School Jumpjam Competition

The annual school Jumpjam competition was a huge morning with the whole school in the auditorium to watch all the teams' compete and our Kahikatea team did really well, although we did not pick up a top 3 placing. Many of our team were from Room 5. Oh well, maybe next year!

Wellington Trip

A group of 8 Room 5 students along with 7 others from the DLU, and Mr Metcalfe, spent a week in Wellington. We flew down on Monday 24 May, visited Zealandia (the Karori Wildlife Centre), Parliament, Te Papa, the WETA Cave, Capital E (twice), and went for a helicopter ride over the city, plus we took in a movie, went rock wall climbing, and stayed at Base Wellington backpackers. The trip was AWESOME! We flew home again on Friday 28 May. Those who attended were- Devon Davies, Liana Jamieson, Nicole Steere, Paige Buysman, Jasmine King, Alex Waites, Paul Barkle, and Hamish Carter. At Capital E we created a "Kahikatea News" bulletin on the first visit, and a "Wake Up NZ" breakfast programme on the second visit. Fantastic experience. Next year, we will be offering the experience again to a new group of Year 8's.

Touch- Lunchtime Sport

Our Room 5 team have won their pool and progressed through to the semi finals of the inter class Lunchtime Sport tournament for Touch. We beat Rooms 1 and 16 both with the scores of 7 nil, Room 11 got beaten 4 nil, and we won over Room 19 with the score 2-1. We unfortunately had to play the awesome team from Room 3 in the semi, and although we played really well, we lost 2 nil. They only scored once (girls score double points) and the game was exciting with play moving rapidly up and down the field at great pace. The other semi was played between Rooms 10 and 21 and went to a drop off when the scores were tied 0-0 at full time. In the end, with only 3 players from each team left on the field, Room 10 scored to win the game! So the final next term is between Rooms 3 and 10.

2010 V2 Cars

The class constructed their box cars for entry into the different categories for the school wide competition having a lot of fun, and leading to the eventual winner in the race category.

V2 Super Cars

A clear cut victory for the Room 5 team this year in the school V2 Super Cars competition after being denied first placing last year. This year's team consisted of Hamish Carter, Sheridan Tuimaseve, Jaimie Jefferson and Logan Pollard, and they convincingly won their heat, and then won the final by the length of the home strait! A huge margin for the win! In 2009, the team were relegated to second after the box car came to pieces during the final. So redemption in 2010 with a much stronger car.

The Trans-Tasman Battle

Room 5 has had a friendly trans-Tasman rivalry with our Australian born Deputy Principal this term due to the early successes of the Black Caps over Australia in cricket. However, we were made "to eat humble pie" when the Aussies defeated NZ in the one day series and first test. This came in the form of Mr D publishing clever little notices about us in the daily notices. Room 5 decided to get back at him by decorating his office in pro-NZ posters, flags, and whatever we could get hold of at the time. We also provided him with a cake (our "humble pie"). After the decorating, a group of our Room 5 students lay in wait for him to return and duly sang our National Anthem to him when he walked in the door. The students were Jessica Needham, Makenzee Wells, Jessica Forkert and Anna Butcher. We eagerly await the rugby season.

Saturday Softball Team

The Maeroa Saturday Softball team were runners-up in the Minor Intermediate Grade tournament Final on Saturday and the team featured many players from Room 5. They were captained by Zane Disher, and included Laish Grant, Ezra Sa'u, Jacob Goodwin and Devon Davies. The team was coached by Mr Metcalfe. The team actually scored more runs than their opposition (18-16) at the end of the 4th innings, when the game finished,but the opposition protested to the organisers, and won the final on a technicality because the game had inched past the expected finish time of 12 noon, and so the score had to be taken back as from the end of the 3rd innings, where Peachgrove were ahead. Although we had to accept the decision of arbitration, we were not happy, and believe we had a moral victory.