Practice Makes Perfect !

Just recently the Year 7 and 8 students of Ruapotaka School went to the Softball Interschools at Dunkirk. We practiced and practiced as we all know practice makes perfect. Sadly we came tied 7th but all that matters is we tried our best. I really thought our team tried our best  we had some good games but our nerves got to us in some.
Team Mates:
Front Row:Samuel, Min Zin, Quros, Suliasi. (Captain).
Middle Row:Anavea, Me (Sophie), Heilala.
Back Row:Timote Junior, Maranatha, Mele, Sione
Absent:Mika

Directing and Producing A short film

Every second week the senior classes have the opportunity to host the Senior Syndicate assembly. This week it was our turn. We prepared our assembly earlier. Our class all compared our ideas in groups and we came up with the idea of the Celebrity Show Awards. 

We started as soon as possible so we weren't delayed when it was the day of our performance. All of our ideas we included so all we had to do was start filming. There were many roles in our film that were played really well.

Accepting Our Roles As Lunch Monitors

Just recently some of Ruapotaka's Year 7 and 8 students have taken on the role as lunch and wet day monitors. Every second Monday our School has an assembly where our principal , Mrs Vickers reviews all the things that will be happening and our behavior .

Not long after some notices we were all called up to the front. One by one Mrs Vickers handed our badges out . We were also told the expectations of being a responsible monitor. It is a privilege to be a school monitor for my school. 

5+ A Day

   We spent  a sunny Wednesday afternoon doing tabloids to become familiar with our 5+ a day learning. The activities we played were very enjoyable but there was a catch. Most of our activities had either fruit or vegetables included in them.  My favourite activity was Mr Reid's. His activity was knock the coconut off. I thought is was easy but it was actually really difficult. I'm glad I participated in the 5+ a day challenge.

The New Beginning

School has just begun and everything has changed  from the teachers to my classmates. Sadly some of the original Year Sevens from last year are in a different class to me. I realized that this year I have to focus on my school work since this is my last year in intermediate and I am going to College next year. I can't wait to settle into my new class and get to know my classmates as well as my new teacher Mrs Golder. 

Clay Modelling

For the past 4 days we have been creating a clay model for our technology . We were in groups of 4 to see and help each other create our final product .

Once we had studied what were doing we were onto the next stage . I wanted to create a dinosaur but it was too difficult so I went onto plan B . I thought and thought , I then came up with an I phone . During creating my phone I struggled a bit but luckily I had help .

In the end it looked really cool and was really amazed at what I created . But then it was time to say to goodbye to my I phone where we had to destroy it.

Goosebumps Book Study

During the last week we were set a task to make a book study.  We chose to do Goosebumps. For the first days of our book study we planned it with a group. We then started to create our poster. 

There were 4 groups where we all had a  job to do. For our groups there was a design, blurb, author and book group. 
 Once we had finished our ideas we all had one person from each group dry fit our work onto the piece of cardboard. Our theme was to be scary and cool but not too scary because it was going to be put into the school library for everyone to see. 

I can't wait for everyone to enjoy our book study.