Wai Times - 2018-11-27 with cover

Contents Page

1. Contents  41. Life of Wai
2. Staff 2018  42. Life of Wai
3. Principal's Report  43. Weekly Water Polo
4. Student Council 44. CZ Water Polo and Competitions
5. Yearbook Group  45. School Swimming Sports
6. CASS 46. CZ Swimming
7. Class Photos  47. CZ Girls Softball
8. Class Photos  48. CZ Boys Softball
9. Room 1  49. CZ Boys Hockey
10. Room 2  50. CZ Girls Hockey
11. Room 3  51. CZ Boys Cricket
12. Room 4  52. CZ Girls Cricket
13. Room 5 53. Rugby
14. Room 6 54. CZ Boys & Girls Tennis
15. Room 7 55. CZ Boys Soccer
16. Room 8 56. CZ Girls Soccer
17. Room 9 57. CZ Girls Netball
18. Room 10  58. Saturday Netball
19. Room 11 59. CZ Boys Netball
20. Room 12 60. Wai-Runners
21. Room 13 61. CZ Girls Basketball
22. Room 14 2. CZ Boys Basketball
23. Science Extension 63. Wai & CZ Cross Country
24. Classroom Science 61. CZ Girls Basketball
25. Trees for survival 2. CZ Boys Basketball
26. Visual Art 63. Wai & CZ Cross Country
27. Performing Arts 64. Waikowhai Athletics Day
28. Dance Extension   65. Beach Ed
29. Rock band  66. Origami Club & Chess Club
30. Production 67. Camp
31. Food Tech 68. Camp
32. Masterchef 69. CZ Boys & Girls Gymnastic
33. Technology 70. Chess
34. Robotics   71. Korean Trip
35. Wai-factor 72. Korean Trip
36. Wai-fest & Wai-Tunes 73. Service Prize Giving 78. Formal Prize Giving
37. Library & Literacy Support 74. Service Prize Giving 79. Formal Prize Giving
38. Kapa Haka 75. Service Prize Giving 80. Formal Prize Giving
39. Active Life 76. Service Prize Giving 81. Formal Prize Giving
40. Tough Guy Gal Challenge 77. Formal Prize Giving 82. Autographs

1

Wai Staff If I wasn't Teaching I
would be ...
2018
Mr King Ms Collard Ms Muna Miss Kumar Jimi
Miss Smith

A Builder A Firefighter Running in Exotic Places On a beach in Hawaii A Private Investigator A Teacher
Mrs Green Mr Robertson Mrs Wallace
Ms Cray Mr Ganda Miss de Graaf

Running an Orphanage An Orchardist A Mermaid Black Panther A Marine Biologist A Cheese Maker
Miss Poliko Mrs HG
Miss Sigley Miss Power Matua Mike
Victor

An Adventurer Zapping everybody with The Prime Minister of Working in Mrs Green’s A Firefighter An Outdoor Instructor
Radiation Samoa. Orphanage. Mrs Simons Mrs Sumner
Mrs Peach
Mr Minton Ms Etzine Mrs Ioelu

A Pro Sleeper Leading a Superhero Team Running Restaurants in London A Broadway Star A Creator & Adventurer Professional Tennis Player

Mrs Day Miss botica Atsuko Sato Mrs Moir Mrs Pentz Miss Nelson

A Movie Critic A Dancer Chef A Judge on Masterchef An Artist A Professional World Traveller
Jaybour Alice
Mrs Damania Mr Richard Cooper Mitch

Glenda

A Teacher Aid Another day at the office A Body Builder A Swimwear Model A Rugby Player Doug

By Fran, Bella & Daniel 2

Principal's Report

2018 has been a superb year, there
has been a lot to be thankful for!

We appreciate our community at
Waikowhai Intermediate.
A successful school like ours needs
the support of the community to
offer and achieve all that it does. We
are thankful to the parents and
caregivers who volunteer in so
many varied ways throughout the
year.

It seems our lives are getting busier, and the new norm in Auckland is to have both
caregivers working, so we are genuinely grateful for the help that we receive from our
parents and caregivers. It makes a real difference to what we can achieve as a school

and the opportunities that we can offer our students.
We are also thankful to our students who make Waikowhai Intermediate the place it is,
439 at the time of writing. It is our students through their hard work, energy, humour,
great character and courage for new learning that make Waikowhai Intermediate a great

place to learn and come each day.

At school there are a group of wonderful people we call support staff, who we owe a
great debt of gratitude to as well. They are our Teacher Aides, Caretaker, Receptionist
and Office Manager who all do critical jobs with great humour to keep the place running

so very well. Between them they help to ensure that every student has the best day
possible.

Last, be certainly not least, there are the teachers and our leadership team, as without
great teachers in front of our classrooms it would not be the same, their work is greatly

appreciated.

