Our Year 7/8 speech finals were held today. The standard of speeches was absolutely incredible (better than any year before) and the range of topics was as diverse as ever before. We had people speaking on topics as wide ranging as palm oil production, alternative energy sources, which side of the road to drive on, war, smoking, uniforms, extra-curricular activities, zoos, screen time dangerous dogs and even the Auckland housing crisis. But the winning speech came from Leyanne Monoy who delivered a thought provoking, well written and impeccably delivered speech on of the dangers of forestation. Congratulations Leyanne, and well done to everyone on what was a hugely successful day. I am so proud of you all.

Leyanne Monoy. First place Year 7/8 Speech contest

Left to right Thomas Kane (highly commended) Marcus Herrera (2nd place) Leyanne Monoy (1st place) Maddi Hamilton (3rd place) and Emba Willans (highly commended)

In the long weekend I got Maddi over for the day, and we had loads of fun 😊. I also went out for lunch on Monday to my friends house. My family and I were planning on going somewhere this long weekend but that didn’t happen 👎🏼. But I did have a lot of fun this long weekend! Happy birthday liz👑. Hope you all had a fun long weekend!

By Katie 😋.

Just because the queen is 90 you get a day off on Monday. But due to the wonders of technology you don’t have to be at school to work. I know- YAAAAAAY!!! Your task this weekend is to post a report on your own blog about what you and your family did with the long weekend. If you can add some pics or a video that would be even better. Title it “Happy Birthday Liz” so I know where to find it in your blog. Have a great weekend…

Our School focus this year is “Caring”- for ourselves, each other and our environment. A big part of that is using positive language and building and maintaining strong positive relationships with everyone.  The picture is just a cute wee reminder to us all.

On Friday we took part in the BP Technology challenge. We had a lot of fun and came up with some cool creative solutions to some crazy problems. These photos are of us trying to create a “ski jump” using cardboard, canes, and newspaper.

The Eremochely Imbricate is the scientific name for the Hawksbill sea turtle, they are reptiles and are critically endangered.

Although a lot of other animal species the male will weigh way more, it is not the same with the hawksbill sea turtle the male and female both way around 40 – 60 kgs.  they can also grow up to 62 – 114 cms long,  also the average size of a hawksbill sea turtle shell is 72cms.The average life span of 30 – 50 years.

Because the hawksbill sea turtle has a very wide range, they can be found and tropical Reef of the Indian, Pacific  and Atlantic oceans. They also avoid deep waters, preferring coastline were sponges are abundant and sandy nesting sites are within reach.

Using their narrow beaks they extract Invertebrate prey from the rocks and plants on the reef, because they are carnivorous.

Their hard shell protects them from many predators such as large fish, sharks, crocodiles, jellyfish, octopus and humans. They also can be killed by sea urchin, crustacean, and sea algae.

Young can not dive deep so spend most of their childhood floating among sea plants near the surface. Of all the sea turtle species the hawksbill sea turtle is the most associated with warm tropical waters.

Hawksbill sea turtles were listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species act. But there is always something that we can do to help such as clean ups on public because where they can be found.

Over the last two weeks Room 6 have been working super hard on creating informational reports on endangered species. They have also been looking at WHY these species are endangered and WHAT has been/ can be done to help rescue these species and bring them back from the brink.

When writing these reports the kids were asked to consider the following things:

• classify the animal they were reporting on.
• habitat
• diet
• behaviours
• description
• things that are “unique” about this animal
• anything else that they consider would be of interest to a reader

When looking at the structure they had to think about:

• paragraphing
• topic sentences
• scientific language
• using the present tense
• specific detail that brings clarity.
• varying our sentence starters.

The reports will be on the student blogs over the next couple of days. If their drafts are anything to go on, you will be amazed by the results.

Today me and three of my Yr8 girl classmates got an injection for the HPV virus. I was quite nervous about getting it but the fact that we were given two bookmarks and one lollipop made me more relaxed. Right now, my arm is still quite sore and heavy but it doesn’t hurt that much 🙂

I am the only boy in my family. I have 8 people in my family including me. I am not allergic to anything. Favourite colour is blue. My favourite rugby team is the all blacks.

Today at school a lady came to our  classroom and taught  us a couple hockey skills. The lady only had tiny sticks so my back got really sore. We did dribbling, follow the leader and push hits. P.S I PLAY AND LOVE HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!