Faamalosi Manu Samoa!

Go the Manu!  All the best for your game tonight against South Africa.  We believe in you!

Faamalosi Manu Samoa - Give it all you've got!

Siva Tau

Some of the loyal supporters of the Manu Samoa.

Our "Cloudy" Adventure

MANU (with an exclamation mark)

Our photo with Mr & Mrs Cumberland

The Crew @ Auckland Viaduct

Welcome to Room 4 news.  The Fast and Serious Crew were at the Auckland viaduct on Thursday 29 September.  We walked through Wynyard Quarter - wow what an experience that was!  Did you know that in the next 22 years Auckland city will be turned into a vibrant place?  Wynyard Quarter is the first stage of this plan.  We rode on the tram - did you know that the fastest the tram can go is 28 km/ph?  Pretty slow aye.  We reckon some of us can run faster than that.  When we got off the tram guess who we bumped into?  Mrs Cumberland who used to work here at CPS.  The waka that the performers came on in the RWC opening was on display, we wish we could have jumped on it.  June and the boys performed the siva tau...not once, but twice!  People enjoyed it.  At the Cloud we played some interactive games, and explored around the Cloud fanzone.  It was pretty much an experience, alot of walking around in the nice, hot sun.  On our way home we stopped off at Mt Eden to write the "MANU" with our bodies.  Travelling back home we were quite tired.  At least we got to have a look at what all the fuss is about at the Auckland viaduct.  There's only four more weeks until the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup!  Yesssss!!!!!  Some of us support South Africa, but please don't hold that against us.  Ha! Ha!

On our way to Wynyard Quarter

Wynyard Quarter

The Crew with the Tram Driver

Outside The Cloud Fanzone

@ the Cloud

Senior Speech Finals

June delivering her speech.

The Judge

June & the boys performing the siva tau.

Brandon & Paulo

Sam & Colin

Fan Club - GO JUNE!

On Monday 19 September the hall was set up for the senior school speech finals.  We all made signs to support our only speech finalist:  June.  As June approached the microphone we were wishing her all the best in our heads.  She did a fantastic job - lots of expression and on June's face Ms Faavale had painted the Samoan flag.  June's speech was on the Manu Samoa and their journey in the rugby world cup competition, from 1991 until now.  We were all proud of June, she came third in the Year 5/6 section overall.  Malo lava June!

Here are the winners on the day:

Year 4 - Grace (Room 16) :  Smoking

Year 5/6 - Manaia (Room 23) :  Shopping

Year 7/8 - Lillian (Room 5) : My Family

Congratulations to all our speech finalists and the winners on the day.

June with Robert & Paulo & her certificate

June & her Number One Fan:  Nana

Samoa vs Namibia RWC CHEEHOO!!



Manu getting ready for the national anthem

Scrum between the Manu and Namibia

Another scrum

Well done boys!  Malo le taalo!

Le au tapuai - The Supporters

The Fast and Serious crew from Room 4 spent three hours travelling to the Rotorua International Stadium to watch the Manu Samoa team play Namibia live.  It was a fun and an amazing experience to watch our country Samoa play their first rugby world cup pool game.  Tears welled up in Paulo's eyes when he sang the Samoan national anthem, because he was feeling the song in his heart.  The crowd went wild doing the Mexican wave.  We were cheering loudly and dancing weirdly every time Samoa scored and converted a try.  Paul Williams did a shoulder charge and he got sent to the sin bin for ten minutes.  Tusi Pisi was injured in the first half and Tasesa Lavea came on to replace him.  Mahroni Schwalger rested during the game, and Tuilagi got a hat trick.  Well done to Namibia for scoring two tries against the Manu.  What do we say?  "Nice try!"  Check out our photos - it was a jolly good show.



Seki a le support

Rugby World Cup Fever Hits Clendon Park!

Tupulaga - GO THE ALL BLACKS!  GO TONGA!  GO THE MANU!!

This is the day Aotearoa has been waiting for:  the official opening of the Rugby World Cup 2011.  At our school we had a Black Out Day to support our New Zealand team:  The All Blacks!  The ABs haven't won the much-coveted world cup since 1987, when David Kirk was captain, and Michael Jones was the first one to score a try at the tournament.  Room 4 are having their own Rugby World Cup tournament in week 9.  It's our own version, and it'll be called "Room 4 Ripper Rugby World Cup 2011".  Phew!  What a long name.  Today we took a Black Out photo of Tupulaga, then one with the whole school.  Straight after that we had a whole school "Brush Off", where Cynthia (the dental therapist) showed us how to brush our teeth properly.  In the afternoon we picked up rubbish for the "Clean Up for the Cup" campaign.  A really busy day, no wonder why we are tired...especially our teacher! 

Black Out Day -TUPULAGA

Clendon Park School - GO THE ALL BLACKS!!

Clean Up for the Cup

Picking up rubbish along the road.

Quiz Masters!!

Quiz Team 4 challenged Room 9 for a spot in the finals of the quiz competition.  Well done to our team:  Robert, Edward and Kelecia, who have made it through to the FINALS!!  YAY!!  Way to go Room 4!

Fast and Furious Friday

Friday 26 August we made some Big Macs - the Room 4 way.  We smothered our buns with Best Foods mayonnaise (low fat of course), topped it with fresh green lettuce, a juicy piece of tomato, a thick meat patty, an egg and some BBQ sauce, or tomato sauce.  Extra fillings were onions and cheese.  Thanksgiving's Mum came with 28 extra hamburger buns, that were already cut, and a jar of Best Foods mayonnaise.  So we had enough buns, patties and eggs to make two hamburgers each.  We reckon our burgers are waaaaayyyy better than McDonald's and Burger King!!  Thanks for eating at FastandSerious Donald's...ha! ha!

Could This Be The Snow We've Been Waiting For?

Check out our pictures of today at lunchtime...so much fun trying to catch the white balls of ice...  There were lots of small balls of ice raining down from above.  Such an awesome sight, and at times a terrifying experience for some, as it hurt when the balls hit our faces and arms.  But most of us loved it.  Our weather wish for tomorrow?  SNOW PLEASE!!!

Lunchtime Madness 

Having fun trying to catch the balls of ice raining down from above.

Outside Room 5

A handful of ice - made the natural way.

Baker's Delight - Last Day of Maths Week

Measurement is always used for cooking.  Today we baked chocolate afghans made with Weetbix.  We used fractions like one quarter, one half and a whole to measure the volume of flour, sugar and cocoa needed to make the afghans.  Colin's group didn't add enough flour to their butter and sugar, but it still tasted delicious.  Yummy, yummy!  The afghans were different sizes, but they were the same shape.  Most of the groups' mixtures turned out great, and so did the end product.  Below is the recipe:

CHOCOLATE AFGHANS
200 grams butter
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/4 cups of plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa
4-5 Weetbix - but we used three

Preheat oven to 180degrees celcius.  Cream butter and sugar and stir.  Hand crush the Weetbix one by one into the butter and sugar mixture.  Mix together.  Make balls and put on to a lined oven tray.  Press down with a fork if desired.  Cook for approximately 12 minutes.  Leave to cool on oven tray for approximately 5-10 minutes, then remove & place on cooling rack.

Icing:
100g butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 C icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
Tablespoon hot water
When biscuits have cooled, ice with chocolate icing.