So thank you to our community, students, support staff, teachers and our leadership
team for your part in making Waikowhai Intermediate the great place that it is, I am

certainly grateful to come to work here each day.

Have a great summer break!

David King,
Principal.
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By Zoe and Liv 4

2018 Yearbook Team

Arlyn, Daniel, Victoria

5 By Annaleah

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Jordan HRAL
Tayla

Denise OTT
Thaddeus E

Megan 2018 has been an

amazing year for the CASS

Unit. We have learnt all about how they

learn best. Everyone who participated in the

CASS Reading and Writing group were happy with

how fun it was. The CASS Unit have been involved in

everything Waikowhai. From chilling in the library locating

their favourite books, to heading outside for some awesome

P.E sessions. It has been amazing to see everyone get involved

together. A special congratulations to Tayla for being an

amazing school councilor this year!

By Lily and Larissa 6





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ROOM 5 2018

13 By Eve & Fran

@Room6#Snapchat #BestClass #2018

Ms Muna

Safa Tom Dori Osaia Peeana

Matthew Elena Manahau Dharyian Anna

Ana Joshua M Olivia Vincent Lily

Mark Caitlin Nehmia Jamie Trey

Maria Jerry Anya Junior Josh J

Luke Carter Matteo Kalarnee Ofa

By: Samantha 14

Room 7

Miss de Graaf

Joyce Ruby Tyreez
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Dora Krish Keira Kieren Dorothy Salmen
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Max Andrew Kayci Jordan Alex Simione Roman Sage

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Zaria Gabby

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Lonise Bella Tim Miss Poliko

Skye Annaleah Brooke Tallula Amanda

Braxton Tatyana Gian Lopeti Janelle

Kalini Antonio Joeseph Keira Amos

Jarvis Billy Oscar Caleb Haoron

Faisel Laycen Muhammed Ahmed Peter

17 Annaleah

 Room 10's Hobbies!

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Jonas Laura Claire Eden Daemon Triston

Alexia Brook Jerry Nihar Alec

Primrose Sandra Izzy Nevaeh  Emma

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Oscar Jacky Kaelyn Sammy Absar Hunter
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Noah Anthony Elliot Sarah Risa Cassi Mrs Power

Ava Jazmin Ben T Brianaa Xander Ethan

Jolui Sho Hemesh Charlie Cassidy Maddy

Daniel Max Ben H James Maya Arnav VJ

Munro Lucien Eden Devanti Sativa Stormy

19 By Risa

Nethya Priscilla Stephen Miss Sigley Faidhi
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Grace Sam Cody
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Sayeh Prisha Alex

Willow Genete Jonathan Mele
Ati Tylah
Bellaviness Samual

Cushla

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Room 14 Caricatures

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Do not steal any form of content

SCIENCE
EXTENSION

Science Extension is a Class By Daniel
for people

who LOVE science. Every
Friday the students get to

do really fun science
experiments. They have
looked closely at really
creepy creatures and even
got to do science with FIRE.

23

Classroom science

This year during Classroom Science, Waikowhai students were
on an adventure of learning. All students got to participate in
some awesome experiences such as watching REAL LIFE baby
chicks hatch! Dissect lamb brains! AND dissect chicken hearts!
The students also learnt how fast and slow energy can burn

among lots of other exciting activities.
It was a wonderful year of science!

By Brook 24

Kaitiaki-Trees For Survival

 This year at Kaitiaki the team have
been working very hard, helping
the environment. They have made
the earth healthy and they have
planted new trees to help the
environment! They even went to a
fun planting day on the 23rd of
August where they got to plant,
learn about farming and even met
some cute cows!

25 By: Izzy

Visual Arts

Performing Arts

Mrs Nelson

27 By Sean

Dance Extension

2018 Year 7

Ruby Stormy
Joyce Maya
Dorothy Sa'tiva
Luken Steven
Katie Taylor
Otis Frances
Gabi Amie
Hame Bree
Tyrone Isabelle
Lupe Olivia
Zaria Sandra
Keke Primrose
Alexia Elijah
Ava

Year 8

Minty Zoë
Georgia Olivia S
Rebecca Samantha
Charlotte
Olive
Gabi Fran
Angel Eve
Larissa Sami
Christina Katie
Sione Tyrell
Robert Rodney
Evie Karma
Melanie Olivia L
Alaskah Lily
Honey Lanu
Tayla David
Caitlin Travis
Eva Olivia B

By Liv 28

Eve Eve
Elena

Danae

Waikowhai Intermediate's Rock Band - Travis
Midnight Souls
Samantha
Wai Tube
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Micheal
On the 23rd of August our awesome school band 'The Midnight Souls' went to bandquest.

Carter

Brook Bradley
We competed with other bands and we got...

