Week 7

Elvis is about to tell us where he is, and the Bermuda Triange council is about to tell us why it isn't a square, the phantom is taking off his mask, the full captain's log of the Marie Celeste has been found, Stonehenge blue prints are being revealed, Jack the Ripper is telling us who he is, the chicken is telling us if the egg bet him or not, a five year old is saying why he doesn't eat vegetables, the pope is confirming whether there is a god or isn't a god and the aliens are about to tell the meaning of life. Suddenly the video stops and a voice says, "Dr Kaligula and Clay are needed. Now!" As I walk down the corridor I can hear gasps of amazement, shock and horror, it was going to be a long day of filming.

By Grant

Week 6

This last week we have been working on Room 3's production, including writing, designing costumes, choreographing and auditioning for the characters. The characters and actors are: Clay (Christian), Dr K (Grant), Gent (Ariana), Suzie (Anna) and Clay's father and brother (Josh and George). I'm pretty sure I can't say anything else but it will be awesome! We have only just started to film but hopefully it will be finished by Friday.
By Catherine

Week 6

It's been a cool week because the hot air balloon and the road show and the really cool assembly. I've got to admit, it was pretty cool.
By Chance

Hot air balloon!

Very exciting today at school. A hot air balloon arrived at school and was set up on our field. It was fun to watch it being set up and then it floated up - only about a couple of metres off the ground. It was far more fun that doing school work!

Week 5

We have done a lot of things this week, making clay terracotta warriors, doing chopstick challenge and doing 2 maths sessions on Tuesday!
This Friday we had a lot of fun making clay terracotta warriors and the chopstick challange. Especially the clay terracotta warriors, it was a lot of fun. We only had 25 minutes to make 5 clay warriors or 4 warriors and 1 horse. Mrs G gave points to the group with the best crafting and best details. CHALLENGING ISN'T IT? Well, everyone had tried their best and everyone did a good job.
We also had a chopstick challenge after that. Each person in your group had to pick up the chopstick, pick up 5 jellybeans (not in 1 go) and drop them into the other bowl. If you drop the bean you have to go back and try again. Again, everyone tired very hard. It's easy to tell that basically everyone practised very hard. There's only a few seconds of difference between first place to third place! The best thing is: everyone gets to eat a jellybean after that!
These are some if the things we've hardly done before. We wiosh we could have another fun day like this.

By Kevin

Week 5

Kiaora. In tech at the moment I am in Hard Materials where we are making candle holders. I'm making a New Zealand icon and it's made out of number 8 wire which is obviously wire, that you can bend into shapes, which is perfect for me and my koru. Also in Room 3 at the moment we are slowly putting together a production. It is about a boy called Clay eho gets captured by Dr Kaligula. You will have to see it to know more.

By Georgie

Week 5 and our Amazing Race!

This week we have visited China. The Blue team were feeling quite pleased about this country as Kevin is a bit of an expert on China!
Our Roadblock this week consisted of 2 parts.
The first part was making terracotta warriors from clay. It was lovely working on our clay figures today - sitting outside in the sunshine. Have a look at the photos to pick which team had the best warrior army!
The second part of the Roadblock was the chopstick relay. This involved each team working as a team to transport jellybeans by chopstick from one bowl to another. Very funny to watch!
Next week we visit Germany and we will be using some of our German language skills in the Roadblock.

Congratulations!

A huge congratulations to Grant - the winner of the Year 7 Speech competition.
It was a fiercely fought battle! The standard of all the contestents was extremely high.
We are all very proud of Grant and his achievement.

Week 4 and our Malaysian Visitors

This week for our Amazing Race Homework we were all set to go to South Africa (in research not in person) when we were told we were doing Malaysia instead. I was quite disappointed as I have heritage there and so our group would have cleaned up the points that week but, on the plus side, the reason we did Malaysia was because of the year 7 classes had Malaysian trainee teachers for a week. Our class (Room 3) had two guys, Dean and Daus. Not only were they great sources of information for the Amazing Race but they were very nice and also they taught us to dance Malaysian style. I don't think we did a very good job of it but you can look up the professionals on you-tube. The week went by quickly, them sitting at the back of the class or wandering around getting ideas for their classes at home during maths, reading and writing, and joining in during P.E. sessions. They were a big help and we wouldn't have had such a good project without them. We said good bye on Friday and took some photos and they gave us a very interesting book on the world. Then they hopped on their bus and they were gone and left us with lots of knowledge of Malaysia and knowledge of how to dance Malaysian style ( not necessarily well however!)

By Jess

Week 4 and the Amazing Race

Our Amazing Race has taken us to New Zealand, U.S.A. and Italy so far. On Monday we completed the Roadblock for Italy - the pizza challenge!
Each group had to design a pizza and consider which ingredients reflected the flavours of Italy. We then put our masterpieces together. Yum (although I'm not convinced about the octopus pizza!)
This Friday I am looking forward to the groups performing their Malaysian cultural dance and/or song.