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Rotorua Intermediate School
83 – 95 Malfroy Road
ROTORUA
Telephone: 07 348 9888
Fascimile: 07 348 8421
Email: [email protected]
Kia Ora
Garry de Thierry
and Staff
Rotorua Intermediate School
Our Mission Statement: Courage & Commitment Kia Kaha, Kia Maia
Newsletter
School Values: Respect for self
Respect for others
Responsibility for all your actions
UP AND COMING EVENTS Thursday 10 September Glenholme Orientation Day.
Monday 14 September RGHS—Follow up enrolments. 9am-3pm.
Tuesday 15 September FOTS Meeting. 7pm.
WHHS Enrolment day. 9.30-3pm.
Taeotu Market Day. 1.30-4.30pm.
B.Y.O.C Parent Information Evening
for contributing schools. 4pm.Tuesday,Wednesday 6pm.
Year 6 Orientation Days—Tuesday,Wednesday.
16 September Tunohopu Gala. Thursday 17:Te Roro Market night. 3pm-7.30pm.
Monday 21 September Year 6 Entrance Testing All week.
9 September 2015
Science Roadshow—By Shaniqua Ngamotu
About 2 weeks ago the school held the Science
Roadshow and some students from Pukaki 2 got
the opportunity to step up to be leaders.
The beginning of the Science Roadshow
experience for all the groups was a show about
how to look after the equipment in the show and
some demonstrations about how the experiments worked. I had to make sure
that all our leaders were at their own experiments and make sure that they
knew how to explain the experiments.
The students from all the different schools were having a once in a lifetime
experience of what the Science Roadshow had to offer. They moved around all
the exhibits and checked out how the
experiments worked. We could see that they were
having a lot of fun while staying safe and learning
lots of science as they were using the equipment.
There were different kind of exhibits such as:
- The Air Cannon-Tipping Point-No Air Friction
-Cloud Formation-Rotating Chair-Balloon Bernoulli
-The Bed Of Nails-Post Driver-Magdeburg.
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Real life math……. In class we have been focusing on how to work out a percentage of a whole number in relation
to discounts and sales during shopping. We are looking at financial capability this term and what skills and
understandings we will need to manage our money in the future. Understanding about shopping around and mak-
ing the choice about whether a sale or discount price is worth it has been a huge learning curve for us. We have also
been looking at the process of making good money decisions when we are out in our community shopping - how
can we, while in a store, estimate the savings we are going to make based on applying some basic math concepts
and knowledge. We walked into Rebel Sport in town with a budget of $500 to spend on 3 family members in an
early Christmas sale. We had a list of the discount % off items within the store and from there we had to make deci-
sions on what we would purchase to keep within budget. We found the items, checked their full cost price, found
their discount %, rounded the price to the nearest whole number and worked out our discount savings and
amount to be paid from there. It was such a fun task to do and it was super cool to apply the math we had learnt in
class to a real life concept - this is the reason we learn math so we can use it in our lives to better our futures.
We tackled the
Junior Tough Guy and Gal
Mud Challenge
again this year in support of
an amazing cause “Cure
Kids”.
We love giving back to the
community and knowing we
are part of such a fantastic
fundraising initiative—plus
getting dirty and extremely
muddy with our class mates
is always loads of fun!
We can’t wait to be a part of
it again next year at high
school.
Te Roro o te Rangi Market Day: In our whanau groups we
have designed, researched and budgeted a product to make and
sell on our whanau market day. We pitched our ideas to the
‘dragons den team’ and received our groups money for expens-
es...Then it was off to the shops to buy all our materials we had
budgeted for in our business plan. We are now making our
products ready for our market day, Thursday week 9.
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Dragons Den Our focus for this term is Financial Capability. On whanau
days we have been planning and designing our own
businesses in small groups . We had to create a business
plan and a statement of financial performance. We pre-
sented our business plans in front of the Dragons Den and
waited anxiously to see if they accepted our proposal. There
are so many cool business ideas. We are busy making our
products to sell at our Whanau Market Day in Week 9. Here
is an example of a ‘Behind the Pages’ product. They are cre-
ating secret phone cases out of old books.
