Armistice Day

On Tuesday Room 12 started started learning about Armistice Day and what it was commemorated for. My group and I created a slide presentation full of information about Armistice Day, if you don't know, it's on Sunday the 11th of November on the 11th hour.

Manaiakalani Film Festival

Today all the Rooms went by bus to the Sylvia Park cinemas. Every class created a movie which were all related to hooked onto learning. The Y8 students created a movie called "Journey To Success," and it was about where their grandparents were from and why they came to New Zealand.

There were more schools that also had awesome movies like Pt England, when the boys were told by Samantha that girls don't fart. The boys went off on the hunt for girls that would fart in order to prove Samantha wrong.

Here is a link to Room 12's Movie.
Room 12's Movie

Tennis Practice

23rd of October was the day we started tennis practice with Coach Pete.

We started with a game, the point was to see who could pick up the ball quicker then your partner. After that we shifted over to where the tennis racquets were and the nets. Pete gave us some instructions to do like, your partner has to throw the ball over the net, making the ball land in front of the hitter so he or she can have some time to react. Pete then said "If you have someone behind you and I say change over, then you have to switch with them." While we were playing Pete told us to sit down so that he can talk.

In the end Pete was giving us instructions, just to stay in your spots and letting the ball bounce off the net.

Farewell Coach Renee

Yesterday the 4th of September, Room 12 said goodbye to Coach Renee. If you don't know Renee, she is our Volleyball coach and she's been with us for weeks. She has taught us a lot of moves like, a spike, dig, under arm serve and overarm serve. She has also taught us how to prep for a spike which was a bit easy.

It was a great experience learning new things in Volleyball and knowing how to play an actual game of Volleyball. We hope to see you again in the future.

Tuesday Volleyball

Tuesdays are the days we have Volleyball. We've been practising with Renee, our coach. She taught us how to do a lot of hard and easy moves. The hardest move for me would be the spike. It's hard because you wouldn't know when to spike the ball and where. So ever since we've been practising I've improved in spiking the ball. Now I know how to spike the ball, but not properly just a beginner spike.

By the way the class learnt something that day. We also have to learn one move each day, so that we don't have to get mixed up learning two moves at once.

Kevin And Hunter

Today we had to say farewell to four visitors. There were two students named Kevin and Hunter and the teachers name was Miss Cheng. When they arrived at Ruapotaka School we had a special assembly to welcome them. While they were here, they enjoyed there time with some classes, doing sport and a lot of maths.

Sadly we had to say farewell to them because they had to explore the rest of Auckland. So when they were leaving we had another assembly, the prefects handed each of them some gifts. In the end they left with their gifts and headed home.

Kahurangi

Wednesday 1st of August we had an amazing show being shown by the people of Kahurangi. There were six of them, they started off
there show with a dance. Through out the whole show their were bits where comedy was involved and it was funny, there was a scene where one of the girl actors dressed up as a boy and pretend married a lady. She even had the moustache and everything.

Going to the end there a part where the actors chose three people from the audience to come up to the front. The tree people that was chosen was 2 students, Kingston and Texas, then the last person was a teacher, Mr Reid. All they had to do was follow the instructions the actor gave them, some moves looked funny, but what was funny was when he made the noises.

They finished the show with questions and then a student prefect had to say a thank you speech to finish the show.