Port Albert Soccer

Early on Saturday morning the Wellsford Tornadoes began their weekly game of soccer on the fields of the Port Albert soccer club. There adversaries, the Matakana Ratbags who had won many of their past games, were very strong foes. But today they would meet their match. The first half was promising for the Ratbags keeping the ball close to the adversaries goal. Until James Shadick, the Tornadoes valiant striker streaked up the field with the ball at his feet scoring two goals in a matter of minutes. After a small 5 minute break the two teams continued the game. The second half was much more intense than the first, the Ratbags picking up their game, struggling to get the ball in the goal. The Tornadoes defence was also struggling to keep the ball away from their goal. Their attackers were also slowly pushing the ball closer and closer to the goal, giving James Shadick another chance to put the ball in the goal and that is exactly what he did. In the end the Tornadoes would gust into victory with a 3-0 win over the Ratbags.

Soccer

Early on Saturday morning at Port Albert soccer club it is all on playing soccer for the Wellsford Tornadoes. As the game started James Shadick scored the opening goal against the Matakana ratbags. The ref blew half time. We ran to our coach to listen to what he said. He said, "Defense start kicking it up." Then James Shadick scored another goal and another. Again we won 3. We have three James's in our team.
By Max and James

Sneeze Assembly!

On Thursday some people from kleenex, sneeze safe came in to our school and had an assembly because we won a kleenex competition. They showed us four tips on how to be sneeze safe. Then half way through a GIANT GERM named Achoo came and attacked us but we got rid of him. He looked quite funny though!. We really enjoyed it it was very funny!!!
By Rafe and Joseph:)!!!

Room one's cake stall

This week the junior classes brought in TONS of food to sell for a small donation of 50 cents a piece. The dazzling amount of food consisted of cup cakes, toffee, biscuits, lolly kebabs, cake, sherbet, ginger slices and all sorts of candys to satisfy every child's needs and wants. All in all the class took two days to sell nearly all of their products. But there were still some biscuits and a few pieces of toffee left that did not go to waste and was immediatly sent to the staff for them to eat.

Manual at Rodney College

Every Tuesday Year 7 & 8 travel to Rodney College to do activities and learn important skills about certain topics. The topics we have are woodwork, engineering, textiles, food, horticulture and graphics. Year 7's have been working with Mrs.Parker at horticulture and have been learning about plants, tools for the garden and the food pyramid. They have also completed The Life Cycle Of A Plant. In Engineering, which is year 7's second activity, we have been creating wooden trucks with LED headlights that light up when you press a button at the back. First we had to measure the correct size of the wood, Then we sanded them to make them clean and sharp. Next we drilled holes in the bottom of our wood for the four wheels. After that we had to make the holes for our headlights to go into our cab by using the drill again. Then we glued the pieces of wood together, which took some time because you had to get them exactly right. I got mine wrong the first time so I had to pull it apart and do it again! The experience was fun and we will continue to do it next term.

The new teacher

Today room5 has a new teacher called Miss Hancox and she is going to be here for 5 weeks because she is learning how to be a teacher.
Miss Hancox can play the saxophone and the drums and the school she went to was university of Auckland and Massey university.
Miss Hancox enjoys being with children.

Our Student Teacher.

Today is the first day at school for Miss Hancox a student teacher from Massey University.
She will be with Rm:5 for 5 weeks to help us and to teach us. She is also here to learn how to be a teacher. Her interest is Music, she can play the Saxophone and the drums. She enjoys being here with children.

You have to be in to win!

Today an Ashton Scholastics representative delivered a box of books for our class as a result of a competition we entered last month. Max's entry into the competition won him a $20 book voucher, his teacher a $50 book voucher and books for each student in the class. We had a great time looking at all the books and making our choices. There will even be some for the library. Well done Max. It just shows that it is worth entering these competitions.

New Classroom Signs

Mrs Lomas has finished the signs she worked on last term. They are now fixed to the classrooms. Our class chose images that represented the learning that happens in our programme. We have five subjects that we enjoy. All the signs look great.