ROOM 18: RIPPER RUGBY

ROOM 18:

RIPPER RUGBY

Mr Cowlrick joins in the action!

A Blog About Rippa Rugby.

Have you ever played rippa rugby? Well I have with a cool and amazing couch.

When we just started training with Nick our couch, the first thing we did was a relay to get warmed up and then we learned to play was netball rippa. We got into two groups, red and blue. Now I will tell you the mysteries rules of netball rippa. First they play rock, paper, scissors, then they pass the ball to the first runner but this is the mysterious bit - you are not allowed to take one single step but you can do a forward pass to win the game and be named the ultimate champion team the end ‘Don, don, doooonnnn!’

By Sililo.

Phaydon has the ball and is looking to pass!

Blog about Ripper Rugby

Have you played on ripper-rugby on Wednesday with a cool coach?

We just started on Wednesday and we trained with a nice coach and we passed the ball and we caught it.  It was a good day.

By Manoa.

        

It's all go!

Have you ever played a game called ripper rugby? Well I have.

On Wednesday we went to play ripper rugby with our couch called Nick. It was cool. We ran around the court, it was great.

  By Usher

Have you ever played ripper rugby wildly?

Well I have.

Ripper rugby is really good because you can get really active instead of just sitting home being lazy at home.

By Sione

Izya 'belts up'

We played rugby on every Wednesday and it was great fun.

Last Wednesday we played rugby and I was in the blue team. First we had to warm-up by catching and running etc. Then we played proper ripper rugby. Kunal wanted to be in blue team but unfortunately he was in red team. We won the match. It was an great fun. I loved this game. The name of the game is ripper rugby. Thanks

     By Aryan

A ripper-relay!

ROOM 18: Awesome!

ROOM 18: SINGING WITH MRS ROBINSON

ROOM 18: SINGING WITH MRS ROBINSON

Room 18 girls listen to Mrs Robinson

Singing With Mrs Robinson

Room 18 sings with Mr Robinson all the time.

One Friday Room 18 went singing with Mrs Robinson and sang two amazing songs called Johnny B Goode and Samoan Skies in front of the whole school of SPS. Mr Robinson came over and rocked the electric guitars so hard it was amazing and we all had so much fun.

By Norry

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Singing with Mrs Robinson

Do you have amazing teacher that treats you like you are part of a band? Well I do.

At assembly Mrs Robinson took Room 18 to sing on stage in front of the whole school. I felt like a million people were staring at me. We sang two songs and they were Samoan Skies and Johnny B Goode. Mr Robinson played like a rock star from the 80’s. When we finished it was so much fun lots of cheering and clapping I hope we could do it again.

By: Maranatha

Singing practice with Room 3

'Secret choir practice with Mrs Robinson.'

Do you sing in secret places sometimes?  Like in the shower… DA, DA, DA? Well I don’t, so don’t look at me.  I only sing in a choir with our one and only Mrs Robinson

in the hall and also with all of  Room 18. We like Lean On Me...  OH have I said too much, nah! Oh and also we sang with Room 3 and helped them sing their song ‘A little help from my friends’ in front of the whole school.  All of this was for their assembly.

By Jayde
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Have you ever been with amazing Mrs Robinson to sing? Well I have and I can tell you one thing about her when she sings: every time she sings and plays with her guitar my glasses crack like a window... just joking! I don't have glasses. I mean every time she sings and plays with her guitar I just melt because it sounds amazing.

Am I saying too much? Well I don't think so because Mrs Robinson is brilliant, and by brilliant I mean outstanding because she has a magical voice and magical fingers. That’s why she’s outstanding and all of Room 18 loves her a lot, even me.

By Sela

Showing the lyrics, highlighting the rhythm!

Singing with Mrs.Robinson!

Have you ever been in a class where a teacher treats you like a choir?

On Friday, room 18 performed on the stage and sang two songs. They were ‘Johnny B. Goode’ and ‘Samoan Skies’. Room 18 was very shy but proud! We were all having fun and singing on top of our lungs! Mr. Robinson was rocking those electric guitar!!!

