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. 

Training To Be Better

We have just started basketball training with a coach. The coach has come to teach us the proper ways of playing basketball.

Our class greeted our coach with a warm welcome and we soon got started. First we had to get in to 4 even groups. For our first session we did some warm up drills to understand the sport more. He showed us a variety of skills we should use while playing basketball.

Some of  them were  how to dribble and even a new skill we didn't even know called Jump Stop. We also got to experience dribbling with our hand we aren't experienced with. We all participated very well and enjoyed it very much.

Mini Olympics: Brazil

Since the Olympic Games have began our school has come up with the idea a mini Olympics. The senior block was in charge of organizing each country's flag and working on a slide to see if we understood the country's significance.

In a few days the Ruapotaka School Mini Olympics will be held. Our fitness groups were divided and we ended up with sixteen teams. My team was Brazil which is where the current  Olympics are being held.

Winter Learning Journey!

Last term Rachel from Auckland University came to tell us about the Winter learning Journey she had created for all Manaiakalani Schools. The site had fun activities we had to complete. But before we could start our work we had to register. The theme was the Rio Olympics and different items of the Olympics over the years.

The site required us to blog and Rachel blogging back to us. The participants who joined the activities received certificates. From each school there were three winners who soon received prizes in a school assembly.

Can't wait till the next activities. This will happen during the Christmas holidays.