Typing Test

Every week, as part of the Digital Classroom Learning Program, students take the Sense Lang Typing Test to see how many words per minute they can type. After lunch we complete typing tutorials to increase our speed and accuracy.
This is the result for my highest ranking Words Per Minute test.

Highest WPM= 74

Island Style Mufti 2009

After the tragic Tsunami in Samoa, Schools in the Franklin District and broader, participated in the Island Style Mufti. Every student made a donation to the Relief Fund for the Families who have lost lives, loved ones 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, and many took it upon themselves to dress up authentically. The day was a huge success, and photo's from the local newspaper prove that, with pictures of students in their outfits were taken at every school.

Grease Production

Since the beginning of term 2, students and teachers have been hard at work preparing for the Major Production of Grease. Auditions were done, and rehearsals were almost everyday. Major Production groups, such as Hair and Make-up, Props etc, met every Thursday and made sure our production was a winner for the crowd! Come stage night, everyone was roaring to go and excited about the performance ahead. There were two teams, Team Lightning and Team T-Birds, who both performed one matinee and one night performance each.
I was in the Hair and Make-Up Group with Miss Austin, but did Hair while the others did Make-Up. I worked on main characters like Sandy, Patty, Rizzo and Marty, plus all the company and dancers.
All the performances were definitely crowd pleasers, and the cast had a ball.
Being even a small part of this amazing experience was a great opportunity and we had heaps of fun. I certainly cant wait for another Production!

Competive Athletics 2009

Since the beginning of Term 4, all classes have been training hard for the Competive Athletics Day at Growers Stadium. Weither it be at team sport, or Year group atletics training, everyone joined in with the training leading up to the event. On Tuesday 17th Novemeber, all competitive athletes walked to the Stadium. The weather was not good, and the rain started to spit. But it soon cleared up for the events. The day got under way with the start of track events, 1500m. The field events were running hrough the whole day in the middle of the track. There were some extraoridinary efforts, and well earned placings and records. Grace Gill was the star of the day, betting the Auckland Champion to Champion High Jump record by 10cm.
Good luck to all athletes at this weeks Zone Athletics Day in Papakura.

Maui's Dolphin Mural Completion!

After plenty of hard work and organisation our Mural is finally finished! Room 23 put the finishing touches to the mural by painting their names into the waves Vanessa had done. The completion took a while due to hold backs with the weather and receiving the sponsorship. It looks amazing and is an asset to the school and our community. We hope it gives awareness to the public so the can also help in the campaign to prevent the Mauis Dolphin Decline.

NZCT AIMS GAMES 2009

NZCT AIMS Games National Sporting Championship

After hard weeks of training and fundraising, Sunday 6Th September finally came and 80 Pukekohe Intermediate School 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.
The students 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.
Back in the van we went and after 5 times around the round-a-bout, and getting lost, we arrived back at Golden Grove. We ate our dinner the parent helpers had prepared for us, then it was off to get ready for bed. 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 pavilion, 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, our score being 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 campground, 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 were told we didn't have to wake up at 6.30 but we were woken by Olivia knocking on our door at 6.10am.
There was no point going back to sleep, so we got up and got ready. We psyched ourselves up listening to our team song as we drove to the courts.We warmed up then 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. Another early wake up. 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 medal prize giving. Pukekohe Intermediate did extremely well. Boys Hockey are the NZCT AIMS Games Back to Back Hockey Champions Again. Trent Smith received gold in Boys Single Tennis, First in Boys Doubles with Jordan Syme and First Mixed Doubles with Kelly Drew. Kelly Drew got first in Girls Singles. Olivia Gillot received Gold and Silver, Byron Pointon Bronze and Sian De Arth Bronze, all in Gymsports. A big congratulations to all teams who participated! It was an amazing experience, and I'm sure the memories wont be forgotten any time soon.

Music Websites

As part of the Music Inquiry Unit in Term 3, Room 23 created and designed websites for our Authentic Challenge. We were given two website builder options, and had to trial each out and decide which one to use. The websites were based on a music artist we had created ourselves and their life as a musician or artist. We had to include: Biography, Track list, Discography, Back Track, Filmography, Lyrics to a song we had written, Photo Gallery, Blog, CD Release poster and concert dates. We were given just over a week to build the sites to a high standard. On our deadline we published the finished product, then as a class voted for the websites we thought deserved a place in the Netguide Schools Multimedia TVNZ 6 Challenge. Two thirds of our classes websites were sent through to the competition, and are now in the running to win a laptop. Heres a link to my site of Music Artist Dee Cee: http://www.danelle-a-cox.webs.com/