Maths Slide Each year we have a maths slide competition at school. This year
we had 6 representatives from our whanau. (Haeun, Helena, Des-
tiny, Carlos, Jasmine and Tyla). Congratulations to Haeun who is in
the top 4 for year 7s. Haeun will spend the day at Rotorua Cano-
py Tours with the other winners. What an awesome prize. We hope
you all enjoy your day out.
Ryoji’s time in Te Roro-o-te-Rangi 2
During week 6 Te Roro O Te Rangi 2 were privileged to have Ryoji in
our classroom. Ryoji is a teacher from Japan that has come to New Zea-
land to visit our school. While he was in our classroom he showed us an
awesome presentation about life in Japan.
Things are very different at school in Japan. One thing that surprised us
was that they have special inside shoes. They must take their outside
shoes off and put their inside shoes on when they enter their
classrooms. Ryoji taught us how to use chopsticks, how to make
origami sumo wrestlers and play a Japanese game.
Pathways A huge congratulations to Jade
McCormack-Bevin who received an award
at our Specialist Prize giving on Thursday.
Jade's hard work and expertise has been rec-
ognized in Adolescent Health.
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This term, the focus in class has been financial capability. Students have looked at
everything from creating simple cashbooks to setting up their own flats and looking at the
costs associated with this.
The hope is to make them more aware of having financial responsibility.
That there is a ‘cost of living’ and to consider what are the best choices to
make. It was an interesting exercise initially as many students had no idea of
the actual cost of anything.
For example: A plate of fish and chips with 2 fish costing $1.50—’show me
to this fish and chip shop!!!’
What is deemed as essential first flat items included rice cookers, a
trampoline, and ‘Net Fix’. (I had to ask what this was. I had no idea)
The highlight for me this term, was sitting on the
panel for ‘Dragons Den’. The business groups had
to present their business proposals to this panel in
order to secure loans to start producing their goods.
A really interesting and fun experience.
They have played financial games relishing in the
fact that for that round they weren't made
bankrupt and also, as a Whanau team, formed
business groups to make and sell products for the
Te Roro Market Day on the 17th September,
Week 9.
For one homework exercise, they
had to plan, price and cook a meal
for their family.
From here they have been working
on grocery lists for their flats for a
week, including meal
planning.
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Our new class pet;
George the lamb George was abandoned by his mum at
2 hours old, in a paddock on Whaea
Sheree’s farm. He was put inside by
the fire and fed a bottle of lambs milk.
The next day we arrived at school and
could hear this bleating!! What is that
noise?? And what is that smell?? Oh
wow! It’s a lamb! He stayed in our
classroom for a week. We fed him
every 3 hours and toileted him too. We
learnt so much about caring for anoth-
er being, empathy, patience, kindness
and consideration.
We loved him to pieces! He has now
joined the ‘real’ sheep and is back on
Whaea Sheree’s farm.
Te Roro o te Rangi 4 visit Rainbow Springs What a great way to end an inquiry about the NZ Kiwi.
We fundraised and worked together to ensure we could continue our learning.
We were very privileged to go behind the scenes and see a 12 hour old kiwi chick.
We thought they should call him Te Roro o te Rangi.
The highlight of the day was the ‘Big Splash”.
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ROTORUA TENNIS CLUB OPEN DAY
Saturday 19 September From 1pm. Open day and registra-
tion for juniors and seniors.
Wednesday 14 October. Club coaching starts.
For times and more information contact
Debra [email protected] or 021 335492
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ROTORUA SOCCER ACADEMY /HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
To be held at Malfroy Primary School.
Monday 28th, Tuesday 29th September 2015.
On 9—3 each day. Wet or fine.
Learn to play football or just improve your
skills and have a great time.
$50 for both days—limited places available.
Phone Ian 3628311/0211081841
Or E-mail [email protected]
