Yearbook

This term Pukekohe intermediate has been working very hard to finish off this year’s yearbook. Each and every classroom had to finish of a page on their class and sports that the school has took part in. it took hard work to finish it but it was all worth it.

Athletics Day

This term each class has been working very hard at getting fit for athletics. Each student had a choice if they wanted to go to Growers Stadium or you got to stay at school at do fun games instead of competitive there was an even amount of students at each event.Then a group of students went to inerzone they placed very well and lots of kids are going to Zone athletics.

Touch Rugby

Pukekohe Intermediate had a group of kids going to the inter Zone touch rugby day at Bruce pulmanpark. We had eight teams going and the mix team got the sportsmanship award and the girls team got first place. then the girls team got to go to zone touch rugby and placed third in that out of all of Auckland. It was a great day.

Bike Bash

On the 15th of October a group of kids went with Jack to support the Bike Bash for Canteen in Pukekohe, at the Market Square. We all had a great day, when we started off with some skipping with Counties Manukau Sports and they taught us a lot of new games. Then we saw Ronald Mc Donald supporting the bike bash to, as he was biking hard. We stopped to ask if we could take a photo with him. Then he gave out some hats with his signature on it. There were lots of games and face painting, [Jack had done some on us, it was a little bit itchy to start off with, but we got use to it.] Surinder then told us that we could all take over on the National Party bike, so we all had a turn on it for five minutes each. There was an Auction on some clothes that Athlete from the Delhi Commonwealth Games had. Some of the clothes sold for at least 100 dollars. It went to a worthy cause, Canteen. After that Pukekohe High School came to perform cheerleading for us, and then it was home time, but there were still people biking for another seven hours.

On October 20th- 26th our school had the Scholastic Book Fair on days Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Tuesday. The Book Fair has loads of books and they have good deals like 2 books for 5 dollars.
There are lots of variates of books like: some of the books are easy reads and others have tones of pages. If you aren't that great at reading you have some books that don't have a lot of description and some of them have lots of description.

Careers

This term we have been working on our seminars on our career. It had to have three Question on it and some sort of ICT thing on it to we had to like what our career was going to be on. so we went on the careers website which toughed us what career suited us. the year sevens get to choice if they wanted to have and the year eight had to do a career we get Assessed on it my Mrs Pearson.

Touch Rugby

In week five there will be three groups of kids going with Jake to touch rugby to represent Pukekohe intermediate school in it. We have been working hard at it trying to get training every interval to get at a good stage.There is a group of mix Boys and Girls and just one Boys team and one Girls team.

30 students from Pukekohe Intermediate got the privilege to be chosen, out of 300 year 7s to be part of the 2010 Pukekohe Intermediate cooking club. They got chosen by our schools cooking teacher, Mrs Woods. The 30 students have been challenge to make a dish. The criteria is to make it healthy, to feed a big family , to have a side dish, a main and after dish. We had to be free on every day five and period five and six to be apart of it.

Welcome back to term four

Welcome back

Welcome back to term four, at the moment we have been having good weather has been very warm, so we have to wear hats and P.E gear and also bring drink bottles because of Athletics training. Lately we have been working very had at our seminars in week seven and tests in week 3.

Bike Bash

Bike Bash

On the 15th of October a group of kids went with Jack to support the Bike Bash for Canteen in Pukekohe, at the Market Square. We all had a great day, when we started off with some skipping with Counties Manukau Sports and they taught us a lot of new games. Then we saw Ronald Mc Donald supporting the bike bash to, as he was biking hard. We stopped to ask if we could take a photo with him. Then he gave out some hats with his signature on it. There were lots of games and face painting, [Jack had done some on us, it was a little bit itchy to start off with, but we got use to it.] Surinder then told us that we could all take over on the National Party bike, so we all had a turn on it for five minutes each. There was an Auction on some clothes that Athlete from the Delhi Commonwealth Games had. Some of the clothes sold for at least 100 dollars. It went to a worthy cause, Canteen. After that Pukekohe High School came to perform cheerleading for us, and then it was home time, but there were still people biking for another seven hours.

