Seminar

This is my seminar rubric. I presented my seminar or nutrition and it went for 10 minutes.

With the transition to High School only weeks away, Room 3 of Pukekohe Intermediate organised and ran a Year 8 Careers Day. Workers from across the district with exciting jobs travelled to our school on Thursday the 19th of November. Each student attended 3 lectures from the employers, 1 for each periodical block (2 periods). The employers gave careers on how their job works, what their day involves and how to get a job in that industry.
I visited Mark Ball the Mayor, Reon Graham Director of Sales at EMI Music, and Sam from Franklin County News.
All speakers were informative, and gave students a clear view of possible career options.

With Christmas coming fast room 23 has formed a Christmas party comity to plan out our class Christmas party coming up on Tuesday the 8th of December. The comity is Danelle (leader), Me, Lachlan, Sophie, Bailee, Shannon, Leota and Danielle. We have been having meetings to plan food, dress and decorations. The comity is working well together and we are hoping that the Christmas party will run well.

Walking into the hall for the first stepz lesson, everyone looked anxious and rather scared. No one was looking forward to dancing with a boy. But once the music started, and Simon taught us the dances, everyone forgot the first thought of fear and let loose. Now every student looks forward to the Friday lessons and cant wait til the Ball.
All these practices are a lead up to the Year 8 Leavers Social, which we will perform the 9 dances we've learnt.
The Year 8 Leavers Social will be on Wednesday 9th of December, and the decided theme is Glitz and Glam.

Athletics Day

On the 13th of November Pukekohe Intermediate had their Competitive athletics day at Growers Stadium and the fun athletics day back at school. We walked over to the stadium and sat in the stand waiting for our events to be called up. I entered the senior girls 100m and senior girls long jump i placed 4th in both events. It was a long day but everyone did their best and most came in a good placing. At the end of the day there was one event that was still running and that was the senior girls high jump with Olivia Willetts and Grace Gill playing off for 1st and 2nd. Grace ended up with first place and Olivia took second. Grace broke the record and jumped an amazing 1.56m, overall it was a great day and most people were happy with their placings.

Grease Production

From Week 1 of Term 4 Pukekohe Intermediate students have been working hard on getting the Grease Production ready for the performances coming up. The major groups are cast, hair and makeup, costumes, scenery, publicity, dance, A.V, props, minor props and backstage props. When the performances got underway Shannon and I got asked to film the performance each night and make the movie that will be getting sold on DVD. The Grease production was very success full and most people enjoyed it.

A.I.M.S Games 2009

On the 6th of September Pukekohe Intermediate was of to Tauranga to compete at the AIMS games 2009. I competed in the Netball section. We stayed at the Golden Grove Holiday Park, we had to wake up at 6:00 every morning! It got to wednesday and everyone was geting tired including me! But we managed to pull through and we ended up coming first in our grade. We had some pretty tough teams and umpires but us Netball girls did really well! I had so much fun at AIMS and it was an awesome experience.

Website Design

As part of Music Inquiry we got given an authentic challenge to create a website of ourselves as a popstar. We had to come up with a name and write about our life and our career. We had a dead line to complete our website. A handfill of us entered our website in the Net Guide schools muiltimedia challenge. The programmes i used to complete me website were piknic, word, weebly, i-tunes and photo booth. My website is completed.

Achievements 2009

Exposition Evaluation Rubric

ICT Evaluation Rubric- Skilled

ICT Evaluation Rubric

Science Fair Rubric

Category: Research Science Board
Title/Topic: Animation
Buddies: Danelle Cox and Bailee Graham
Overall Score: 80/100 Acheived with Merit
Learnt: We learnt we need to work well as a team to acheive to a high standard. We also learnt that we need to plan out what we are doing, before going ahead with the idea.
Changes: Change of topic, Optical Illussions to Animation.
Decision Making: We had to decide on the colour palette and what graphics we wished to print, which was quite difficult to all agree on the same thing.
There is the School Science Fair in the Hall running through week 3- Same time as the Three Way Confrences.

Fonterra Science Roadshow

On the 20th of July our class went to the Fonterra Scoence Roadshow in our school hall. At the beginning of the show we all sat down on the floor to watch a slide and 3 volenteers go up and did a play. In the play we learnt about matter,energy and life. Then they gave us 30 minutes to walk around and had a look at the exibits. There were many different experiments. After the 30 minutes we all sat down again for another show. We learnt about the sound of waves and the science of sound.

Over all it was a great time and most of us enjoyed it.

