Unity in Diversity

As an end product of our inquiry learning project on "Heroes" we made this movie. It is a documentary worth watching.

Olivia's Money Competition Reflection

The day had arrived, where we all had to compete against each other to score a final place in the Interschool competition and to be into win a Nokia Phone.

In my group was Daysha, Alysha and I. We were called Team Ollie .Before the competition started we all said to each other that it does not matter if we win or lose, it’s just having fun and learning that counts.

The competition started and the pressure was tense. It felt like my blood pressure was just about going over 75 because your whole group depended on you to find a correct answer.

Half way through the competition we were experiencing major problems because we weren’t sure if we were giving the correct answers..

Finally the competition came to an end, Paul the Duffy twin collected our test sheets .As Paul marked our papers we felt sweat running down our forehead as we anxiously watched.

He then announced the winners. We were crossing our fingers, to win a phone (at least I was).

Unfortunately team Ollie was not announced .We felt gutted that we didn’t win. But then we looked at the positive side and that was that there were still two more phones up for grabs, and all we had to do was to answer two questions to score a phone.

Paul asked what does CEO stand for and he pointed at me I felt an enormous amount of pressure on me , I didn’t say anything because I was shocked but I still had to answer that tricky question, so my answer was Chief Executive Officer.

He said that I was right; I scored a phone on the spot. In my mind I was saying’,” yes, yes, yes! I won a phone thank you, thank you, thank you.’!”

Sadly the competition came to an end .I enjoyed answering all those hard questions and learning more about kiwi saver.

Thank you Paul for helping us, understand how kiwi saver works, and thanks for giving us the chance to win a Nokia phone and I would also like to thank Mrs. Raj for preparing me for the last two weeks . You really taught me some good strategies that I can use in my future . THANK YOU!!!

Olivia's Speech

Olivia's review of the latest Harry Potter movie

Mathex - Acrostic Poem

Mathematics problem solving excercise

All around were excited people exercising brains and bodies

The principal calling out the time that was left

Hard and challenging Mathematical problems

Exhilarated people running around and thinking at the same time

X-treme mental and physical races to the finish line.


The winners at Mathex were: Isaiah, Longoa'a, Daniel and Lorraine - 1st with 100% marks
Synergy, Jorjah, Elaine and Rose - 1st with 100% marks
Zeenat, Mele V, Taverio, and Tipiloma - 3rd with 80% marks

By Jorjah and Olivia Room 16

Term 2 memories and reflections

This term we had an amazing trip to the zoo. We learnt a lot of facts
about animal adaptations.
Enjoyed a visit from Ivan Cleary. He taught us some cool ball skills for
Rugby.
Rotary club has given us some neat chapter books to read for SSR.
Magnificent speeches we made. Ramona came third in the school.

Technology was terrific with Mrs Toon and Mr Brainch. They taught us a lot of
new skills.
We had a very good term with Miss Walley and we are going to miss her. We
hope she has a good time in America and England.
Orpheus/ Calliope/ Leander/ Achilles were competing for the house shield.
Everyone is trying their best in house sports.

Remarkable performances from the dance group Deziah we saw.
Our class has been searching for information for our inquiry learning.
Outstanding pieces of art about sustainability encouraged others to stop
throwing rubbish on the ground.
Marvellous measurement posters called body gardens were creatively made.

Some wonderful performances from the Tongan Trip Group we saw.
Intelligent poems/rhymes about sustainability we wrote.
Xtreme pressure on all kids who did a lot of tests during the term.
Thanks to the student teacher Miss Aris we did a lot of enjoyable stuff.
Extraordinary rugby teams from Tamaki Intermediate did well.
EHSAS improved our literacy and we created movies for the blog page.
Neat and wonderful work was produced this term too by Room 16.

By Olivia and Sela (Room 16)

Just So Story - How the Horse got its Mane

Once upon a time there was a scientist named Dr Evil Scientist.
One day Dr Evil Scientist went out of control because he forgot to take his medication.
He went crazy and started making experiments using up every liquid he could find.
He was running outside when a horse went galloping by.

They crashed into each other and the experiment went up in the air and cracked open on the horses head.
Dr Evil Scientist was amazed when he saw the horse had hair on it’s head and neck.
So from then on Dr Evil Scientist made a lot of experiments for horse’s to have hair.
Dr evil scientist named it a mane...and that's how the horse got it’s Mane.

By Olivia (Room 16)

Holiday Recount - Slumber Sleepover

In the holiday my sister, mum and I went to my Aunties in Otara for a sleepover slumber party.

At first we didn’t want to have a slumber party until mum said there will be a lot of your cousins there to play then all of a sudden we agreed.

When we arrived at my Aunties house all of my cousins were there. I ran to my special room (the master room)and unpacked my things into the cupboard and draws.
Time went past and it was night we stayed up and ate lollies chips, dip and fizzy drinks.
We were all getting tired and all went to sleep at 10:00 o’clock at night.
In the morning we all went home.
The best part was when we ate lollies, chips and dip and drank fizzy drink. I hope we can that again one day.

By Olivia