Puketeraki Marae Visit

Yesterday we went to Karitane to visit the Puketeraki Marae, once we had all arrived we grouped by the gate and then the caller started talking, we walked slowly up the path and then Alex called back on our behalf, we took off our shoes and entered the Marae.
We sat down, females at the back, males at the front, Kane (a man at the Marae) said a speech, Alex answered and then we stood up and sung "Ko Te Roopu Tenei", a few more short speeches were said and then we went into the kitchen and had a piece of fruit and a biscuit to wrap it up.
We then split into our classes and went to three different workshops, poi and te rakau, flax weaving, and a martial arts game, we have a few reports below describing these.
We then sung Ko Te Roopu and E Toru Nga Mere and then left, going home with many memories of a great day at Puketeraki Marae.

Cyber Safety

Today at school we were learning about cyber safety, we even had some parents at school learning  and working with us on Google Docs.  It will be really helpful for everyone at Warepa School to learn about how to be cyber safe and how to look after the schools ICT equipment.

We worked in partners to make a shared presentation on how to be safe while we are on the internet at school and at home.

The main points today are:

• only go on the internet when you are allowed 
• give all of your passwords to you parent and teacher 
• do not give any of your passwords to your friends
• always get permission to put a photo of someone on the internet, blog or youtube.

By Macleod and James.

Mandarin Lessons

Every second Friday we have Mandarin lessons with Alex, today we played a game with the Chinese animals.

Alex gave as a picture of an animal we had learnt. We had partners and she played some music and when the music stopped we turned towards each other and had to say the animal that our partner was holding in Mandarin.

We slowly eliminated people and Tiana was the winner.

Other things happening in our class today.....

There were three awesome runners who went to Otago Cross Country today, they are Macleod, Danyon and Jack. They all did very well and we are very proud of them # awesome.

By Isla & Vaughan

Mini Master Chef

Today for food technology the year 6's had a mini master chef.

We were put into teams and given a range of ingredients to use to create a dish. Mrs Hyslop gave us some ideas that were easy to cook. 
Fried rice, mac & cheese spaghetti and fruit crumble with chocolate banana custard were on the menu for today.

Everyone was doing something, there was absolutely no chance of sitting down to relax.

Knives were chopping, dishes were rattling, people were panicking.

Everything was plated up and ready for the judges who arrived at 12pm.

Some of the judges comments were:

"Look great! Love the colours"

''Great sauce - nice flavours"

"Nice berry mix!" 

"The mint was a pleasant surprise"

While the judges were tasting our masterpieces we had to give each team member a score from 1-4 on how well they worked as part of team.

We are now making our own recipe book using Google Docs it will have all our recipes in it.

We can't wait to see what our next challenge is!

Fried Rice Team

Fruit Crumble Team

Ham & Cheese Spaghetti Team

By Jack & Blake

Our Memoirs

Writing 
Today we wrote memoirs for writing. A memoir is a story of a memory you can remember. We did some brainstorming first and then began writing our own memoir. Here is an example of a memoir: 

JACK'S MEMOIR

"Henry, Henry," I whispered. 
"Errr," he groaned.
"Henry, wake up! We should go and get some lollies from the kitchen," I yawned.
"Fine then," he added.
"Henry, can I have a moro bar?"
"Okay." 
SMASH!!! The glass bottle hit the ground. 
"OOOOWWWW get down from there right now!!" roared Carl.
"Henry you blew our cover," I  snapped at him.

We know we have written a good memoir when the reader can see, here and feel the experience because the writer has used good descriptions.

By Tiana and Curtis

Speech time!

Today the senior class had their speech competition. Our three judges were Mrs Bissett, Mrs Wilson and Mrs Hyslop.  It took us two and a half hours for everyone in the class to present their speech.  
The Middle and Junior classes came to watch so they could get some ideas on how they could write their speech and also how to present them.
We were marked on the introduction, ideas, research and conclusion. We were also marked on our voice, stance and use of our notes.

The people who made it to the Rotary Speech competition are Cameron, Tiana, Holly and Brendan.

The results from the year 6 students are; Tom (5th),  Lachlan & Jack (4th), Danyon (3rd), Isla (2nd) and Macleod (1st).

By Cameron & Tom

Year 6 Food Technology - Pizza!

Today we made pizza for technology. We made our own bases using a yeast recipe, it was fun watching the yeast working. We had a variety of toppings that we could select from; spaghetti, capsicum, pineapple, ham, mushrooms, cheese.

                          

Our pizza's were a delicious. We marked each other on preparation, the 'look' of our pizza (as we only tasted our own pizza) and clean-up.