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 -

School Cross Country

On Monday 2nd September Mangorei School had their School Cross Country. Once again we were lucky enough to have permission to use Mrs Burr's farm, which gives the event a real country feel and the runners some real challenges. The whole school participated and every student tried their best. The track was hard and it was a challenge to every student. The result was excellent. Mangahamoe got the most points for cheering but all of the houses were good at supporting other house members. We sat in our house groups and got points for cheering for our team mates. The senior leadership was amazing and the juniors behaved brilliantly.  Everyone enjoyed the day.

Here are some pictures of the students racing and the house groups!

2013 year 7&8 Interschool Sports

During term 3 the year 7&8 students participated in interschool sports. The sports played were netball, soccer and rugby. The most recent game played was against Oakura. Sadly the netball and soccer lost but the rugby had a great game and won! After they had finished they had a lovely morning tea prepared for them by Ella, Grace, Dania and Tayla. Smiles all round! :)

 Having fun

Being silly

By Tayla and Dania

Junior visit to Pioneer Village

During August the junior school pupils went for a visit to Pioneer Village as they had been studying about what life was like in the 1800's. While they were there they got to dress up in clothes that look like clothes from the olden days. They even got to work in a classroom using slates. It looks like the juniors had lots of fun!

Lets Learn

Looking Fancy

By Tayla and Dania