On Tuesday the 24 of August, 32 students from Pukekohe Intermediate School attended the zone cross country at Paparimu School. The race was ran at a close by farm. It was a very good day placing first in the year 7 girls and second for the year 8 boys and year 8 girls. The course was a real New Zealand cross country course, we had some impressive placings by all kids and some top 10 placings by a few. The course was very challenging and most of us took it well and we ALL tried are completed hardest. We would like to give a big thanks to Janine Fryer and all the parents that supported us on the day!

Touch typing

On the 20th of August I did my test on the website http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/. To see how fast I can touch typ. What I got for my rating ( Word per minutes) was 9, Number of typing characters I got 33, Number of mistakes was 8 and Success Percentage was 76%.

Maths Week 2010

This we where celebrating Maths week. We all got to create a page on www.mathsweek.org.nz , at our own mathematical ability.We would compete in game like Mathex with other classrooms in the school. We got to solve classroom problems in the 10 minute sprint and if we won we all got a bag of lollies eat. Later in the week we got to take part in the code cracker challenge all over the school .

VSA

people around NZ will be buying $3.00 VSA friendship bracelets and wearing them to support the work of VSA volunteers in developing countries that no not have a lot of money.This year Project Friendship is focusing on youth.

Front Page Design

For the first four weeks of this term we will work in groups to create a front page of a newspaper.We will use the criteria stipulated on the NIE Newspaper Front Page Design Competition.We all where working in groups of four. we all had our own jobs to do in the amount of time to have it completed. We had to write 2-3 stories, create an editorial on the topic: Reading a dying art or an essential skill. We had to had it by amount of time.

Chocolate sales

This term we have been selling Cadbury chocolate to fundraise for the school. The year 8s where fundraising for a year 8 trip and new equipment for the schools sport. If they soled one box it would pay for there trip. The year 7's were fundraising for the camp in 2011.

Maori Language Week

This term we have had the pleaser to celebrate Maori Language week. The theme for the week was food and culture. We all celebrated it by playing games and making posters. One of the games was fishing which room 43 took out getting 11 fish. The poster competition was stiff but Ana and Jade took that out. Te reo Tuesday was casted on PINTV with a bunch of kids. Lenny did the job of announcing the daily frasses. Just to round the week of we all got the chose to have a feed of a hungi.

House Sports

On the last day of term three Pukekohe intermediate did a whole day of house sports. We all had to dress up in our house colours. I was in Hillary house which had black colours. We got to choose one sport out of two so I chose twobow touch but there was netball too. Every one participated for the whole day, teachers and kids too. It all rounded down to the finallists which Hillary wasn't in but we all had a great day. Ngata won out of the whole day then came Batten and third Shepard house. I think over all we all had a great day.

News Paper

This is the news paper that we did when Miss Morris was with us. We had to make some of it up but apart from that the rest was true. We had to write about our science fair boards and what we learnt about them when we did them. What I learnt was that 80% of franklin is made out of Agriculture and that 20& of franklin is made out of Domestic I thought that was really interesting. Then we had to make up what wasn't true about the world. I put in upcoming events, Avatar and a lost dog that I sore on Google.

Youth Week Mufti

These are the Youth Week Mufti kinds in room 23 that entered the competition but only one of them made it in. Shenoa in our class made it and won the hole thing and got a fifteen dollar voucher for the school canteen to spend.

Miss Morris

This term we had a student teacher called Miss Morris. We had her in our class for four Weeks and they where cool. Miss Morris came from A.U.T on the North Shore. When she was with as she helped us make a class new paper and it was fun the class wished her well when she left and she hoped to come back.

Merit Certificate

Last term I got a Merit Certificate at the year seven Assembly for Teach/Arts from my music teacher. The rules are that if you get three Merit mentions you get a Merit Certificate and if you get three Merit Certificates you get a big one. My next goal is to get two more Merits .

Maggi

Our school has entered into the Maggi kitchen showdown and if we win we get a lot of money and our school is going to spend it on more Teach/ Arts stuff so we have all been told to vote online for our school so we can win. The team has been put in the womens weekly and it has talked about what they have been put in with lots of other schools around New Zealand.

