Tuesday 22 September

Today, in Room 21, after calling the roll we worked on our portfolios until 9:30, then we went for Maths. After morning tea, Ms Berry was taking us for Literacy to help us with our Shaun Tan statements. For a better understanding about our task, we were required to act a short scene based on a single picture from Shaun Tan's book The Arrival. Everyone had a fantastic act to preform after the 10 minutes we were given. Room 21 then re-worked and edited our statements, making them better every way possible. At 12:00 Mr Chadwick took us over to the library to issue some new books before luch at 12:30. Silent reading was after lunch before continuing with our Inquiry project: Innovation. Today we thought up some inquiry questions to investigate, such as "Why do people invent?" and "What would the world be like with no inventing?" And luckily, by the end of the lesson, it was time to go home!

Monday 22 September

For 3 action-packed nights the Muritai School stage was alive presenting our school production, The Lorax. Endless varities of costumes were sewn together and lines were repeated over and over for practice. The Year 7 & 8's played the Oncelers, the Thneed Machine dancers and some were our main characters. The Thneed machine dancers were great, and the drummers drummed away fantastically! Our Oncelers danced awesomely to the Industry dance, but the Grand Finale of Where's Your Head At blew the crowd away! Numerous comments from the parents and teachers said "That was amazing!" or "Incredible work guys!" We were absolutely exhausted by the end of the week, but we knew that the Year 7 & 8's dominated the stage!

Monday 1st September

This morning we paired up with a friend and practised our speeches. After that some of us went to the hall to practise production and some of us stayed over the road and played games and did stacking cups. Then we went to morning tea after that some of the class presented their speeches . Then we went to the I.C.T. lab and published our short stories. We had lunch then came into the class and silent read for 15 minutes. Then the rest of the class presented their speeches. At the end of the day Mr. C read us bootleg.

By Liam

Friday 29th August

Today we did diary writing, it was fun. Then we started cup stacking it was awesome. Then we had morning tea. After that we did literacy and some more cup stacking and then we had lunch. After lunch we silent read then some of us did the garden and after that we played a game. We played build up ball tag. Then we put the chairs away. While we did all that others were practicing the production.

Wednesday 27th August

Today Room 21 split into groups; The groups were kapa haka and the rest went to another class to muck around.

After morning tea we went to technicraft, in technicraft there are five groups sewing, cooking, art, ICT, and woodwork. We then came back to the senior side of school for lunch because it was wet and some of us went to the table tennis tournament in the hall.

After lunch we did some more work on the production and then went home for a fun filled afternoon.

Monday 25th August

Firstly Mr. Chadwick called the roll. After we then had a garden discussion about how we are going to make our path, then we walked over the road to the school hall where we did production practice on our school production ‘The Lorax’. Then it was interval.

After interval we did speech prep for our three week inquiry: ‘The Power Of One’. Soon after we went to the ICT lab. Then it was lunch and our first day with the new P.E. equipment. Straight after lunch we did silent reading and I wrote this. After we did inquiry for the last activity of the day. Finally it was home time.

By Tim McCafferty

Monday 18th August

Today in Room 21...
We started off by doing our class garden project. Next we went to maths, in Room 23s maths class we learnt about adding fractions and we all learnt a lot. Next we went off to a sunny but cold morning tea.

After morning tea we had spelling testing. Next we had literacy which was interesting. We were looking at how to setting the scene for our writing. Next we had ICT and we published our 50 word story peer comments there. Then we had a fun filled lunch.

After that we worked and shared our peer pressure stories. Our story was about friendship groups and being peer pressured into certain ones. Finally we tidied up the class and left for home.

By Austin S

Thursday 14th August

Today our Kapa Haka group welcomed the teachers of Cowley Street school with a powhiri.
Lulu and Olivia who performed the karanga (call) sounded great! They had lots of fun and were very glad they did it. We then sang "He Honore". After that Mr Bird gave a welcoming speech. We supported Mr Birds speech with the Kapa Haka group singing "Kua Rongo Mai Koe" and "Toia Mai" with their awesome voices and actions. Cowley Street school were so impressed with us for the amazing performance! Finally a man from Cowley Street School spoke back to us. The girls in the front row were lucky enough to hongi with the Cowley Street school team!

