Digi Awards
Earlier in the year a
group of Bledisloe Students submitted photos to be entered in the Digi awards.
I, Humo was lucky enough to have my photo make it through to the finals. It was Highly Commended.
Mrs Colliss, Mrs Geddis
and Mrs Bevis picked me up from my house and we went over to the Hastings Opera
House. When we went inside I was assigned to my special seat and we saw a slide
show of the photos which made it into the finals.
When the announcing
started it was for graphic design. We saw heaps of cool examples of students
work from a selection of Taradale schools.
Finally it was time for the year 5 & 6
photo section. I was called to the stage. As I walked across the red carpet my
photo was projected on the stage. I was awarded a certificate and had my
official photo taken.
We then saw the winners of
animation and short films.
Lastly there was a supreme
winner, the prize was an iPad, this was won by a girl from Taradale
Intermediate.
It was a very competitive competition
and I look forward to entering again next year.
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| Humo's amazing photo. |
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| Recieving the Highly Commended award. |
PrEp
PrEP is coming up. For
those that don’t know, PrEP stands for Primary Enterprise Programme. Throughout
the year we have been earning bleds which are used during PrEP as the currency
to buy supplies for our companies. We have to make either a good or provide a
service, then we have a market day at the end for the rest of the school to
come shopping. So far we have talked about needs and wants, and most maths
classes are doing financial literacy.
We will update when we start production.
This is a highlight of the
year for lots of people.
Government
An extra part of PrEP this
year is the government.
There are different roles,
these are Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Market Planners, Treasurers, Chief
Justices, and M.P.’s.
Students had to be
nominated for the roles. Those who were standing for Prime Minister had to give
a speech that told people why they would be good in that role. We then held the
election. The election officers counted the votes.
The winning people were
Prime Minister: Tipene
Deputy: Hermione
Market Planners: Lucca and
Reone
Chief Justices: Wayne and
Kayla
The Treasure’s are: Humo, Bryce
and Kingsley.
The M.P.’s are Ethan,
Alannah and Alecia.
The government then meet
at the think tank with Mrs Devine where we began to talk about the roles and
learnt more about the NZ government.
Then the M.P’s had to
write a letter to our teaching asking for a meeting time for people to talk if
they have any problems.
We meet again next week.
By Ethan.
Chess
Five
past eight was the time to be at room 8. We were all excited about the upcoming
tournament. It was the interschool chess competition. We have been training for
many terms and after 2 dates the day was finally here.
We
split up into groups and were driven to the Hastings Sports Centre on Railway
Road. We entered the centre, registered and given a number which was written on
our hand. The first number was your year number, the second was the
registration number, the last number was where your name was on the board.
We
climbed a flight of stairs and were faced with 2 basketball courts filled with
tables which each had 3 chest sets on them.
We
had to wait ages until all the competitors arrived. There were well over three hundred
kids from schools throughout Hawkes Bay.
We
played five games throughout the day. Each game was restricted to 20 minutes.
After each game we had a 20 minute break.
There
were some sore hands and eyes at the end of the competition. Even some sore
bottoms from sitting for so long!
Room
13 had four people competition.
Humo
won 3 games and had a draw, this secured him fourth equal place.
Caleb
won 3 games.
Ethan
won 2 of his games.
Jonathan
won 1 game.
It
was Caleb, Ethan and Jonathan’s first year competing at the competition. It was
Humo’s fourth time.
It
was a great day.
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| Room 13 Chess players |
