rugby and school

Wednesday 12 June


Today we went to the Eastern zone for rugby.
After losing 4 games we were determined to win the last match but unfortunately our team did not win any games at the rugby tournament.

While the boys were at rugby we were having quiet time at school!! In the morning we went to the library we stayed till 10:00am then we went to math:(
after morning tea we had rotation. after lunch sadly the noisy boys came back from rugby BUT we were lucky that Miss H(the ESOL teacher) lent us 5 Windows 8 computers so we can do work on it.

By Reika and Wynton

my day

Today Ede and I practiced our social studies project to perfection.
also todays rotattion for yr7 Arawa/Tainui was doing social studies with Ms Kumpala and we finished off our project due THIS FRIDAY and also had a game of soccer.
Also Ms H kindly gave us her ESOL tablets for the afternoon and we searched up what a PH level  is how acidic the solution is.



by Katherine Nicholls

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.

:)

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!