Buddy Reading

On most Tuesdays when the year sevens are away for mannual tranning the year sixes go to Room 4 for Buddy reading.Some times we go on the computer with them so they can write there stories and the little children are happy to do this with us.

By Leah

Dare T-shirts

On Friday Room 1 and Room 6 got some awesome T-shirts. We are going to the Hibiscus Coast Leisure Centre on Wednesday the first of July so we have a little uniform to put on when we go on this trip.The police man Mr Watt has been teaching us all about the good things about drugs and the bad things about drugs.He even organised the drug dog vist. Plus he was the one how is donig this trip for us and he gave us The T-shirt.

By Leah

Our Visit From Vince Ford

Tuesday 23rd of May was the exciting day that Vince Ford,the Author of 'Somuch2do' and many more awesome books, came into Tomarata School to talk to the hole school about his job, Being an author. We learnt that you can achieve anything by putting your mind to it and sticking with it the whole way. The first story Vince Ford wrote was when he was seven years old. He wrote about two boys going fishing when the tide was getting higher and higher. Eventualy, they climbed up onto a big cliff, while tying to escape the tide. They kept fishing until they wanted to get down. To get down, they called a helicopter to fetch them off the cliff. It was azmazing to see that a famous, New Zealand author went to a small school, just like Tomarata! You never know, some of the students at Tomarata School, May even turn out to be authors, just like Mr Ford. He told us where the ideas for some of his storys came from. One of them was inspired by him accidently burning down a truck! We loved having the amazing Vince Ford come in to talk to us and wish him the best of luck with his next books.

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Dare Presentation

Rooms 1, 6 and a few of our parents all gathered in room 6 ready for the 2009 Dare presentation. We had learnt a lot with Mr Watt and were ready to share it. We prepared a few plays, a couple of songs and even a HUGE cigarette which showed us exactly the poisons that were inside one tiny cigarette. After room 6 had their chance to share their own ideas, it was time for room 1. As soon as the presentation had finished, Mr Watt and Mrs Salt handed out the certificates for the people who completed the Dare Programme in room 1. A few minutes passed and soon all the certificates for room 1 were handed out. Then Mr McNaughton came up to the front and handed out all the certificates for room 6. Soon after, we all had a certificate to show our parents. Mr Watt explained to us what was going to happen with the T-Shirts he kindly donated to us and then told us of a trip we were going to go on at the end of the term! We are all very excited. I'm sure it will be a great trip just like the rest of the Dare programme.

Hannah

School speeches

The seniors in our school have been writing speeches in the last 2 weeks. Our topics were "I.C.T friend our foe", "A Day to remember" or we could choose our own topic. The finalists from each class were chosen and they presented their speeches to the senior syndicate. The finalists from Room 1 for the Year 5/6's were Olivia, Sam and Denim. The finalists for Yr 7/8 were Kristian, Trent, Aimee and Hannah. Sam, Aimee and Kristian will represent our school next week at Wellsford. They will compete against the other schools in our cluster.

More rocket making

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Designing and making rockets

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Visiting Speakers

We were fortunate to host two Rodney College leaders today who spoke to us about their roles as Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl. They gave us some very good advice about making the most of the opportunities given to us. They gave clear examples of how our attitudes towards school and other people make a difference to how we are perceived by others. They also stressed the importance of making good choices about our friendships. Thank you Darren and Megan and thank you Mr Watt for organising the visit.

Fun at Stardome

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DARE Programme: View our You Tube postings

We have been creating raps and chants that give an important message. It is hard to stop smoking because cigarettes are very addictive. So don't start!
Check out our messages on You Tube. We want to get 1000 hits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb-r19r3zB4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE6vNwgqGHQ