Kahikatea DLU: 2013

Monday, December 16, 2013

Rubbish Tin Rounders Supreme Champions

The Victorious Team

The Year 8 students from 2013 retained their title of "Rubbish Tin Rounders" Champions after defeating the Year 7 students 29 runs to 24 in the annual event. The winning team are the first ever team to have won two years in a row after defeating last years Year 8's, and then going on to do the double! Congratulations to them all!

2013 Year 8 Graduation Social

Fallon, Jasmine, Cassie, Georgia and Shyla.

Shyla, Georgia, Fallon, Lauren, Jasmine and Cassie.

Ben, Shadrach and Aiden.

Phaeora and Petria.

The end of two great years was celebrated by most of the Room 5 Year 8 students at the Graduation Social held in the massively decorated Gym. A great night was had by all who attended.

Inside the Gym.

Friday, December 13, 2013

2013 School Prizegiving

Jakob, Shyla, Jasmine and Petria receiving class academic awards.

Carl accepting the trophy for Academic Competitions results

Alex with Music award

Phaeora receives her STAR badge.

Petria speaking on behalf of all departing Year 8 students

Petria Fitzgerald from Room 5 spoke on behalf of all the departing Year 8 students at the fourth and final school Prizegiving Assembly for 2013 in front of a packed auditorium of parents, invited guests and students. This followed the presentation of academic awards with Petria, Shyla Paikea-Lepulu, Jasmine Muhlmann and Jakob Thomas receiving the top awards for Room 5. Carl Stephens was awarded the trophy for top Academic Competition results, and Alex Carter was a recipient of a Music award. Fallon Goodson received the award for Citizenship for Room 5. Phaeora Sims was presented with the newly created "STAR" badge as one of the first students at Maeroa to achieve over 50 Koru flashes.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

2013 Concert Item

Our Kahikatea team item for the school concert featured many students from Room 5. Enjoy!

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Cheerleading Champions!

Nicole Allen and Amelia Shepherd from Room 5 are members of the Hamilton based Cheerleading squad from "Cheer Revolution" named "Fierce" who recently won a place at the All Star Games in Las Vegas in April 2014. Wow! They qualified for this by being 1st overall in the Senior Open Level 2 division at the Twisted Cheerleading Championships in Auckland and also achieved the highest overall Level 2 score. They received one of only five Bronze Bids awarded which means they received 25% of expenses paid for their trip as part of their prize, if they take up the offer of the trip!

Amelia and Nicole

Nicole and Amelia

JB & 1D

A couple of girls in room 5 this term were lucky enough to experience going to the Justin Bieber and One Direction concert. This was a amazing opportunity for both girls (Georgia and Fallon) as they both had wonderful nights screaming and crying finally getting to see their idols.

Fallon: "It was honestly so amazing I loved every second of it and I couldn't help but cry to see Justin standing pretty much only 2 metres away from me. He had great stage presentation and don't even get me started on when he took his shirt off! Best night of my entire life!"

Georgia: "I honestly had the best time of my life! It was extremely over whelming seeing my five idols performing to many 'directioners' in the room, and yes I cried. They were extremely good stage performers and made the night definitely worth going too. "

One Direction on stage

Liam Payne.

1D during their song 'I would'

One Direction talking to the crowd.

1D in their last song of the concert singing 'What makes you beautiful.'

Justin doing tricks with his mic stand.

Him singing one of his songs 'Out of town girl.'

Justins first song shirtless for the night singing 'As long as you love me.'

Him singing one of the last songs for the night 'Believe.'

During the rap of 'Baby' Justin gets his fan hyped for the last song of the night.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Waikato Intermediate Schools' Athletics victory

Nicole Allen from Room 5 has won the Year 7 Girls High Jump at the Waikato inter-Intermediate Schools' Athletics championships at Porritt Stadium against opposition from many of her peers from the city of Hamilton and across the Waikato province. Her winning jump of 1.35 metres was enough to take out the title. Well done Nicole!

Sunday, November 24, 2013

2013 Maeroa Talent Quest

Carl

Carl Stephens from Room 5 has been announced as runner-up in the 2013 Maeroa Talent Quest which also featured Petria Fitzgerald in the final. Both students played the violin. Congratulations Carl!

Petria

Thursday, November 7, 2013

2013 Spelling Bee Champion

Shadrach Tuimaseve from Room 5 has won the annual school Spelling Bee for 2013 in a tight final in the auditorium before an audience of parents, teachers and other family members. His winning word was "rheumatism".

2013 Athletic Sports

The school Athletic Sports for 2013 was held at Porritt Stadium and started promisingly, but heavy rain half way through the morning programme, saw the event cancelled for the rest of the day. Prior to the cancellation, many of the Room 5 students were in action, and achieved results in their events.
Carl Stephens was 1st and Harry Yates 2nd in the Yr 7 Boys High Jump, Bailey Guilford was 3rd in the Yr 7 Girls Long Jump, Petria Fitzgerald was 3rd in the Yr 8 Girls Long Jump, and Shadrach Tuimaseve was 2nd in the Yr 8 Boys Discus.
A catch up morning was held on the following Tuesday at Porritt Stadium to complete many of the events affected by the rain, and Room 5 students again featured prominently. Nicole Allen came 1st and Amelia Shepherd 2nd in the Year 7 Girls High Jump, Cassie Barnes came 2nd and Fallon Goodson 3rd in the Year 8 Girls High Jump, Harry Yates came 1st in both the Year 7 Boys 100m and 200m finals, Petria Fitzgerald came 3rd in the 100m, and Nicole Allen came 2nd in the Year 7 Girls 100m. And, our Year 8 Girls relay team finished 2nd! As did the Year 7 Girls! Well done Room 5!
The rest of the field events were subsequently held at school and Room 5 again featured. Bailey came 1st in the 1500m and 3rd in the 1000m races for the Year 7 Girls, Carl was 2nd in the 1000m for Year 7 Boys, and Alex Carter was 3rd in the 1500m for Year 7 Boys.

Bailey

Georgia

Carl

Petria

Phaeora

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Ritsumeikhan Keisho visitors

Our class has had the pleasure of hosting two students from Ritsumeikhan Keisho Junior High School in Hokkaido Japan, for the past two weeks. The students were part of a group who were home hosted at the school, and were part of the Room 5 community during class time, practicing their English! We played lots of games with them, including Monopoly, Cluedo, Scrabble and Uno, and tried to teach them how to play knuckle bones!

Koki

Kanna

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Te Rapa Sports Day 2013

Olivia

Phaeora

Bailey and Phaeora

Holly and Ben

Harry

Carl

Shyla

Petria

Robbie

Our Kahikatea team spent the day at Ashurst Park using the playing fields and the Sports Drome in a day of sporting activities. The games played were Cricket Rounders, Soccer, Ripper Rugby, Netball and Volleyball. All the sports were run by personel from Sport Waikato. The ten teams rotated around the five sports playing other teams. A fun day with lots of skills on display.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Class Novels 2013

Our "Novels" are ready for publishing after many weeks of work, and look great! There are many excellent stories and you can read them by clicking on the links below. Enjoy! Please add a comment on any of the stories you read. The students would love to see some feedback from people other than their classmates.