A Special Visitor to Room 10

We had a special visitor come into a very empty Room 10 while we were chilling out on our last day.  A very perplexing moment exists.

The Last Day

The last photo of the class minus the absentees.

Go back and have a look of the same photo from the beginning of the year to see how everyone has changed.

Nepia Day Out at the Havelock North Pools

On the last Friday of the year, Nepia House all walked to the village for a day of leisure. After  seeing the movie 'Goosebumps,' we all spent the afternoon having a great deal of fun, cooling off in the Havelock North Pools.  We had a pizza lunch delivered to sustain us and then the afternoon was ours.  It was a great way to enjoy ourselves while spending the time with our mates.

Just hanging about...Charlotte, Pippa, Robyn and friend,

Jaime, about to go!

Ready, steady... go!

Sapphire, about to make the big splash!

Jack, readying himself to jump in.

Jesse, on the steps of depth!

A sea of arms and legs all in action for the floating boards.

The girls having successfully achieved 'ownership,' for a short while.

Hannah and Allyssa cooling off in out of the sun.

Kayla and mates recharging themselves near the end of the afternoon.

Room 10 Masterchef Winners.

In Room 10 we have some very talented chefs. Well done to Charlotte and Pippa for their first placing and Allyssa and Will for coming third. We may see these talented chefs winning Masterchef in the future.

Honours Badge Recipients

Brodie and Candice proudly show their Honours Badges, which they received in late November.

Congratulations to both of them.  

Completing a Mystery Story

After Ms Moratti had read most of a story called 'The Boy at the Door', the students had to write how they thought it would end. We had been looking at the concepts of a narrative using the mystery elements found in this genre.

Jaime has included them in her story ending and then left her reader up in the air...waiting.

Walt: add details to explain and finish the mystery.

I looked at his face which gazed longingly at the hidden box. “Who are you?” I demanded. Yet again he seemed to ignore me. I just stared now, needing to know what he wanted, why he was here, who he was. He stepped closer, I still hadn’t heard a noise from him. Another step, he was almost above me. I wanted to scream, to run but an invisible force held me in place. The weight of it was crushing me, compressing me into a small ball. The boy stepped closer, so close I should of been able to hear his breath. But his breath was not present. But now I couldn’t breath, the pressure was unbearable.

Cool air hit my lungs. I woke up gasping. My mind was fuzzy, but images of that boy still lingered. My breathing steadied and I found myself checking the toys. But something was wrong. Something was different and I couldn’t tell what. Edging away from the box I saw that the box had moved. It definitely wasn’t there before. It might of only moved 10cm but I know that I didn’t put it there. My hand reached out to open the box slowly creeping towards it, my curiosity running wild.

A floorboard creaked somewhere close and my head darted up to scan the area. No one was there, just an empty room cast shadows. I looked at my surroundings, just a plain room, a room you could see in just about any house. Out the corner of my eye something moved, a blur bouncing around in the shadows.

Report Writing: Hannah O. on Cara Delevigne

Hannah O. wrote this report on Cara Delevingne.

She had a set criteria to write from in order to inform her readers.

She needed to add a captioned picture to add further impact to her work.

Reports are designed to record and report information to another person on a topic gathered from a variety of sources and organised into a logical form.

Cara Delevingne

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne born 12th August 1992 age 23 is a English model, actress and singer. Cara was born in London to Pandora and Charles Delevingne. After leaving school in 2009 she signed with Storm Modelling Management and won ‘Model Of The Year’ at the British fashion awards in 2012 and 2014.

Cara has appeared in shows for houses including Burberry, Mulberry, Dolce & Gabbana and Jason Wu. She started her acting career in 2012 with a minor role in the 2012 studio adapted film Anna Karenina. Cara also played Margo Roth Spiegelman in the Romance Mystery of Paper Towns and she will co-star as Enchantress in the Superhero film ‘Suicide Squad’.

