Elliot wishes he could go to Summer Tournament

Elliot is annoyed he's going to back to Christchurch because he is going to miss the summer tournament at the school. We are going to play ultimate frisbee, volley ball and play ball, we all are excited about the three different games because they will be so much fun.

Lily and Laura's Hopes For Summer Tournament

Lily,"I can't wait until Summer Tornament, it was great fun last year and I hope it is going to be as great as last year. My goals are to join in more with the sports that we are going to play and just have fun while doing it, also to score a point for my team!"

Laura,"I am quite nervous about Summer Tornament because I am not very good at catching or throwing a Frisbee, batting or hitting and serving in volleyball. But I know that I will only get better with practice and to just have fun. I hope to score a goal (if possible for me) and to become better and volleyball especially."

By Laura and Lily

Summer Tournament 2011

Next week on Tuesday is summer tournament we will play volleyball, playball and ultimate frizbe against other Mot schools. It is a fun day and is not about winning although we are going to win the touranment for 2011.

By Kaleb and Braden

Dylan's Summer Tournament Feelings

I am looking forward to summer tournament this year because ....
-it is fun
-got competition
-it is good time to make friends
and lots of fun with all the schools it has games like play ball, volley ball and ultimate Frisbee

Summer Tournerment

I think this years Summer Tournerment is going to be GREAT I'm REALLY excited about it because it's my first time and it has all my favourite sports. My favourite game is Frisbee !!!!!!!!
by Anne



I think this years Summer Tournerment is going to be pretty awesome I played it last year and I loved it!!!!

By Lara

Term 1, Week 9 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Well, a bit late putting the newsletter on the blog site this week students, however you got it on time!

I am really impressed with the creative writing I am seeing during our 10 minute sessions and you obviously enjoy the visual prompts from the 'imagine a day' book. Please remember to bring in your money and returns for summer tournament this week, as you have this fun tournament next week and we need help with transport and support on this day.

Have a superb rest of the week...

Mrs S

Flynn's take on Summer Tournament...

Hi I'm Flynn and I am looking forward to Summer Tournament this year.
I would like to think that it will be fun and that it will have good rules on the games.
The best game in it that I like is Play Ball, a smaller version of Softball.
I hope that Mapua School goes well in this event and everyone tries there best.
We will be against all the schools that are in the Mot Cluster.

Georgia and Jasmin's thoughts on The Summer Tournament

The Summer Tournament is only six days away and Mapua is determined to get a placing, so watch out other schools here we come! This event is for year 7 and 8 students only and just a fun day away from school. For this sporting event there are some that like the different sports being played but some that don't. The three sports that we are participating in are, Ultimate Frisbee, Play ball (a modified version of Softball) and Volleyball. Most of the schools in the tasman region put 2 to 3 teams in to compete. The Summer Tournament has been running for a least 10 years now and it will hopefully be running for many more considering that so many people enjoy it.

Summer sports thoughts

In about one week the summer tournament of 2011 is coming up, this fun event comes up once a year and We compete with all of the schools from Mapua to motueka like Upper Moutere, Wakefield and lots more.

These are our opinions on the up coming event:

Max: ''It's going to be an occasion of general goodwill''.

Jake: ''I think it's going to be another fun exciting tournament with great games and activities''.

Isaac and Owen's thoughts about Summer Tournament

We are looking forward to all the activities at the Summer Tournament next Tuesday. Especially the play ball. We have practiced a lot of both Volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee. We would like to win at least one game. Last year we did fairly well. So hopefully we will do great this year.

Summer Tournament

This years annual summer tournament is coming up and we are practicing hard and are looking forward to the challenge.

"My favorite game is ultimate frisbee and I can't wait to play it with my team."

Kelly

"I can't wait until the summer tournament, my favorite game is ultimate frisbee."

Emily

"Play Ball is fun, but it is not my best sport and I still need to work on my skills for this game."

Kelly

"I still need to work on my volleyball skills but I hope I can get better before the summer tournament."

Emily

"I am alright at volleyball, but I need to work on my serving and hitting, so I pretty much have to improve on everything to achieve my goal of being good at volleyball."

Kelly

"I do not enjoy playing play ball, but I am happy to play with and for my team and I am sure it won't be that bad."

Emily

Hannah And Sophies Summer Tournament Excitements

Sophie and I are in the same summer tournament team which we are really excited about but we are more looking forward to playing all the summer sports which includes volleyball, play ball and ultimate Frisbee. We are all going to be all we can and try our hardest to win against the other clusters but still have lots of fun at the same time!!! So we are hoping to have lots of fun and come back with smiles on our faces.

By Hannah And Sophie

The Exciting Upcoming Summer Tournament

The upcoming Tuesday, we will be traveling to Goodman's Reserve, Motueka to play in the Summer Tournament. The Summer Tournament is a fun and exciting event where all of the schools in the Motueka area come together and compete in three different sports. The three sports are Playball, Volleyball and Ultimate frisbee. All the schools pick teams to compete against each other. The team that wins at all the different sports wins the whole event. We are all busy practicing our skills for the tournament. Our class is very motivated and we think we will do well this year in the exciting Summer Tournament.

