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School Athletics

On Tuesday the 16th of November butterfly's were flying in our stomachs, as we approached the Steelers home stadium, where they were soon to approach a big day of running, jumping, swinging and a number of other skills. Many records where broken by: Havannah Pearson, Kaitlin Petherick and lots of other students in year seven and eight. The teachers really got into it (Mr Walley was also challenged to a 400m race by a year eight student and placed second. Over all it was a great day and there where some stand out sports people where able to show of there amazing talent and the houses where able to collect some browny points at the social athletics held back at Pukekohe Intermediate School.

TVNZ 6 NetGuide Multimedia Schools Challenge

As you know we have just recently attended a ceremony at TVNZ Studio for a TVNZ 6 NET GUIDE MULTIMEDIA CHALLENGE. We placed 3rd best in are category (New Zealand). The ceremony was held at TVNZ studios in Auckland City by Jeremy and Julia who host the show in beTWEEN on Sundays at 6:30. There was a guest appearance by Anne Tolly the minster of education who gave a speech on how well we had done to make it to the prize giving. We worked over a period of 4 weeks and you can look at are website at www.wix.com/moepap/are-you-being-ripped-off. It is based on the rugby world cup and how to save money when going to expensive trips in New Zealand.

The sponsors where amazing with the prizes there were board games, computers, TV’s and stereo and some awesome goodie bags. We received a stereo, $100 voucher for stationary and a Bill Brysons book. We also received some autographs from Outrageous Fortune's idol Anthony Starr. We over all had an amazing time and are eagerer to play with some of the amazing gadgets. We couldn’t of done it without are teacher Mrs Pearson who supported us and helped us with editing and she received $100 voucher for Resene Paint.

By Erica, Olivia and Madeleine

Careers Day

A few weeks ago on Thursday the year 8's had Careers Day and all the yr 7's in our class and room 30 were navigators or videoers, but Olivia and I were doing the refreshments in the Management Center. It was really fun we had to serve food for our great guests in our school, they were telling the yr 8's what cool careers they might want to do when they are older it was an awesome day all over, I think everyone had fun.

Enrichment

At school the year 7's have been doing Enrichment every Thursday period 3 and 4, we got to chose the 5 best we wanted to do out of 9 categories French, German, Spanish, Design, Boot camp, Maori, Art and Photography, I.C.T and Antarctica. At the moment I've done French, Design, and Boot camp I don't know what I'm doing next.

Welcome to Term 4

Welcome back to term four, at the moment the weather has been very warm, so we have to wear hats and P.E gear and also bring drink bottles.
This term we are also busy doing P.A.T tests and that I want to achieve my goals.
For my goals this term is to bring my P.E gear and do well on my P.A.T tests.
At the moment it is compulsory to do seminars, the year 8s has to do a career they are interested in and the year 7s do a hobbies there good at.
At sport we are doing Athletics training, and doing Athletics in week 5.

Our Website

This is our website by Olivia, Madeleine and Me, called Are You Suspecting a Scam. We made this website so younger people can understand about money. The topic is the Rugby World Cup. This website shows three families going to the rugby world cup in three different places in New Zealand. The main topic is Literacy.

The Beach

There they are on the private beach, there next to the enormous shrub,with their beach umbrella. Their mum looking after her baby girl that's been born one year ago, wiping the vanilla ice cream that was on her face. The little girl cheerfully playing with her trinkets that she bought from home. The dad coming back from the jet ski ride he bought.

For the last few days we have been doing descriptive writing this is my story above.

Descriptive Writing

Even in the shadowy gloom of the starless night she could see fear blazing in his eyes like fire. It was no longer a cozy, tunnel-of-love sweetness, but a chilling isolation.

This is a descriptive piece I did when we did writing, we had to go to the library and find a book and flick through the book to find descriptive sentences and write it in our book and then turn it in to a paragraph using our own words this is my story above.

Touch Typing

Today our class had to do our touch typing test for our blogs, and before I kept forgetting to do it for practicing. And that's why I didn't get a good result has I did before.

Maths Week

This week (week 4) has been a very fun week with the maths week website for 2010 and there has been lots of mathletics around school to. There has been lots of games and the best thing was when there was the 10:15 sprint were one student in the class got to run to the teacher outside and had to win some treats, it was really great!!!

NIE Newspapers

A few weeks ago our class had to do newspapers for an NIE competition. And my group's name is Aim High Daily and me, Shaylee, Olivia and Madeleine.

Student led 3-way Conference

During week 2, term 3 there was a three way conference at school, and I had my conference on Monday and I talked about my term 3 goals, reading goals, mathletics goals, my writing goals and my citizenship goals.

V.S.A Braclets

On Tuesday 3rd of August there was a mufti at school, people around NZ will be buying VSA friendship bracelets and wearing them to support the work of VSA volunteers in developing countries that no not have a lot of money.This year they were focusing on youth.

My Science Fair Certificate

This here is my Science Fair 2010 certificate, for coming first in the year 7 investagation from Pukekohe Intermediate. For my science board I did it on can music affect your reading speed and comprehension.

