Ruben Wiki visits Mapua School....

We were lucky enough to win a day with Ruben Wiki, ex rugby league Kiwi's representative, thanks to Alex Rm 7 winning a competition. He arrived and then did not stop all day; from jump jam, to tackle bull rush, talking to kids and signing autographs we were very impressed with his energy and enthusiasm.

Thanks Ruben, you rock............

Term 2, Week 7 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Another fantastic week Room 11....

Enjoy the Cross country on Monday and learning your speeches!

Mrs S

MAPUAS AMAZING DISCO!!!

Hello Everyone
We have the best discos here, because of are awesome House Leaders.
Thank you House Leaders everyone who went to the disco had a great time!!
A big thanks from the rest of Room 11!
Thanks,
Laura and Hayley

The glamours discos

From Black and white to sports the disco has always been awesome with fresh new ideas.
Even the house leaders dressed in the most sporty outfits from cheerleaders to sumo wrestlers I think this disco got everyone thinking.
Even the most unsporty people joined in.

By Cacilda

On Thursday 5th May 2010 Room 11's house leaders organised the awesome disco. The Theme was sports.
We all arrived at the time given; Juniors 5:30 and seniors at 7:00 and stepped inside the Mapua Hall that opened up into a great display of lights
It was so much fun....
The music, the decorations, the lights, everything was great!
This had to be the best disco yet.

School Disco!!!!!

Hi Kynan Red House deputy leader here telling you what a buzz i got from this year disco,it was great! Not to mention your enthusiasm was insane, the noise immense, singing stupefying, and the insanely electrifying dance moves that made you want to get up and dance because even Adam from last years year 8's started busting a few moves

Disco Craziness

The disco what a blast!!!!!!!
The 2010's house leaders first disco, themed sports stars got every one heading to the back of our wardrobe trying yo get the right outfit.
Blowing up the balloons wasn't our favourite part of the night as only a few people could do and wanted to.
The hall was filled with flashing disco lights and a music so loud you had to shout but still you could barely her the words coming out of your own mouth.
Young students leaped through the doors keep to have a night they would never forget.
We boogied all night long with the house leaders encouraging the students to get up on their feet and and break down a few dance moves.
When the light flicked on they reveled what a mess a bunch of excited students could make!!!
After scrubbing the floors clean so they where spotless the house leaders could finally go home and rest their feet. Whew!

By Lucy and Alice

Disco, disco, disco..... Fantastic effort House Leaders you rock.....

Look at the photos from the disco organised by the House Leaders, everyone had an amazing time...

Term 3, Week 6 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Room 11, the disco was amazing and it was great to see how you got everyone involved. Remember this week we have Ruben Wiki visiting us on Wednesday and you can order a sausage as a special treat for the day and put a bid on a signed sports ball in our silent auction. Looking forward to seeing you complete the writing of your speeches this week....

Mrs S

Term 3, Week 5 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Great week again Room 11, really impressed with your work on speeches and how you are trying to engage the audience with your introductions. The art work and print making is also very creative and shows you 'thinking flexibly', and using one of our habit of mind effectively. Enjoy the weekend and here's hoping for another amazing week....

Mrs S

My Picasso Art

Hi everyone
This is my Picasso art.
My classroom has been working on Picasso for a few weeks.
We all enjoyed working and doing art.
Art is most of everyone's favorite subject.
We could not have this amazing and fun art work without Miss Bibby Smith!
Thanks Miss B! We all have enjoyed doing art with you!
Hayley

Picasso Art! =)

Hey!
In Room 11 we have been looking at the Art Focus on Picasso. Picasso has created many pieces of art that sell for thousands of dollars around the world. We started of my looking at some of his work to get some inspiration, then we drew, in pencil, a rough idea of where each facial part was going to be placed. Mrs Bibby-Smith ( Our art focus teacher ) gave us a choice of collaging the face or using just pastels. I chose to collage are pastel mine. It was lots of fun and I look forward to creating our next piece of art! =)

Lid :-)

Term 2, Week 4 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Think I just about survived your scary faces for 'Island Survival' Room 11, some of you still have the dye in your hair! Good luck tackle rugby players from our room in the tournament on Tuesday and hope you enjoyed our buddy time with the balloons for asthma awareness day....

Have a good weekend

Mrs S

Keegan's view on Mad Hair Day...

MAD HAIR DAY
On the first Friday of the term Mapua School had the maddest hair in the whole of New Zealand and nearly every student had a very mad hair do. There were ones with spikes, there were ones with green, ones with red, ones with blue and even ones with yellow. Some had all of them and some had two or three colours. All together it was a fun day for every one.

Easter Egg Hunt 2010 - reflections...

The Easter Egg Hunt was great fun! We dressed up really cool and amazing, as we all painted our faces and we gave our selves bunny ears. We all got little Easter eggs and showed our costumes to the other houses. Every one dressed up even the teachers, it was the best Easter Egg Hunt we have ever had.

THE SCHOOL DISCO!!!!!!!

The theme for the upcoming disco is going to be sport... it's going to be great so start getting some gear ready for the best disco yet. I can't wait for the action block buster!!!$$$$

Red House Deputy Leader, Kynan here! All the best, can't wait to see you there....

THE HOUSE LEADERS 2010 WOOP WOOP!

