Three Room 2 students have been lucky enough to have hosted a Japanese student in their home for the past two weeks. The students have been learning english in the mornings and exploring the Bay of Plenty in the afternoons. However, they did find some time to come into our classrooms to make pois and teach us origami.

Finally the night arrived for us to perform! Slap dancing by the boys, drumming by Ryan and Matty and beautiful dancing by the lovely girls of Room 2.We were to depict the three Pacific Island nations coming to the Rugby World Cup later in the year. Our stunning giant puppets operated by the boys proved to be a huge hit.
Well done everyone!

Despite atrocious conditions we battled on through the mud, gorse and rain to compete in the annual Small Schools Cross Country at Whakamarama School. Room 2 pupils had been training hard on the Jess Road block for the last month so were looking forward to the day.
Everybody did really well, particularly Lys, Georgia, Hannah, Alec, Nic, Max and Freddie.
Well done!

On Thursday Room 2 Year 7 pupils took on the Year 7/8 class at dodge ball. After a lot of fierce throwing and dodging Room 2 were clearly the winners.
Well done everyone!

Our students have just completed another successful four weeks at technology. The theme this term was “This to That” Pupils made pillows, door stops, quilts and pencil cases in soft technology. In food technology they made a range of “brain food” such as pasta and jams. In hard technology the pupils made some thing that held things such as shelves and rubbish bins.