The Year Is Almost Over!

 2016 is coming to an end as 2017 approaches. Soon term 4 will be all over. We are all anxious about the new beginning.Year 8s will become Year 9s and their new future will begin.

  Classes will be soon cleaned up and form a new layout. As the year is nearly over Mrs Buchanan will be leaving our school and finding more opportunities at another school. We are dearly sad she is leaving and hope her new school treats her right.

  Our prize giving and upcoming  important events are coming and we are all practising our Cultural groups. This year it will be different because we are having them on the same day as our Prize giving. Hope the day goes smoothly and we all enjoy ourselves.

No Longer Cold Winter Days ☔

  Cold days are gone and no more wishing warmers days are here. Now we can enjoy the beautiful Spring days where students are cheerful and happiness is in the air. As we have Sports every lunchtime to enjoy with our peers. 


More time outside and less time monitoring the junior rooms. Having the chance to do more activities and our upcoming Athletics just a day away the weather has helped a lot towards our practices. The warm weather filling the air as a cold breeze comes by doesn't it just make you feel happy.

  Maybe the weather will stay fine for our School Athletics day and for the many upcoming events to come.  


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Class Feud 2016

Like many traditions,  the senior block has one where each classroom from Rooms 9-12 have the chance to host our assembly. We have a special clap which we do once certificates are presented for students who are working and learning more. 

  It was Room 12's turn and we were struggling to figure out our assembly. We all thought and finally came up with the idea of hosting our second Class Feud. A group of students then wrote a script and then practiced and we did our dress rehearsal.

It was finally the day of our assembly and it was a success with a few technical issues. Maybe next time it will work out better. 

Practice, Practice, Pratice

As we all know Term 4 is the busiest terms of them all. Test are coming up and we have to work harder for the next new year.We are all studying and preparing for our upcoming assessments.

Some of the year 8 students will soon be heading off to College and be developing more on their learning: a new year, new opportunities  to face.

Time to set goals for our next year to focus on and attempt to succeed. Hopefully College treats our Year 8's right next year.

Exploring The Botanic Gardens

Our school had the opportunity to visit the wide variety of plant life at the Botanic Gardens. We all had worksheets to fill out where we had to explain what they are and a little description of the plants.

We passed through the Rock Garden near the lake to get to the Urban trees where we found our first answer. Next we followed the signs to get to the Native ID Trail where we spent most of our time searching for answers.

We all learnt lots of things we had not known before. But we only had a few minutes left which we used to admire the Rose Garden.


By the end of our trip most of us were exhausted from walking around all day. We enjoyed our day very much and look forward to our next visit to the Botanic Garden.

School Time!

We have now come back from enjoying our 2 week holiday and it is now time to get stuck in.

Term 4 as we all know is the busiest term of them all and the Seniors have test to complete. New goals are set to accomplish and more and more work to complete which are preparing us for College.

Since coming back to school we are still figuring out the schedule to our normal day. Last term the senior block was fenced because of the Asbestos testing and we weren't allowed back in.

We are now back in our classes focusing on our learning and what we need to work on. I wonder what the term will bring to us and how well we will do in our tests.

School Shutdown!

Last week our school was being tested for asbestos, a deadly fiber if tampered with. We weren't allowed in our classes so the school was shutdown for a week. 

The next day there were 3 buses waiting for us so that we could be transferred to Tamaki Primary. They welcomed us with a powhiri performed by their School's Kapa Haka group. We were then informed on where we would be for the rest of the week. We didn't have the resources we usually worked with so we just had to go day by day. 

I can't wait to be back in our classroom and have all our resources back.