Band quest

On Friday Henry,Aaron, Matt and I went with the rest of Ace of Spades (our rockband) to the Aurora Centre to perform at bandquest. We arrived at 4.15 for a rehearsal in front of the other bands and got a little bit of mentoring. Then at 7.00 people started arriving for a 7.30 start. The stage looked really cool with the multi- coloured lights and a smoke machine but instead of it making us excited, the nerves kicked in. Finally after several hours it was our turn to perform. Walking onto the stage was really exciting with the crowd cheering. As we got ready Chris (the m.c) introduced us. Then we were ready to play our first song; One day by Opshop. We began and the crowd went wild. The next song we played was Mercy which felt incredible to perform.At the breakdown in the song we got the audience clapping along,it was awesome. As it concluded we walked off the stage. When we got backstage our excitement levels were through the roof!
Alex R

Mega Masterchef!

The goodness comes in thick and fast on wet days!
Great job Henry, Tom, and Desiree!

ISS Presentations Day 3

Yesterday was the final day of ISS ('Inquiring about Space Stuff') presentations.
Below are the highlights from each group…another fantastic array of creative and inspiring research presentations.


Georgia and Isabella - Stars

Emily and Desiree - Meteors etc

Tom, Oliver and Henry - Space suits of the Future

Holly and Erica - Colonizing Space

Happy Birthday Henry!

Henry Holiday Update No 2!

The teacher's carpark in Hong Kong!

Holiday Life

So whilst we slave away in class, some are enjoying the high life of 5 star hotels and diet coke in cans…so it seems anyway. Lucky students are traveling this term break with their families to many places around NZ and beyond.
Stay tuned for more Henry and other holiday snaps.

Masterchef Henry

Henry's choc chip biscuits. Apparently they were better than Subway's!

The Outsiders - Stop Motion Animations

We have been studying The Outsiders - a novel by S. E Hinton.

Heres some scenes created using stop-motion animation.

Masterchef Henry

Straight to the top of the class Henry! Belgian biscuits!

Open Night Report (As it Happens!)

Olivia from Redwood is enjoying the performances. She wants to find out more about art

Caitlin from Redwood is enjoying the hiphop the most and wants to know more about the sport here.

Olivia from Redwood is enjoying learning about the opportunitys here and wants to find out more about the lauguages you can learn here.

 Olivia from Cotswold is enjoying the singing and she wants to learn more about the netball squad.

Thomas from Redwood is enjoying seeing all the people he knows and he wants to learn more about tec.
Abby from Cotswold is enjoying the dancing and wants to learn more about the tecs.

Jordan from Redwood is enjoying the science room the most and wants to learn more about the way the school works.

Yngve from Belfast is enjoying that there are lots of things to do and he wants to find out about the Casebrook rugby team.

Mrs Keen meant 420 students not 120 in her speech.

Ashton from Papunui he is enjoying looking at the classes and wants to learn more about the football squad.

Jessica from cotswold is  enjoying the singing, art, science, dancing.I  want to find out about what you can design in art and what moves you can do in kapahaka and dancing.

Jorja from Redwood is enjoying the baking and wants to find out about the other books.

More Room 5 Masterchef Goodness

A bevy of treats have been prepared for us this week.  Thanks guys! 

Kapa haka perform at Erin Simpson Show

15 students on their way to the recording of the Erin Simpson show. Kapa haka students. We were lucky enough to be asked to perform on the show. We were told to come into this sound proof room so we could calm down and practise. The camera people came and told us to go into the studio. Then we had a practice. Next it was the real go. I was on the shell...'blow blow blow' the song started. "You did a great job!" Erin said.
After, Dylan and Ngakita asked Mike if we could have some of his baking he said yes. It was bread and butter pudding and it was delicious. It was then time to come back To school.
By Henry

Room 5 at Cross Country

Thanks Mrs Page for taking the photos.

Henry's Peppermint Chocolate