I am a student at Tawa Intermediate School, Wellington, NZ. I am in Room 13 and a member of the amazing Pouakai Syndicate. My teacher is Ms Tito.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Farewell 2012 - Room 13 and Tawa Intermediate...

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Photobucket Overall, this year has been very unexpected, fun and exiting.  I never imagined that I would miss my year seven friends.  I have grown so close to all the kids in my class this year and I know it is going to take some getting use to not having each and every one of them around.


I have totally enjoyed the whole year but most of all I will miss all the great things we got to do in class like the Matiriki panels or the Mosaics. At camp I noticed so much about my friends that I never imagined and I learned to trust and not to judge.

If there is one thing i would change or do differently it would be I would take part in so many more things and i would try much harder.  Now that I know that I am going off to college I can't be the little kid any more.   I will have to be reasonable and responsible.

In the end I know I will miss all of my friends but I am looking forward to next year.

Monday, 3 December 2012

Outlook for Someday

This movie is about a news report, stating the thoughts of our past and how we can change the world if we only listen to the people who knows something about life.


1-Something that I learned from this projects this I did not know before was, I didn't think that people did not know about the enviroment and what they were doing to the worldI didn't know how to edit on imovie before.
2-The editing and the forms was the most stressful part of the whole project.
3-The interviews was the most intresting and the most rewarding.
4-The thing we needed to improve in is planing.
5-I found that am really good organising the set.
6-If there is one thing I would do differently is the planning, I would really start to bring everything togeter and start filming earlier.

Friday, 27 July 2012

Trip to the snow!

"Are we there yet?'' I asked my parents from the middle of the back seat.
''NO another hour fhunny but if you want to stop and stretch then we'll be stopping in 3 minutes.''
''Okay'' I replied.

Once we got there we got into our snow gear."It's so cold mom,"
"If it is so cold then sit in the back and put your snow boots on"
"Okay,"I said as I waddled over to the side of the car the wind could not reach...
"Are you sure you don't want to ski?"
"Yea mom I would rather have a snow ball fight with my friends but i will still help everyone else get ready,OK"i said already walking over to my friends dad who was busy with a pair of snowboard boots.
Some time later we finally finished getting every body ready for their lessons."That is everyone!"said my mom with a sigh of relief."Finally!!!" I complained as I stepped through the door.The snow was bright and refreshing but most of all slippery as we waddled tripped and slided towards the rest of the group.I could see that we weren't the only ones having trouble with keeping our balance.

As I knelled to pick up my sun glasses ,a snow ball hit me right on the shoulder."Now that's how you want to play"I called to my friend as i scooped up a hand full of snow and with a grin threw it at her
(it hit her on the back).

Round about 3p.m we met up for lunch which was hot chocolate and chips ...
"Do we have to leave so soon"I nagged my parents
"Well it is not actually as 'soon' as you think, we got here at8:30 and it is 4:30p.m now and this place closes at 5p.m "
"Oh"
"And it is a 2 hour drive"answered my dad.

So my weekend was spent either driving, sleeping, eating or in the snow.But if there is one thing that I would do differently I would of made a bigger snowman.

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

MATIRIKI

In term 2 ,Room 13 started with our Matiriki panels.Just in case you don't already know what Matiriki is ,it is the Maori New Year.Seven stars appear round-about the end of May(or the start of June)in the early morning and that symbolise the start of the year.So we celebrate it by making Matiriki panels.And this is how we did it...
1-You planed and draft.
2- You slowly but effectively you develop the panel.
3-You buy a board which is ruffly 123cm by 41cm across
4-Paint it completely black (we did this with black Indiana ink,mixed with black acrylic paint.
5-You tape over the completely dry paint
6-You you draw your design on top of the tape
7-Cut it out with a craft knife
8-Paint the in side with any colour
9-You peel the outside tape off and when you finish that you can varnish it.

In case you wanted to know here is a description of mine...
TOP-We divided it into 3 parts so my first part is labelled as NEW GROWTH.I did 3 koros the purple and represents physical growth.The green one represent inner growth and the last gold one represents religious growth.

MIDDLE-I did 4 crosses ,each represents me and my family members, the heart represents GOD and how we each have a special relationshipwhith him,because the second third is ME...

So i hope you understand and liked my panel ,i really enjoyed doing it hopifully you also try it:);)

Monday, 28 May 2012

Art Extention

Every term, each SPEC class teacher chooses a few pupils to do an extention class.  You might ask what is an extention class - it is an opportunity rewarded to pupils who did exceptionally well in class and together with good behaviour, are rewarded with a merit.

Me and Melissa and about another 13 pupils from the visual Arts spec class got chosen. 

What did we do??  We went to an Art Gallery that took us in for a two day class.  In those classes we learned to scalpt with clay and interesting enough, liquid soap!

The outcome.... I made a green "orange" soap - which ofcourse - I gave to my Mother for Mother's Day ... she said it was the best gift I could ever give her, because it was made by me with lots and lots of love!!!

Was it worth it.... definately YES ... it was the best time I had in my time sofar with Tawa Intermediate.  I just love art and all the possibilities you can do with it ....

It is really sad that I had such a great time but it might not be possible for other kids as well because of choices and decisions the government made with regard to intermediate spec teachers.... I was so glad and very relieved tonight when I saw on the news that the government is actually reconsidering and rethinking the issue.

I really would like to thank Ms Leary for making this possible for me ... I would remember it for a long time to come....

Rochelle xoxon :D

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Me and Callista

As you know by now, Callista and I have started to teach our class Afrikaans. So we started with counting up to 10 then in the second lesson we counted up to 20.  In the third lesson we went over counting and started with basic greetings.  Tomorrow we are going to watch a movie and Callista and I have gone to extreme lengths to get a few suprises for our class.