Tuesday, December 21, 2010

End of 2010

Here are AWARDS for 2010:

SERVICE AWARDS:
Class councilors - Victor Guy, Ashton Morris
Enviroagents - Ashleigh Taiapa, Tatiana Thompson
Choir - Jayda Te Hira, Ashton Morris, Alyssa Hirawani, Angela Black
Rock Band - Jayda Te Hira, Ashton Morris, Alyssa Hirawani, Garry Mose Iopu
CPA - Arahia Miratana, Tatiana Thompson, Hendrix Peters, Elkanah Andrews-Peters, Garry Mose Iopu

CLASS AWARDS:
General Excellence - Jayda Te Hira
Academic - Sasha Babbington
Sportsmanship - Alyssa Hirawani
Effort - Hendrix Peters
Citizenship - Victor Guy

SCHOOLWIDE AWARDS:
Excellence in Music - Jayda Te Hira/Ashton Morris

BOY were our students busy this year... Thank you Room 1 for all your hard work! :) GOOD LUCK at high school, work hard and have fun!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

ATHLETICS - sprints and relays

This Friday we have our school 100m sprint heats and finals, and the class relay!

Our girls team is: Ashton, Sasha, Hine and Alyssa
Our boys team is: JayJay, Hendrix KP, Newelle and Jordan

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

ATHLETICS

This term we have our school athletics! During week 1 and 2 students are practicing and developing skills in long jump, cricket ball throw, shot put, discus, and high jump.

Here are some you tube clips to inspire you...

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

FORENSICS

How does the world investigate the truth?

What is Forensics?
What is Truth?
What is Evidence? What is proof?

If you don't get caught are you still wrong?

Innocent until proven Guilty OR Guilty until proven Innocent?

How do we justify our decisions?


These are some of the questions students will be answering and learning about during our forensics unit.


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To start the unit, we discussed what we already know about Forensics and brainstormed key words... turns out there is a lot we need to learn! This is a whole class wordle. We will be comparing this one to one at the end of the term so see if there is a change in our forensic vocabulary.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Hip Hop @ NZ AIMS

Two students from Room 1 are a part of our schools Hip hop group that traveled over to Tauranga to compete at NZ AIMS. Here is some footage of their routine:

CONGRATULATIONS to all the crew for coming 4th in the competition!!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Story Time: building confidence for speeches

Students in Room 1 are practicing speaking in front of an audience, building confidence and using expression when they speak. Each week they choose a picture book to share with their group, they practice reading it with expression at home and then bring it to school to read aloud.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

SPEECH PRACTICE

By now you should be thinking about how you are going to present your speech and practicing in front of friends, family and the mirror! Here are the speech finalists from 2009, are there any tips you can pick up from these fine citizens?





Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SPEECHES 2010

Speeches, the word makes some people cringe and hide away whilst others thrive at the opportunity to speak amongst their peers. This term they are here, with some very interesting topics:

1. Is our climate really changing? Where's the evidence - how do we know?

2. "Show me don't tell me." Talk about air pollution and how to reduce it where you live.

3. One mans trash is another mans treasure - persuade us to recycle.

4. "Make today, better than yesterday, and tomorrow better than today." What are you doing for sustainability?

5. Science is simple common sense at its best.~ Thomas Huxley. In the name of science it is common sense to kill whales

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

PrEP 2010

We had an exciting PrEP Market Day! Room 1 students worked extremely hard to create interesting, high quality products to sell. It took 5 weeks to plan, produce and sell our goods to our community. Here are some signs created to advertise Room 1's business ventures:


We are confident that our class produced the best products overall, with teddy bears made out of recycled clothing, classy wooden coasters, pinatas with lollies inside them, a dart throwing competition with beautiful origami balls with lollies inside as prizes, poi for sale, and delicious home made baking!
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Monday, August 9, 2010

MAGGI KITCHEN SHOWDOWN

On the 5th of August, four students travelled to Auckland to compete in the Maggi Kitchen Showdown. Room 1's Ashleigh Taiapa thoroughly enjoyed the experience! Here are some snapshots of their day...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Architecture Study

Wow, what a busy term!! Here are some examples of the work students have been doing in class.


Students learned about famous structures around the world, why are they famous and what do they think is magnificent about their chosen building/structure. They then created some 3D pop out art to accompany their information. It looks absolutely stunning!
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Friday, June 11, 2010

FINLAY PARK Statistics

As part of our Statistics Unit this term, students did a statistical investigation on Year 8 Camp at Finlay Park.


They were told to think outside the "favourite activity" question and students chose more meaningful topics such as "how did you get up the hill?". Yes, it sounds rather random, but doing a 1.5km run up and down a hill 3 days in a row at 7am in the morning leaves an impression on our students.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

KIDSLINE POSTER COMPETITION

Below is a link to the kidsline website to give you some ideas on what to put on your poster and so you can have at look at some of the cool PRIZES!

