Happy Birthday Taupua

Basketball Tournament

Last Monday Western Heights competed in the Henderson Cluster basketball tournament. We entered 2 teams, one in the A and B grade. Both teams tried their hearts out and were a credit to the school. Unfortunately the B team missed out on making the finals by 1 measly point but were voted by the umpires to be the best fairplay side. This was due to the spirit in which they played the game, never giving up and always giving their all. The A team made it through to the semifinals where they defeated Henderson South, the same team they had lost to 20 minutes earlier. This was an action packed game and the A team definitely showed a huge improvement to take the win. The final game of the day, a playoff for third and fourth, was a real nail biter. At one point I was nearly jumping out of my skin. Sunnyvale were a good team but our team was better taking third place. This was a an awesome end to a great day.

Tough Guy and Gal Challenge

What an awesome event. 40 of our kids from Western Heights participated in the inaugural tough guy and gal challenge. They braved the mud and the cold and as you will see in the slideshow above, they all had a ball. Every single one of our kids completed the course and were an absolute credit to the school and themselves. Listening to how excited they all were afterwards definitely made the trip worthwhile. A special thanks must go to all the parents who turned up and supported the kids as well.

League for Libraries Warriors Competition

Earlier this year room 23 entered a writing competition. We had to create unique stories that included the Warriors rugby league team. Fortunately for us we placed in the top eight out of 40 other schools a great effort! Our prize consisted of being driven to the Henderson Library in a flash coach and then meeting three of the Warriors, Ben Henry, Albert Vete and Jerome Ropati. The Warriors took the time to complete some reading activities with us and also signed autographs for every single person in our class. When we were leaving the Warriors gave us all a prize pack that had two books, a beeping bookmark (that our teacher is already sick of) and some other goodies. All in all it was an awesome day.

ICT Video Project.

Last Friday room 23 had access to the ipads. They were assigned the task of creating a video that was at least one minute long and no longer than three minutes. They also had to plan out each scene detailing what was to happen and who was in each role before they were able to start filming. They only had one day to achieve this feat and I think they have done an awesome job. Please watch these videos and let us know what you think.

Mr Baker

Agam, Cameron & Milano

Sarah, Harry, Hayley & D'Qwan.