To combat the spreading of the Corona Virus, the school closed and went into lock down from the 24th of March.  Our learning resumed online using Google Classroom.  

Wow what an exciting week it was!  Our class paired up with Room 19 and the boys and girls took turns going for swimming lessons.  We had so much fun and enjoyed learning different swimming techniques.

We had so much fun at the swim sport day!  Congratulations to Kanuka for winning this year!

It is important to keep our environment clean.  Room 18 dedicated our breaks to clean up our school environment.  Because of this we won the Outside Environment Award! 

This term our Peer Mediators received a special green jacket to wear while they are on duty. Peer mediators has a very important and responsible job.  They are trained to help solve problems and deescalate a situation.  We are proud to have two Peer Mediators in our class!

Our Wise Writers!

Last year, we were privileged to have 4 students from our class be chosen to attend a workshop for the 22/23 Best writers in the school! We had famous author and illustrator, Vasanti Unka come and help and support each of us with our writing. At the start of 2020, we were gifted with a book with each of our published writing. We were very happy. The prize was awarded at assembly. We also had a book delivered to each class so they could also read about the students' awesome writing.

History Of Papatoetoe Intermediate Lesson

On Thursday, we had a history class with Mr Vinyard, Ha talked about the history of the school and a bit about the area we live in and some legends about how we got our logo and our motto " WHAKA POKAI TARA" He told us about Tara and Hape and lots of other stories. We learned lots of new things and the lesson was very informative.

Team Sport!!

On Wednesday we had Team Sport,
Our Class had Soccer with Mrs Raymond.
Our Class had turns playing a match because it was very hot, so we couldn't stand long!
Even Though it was hot, we still managed to have lots of fun!!

Tech & Arts 2020

As we have started our learning in class, so have started our tech classes. On Tuesday Week 2, was our first tech class for the year.

Year 7's had Food Technology with Mrs Nawinta Prasad

Year 8's had Music Technology with Mr Hamish Mckenzie

First Library Session

On Monday Week 2, we had our first library session!
We had our librarian, Mrs Dass explaining the library rules and expectations, then the Year 7's & New Year 8's had some time to get used to the way our Library works. We also had our Librarians 2020, Aneeta Alias & Charlotte Steel practising how to issue, return and to shelve books for the class!
We had a great time in the library and are looking forward to our following lessons throughout the year.

Powhiri 2020

We are also welcoming, our new members to the Papatoetoe Intermediate &  Room 18 Family- The Year 7's!!!

We welcomed the Year 7's by Performing a powhiri. We sang waitas and the Kapa Haka Group even performed the Haka. Then, we had Matua Johnny speak on behalf of our school, and a man speak on behalf of our Year 7's and their parents. We also warmly welcome our fellow teachers who are an addition to the staff here at Pap Int!

The Yr 8's are back, ready like always!!

As for 2020, we have once again... Room 18's Enthusiastic, Funny & The Ultimate Smarties', The Year 8's!!!

As we grow, so do the responsibilities we have to take on, and prior to that the Yr 8's have started their training on their new monitor jobs.

We've got Librarians, Environment Monitors, Science Leaders, ICT monitors, Security Box Monitors, etc;etc;

We wish the Yr 8's best of luck for 2020!