Interschool Cross Country

On Wednesday three Room 11 students represented Ruapotaka School at the Interschool Cross Country Championships at Bailey Road School.. Sophie Isabella came 2nd in the Year 7 girls and Maranatha came 6th. Harris came 7th in the Year 7 boys.

Harris approaching the finish line in a tight race for 6th and 7th!

Sophie-Isabella all by herself in second place!

Maranatha powers ahead to grab 6th place!

Well done on a fantastic effort and being great ambassadors for our school..

Woodtech Masterpieces By the woodtech group.

Check out some of the students' work they created at woodtech classes at Tamaki College. Good work Quros, Anavea, Maranatha, Sophie-Isabella, Mele, Tyla, Jamaine, Popi and Aydrian.

Jill McDonald-By Suliasi

  Jill McDonald.

Jill McDonald is known as one of New Zealand's best illustrators.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/niecieden/3893355078
She was born in Wellington 1927.

Jill got a job as art editor for school journals.

In 1965, Jill and her family moved to London, England, where she continued working as a illustrator.

Jill McDonald died in 1987.

Joseph Parker-By Matali.

Joseph Parker

Joseph Parker is my role model. He is a boxer and he fights in the 103 kgs division. He has won a lot of  boxing belts and he has knocked out heaps of fighters. Joseph Parker is a humble boxer when he knocks people out.

I want  Joseph Parker to visit my room so he can teach us kids some boxing moves and how not to give up.

Quality Blogs Comments by Elaine

We are learning to write quality blog comments. We have created infographics to help us remember  what we need to include when posting a comment on a blog.

Second at Interschool netball!

On Wednesday our year 7 and 8 netball team came second overall out of 11 teams. We only lost to Sylvia Park School in the final. Quros and Heilala from R11 were in the team and played exceptionally well. 

Miria from R12 was an outstanding captain and Chance from R12 earned a well deserved player of the day award. We are proud of our Y7/8's and they were great representatives of Ruapotaka School 

Our Report Writing -By Room 11.

We decided that these topics would make great reports for us to attempt this week.

3/8/15 - 7/8/15.

1. Suliasi/Quros/Sophie-Isabella/Gloria- Thomas Edison and Electric lightbulbs.
2. Matali/Heilala/Jamaine- Vampires (myths and legends)
3. Samuel/ Pallas/ Elaine- Air Pollution
4. Popi/ Harris/ Tiperia/Pepe- Bull Sharks
5. Maranatha/Akanesi/Sebastian/Mele- Culture In Samoa.
6. Aydrian/Tyla/Henare/Anavea- The Wolf Spider.

We need to only report on part of these topics. They are too big otherwise.

We are working in small groups together (Learn/Create/Share) to help each other and find specific information to use in our individual reports.

Monday- Discuss/decided topic/started research and planning our topic.

Tuesday/Wednesday-Writing together as a group and sharing our information.

Thursday/Friday-Completing our report topic and adding extras like infographics, illustrations, photos etc to back our research up.

You can view us creating our reports by clicking on the link below.

Room 11"s Report work