Click here for details on the kidsline poster competition

Here are some examples of past entries into the competition:






Sunday, May 9, 2010

MAGGI KITCHEN SHOWDOWN


Congratulations to Ashleigh who made the group of Melville Intermediate representatives for the Maggi Kitchen Showdown. The TV crew came in and filmed our students, very exciting stuff!! Below is a link to the website, remember they only get to go to the nationals if we VOTE online so we need all your support!

VOTE for Melville Intermediate

See the some behind the scenes footage

Monday, April 19, 2010

WELCOME BACK - TERM 2

This term we have a lot of exciting things happening!

The Year 8 topic focus is on Architecture and Rm1 will be researching famous buildings around the world and even designing and creating a building of their own! But the big thing I'm looking forward to is CAMP!



So keep an eye on this blog for any information about what our students are doing this term

Monday, March 15, 2010

Values Poems

Here is another poem written by one of our students, I am extremely proud of the thinking our students are doing and the fantastic work they produce:

Pride
Pride wanders around looking for someone to help, leading people to success through encouragement. Pride supports anyone he sees, telling students daily to never give up and keep moving forward. Pride will always stand tall no matter what ever is in front of his path. Pride wears tidy clothes, that represents who he is and what he does. Pride well never let anyone down.

by Hendrix KP

Saturday, March 13, 2010

VALUES POEMS

Imagine... Respect is actually a person.
  • What does he look like?
  • What kind of clothes does he wear? Are they clean and tidy? Or are they scruffy and covered in mud?
  • What kind of person is he? Is he friendly or mean? Does he help others or does he push them around?
  • What does he enjoy doing?

Students in Room 1 were given the task of describing what kind of person EXCELLENCE, PRIDE, RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT, or INTEGRITY would be. They needed to use their knowledge of these values to decide how they would describe their person. Here are some examples of what our students came up with.

Excellence
Excellence is uses her happiness to her advantage. The quality of her style is perfect and spotless. She is a caring citizen, loyal to each person she meets. She takes responsibility for her learning and is part of the solution with problems at school. Her smile shows everyone her bubbly personality. She always climbs the mountain and reaches the top.

by Sasha

Respect
Respect walks around looking out for others in need of help, no matter where or when they are in need. She is not a selfish person that only cares about her self, she likes to encourage people. Respect looks up to people as well as being looked up to. She values others peoples opinions and ideas. She tries very hard to look sharp with clean appropriate clothes. She has long brown hair with hazel green eyes that twinkle as bright as the stars.

by Jayda

Friday, March 12, 2010

Makuhari Manuhiri


Today our School welcomed students from Makuhari Junior High School in Japan. They will be with us for the next two weeks and TAI Melville students are lucky to be hosting 4 of these students. Most of our manuhiri are 15 years old and are very excited to learn as much about Aotearoa as possible. Our students are looking forward to hearing about Japanese culture as well - nau mai haere mai tamariki ma!


Thursday, March 11, 2010

TAI MELVILLE UPGRADE!

YAY!

During my release time I decided to do some work on our beautiful blog, and I made an amazing discovery! We have now upgraded our TAI Melville Blog to have a number of different pages to link to:
  • Panui (Notices)
  • TAI Rm 1
  • TAI Rm 2
These links allow you to see whats happening in each class, and panui (notices) about upcoming events for the students in Te Ao Ipurangi.

Friday, March 5, 2010

STARS

Here at Miriwera we have 5 values we call STAR values:




Here are the classroom posters Room 1 students made for our school values. We will be doing more work on these values throughout the term... Watch the space!

Room 2 Students 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

Nau mai haere mai!

Nau mai haere mai! A warm welcome to the parents/caregivers and whanau of the Te Ao Ipurangi Year 7 students (Room 2). We hope that you will find this blog informative and interesting. Our blog serves as another vehicle for our students to showcase their mahi (work) and any other tidbits which they may be involved in. I encourage you all to explore the site and see how this unique programme has been developed over the past year or so. Please feel free to leave a comment where appropriate as my students and I will be monitoring our blog regularly. Take a look at the photos of the Room 2 students for 2010 - ataahua ne?

A very warm Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) welcome to our new friends in Room 7, St Claires School, Dunedin. Rm 2 students have been skyping Rm 7 students . We are looking forward to working with them as they develop their Mihi. Ma te wa (see you again).

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Winter Olympics 2010

We always need to be setting ourselves a goal to work towards.

The athletes that compete at the Winter Olympics are no different, they set themselves numerous goals and they work very very hard to achieve them. No matter how big or small, having goals in life is important :)

Here is a trailer for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Can you identify the different sports shown on this video clip?

Monday, February 8, 2010

Welcome Back


Welcome back to another exciting year in Te Ao Ipurangi!

This term's school wide focus is on building positive relationships with others and learning more about our schools 'STARS' values. Room 1 is focusing on leadership and goal setting, while the teina in Room 2 are doing some exciting work to do with heart disease. Watch this space for more info...