Tuesday 12th August

Today we had the roll then we went straight on to our narratives. When we had written 50 words we wrote down our spelling words for this week, then we had maths. After morning tea we wrote comments about each others 50 word stories and discussed the writers next steps. We then went to our school library. After lunch we did silent reading and then Inquiry, where we worked on our support kits.

By James

Monday 11th August

Today Room 21 worked on the garden. We shifted rocks and raked weeds and the class discussed what will be happening next. Lulu's dad has kindly donated a boat, which will be a seating area, for the garden.
After morning tea we did Literacy. We wrote another, 50 word story. It had to be about the Olympics. Our aim is to get rid of all the waffle we write in our writing. We then went to the I.C.T Lab. We had to do Seb's survey for his Inquiry. Then we published our best 50 word story. If we had enough time, we could do some of our inquiry. After Lunch we discussed the video we had watched on Friday and then made a play about peer pressure.

By Kirsten

Thursday 7th August

Today room 21 started the day off with naratives. Next the syndicate swapped around for maths, our topics for maths is fractions, decimals and percentages.

After morning tea we had literacy, we are doing short stories and we had to write a fifty word shortv story. Soon after, our class went outside to play dodgeball with some room 22 members.

Right after lunch we had production. All the dancers went into the hall with Ms Berry and Mr Chadwick to work on the industry dance. Then we came back and showed the dance to the entire syndicate.

Tuesday 5th August

We started off the day with the roll. Then we did our inquiry surveys. Some people went to other classes to ask people from different classes. Then we did maths. In room 23's maths class we played loopy. After morning tea in literacy we discussed the success criteria for the conflict and resolution in short stories. After, we went to the Eastbourne library and got out some new books. After lunch we did silent reading then we agreed or dis-agreed with some things about bullying where we arranged ourselves along a continuum. Then we played build up ball tag with room 24. Then we left for home.

Monday 4th August

Today in room 21 we started the day off with accuracy. We each got a sheet, we had to underline the waffle in the sentences. Next we all went to maths, at the moment we're doing fractions, decimals and percentages. After that all the year 8s had a meeting in Room 23 about Abel Tasman.

After the bell rang we went inside, soon after it began to pitter patter with a light drizzle. We did literacy writing it was quite fun because they gave us the start of a story and we had to finish it. Then we checked out some blogs and a few quick games.

After lunch people carried on with their surveys and asking people questions with a variety of different topics such as bullying, drugs and peer pressure. We did the surveys for our help/support kit for the three week inquiry homework. Then we left for home.

Wednesday 11th June

Today in wonderful Room 21, we had the roll call then we did a bit of silent reading before the kapa-haka people left and the science-fair people went to Room 23. The remaining people were split into either Room 24 or Room 22 to do a quiet activity such as drawing. They, and the returned Kapa-Haka / Science fair children then went to morning tea.

After morning tea we all left for our techni-craft in Wainuiamata. The Arts group bus smelled horrible! This was our first session with our new craft classes and we all got introduced to the workshops. In art we did self portraits and quick drawing. Once we got back to Muritai we all enjoyed our lunch on the junior side of school. After lunch we went to our usual syndicate sports with Volleyball, Soccer, Rippa-rugby and Netball.

Lastly we did our class duties and left to go home!

By Austin Sutherland.

Tuesday 10th June

Today room 21 started off the day with talking about the day because today was going to be a mucky day all the maths class were jumbled up because there were not enough teachers. But the main aspect of the day was that a few year eights chose some year sevens and went down to the Eastbourne dunes and planted about 50 odd plants and we all thought it would of taken 2 hours but we managed to complete it in half a hour which blow away the adult helpers who started this thing up it was a great experience for the enviro- schools we learnt how to plant plants for a good cause and learnt about the blue penguins that the planting was for and luckily we got to see two in the rocks a bit earlier then usual and they were beautiful. Then it was interval.

