Exposition

A banana a day keeps the doctor away. Bananas are reasonably priced, and conveniently packaged. They are packed full of vitamins and minerals that are essential for health and well being. Bananas are an amazing fruit.
Bananas contain three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fibre. Compared to an apple, a banana has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrates and five times the vitamin A and iron. Bananas vitamins and minerals are all beneficial for your body. A banana gives you an instant boost of energy. Research shows that 2 bananas provide enough energy for a ninety-minute workout.
Bananas include substances and ingredients that can prevent illnesses and conditions, ranging from; strokes and depression to warts and mosquito bites. Bananas also contain tryptophan, a type of protein that your body converts into Serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood, and generally make you feel happier.
An individual banana has a protective outer skin and a soft tasty inner, all for the price of around 20c each. Both skin and banana inner can be cooked. Most cultures/countries eat a banana raw and throw away the skin as a snack, although some Asian cultures eat the skin and banana cooked.
A banana a day will keep the doctor away. Bananas are essential for health and well-being and a reasonably priced. Bananas are amazing fruit.

Tapuae Competiton

Week 1, Term 2 Pukekohe Intermediate School held a school wide Tapuae competition. Mrs Hancock, Sports Co-ordinater from Room 45 was the organizer for this competition.

The teams were entered as buddy classes for the competition, and a maximum of 16 team players were able to take the court at once. Lupe Soapi of Room 23, and Abi Chapman of Room 36 were our team captains.

Students from the 2 teams played a number of games against a lot of challenging classes, playing a total of 3 games, making it into the quarter finals! In this game we went up against Room 13 & 45 and successfully came out with victory, which then took us into the Semi-finals.

Our first semi-final game was on Tuesday 16th on June and versed the same 2 classes. We had a really tough game and the weather was really rough, but even though we had to put up with that, Room 23 & 36 still came out with a win.

Wednesday 17th of June we played against Room 28 & 45. It was a very tough competition. But we pulled through with a win.

Our class made it into the finals and played on Wednesday 24th of June.

As the competition was hard we came through with a win and won the competition!!!

Pukekohe Intermediate Makes a Difference for our Mauis!

Maui’s Dolphins, also known as the North Island Hector, are on the brink of extinction, with approximately 111 dolphins remaining. The numbers are continuing to decrease.
Room 23 of Pukekohe Intermediate is making a difference by trying to prevent the rapid decline of these native marine mammals. Maui’s Dolphins are the world’s most endangered dolphin species. Our class of 30 students decided to create a mural. The mural is both to advise and to persuade members of the public to call for a ban on all set net fishing in conservation areas, on the West Coast of the North Island.
Room 23 has participated in several interesting projects leading us to the mural. Our class has commissioned a local Pukekohe artist, Vanessa Graham, to help design and paint the mural.
Room 23 student’s created their own illustrations and Vanessa combined these pieces of art to create the finishing design.
The mural has come together extremely well, and it looks remarkable. It will remain at the school for many years to come and will be an asset to the school and community.

Aims Netball

Through out week 6, Pukekohe Intermediate School have been running Aims trials for Aims in Week 8 of term 3. There were 3 trials and everybody got at least 2 trial games. We trialed in our best netball positions. On the Thursday we had our last trial we have finished the trial at morning tea. About 20 girls got called back to retrial at lunchtime. That was the final trial. Until the team was named, every girl that got called back were very nervous and played as hard as they could. We got told that the list of the Aims team will be on room 31's window by Friday. Everyone ran to the list on Friday morning and the Aims team is: Jazmin (captain) Anna-Lee, Bailee, Tegan, Leota, Shannon, Danelle, Tamara, Kelly, Katelin, Danika and Havannah. These girls will represent Pukekohe Intermediate School at Zone. The rest of the girls that did not make the Aims team are in the Zone B team. This is the B team: me, Breanne, Sam, Danielle M, Keina, Billie, Kaitlyn, Lupe, Jessica, Sophie, Dannielle B.

Chocolate Selling

This year, 2009, Pukekohe Intermediate School is taking part in the Cadbury Chocolate School Fundraiser. This year the money that is raised by all of the year 8's will go towards two marquee tents. They will both be named and contain the school logo. These tents will be taken to zone sports. The money that is raised by the year 7's will go towards their year 8 camp next year.

There is going to prizes for the top chocolate sellers. One prize for year 7 and one for year 8. There is also two prizes for the two top classes and a spot prize for anyone that has sold at least one box of chocolate.

Many people have taken part in this school wide event and look forward to sell them again next year.

Ngahinapouri School Netball Tournament

On Sunday 24th of May 2009, 10 girls from Pukekohe Intermediate School, including Jorgia Watson, Shannon van den Berg, Havannah Pearson, Danelle Cox, Jazmin Fulton, Kelly Drew, Tegan Hunter, Danielle McNabb, Billie Paterson and Bailee Graham, travelled to Minogue Park Netball Courts in Hamilton for the Ngahinapouri School Netball Tournament. We competed in 5 games throughout the whole day. It was sunny for the first 2 games but then it started to rain and it was windy and freezing cold. Our team, Pukekohe Platinum did extremely well placing second in the tournament by only one goal! We had injuries from numb fingers to grazed knees, but we all had an awesome day and it was great fun!

Here are the results:
Pukekohe Int vs St Andrews 21-10 Win
Pukekohe Int vs Peach Grove 13-12 Loss
Pukekohe Int vs TAI Soldiers 13-13 Draw
Pukekohe Int vs Maeroa 18-3 Win
Pukekohe Int vs Berkeley 13-9 Win

Certificates

Here are some of my certificates I have been awarded from Mathletics and Spellodrome.