Welcome back to Rm 5 in 2012

Welcome to Rm 5 2012!

With the school year just about to start there are lots of exciting things ahead. Tomorrow brings the first day of school where existing Year 8 students will get to meet the new Year 7s who will make up Rm 5 in 2012.

There is lots ahead of us in what will be a jam packed term; getting to know you activities, Athletics Day, finding out about citizenship, a team building trip, new spec groups, new classmates to get to know..... The list goes on.

I look forward to the adventures that term 1 will bring, and hope that we will find some new student blog administrators to get blogging on here soon :)

Room 4's Poems

Happiness by Fleur

Happiness
Joyful, Fun
Laughhing, Giggling, Smiling
Happiness is yellow like the sun.
Bliss

Sadness by Libby

Sadness is blue like the endless sea,
It tastes like rice bland and tasteless,
It smells like sewage pungent and disgusting,
It looks like a never ending pit,
It sounds like the echo in a dark tunnel,
It feels cold and relentless.

BP Water Tower Tech Challenge

On Friday we did another BP Tech Challenge. This time it was alot harder because it had to hold a 750ml bottle. We could only use Newspapers, sellotape and string. The winners were: Michael, Edward and Elson that managed to hold 1.5l.

Well done Guys.

By Fleur

Limerick By Libby

There once was a woman named Kim
Who previously lost her limb
She developed a hop
She started, she couldn't stop
Her life was since reasonably dim

Thailand Prezi

Thailand on Prezi

Enterprise Poem

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand hero.


New ideas are always needed.


Trains. From Steam trains to the Maitangi train.


Entrepreneur


Relating ideas to others


Projects are made and changed to satisfaction


Risks are a big part of Enterprise


I is for ideas that are always needed


Selling is also quite a big part of Enterprise


E is for Enterprise





By Fleur

BP Tower Tech Challenge

As part of our Enterprise unit we have been constructing towers, only able to use a small roll of sellotape, 10 pieces of newspaper and our mind. The tallest in our class was approximately 3.5 metres made by Pererika, William, Justin and Ryan.

Congratulations to Nasan from our class for making the team to represent our school along with 3 others. These four will be entering their own ginger beer in the Wellington competition made entirely by themselves!

By Fleur and Libby

Creative Strategies in P.E

Our recent topic for P.E has been creative strategies, which means making up games for the rest of the syndicate to play. Here are some of the games.





Paper, Scissors, Run - By Emily rm 4





Streetrug - By Damon, Michael, Ash, Edward and Elson rm 4





Manball - By Mike rm 6





Barscer - By Erin rm 6





Tenniball - By Gabi rm 4

Speeches

In room 4 we have been doing speeches and the following finalists to the whole school is.....(drum roll please) Jenna Gotlieb - Seagulls Nasan Jenkin - Nanotechnology, and at last Me! Bailey Fantham - Bullying. These excellent speakers have won the hearts of our syndicate judges.






Written by Bailey Fantham :D-Room 4 blog administrator
Jenna Gotlieb :)-Room 4 student/speech finalist

MALAYSIA

This is some traditional Malaysian clothing:

These are some Malaysian kebabs: