Tamaki College Heist

Last Wednesday Tamaki College were visited by the The Royal Family - no not Kate and Wills (although that would have also been very cool) - the Hip Hop Dance Crew! The performance was amazing to watch and the kids looooved it! 

All the credit goes to Jake in Year 13 for organising the campaign and motivating the entire school to participate in the MaiFM competition. 

I can't embed the video but follow the link to watch it here! 

How long can 9PLa hold their breath?

Yesterday afternoon 9PLa had some fun learning to read stopwatches! 

Ms Bunce handed out the stopwatches and everyone quickly started playing with them. Two of the boys started to time how long they could hold their breath, so Ms Bunce quickly turned it into a whole-class competition.

Looking around the room I could see faces turning red and there were also students holding their hands in front of each others' nose and mouth to check that no one was cheating! 

You can check out the video from the class below. Unfortunately the real breath-holding competition had finished by the time I remembered I could film it, so this is a less-competitive repeat of the activity!