Another busy but short week has been had in Tuakana Whetu with Speeches, Technology and Passion Projects.

Kia ora whanau,

Speeches

Tuakana Whetu had several choices of speech topics to choose from including 'my perfect holiday' to 'why having a pet makes us a better person' and many more. Speeches were suppose to be 3-4 minutes so the audience doesn't get bored, but is still informational. Year 7-8 have to write speeches and put them on cue cards where they read it out to an audience, with the best being the ones that fully memorised their speech. A speech consists of an introduction, a body consisting of 3 long paragraphs or 5-6 short ones and a conclusion which wraps it up. 

If you were aiming to get in the finals you had to make eye contact with the audience, speak with clarity, use hand gestures and hold the audience's attention. Many felt nervous and didn't want to read it out in fear of being embarrassed, however everyone conquered their fears and did really well.

Written by Sky (Year 7)

Congratulations to our speech finalists:

Year 8 
1. Meshwa Soni
2. Jood Almutairi
3. Jahstys Tawhai

Year 7
1. Makayla Dai
2. Charlotte Carey
3. Victoria Uriostegui Cordero

Meshwa and Makayla will present their speech at the Riccarton Rotary Speech Competition, whilst the overall top 6 will be presenting at Burnside Rotary Speech Competition later in the year.

Technology

At Technology in cooking class we cook a variety of food, learn about food waste and keeping our environment clean. Every Wednesday we cook something different and don’t stick to the same project like every other class. At the end every of class the teacher takes what we cooked in the class, uploads the recipe of the food we did in that lesson and uploads it to Kirkwood School's blog. If you would like to see the recipes that we make at technology for yourselves, click the link below. Also check out the other projects students have been working on in the photos below.

http://kirkwoodfoodtech.weebly.com/

Written by Aris and Matthew (Year 8s)

40 Hour Famine

Good luck to everyone participating in the 40 Hour Famine this weekend. We can't wait to hear all of the challenges that you conquer! Don't forget to collect as many sponsors as you can - all funds raised will help those in need living in Syria.

Reminders

Wednesday: CPSS Artistic Gymnastics

Thursday: ICAS Spelling Exam 

Friday: PTA Spell-A-Thon