The nervous wait was about to end. All the speeches had been done and the adrenaline was nerve racking. The House Leader hopefuls sat on the stairs as the assembly went on. The younger students peered up at Mr Chalmers and Mrs Stephens as they were about to call up the first person... Some sighs of relief and some of sadness. The House Leaders were proudly presented with a certificate and a badge. The Blue House Leaders are.... (drum roll please) Patrick, Ellie and Dan (Deputy). The Red House Leaders are (drum roll please) Sam, Alice and Kynan (Deputy). The Yellow....(drum roll please) Lydia, Storm and Lucy .S (Deputy). And finally the Green house Leaders are ... (drum role please) Lucy.H, Nikau and Hayden (Deputy). Congratulations to all and good job to those who didn't make it, you all did a great speech!

Bridge Valley Camp Recounts

TOO LONG IN THE DARK...

I stepped inside the huge rock climbing tower, with my mind wondering which tunnel to take. I decided that I should take the highest path which, by the way was only reachable by climbing a mini rock climbing wall. I heaved myself up only to find that the inside was pitch black, and that Jeanine, one of my team mates, was lost. So I made my way over to her and asked her how she got lost and she replied that she was following Sam and Storm, two more members of my team, when they went to fast and she lost track of them, and had just realised that she had been going around in circles the whole time. So I stayed with her whilst I made my way to the top of the Bridge Valley Camp Caving System.

As we were making our way to the top, We came across Ellie, another team member, and she asked us if we wanted to play tag with her and the others. As soon as Jeanine and I agreed she tagged me and narrowly escaped without being tagged. as soon as she was out of view I turned around only to find that Jeanine had narrowly escaped just as Ellie had previously done. Meaning that I was alone in a dark tunnel.

As soon as I got up, because I decided that i should actually try and tag someone,I fell through a hole that Jeanine and I had previously climbed through. When I recovered from the fall I made my way around the maze of tunnels until I reached the highest point at 9 meters so I made my way back down the tower. All the while there was still no sign of any of my team members.
When I got to the bottom I found EVERYBODY in my group sitting or standing outside the tower. I went to go and sit beside Ellie and ask her why every body was out here. She replied by saying...YOU TOOK TO LONG!!!

By Jessica
Student of Room 11

WILD RIDE

WOW they looked wicked! My heart was pounding! I reckon that they looked so much better than the ones that were at Tea Pot Valley! I was so excited! I couldn’t wait to have a go! The loud and roaring engines were on and ready to go. My heart was pounding like I just had the fright of my life.
It was the second day and the first activity. What fun they had looked.

When we walked down we heard a loud and gigantic roar from the engine. That made me just about wet myself because the noise was so frightening and I also had just drunk a lot of water. The Go-Karts looked like they were going to go fast. The track looked a bit bumpy and the conners looked like they will be hard to get around. I thought that they were going to be a bit of a challenge. But it still looked fun. I reckoned that they were going to be amazing. I was going to burst of excitement in a few minutes.

We had to choose a partner to ride with. I went with Alice. After we had chosen a partner we lined up. Alice and I were the first to get out of the gate and then it was jake and Jordan .
We hopped in the blue and they hopped in the red. We hopped in and my heart was pounding so hard my head was thumping! I was first to drive. I thought that Alice wasn’t going to trust to drive by the look that she had on her face.

One of the staff from Bridge Valley was watching, explaining how to use it and the rules. His name was Roddy and he was very cool. We were first to get ready so Roddy came over to us before he went to the boys. When he was explaining the the rules I thought in my head that I was going to die. But when he told how to use the car I was ready to push the peddle down as hard as I could. And then he said you can go and we were off!! We went screaming all the way around the corner and up the little hill. I slowed down up the hill and then we came to a stopped. I was pushing the peddle down as hard as I could but we weren’t getting anywhere. We started to wave our hands around and yelled. Roddy came and told me that I have to put the peddle down the whole way down to be able to get up the hill. So he had to give us a push to get started again.

I thought that I had broken the peddle and that we wouldn’t be able to carry on. Also thought that I had ruined the Go- Kart. It was only that we weren’t going fast enough. Alice was screaming the whole way and she didn’t look like she was very safe withe the look that was on her face. One more lap to go. Time to speed up and finish my go!!!Just about there and I was going as fast as I could. We came to the stopping point were Roddy was. Roddy said to put the breaks on and turn the steering wheel to the side. So I did turn the steering wheel to the side but I forgot to put on the breaks and I went up the bank!OOPS!!! My turn has now finish and its Alice’s turn.

WOW it was fun and scary I thought that I was going to die and not to be able to control the steering wheel. I had scared Alice with my very great driving skills. We were screaming most the ride and I got a very sore throat. I had a blast!! I hoped that Alice did too.

By Hayley
Student From Room 11

Mad Hair Day

On the first Friday back, we had Mad Hair Day! Everyone got into the school spirit, as each and every student came to school in a crazy sort of hair style. It all started after lunch,but we had to take photos of ourselfs as we sat down by the big tree getting ready to start the parade. First was YELLOW! Second was RED! Third was GREEN! And last but not lest BLUE! Every house had been and had the judging under way. There were heaps of winners, the House Leaders just could not choose! After the parade we all went back to our classrooms, and sat down at our desk to wait for one more thing......

THE BELL!!

Picaso Art

This term we are creating a Art exhibition full of master pieces. To start off we did portraits of a person in the class, then we moved onto Picaso Art. We first tried to draw without looking a profile face and then top we did over a portrait face in two different coloured markers. These turned out to look like a big scribble!!!!!! Then we started to get serious. Mrs B demonstrated how to draw a outline and shapes on Alice it didn't really look like her in a way but certainly looked interesting. Then we all had a go trying to get a shape that would be Picaso like and not real life. When we look at each others we don't really know who it is, but they certainly look very colourful and odd.

By Alice and Lucy