Duffy Father's Day Competition

 

Hatter's Gold- By Nurul

Hatters Gold is the name of one of my favourite books that we read as a group. The first half of the page says

I own a dead man’s boots because the coal miners went on strike. Our teacher, Baldy Bremner, would say I was drawing a long bow talking like that bending the truth into a shape that suits me better. But I’m not, you know. If the strike hadn’t gone ahead, Mum could have afforded to buy me new boots, like she’d been planning.

I wouldn’t have gone looking for gold and I wouldn’t have found the professor staggering down the Croesus track with a bloody rag tied around his leg, the red drops going all the way back to his chopping block and the other half is. The strike started on a Thursday. It was February the 27th, 1908. We were walking home for lunch, and I remember I stubbed my toe on a rock.I was hopping around, clutching my foot and swearing, and Teddy said, “You’d better not let Dad hear you saying them words.”

Seeing the men above ground, in the middle of the day ... that usually meant an accident down the mine. I was relieved to see Dad at the front of the group. Now that you know a bit about the story you should go read it, it is one of the best story books that ever came out in my opinion.

King Street Bridge- By Kate

For reading my group Apples read a story called "King Street Bridge". There are four students in our group- Sunipa, Agueer, Satui and me.

This narrative was about Hera, a girl who had a lot of panic attacks andt was also getting bullied at the same time. Once she had to walk home by herself and then the bullies (Lyza and Rebecca) threw water all over the poor girl causing her to have a panic attack. Hera then woke up to the sound of Lyza and Rebecca crying and tried to help her up. 

In the end Hera forgave them and they soon decided to be friends. Hera's best friend Jules helped her through the whole thing but couldn't be there to help her during the time she was having her panic attack. 

I really enjoyed reading this story! 

Earthworms-By Satui

Last Wednesday at tech we were learning about earthworms. You might think they look kind of disturbing but they are very helpful to our environment, by letting air in and carbon dioxide out of the soil.  Worms also help to increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil and more.

 Mrs.Sharma give us some worms to see what day would do. I had four worms one of the worms were aggrieve the other two were sleepy and the other one was trying to jump out. We were watching a video of how helpful worm are.    

Friday Volleyball -By Sunipa

Last Friday Room 1 and 7 were doing volley ball. We all went down to the basketball court and met our tutor.  Her name was coach Elena.
When we got there she made us run 2 laps, get into groups of 4 and made us set the ball to each other. Kate and I were on 1 side while Agueer and Winnie were on the other. I had a total blast oh and best of all when my team and I were playing king of the court we won all our matches against our opponents.
On my team were Agueer, Frank, Winnie and Pita. Everyone in the team tried their best to get the ball over the net, we did so well.  After we were done with our lesson we went back to class and did some work.

Feijoas! -By Kate

New Zealand is now set for a bumper Feijoa crop in 2020. Whats surprising is that the droughts that have been happening around many regions are whats been helping this delicious fruit grow. Many growers have been saying that their crops are 20% higher than last year.

 This huge crop will be available from April to June. Eating Feijoas are very important during Autumn and Winter as they have a lot of Vitamin C to fight off colds, the flu and bugs. 

New Zealand first 24/7 online supermarket opens-By Satui

The country's first goal-built online supermarket has just opened on April the 16th.
 The brand new Countdown e-store is located in Penrose, Auckland.


It is foreseen that the new online market will fill up to 7500 online orders a week from the Auckland region.
 It will employ 200 people, as well as create 106 new jobs. The e-store that will be open 24-hours a day, seven days a week was planned prior to the corona-virus lock down.

Daily plan for us in isolation

Home Learning R1 (covid19) Daily plan for students at home. -Write a daily blog like a diary/journal entry. -Complete half hour maths off website. -Complete half hour Reading off website. -Talk to family, have a daily conversation about what is going on. To do over time. -Find out about and complete an information report on a local pest (rats? Mice? Hedgehogs? Etc) Where do they live? Why are they pests? What can we do to limit their possible harm on our environment? -Stay up to date on your pest control work. Keep an eye on the news. How is the shutdown affecting our native animals? How is it affecting the pests like rats etc. I am online at 10AM and 2PM on days we are supposed to be at school so you and/or your caregivers can email me or contact me then. Be safe. Look after each other and follow the isolation protocols. Damian Reid.

