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Ripper Rugby Tournament

Today the St Mary's students were involved in an interschool Ripper Rugby tournament.  The two Year 7/8 teams had a thoroughly enjoyable time even though they did not have great success on the field!!

Surviving your Senior years!!

• Find as many Year 7/8 friends as you can.
• Listen to the teacher.
• Focus hard so you don't stay in at lunch.
• Stay with a good crowd.
• Produce a good amount of interesting work.
• Try as hard as you can to do the best you can.
• Ask the teacher for help if you don't understand.
• Get to class on time when the bell goes.
• Keep out of trouble.

Sam

Sir Peter Blake Trust

On Tuesday we had a visit from Sue Peacock.  Sue is a Public Servant in Wellington and is responsible for $3 000 000 000 in Tertiary Education!!!  She is also a speaker for the Sir Peter Blake Trust.  Sue came to speak to us about setting goals for our future.  We thought about where we might be in 10 years time and what kind of job we might want to do.  What made Sue speaking to us so relevant is that she went to St Mary's and was even in the same classrooms that we are in.  She even shared her school photos and school report with us.

Hockey

Our skills have certainly developed since we began our sessions with Matt.

Soccer Tournament

The final games of our tournament were played today.  Last Friday afternoon, all teams played and then the remainder of the games were played this week.  As hoped Rm 3 Year 8s went through undefeated!!

TACS Netball 21 June

Our top two netball teams took on the other Intermediate teams in the TACS (Town and Country Schools tournament) at the Napier Courts.  For the first time in a long time it was a fine, warm day.  Our teams displayed fairplay and great school spirit.  Tainui was victorious in their grade and Miro were Runners Up.

Soccer Tournament

Last Thursday, our netball teams participated in a TACS Tournament which meant that our soccer teams for the lunch time game were seriously short.  However, with each team having 6 players each the boys were ready to take each other on.  Rm 3 Year 8s were victorious over Rm 1 Years 8s.  Confidence is growing - they believe they are going to take out the tournament!

Writing

To conclude our study on Spanish speaking countries, each student had to plan and write a response to all they had learnt.  Our focus was to organise our ideas into paragraphs.  Here are some more of the best pieces.  Can you work out what the main idea from each paragraph is?

Over Term 2, my class and I have been learning about Spanish speaking countries.  We have designed posters, completed reading tasks on different countries and found out what the countries sports are.

In Room 3, my class and I designed a poster each, of a country of our choice.  I choose to do mine on Argentina.  Argentina is an interesting country to research.  Did you know that Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, has the largest avenue in the world?  It is so big, it has 21 lanes and you have to go underground to cross it.  Another tourist attraction is Iquazu Falls.  It is 80 metres high and is a fabulous place for a family photo.  It is also the home of the bot fly so make sure you have insect repellant!

About one week after we had completed our posters we got assigned some tasks to complete.  The task I chose was one where you had to find out how they celebrate special occasions.  I did mine on Puerto Rico.  The Puerto Ricans enjoy celebrations; in fact, nearly every day of the year is part of a special occasion.  The most important celebration in the Puerto Rican year is Christmas.  The Puerto Ricans love Christmas so much that they don’t want it to end.  Christmas in Puerto Rico goes from December 25^th to January 15^th.

Nearly every Spanish country I researched lately has had a main sport.  Most of them are soccer (that’s football to them).  The soccer we play here is a lot different than over there.  The crowd shout and scream, they have a variety of players to pick from and they play the game 90% mental and 10% physical.  Most of the Spanish speaking countries soccer teams have won FIFA World Cups.  If they haven’t, they have a least made the quarter finals.

I have enjoyed learning about the Spanish speaking countries and one day I hope to visit one.

Kody

Over the past weeks this term we have been studying Spanish speaking countries.  At first we were just learning about countries that just speak Spanish but then we were introduced to the language they speak today.

To be honest, I thought at first that it would be hard, but then when we were into it all, it didn’t have to take much skill.  Some of the words they use are the same as ours but they will only have one or two different letters.

Also for Theme we have been learning about famous people that were Spanish.  One of the most famous explorers of all time happened to be Spanish.  His name was Christopher Columbus and he was the first to discover South America.  He also persuaded the King and Queen of Spain five times but he was crueler than you think, he massacred an entire race of people he met.

We also did research for countries that spoke Spanish.  One of the countries I did was Mexico which has many different interesting facts.  One of them is that many Mexicans moved to America to work because 1 US dollar is equivalent to 11 pesos.  Also Mexico has many spicy mouth watery food that they eat every day.

Personally I reckon that it has been fun learning Spanish.  This has been one of the fun subjects for theme but I can’t wait to find out what our next subject is.  Hasta Luego.

Shea

This year my class has researched Spanish speaking countries.  We have learnt about Spanish food, celebrations, phrases, numbers and Spanish sports.  Spanish have different ways of living their lives than we do here in NZ.

The Spanish have a lot of tradition and celebration, a lot more than we do.  One celebration they have is called “La Tomatina”.  At this sticky celebration 30 000 Spanish flock to the Spanish town of Bunol to throw 240 000 pounds of tomatoes at each other.  One tradition the villagers of a country side town have is called “Castilla La Mancha”.  When the young boys of the village dress up as devils and dance around.  This is celebrated in February.

One Spanish country I researched is called Spain.  Spain has a variety of animals but only one is native to Spain and it is called the Liberian Lynx.  The Spanish play many sports like golf, soccer, football, water polo, tennis and cycling.  Rafael Nadal is considered the best tennis player of all time and he comes from Spain.

My class and I have learnt to speak Spanish as well as learning about Spanish countries.  We have learnt to count to 20.  We also learnt to ask “What’s your name?” in Spanish – “Coma te llamas”.  We can also say Hello and Goodbye – “Buenos dias” is good morning and goodbye is “Hasta luego”.

Sam