Contributions to my School

Mimio Trainers
2 Merit Mentions from Mrs Pearson 2 Merit Mentions for Mr Sibley
Aims Netball Team
A Zone Netball team
Top Coca Cola Netball Team
Hamilton Netball Team
Maui's Dolphin Keynote Presentation
Science Fair

My Exibition

Hard Materials

Hard Materials

Every Day 3 during P1 and 2, half of room 23 go to hard materials. Mr Sibley is our awesome hard materials teacher. He has taught us all of the safety rules and much more. So far into the term we have made a wooden animal or something that has wheels. The skills we learnt while making them were how to use a saw, drill holes and scroll sawing.
Everyone was successful with making this project. Our next project that we have almost finished is to make a wooden box. The skills we have learnt so far is how to hammer nails, gluing and we also are using skills that we already know. Everyone who goes to hard materials is having fun and really enjoying it. We can’t wait till next year so we can go there again.

Youth Week 2009

Youth Week 2009

Youth Week Report

This year, as part of the nation wide Youth Week, Pukekohe Intermediate councillors organised a week of Daily Trivia Questions, an Art Competition and a Mufti Day. The trivia questions were put into the daily notices and students had to answer these questions before morning interval, handed into the Student Centre. Each day we drew out a winner and they received a prize. The students who won have been listed below showing what day they won and what question they answered correct.

Monday- How many gold medals did New Zealand win at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? 3 gold medals. The winner was Brendan Byerley of Room 23

Tuesday- What New Zealand artist sings ‘under my skin’? Gin Wigmore. The winner was Shannon van den Berg of room 23.

Wednesday- What major hit movie stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John? Grease. The winner was Vaughn Hannah of Room 5.

Thursday- What does Aotearoa (New Zealand) Mean? Land of the Long White Cloud. The winner was Rachel Van of room 30.

Friday- Who plays Daniel Potts in Shortland Street? Ido Drent. The winner was Avril Mita of Room 1.

During the week we ran an art competition that students could enter and be into win prizes. Billie Paterson of Room 23 judged all the entries. It was a difficult decision to make, as there was only 1st 2nd and 3rd Place Prizes.

The winners were:

1st Place- Lupe Soapi of Room 23

2nd Place- Avril Mita of Room 1

3rd Place- Pauline Paratene of Room 44.

The big success of the week was the Mufti Day, which was held on Wednesday 27th May. Buddy Classes were assigned to specific colours to wear on the day. From each of the classes, councillors chose the best-dressed student in the class. Then all of the students that were chosen from individual classrooms came together and the councillors then chose the 3 best dressed out of the school. The winning students were Kathleen Griffin- Room 12, Jamie Turkington- Room 23, and Daniel Bullet- Room 36. Students enjoyed the awesome day organised and the school Councillors were pleased, as Pukekohe Intermediate raised $374.50.

Tapuae Report

Week 1, Term 2 Pukekohe Intermediate School held a school wide Tapuae competition. Dominique Hancock, Sports Co-ordinater from Room 45 was the organizer for this competition.

The teams were entered as buddy classes for the competition, and a maximum of 16 team players were able to take the court at once. Lupe Soapi of Room 23, and Abi Chapman of Room 36 were our team captains.

Students from the 2 teams played a number of games against a lot of challenging classes, playing a total of 3 games, making it into the quarter finals! In this game we went up against Room 13 & 45 and successfully came out with victory, which then took us into the Semi-finals.

Our first semi-final game was on Tuesday 16th on June and versed the same 2 classes. We had a really tough game and the weather was really rough, but even though we had to put up with that, Room 23 & 36 still came out with a win.

Wednesday 17th of June we played against Room 28 & 45. It was a very tough competition. But we pulled through with a win.

Science Fair

On Friday the 26th of June science Fairs were due in. There were a few different projects that you could enter in. Most people entered in photography where you need to take 10 photos, this year your photos had to have something to do with water. Some people did their projects on types of water, beaches of NZ, water resources, waves, whangamata and cycles of water. I did mine on frozen water on nature. We had to make a log book with captions for each image. Some students worked with a partner and some did it individually. We have 19 finished projects in the class room and they are all up to a high standard.

Ngahinapouri School Netball Tournament Hamilton

On Sunday 24th May, a netball team of 10 girls, Danelle Cox (Captain) Jazmin Fulton, Kelly Drew, Tegan Hunter, Danielle McNabb, Shannon van den Berg, Havannah Pearson, Jorgia Watson, Billie Paterson and Bailee Graham, travelled to Minogue Park Netball Courts in Hamilton. We competed in 5 games throughout the day. It started off sunny for the first 2 games but then the rain hit and it was freezing cold. We had many injuries and numb fingers but we all had an awesome day and it was great fun!

The results:
Pukekohe vs St Peters 21-10 Win
Pukekohe vs Peach Grove 13-12 Loss
Pukekohe vs TAI Soldiers 13-13 Draw
Pukekohe vs Maeroa 18-3 Win
Pukekohe vs Berkeley 13-9 Win

Aims Netball Trials

Through out week 6 Pukekohe Intermediate have been running Aims trials for Aims in Week 8 of term 3. There were 3 trials and everybody got at least 2 trial games. We got to trial in our best positions. On the thursday we had our last trial we have finished the trial at morning tea and the we got called out a list of about 20 girls that had been called out for callbacks at lunch time that day. Then the final trial until the team was named was happening everyone was so nervous and played as hard as the called. We got told that the list of the Aims team will be on room 31's window by friday. Everyone run to the list and the Aims team is: Jazmin (captain) Anna-Lee, Bailee, Myself, Leota, Shannon, Danelle, Tamara, Kelly, Katelin, Danika and Havannah these girls will represent Pukekohe Intermediate in Zone in A grade.

