More of the backstage buisness

The Cultural performance is 3 weeks away and the performers are buzzing. Every act has a lot of pressure put on them to get their act polished and technology boss Tom Livesy is being hassled by Bethan and Ella to not mess up their quiz act. "I feel depressed" says Tom (which is obviously an exaggeration)
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The backstage bizz on the cultural performance

Lately in Kaurilands, years after years of the talent show called showcase, the school's most creative and most talented drama teacher Kylie Parkinson has come up with the most brilliant idea to put a cultural twist on showcase. Today the blogging crew went to talk to Kylie about how the idea began. 'Well,' Kylie told us. ' I wanted more of a variety of performances than what we had in showcase. I thought that some kids would audition that wouldn’t have done for showcase and it's definitely worked.' Kylie also told us that she thinks that the cultural performance has absolutely brought confidence through the kids who are entering. She thinks that the cultural performance will develop an awareness around the worlds cultures. Kylie thinks also that it is different and it is a nice change and she has doubled the amount of performances from showcase. Lately all the kids that are in the performance have been practicing non stop due to the fact that the night's only A FEW WEEKS AWAY!!! The script writers have seen most of the acts and are now working on , you guessed it, the script for this years most exiting event! The nerves are tingling as the performers practice as much as the can before the spotlight pours on to their moment like a shining star.

  

Yr 6 Sport

 Yr 6 Sport

Every Friday in the last block consisting of 1h 10 minutes, the whole of the year 6 emerge from their classrooms and use all the rest of their days energy to play sport. The kids have a choice of, 

dodge-ball, octopus or working inside e.g. working on a TFU (Teacher Follow Up)
this doesn't happen ^

Welcome Jeb and Dinnerbone

2 new Minecraft mobs has got Ropu Rua buzzing.

The first one, jeb_ is a sheep that changes colour. He is  a very cute creature but you can only use the jeb_ name with a sheep as it won't work with any other mob.

The second one is called Dinnerbone. Dinnerbone is a mob that stands on his head. This name will work with any mob. Personally, I like Dinnerbone best in his villager form.

You may ask, whats the best part about this feature? Well you can combine jeb_ with Dinnerbone!

So there you have it! That is the latest news in Ropu Rua. Bye!

Welcome To Ropu Rua

             
Welcome viewers!
We will be showing you how life is like in Ropu Rua. Ropu Rua is actually two joined classrooms even though they're not even joined! The two classrooms are rooms 3&6. In Ropu Rua there are two teachers since there are two classrooms. Ropu Rua is lucky to have a male teacher and a female, their names are Josh and Franny. Here is a video of what it is like in Ropu Rua!!!

By Ryan and Hannah

The mystery on what happened to Franny's elbow.
Last week Franny was walking along in the morning like she usually does she tripped over and hit her elbow. After she fell over she thought she was all right so she carried on with the day. After a while she had a really bad pain so she went to the doctors. They scanned an x-ray over her elbow they found out that she had fractured her elbow. She was told she had to wear a sling for 6 weeks but after just under a week she was out of the sling and up and running (not really running though). And till this day she is still using her arm like nothing happened. This is what her fractured elbow looks like.

Mincraft gone viral

Ever since Ropu Rua started doing independent research projects Minecraft has become a popular way of showing your work. When the Chromebooks came into the school, the old dell computers were lost in time. But when the students discovered that the old laptops were in Room 8a, they disappeared faster than lightning. This proves that Minecraft is super popular.

Finishing calendar art too difficult and important

Lately in Ropu Rua most kids have finished their calendar art but some have proven that finishing is one of the most difficult jobs. If they give up on the job they set out to do, their calendar art will not be sent home at the high standard they expected. The kids get most of the day to finish and are able to complete the art when they have nothing else to do. For all of Ropu Tahi and Rua this will be their last calendar art at primary school and they need to make it special, so every second counts. The calendar art is very important to our Ropu because it'll remind them of the time they had in year six and at this school.