This week I am missing my last few days of school to go down to Hamilton to represent my water polo club, called Mountfort Park. This is the most important tournament of the year so hopefully we do better than on the James Bond Day. This tournament starts on Wednesday and finishes on Saturday but I will still be taking part in the end of year prize-giving as I am a foundation student which means that I have been in the school since it started. This means that I am able to be in extra photos and I am a leader in the school.
I am a Year 7 this year and next year I will be a Year 8. That means I will be a role model and a leader in this school. I am already a road safety person - that means I help the little people cross the busy street and I also hope to become a councillor and a house captain and hopefully a wet day monitor. I hope to be nominated for sports cup and hope to win it but you can never be to sure, aye!
So, do what I have done and follow your dreams, then you can be the best in your age group for something like my water polo team.
by Shane.
Best wishes for your water polo tournament Shane. We look forward to hearing how you go. From your classmates in Huia 1.
Other bits and pieces added by class members and Mrs Vincent.
- Hello to Huia 1 student, Kenneth, who is already on holiday in the Philippines. We got your message. Caitlin brought a newspaper article about most active volcano in the Philippines starting to erupt. We hope you are safe.
- Farewell to Theo and Mikayla who are going to other schools next year and to Daniel who is returning to Korea after being in New Zealand for over a year. We hope you keep in touch and follow us on the blog next year.
- Congratulations to all the students in Huia 1 who helped make the "Aprender Español es Divertido" , our two minute video which won the STANZA competition Primary School section a few weeks ago. We will be having our class party (which was the first prize) on Thursday morning where we will have the world premiere of "Aprender Español es Divertido 2: Christmas Special.
- In a few short weeks every one in the class has learned to play the ukulele. We now have a class set of brightly coloured instruments and try to play them nearly every day.
- The class has enjoyed learning social dances and are getting pretty good at the Maxina, Saturday Night Fever, Cotton Eye Joe, Run Run Rudolph, the Palais Glide, the Circle Waltz and the Veleta. Everyone is more confident dancing with a partner and we have competitions to see who is the best and who has improved the most. Competition winners for Saturday Night Fever were Mikayla, Juliana, Mighael and Kenneth.
- We have had 999 hits on our blog since June.
-Prize giving is on Wednesday night. The Intermediates are singing,"I Have a Dream" and, much as we all liked it the first time we heard it, we may never want to hear it again because we have practised it so much. Nathan, Rebekah, Theo, Te Ana, (Isaac from Kea 2 and Mark from Kea 1) are playing the guitars to accompany the singers.
- School finishes for the Christmas holidays on Thursday and starts again in early February.
Random Photos of recent activities.
This is Huia 1 when they are being sensible.
This is Huia 1 when they are not.....
We are all here except Kenneth (Philippines) and Shane (waterpolo tournament). Gulnoza is holding our class canvas-art work. It says "Somos el Huia 1 - We are Huia 1 2009" Theo and Gulnoza were commissioned to create an artwork which represented who we are this year. They chose a red frame and the Southern Cross from the New Zealand flag and a light blue background and the "Sun of May" to represent the flag of Argentina. This stands for all the Spanish we have learned and all our learning about Argentina this year.
Gulnoza designing a piece of art based on the flag of Argentina.
Learning to dance Saturday Night Fever in the hall.
Maria, Juliana and Jenna working on our class totem pole for outdoor art. They are gluing pebbles on shapes of hands.
Our class totem pole-makers. The team who won our class Wearable Arts competition got to make our piece of outdoor art. It represents all the cultures of our class. It was made from a recycled fence post (Thank you Mr Fowler). It is painted terra cotta which is our school uniform colour. Any visible pink adhesive was covered with another glue then sprinkled with sand so that no pink would show. We want people to be able to touch our art work (rather than have a sign "Don't Touch") and place their hands over our pebbled-hands to compare size.
Daniel learning to weed a garden in one of Culture Club groups. Goodbye from all of us at The Gardens school , Daniel. Keep in touch.
Jenna describing in Spanish which colour lolly she would like from Mrs Lee. We learned colours , numbers, questions and answers in Spanish using lollies.
Day One of ukulele lessons ..... there has been a lot of progress since this lesson. We cannow play at least four chords:C, F, G and A .
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