In our class at period 5 and 6 Mrs Pearson showed everyone in the class a new website, were you can take a test about what's going on in the world. Mrs Pearson also told us to watch the news and read the newspaper and we will know what the answers are because its stuff that will be in the newspaper and news. There is news at 5:30pm on Prime or at 6:00pm on TV1 or Tv3, otherwise we can read the newspaper. The URL is http://www.nieonline.co.nz/ . The website is called Current Affairs. Its a current affairs quiz which we take each Friday now. It is a fun quiz to do. You can do it in your spare time. There are all different quiz's for different dates. You should check it out is a really cool site.

Click on this link to view my Google map

AIMS

By the end of this year on the 5 of september I am taking part in the Tauranga AIMS to reparsent my school . You can take part in many sports like netball, soccer, hockey and many more. I am going down for tennis. It goes for 5 days we all travle down in vans.And compete with all The other people all over New Zealand.

What Now

At the start of term one, we had What now come to our school and we play games with them.They slamed as well we where all on TV.Three people went down to christchurch for the finals of What Now but they didn't win so they flew back up to Auckland.

Student learning plan

This is my student learning plan for this term.That has all my goals for me to achive for this term to help my learning.

speech

Speech

MY SPEECH

Having a licence can mean life or death. A licence is a permit from a governing body to

allow a person to take responsibility and follow rules and guidelines by law. So we have a safer community. There are many situations when an unlicenced person can cause life or death.

This was the case, at Easter time when a neighboring gun owner, fired bullets that ricocheted over to our family farm, travelling up to 200 meters towards our camping spot, where I was kayaking on our pond with my 4 year old sister. The 4 bullets narrowly missed my family by less than 1/2a meter it felt like we were in a war zone. The police were called and someone was arrested for being an unlicensed firearm owner. And not checking his environment before discharging a weapon. This was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me, I could have been killed. The police said if he had a licence he would have known to check his environment first before shooting pukekos outside his kitchen window. This is the most important rule taught when sitting for a firearm licence.

Imagine flying in an airplane 10,000 feet high with an unlicenced pilot. Would you jump on the back of a motorbike reaching speeds up to 180km per hour with an unlicenced driver. Put your innocent life in the hands of an unlicenced lawyer. Visit an unlicenced doctor with a life threatening illness. You need a licence for all sorts of reasons with many different consequences for being unlicenced. It doesn’t bare to think about what could happen if these people were not licenced, A Hairdresser, Bar tender, Taxi driver, Astronaunaut, Tattoist. Just to name a few.

Health and food safety inspectors make sure businesses have a licence for food so we don’t get food poisoning.

Our community survives by the rules governed with licence holders. The consequences can be jail, a fine, cause injury or worse death.

When you sit a licence the person is given the information needed to carry out that activity safely. Without that information you could hold somebody’s life in your hands, just like our neighbour.

When you have a decision to make wether to get a licence or not make a wise choice. It could mean life or death.

ME Project

ME PROJECT

for my me project I did I did the shape of a tennis racket
because I love to play tennis. On our me project we had
what we liked to eat, what move we liked to watch, what our favorite
colour is, and our family.

We had to have them finished in four weeks.
I chose my family,my hobbies witch was Tennis, I chose my move
witch is Twilight, I chose my favorite is Geromimo Stilton. We had to present them in front
of the class.

Mathletics

This is a picture of me on mathletics.
I had to make a picture of me so I could race other people around the world at my leave.You get a certificates for ever time you get up to a thousand each week.I have got six certificates so far this year.

Book Bag

MY BOOK BAG

This is my be book bag the story I did it on was You're Nicked, Ms Wiz, the story was about a girl called Lizzie her cat Waif goes missing. She goes looking for it, She puts lost posters up,but on the way she bumps into a homeless lady called Ms Wiz with magical powers. Ms Wiz said that she could help her find her cat Waif. They stake out the park and come across two cat burglars stealing the cats for their fur to make gloves. They follow them to a hide out and Lizzie gets turned into a cat to find waif.

Touch Typing

My rating for words per minutes I got 15, for my number of typed characters I got 50, for my number of mistakes I got 6, and my success percentage I got 88%. My goal for next time is to not make as many mistakes in the test.