Keenan wins School Oratory Competition

Congratulations Keenan! He has gone on from winning the Kahikatea Team Oratory final to win the overall School title after the finals were held in the school auditorium last night in front of parents, visitors, teachers and families. Keenan's speech topic was "With money you can buy all the friends you want, but they are never worth the price". The Team's other competitor, Ethan Murray from Room 6, was runner up. A successful night for the Team! Keenan now goes on to represent the school at the inter-Intermediate School competition.

Keenan with his trophy after winning the school Oratory competition.

Keenan wins Team Oratory Competition

Keenan pictured delivering his speech in class
Keenan has won the Kahikatea team's Year 8 Oratory Competition in front of a large audience of parents and families in the school auditorium. Keenan spoke on the topic of "With money you can buy all the friends you want, but they are never worth the price". Emily, Max and Loren also competed in the Year 7 category, and Natalie unfortunately was ill and couldn't make the Year 8 final. 

Kahikatea Team win the school Spelling Challenge

Ms Wood presents the Spelling Challenge trophy to Chayse, Tina and Partiv.

Chayse, Partiv and Tina in action.

Chayse attempts a word while the other team members enjoy the attempt.

The Kahikatea team comprising students from Rooms 5 (Chayse and Tina) and Partiv (Room 4) have won the school Team Spelling Challenge in a close finish with Totara team. Another Room 5 student, Natalie, was the Super Speller reserve. Well done Kahikatea!

Georgia is No 1 in NZ

Georgia Hallen has achieved her goal of being No 1 in NZ for her age group in the National Diving Championships held in Auckland over the weekend. The Room 5 student won 4 Gold medals and was presented with the trophy previously held by NZ Olympians. Well done Georgia- we are proud of you!

Georgia in action in winning GOLD!

Four GOLD medals and a trophy for the top diver in her age group in NZ.

Georgia shows perfect form as she begins her dive.

Production dancers join rehearsals

Emily

Loren and Bianca

A scene from "This Is My Song"
The rehearsals for the upcoming school production of "This Is My Song" have taken another step forward with the addition of the dancers, who up until this week have been rehearsing separately. They have been working on their choreography with dance teacher Ms Russell, and the three girls from Room 5 (Emily, Loren and Bianca) feature prominently in the many routines featured throughout the show.

2015 Cross Country/Road Race

The annual school Cross Country for students was held on an overcast but dry day and saw success for many of the Room 5 class who finished the course and accomplished their personal goals or bettered them. The championship course for Boys was won by Campbell Brown, a sensational result for this Room 5 student. Photos of students from Room 5 are below.

Campbell- 1st Place in the Boys Championship event

Jayden

Tyler

Chloe

Jorja

Keenan

Amirkhon

Chayse

Loren

Ariana who finished 2nd over Course 2.

Xavier

Georgia

Millie

Cameron

Sophie M who finished 3rd over Course 2.

Ebony and Ella

Tina

Tamzen

JayzeLee and Sophie C

Isabella

2015 DLU Wellington trip

The group outside Parliament before our visit,

A WW1 figurine from the Peter Jackson exhibition at the Wellington Museum.

Enjoying the FIFA Under 20 World Cup match at the Cake Tin.

View of the studio from the control room ready to film at CapitalE.

Campbell and Jesse up close to a tuatara at Zealandia.

Jesse on the belay ropes at Fergs Rock Wall.

Keenan operates a camera in the studio at CapitalE.

Ariana, Emily and Brooke at the City Art Gallery.

Campbell in action with his 3D construction.

Jayden ponders his options.

The group at Te Papa at the marae.

Keenan studies the possibilities.

Mali attacking the goal in their 3-0 win over Ghana.

Students from across the three classes in our Kahikatea team visited Wellington and took in a number of educational opportunities. We visited TePapa and also saw their Gallipoli exhibition created by WETA Workshop, visited Capital E studios to create 2 TV news programmes, visited the WW1 exhibition created by Peter Jackson and WETA at the old Wellington Museum, went to the movies, participated in the Capital City Connections programme from the Carter Observatory, Museum of the City and Sea, Wellington Art Gallery and the Media Centre at Capital E, went to a FIFA Under 20 World Cup match and featured on television, visited Zealandia and on our last night, went out for dinner at a Mongolian restaurant.