Cara has 2 sisters Chloe and model Poppy Delevingne. She attended Francis Holland School for girls until she was 16 then moved to Bedales School in Hampshire.

Cara’s first time modelling when she was 10 years old in an editorials shot for Bruce Weber alongside model Lady Eloise Anson in the magazine Vogue Italia. 2009 she signed with Storm Model Management after being spotted by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm.

Her first catwalk appearance was in 2011 at London’s Fashion Week stepping out in Burberry Prorsum’s Autumn/Winter collection. The following year at the show she had her chance to open and close the procedures wearing Burberry’s Spring/Summer collection.

Cara also sings and plays the Guitar and drums so all round she is a talented young woman who succeeds in in numerous areas of life e.g modelling, acting etc.

Keep an eye out for when her latest movie comes out.

Cara modelling at London Fashion Week 2014

Room 10 at the Social: Don't they look great?

A great shot of a wonderful bunch of people.  They all had a great night and enjoyed themselves.

Mr Fullwood started everyone off with social dancing and everyone was up dancing straight away.

Extension Maths: Using Parallel LInes

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The Extension Maths class were been working on angles within parallel lines.  They discovered that they really only needed to find the size of one angle and then they would be able to work out every other angle between two parallel and one transversal line.

This was the video link they watched to endorse their understanding.

Calculating the volume of a cone: Extension Maths

The Maths Extension class has been learning how to find the volume of rnage of 3 dimensional shapes and composite 3D shapes.

Robyn's example explains how to calculate the volume of a cone using a mathematical formula.

Robyn's Hyperbole

We hae learnt what a hyperbole is and how they are used.
The class realised that they have been using them but did not realise that there was a special name for the exaggeration they were using in their speech and written work..
Now they know!

Word Art related to The Unexplained

After showing the class an example of art made up entirely of words, I asked them to create a piece off work that reflected something that they could not explain.  These are just some of the examples.  I was delighted to see the outcomes of their efforts.

Vincent

Jaime

Campbell

Sapphire

Kayla

Brodie

Will

Juan

Amber

Jack

Hannah S.

Reading in Room 10 / the library.

This is what reading can look like in Room 10 when you are fully grossed in a book and totally unaware of anything around you.

      

This photo has the subject's permission to be shared on th class blog. Thanks J....

Tech. Group 10B in music.

The group 10B have just started to learn this piece.  It is rather impressiveto see how well they play together with only a little practice.

Science in Room 10.

As part of our forensic science work, we looked at ways of deciding what different white powders were.  The class were given nine powders to sort and classify.  They ranged from cornflour, Epsom salts, laundry detergent to sugar and salt.

Each group was encouraged to use their senses (somewhat carefully with tasting) to describe and label. It was an interesting exercise to see who was familiar with pantry indredients.

Vincent is looking very closely the white powders his group have to analyse and name.

Amber checking out her unknown powder.

Kayla and Hannah testing to see if their powder reacted with vinegar.

Youth Futures Day

On Thursday we had the Youth Futures Day.
We had fourteen different employers and organisations come to HNI to show and explain to us what they jobs involved.  The Hastings District Council had quite a few different career options to show us, ranging from recycling to Youth Development organisers. Higgins digger operating was popular, along with the Armed Defense speaker.

Many students were impressed with the two engineers who shared their knowledge and skills about bridge building.  Both the ladies were able to explain clearly to the listeners how the construction of the bridge impacted on it's strength.

Alyssa wrestling with a wooden chair, trying to put it together.

Akayla aiming at a wooden frame with the fire hose.  Such power!

Hannah trying to keep her hands still in order to move the tool in her hand, around the wire. It was not an easy feat.

Jesse giving the finishing touches to the planter box he helped to create. The box now contains plants for HNI  students to enjoy.

Hannah trying to wrestle with a piece of wire in order to attach it to the fence post.

Vincent and Juan talking to the engineers about the different construction of bridges. They were impressed by the strength of an arch bridge.

Sapphire in control of a digger.  She managed to lift out six bottles in one scoop from the trough.