By: Micol

Room 18: Awesome

ROOM 18: ART WITH WHAEA DAGMAR

ROOM 18:

ART WITH

WHAEA DAGMAR

Ryan's self-portrait

Have you ever had an awesome artist as a teacher? Last week we had to do awesome shpaes with Whaea Dagmar. It was cool.

By Izya.

Usher's self-portrait

Have you ever done art with an artist? Well, I have with Whaea Dagmar.

Last week we did art with Whaea Dagmar. We watched a few videos of Chuck Close, an American artist. We then began to do art like his, which included putting funny shapes on our faces. It was amazing.

By Kunal

Trent's self-portrait

Art with Whaea Dagmer !!!

Last week we had amazing art with Whaea Dagmer.

We had a spectacular day with Whaea Dagmer. We outlined our faces on paper and then traced our faces and then colored them in with two colors.

Once we had finished we outlined it with black and we just looked the same. It was AMAZING!!!

By Trent

Aryan's self-portrait

ART WITH WHAEA DAGMAR

Last week we had art with the best and most amazing art teacher Whaea

Dagmar. She showed us a video of Chuck Close, an artist that can paint on BIG

cardboard paper.

We did awesome art work with Whaea Dagmar. Our art

work was inspired by the famous Chuck Close’s work.

I liked doing art with Whaea Dagmar. I wish we

could do art with her again.

By Phaydon

Leki's Self-portrait

Art with Whaea Dagmer!!

I like art with Whaea Dagmer because I want to get better at drawing and I like drawing better than reading and writing. I liked art better because we can do cultural patterns to represent my culture.

By Leki

Room 18: Art in Action

ROOM 18: YEAR 6 ASSEMBLY

ROOM 18:

YEAR 6 ASSEMBLY

Alyssa & Geshvin shine on stage!

The Stage Performance 

by Geshvin

On 23rd May 2014 four students from Room 18 and some from Room 17 were on stage to present for assembly. It was the Year 6’s time to shine.

Max appears!

I was one of the main presenters, along with ALyssa. It was super scray presenting in front of 400 people. It was super scary presenting in front of 400 people. It was the most scariest time of my life.

The funniest and craziest part was when, for the Travelwise team, a pukeko named Max arrived (he was a man dressed in a bird suit). He tried to go up on the stage but he fell! All the Juniors laughed and so did some of the seniors. When he got up he scared me so hard because of his eyes. They were bigger than my face!

We sang songs about citizenship and the presenters even had to dance on stage, as well! It was super crazy but I would love to do it again.

Max chats to a couple of Year 6 presenters

At assembly this scary pukeko ran through the door and jumped on stage. It was so crazy. Then it jumped over the little kids and had the whole school laughing. But it was dangerous at the same time

By Darryn

I sat on stage in front of over 300 students. I was called by Whaea Barb to help to do ICT but of a sudden I just had to help out by sitting on stage.

By Giani

Max and the Year 6 presenters dance!

On Friday Year Six was up on stage as Year Eight were at camp for four days. It was so much fun becuase Year Eights were not at school and Year Six was in charge for one day!

By Ayla

Year Six Assembly

On Friday Year Six went up stage to shine because Year 8 had gone to camp.

Well it was so much fun and a great time. I wish it happened every week.

Max the Pukeko came to the assembly and he was so scary! He danced in a funny and a happy

way and we danced with him, too.

It was super fun.

Thank youThe Assembly was great

By Zafira

2014: The Room 18 Blogging Revolution Continues!

2014: The Room 18 Blogging Revolution Continues!

The world leader in school blogging, Room 18, continues to innovate, and now features student-led discussion and musings.

We begin with a look back at Room 18’s Breakthrough Singing Performance:

Mrs Robinson gets ready to rock with Room 18

On Friday Room 18 tested their vocal chords to the limit. With Mrs Robinson and Mr Robinson showing good citizenship to come to school and use their time time for us. They played the instruments and guided Room 18 through the performance.

We did two performances. In the first we sang Samoan Skies with Mrs Robinson playing the acoustic guitar and Mr Robinson playing the electric guitar in the key of D. For our second song we sang Johnny B. Goode. You would have not believed the chords on the guitar! It was beyond compare. We even had people in Room 16 rocking an invisible guitar. We did a surprise third performance which was not just from Room 18, but all SPS, and it rocked it but the whole school.

