Just to let you know...

Crystal and I have been going around and making nusiances of ourselves in as many form classes as we feel like. All of H block form classes (except ours) have been visited and everyone else is on the list.
Basically all we have to say is

• Visit our website (which you already have)
• If you would like to submit articles to us then feel free, we need them. Badly. Anything happening around the school- like sports events and tournaments, activity days, interesting club meetings or anything like that WE WANT TO KNOW
• A sports website had been set-up at www.freewebs.com/sportrangitikeicollege It's only new so its not to flash at the moment and we just figured out that we cannot put photos on for another two days but we are working on it. Constuctive feedback is encouraged. Team photos are welcome and so are descriptions of games. (Remember the ones that used to be read out about the rugby?)

So that's all we have to say. Simple. Thank you for any support you have for us and any articles heading our way.

(P.S. we will acknowledge you as the writer of the story unless you say otherwise)

2007 Taster Day - The Workers

Jobs are necessary for many high school students these days, so when Rangitikei College decided to have their annual Work Day once again, many of the students got involved. There were a variety of jobs up for grabs ranging from Butchery to Housework. Many local business chose to help the school with this event in the way of providing jobs for students as well as providing prizes for the top earners and winning house.

Although it was required that the students work during the hours of the school day, many worked overtime and some, because of the nature of their job, had to start earlier, i.e milking. Students were reported to be good natured and hard working throughout the day.

The students were required to work a minimum of five hours during the school day. Minimum wage for Juniors was four dollars per hour and for seniors, five dollars an hour was recommended.

This year the money is going towards a water cooler, sports equipment and outdoor seating plus many other essentials that the students may suggest to the student council.

Overall the day was very successful. We hope that Taster/Work Day remains an annual event for years to come.

This blog was written by Crystal and the new blogger Kate Blayney :)

Taster Day from a juniors perspective

On the 7th of June Rangitikei College was hit with a burst of.......

silence.

The school was empty as the students were participating in work day, making it easier for Taster Day to proceed. While these students were out and about in the community the remainder of us were setting up for our displays and activities we had organised for Taster Day.

For those of you that don't know what Taster Day is here's a little run down for you.

Basically its when the year 8's from the surrounding schools come and have a "taste" of what college life is like.

Catherine and I (I'm Kahu by the way) were busy helping out in the Drama Department which had joined forces with the music department with H.O.D. of music Miss Smith.

This is what happened where we were...

When the year 8's stormed into F1 (the music room) they had the pleasure of listening to the band Ricochet. Where they played Wonderwall by the band Oasis.

Miss Smith told them about all the exciting things you can do if you decide to do music and Mrs. Hume did the same for Drama.

We then played a game called party quirks which envolved Catherine, Jessica, Buddy, myself, and 3 selected students from the audience...

Overall I think they enjoyed it and party quirks was the highlight of the day for me.

I hope you got a good taste of Taster Day from this and I will post some pictures that I took of this later on...

xxxx

Kahu