Gingerbread house

Waiwera

On Tuesday the 9th of December the year 6,7 and 8,s went to Waiwera hot pools.
There are 8 slides- the kids chute,short and sharp,bobs mistake,squeeze,gutbuster,
black hole,double slide and the twister. My favourite was the black hole.
by Louis

Wonderful Waiwera

Yesterday 9/12/08 Room 1 and 6 went to Waiwera hot pools for a end of the year trip. We went on slides like Short and Sharp, Bob's mistake, Gutbuster, Blackhole, Speed Slide and The Twister. We all enjoyed swimming in the big pools. We had an awesome day and thanks to all the parents that helped.

Waiwera

On Thursday the 9th of December room1 and room6 went to Waiwera hot pools. Every one really enjoyed it. There were 9 awesome pools to play in. There were heaps of slides to play on. I didn't bang my head once. It was a really fun day.

By Rory McKay

Waiwera

Year 6,7 and 8 had a great time at waiwera hot-pools. there were 7 slides:
The kids chute
Short'n'sharp
Bob's mistake
The gut buster
The black hole
The twister

Also, all the pools were heated there were 9 pools

by Jode

wiwera

On Tuesday 9th of December Rooms 1 and 6 from Tomarata School had a trip to Waiwera hot pools. The pools were all heated except for the children's pool. We departed from school at 9.00am and left the hot pools at 1.40. Waiwera is 5 mins from Orewa. Many other schools came to Waiwera as well. The slides were a big hit for people that were interested. There's a moive pool, an adults pool,a lava pool(45 degres)and other pools that people can enjoy.

Cricket

On Monday the 8th of December Daniel,Trent,Jamie,Rhys,Joanna,Aimee,Briar, Sarah and I
went to Warkworth to play in a cricket tournament. We won our first game by 34 runs.
We won are second game by 6 runs and we lost the third by 2 runs but we still made the final because other teams also lost a game. In the final we lost by 13 runs so we came second.
By Louis

Trip to Waiwera

On Tuesday, 9th December we went to waiwera. It was fun. There were lots of pools like:

1. The Selby pool


2. The Seal pool


3. The movie pool


4. The opal pool ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'The selby pool and the seal pool


5. The Sapphire pool


6. The lava pool


7. and the kids pool

My favorite pool was probably the selby pool because it was big and only warm, it wasn't cold or hot it was just warm. It also had a Shallow side and a deep side but the only bad thing was all these older people that kept pushing each other into the pool. One of them mistook me and pushed me in too.

Then there was the seal pool. The seal pool was just a smaller version of the selby pool but it didn't have a shallow side or a deep side. It was sort of half way. It was about 3 or 4 ○C warmer. It was next to the selby pool.

The movie pool was about 6○C warmer then the seal pool and about 10○C hotter then the 27○C selby pool. It was called the movie pool because there was a HUGE Tv in there. It had Mini waterfalls coming off into a pool above it that had another 2 waterfalls going down into the movie pool.

I dont know much about the opal pool because kids wern't alowed in it. But the sapphire pool was about 40 -45○C! It was undercover as was the movie pool. I didn't go in it much though. And then there was the Lava pool. I probably spent more time in the opal pool then in the lava pool because it was a hot 50○C! (I did go in the opal pool for a while and then I realised it was Adults only. I don't see why, it wasn't that hot.)

The Kids pool was shallow and cold. Like it was Actually cold. It wasn't warmed up or anything. It had a frog waterslide and 2 fountain things that squirted out cold water.

Overall I enjoyed it and would like to go again sometime.

Sean

Cricket Day

On Wednesday the Year 4 to Year 8 students went to Centennial Park to play cricket. Tomarata had nine teams. The other schools that were there were Pakiri, Tauhoa, Mangawhai, Tapora and Living Way. It was really fun but the bad thing was that it was really hot.

William

Cricket day

Yesterday we had a cricket day. Our school had 9 teams. It was held at Centennial park in Wellsford. There were 4 games. They were 1 hour each. Cricket was fun. My team, Tomarata 3 won 3 of 4 games. Charles's team Tomarata 4 won none of its games unfortunately. The day was successful and really, really hot.

