It's exam time

Its exam time, if you hadn't already guessed. I'm sure all the seniors have been hitting the books and studying so hard that your pens have run out and you are so stressed you know longer know up from down.

Well, chill.

Study all your well-kept notes from the beginning of the year including all those notes that you've copied from your friends- you know- from the days you were away. Make up songs that remind you of all the information, condense the information from 120 pages into a simple two or three or four, make up dumb jokes or draw cartoons to remind you of the info. Whatever works.

Next, you go to your helpful teachers to clarify the bits from those messy hand-writing days. Or perhapes from those days when you tried writing with the other hand! You study abit more, adding in the new information and voila! the night before the exam- you sleep.

That's right, sleep. The thing you probably haven't done much for a while.

Next morning, day of the almighty exam, you wake up early. Have breakfast, check you have everything you need, fill up the water bottle and head out towards the big scary exam place. You meet up with mates and talk about anything but the exam you are about to face.

You enter the room, sit quietly, listen anxiously to the instructions, check your papers and finally, you start the exam.

But you slept. You can remember the details of your study and you remember to read the questions properly. You do well. Yay!

In theory.

But try it before you decide it's useless.

2007 Rangitikei College Cross Country

Coconut Bras and flowery lei's were the main attraction for the Rangitikei College 2007 Cross Country. We all took our time to get changed into our snappy ensembles and loiter around a small section of the school field, waiting patiently for our races to be called and the starting gun to fire. First to leave the starting line were the Junior girls.

Here were the results for that race:

1st: Brooke Batley

2nd: Lisa Mallinder

3rd: Shonee Hancock

4th: Sophia Tomlinson

5th: Ash Collins

Second to leave were the junior boys.

Here were the results for that race:

1st: Nick Hynes

2nd: Hayden Revell

3rd: Dylan Tuffin

4th: Kody Greeks

5th: Michael Thomsen

Then came the intermediate girls.

Results:

1st: Rachel Puts

2nd: Emily McGinity

3rd: Sarah Thomsen

4th: Rachel Revell

5th: Ashley Austin

Not long after came the intermediate boys.

Results:

1st= Mark Jones and Joshua Keyes-Kumeroa

3rd: Nathan Mitchell

4th: Matthew Hicks

5th: Tahu Kamareira

Then the senior girls.

Results:

1st= Stephanie Gardiner and Charlena Kumeroa

3rd: Nikita Forrest

4th: Louise Hammond

5th: Stacey Motu

Last but not least, the senior boys.

Results:

1st: Braedon Moratti

2nd: Andrew Walker

3rd: Shane Will

4th: Sam Durston

5th: Dylan Hart

The house results:

1st: RUAHINE 173

2nd: KAIMANAWA 167

3rd: TARARUA 134

4th: KAWEKA 74

Overall it was a good effort by all students. Congratulations to all those who participated and all the winners.

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Attitude - The Senior Seminar

It was the end of period 1 and as the students were preparing to leave for their period 2 classes, they were unexpectedly informed that they were to go to the hall and attend a special presentation. They took their seats and the speaker introduced himself as James Hannah, and he would be talking to them about drugs, alcohol and the reasons why we feel pressured to use them. A sigh echoed throughout the hall as they prepared to be injected (ignore the pun) with the same old constant drone of information that they had already been subjected to numerous times in the past.

Surprisingly, James was not the speaker the students thought he was. He filled the speech with humour and valuable information most students hadn't thought of or encountered before. He told us interesting and insightful stories about his family and people he knew. He also educated the students with his witty slideshow containing hilarious pictures including the "Crack-addict Kittens" and some gnarly dude with a bug-eye.

Overall, the students learned a fair bit about drugs and alcohol (through all the laughter). Hopefully this presentation left students thinking and wondering about the choices they make regarding the use of these various drugs. It was a very memorable and entertaining presentation and we invite you all to attend one in your area if you can.

We encourage you to visit:

www.attitude.org.nz

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