Primrose Tan Carter
The 'Best Musicianship' award, we sang the songs: Valerie and Feel It Still Nathan

Francesca Walsh Jacob
Well done to all the people who auditioned for the band. You all gave it a go and well done
to the people that were successful

Lily Wilkings

And the teacher, Jacob did a great job teaching our amazing band!

By Brook and Izzy

Sandra Mao

All in all Bandquest was fantastic and our band is AWESOME! Go Midnight Souls!

PRODUCTION
★ 2018 ★

THIS IS ME

KAPA HAKA • MANA WAHINE •
K AND THE GANG • HIP HOP GROUP • CONTEMPARAY DANCE

• WAI TUNES • 19TH HARMONY • MONOLOUGE ACTORS •

By Victoria 30

FOOD TECH

This year our wonderful teacher Mrs Moir has
been working with us to create magical meals in
the kitchen that our students have been trying to
recreate. The students have 2 blocks to create a

delicious, mouth watering master piece. 

31 By: Jess

Fran 32

Technology

MR PENTZ IS OUR AWESOME
TECHNOLOGY TEACHER WHO

HAS ENCOURAGED MANY
STUDENTS TO MAKE MANY
INTERESTING CREATIONS
THIS YEAR. MR PENTZ HAS
TRAINED US TO MAKE MANY
SIMPLE OBJECTS SUCH AS
SPINNING TOPS, KEY RINGS
AND PHONE HOLDERS. IN
TECH WE USED MANY TRICKY

MACHINES AND OTHER
EASIER MATERIALS SUCH AS

DRILLS AND SANDPAPER.
EVERYONE AT HARD TECH HAS

HAD A GREAT TIME!
THANK YOU MR PENTZ.

33 BY RISA 

Robotics Team: Logan, Kaelem, Mathew, Millie, Sam, Sean, James

Wai-Factor 2018
Heat 1 Heat 2

Wai-Factor 2018 was fill of amazing singers, talented dancers
hilarious comedy acts and lots more. Everyone 

performed with lots of concentration, effort and talent.
Thank you to Mrs Peach who has supported

and improved all of the acts. Congratulations to the   Sassy
Divas who came in 1st place this year, well done girls!

Semi Finals  Finals

35 By: Annaleah 

Wai-Fest The sun was shinning
Wai-Tunes and delicious smells
drifted through the air.
By Annaleah and Lily All the dancers and
acts put their most
hard work into the
performances. We all
enjoyed it and had lots
of fun. Thank you too
all the teachers who
supported us and

helped make the
scrumptious food. We
are all looking forward

to Wai-Fest 2019!

Beautiful voices
drifted

through Waikowhai
as the Wai-Tunes
group practiced

for their many
performances.
Thanks to Mrs
Peach who has
made time to

perfect our
voices.

36

The Library is a place where Brooke The Manuka Room is a
we get to go on an adventure Keira room that helps students
Sahil  with their Writing, Reading
into space or into Dora  and Language skills. They
an imaginative land. The Cushla  doing fun games and
Library has so many fantastic Gabrielle  challenges. The online
types of amazing books. We Safa  programmes they use help
also had lots of fun library Mya them a lot the programmes
competitions this year created Dori  are: Steps and Reading
by the amazing Mrs Sumner. Peter  Eggs. A big thanks to Mrs
This year the Librarian team Emma Sumner, Mrs Wallace and
was amazing,  they dedicated Laura  Glenda for helping the
there lunch times to helping Edenn  students in the Manuka
our students get books out. Maya  Room.
Luqman 
Ka Pai Librarians!  Daniel 
Ashana 
DAILY PLANNER Alana
Harleen 
Minty
Larissa
Ella
Nida
Samantha
Olivia . S
Hazel
Kate 
Joyce 
Simar
Nyah 
Umi
Omisha
 Brook
Bradley

This year our Kapa Haka group have been
extraordinary! They have been working hard on

all their performances. Kapa Haka is a New
Zealand Maori cultural group of dancing,

chanting and an expression of
cultural identity.

Ms.Muna Kapa Haka is an integral part of Waikowhai
(Kapa Haka Teacher) Intermediate. This year our Kapa Haka group

By Bellaviness did an outstanding Haka for the school
production, they had an amazing attitude
towards all their dances and were loud and

clear!
Ka pai Kapa Haka group.

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By: Samantha, Tegan & Fran 42

Weekly Water Polo

Alec
Theo
Melanie
Sammy
Brook
Oscar
Stormy
Olivia.B
Aria
Nethya

Kevin By Brook
Daniel
Oscar
Gabrielle
Olivia.L
Georgia

Eva
Tom
Matthew

This years Water Polo teams have been

Rodney amazing! Teal and Aqua have both been
Alex outstanding. They trained hard every

Tuesday night and played action packed
games every Friday night for two terms. A

massive thanks to our amazing coaches
and Ms Etzine for her organisational skills.

Overall great work everyone.

