Room 19 - Trivia Winners

Congratulations Room 19 - Trivia Winners for Term 1

QR Code Competition Winners

Congratulations to Room 19 - QR Code Competition Term 1 Winners.  A fantastic effort Jakeb and Sam, we are proud of your achievement!

Jakeb and Sam with their prizes

The prizes



Jakeb & Sam's presentation
(Note: Their presentation was even better than shown here!)

Science Night

Science Night took place on Tuesday April 1. There was a great deal of excitement as students and teachers set up the experiments on the tables. Totara was set up in the corner and we took full advantage of our allocated space!

To one side there were students from Room 21 conducting Fair Tests to create salt crystals using food colouring and pink salt. Meth burners have been used in Science over a very long time and were used here to create the most beautiful salt crystals.

To the other side the students of Room 20 talked about their upcoming bottle house, blew up balloons with the aid of baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice and made wasp traps in an attempt to combat the wasp invasion currently affecting New Zealand from end to end.

Set up on a table at the front was a group of students from Room 19. They laboured over Technic Lego and explained the technical information behind their structures that demonstrated pulleys, levers and mechanisms.

Truly the fastest hour on record sped by as students amazed visitors with their scientific knowledge and answered a huge range of questions earning themselves a well deserved red koru for their efforts.

Thinking like a Scientist has enabled students to think more extensively rather than to simply accept the obvious. In class students have investigated a huge range of scientific possibilities endeavouring to Think like a Scientist and succeeding.

Maeroa Triathlon

On Monday afternoon 33 courageous Totara students participated in the Maeroa Triathlon.

We had 10 entries in the team section where one person was the cyclist, another did the swim and the third team member completed the running circuit.

We need to make special mention of 3 students-George, Tiana and Ailee, who competed as individuals and did all 3 disciplines!

Every single one of our students completed the event and certainly displayed the virtue determination!

50 teams were entered in the Team Event and we are so proud of Blake Watson (Cyclist), Jakeb Stent (Swimmer) and Yami Losaki (Runner) who won the team event. This is an amazing achievement!

Cricket Workshop

Totara students were fortunate to participate in a cricket workshop run by Carl Schwarz from Kiwi Sport Waikato. We had a fantastic time! Carl had us working non stop but our perseverance paid off as our throwing, catching and batting skills really progressed during the workshop. Thank you Carl for leading these workshops. We know you are heading overseas to play cricket in Devon County, England, and we hope you really enjoy the experience.


Photos from Room 21

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Photos from Room 19

Top Chocolate Seller!

We were all very proud of Libby Johnston who was the 3rd top chocolate seller in our recent school fundraiser. Libby sold 14 boxes of chocolates which is an amazing 336 individual bars and totalled $840. Libby's prize was a touch screen phone! Fantastic effort Libby.

The money raised from the chocolate sales will pay for all students in our school to attend the Life Education Trust Programme later in the year as well as buying additional iPads and tablets for our classes.