After interval we again talked about our machines that can do homework and spent a little time on our next paragraph the parts. Then after doing that we went to the school library and brought our work if not finished which was most people. Then it was time for lunch time.

We did silent reading for a long time. Then the class had a chose if they could read there book or listen to Mr Chadwick read the current book its called “Bootleg” its about chocolate being band from the world by the “Good for you party”. Then we had a game we started off playing a game that room23 taught us then room22 came out for a game we played “King dodge ball” after awhile of playing that room23 came out and because room21 was winning of course the whole of room23 got sent into room22’s side and in the end room23 and 22 won because they hit the bin! Then it was time to go home and before we did finish of the day with our class duties.

By Harriet Walton

Tuesday 3rd June

Today in the morning we did the spelling test. After that we did our accuracy check, which is where we choose 50 words from our narrative book (which we did on Thursday) and check for any mistakes, grammatical errors or spelling errors. We then fill in the bar graph in the back of our literacy book. The aim of this is to see our progress and help us improve our accuracy. This has helped me because now I know what I’m getting wrong and how to fix it.

We then went to maths and room 23 had to stay in for a while because we were too noisy! The current subject is geometry/measurement

After morning tea we finished off our homework cheating drawings and now we’re nearly ready to write our explanation on it. We then went to the library and the librarian talked to us about constellations.

After Lunch (and we had 10 minutes extra) we looked at the three states of matter and what the changes have to do with energy. Then we did all our duties and went home!! Today was a day full of new and interesting facts and learning.
by Rupert O'Brien

Wednesday 28th May

Today room 21 did Kapa Haka and then we had morning tea. After that we got on the bus and went to technicraft in Wainuiomata. There we had sewing, woodwork, computers, cooking and art.

We went across the road for lunch but it was raining so we stayed on our side of the school and had lunch, we played pirates in the hall. After this we had silent reading for ten minutes and then we did our term 2 cover pages for our portfolio.

- Ben Hollands

Tuesday 27th May

Today in room 21 we did the roll first and soon after we did accuracy. Next we swapped classes for maths where we focused on how to measure the area of a triangle. After that we warmed up for cross-country practice and ran the practise track once. After morning tea we did a handwriting sample and then we walked to the library. Next it was lunchtime. After lunch we did 30mins of silent reading then we did an energy quiz for inquiry. It was finally home time.

- Tim McCafferty

Monday 26th May

Today room 21 had accuracy, we wrote 50 words and then we spell checked them. Then we swapped our books with a partner and they checked our work for any spelling and grammar mistakes. We then swapped it with another partner to make sure that the first partner didn’t leave anything else out. After accuracy we had to split up into our maths groups. In room 21 we did the Quick 24 clock and we made some houses out of paper (using lots of cm2 and stuff.)

After morning tea we had literacy for the whole of the morning, in literacy we had to write out our spelling words and then we drew or read for 20 mins.

After lunch we had inquiry, in inquiry we had to go to room 22 where we shared our sheets on energy.

- Stacey Dalziel

Tuesday 13th May

Today room 21 started the day off with accuracy. We all had to write out the sentences of a full paragraph and we took out the words we didn't need. After that we all separated into our math classes. In maths we did area, volume and perimeter of all the differant shapes, then room 21 maths class did a quick 10.After maths we all did cross country practice, we have started to do two laps, we are making sure that the year 7 and 8's are prepared for the zone so we can win that. Then after morning tea we had inquiry, we got into groups of three and desinged a poster for how energy is made. We all had a topic and we had to find information and pictures on the topic that we had. Next we went to the school library and we worked on the inquirys while also getting books out. Then a while after lunch after silent reading we continued on our inquirys and started to make the final product. We then went over the road to play a game with our buddies from room 8. then we packed up the class and went home.