43

Water Polo Tournaments

This year in addition to Friday night
Water Polo we have had three
competitions! At Winter Fest our
Sapphire Team did a superb job
coming 8th out of 20 teams. 
In the Tim Sonderer Memorial

Competition, Cobalt did amazingly
and came in 3rd place. All the players

put in a fantastic effort at these
tournaments and most of all had

loads of fun.
On Monday the 14th of May our Aqua
team participated in the Central Zone
Water Polo tournament at Diocesan
School. We placed 9th out of 11 teams

and a great day was had by all. 
Thank you to all our coaches and

managers for giving up their
weekends to make this possible and

to Ms Etzine for organising Water
Polo 2018.

Aqua Teal 44

By Daniel

This year's Swimming Sports was on Our
a very gloomy and cloudy day. The Scoreboard is:
whole school scurried their way to
Mt Roskill pools and were cheering Freestyle  Freestyle 
until their voices burst out Year 7 Girl Year 8 Girl
of their bodies and didn't stop until 1st. GraceTea 1st.  Tayla Trebilco
they heard the bad news .....that our Year 7 Boy Year 8 Boy
day of glory was over and the whole 1st. Kevin Zhang  1st.  Alex Thompson
school had to go back because of the
Backstroke Backstroke
horrendous weather. The incredible Year 7 Girl Year 8 Girl
swimmers were left behind to finish 1st. Grace tea  1st.  Tayla Trebilco
 Year 7 Boy   Year 8 Boy 
their intense races.  1st.  Kevin Zhang  1st.  Alex Thompson

A big thank you to Mrs Moir Breaststroke Breaststroke
and all the other teachers Year 7 girl Year 8 girl

that helped 1st. Grace Tea 1st.  Eva Moody
organise the School Swimming  Year 7 boy Year 8 boy

Sports. They did a great job 1st.  Kevin Zhang 1st.  Rodney  Libeau 
because everyone enjoyed   a
Butterfly Butterfly
day at Mt Roskill pools.  Year 7 girl Year 8 girl
45 1st. Grace Tea 1st. Tayla Trebilco
Year 7 boy Year 8 boy
1st.  Kevin Zhang 1st.  Alex Thompson 

 Jess

C.Z
SWIMMING

6th March

On the sixth of March the Waikowai
Intermediate Swimming Team went
to Diocesan School pool to compete
in Central Zone Swimming Sports.

The stands were crowded with
rowdy and supportive schools but
Waikowai was by far the loudest.
The swimmers were really fast and
did extremely well. Grace and Kevin
made it to Inter Zones. Grace made
it into the 50 meter Backstroke and

Kevin made
it into 50 meter freestyle, backstroke
AND butterfly. Fantastic effort! Well

done team!

Kevin Tayla
Daniel Eva
Alec Olivia
Luke Katie
Grace Alex
Stormy Mathew
Kalani Tom
Annaleah Rodney
Keira
46
Daniel

Central Zone
Girls Softball

YEAR 8 TEAM
YEAR 7 TEAM

It was a crisp morning when the year 7 and Fran
8 girls headed to Eden-

Roskill Softball Club. Where they played
several tough and challenging games
against other schools, with everyone

fighting for first. Overall the year 8's came
9th and the year 7's came 7th. All the girls
played exceptionally well and had positive
team spirit the whole day. Congratulations

girls, well done!

A special thanks to
47 Ms Muna and Alice

boys softball
Yr 8's

Fletcher Rm 4, Seth Rm 1, Tantai Rm 2, Jackson Rm 3,
Faizan Rm 2, Travis Rm 7, Louis Rm 2, David Rm 7,
Ivan Rm 1 and Toby Rm 4.

The softball boys had a mind blowing day and played better than they
expected. The results were breathtaking for both year 8’s and year
7’s. It was a nice hot day at Wesley Intermediate and because the
boys did an amazing job, they made a trip to Mc Donalds for a nice
cold frozen fanta. The boys made our school very proud and had a
fun day, which is the most important thing. A special Congratulations

to the year 7's for placing 2nd!

Yr 7's

Munro Rm 11, Sila Rm Rm 9, Takuma Rm 14, Max Rm 7 ,
Kieren Rm 7 Otis Rm 8, Elijah Rm 10, Isaiah Rm 8,
Ankur Rm 14 and Tyrone Rm 8

Jess  48

Team: HBoocyksey
Bronson

Shavin
Sher
Tyrell
Kayzon
Kobe
Samuel
Dhariyan
Tom
Joshua J
Alex
Gian
Mark
Oscar
Josh
Joshua W
Nuufou

Boys Hockey was a wonderful experience for all. With Mr
Ganda at the heart of the team, they worked hard and placed
third overall only to lose to many highly- skilled weekly teams.
Looking at past years this one is a relatively good year for boys

hockey.

49 By Alex