Black Out Day

For our last day of term, Room 1 thought we'd follow many others and have our own Black Out Day to support the mighty All Blacks.

We all came dressed in black, and had a fun time learning and practising different rugby skills - some of us did so well I think Graham Henry will be ringing them shortly as injury cover!!

It seemed to work as the All Blacks managed to defeat Argentina, so to give them even more encouragement for the semifinals here are the photos from our day.

GO THE ALL BLACKS AND BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR GAME THIS SUNDAY!!!

Current Events

Today for current events we were focusing on forming and justifying our own opinions.

We discussed the fact the Hawera has decided to unofficially 'adopt' the American Rugby team during their stay for the Rugby World Cup.

The question was then asked: Should Hawera 'adopt' the American Rugby team.

This created a neat discussion amongst the students with the overall opinions split roughly 50/50. Check out what we have to say below.

What are your thoughts? Post a comment and let us know!!

Homework Task

Your homework task this week Room 1 is to create a poster about your chosen New Zealand province.
Here are the provinces again to help you:

Here are the key facts you wanted to find out:
- What are they proud of?
- Special landmarks?
- Why do people live there?
- What are they famous for?
- What famous people have come from there?
- Tourist Attractions
- Land Features
- What makes them different?

After Nathans question about provincial colours I have also added this picture to help as well.

I look forward to seeing these posters in a weeks time : )

Mr Baylis

Winter Tournament

I would like to say a big well done to everyone involved in the winter tournament.

As I am a little biased : ) I would also like to say congratulations to the Rugby Team for winning their tournament.