DARE - make a choice

This term we are doing the DARE program on Drugs and Alcohol with Mr Watt. This week we are doing a sheet on why it is cool to be me. There are heaps of cool activites. There is also a box for questions and help. We are doing the DARE program all term and at the end we get to go on a trip.

DARE!

On Wednesday 28th April MR.Watt came in to room 6 and spoke to us about Dare its a program that teaches you about making choices.Mr watt will be visiting again next Thursday.We also did several Activities.

By Tiare

SWIMMING SPORTS

Super swimming sports was held at the Rodney College in their massive swimming pool. There were a few schools who participated in this challenge. Adults, students and teachers cheered on their respective schools as the students raced. There was a selection of food for sale, which Tomarata School was in charge of. Overall it was a fantastic day and I really enjoyed it.

By Kimberley

200 metre Swim Challenge

On Monday the 16th of March, Rooms 1,3 and 6 went to Tomarata Lakes to swim 200 metres. All the Year 8 girls completed the swim and some of the Year 8 boys completed it to. It was a great experience although it was a tad choppy, but overall it was great. Also thankyou to all those parants for helping make it possible!

By Phoebe S and Morgan G!!

Agrikids

On Saturday the 21st of March we went to Rodney College to compete in the Agrikids competion. Our team was called the Tomarata Sharemilkers. In the main event we came in first place out of the 9 teams that competed. Sadly two teams were not able to go through to the final they were the Dragsters and the Three Farmers. In the race we came 5th, and ended up 1st overall.

By Logan William and Daniel

Seaweek

Every year New-Zealanders celebrate Seaweek to make Kiwi's aware of pollution and damage we are doing to the sea's around us. Rooms 1, 3 and 6 went to Whangateau Harbour to learn about the effects that are happening in our region and what we can do about it. Some of the problems are over fishing, sewage, the banks falling away and many more. Seaweek is good and so next time you're fishing only take what you need.


By Madison

New Mimio in Room 6

A mimio is a wireless device which sticks to the white board and the projector projects the images onto the whiteboard. The mimio interactive pen is like a white board marker and it doesn't show up on the white board but shows up on the projection. So in summary the Mimio basically turns the whiteboard into a giant computer screen where icons and writing can be changed, moved and resized. We are all learning about it - including Mr M!

Swimming Sports

On 11th March 2009 the Year 4-8 students went to Rodney College to compete in the rural primary schools swimming sports day. There were 4 other schools Mangawhai, Tapora, Pakiri and Tauhoa. There were 5 main events - 2 lengths of Freestyle, 1 length freestyle, 1 length backstoke, 1 length breaststroke and the medley which is 1 length each of Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle! Tomarata Schoool did very well in these races and got plenty of placings. Well done Tomarata!

Whangateau harbour

Several weeks ago the seneior classes went to the Whangateau Harbour to learn about
marine life. We first went to the Matakana Art Gallery where Dr Rodger Grace gave us a speech about the harbour. Then we went off to the harbour for a 1 hour walk. It was great because we got to learn about marine life and the estuary.

By Tiare

2009

2009 has been great so far this term. The Topic is saving the earth or being environmentally friendly. The other day we where reading a book called 'How to save the planet in 101 ways' and it said that we might have only 8 years before it is too late to save the earth. SCARY!! That's why we should try to save the earth more like making worm farms and edible gardens just like at Tomarata School. That's why we shouldn't litter. We also learnt about the Pacific Ocean rubbish dump being bigger than some states in the USA. This island is an island made out of nothing but rubbish!!!