Stuff That People Do At Lunchtime

At lunchtimes, Room 8, and the rest of the school, are busy doing all sorts of interesting things;
- playing ball-tag, cheat and other playground games,
- manhunt, tag and other whole school games,
- playing fun mini games with juniors and middles in the sandpit,
- doing lunchtime activities like Kapahaka, Ukelele and Library duties,
- or walking aimlessly around with friends

We have been doing some pretty cool stuff at lunchtimes!

By Jacob

Cross Country training

Lately, Room Eight has been doing a run every day. We also do three songs of Jump Jam with the rest of the school in the morning. The run takes us from the school all the way to the beach and back then once around the bund. Some people zoom right to the front and some people stay behind and pace themselves by running ten or twenty posts and then walking five. The run is 1.35 kilometers long and is very fast (most of the time).

The Jump Jam songs are a fun thing to do every morning (before the run in the afternoon) and often warm people up quite a lot! So far the songs have been very ‘feel good’ sort of songs and everyone often sings along to the songs that they know. Some year 7 and 8 students are up the front helping all the little kids along, while the rest of the school stay back and dance their hearts out!

When we do our fitness activities we all give it a go and do our best at everything, as well as getting ready for the Mapua School Cross Country event on the 8th of May 2015. We are taking this event very seriously and we have all set our own personal goals and we are all trying hard to achieve them in a set time frame (before the cross country). We also have been filling in a run log by entering the date, where we go to, distance today and the total distance we have run.

Our class is now impervious to the endless fear and tiredness of the cross country!

By Jacob