This is Thursday today the juniors (Years 123) are seeing a clown ha-ha I love clowns they have walked to the church and are watching them right this minute!!! If you would like to see some work on the Olympics come to our class we are covered in Olympic stuff!!!! We are finally publishing our second narrative and we hope you can read our stories.Our story's are focusing on sucess criterias and marking each others work so we can find mistakes and know how to fix them! By: Brianna

Cheeting gets you no were

Valerie Adams' main Olympic opponent, Belarussian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk, is reportedly denying any wrongdoing after testing positive for drugs and being stripped of her Olympic gold medal, bumping Adams to top spot. Ostapchuk tested positive for metenolone, an anabolic agent. The announcement came just hours after the curtain came down on the 30th Olympiad in London. "I was tested twice more in London but I don't have any idea how this thing ended up in my body. I'm going to fight this allegation because it can't be possible," Ostapchuk reportedly told local media in Minsk. "In total, I've been tested 16 times since April. You must be a complete idiot to take doping just before the competition especially such an outdated drug as a steroid, knowing you're going to be tested not once but probably several times." Ostapchuk also accused Olympic organisers of prejudice against the Belarussian athletes, Reuters reported. "You all know how we had been treated there, just ask Ivan Tsikhan," she said, referring to the Belarussian hammer thrower booted out of this year's Olympics because of a positive drug test from the 2004 Games in Athens. "We must fight for our rights. If we remain silent and accept the punishment, then they will continue to humiliate us." On Tuesday morning, Adams finished second behind Ostapchuk. Her throw of 20.7m was well behind the Belarussian's 21.36m. Adams was driving to the Switzerland home of her coach Jean-Pierre Egger when she was phoned by New Zealand Olympic chef de mission Dave Currie who broke the news. "I questioned whether he was telling me fibs or was it really for real. He said 'no, no, no it's for real'. As soon as I hung up from there I got about 26 text messages congratulating me." She told TV3's Firstline she was "absolutely over the moon". "Words cannot express how much I am so happy." However, she admitted she was disappointed she didn't get to stand on the Olympic podium. "I've been robbed of the moment, so to speak, and enjoying the moment and hearing the national anthem played and just enjoying that with my family being there." She said she did not want to "waste any of my time or my breath" on Ostapchuk. "It's a matter of savoring the moment now and celebrating with the rest of New Zealand on what has been, for me, a very emotional last seven days at the Olympics." Adams' Olympic teammates have rallied behind her. Gold medal-winning rower Mahe Drysdale told TV3 there had been some suspicions around the Belarussian. "It's great the system's working, obviously, that everyone's tested and they're finding the drug cheats," he said. "I still don't think personally, as an athlete, (Adams) will be that happy with her performance because she didn't perform to her high standards but she was still the best clean athlete out there on the day and she was absolutely fantastic. "All of us as team mates ... are very, very happy to see another New Zealand gold medal." Ostapchuk, 31, was first tested by urine sample the day before competition and again straight after the final. Both samples showed up the presence of metenolone. By Sophie.S

MONDAY MORNING WHOLE SCHOOL PRAYERS This morning room5 was on whole school prayers. It was a bit of a muddle up at first but Miss Starkey got it sorted Our theme was excellent First we had to sort out who was going to do what There were lots of jobs we had to cover Like Parys of faith each person had to make up a prayer depending on the theme they got Bible reading you gets to read a reading from the bible Art you design a letter each And Power point you make a short film type of thing It was a lot of fun we also showed a video And did some singing at the end to practice for Saturday night My prayer was Jesus we pray for help to be kind to our contestants to lesson to you when you are trying us something important to be strong and open to participating and relating to friends when we don’t exactly feel up to it and also To remind us that we do not always win but it costs at least if we try. The response: Lords help me to be the best I can be By: Kylie Pilkinton

IN DC In dc our class has got a sheet that has 4 categories Creating, applying, analysing and evaluating First we pick a category and pick one of three Activities and complete it. Than we go on to the Next one and we pick a different category and do the same Thing again till we have complete the sheet we have to Do one of each category before we do the same category. The whole sheet is based on the Olympics. by Sophie

DC

DC:Democratic Curriculum In dc we are learning about the games. I have a dream of going to the olyimpics.

Coss country

Cross Country winners! Last Tuesday in our small school we competed in the Upper Clutha cross country. We have just heard that 8 people have been accepted into the Central Otago in Queenstown. 8 people have been exceptionally good and got exactly what they wanted, everybody raced their hearts out we were all very good fast. After the race everybody got to relax and buy water popsicles and sausages. YUMM!!! It is going to be very exciting for the people who get to compete in the Upper Clutha. But we not everybody knows who the 8 people are!!!!! You better find out!! By: Brianna Curtis

running club

running club on tusday and wedsday we practise for the cross country for we can yet faster for we can win

MISS BEECH

Today Mrs Beech came into are school. She had her baby with her.It was so cute .All the kids were crowding the window. We all miss you..... By: amy morris