Sean and charles

Cricket

On Wednesday the 3rd of December Rooms 1,2 and 6 and some of the year 4 people from room 3 all went to a cricket day at Centennial Park. There were 9 Tomarata teams. Each team played 4 games against teams from Living Way, Tapora, Tauhoa and Mangawhai.The games were set up on the athletic grounds and the rugby club field. There was about 13 games happening at the same time. The day was enjoyable and i hope they have another cricket sports day next year. Some of the down sides of the day was that it was too hot. Hopefully next year it will be much cooler.
By Bree-Anna

Cricket

On the 3 of December 2008 we went to to cricket at Centennial Park. There were all kinds of schools there including Living Way, Mangawhai, Tapora and Pakiri. We won 3 of the 4 games we played. I thought we did ok. We had a lot of fun as well. But it was too hot.

Golf

On thursday we had golf it was practice we got to hit as far as we wanted to. We hit differant kind of golf balls. We had a contest of who could hit biggiest. we had a game it was called win a millione dollars you had to chip the ball into the hoop and you win a millione dollars.

Golf

On Thursday 27 novenber we went out to the fild to have a golf lesson. In that golf lesson we lernt
how to stand in frunt of a tee. Grip and swing a golf club.we had 5 balls to hit 2 tennes balls 2 golf balls and 1 big rubber ball.It was eser to hit golf balls then the big rubber ball.
by Louis.

Golf At Tomarata School

On Thursday 27 2008 Pam came to our school to teach us how to play golf. It was so much fun. When we had a game to see who could hit it the furthest I did out of all the girls in my glass and Sian got second. I hope next year Pam can come back.

By Morgan

golf

On Thursday 27 November we had golf on our field. Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 6 participated in this event. It was a great day learning how to play golf. Our furthurest hit was close to the trees. At first we didnt have a clue on how to use the golf club. Pam was a very good teacher and we learnt alot from her. We hope that Pam will come back next year and that we can do better. We learnt how to hit far distance and short distance.
All together it was a great day and we loved it...

By Briar and Joanna!

Golf

On Thursday 27th of 2008 the whole school got some new skills in golf. Pam was teaching the new skills. Some people got the balls past the goal post. The balls that we had were
big and small. There were only two golf balls per person and they are really soft and easy to hit. Most people had a lot of fun. I also had a lot of fun too.
By Daniel

Golf

On Thursday we went to golf. It was lots of fun, I thought it was hard. It would be a cool activity to do on the weekend. A lady called pam came and helped out. We learned lots of new skills, for me it was hitting a golf ball and having it actually get airbourne. We didn't actually have golf balls we each hade 2 tennis balls, 2 balls that looked like golf balls but were squishy and one big version of the squishy golf balls. There was one big ball that was green, all the rest were red, yellow and pink. I got the green ball at one point but then Rory stole it off me just because he knew i'd put effort into getting it. Anyway thankyou Pam for coming to our school and teaching us golf

Sean

Active Learning Classes

Every Thursday morning, Mrs Williams holds an Active Learning Class. This term we were learning how to write really good stories, both fictional and factual. She helped us put more adjectives and good language features into our stories. She also taught us about repeating, and what repeating is good and when it starts to make the story boring and confusing. We all learnt lots about story writing and we wish to contribute these skills into our stories. Thankyou to Mrs Williams for a very enjoyable learning term.

By Aimee

Tomarata School Golf

On Thursday at school Pam from North Harbour Sports taught us how to play golf. We used a big soft golf ball, two tennis balls and two soft golf balls. We played games like you had to hit the golf balls into a hoop. Another used cones. You got 1 point if you hit it past the first cone, 2 past the next
and if you hit past the last cone you got 3 points. Mr McNaughten hit the tennis ball over the trees at the back of the field.

By Finn and Rhys

Golf

On Thursday Pam from harbour golf came in to give us a golf lesson. We all learnt alot of golf skills. It was lots of fun. Most people thought it was going to be hard but it turned out really easy. You had to hit 5 balls. 1 was big and squishy. 2 were tennis balls and 2 were golf balls.
By William & Rory

Great Golf

Terrific Thursday was the day we had golf. We had an excellent time learning a great golf swing. Our instructor Pam had travelled to many places like Singapore, America and Australia. We had a whole lot of games seeing who could hit the furtherest distance out of the boys and girls. Golf was fun and everyone enjoyed it.