Fletcher Releases New single

Fletcher Oxford is over the moon about his new single. The Tauranga Intermediate 12 year old recorded his first single at the manuka studios in Auckland and is thrilled it is now available on itunes.
Fletcher performed his self-written single ‘Everything to Me’ in the finals of reality talent show New Zealand’s Got Talent in December last year. He says it feels “amazing” knowing millions of people could be listening to his song. Fletcher has noticed a “big difference” in his school-life since his fifth place win on NZGT. “I’ve changed the way I do things. I am a changed person. I am a lot more popular.

Rimu Tree

Study The Rimu Tree A5

The scientific name for Rimu is Dacrydium cupressinum.

The rimu tree is also known as the Red Pine. Rimu is a large evergreen coniferous tree endemic to the forests of New Zealand. It is a member of the southern conifer group, the podocarps. The former name "red pine" has fallen out of common use.
Rimu is a slow growing tree eventually reach the hight of 50meters although most surviving large trees are 20 to 35 m tall. It typically appears as an emergent from mixed broadleaf temperate rainforest.  The Rimu tree life span is about 800 to 900 years. The straight trunk of a rimu is normally 1.5meters in diameter,but may be larger in old or very tall specimens. 
Rimu tree is one of the main sources of wood for New Zealand, including furniture and house construction. However many of New Zealands original stands of Rimu have been destroyed.

Rimu is the best house in the school because we have good spirit we are really geeky and sporty. RIMU ROCKS

News Post 6

English Football to use goal line technology.

Goal line technology has been approved for the next premiere league.
It tells the referees that the ball has crossed the goal line using a vibration the officials watches within one second of it happening. There are seven camera's on each goal to track were the ball is and provide TV companies with accurate graphics showing goal line incidents,
The british hawk eye system that is used in cricket and tennis will provide thew technology.
 I think that is really good and it will work at well.

News Post 5

Giant Snails

The state of Florida in America has been finding these big snails.
Over the last few weeks about 1000 of these snails have been found in the Miami country area.
The snail can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through plaster.
It also attacks over 500 known species.
People a worried that they will be badly hit by these creatures and they will damage lots more and soon destroy every thing.

I think that the gigantic snails are disgusting and will start to destroy a lot more things!

News Post 4

99 Arrests In Drug bust

More than twenty thousand cannabis plants have been destroyed in the Bay Of Plenty and 99 people have been arrested for growing them.
During a period of four weeks police undertook 169 search warrants finding drugs, cash, firearms and stolen property.

My opinion is that there are too many people selling drugs, but good on them for putting 99 people in jail.

News Post 3

Tauranga Intermediate School Fire

At about 5:15pm Sunday night, a fire started in a classroom at Tauranga Intermediate. It was caused by an electrical fault that was spread in one classroom and then spread to another two rooms. The firefighters had to rip through the classrooms roof to get to the fire. Tauranga Senior Station Officer Mark Keller says that they reached the fire just in time before it got really bad.
 They were there until about 8pm searching to find what caused the fire. know one was in the building at the time and there was know one that was injured by the fire.
I think that It was all an accident and those things happen.

Homework expectations

Amount

We think that 30-45 minutes every weeknight is a reasonable expectation for homework. Per week that equals approximately 2.5 hours per week of homework.

2 terms = 20 weeks. Every homework task should take you 5 hours to do.

Quality

You need to work on each homework task for at least 2.5 to 5 hours. It should like it was done by a year 8 student. The product you make (if relevant) should look good quality.

Blog Post

- must be at least 2 paragraphs

- has to be punctuated correctly, spell checked and no errors

- you must include which category and task number in your post title so Miss C can sign you off.

News Post 2

Prison Van Collides with Crane.

Regional 

Yesterday just after 4pm on KatiKati road a prison van collided with a crane. One Prisoner has suffered minor injuries and  is now in Tauranga Hospital recovering. The road was cleared quickly and no people were trapped in either of the vehicles. 

I think that it was just an accident and those sort of things happen.

  

News Post

Teenager Sawn into Twelve Pieces

15year old, Hayden Miles was reported missing after going to see his friend. The world then found out that he was beaten to death before getting cut into 12 pieces on August the 22, 20ll. He was then thrown into two different graveyards in Christchurch. Gaven John Cosnel went to court, he denied killing Hayden Miles. When he went back to court for the second time he admitted beating Hayden but that he wasent indenting on killing him. He was convicted for manslaughter, not murder because he did not intend on killing Hayden.

I think that he is an idiot for beating him in the first place and should be convicted for murder too.

Student Led Confrence