We won the dress-up day

We won a fish and chip lunch due to our fabulous costumes to celebrate the opening of the library.

Success in cross country. We won!!

Athletics Day!

On a warm summer morning Room 7 & 8 prepared for athletics. All dressed in yellow, we made our way to the hall. Competing against other syndicates, we tried our hardest. In the afternoon we were completely exhausted! It was a very fun day.
By Marilyn and Eden

Claire's delicious Asian biscuits

For one of my unit tasks we had to make an Asian dish so I made An Asian cookie called Botasa.

Jia yen's sweet chili prawn fried-rice

                                      Jia Yen's shared food unit task ( sweet chili prawn fried-rice )

David with his workshop box and pen

Year 8 Leavers' dinner

A gorgeous photo of the year 8's from room 8 looking fantastic for the Leavers' Dinner.

Aimee's sustainability cake

I made a sustainability cake,it was based on the wind-mill and sustainability.

The cake was chocolate with blue and green icing. There was a lake on my cake.

By
Aimee


  

Noah's torch

My torch was representing the Olympics and it is made of paper and tape.

The torch was very easy to make. It was fun to make. You get some pieces of paper and roll it up and get a piece of coloured paper and make it into a flame. Then stick it on the torch and there you go, a torch!

by Noah

This term we are working on sustainability. To help us learn more about sustainability, we cut  up an apple to see how much earth is left to grow food for the future.

3/4 of the earth is covered in water, that means that only 1/4 of earth is left to grow things. We found out that there is only 1/32 of the earth that is used to feed the earth's population. 3/32 of the earth is either: Too rocky, too sandy, too hot or soil that isn't able to produce any plants. By Brookelyn, Marilyn and Cameron

Olympic model

As part of our unit tasks, Melissa and I made an Olympic Model out of recyclable materials. We used driftwood, dried grass and smoothed glass from a beach, and recycled cardboard for the clothes. We made a person holding the Olympic torch going up a runway, with a rock at the end to stand the torch on.

By Becky

Isaac's Olympics cake

Isaac's Olympics cake

I made a banana cake with chocolate.
I made the Olympic rings out of pancakes.
It took 50min in the oven.

Rachael's Chocolate Cake

In room 8 we have been learning about sustainability. One of our homework tasks was to bake a cake representing either the Olympics or sustainability. I chose sustainability.

I thought that a chocolate cake would be a nice flavour to do, since nearly EVERYONE likes chocolate, and I also love chocolate myself. Firstly I cut out an ice cream lid to make the earth and then made green icing as the land. Then I wrote a message on the cake: 'How long can it last?' Lastly I hopped onto the computer and found a recycling sign to stick onto the cake.
I had a lot of fun making the cake and I hope everyone enjoys it! :)

By Rachael and Melissa

Melissa's interview with Marilyn about Open Night.

On the 9th of August Tawa intermediate had its Open night, to show students-to-be what a great school it is! Marilyn was a Unity Pasefika performer on the night, and she is going to tell us how she thought  it went.

“Umm...it went really well, and I thought that the Unity Pasefika was awesome!”
 
Did many people turn up and do you think they enjoyed it?
“Yeah, a lot of people turned up and they applauded really loudly to all the groups that went on stage”
 
What do you think was the best performance?
“Unity Pasefika! Duh!! ‘Cause we were awesome!”
 
Were there any muck ups in open night?
“We were perfect!! The whole of Open Night ran smoothly!”
 
What was your favourite part?
“Um..when the band was performing, Summer and Eden were awesome at singing and the guitarists and pianists were really good at playing their instruments!”
 
Do you think we should change anything next year?
“Um.. To try and do something that they didn’t do on Matariki night.”
 
Ok, thanks Marilyn, it sounds like so much fun!

Room 8's Rakau Stick Performance

Today at about around 2:00 we had Ms Tito come and video us doing our Rakau sticks for our Arohatia Te Reo competition. Me (Camoron) and Marilyn were the AWESOME leaders and started everything off. First  I did a spech before we all started and then I sat down amd said "Rakau" and we all got prepared for Marilyn to start us off. Then we all sang "E Papa Waiari" and did all our different tricks that we practised with each other and had loads of fun!!!

By Marilyn & Cameron :)

Brigitte's sheep cake

Brigitte's sheep cake


Last Thursday I made a sheep cake.In the weekend  made two cakes.Then on Monday I iced one of the cakes,to make it the body.Then on Wednesday night i iced the head and made the fondant back and green.Overall the cake turned out great everyone liked it and wanted more.=D

by Brigitte  

Renee's kiwi cake

Renee's kiwi cake.

Last Monday I made a kiwi cake. It took me a few hours to do. On Saturday I made the two chocolate cakes and then on Sunday I decorated the cake with fondant, icing and flake bars. I used yellow fondant for the beak and the feet. And black, white and brown for the eyes and brown to cover the little cake on top.Then I sprinkled the whole cake with chopped up flake bars to look like the fur.
Everyone enjoyed it and wanted more! Overall the cake making and the bringing it to school was really fun.

By Renee

Ethan's Sponge Cake

On Friday, the 4th of May, I bought in a Sponge Cake in the shape of the Beehive.

It went better then I expected and everyone liked it! Here is a photo of my cake :D

From Ethan:)

My Beehive cake
For homework I made a cake representing citizenship I made the beehive! The bowl I made it in was a skirt cake it was a dolls skirt and I turned it upside down. I then used a skewer to make the windows of the Beehive.When I brought it to school it almost toppled off the plate as I walked up the stairs to the class!I think everybody enjoyed it because they all had seconds delicious(it was a chocolate mud cake!).
By Victoria

STORY TELLER

On the 27th of March, a librarian from Porirua Library was invited to our school to talk about the NZ Book Month.
She recommended a few of her favourite stories that changed her life. There were tickets for some people to be able to see and hear about thoughts and recommendations in the library. There were different type of stories, from picture books about someone's life, war, to sad and funny chapter books. Some of the books had even turned into movies! She told us about the children's book awards. She was very humorous and she had a lot of expression too.

Overall, we think that everyone that had an experience really enjoyed it and hoped to go again!
By Jia Yen and Aimee E