Creating something from a book!

Today we had "Create something from a book day", So we had to choose something like technology art or cooking. Everyone in the class wanted to create something from a cook book.

We had students creating sushi, slushies, cakes, banofi pie, pavlova, orange juice, ice cream, pancakes, fudge, cookies and cup cakes.

After that we had a massive picnick!


Have a look at our photos!

Central Counties Volleyball!

Wow - what a day!
On the 26th September we had the Central Counties Volleyball field day. Our boys and girls teams practised every Tuesday and Wednesaday at lunch time for the entire term. All players had the necessary skills to to be able to play dig's, set's, spikes and serves. We had to learn to function as team by looking after eachother and communicate so everyone new what was going on.

At the tournament we played in different pools, both teams ended second it their pools. That resulted in us playing the current Auckland champions in the semi final. The boys lost with one point in the last second. Very unlucky, but that is sports!

Congratulations to both teams for coming third in Central Counties.

Camp Line dance!

This year for camp every group need to prepare and practice a line dance on a piece of music Mr Fourie will give you. To be able to do this line dance every team member will have to practise some moves on their own. This line dance will make up a half of the group event of the talent quest at camp.
Use this link to start to learn your amasing moves! Remember this is only to learn the moves, and remember to remind parents going on camp to learn the moves as well. I will post the final dance later! Have fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C40gHcDdoqw


The other half will be made up from the KERERU ROCK section.
For this section the theme will be: LIFE IS GOOD! Each group have to select the theme songs of two different movies and work out the moves and practise them between now and the camp. Just like J-Rock you will produce your own items. Remember to let Mr Fourie know what two songs you have chosen by placing a comment here. Remember that you can only make a decision once you have spoken to your team members.

Auckland Cross Country - Woodhill!

On the 20th September Cole Richardson, Dylan Wichman, Katie Lowry and Jessica Yakkas-Dance represented our school at the anual Auckland Cross Country championships. We are very proud of their achievements.

These athletes are dedicated sports people that trains hard with their coach and even some days on their own. In every race their were between 90 and 115 athletes.

A huge congratulations to Jessica  57th, Katie 54th, Dylan 30th and a special congratulations to Cole who came 12th in all of Auckland. Maybe we will see you guys in the next olympic games!

Learning to solder- Katie!

Using an elecrtoflash kit - Cameron!

Electronic Pictures- Soldering!

Electronics pictures - Elecroflash Kits!

Advanced Electronics!

This term for our technology rotation we have advanced electronics. In order to be part of the advanced electyronics program you had to complete the beginning electronics program first. This will give you the knowledge, skills and understanding you need to be able to participate in the advanced program. We are expected to work faster, know where things are and know and understand how to use the electroflash kits. We did a refresher section to remind us about the things we learnt last year. Today we learnt about resistors, how to calalculate their size and use them to manipulate the electric currant. We also used capacitors. The brief we had to solve was to create a quiz device we could use to do basic facts cometitions in class. Tomorrow we are going to build little intercom systems. That will require us to solder carefulle, read the plans and use diagrams to help us to assemble and test our devices.

Cross Country - Counties

Congratulations to the Reremoana Cross Country students that took part in the Counties Cross Country field day today. The course at Paparimu was a tough course - like every year. Quotes from students: Katie - Very muddy yet awesome! Elle - Now I can run any course! Jacob - Wow, that is what you call true cross country! Denzil - Now that was epic! Congratulations to all the athletes for completing this grueling course. It was tough, but most of our students have improved on their placing with the other Central Counties competitiors. A special word of congratulations to the following athletes who qualified for the Auckland Championships: Katie Lowry (4th), Jessica Yakkas Dance (7th), Cole Richardson (4th) and Dylan Wichman (8th). Good luck at the Auckland event on the 20th September.