Sophie G

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Coca Cola Netball

On Wednesday the 20th of May, Pukekohe Intermediate School are sending 12 - 15 teams of girls to Papakura netball centre.

The teams are going to compete in the Coca Cola Netball tournament.

Each team will play 5 - 6 games, each game will be 20 minutes long.

We have two divisions, competitive and social.

Year 7 and year 8 students had to trail to make the competitive teams. We plan to take 8 competitive and around about 6 social teams.

The two teachers incharge of the teams are Mrs. Pearson ( Rm 23 ) and Ms. Guise ( Rm 31 ) " I think we have some strong enough teams as long as they work together " and she also said " Team work comes with practice ". Mrs Pearson said, " If all the girls play as a team and do their best job we have a good chance of making the finals" .

This day will be an awesome opportunity to play against other schools and have some fun.

We will let you know the results.

Sophie Gill

Orienteering for 2009

The sun beamed like lightning as students from Pukekohe Intermediate ran around the Bledisloe field, to trial for the 2009 orienteering squads. Many students trialled, but only a handful of students continued through to the map reading trial. All students competed to the best of their abilities, the first 6 out of each gender and year groups made the orienteering squads, that will represent Pukekohe Intermediate at the Zone Competition, in Manurewa, Totara Park. The competition will take place on Friday the 1st of May and will be a great opportunity for children to participate in.

"I think we have strong teams that have a high chance of winning, with students that are excellent at map reading and their fitness levels", Sarah Guise and Rebekah Pearson, teachers in charge of Pukekohe Intermediates Orienteering squads for 2009. "It's a great sport and enjoyable to participate in!", Billie Paterson, who is in the year 8 girls orienteering squad. "It's really fun but in some parts it's challenging", Steven Lacey and Dylan Robinson, both in the year 8 boys orienteering squad.

Counties Manukau Orienteering Club are also running extra sessions, for students and parents who would like to give orienteering a go. Contact Val and John Robinson if you are interested. Phone 09 2386911.

Pukekohe Intermediate students will compete at the Zone Orienteering Competition in Manurewa, with support from parents and teachers. GO FOR GOLD PUKEKOHE INTERMEDIATE!

Sophie Gill

Literacy Enrichment

Four lucky students from Rooms 23, 4, 11, 28 and 12 have been picked to be in a Literacy Enrichment class. In our Room 23 group we have Jorgia, Kahurangi, Bailee and Sophie.
Mrs Griffin takes this class every day 2. We arrive in the Art Room at 9:00 a.m and work till 10.30 a.m.
In this Enrichment class our goal is to write, illustrate and design our own big book. Once we have published our story we will go to a Primary School and read it to the Junior department. As a group we have decided to name our story Rainbow Zebra.
Our story is about a Rainbow Zebra that is very beautiful and he has colourful stripes. In the end he is kind to everyone and gives each of the other Zebra's in the park a stripe.

CoCa Cola

On Wednesday the 20th of May, Pukekohe Intermediate School are sending 12 - 15 teams of girls to Papakura netball centre.

The teams are going to compete in the Coca Cola Netball tournament.

Each team will play 5 - 6 games, each game will be 20 minutes long.

We have two divisions, competitive and social.

Year 7 and year 8 students had to trail to make the competitive teams. We plan to take 8 competitive and around about 6 social teams.

This day will be an awesome opportunity to play against other schools and have some fun.

We will let you know the results.

Week 1, Term 2 Pukekohe Intermediate School held a school wide Tapuae competition. Dominique Hancock, Sports Co-ordinater from Room 45 was the organizer for this competition.

The teams were entered as buddy classes for the competition, and a maximum of 16 team players were able to take the court at once. Lupe Soapi of Room 23, and Abi Chapman of Room 36 were our team captains.

Students from the 2 teams played a number of games against a lot of challenging classes, playing a total of 3 games, making it into the quarter finals! In this game we went up against Room 13 & 45 and successfully came out with victory, which then took us into the Semi-finals.

Our first semi-final game was on Tuesday 16th on June and versed the same 2 classes. We had a really tough game and the weather was really rough, but even though we had to put up with that, Room 23 & 36 still came out with a win.

Wednesday 17th of June we played against Room 28 & 45. It was a very tough competition. But we pulled through with a win.

Our class has made it into the finals and will be playing on Wednesday 24th of June.

We look forward to winning!!!!