Cross Country Success 2014

Bailey- 1st Year 8 Girl

Alex- 1st Year 8 Boy

Amelia

Michelle

Campbell- 2nd Year 7 Boy

Harry- 3rd Year 8 Boy

Room 5 has enjoyed success again in the 2014 school Cross Country with 1st places in both the Year 8 Boys and Year 8 Girls events, with both Alex Carter and Bailey Guilford winning. Other students also enjoyed success with places within the top ten in the school. Nicole Allen finished 3rd in the Year 8 Girls, Harry Yates finished 3rd in the Year 8 Boys, and Campbell Brown finished 2nd in the Year 7 Boys.
Update- At the last school assembly for Term 2, it was announced that Kahikatea had topped the overall points tally for this years Cross Country. Well done all those who participated! First again! CHAMPIONS!


Kahikatea girls in action!

Ariana

2014 Class Football Champions

Back Row- Holly, Harry, Robbie and Libby
Front Row- Alex, Campbell and Bailey

 In the same week that the FIFA Football World Cup has kicked off in Brazil, our Room 5 team has won the final of the inter-class Lunchtime Sport Football Tournament after winning their way through pool games and the semi final. They won 3 - 1 against Room 13 (the Sports Class) with goals scored by Robbie (2) and Harry. Holly did an awesome job in goal with great defence from Bailey and Libby, Our attack was assisted by Campbell and Alex, with the whole team having an awesome game. Unfortunately, Brooke who had played in all games up until the final, was unable to play as she was away representing the school at the field hockey inter-Intermediate School tournament where her team finished in third place. What a day!

The Champions!

Class Scavenger Hunt at the Hamilton Lake

Our class has been to the Hamilton Lake (Lake Rotoroa) to work in groups of 3 students and accompanied by a parent, and armed with an ipad, to solve the mystery of 20 cryptic clues. We had to film the answers and add the videos and photos into an iMovie, which will then be posted on our blogs. We had a lot of fun at the lake and the two hours went really quickly. We were often asked by people walking around the lake as to what we were doing, and had lots of great comments made. We then went back to school to edit the videos and begin the task of posting them on our blogs. You will be able to view them by clicking on each of our blogs on the side bar when they are down loaded. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we had making them. The 20 cryptic clues were-

1. St George’s pet- a mythical creature.
2. Not the Titanic or the Rangiriri, but a smaller version.
3. Take a seat- especially the one donated by the family of a former Maeroa School Principal.
4. If trapped, who will you call? And what cost?
5. Opened by a Dame? When?
6. The rocket that goes down, not up!
7. Watched over by a wooden bald eagle!
8. The official name for the Lake. When formed? What size?
9. What fish live here?
10. Maybe Hamilton’s first Super-duper for when caught short!
11. Engine, engine number nine, is this number really mine? Who am I?
12. Your stage challenge! What to perform?
13. What speed limit? How fast can you go?
14. Must be on a leash unable to run free.
15. The birds in the park and on the lake.
16. Where Road Runners meet? Not at Wile E. Coyote’s place!
17. Saints alive, he even has a scout group?
18. Nuisance water weeds, who are you gonna call?
19. “We are sailing, we are sailing, home again,….”
20. Type of transport not encouraged.                                                                                                           Pictured below are the groups working on their editing in class.

Campbell, Fiona and Aimee

Harry, Aidan and Robbie

Nicole, Amelia and Olivia

Jasmine, Chayse, Michelle and friend

Brad, Sophie and Natalie

Alex, Flynn and Joaquina

Libby, Bailey and Holly

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   David, Jesse and Carl

   

   Ned, Jayden and Keenan

   

   Brooke, Georgia and Ariana

   

   Ebony, Jayzelee and Sophie
   
   
   
   

   
   

Team Spelling Champions 2014

The Kahikatea team of Carl Stephens, Aidan Scott-Nanthasack, Chayse Paikea and Natalie Posa have won the team Spelling Challenge in our auditorium in front of the school today (16/04/14) and defended the title from last year. The victory was closely fought, especially with Kauri team who came second, and Totara team who came third; but our spellers eventually came through to win. Congratulations TEAM!

Carl, Chayse and Aidan.

The team is joined by Natalie, our "Super" Speller.

The team with Mr Metcalfe.

2014 Triathlon Success

Aidan (2nd boy in the Individual event)

Keenan (4th)

Robbie (5th)

Ned (9th)

Sophie M (9th Girl home)

The 2014 Triathlon was held this week (6/4/2014) at school in hot sunny conditions and Room 5 were well represented in the individual events. Aidan Scott-Nanthasack was the second boy to finish, Keenan Goodson was 4th and Robbie Wilkinson 5th. Some of our Room 5 students also competed as part of a team of 3 from our Kahikatea classes sharing the bike, swim and run components. They were Libby, Bailey, David, Jesse and Jayden. The Kahikatea team also achieved a clean sweep of 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Girls event with Ella (R4), Tori (R4) and Brooke (R6). Results of the school "Team" points competition was announced on Friday at assembly and Kahikatea came FIRST! We are the CHAMPIONS!

Science Roadshow 2014

Our class attended the Science Roadshow in our school Gymnasium and had an interesting morning doing different activities and watching some amazing experiments!

 

Science Alive 2014

Last night (1 April) Maeroa Intermediate School had their annual Science Night in the gym. Lots of people came and saw all the classes in action with their Science experiments. Our room was making yummy ice cream! This was a great success and everybody who tasted it, liked it! Even Mr. Hills recommends it! If you would like an explanation on how we made the ice cream, please scroll down and see what we did in class for this experiment. Overall, it was a fun night and all of us who were there had an awesome time!
Carl and Robbie

More business.

Sophie M making ice cream.

Putting the ingredients together to make the ice cream.

Sophie C intently shaking her bag.

More ice cream coming up!

Aiden ready to start shaking his bag and Robbie seems happy whistling away!

The three girls focussed on their yummy treat.

Maeroa students trying our ice cream.

Natalie and Sophie empty their ice cream into a bowl ready for tasting.