Our Debates!

Over the past term Room 7 has been learning about Debating

Some of the things we have learnt for a successful debate are;

Intejections -This is where you interrupt someone while they are speaking. This should put them off and you will also get two points, unless it wasn't valid, then you will get 1 point for effort.

Rebuttal-This is when you talk after the other team has said their speech for 20 to 30 seconds about what the other team has said that is incorrect.

Speehes-The first speakers speech has to be 3 minutes or more and the 2nd and 3rd speakers must be 2 minutes.

The topics of Room 7s debates are:

New Zealand is becoming a Violent Society-

Negative-Cara, Angel, Tia

Affirmative-James, Shade, Tegan(Winners)

Animals Shouldn't be Kept in Cages-

Affirmative-Michaela, Scott, Cheyenne

Negative-Sam, Kyohei, Casey

Girls have it Better Than Boys-

Affirmative-Manaia, Taylor, Dylan(Equal)

Negative-Roy, Jasmine, Mikaela(Equal)

We Should Not Give Money to Beggars-

Affirmative -Cody,Sophie and Moesha(Winners

Negative-Michael,Kane and Emily-Rose

People Spend too much time thinking about what they wear and how they look-

Affirmative-Levi, Sarah, Christian

Negative-Kathryn, Arataki, Ethan(Winner)

Everyone gave it their all and had a great time!

by Tegan Bartlett & Tia L-T

Mount Robert

On the 15 September Room 7 went on a day tramp up Mount Robert to increase our endurance and experience an Alpine environment.

We all got to school at around 7:30am so that we could get our gear checked and we had a run through of the day. We were on the bus by 8:00am. On the way there Trevor (A resource scientist from Tasman District Council) who is also Emily-Rose's Dad, gave us an interesting talk all about the plants , trees , water and bush-life .

When we got to the information centre in St Arnaud we had morning tea while Mr J told us all about a Maori carving and the legend to go with it .

At around 10:30am we traveled to Buller bridge in the bus , then we traveled in a mini bus to the top

car park which took three trips and we had to wait till the rest of the group came up.

At 11.00am we started our tramp up Mount Robert . We had a break every 10 minutes to eat and drink something . We got to the first hut at 12:30pm where we had a break , that was when we had our first big shower of snow . Our next hut was the bushline hut by the time we got there it was very heavilysnowing!! Not longafter that the class had a big snow fight outside relax hut . Cara made a R E A L L Y B I G snowball ,so Mr J said if she brought it back to Nelson he would give her Incentive points !!!

But on the way back it broke :(

The trip back down the mountain was a lot faster than the trip up because we were mostly just going downhill . We got to the bottom carpark around 4:30pm.The trip back was very quiet because everybody was sleepy-_- . We got back to Broadgreen at 6:10pm , where our parents were waiting . We all really enjoyed the trip because it was a great experience and we got to go outside of the classroom .

Room 7 Rock Climbing

Room 7 Rock Climbing

This morning room 7 had a great time on the rock climbing wall in the hall.

Mr J taught us all the information we needed to know to stay safe when we were climbing up the wall, and when we were belaying for the climber.

For those of us who

aren't too confident on the climbing wall or have never done it before, there is the easy wall. It slopes slightly towards the wall like this /. The next wall is straight up, and the next one has slightly less footholds. The next wall slopes slightly out

wards. The walls get easier as they go along from left to right. The last wall is the hardest and slopes

outwards, and has a ridge we have to go up and around.

If you are reasonably confident on the rock climbing wall, you could try to do it blindfolded, said Mr J. 'Yeah right!' We don't think any of us will be ready to try that any time soon! We all need a bit of practice!

Some people missed out due to us running out of time, but we all really enjoyed it and hope we get to do it again next term!

Thanks for reading!

By Sophie and Michaela

kiwiana colages by: Angel and Christian

"Hey Im Angel & hi Im Christian

and here is our post on Kiwiana collage's"

"Here are some more photo's of our kiwiana collage's.

"In these photo's there is a photo of me and my gummboot,Cheyenne,Mikaela,Cara,a buzzy bee and every one that was sitting at the table's!!!

Some thing I learnt that kiwiana is so cool.angel:-]"

"I learnt that Marmite is a kiwi tradition.christian:-]"

Our Waka Challenge

This week Fifeshire had a team technology challenge.We were split into groups of four, half of us went to Room 8.We had to make a Waka out of: 15 sheets of newspaper,a roll of tape, 30 ice block sticks and our imagination. All in 45 minutes!

The Waka had to have strong sturdy sides and be shaped like a Waka, it also had to fit one person in it as shown in this picture above.[Sam and Roy's Waka]

Many of the Waka's in Room 8 weren't good at all, some of the students had good ideas but they didn't manage to pull them together.

The team that won would get 20 incentive points to go towards their Incentive Awards.

This is a photo of the team that won. (Tegan, Cheyenne, Tane and Sarah)

Our Room 7 Sgraffito!

On Friday 25th of June a couple of students made a Sgraffito. We made the Sgraffito in modules. We got an A1 piece of cardboard and ruled up the cardboard diagonally about two rulers wide. Then we coloured it in with 11 different coloured pastels. Finally after that we put a layer of black paint over the top of the pastel and waited for it to dry.

After it had dried we got a kebab stick and scratched our names into it.

We got every one in the class to sign it including our teacher Miss Rodman and the fishes;  Ginga, Mullet, Boris and Midget. We found a place on the wall for it on top of the whiteboard.

This is the final

result. Here is the Sgraffito on the wall.

Environmental Science

Sustainability is making something last longer and one way to make the world a more sustainable place is to recycle. Recycling is when you reuse something after you've already used it.If we don't use the three R's (Reduce,Re-use and Recycle) nothing will be left for people to come in the future.

In June 2010 Room 7 went for a rubbish walk around our school grounds. Room 7 were looking for rubbish for over 50 minutes. After that we had to sort out the rubbish we had picked up (wearing rubber gloves of course! :),and put it into three different categories such as reduce,re-use and recycle because 'Environmental Science' is our term goal. Some people even went in the bushes and found a lot of rubbish.