Funraising

We are fundraising for camp at Golden Bay and we are doing very well today we are doing air guitar and from the class sponsorships we have raised $812 which is very good money and we also have the harry potter night coming up next Friday which will be good so I definitely think we will have enough money for camp.
And I hope the air guitar will go well today.

Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise

On Thursday the 14Th of October Room 7 did cycle safety with constable O'Donovan he mentioned the four rules rule 1 left gives way to all rule 2 right gives way to straight rule 3 give way to right and rule 4 manners and courtesy.
It was really fun and we all learned something which is really good (and learned how to do jumps.)

Fundraising for rm7 camp

Room7 has many ideas about fundrasing for our camp in Golden bay and Pohara some of the ideas are sure to get us a few meals out. Like a Quiz night with a few donations this is sure to roll in some ching. A cake stall has been a popular idea because it's easy and the room7 parents bake a good cake. But the winning idea has been to hire out the disco rink and have a huge disco and sell things in the stall area we could have our cake stall in there this idea has been proved to make a fair few bucks.Another idea has been Jonathans old good trade jucies. So if all these ideas pay off with a little parent help I think room 7s gonna have a great time.

Totara car race

On Monday Totara syndicate had a rubber band powered car race, "what was up for grabs" the chance to represent the school at Waimea college in a couple of weeks and bragging rights. People were going round bragging to other people that their car would smash up. People walked up 1 by 1 with their gut going around and around but they pushed through and let their car fly down the track. One person not naming names was going round saying that his car could go 20 metres but he chickened out and only went ten metres. Bianca made him put a sock in it when her car went 13 metres. Bianca's BLITZED everyone else and brought home the bacon for room 7.

NMIT Mural

Through the week we have been doing a Mural to be placed on the NMIT fence we have been doing taevae patterns similar to the cook island weaving patterns we have showed littler kids how to do it and we all have contributed loads to it.
It is a very big task but we have finished it now which I am proud of. How we make the patterns is we have stencils of the petals and we paint a colour in the stencils then we take the stencil off and choose a colour for the middle bit which we stamp on. Last we choose another colour for the what I call the "secondary petals" which we stamp on then you're done, we have showed loads of people and it has been a big job and the opening of it will be soon.
We are all very proud of it and I hope I will see the revealing of it.

wednesday

Our class is going have an awesome day on Wednesday! We're going to have our findout awards. This yellow thing is what our program looks like. We have something like 24 entries! This white piece of paper is the sheet our judges use. After the findout awards we are ordering a whole lot of pizzas to eat with our buddies for lunch. Then we're going for a swim at riverside swimming pool for an hour.

Rich Task

In class we have been doing our Rich Task and we have to look at the undeveloped parts of the school and think of places to put in fitness exercises and when we have finished that if it is good Jonathan will let us write a proposal to the school committee to say what fitness activity we would like to put into the school and prove it will be safe. We have started this and I wonder if the committee will actually let us put in a fitness activity.

This year our class is using a system of money (payday dollars). We have $1 coins, $5 notes, $10 notes, $50 notes, $100 notes, $500 notes and golden $1000 notes. Every fortnight we get paid according to our job. For example the ICT Managers get $35 a fortnight. If we do something good we put our names/initials on the 'positive board'. Then, when payday comes we get extra dollars according to how much points we have on the positive board. 1 point equals $1. There also is a 'Negative board'. This is were we put our names if we've done something bad or naughty. Then we don't get any money for payday. Here are some pictures of the money:

2010 Student Council Elections

All the candidates feel great to be elected, David Zohrab is our year five Representative.
Quote " Thank you for voting for me I will try my best to get your ideas and hopefully we can benefit the new things around the school". Lachie is one of our year six councillors.
Quote " I appreciate everyone who voted for me (even everyone did) I will make your last years your best years". Our other year six councillor is Toby.
Quote " Hi everyone, I'd just like to thank every person who gave me a vote and I hope that we can make this year a great year for Central". I hope our class councillors will fix up the problem on Alton St. and get the Nelson city council to put in a kerbing.

