Teach me Tuesday starts again!

It was "Teach me Tuesday again today. Today Gina taught us how to make origami frogs. She was very patient with us and carefully explained how to fold the paper and create a jumping frog. It was really cool.

After the origami lesson, Marina and Caiden took us out on to the court for a sports lesson. Marina organised 14 of us into a netball game. She explained the rules and positions clearly, and both teams played a close game.

On the other court Caiden lead 10 of us in a soccer game.  
Everybody had heaps of fun kicking the ball around. Some excellent goals were scored by Saahil!

Thanks Gina, Marina and Caiden. It was another great "Teach me Tuesday!"

Mission Impossible in Room 13

On Monday we headed back to class after assembly to find that our class was a web of red lasers. Spy music was booming from the speakers, and it was our mission to negotiate the laser field. Here are some people's thoughts about the event.

Evil Mrs Millett. By Gina L


"Shhh.." I whispered to the other spies. I was freaking out. All of a sudden...
"You touched the laser!" someone whispered. 
"The evil villain, Mrs. Millett must have set up this up," I thought. 

Agent Marina and I were partners and we were doing pretty well until...'ZAP!' went a laser as I touched it with my head. Stuck, screaming and shouting spies. I'm sure that if I was the villain I would have heard us.
There were determined spies everywhere. More and more gaining on the evil Mrs. Millett. I could taste the anticipation. Mission Impossible really was impossible. The lasers were as red as fire. 
Finally we were finished. "Wow!" I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be nagged into being a spy.

The Laser Beams. 
By Alvin L

My spine was chilling not wanting to touch the web of laser beams. I felt my heart beat very fast when I saw people rolling and dodging but still not managing to get out!

Finally it was my turn. Caiden was my partner and he was way more confident that I was. I was sure that I would not get out, but I still tried.

"Woah!" I almost touched a laser, and I would have to start over. The distracting music some how made me do better. "Yes!" I whispered to myself as I crawled over the finish line. A few minutes later Caiden finished and we were the first team to cross over the finish line. 

My hardest mission yet. 
By Xavier R

It was time. It was time for my hardest mission yet. I had to go through a field filled with highly undeadly string! I was talking to my agent friend with the code name, 'I die a lot.'
We were last, and our mission was actually quite easy because we were the lowest agent rank, and they didn't trust us with real lasers.

We jumped around all the obstacles that were ahead of us. Finally we got to the end and so we went back for more. 

It was the second time and I hoped it would be easier for me. Sadly, I went a bit to intensely. I ran. "Oh, I'm lucky those lasers were just string, or half my body would be gone!" I ran a bit more. "Uh oh, my head touched it. That would have been rough!" 

Finally we finished and I thought of all the pain I could have had if those were real lasers!

Team building in the Tipa team

In the first week of school back at Upper Harbour the Tipa team played some games to get to know each other better. Here are some photos of the team building games.

In this game we had to kick the ball up to the Tee and then run around it 10 times before kicking the ball back to our teams. Everyone got really dizzy!!