We turned the language of an information report to the language of a narrative because we were learning to analyse the the different types of language features used in a text.
This is our rewrite:

Princess Ofa commented, “These reactions are signs your body is getting ready to …”Queen Melelose added quickly, “either fight or run away from a situation.”Prince Raniera was listening in and advised, “This is how our ancestors often reacted a long time ago.”Kolotina, the butler exclaimed, “ That’s true, your Majesty, for example when they came face to face with a large woolly mammoth!” Mikayla, the servant walked in with a bucket of ice and agreed, “this can help you cool down from your fight or flight reaction.”Prince Raniera interrupted the conversation and explained, “Your blood carries your body’s extra heat into tiny vessels called capillaries.”While the maid was cleaning she overheard the conversation in the royal room and wanted to join in this academic discussion. She mumbled shyly, “Because blood is red and the capillaries in your face are very near the surface of your skin, this heat-release this heat makes your face appear red, too.” The royal family were in shock of her knowledge and intelligence and were absolutely speechless.

By Bananas: Kolotina, Ofa, Melelose, Raniera.

Senior Cross Country

Students jogging, walking, talking and dawdling like a bunch of jungle animals.

Everyday we have cross-country and we have to run three whole laps. There were year fours running with the year eights. Some students like the year fours ran only two times around the block but the year eights and sevens had to run three compulsory laps.

When the bell rang we first had to get into our class lines. As we stood we had to wait for the teachers instructions to start running. We ran up the hill and got to the gate near the crossing where Mrs Golder was standing. Down the hill we ran very exhaustedly. Some people were jogging and sprinting to finish one lap.

Later,  when we past Mr Reid we headed towards Mrs Buchanan’s way. While we were running up the hill there were more than one person sauntering through one lap. Then we ran up towards Miss Ginders and she told us to “Keep running it’s only one or two more laps left” so we ran and walked through to the finish line. At last we came to the end of the last lap we were as tired as! I took a sip of water, the coldness of the water went dripping down my sleeves.

We practised and practised and at the end of the day we were BETTER THAN BEFORE!

Waste Performance

On Tuesday 18th of May, Ruapotaka School had a ‘Waste Performance’ in the multi purpose room. It showed which bin we put our rubbish in and showed us how not to waste food. This shows that we just put our rubbish in the wrong bin so you leave the poor hungry worms starve. The performers' names were Matt and Andy. They were as funny as. The Performance was very awesome and it was very interesting. It taught us to put the right thing in the right rubbish bin.