Quarantine for next 4 weeks

Hi everyone, our school is shut for the next 4 weeks along with the whole of NZ which is in lockdown. Our home learning can continue by accessing our class webpage learning hub.

R1 Y7/8 Learning Page

Look after yourselves and your family.

Mr Reid

What Do Our Intermediate Students Want From 2020?

Hi everyone- Welcome back!
The intermediate students in R1 decided on a few things we want to achieve, do or attempt in the new year.
1. Go on trips so we can visit interesting places that provide us with activities to do.
2. Have a spectacular end of year celebration.
3. Work hard together as a class to complete our tasks to a high standard.

On Friday afternoons Room 12 group 1 and 2 did art. For art we drew tapa cloths on paper based on our learning about "The Pacific Study". We used colors and pencils to draw Tongan or Samoan patterns and many island pattern. The patterns I drew was a flower and a traditional Tongan pattern. I used a black pencil to darken the outline and used a pencil to shade the inside of the flower.

By Isabell

Duffy Role Model Assembly With Robbie Rakete.

Today we were very lucky to have Robbie Rakete as our Duffy Role Model.

He is a star of stage and screen and helped MaiFM when they first started out.

(Alexandra looks happy!)

Our students were proud to get their books from Robbie. Did you know he was the brown wiggle from the wiggles? (A great children's show by the way.)

(Pleased to have their new Duffy books.)

(Our friend Henry taking photos of Robbie and the 

students receiving their Duffy books.)

Tabloid Sports Day

Teremoana and Izabell helping the Juniors in Miss Min's activity

Our brand new house flags and the leaders getting organised

Ready to go play at each sports activity.

Ruapotaka's Year 7's and 8's visit The NZ Breakers

Yesterday I took 10 very lucky year 7 and 8's to the NZ  Breakers basketball team training facility on the North Shore.

The boys and myself were impressed with how hard they trained every day.

Then, we got to play some B-ball and do some skills and drills with the team. Aydrian can't believe how tall some of the players are!

We had an amazing day with the Breakers.

Mr Reid

Safety Week-Halloween and Guy Fawkes

With Halloween just finished and Guy Fawkes coming up all the senior classes have been getting refresher lessons on safety.

It's important we make sure we don't put ourselves in harmful situations and look after each other.
Enjoy your week everybody.

Mr Reid.

MRS GREN

This week as part of our inquiry we are looking at MRSGREN-This will help us understand and identify living things and what actually makes them alive. Room 11's students have been researching and creating presentations that explain explain each characteristic better.

Our Trip To The Botanic Gardens

We were so lucky with the weather today and had a fantastic trip to the gardens.

Room 11 by one of the many sculptures.

 A brilliant view across the lake

Too many interesting plants and flowers to look at

The sculptures were cool too. 

Highlights were the edible garden where we saw all the plants we could eat, the rock garden next to the lake and walking the many trails to all the different plant species.

A new Term, A Fresh Start!

Term 4 is getting off to a bang. Crazy Spring-Summer weather (Wind, rain, cold, hot, sun every day) and we are finally back in our own room after last term's asbestos scare. And,

Auckland Botanic Gardens

http://www.aucklandbotanicgardens.co.nz/

The whole school is going on a trip to the Botanic Gardens this Thursday and it will be an interesting trip. (Well, as long as a storm doesn't blast us while we are there!)

Our Senior Block Being Fenced Off!

Our senior block has now been fenced off and Room 11 is working in the music room. We wish we had our old room back but it looks like we won't get back in it until next term.

It is nice to back at our own school though after spending all last week at Tamaki Primary (in their art room) because of the asbestos found in our roofs.

A big thank you to all of Tamaki Primary for giving our school some spaces to use so we could try to do normal school things.

Mr Reid.

Ruapotaka's Mini Olympics

We had our school Mini Olympics on Friday. It was an amazing day with lots of parents attending and all our teams participating and having fun. The spirit of the Olympics was alive and well at Ruapotaka.