Cooking is Fun-By Pepe

Every Wednesday the year 7s and 8s go to Tamaki college to do tech. At tech there are classes called graphics,cooking,wood and metal tech.This year we have been cooking with the other year 8's from Room 12.My favourite has been the chocolate milkshake so far. I wonder what us year 8's will make today .pixabay

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.

Our year so far in pictures-By Room 11

The Annoying Weatherbomb. - By Sebastian.

I was supposed to go to Dunkirk Reserve on Saturday to watch my friends play rugby. That never happened because a weatherbomb hit.

Saturday morning was boring because all the ultra-heavy rain, strong winds and cold temperature cancelled all outdoor sports. There was nothing to do so I went to the Internet Cafe and played games.

The weatherbomb ruined my day.

By Sebastian.

A Day In The Life Of A Soldier At Gallipoli-By Harris

6.00am BOOM! Yay, it's another day in the trenches. Just woke up and found my best mate had died in that explosion

7.00am Just finished my breakfast. Bully beef soup.

10:00am. Got ready to attack the Turks. Feeling depressed.

10.30am Back in our trench. I just watched 15 mates of mine die in our failed attack.

12.00pm I  just received my lunch. Hardtack and jam... Yum.

1.pm “The Turks are attacking. Gear up!" An officer yelled.

1.15pm I'm lying on the ground wondering why I can't stand up.

2.15pm I wake up in this tent full of injured soldiers and nurses.

2.20pm Just finished listening to the nurse telling me what happened. I was lucky. I had no injuries and was just shocked by a grenade.

3.00pm Went back up to the trenches.

4.00pm Dinner time, Bully beef and hard tack. Delicious.

7.00pm Getting dark. Watching flares go up in the air. Can’t wait for the next day.

By Harris

Our Museum Trip- By Tyla

At the end of last term the year 7’s and 8’s went to the Auckland War Museum. We were split into groups of 5 with an adult supervisor.

I remember seeing nurses uniforms and a picture of a  group of nurses who helped injured soldiers during the war. There was a very old first aid kit. When we were walking around we saw some badges and different kinds of guns by the library. We also saw a Spitfire that was used in WW2.

It was sad reading the names of the soldiers who died during the wars.

The last thing we looked at was Gallipoli in Minecraft. I really enjoyed it because it felt like you were really there and only you can see what’s happening right in front of you. The 3D goggles were cool.

By Tyla.

Soccer! By Akanesi.

On Wednesday my year 7&8’s Soccer Team went  to Point England Reserve for the Soccer interschools .

We played St Patrick’s School first up. Jessica and I were in the reserves.I swapped with Harris. They were so hard to play because they were very fast and good. Lucky we didn't lose but we didn't win either. The score was 0-0. I was so tired and so were the other Ruapotaka Soccer Team members. Especially us midfielders because we were running everywhere on the field.

It was a great start to the day.

By Akanesi.

Second At Interschool Football!

On Wednesday, Ruapotaka's Year 7/8 team came second in the Tamaki Cluster Interschool Football (Soccer) Competition! Harris, Jessica and Akanesi from Room 11 were in our team. Lots of fun was had and our students were well drilled, skilled and represented our awesome school responsibly. They were unlucky to lose to the overall champion right on the final buzzer when a 1-1 draw looked likely.

Well done everyone!

Under Construction 2015...

Oops! Room 11's blog page is under construction (again) as we are slowly getting our chromebooks in class. Once the whole room has them (or we start term 2) our class blogs will be up and running properly again. Thank you for your patience.

Mr Reid.