Kelly's assembly goals

I want to...
be able to dance effectively.
make people impressed and want to learn dance like we do.
be able to be proud of myself at the end of the day.
be confident and look like I know what I am doing.
These are my goals for the Rm 11 assembly.

Emily's goals

I want to be able to do a dance effectively and have a smile on my face at the same time.

My assembly by Anne

We have created a really good dance, I hope our assembly will get better and people will like it.

My Goals - By Georgia

For room 11's assembly I hope to complete the dance to a high standard and hopefully without any mistakes or without having to look at anybody for a promt. To acheive this goal I will practice the dance moves at home and put my best effort into every action I do.

Sophie's goal for Room 11 Assembly

My goal is to do a Dance with Hannah and to be all we can in our Dance. We are aiming to use the elements to make our Dance more interesting! Being confident is also another big part of performing a Dance. So if we do all of this our Dance will hopefully be very successful and everyone will enjoy it!!!

Dylan's Goals...

Hi I'm Dylan
My goal for assembly is to play the electric gutair with my friend Flynn.
To show my talent off at assembly.
I would also like to show other talents, but can't tell you now! I would like to but you will have to wait for the assembly to finish.

Assembly

I have a couple goals for our assembly here they are:

• To not make a mistake when I perform the dance or mumble when I talk if I am talking for the assembly.
  

• To have fun at the assembly and take part in everything I can be in for the assembly by taking a risk.

This is what I am doing for the assembly:

• I am dancing and the type of dance I am dancing is hip-hop and country.
• I am playing guitar with Isaac.

By Kaleb

Hi i am Flynn from Room 11
My goal for assembly is to play the drums to a song with my friend Dylan
while he plays the Guitar.
I would like to show my talent off at assembly.
I would also like to show my other talents but i can't show you now.

Let's dance....

The students in Room 11 are very fortunate to have Mrs Bibby-Smith on a Tuesday who takes them for literacy, numeracy and more importantly 'The Arts' aspect of the curriculum (as Mrs Stephens is only up to stick figures!).

For 'The Arts' this term we are focusing in on DANCE and the following photos show the students being creative with line dancing, which was lots of fun, as well as challenging us to be co-ordinated and on the beat.....

Term 1, Week 8 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Enjoy....

Pre-Post Of Lit Quiz

This year Mapua School has two teams entering the annual Lit Quiz Competition. We have our best scorers organized into Team A and Team B, we also have our two reserves which will be watching and gaining experience for next year. The reserves are free to do the quiz to see what their score would have been. We are leaving at 9:00am, so I need to go, but I will post again after the Lit Quiz and tell you how we went.

Sausage sizzle fundraising for Christchurch by Room 11

Term 1, Week 7 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Another great week Room 11, impressed with your co-operation and caring when involved in the sausage sizzle to raise funds for the Christchurch Earthquake appeal. Awesome speeches by the potential House Leaders and well done to the 2011 House Leaders. Again, another busy week ahead....

Mrs S

Term 1, Week 6 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Finally, I have managed to change the photos on the blog heading, get the students to add to our blog and put the weekly newsletter that goes home to parents up on the blog....

This should now happen each week!

Enjoy another full on week students.....

Mrs S

Supporting Christchurch....

We are fortunate to be able to help students from Christchurch while their schools are being made safe from the earthquake. The whole school dressed in red and black and brought in a donation to help with the earthquake appeal.

Camp Totaranui 2011

On the 24 February 2011 Room 11 set off to enjoy the experience of a lifetime!!! We set off for Kaiteriteri at 9:30 and caught the boat at 10:45 we did a tour around the bays and saw split apple rock and a lot of other interesting and spectacular sights. When we arived we participated in a lot of really fun activities for a whole five days. The walk to Separation point was tiring but it was worth it for the amazing sights we saw. The swim was really greeted with enthusiasm as it refreshed us and cooled us off!!! Some of the favourite activities were spotlight, kayaking, fear factor and the swim at Goat bay with the MASSIVE waves. The whole camp was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone and will stand out in our memories for the rest of our lives.

By Anne and Georgia.

Mapua Tryathlon

Mapua Tryathlon

New students in Mapua School

As you might already know there are some new students in Mapua school but you might not know how many. There is about 28 new students in Mapua School (all from Christchurch) and about 8 of them are in our class. Any way, they are all pretty cool and all of them fit in really well and all of them are unique. So it is a big privilege to have them all!

SOPHIE & BRIE

Sophie from Mapua & Brie from Christchurch.

New Friends! :)

Brie has just moved up from Christchurch. She is the one on the right.

Sophie has been at Mapua for all her primary years! And she is on the left.

Now we are great friends.LOL. When Brie goes back to Christchurch she will miss her new friends. :)

Moving to Mapua school!

