Saturday Softball Team in the final

The Maeroa Missiles Softball team, coached by Mr Metcalfe, with Room 5 students Ezra Sa'u, Zane Disher and Sheridan Tuimaseve included in the team, qualified for the final in their Saturday Softball grade. The game was played before a large crowd and was very exciting! But unfortunately, the game was lost in the last innings when the Missiles were unable to stop the winning run to come home and Southnet won the match 15 runs to 14! A great game, with all the Maeroa players putting in 100% effort! Afterwards, at the prizegiving, the team were presented with their trophy for being runners-up, and received certificates.

Sporting Trophies

Pictured are the classes trophies in Lunchtime Sport for 2010 held by Year 7 student's Jaimie Jefferson and Sheridan Tuimaseve, members of both teams in their successes! Jaimie hols the Volleyball trophy, and Sheridan the Softball trophy.

More end of year success

Rian Duxfield has won the Competitions trophy at the 2010 School Awards Assembly for outstanding results in academic competitions throughout his 2 years at Maeroa. Well done Rian!

2010 Lunchtime Sport Softball Champions

The Room 5 team has won the final of the 2010 Lunchtime Sport Softball tournament by beating R21 by 9 runs to 2. The team was Zane Disher, Stephen Sistern-Tate, Hamish Carter, Laish Grant, Eden French-Putu, Eilis Yates, Paul Barkle, Jaimie Jefferson, Rian Duxfield and Sheridan Tuimaseve. This is the 4th year in a row that the class has won the trophy! Four of the team will still be eligible to defend it next year.

Prize Giving 2010

A number of Room 5 students were presented with certificates over the Assemblies for recognition of their Service to the school, Cultural and Sporting involvement, and Academic performance. Josh Allen received his trophy for his Oratory win, Devon Davies on behalf of the winning Kahikatea Spelling Team, and Paul Barkle on behalf of Room 5 for the inaugural Team Points Trophy for which Kahikatea were the first ever winners by well over 1000 points.

Rotary and Zonta Scholarships

Room 5 had 2 boys and 2 girls in the final 6 for each of the Rotary Club Scholarship and the Zonta Club Scholarship for 2010. They were- Paul Barkle, Hamish Carter, Nicole Steere and Devon Davies. Congratulations to all of them. And we had a winner.... Hamish Carter won the Rotary Scholarship. Fantastic effort Hamish.

2010 Lunchtime Sport Volleyball Champions

Hooray! Room 5 are the 2010 Lunchtime Sport Volleyball champions! The team, consisting of Hamish Carter, Stephen Tate, Zane Disher, Sheridan Tuimaseve, Paul Barkle, Kayla Polley, Laish Grant and Jaimie Jefferson defeated Room 11 in the final in the gym on Thursday. Our first finals' win for the year.

Making Pancakes

As part of our English Curriculum work on Procedural Text, we visited the Foods Technology room on an afternoon when it was free, and had great fun making pancakes. Later in class, we used our real life experience to write our procedure texts on the recipe and method. Part of the process was to grind our own flour from wheat. The pancakes tasted yummy.

Oratory Final

We have a winner! Josh Allen won the Level 3 section of the school Oratory competition last night. In level 4, Jasmine King and Devon Davies competed fantastically in the top 7, but were unplaced. Well done to all three Room 5 students.

BP Technology Challenge

Two teams from Maeroa competed in the BP Challenge for 2010 in Hamilton with students from Room 5 prominent in the teams. One of our teams led by Nicole Steere, and including Devon Davies and Sheridan Tuimaseve achieved a 1st and 3rd placings in their two activities, the only school to finish in the top 3 in both activities. A well earned win!

Tug of War

Our class had a lot of fun with our tug of war team, but were soundly defeated by Room 13 and will be unable to defend the trophy in the final which we won 2 years ago. (The trophy was not competed for last year).

Lunchtime Sport- Netball

Room 5 bowed out at the semi-final stage of the interclass Netball competition when they were beaten by eventual champions Room 2. We won 3 of our pool games and drew one, allowing us to qualify for the semi's. However, we were beaten on the day by a classy yeam with the score being 8-4.

EOTC Auckland Trip

Our DLU team trip to Auckland in August included a huge number of experiences, with overnight stays inside the Zoo, at a Backpackers, and inside the Maritime Museum. We went ice skating, spent a day at the War Memorial Museum, a day at MOTAT, and visited Rangitoto by ferry, and walked up to the top of the mountain. Our stay at the Maritime Museum included a night time cruise around the harbour, and a visit from Salty Sam. The Zoo allowed us to explore their environs at night, and we even fed the hippos. Our backpacker experience included dinner at the Atrium on Elliott foodhall with a $10 challenge, and a movie in Queen St- "Step Up 3". We had 89 students along for the ride, with 15 parents and teachers. The 3 classes rotated around the three sleeping venues but we shared our day time experiences together. A huge logistical exercise with nearly 100 people, bus travel, food, and places to visit. We even had SubWay and Pizza Hut delivering our lunches to the Museum, Ferry Building and MOTAT. Lots of fun and lots of learning!