'Now the hard work really begins'

Speech Assessment

This is my Speech Assessment for 2009 i presented my speech on the Tuesday of our class speech week to Mr Wadhams and the rest of my class. I got a score of 87/100 and i am very happy about it. My speech is about the 40 - hour Famine.

Coca Cola Netball Tournament.

On Wednesday the 20th of May 2 buses from Pukekohe Intermediate made their way up 2 bruce palman park in Papakura to compete in a Coca Cola Netball tournament. I was in Platanim the top year 8 team we played 5 games we lost 1 game by 2 goals and won all of the other games we played really hard and in our division we came 2nd.

Matariki Report

Maths Week Poster

Maths Week in Pukekohe Intermediate is here at last there are lots of activities to do and you can win prizes this is my poster.

Camp 2009

BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing

i-Web

This is mine and Matthews i-Web we decided we would make a website about Peer-Pressure to help kids our age deal with it. This is our favourite page out of the website.

D.A.R.E

This term we have been learning about D.A.R.E with Constable Sheree and Constable Andy. We have learn't many things like Illegal, Legal and Prescription drugs and what can happen if you take an over dose.

We were givin D.A.R.E booklets for homework to glue activities and sheets into.

D.A.R.E stands for.

New

Decision Making
Assertiveness
Responsibility
Esteem

Old

Drug
Abuse
Resistance
Education

We have all really enjoyed D.A.R.E. We all got D.A.R.E t-shirts and certificates at the end of the term.

D.A.R.E Comic Life

This is the Comic life that Bailee, Danielle and I made it is about smoking.

Marijuana

Jonny's Mistake

As Jonny arrives in Auckland airport he wounder how his life will change going to a New Zealand school and not knowing anyone. It is just Mum and Jonny living together because mum and dad split up a month ago and mum needed to go as far away as possible from him. Dad still lives in England by himself. Jonny is really confused and doing things that he has never done before like running away.

“Jonny you start Pukekohe Intermediate School tomorrow so get your stuff ready,” says mum. Jonny had no friends in England so he is ready to do make new ones and is prepared to do anything to get some. Jonny enters the school gate with his mum holding his hand as they walk down to the office to collect his stationary and his class number and his teacher’s name. “Bye Jonny” says mum and she gives him a hug and a kiss and says goodbye.

Jonny walks down the hallway while students are laughing at him because they saw him with his mum holding her hand. “Hey mummy’s boy” yells the school bully Jared. Jonny tries hard to ignore him but he cant, he jumps on Jared and starts to kick and punch him. Jared falls on the ground and Jonny runs to his new classroom.

“Everyone this is Jonny and he will be joining our class he is from England so you have to be nice to him” says the teacher. At morning tea all the kids were teasing him again so he decided that he would spent all of his brakes in the library. As Jonny walks out of the library he get pushed into the middle of a circle of year 8’s. He comes out with cuts and bruises all over his body.

He walks home and decides that he is not going to tell any one. He gets home and looks for something that will make him popular he finds something. He gets to school and pulls it out it is a lighter. Hey boy if you do this for me I will be your friend and he whispers what he wants him to do.

Him and the boy go into the dark cubicles and Jonny puts the lighter up to the smoke alarm and it goes off. Jonny and the boy run out of the toilets and hide around the corner. The wait until all the classes are lining up ready to walk to the field, the run into their class line and walk to the field.

The principle stands up the front. “Who did this?” he yells slowly Jonny rises his hand. All rite then all of you go back to your classroom. “You” he says come to my office and collect a slip for your mum.

He goes to his office and gets the note. He walks home as slowly as he can. When he gets home he gives the note to his mum and she slowly reads it. “That’s it she says you are going to a new school and you have to leave this so called friend.”

2009 Digital Classroom

This year I am one of the lucky year 8 students that have been selected to be in the Digital Classroom for another year. We have 18 brand new Apple I-mac Flat Screen Computers and have the latest programs such as Microsoft Office 2009. This year we are taking a big step up and learning new challenging things on the computers. There are 3 new students have been welcomed into our classroom they are Harrison, Jamie and Steven. They whole class is buddied up on the computer and there are 7 individual computers. Through out 2009 this class will be working really hard on the new computers.

Goals 2009:

-Pukekohe Netball Trophy
-Aims Netball
-Sports Award
-Excellence in Arts
-Food Technology
-Zone/Interzone Netball