Hi I'm Grace, I am from Christchurch, but recently I have moved to Mapua to get away from all the after-shocks, falling buildings, rubble, and devastation that the most recent Christchurch has coursed.

I am now going to school here, at Mapua. I have come from Casebrook Intermediate, so as you can imagine it is quite a swop to this little school. Mapua school is very different from Casebrook, it feels weird not wearing a uniform, but its good not having to tie up my hair for school everyday! Casebrook is a school only for year 7's and 8's, so it seems really odd having lots of little kids around me again!

The people here are all really friendly and easy to talk to. Everyone has been soo helpful and welcoming! I've made some new friends that have been really good showing me around the school, and where everything is.

It has been a wonderful experience coming here, meeting new people and doing things i haven't done before. It has also been a wonderful learning experience too!

I will never forget thing school or any of the wonderful people in it!

I hope I will get the opportunity to visit again some time.

Grace

Moving to Mapua

I am from Christchurch. I have recently moved to Nelson to get away from the Christchurch earthquake. Previously I went to Vila Maria College. It has been really interesting moving to Mapua School. Everyone here was really welcoming and I must say I think that this school is very modern compared to my other school. The desks are really cool with the slide out thingies. I think tha Mapua school is really cool and I really like it here!

Sarah

Hi, Im Caleb from Christchurch

First, I moved to Christchurch from England, just in time for a tsunami warning. Then, the first earthquake happened, which scared everyone, but luckily didn't kill anyone. Now, there is the latest earthquake, which is feared to have killed 240 people, & has caused around $15 billion worth of damage. This time, we'd had enough, so we decided to move. It was really hard, because I'd got so settled in there, & I'd started a load of clubs & stuff, but we decided we had to get away from the constant shakes! So we moved up here to Mapua, & I love it here! Everyone's really friendly, & the school rocks!

Camp:Totaranui Style-Walking Edition

"Come on guys its 7am!" yelled our teacher Mrs S.
"Go away" I moaned, I am not a happy person when I don't get enough sleep. I was not in the mood for waking up and , of course, I was not looking forward to Tuesday's activity-walking to Separation Point. I was looking forward to being there, but not getting there. Going downhill was my favourite part, but then I remembered that I would have to go up them on the way back, and that was NOT a happy thought!

We took a group shot and started off on the long trail to Separation Point. It was all going fine and I was feeling positive, until I saw the first uphill part of our journey. It felt as if my confidence had ran back to the homestead and left nothing but fear behind. All of a sudden, I felt jealous, I wished I could've gone back to the homestead!

The first slope was torture and every time I turned a corner, the trail would continue uphill. Until, at last, the pain ended and we were going down, down, down to Anapai for morning tea. When we finally arrived, we ate, and then some of us wandered around and looked for cool shells and rocks in the sand.Emily even found the skeleton of a seahorse, which looked amazing! The fun couldn't last and we set off again, sooner than we thought, we found ourselves walking onto a beautiful beach only to be disappointed that it wasn't Mutton Cove, the place we would have lunch. We took another group shot and headed away, along the beach.

Mutton Cove was another beach along the way, and we had our lunch in a little camping area. By now, we each had a lot of shells or stones that we could take home as a memory of the fun we had at Totaranui. We had a little rest and played around with our friends before setting off to our final destination: SEPARATION POINT!!!

Over rocks and hills, down steep slopes and across sandy beaches, we slowly made our way to Separation Point. It was possible to taste the excitement in the air as we made our way down the final slope to where we were heading, our whole topic for the day:Separation Point. At last, the long wait was over and we could sit and enjoy the magnificent views and enjoy the satisfactory from our hard work.

There were seals, stags, and great views, we even saw some orcas way out on the horizon. So, I guess it was a nice view, right? Yes, it was just so amazing, by far the best school camp, well, apart from the walking!

Then we had to head home. On the way we stopped at Anapai for a well deserved swim, and, one by one, we headed off in groups of 4. We were glad when we were nearing the homestead, tired by our days work. The evening came closer and closer as we neared our final destination of our long, hard journey...

Christchurch to Nelson school kids

As you may know, Christchurch was struck with another booming 6.3 earthquake on tuesday last week at 12:51 . Exactly 8 days ago many people in this town had found themselves with out a home and didn't have water,electricity,or food , and at least every school in Christchurch was closed .Thousands of cantabrians decided to depart from this trembling town , many of those people being school kids as well . So here in this quiet part of New Zealand , Mapua School has accomadated at least 25 children and have welcomed them with open arms.

8 of those students can be found underneath the roof of room 11 . Sarah , Laura , Sorayya , Grace ,William ,Brie, Caleb and another Grace have joined room 11 happily . Although we have all come from different parts of Christchurch, we can relate to each other about the recent devastations there. Some students with smashed houses , and others just without power, all trying to escape the shocks that seem to repeat themselves every hour or so . This is Sorayya and Grace , saying how great it is to escape Christhurch , if only for a week, but how much Mapua school has welcomed us .