Burns-Bulletin Week Five Term Four

Room 8 Burns Bulletin Term 4 Week 5

Week Four in Room 8 was another busy week with term four absolutely flying by. The Racist Rashes won almost every single award in Room 8 this week after having a very slow start they came right inn the end. Social dancing continued with

This week in Room 8 social dancing will continue on for our year eight students in preparation for their end of year leavers dance. On Monday and Wednesday block three the school will have it’s athletics afternoon’s with a lot of Mohaka and Room 8 members making finals. Sexuality education also starts this week. I am sure lots of students are interested and have many questions that they want to ask and have answered.

Standards Day took place in week four with Mohaka putting in a very good showing and hopefully when we find out the final results later on in the week it will be a win for Mohaka.

On Thursday afternoon there will be a Burns-Martin Trophy Challenge. Can Room 8 turn seven wins into eight wins? Or will Room 4 finally be able to get back the Burns-Martin Trophy for the first time since May this year in term two. We have six wins in a row let’s make it seven Room 8.


The awards in Room 8 for week 4 are as follows:
Drum: The Racist Rashes
Shield: The Racist Rashes
Belt: Jeremy (The Racist Rashes)
Wings: Christine (Kumquats)
People’s Choice Award: Jenna (The Racist Rashes).

Week five will see the start of our sexuality education programme which will be very interesting to see what the members of Room 8 already know and so we can learn about this together as a class. Week five also has the start of testing to take place in preparation for our year seven’s to become year eight’s at T.I.S and our year eight’s to head on to high school.

Week Four Term Four Group Champions

Week Four Term Four Group Champions The Racist Rashes

In week four the lead changed a lot with the winning group trailling all week until the final day. The Racist Rashes won almost every award that Room 8 has to offer on the final day of the week which just goes to show that being steady through out the week generally is the way to win but not always.

Social Dancing

Some members of Room 8 performing dancing earlier on in the year.

Social Dancing has started for the year eight students and they are having a blast learning the different types of dances. The boy's in Room 8 have really got on board and have even come back to class after the dancing lessons and shown some of our fellow year seven students what they have learnt.

The theme for the year eight leavers dance is undecided at this stage but I am sure whatever it is the year eight's will have a memorable evening when it does take place on the final days of the year in December.

Movember Day 5

Mr. Burns and his growing during Movember.

After five days this is what Mr. Burns has grown during Movember. Over the weekend I will start to look at designing the mo a little bit more and seeing how it all turns out in the end.

Room 8 Debates

Room 8 and their debates!

This week Room 8 have been completing debates. The topics that have been argued in the affirmative and negative are as follows:

- Boys and Girls should be educated seperately.
- Television is a waste of time.
- Homer Simpson is the perfect male.
- Going to school should be voluntary.
- Skateboarding on footpaths should be made legal.

Room 8 have shown the great skills that have been learnt in relation to debating and all been able to talk well about thier topics.

Talking in Room 8 is something that we try to promote and are generally very good at doing.

The class has learnt a lot about the format of how a debate starts, rebuttal and the different terminology used. The rebuttal has shown that everyone in Room 8 pays attention to what each other say, are able to give feedback and enjoy watching each other performing their debates.

Standards Day

Mohaka Members before Standards Day.

On Wednesday the 4th of November was the Taradale Intermediate Standards Day. What Standards Day is is an athletics event where all of the students at Taradale Intermediate participate in athletics event.

The events were:
- Discus
- Shot Putt
- 100 meters sprints
- High Jump
- Long Jump

If the individuals got a 4 score then they went through to the finals of that event on the following Monday and Wednesday afternoons. There were a lot of Mohaka Members getting these which was pleasing to see.

The final results have not been added up yet but looks like it will be a very close finish and hopefully it will be a win to Mohaka!

Stay tuned!

Movember Day 4

Mr. Burns after 4 days.

After four days there is starting to show a bit and some trimming over the weekend will take place. Looking good for a nice full mo or beard over the next few weeks and by the end of Movember!

Movember Day 2

Mr. Burns after two days of Movember!

Movember has started in Room 8 with Mr. Burns taking part and already two days down. At this stage all looks just fine, but give it time and Mr. Burns wil start to grow some hair and you might not start to recognise who that is under all of that hair!

Stay posted for week day photos!