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.