PH levels

This afternoon in class we learnt how to use a tablet. We had to research about PH levels. This is what we found...

PH levels show whether something is either acid or base. The numbers on top of the scale shows that the item is base, and the numbers at the bottom show whether the item is acid. Numbers around 7 are neutral.

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By Ede and Vicky

Yesterday room 24 had an assembly and two people from our class won a certificate.  Leo G and his best friend Alex C were the two amazing people.  Leo made a fabulous video.  Hope you'll like it   =^.^=.

Also, yesterdays rotations were:

Aotea/Toko Year 7's went to ICT and enviro.  They watched  part of a documentary called Addicted to Plastic and wrote a little bit about it. 

Aotea/Toko Year 8's went to Social Studies and P.E.  They started to work on their water projects. 

Tainui/Arawa Year 7's went to art.  We painted our day of the dead, skulls.  The skulls had to be about our ancestors.  

Tainui/Arawa Year 8's went to Maori and music.  They sang Maori songs with Mrs Parkinson's guitar.

Katherine and Seoyeon

Since it is coming to a end to NZ music month, Miss Barr has made us do a parody of a NZ song. There was ranges from Dave Dobbyn, to Stan Walker, and the Exponents. Some had much effort put into it and were really great, while others were, um... Something else. In total it was a good experience, but quite terrifying. Also we are going to see Bubblegum the Hip Hop group perform in the school hall, they are fundraising to get to Las Vegas to compete in their 3rd World Championship. They are only 10-12 years old! We all had to bring coins to help contribute to their fund to get there, so hopefully it will be worth it!

By Sophia

As you may know this month is NZ Music Month. We have been doing homework related to this topic, like listing A-Z artists and songs from NZ.
Also this week is book week, on Monday we had to dress up like people from the past and parade around the hall. There were quite a few hippys. We can't wait to see what the rest of book week holds for us!

By Reika and Sophia

Arts Focus

ARTS FOCUS

Wellllllllll, as all of you should know, these next few weeks are the time for the PDS Intermediate to get our artsy fartsy side on! Each class is being visited by an artist who will help us create artworks to go towards our Arts Focus art trail, 18th April. So, have FUN, students!
There's MORE as well! Some of our students will be performing a contemporary dance on the night so look out for them, but don't don't get too distracted from the art on display!
Come along, invite your friends and family, it's BOUND to be an awesome night!
Hurray for artists!

                                            CAMP

On Wednesday the 20th the seinor school went to Goat Island for camp. On the way we stopped at Tawharanui reserve. At Tawharanui we went on a bush walk and had a lecture about the pests and predators that sometimes sneek past the massive fence and eat the animals that live in the reserve.

During the lecture the park ranger who was doing the talk, started pulling dead animals from his sack. All these animals had been frozen and defrosted so many times that they looked like they had been run over by a lawn mower. They smelt awful!

These amimals included a stoat thats head was coming off, a possom whose fur had holes and cuts all over it, a rabbit that looked strangly flat and worst of all a cat that had one of its ears hanging off and looked like it had been beaten to death. After the presentation the park ranger stuffed all the animals back in the sack and drove off.

Leo

Monday 18th March

This term we are going on a year 7 and 8 camp to Goat Island. It is only two days away 'til the trip. We have decided on our tent groups and activity groups. Tent groups are the groups you are in for making breakfast and dinner. Today we are unable to come to the pools or Okahu bay for Waterwise, so we are going to work on some more camp dicussions. There will be many fun, amazing, memorable experiences. We will go snorkeling there and it will be fantastic because the fish on the marine reserve are tame and will just come right up to you. We will also be going up to the marine house that is a little bit up the hill. At the camp grounds it is up a steep hill, it has a playground, skateboard ramp, shower and bathrooms. Tommorow we have to bring our tents to school because we have to practice putting them up so that we are prepared for camp. So this is what we are doing to be prepared and ready for camp. HOPE EVERYONE HAS AN AWESOME TIME AT CAMP!

Sarah



Polyfest

On Friday 16 March 2013 Parnell Intermediate went on a trip to polyfest and we had loads of fun!
At polyfest there were competitions, food stands, and Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islands and Nuie performances. My group only got to see 2 of them, we saw the Tongan and Samoan stages.
It was an awesome experience for everyone and I'm sure everyone would like to have that experience again.

Oscar