2012 speech finals

2012 speech finals

at the speech finals 2 weeks ago Lachy presented about mans worst enemy, Leo about gun laws in america, Calvin had the same topic, Melissa did it about sugar and Jayda did it about nationalities.
Lachy won with Jayda being the runner up.

by zac

pio pio

On 10th of September year 8 students are going to pio pio for 5days.
I am really excited about going to a farm and doing the activities there.
We are going to do so many things in 5days like riding quadbikes, riding horses, shooting and much more. I think I will have a great time there.

PIOPIO

I'm very excited about going to PIOPIO, it must be very fun. I've only been to a farm once and i want to go to another one.

We have been looking at our personal journey and where we would like to go in the future.  We looked at our goals and ambitions, what would we like to do and experience in our lives. This has been an entertaining process, but sometimes it is fun to look backwards as well. Looking back over the year we have grown up and doen  so much stuff.

The mini olympics were fun. The year 8's dressed up in orange to support the Netherlands and the year 7's wore green, orange, and red to support Algeria. We all had an awesome day.

 

 

We looked at water transport in plants and learnt that the xylem transports water up and the phloem transports nutrients from photosynthesis down to the roots. We demonstrated this using food colouring and white flowers.

 

We made marble tracks and did a science fair.  Some of our experiments were awesome and some of them weren't that great. It was fun to have the yougner kids come down to look at what we had done.

 

We went the maritime musem and learnt about journeys across the ocean, we learnt how to use compasses to navigate, although if we needed to use them seriously some of us may get a bit lost.

Even dating all the way back to Wellington. This year has been one big journey.

 

 

Term 3 is half way through with a large number of events still to come.
Volleyball
Calendar art fundraising
Year 8 trip to Piopio.
Lots of exciting things in a short period of time.  We are currently reading Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones to complete our study of book adaptions which we started earlier this term with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Our individual novels studies include Bridge to Terabithia, The Hobbit, Dreamhunter, The Outsiders which has resuulted in the entire class learning the dwarf rune alphabet.

I'm walking long a boardwalk path
we're all held in suspence
Leaning over this oversized salt-bath
When will the fire commence

A small metal cannon stood below us
We quickly coverd our ears
If it didn't work i would definetly cuss
As we gazed apon the piers

Then a man lit the fuse (we were real anxious now!)
Then he told us to count down from ten
When we hit one there was an ear splitting POW!
I almost forgot where I was then

I  still think about it when other thoughts go away
And that's where I find myself today.

                                                 THE BELL
                                             RINGS 8 TIMES
                                           BEFORE THE CAN-
                                          NON BLOWS BEING
                                        HEARD ALL OVER THE
                                      MUESEUM, GOING AS LO-
                                    UD AS IT CAN, WITH PEOPLE
                               THERE     WATCHING WITH HANDS 
                           OVER THEIR EARS BUT IT IS STILL HEA-
                        RD ALL AROUND AND GIVING US A BIG FRI-
          GHT AND A GUIDE STANDING BACK WATCHING US JUMP!!
                                                
  BY EMILY PEERS =D