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.