Week 5+

Well another week has gone by at Te Awamutu Intermediate. Nothing much has happened ,but a lot is coming up. We have things including: Winter Games, Production, Music Day, Inter House jump jam and more. Here are a few more things that are also coming up in term 3.

AIMS: This is a New Zealand wide event and has intermediate aged kids come from all corners of the country, and some even come from Australia. It is held over in Taurargna for just under a week, and kids come to play sports that they are good at. It is a very competitive event and schools only send there top athletes. The sports came range from; Basket Ball to Tennis, from Net Ball to darts and sailing. This event is coming up in term 3, September.

Production: This year our school is putting on a production. It is called Battle Of The Bands. It is being held this term in our school hall, and the cast has already been picked and practicing. The production is coming up in four weeks and everyone is trying hard to be ready in time.

Sports Camp: This event is held over a week in Totra springs. It is a event where schools compete against each other in different sports. At T.AI. if students want to be in sports camp then they send in their application form. The sports committee pick a team of at least 35 people. Once they have picked a team, the students get told, and they chose the sports that they would like to play.Sports camp is next term.

As you can see there are a lot of things coming up here, and that list I had before did not include all the WIMS teams. It will be a busy rest of term with only 5 1/2 weeks left.

band camp

A couple weeks ago our school hosted the band camp. As well as our school, te Awamutu Intermediate, matamata intermediate and cambridge middleschool came as well. The camp was over two days, and students from te awamutu intermediate did not get to stay the night. It started on Wednesday about 10 30. Matamata and Cambridge arrived at 10 and started to unpack their gear. Later on the students from te awamutu camp up to the alc with their instuments. The seniour band stayed there while the the joniors went down to the hall, the drum line in the music room and the coirer in the dance and drama studio. At 11 30 we had a morning tea break, and at 12 30 we had lunch. during these time we practiced playing songs. In the senoiors, the band I am in, we practiced songs like royals, happy, mambo no. 5, heavy metal and more. we practiced hard and we looked forward to dinner at 5 30, wjich was hamburgers and chips and for desert we had apple crumble and icecream. After that we had  short rehearsel and te awamutu went home.

The next day, Thursday, we played the songs even harder because we new that we had a concert to night. We played hard and stopped for lunch at the same time. At 3 O'clock we stopped for afternoon tea and had a big rest until dinner was ready at 5. The concert was starting a 7, so we all got our insturments and went to the music room. By the time the had got us all tune up and seated, it was 7. the conccert was great  and went to 8 30.

I would like to say thank you to Mrs German, Mr Sandbridge, Caleb and the music teachers and parents from cmbridge and matamata for making this whole thing posssible.

Week 3

Week 3

A lot has happened since the beginning of the year, just to recap.

House Captains, Class Counselors, Head Students and Deputies.

These were all picked in term one, and they will stay the same until next year.

Wellington Class Camp:

Our class had an awesome time down in wellington and did and saw some amazing things. A few things we did  were: Capital E, Zealandia, snorkeling, Parliament and more. It was for a week and we happily gave up our Sunday to travel down there. Thank you to all the parents that came with us, Mrs Crowe for organising it, and Gale for driving down there and putting up with us.

Field:

Our field is out of bounds for it has just been sewing up. They have planted the seeds, but we are still not allowed to play on it until next term.

Shine:

Recently our school has finished painting the shine acronym on the office wall. It looks amazing and is the first thing you see when you enter our school. As for shine bands and badges, our first band was handed out this week to Gemma in room 14. She now has five different bands so she has earned a bronze badge, and she is working towards her silver and gold badges.

So far three weeks down, eight to go for this term. It is going to be full on term and I can’t wait.

Wellington Day Two

Tuesday:

Today started of with a visit to Carter Observatory.  I enjoyed having a look at the Observatory. It had information about planets and stars and also astronauts. In a room the was a spaceship that you walked into and you could see how they ate, how they kept themselves entertained, how the connected with earth and more. After that we went and saw a 45 minute video, half of it was a documentary about building a rocket and a rover to go to the moon. The other half was a man telling us about the stars that you can see above wellington on a clear night. The observatory was cool place to go to and I would go again.

Wellington Day 1

Monday:

Our first stop for the day was at a wildlife sanctuary, Zealandia. This sanctuary take care of lots of endangered animals and plants native to New Zealand. The first area we looked at was a video the made about early settlement in New Zealand and what it meant for those native species living there at the time. It was a short video but it also included what they are planning for the next 500 years on the sanctuary. Once the video had finished we went on a tour around the sanctuary. We saw animals like Tuatara, Takahe, fish and ducks. We went on a walk over a swing bridge and onto the dam. Once our tour had finished we at our lunch and loaded back up on the bus.

Our next stop was Te Papa museum. The were so many amazing exhibits at Te Papa. There was an earthquake house, a natural disaster room, a sea and fish room. The sea and Fish room was really amazing. They had baby whale skeletons, fish everywhere (they weren't real though) and lastly a giant squid. The giant squid was in a glass case from the floor. It was huge. After that we went up stairs and visited the Air New Zealand exhibit. My favourite part of that was  a simulator. We went inside an part of an airplane, sat in the seats and put the goggles on. It played the future thoughts of Air New Zealand. But it wasn’t like a cinema. You could turn around and still see the video. It was like you were actually in the airplane. It was a quick video but one i’ll never forget. After that we didn’t have much time to explore anymore so we loaded back on the bus to our next destination.

When we arrived at the national library we were going to go look at the WW1 (World War 1) exhibits. We split into groups and went round looking at different things about WW1, the Gallipoli Battle. After having a look round we did a scavenger hunt we said goodbye and headed to our last stop of the day, H2O Xtreme, the pools in Upper Hutt. It was a fun hour because the pools included three hydroslides, a rapid river and a wave pool. All of the three areas were fun and everyone had a great time. After that we went back to the top ten we were staying at, had dinner and went to bed.  

Wellington On Our Way

Sunday:

Going to school on the weekend isn't my favourite idea, unless of course, your are going on a camp down to Wellington. I arrived at school at 8:48 ready to start the journey. At about 9:30 we were all on the bus, waving goodbye to our parents. A week away from school with my teacher and class I thought. We drove of and we were on our way. Eight hours later we arrived at Hutt park where we were staying for the week. Let the camp begin!

Wellington Day Two

ONTV was a mini T.V studio where students came and made short videos.

When my group came to the ONTV studio at Capital E. Under this is the video we made.