Final Night at School for 2009

Prizegiving. Spotlight. Sardines. Star-Man (aka Roger). DVD and all the Senior Class sleeping over in the classroom on the final school night for 2009. And in the morning, it was breakfast time with some fabulous pikelets from Flora's Mum. A great way to finish off the year! Ka mau te wehi!!

CHESS OFF!

Black Queen to B6. White Knight to C7...or something like that! This was the scene in the Senior Room this afternoon as we tried to suss out the champion Year 5/6 chess player to compete in the Tasman Chess Open tomorrow. We are planning to send two players there who will battle it out to become the local champ! Good luck boys!

Special Mentions from Monday.

Miki - you used your ideas well in writing today.
Harriet - you really 'got it' during art.
Hannah F - fantastic images in your writing.
Liam - you got some good work done today.
Rebecca - you wrote well today.
Flora - you took pride in your work, well done.
Kaitlyn and Flora - wow, you got that maths game organised well.
Josh - you really settled to your work.
Philip - you are always so dependable.
Remus - it's great to see you writing with enthusiasm.
Georgia - I like it when you make the right choice.
Pako - you finished your work!
Luke - great, enthusiastic writing.
Briar - you are so mature and you take ideas and make things happen.
James - you can be counted on to get it done.
Maddy - it's good to see that you listened to instructions during art today.

Well done chaps!

Special Mentions from Thursday.

Well done to...

Pako - you are so focused!
Flora - you get to work so quickly!
Kaitlyn - you want to get on with your work!
Indigo - for realising that it's time to get working!
James - mentioned in class three times!, you take care of how your work looks.
Liam - trying something different and getting on with it!
Keegan - wanting to finish work, and trying hard!
Jack - for taking pride in your work!
Taylor - for having an idea and getting on with it!
Rebecca - for being focused and sensible!
Josh - for being helpful when you pack up!

Well done chaps.

Kapahaka

How many schools were there? I have no idea. But it was so fun peforming infront of those hundreds of people. On Wednesday, our kapahaka group went and peformed at the kapahaka fun day. We sang 6 really fun songs.

Our outfits were cool, the girls had a short black dress with a green koru on the side. The boys had a long black sash with a green stripe on it. It must have been really effective. We were told to wear green stone necklaces, or bone carving necklaces.

All through the day, Whaea Tania asked Maori quiz questions, and taught us new phrases like "rare rakau" which means "lollipop"

It was really cool peforming for other schools, as well as seeing their pefromances, learning heaps and coming together as one.

On Friday 23 October, Mahana School went to do a performance at red square, Nelson. We sang songs and danced for half an hour until it was time for Nelson Intermediate to go on stage. Some of the songs we did were: Utaina, Kua Rongo, He Honore, and one of the school favorites, An Australian Went Hiking. We really enjoyed performing for everyone who saw us!!!
BY I.T. M.T.

Cherub the recruit

12 year old James Chokes mum diesand he's sent to a children's home. At the home he gets recruited to cherub which is a spy agency for children. There he has to start 100 days of basic training which is the worst 100 days of your life.