By Alyssa

On Friday Room 18 went up on stage to sing with Mrs Robinson and Mr Robinson.

It was fun and great to show the whole school how Room 18 rocks.

By Zafira

When I was in Year 1 Mrs Shortt asked me to go on stage in front of the whole school. I went on stage to read my story. But while I was reading the microphone turned off and everybody started laughing, so I was afraid to go on stage.

But on Friday when Room 18 went on stage and

it wasn't that bad after all! Since that day I now want to go on stage more often.

By Kunal

Jamming with Mr & Mrs Robinson!

It was cool when Mr Robinson played his guitar on stage. It was fun performing to the whole of SPS.

By Orlando

First we went on stage in front of everyone. The most amazing bit was singing to the audience with Mrs Robinson and I would like to do it again.

By Ryan

Room 18- Awesome!

Room 18: Recount Writing continued!

ROOM 18’S INCREDIBLE

WRITING CONTINUES!

Room 18 has continued its focus on recount writing in Term 2, with some excellent results! Sililo’s recount is a very descriptive piece about his incredible adventure at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. Read and enjoy!

GOING TO THE WONDERFUL KELLY TARLTONS

Have you ever seen the wonderful sea creatures of Kelly Tarlton’s? In the wonderful holidays me and my family went to see the most dangerous, most ferocious sea creatures of all, the amazing and most wonderful TIGER SHARK!

The first thing I went to see at Kelly Tarlton’s was the amazing cold blooded penguins. When we saw the penguin they were splashing water everywhere, even on me. Luckily I was wearing a very comfortable jumper. The jumper was as warm as a wooly coat.

Then we went to see the light orange sea horses. They looked so cool just like the awesomest rainbow I had ever seen in my entire life.  When we were about to go I saw the a little baby sea horse sleeping in the mothers pouch it looked just like a new born baby.

After that we went to see the beautiful kings of the sea, THE SHARKS. They looked like they were fake because they were floating still like they were dead, but when I looked at them again they were swimming as fast as a cheetah but twice the speed. It was cool because they were dashing through the water like it was the fastest thing in the world, even faster than light.

Then we got to see the wonderful short tailed stingrays. When we saw them they were gliding through the water like they were gliding through the sky like a bird that has finally released from its cage. Then out of that suspicious looking door, a man in a mysterious swimming suit came out and jumped into the tank of stingrays and had no fear of them. He was truly a man. Than he fed the stingrays with some kind of fish food, than he told us every single fact in a recount just like this one you are reading. He told it like he was a scientist.

The last thing we saw was the puffer fish. It had spikes like a porcupine and could blow up like a balloon but with water inside.

It was so cool. I’d love to come back to Kelly Tarlton’s to see more amazing sea creatures someday.

By Sililo

Room 18: 2014 - Ideas in Action

2014: The Year of Creative Writing in Room 18

This Term Room 18 kicks off the ‘uber blog’ with a recount written by Geshvin. 

Enjoy the writing and the creativity.

Dolphin Watching

When dolphins swim across the water it makes boats seem slow. When we saw the dolphins they looked like cheetahs running at light speed. We couldn’t see them properly because of their dark skin but they were very fast.

Have you ever encountered a dolphin? First, when me and my family got on the boat and I wasn't interested. Not one bit of excitement. I was completely bored. Even though it was the the holidays I wasn’t very happy about going on the trip because I like to stay home.

Then the weather started to bother me. The sun was shining bright but the winds were as cold as a blizzard! We were at sea for a very long time and it was driving me crazy. I couldn’t stand the boredom.

When finally we saw the dolphins they were next to a neighbouring boat which was as tall as Mt. Everest! The dolphins were on the side of the boat. When they swam they were a streak of grey swimming across the water. One of them even jumped up and made a volcano of water! We took a lot  of pictures of them.

When we got home everyone thought that it was great. I thought it was ok. It was fun but I hope next time the dolphins show up sooner.

By Geshvin