House Sports Day

On July the 2nd there was a House Sports Day at Pukekohe Intermediate. There was Netball or Turbo Touch you could play and i played Turbo Touch.We had to play against houses and had separate houses a to d,there was Hillary, Sheppard, Batten, Ngata and Rutherford.

Merit Certificate

This is my Arts and Technology Merit Certificate i got for Art from Mrs Griffin.

On the 17th of June there was a Franklin Science Fair and my class had three Finalist and each of us got a placing, Sian placed 1st for the year 8 Sciencetific Investagation section, Shaylee placed 2nd for the year 7 Photo journalisem section and I (Erica) placed 1st in the year 7 Sciencetific Investagaion section.And now we are planing to compete in the Manukau Science Fair :-)

UIE News

At the end of term 1 Japanese students came to Pukekohe Intermediate to stay at New Zealand so they can learn what New Zealand is like three lucky students from my class got to look after three Japanese home stay students and when the Japanese students go back to Japan the three lucky students go with them to Japan.

Scince Fair

At the end of term 1 my teacher Mrs Pearson told us that there was the Science Fair coming up and I did it on does music affect your reading?

On the 25th of may we had Hell Pizza for lunch we had Hell pizza because we are fundrasing for AIMS.And now we have pizza every second week!!!

Maggi

In May the Erin Simpson show down came to Pukekohe Intermediate to record the Maggi team called The Awesome Foursome the people are Havaanah,Sophie,Abi and Michael.They all fly down to Christchurch and cook a dish.

My Google Map

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At the start of the term What Now came to Pukekohe and we played games and the people who got in got to play slam and three kids got to go to Christcurch to play slam.

Speech

Computers are a useful tool but you need to be careful with it.

Do you use a computer? Do you use it a lot? When a teacher asks you something do you Google it? The Internet is a very useful tool, but you need to take care because not everything on there is true and accurate.

Firstly let's assume your using the Internet, for those of you that don't switch off yet because what I'm telling you is still important.

The first links on a search are almost always sponsored which means they have paid Google a search engine to have their site come up first. A search engine is a site that allows you to search the World Wide Web for sites that might be able to help you. It does this by using key words which it scans very quickly across the whole internet Not every site it finds will be able to help you. For example when I typed in persuasive speeches I got 613,000 hits in a quarter of a second. Evening the first 10, I only looked at thereabout of those three, two of them wanted me to pay money for speeches.

Do you go to the first website you see and assume that it's correct? How do you know if something is true? When you look at a link on a search using Google you will see underneath the link, written in black, a brief summary of what is on the site or a short piece taken from the site. This can help you work out weather it's worth looking at. Also underneath that, in green is the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which can also help you, decide whether it is worth looking at.

When I was going to look up what URL means I was going to put down “What does URL mean” but my dad said you only need to put down "URL meaning" as the search engine only searches for key words Which it scans very quickly across the whole internet not every site it finds will be able to help you.

Never assume that the first website is definitely true, you always need to check other websites. If you find three sites saying the same thing it's probably true. If you find something on a well known site you can assume it is true, for example National Geographic is bound to be correct, whereas arthurtheaardvark.com might not be.

I think that the Internet is a wonderful tool to research information, and now I know that I need to use the Internet wisely other wise I could end up looking like a fool. So the next time you use the Internet think about were you're looking and what your doing or the fool could be you.

Alice and Gemma are best friends.They play with each other every day, but one day Gemma finds out that Alice has a secret .The next day Gemma looks in Alices diary and sees that Alice is going to move to Scotland.
Weeks later they have a farewell party for Alice.Alice and Gemma made a plan to ran away from home that night .They drees up in disguise and take some money from Gemma's piggy bank,enough to get some food.They go down to the dairy and then get on the bus, but when they get off they see their friend Billy .He recognises Gemma Alice and tells his mum,who tells their mums that Alice and Gemma are running away from home.Their mums come to pick them up.Gemma gets the blame for them both running away.

My Book Bag

This is my Book Bag and the book I did it on is a book called Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson Illustrated by Nick Sharratt.For the Book Bag we had to put on a plot,favourite character,least favourite character,a reason for choosing this book, who will enjoy this book and a rating.My favourite character was Gemma because she is very kind and she stands up for herself.My least favourite character was Flora because she is very mean and very bossy.The type of reader who enjoy this book would be a person who had their friend move away and not know how to deal with it.My rating was 5/5.

My Goals

This is my goals for this year and I want to work hard on getting them done, so I can work on different ones.

Me Project

This is my Me Project and what we had to do was put your favourite food,place, colours, pet and hobbies on it. Also we had to chose a background and I choses swimming goggles.

Typing results

Today I did a free online typing test called sense lang and i did it on an apple macintosh computer. I got 8 words per minute , 28 characters, 1 mistake and I got 96% accuracy on my typing test. I felt really happy about it.
My goals for the next typing test is...to get 20 words per minute and 100% accuracy.