For many weeks, Year 8 students have been reaching and planning our seminars for 2009. The topic for this year was careers. I deiced that hairdressing was the career for me, so I did my seminar on this topic. I presented my seminar on PowerPoint.
This rubric shows my marks that I was given for my seminar.

Surf To School

Mandy at Matt came to Pukekohe Intermediate on 24th of November to teach our school about how we can be safe in the water this summer. They taught us heaps of valuable information such as how to spot a rip, how to be sun smart and some beach rules. Some of the beach rules are:

1. Swim between the flags
2. Have an adult watch over you
3. Be sun smart
4. Listen to advice from life guards
5. Learn to recongise rips
6. If in dout stay out.
7. Use the correct and safe equipment
8. Look after beach animals and take rubbish home
9. Never swim alone
10. Never swim when tired or cold

I learnt alot from Mandy and Matt. This information was very useful and i will never forget it.

Stepz Dancing

Every Friday since the start of term 4, Room 23 and all of the Year 8 classes have been participating in Stepz dancing. The reason that we are taking part in Stepz, is that on Tuesday the 9th of December there will be a Year 8 leavers social. This social is invitation only and the set theme is Glitz and Glam. We will be performing 9 different dances that we have learnt.

Careers Day

With the year 8's going to High School next year, Room 3 from Pukekohe Intermediate organised a Year 8 Careers Day. Each student attended 3 sessions from the workers that came into our school on the 19th of November. The workers gave speeches on how their job works, what their day involves and how to get into their industry.
In my day, I visited a detective, a scientist and Mia form My FM. I learnt alot from all of these speakers.

Island Style Mufti

After the Tsunami in Samoa,Pukekohe Intermediate and many other schools held an Island Style Mufti. Every student made a gold coin donation to the Relief Fund for the Families who have lost family and homes. The students wore Island Style clothes or accessories to school on Friday 20th November. Most of the pupils from Pukekohe Intermediate took part of this mufti. Overall the day was a huge success.

Typing Test

Most afternoons, our class uses a typing program called Sense Lang. This program helps us improve our touch typing speed. The first picture is my high score touch typing. The second picture is my high score not touch typing. I am trying hard to improve these scores.

Grease Production

From the start of this year, teachers and students were working hard on the Grease Production. Making this happen took alot of work. There were many groups. Such as: cast, hair and makeup, costumes, scenery, publicity, dance, A.V, Lighting, props, minor props and backstage. I was in the scenery group with Mrs.Pearson. When the performances got under way Tegan and I were asked to video all four shows and to make the movie that will be sold on DVD. The Grease show was fantastic and was a very big hit.

Competitive Athletics

From the start of Term 4, all students have been training for Competitive Athletics. On Tuesday 17th November, all of the competitive students walked to Growers Stadium. The day started with the track events. I entered in Senior girls Discus and Senior girls Shot Put. I tried my hardest in both events but did not get a placing.
Overall the day was awesome. With many records getting broken.The athletes that were placed high enough will be going off to Zone Athletics on Wednesday 25th November. Good luck o all these students.

NZCT AIMS Games

Sunday 6th September finally came and 80 Pukekohe Intermediate Students hit the road for Tauranga. We gathered at the school car park, loaded up the vans then headed off to compete in the NZCT AIMS National Sporting Championship.

We arrived in the Mount at about 3.30pm, where we then drove to our camp ground and had a team meeting. We were told our cabin numbers, then we went over rules and safety. After a snack, unpacking our gear and a quick play on the playground, we jumped into our vans and headed to Queen Elizabeth The Second Event Centre in Tauranga for the opening ceremony. We sat through an hours worth of entertainment before the AIMS Games were officially opened.

The next morning we were woken at 6.30. We prepared for the day ahead, then we travelled to Harbourside Netball Centre. We were extremely early so we got a spot in the pavillion, then walked to Blake Park to watch the soccer girls. After their win, we went back to the courts and started our warm up. Our first game was a loss to Whakatane, the score was 24-30. We had some lunch then we had our second game, one of our hardest.

We lost 36-19 to Northcross. After a long day we drove home back to the campgound, showered, ate then we were off to the RSA for Dinner.
Monday wasn't a good start for us Netball Girls, but we went to bed early for a good sleep for the next day.

We psyched ourselves up listening to our team song as we drove to the courts.We warmed up the jumped on court for our first game of the day. We came out with a win, 25-24 against Taupo, who in the end took out the competition for Netball. Our second game was a loss to Peachgrove 30-17. After our third devastating loss, we went out fighting against Tahatai Coast and won 40-21.

We went to the movies that afternoon and watched The Proposal. We had dinner at the RSA then bedtime. After being placed in the Bottom 16, we wanted to prove ourselves. That day we had two more wins against John Paul College 33-6, and Hastings 42-21. In the late afternoon we drove to the beach, half of the team walked up the Mount and the other half stayed on the beach. We arrived 15 minutes late to dinner, and rushed our food down.

