Taekwon-do

Across Huia and a couple of other syndicates, we have had the opportunity to learn Taekwon-do on days Monday and Friday. This is going to be a great experience for all of us learning a martial art which originated in Korea. I'm sure everyone is urging to learn it.

By Jenna

Ki O Rahi

Our 5 week course of Ki O Rahi has come to an end, but that doesn't mean we will stop playing this awesome game. I'm sure everyone enjoyed learning it. We are also hoping that we could start up a Ki O Rahi tournament for the classes that learnt it.

My thoughts on Ki O Rahi-

I think Ki O Rahi was a great experience and I am so glad we got the opportunity to learn and play it.
Ki O Rahi is not like any other game I've ever played before so that makes it extra awesome.

By Jenna

Room 5's Virtual Class Pets

Our awesome class pets!!

(Thanks Room 10!)

Trash art

Blog changes

We are currently making some changes to our blog so don't be alarmed if it looks a bit bad or you can't read it. Trust us to get it stuck on something that looks awful! Thanks for bearing with us!

Juicy writing

A long time ago there was a Hot Dog Factory. Kids went there and helped make hot dogs. The kids earned free hot dogs for working. Once, there was a kid who hated hot dogs that went there. He was getting paid to sabotage the hot dog-making machines. He was also promised a bonus if he messed up the already-made hot dogs. He sneaked some Chilli Sauce in the hot dogs, and sabotaged the machines by cooking pieces of metal in them. Mr O'William, the owner of the factory, had to close it down. The kid's employer paid well. Mr O'William is currently working on fixing the machines so he can reopen the factory.

By David.

Self defence

For the last two Mondays a group of the year 8 girls from room 5 went to self defence with another group of girls from across the school. The course was taken by a nice lady called Jan Beth. She was an amazing teacher helping us learn cool self defence techniques while having loads of fun! She taught us all about attackers and their weak points and how to carry out punches and kicks effectively. We even read some really sad stories from news papers about attacks. She even had punch mitts which we could kick and punch for practise! We all had lots of fun and I would like to say a big thanks to Jan!

Emily, rm 5

Updating the timeline in the studio

Room 5 has the big job of updating the timeline in the TIS studio. As you may know it is very out of date the timeline was for 2010 and part of 2011. So we sarted to take down the 2010 photos and titles so new ones could be put up. This required a lot of pulling down photos and pulling out staples. we then had to choose new photos to put up there were many of them to choose from. We then had to print them, cut them, laminate them, then cut them again. It is a lot of effort for us but we know it will be worth it in the end because it will make the studio look amazing.

Here are some photos of us working hard at this task -

By Jenna

TIS Olympics

As you may already know TIS is holding its own Olympic games. Each class is a country and we got the privilege of being Portugal the flag is shown above. As you can see the colours of our flag is red and green so when the TIS Olympics are held on Friday the 10th August we will be wearing red and green. There are ten events in total so 3 people per class compete in each event. 

Here is the events and who is competing in what -

Horizontal diving - Kelvin, Eden and Chris

Triathalon - Becca, Josef and Christian

Balloon catching - Logan, Jenna and Antonia

Noodle fencing - Elson, Nasan and Tyreek

Tug of war - Justin, Gavin and Imogen

Scooter relay - Scott, David and Nathan H

Grand slalom - Hannah, Roshani and Cassie

Comando race - Emma, Kate and Sefh

Chariot race - Nathan W, Liv and Anna

4 legged race - Jesse, Bernice and Emily

We are all very excited and pumped for the Olympics on Friday.

David's Juicy Writing

There were 4 people, having afternoon tea. Just getting on with their daily lives. Then all of a sudden, they were grabbed by a massive, 4-armed giant! The giant took the people to his farm in the sky. It was huge! The giant put the people into a giant frying pan and cooked them. They made a delicious dinner for the giant.

By David