Big Sad Wolf Show

On Monday 12th August, Mangorei School was very lucky to have three actors come and perform a Show called "The Big Sad Wolf".  All the kids were very excited. It was amazing how many characters one person could be. It was great fun and the finalé was awesome.  We could tell everyone loved it by the giggles and laughter coming from the audience. We would all love them to come again with another show.

Canterbury Teamwear Fundraiser

Last month Mangorei PTA hosted a fundraiser to sell Canterbury Team wear. They had to sell 10 of each style to make use of the money. We sold this through a notice to families and a stall at Pets Day. These are the styles that we sold:

• Children's and Adults Stadium Pants 

• Children's and Adults Tactic Shorts

• Children's and Adults Ugly Jersey

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  Children's Stadium Pants

Adults Stadium Pants

Tactic Shorts

We made over $900 profit. This money will go towards computers for the children to use.

By Dania and Geordie 

Pirates of the Curry Bean Production

Mangorei School had their production in Term 3, Week 9, with performances on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The production was called the Pirates of the Curry Bean, a comical story about some pirates, some sailors and an ordinary family. Everyone had a role to play in the production with the year 7's & 8's having the main roles. Everybody enjoyed it and cooperated well. We had a full house on Wednesday and Thursday nights, which everyone was excited about and tried their best. From the reports of parents, the show was a great success.

             ( From Left) Lydia, Rose, Simone, Jenna and Mitchel.

Room 7 Girls

 Room 7 Boys

Room 6 Girls + Boys

Lions Speech Competition

On Sunday the third of November, Lee and I (Adriana) went to the Community Centre in Hawera to compete in the Lions Speech competition. It was a really enjoyable experience as there were lots of really good speakers from everywhere in Taranaki, coming as far as Whanganui and as close to home as New Plymouth. Firstly, we got split into two rooms and in each room there were twenty people giving their speeches (which were really good). Mine was about 'Procrastination', while Lee's was about 'If Our Pets Were Humans'.

Then both rooms of speakers got put into another room where we had to wait until our name was called, then got told a topic for an impromptu speech. The topic for Room 1 (my room) was 'Homework' and the topic for Room 2 (Lee's room) was 'Holidays'. This was the first impromptu speech I have done and it was really fun. I hope to do another impromptu speech sometime. When it came to prize giving I got fifth, an iPod and everyone got a certificate of participation. Overall the day was really cool and very fun, and I enjoyed it lots.

Adriana

Pets Day Postponed

On Friday 25th October Mangorei School had their annual Pets Day, but because of the bad weather the students could not bring their lambs or calves for judging. The stalls planned for the afternoon also had to be cancelled because of the weather. Fortunately we were able to have the cancelled events the following Tuesday and everyone was able to enjoy one of Mangorei's favourite events. Everybody enjoyed looking at the animals and petting them, watching the police dog exhibition and joining in with the games and stalls. It was the first time in Pets Day history that bad weather had caused the day to be split. 

Room 8's Letters From The First Immigrants of New Zealand

Last term Room 8 studied New Zealand's 'first ships'. They read a book in class about New Zealand's early immigrants called "No-one Went to Town", by Phyllis Johnston.They wrote letters pretending to be immigrants sailing to New Zealand which told about life onboard the ship and what they thought New Zealand would be like. These are some examples -