The next day we lost against Katikati 27-23, then won against Bethleham College 33-25. Winning our last game placed us in the C Grade Final on Friday. We came up against Havelock North and won 34-27. At 1pm we travelled to the closing ceremony. We sat through the presentations, and when hat was finished we drove straight home.

I had such an awesome time at the AIMS Games and it was an experience that i will never forget.

Google For Doodle

During term 3, Room 23 have been designing Google doodles, representing New Zealand.
Google was holding a competition for kids in New Zealand to design a Google Doodle.

Each student was given a blank Google design sheet and was expected to come up with creative ideas to include on their Google Doodle. This was a success. Many pupils had great ideas and all of the designs look awesome !

As a class we voted for a Google Doodle that stood out the most for us, and could be in the process to be one of the 8 Google doodles chosen from our class to send to Google.

100 finalists will be chosen from all over New Zealand, 20 from each age group and the prize will be a Google Certificate. 20 winners will be chosen out of all the age groups. The prizes: A copy of the Google design for their school, an invitation to the ceremony for the National winners; their Google Doodle displayed on the Google website for the public to vote, and a Doodle 4 Google goody bag. The national age group winner will be chosen by the public's vote, and there will be one design chosen from each age group. Prizes: Interactive white board for their school, and laptop for the winner.

Dennis Hwang, Google's Webmaster, will pick the National overall winner, out of the four chosen age group winners. This winner will receive $10,000 worth of technology equipment for their school, and their design will be on the Google homepage for 24 hours.

Website Design

During term three, each student in Room 23 created a music website to promote themselves as a recording artist. This task was part of our Music Authentic challenge. To start of with, we had to come up with a creative artists name. I came up with Shantazia. We had two options of websites to use to design our website on. They were webs.com and weebly.com. I choose webs as it had more options and better layouts.

On the website we had to have the following:
1. an image gallery
2. Playlist of your songs
3. Lyrics of one of your songs
4. Poster advertising an up comeing C.D release
5. Blog
6. Biography

I have successfully completed and published my website. This was a very challenging task, and i had alot of fun completing it. This is my website link if you want to have a look. shantazias.webs.com

Achievements

Above is table, with my Achievements to date in 2009 as a Year 8

On the 14th of August 2009 room 23 students completed the Birmingham Grid for Learning Multiple Intelligences test. This test is to see what "Smart" you are. My strongest smarts are interpersonal and interpersonal and my weakest smarts are naturalistic and musical. These intelligences will change overtime.

Zone Netball

As the girls jumped onto the court you could tell that they were determined to win.
Four netball teams from Pukekohe Intermediate School two year seven and two year eight, traveled to the Manurewa netball courts to play in a whole day tournament. Each team played around 5-7, 16 minute games. I was in the year 8 A netball team. we won 5 games and lost 2, overall giving us a placing of 3rd. This was disappointing for all of our team as that meant we did not not make it into Inter-zone. But we all knew that we went out and gave it our all.

Winter Sports Evaluation

This is winter sports evaluation sheet. It shows all of sports that we had played during term 2 and the process that we made.

I.C.T Skills

These are I.C.T Rubrics of my computer skills. They show what i have learnt in the digital classroom, and what i still need to improve on.

Science Road show

During P 5&6, Monday 20th of July, classes 23,28,and 33 went to the Fonterra Science Roadshow, that is being held in our school hall. There were three men who taught us about: Planet Earth - matter, energy an life. Also about sound out Waves - The science of sound. after they talked to us about these topics, they had many different activities that every one could look at and have a play with. Some of the activities were: Spinning chair, estimating age and much more. On some of the activities there were different questions that were asking you for an answer. At the end of the show the three men asked some questions and if you got it right you won a prize! The Fonterra Science Road show was a very enjoyable and a awesome learning experience.

Mathlectics

Evey student in Room 23, has a Mathletics account. Mathletics is a maths website. Mathletics helps to improve our maths. It has different categories, for maths subjects and allows us to compete, on Live Mathletics against our classmates. It is a great resource, for all aged children as the levels vary for 1 - 5 depending, on your year level, at school.

Contributions and Achievements

Merit Mentions x4 ( Two from Mrs. Pearson and Two from Mr. Sibbley)

Term 1

School Swimming
Swimming Carnival
School Photographer
Year 8 Camp

Term 2

2009 World Vision Famine
Coca Cola netball
Chocolate Fundraiser
Zone A Netball Team
Aims Netball Team
Maui's Dolphins Keynote Presentation

Hard Materials

Every Day 5 during P3 and 4, half of room 23 go to hard materials, with Mr Sibbley. He has taught us all of the safety rules and much more. So far into the term we have made a wooden animal or something that has wheels, a wooden Box, a Plastic Keyring and are currently making a childs toy.

We are enjoying hard Materials and are very lucky to have this experience.