Week 7 Term 1

Salut,

This week the year eights had their first french lesson for the year! It was really fun and I remembered a lot more than I thought. We had a worksheet about our family and our family photos. We then revised on how to introduce ourselves in French by saying our name, our age, where we are from and what languages we speak. I remembered most of mine but I did get stuck on some of the words. This year I am going to be going to Noumea (a french speaking country) to learn more about their language and culture.

The Makuhari students have been here for nearly two weeks and their stay is coming to an end. They have done a lot of things while they have been here in New Zealand, like going to Waitomo caves, Kiwi house and horse riding. They have also done a lot more with their host families. Today (Friday) we had a farewell assembly for them, they were given a soft plush toy kiwi to take back to their hometown.

For, the last few weeks I have been trialing for the Waikato Intermediate and Middle schools Touch competition. (WIMS) After a lot of lunchtimes practicing and getting everything almost correct, they chose the team. I was quite excited as I made it into the team. The competition is on Tuesday, I am so happy that I got chosen and get to participate.

In Maths lately, we have been doing Integers and Number properties.I think that I have been doing really well in this and I am trying to push myself more in my maths as my start of year stanine wasn't the best so I really want to improve it.

Next term I will be competing in the Junior Tough Guy and Gal challenge. I think this will be really fun and I can't wait for it to happen.

That's all for this week guys. Hope you have a good week. 

Bye

Week 6 Term 1

Hi everyone, this week we have had a lot of cool things going on at TAI, on Tuesday we had boating, Thursday we found out our head students for 2016 and the Makahari Students from Japan came over. Boating on Tuesday was really fun, we learnt about how to scuba fall out of a boat, how to save someone and what emergency communication supplies you would need. When you scuba fall you sit on the side of the boat hold on to the top of you life jacket (while its on you) then fall on your back into the water. When you save someone you have your foot on the rope and throw the buoy into the water and the person puts it on then you pull the rope towards you while your foot stays on the rope. On Thursday we found out who our head students would be for 2016, this was a very long process and I was very nervous as I was one of the participants, but in the end it came down to four of them Amy, Raiha, Cheng-Yu and Matthew. I was really happy for Amy as she is one of my best friends! Thursday was also a very exciting time for some as their Makahari High School Students came to New Zealand to stay for two weeks with there host family. Today (Friday) We had four Japanese students in our class, they are very cool and understand alot more english than I thought. In wood I have nearly finished my speaker which I am really excited about as I can't wait to use it.

Week 5 Term 1

Hey guys so this week has been very busy. On Monday a few selected students went to Cambridge to compete in WIMS swimming, this was a sucsessful day and everyone did really well. On Tuesday it was the first of AUTUMN! On wednesday we had our last lesson in Japanese with Mika, as on Saturday she left New Zealand to go back to her hometown in Japan. On Thursday we had our very first student assembly, it was a funny, and exciting experiance. The theme was to introduce ourselves to the school, and to do this we held a fashion parade. The House Captains were dressed in swimwear and the Class Councillors were dressed in usual dresses and stuff. It was really fun and at the end they had Mr and Mrs Student Council, I won Mrs Student Council and Will from room 13 won Mr Student council. On Friday we had school swimming. It was a very fun day and everyone tried their best. During the day we were told the points from different races and the placings of all the houses. At the end of the day Waipa was winning, Puniu was second, Waikato third, and Mangapiko fourth. Today (Monday) we found out the overall winner of Swimming Sports 2016,
4th- Mangapiko, 4 points
3rd-Waikato, 6 + Bonus Point
2nd- Waipa, 8 points
And first the overall Champion PUNIU, 10 points.
Thats it for this week! see you next week.