Do The Job Get The Pay Room 7

In room 7 we are assigning jobs to people for different purposes. We got job descriptions before we applied to see what jobs we could apply for, so then we could see the pay, and how long it would take to pay off the debt of the business if we got it. The way you apply is you write a formal letter of ask, to apply for the job. Then our teacher (Jonathan)will look and read our applications and decide who best fits the job. If we got the job we would have to use our own pay each week from the bank to pay off the debt of buying the business, kind of like the mortgage on your house. These are the jobs that we applied for.

Students who buy and operate these businesses will receive a weekly amount for their efforts if their tasks are completed.

Sport Managers
2 people + 1 extra
Sport managers issue room 7 gear, organize outside games, Totara syndicate sport and maintain sports gear.
Cost: $400. Pay: $50.

Communication Managers
2 people
Typing, word processing, printing and copying.
Cost: $450. Pay: $75.

Financial Managers
3 people
Making pays up, balancing accounts, exchange dollars and handle cash in and out.
Cost: $400. Pay: $80

Sanitation Managers
2 or 3 people
Cleaning desk tops, sorting recyclables and final floor sweep.
Cost: $400 Pay: $80

ICT Managers
2 boys 2 girls
Peer tutors, assist teacher, set up ICT in the class, manage memory sticks, scanning and manage movies.
Cost: $400 Pay: $80

Telephone Receptionist
1 boy 1 girl 2 positions
Answers phone, process notices/news letters and write the day/date and whiteboard.
Cost: $250 each Pay: $40

Courier
2 people
Getting art materials, get equipment take money and orders.
Cost: $270 Pay: $50

Ventilation Managers
2 people
Open windows when required, open doors, monitor toilet visits, check cleanliness of toilets and open and close blinds.
Cost: $150 Pay: $50

Classroom Games Managers
3 people
Purchase new games, manage and sort games so their useable, make sure game pieces aren’t missing and manage events like Find out Awards.
Cost: $350 Pay:$ 60

Class library managers
2 people
Issue books, displays of book, issue points and gather and return books.
Cost: $ 275 Pay:$ 50

Personal Assistant
1 boy 1 girl
Teachers, tidy, organize, remind, help, do specific tasks, relief support to teachers, write letters on behalf of the class and take notes.
Cost: $ 250 per person Pay:$ 100

Art Managers
2 to 3 people
Clean and prepare resources, put up displays in the room or the school, keep all resources tidy, prepare activities drop sheets ect, make sure no one is playing with paint inappropriately and keep paper racks tidy.
Cost: $400 Pay:$ 60

Stationery Managers
2 people
Issue and receive work collect books ect, keep useable paper tidy, put children’s work into folders, will be responsible for tidying up old folders and presentation.
Cost: $300 Pay:$ 60

2010

WOOHOO 2010 is finally here and its panning out to look like a good year.Where going camping at cable bay and the best part is we get to paintballing (YAY!!!) we have to climb up to the smmit of peppin island.Watch out for more posts.

New School Year

This year I have a teacher named Jonathan this year we are doing paint ball. I wonder what we are
going to do this year.

Hi i am tom.I am looking fowerd to our camp.We are going to cable bay for 1 night.

hi i am Quinn I am ten years old and I am a year six and I like soccer swimming skiing tenis and I will be going on the summit club walks Its swimming so I am good looking foward to it.this year is going to be a good year.


from Quinn

My best holiday ever

My names victoria, I've had the best holiday, I went to the hydro slide 100 times (awsome), I also went to my nan & pop's farm for christmas, with all of of my couins exept, for the ones that are mean and always leave me out. Then afew weeks later I went back to the farm for my nannys 70th birthday. The cake that my great aunty Gwen made was so nice, it was chocolate all the way through (yummy). That was my best holiday ever!


bye

Hi I'm Ronan I'm nine years old I am a year five i am looking foreword to doing my frist summit club walk I am also looking foreword to going to camp at cablebay because we are going to go paintballing

all about me

Hi my name is David I an 9 years old.We are going to cable bay for camp we are going for one night and we are going paintballing and going for long walks.

Starting School

My new teacher is Jonathan he is very good teacher we are soon going on camp to Cable Bay and we are going paint balling. I am having fun and I can't wait what fun things we are are going to do next.

WOOHOO! New 2010 blog! Awesome! This class is awesome! Were going to Cable Bay! We are going to go on Peppin island! Were also goin PAINTBALLING! WOOHOO! I'm so goin to enjoy this! 1 more thing; CHEESE FLOOBER!