Classroom renovations

Since the start of 2012, Whangarei Intermediate have been renovating Team Karaka's classrooms. With Ms H's awesome design skills, and the fantastic builders, the students can have the best learning opportunity in a stylish classroom.

We are all looking forward to the revealing, and are hoping that there will be more renovations to come.

Roald Dahl....

Roald Dahl has written a variety of books, ranging from infants books to young adult books. Some of his titles are:The Twitches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,Matilda, Esio Trot, The Twits, The BFG, The Magic Finger and many more. He has also wrote about his tremendous life in two chapter books. The first one, which is called boy tales of childhood is about his childhood and how he was brought up. The second one, Going Solo, is about his terrifying and ecstatic experiences. He was born at Villa Marie, Fairwater road, Llandaff, Cardiff (Wales). His parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl, were norwegian. Dahl was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen. Roalds' sisters were names Else, Asta and Alfhild. He also had two step-sisters named Astire and Elise. At the age of three, his step sister Astire, who was seven at the time, came down with appendicitis and shortly after, passed away. Not long after, his father also died. As Roald Dahl grew older and left home, he had some amazing and scary experiences. He was even in a airplane crash! Roald Dahl also had a girl named Olivia.When Olivia was young, Roald used to create fictional stories for her when she went to bed at night. Lot's of these became his best-selling books. In 1990, aged 74, Roald Dahl passed away, But this did not stop his books from thriving. In 2005, they made one of his award-winning, best-selling chapter book, Charlie and the chocolate factory into a major motion picture. That movie was also a big hit.  To this day, Roald Dahl is one of the most respected and best-selling author with fans ranging all over the world.

Things I like

Things I Like
By Anthony Browne

Do you like painting and riding your bike? Building sand-Castles? Playing with friend? Watching TV?
Whatever you ;like doing there`s something in this book for you. this book is good if you have a little kid like a 4 under year old well that is just my opinion. Post back if you have any Book reviews you want us to do

Whangarei Intermediate's Swimming Sports!

On the 2nd of march Whangarei intermediate school held there annual swimming sports event. Everyone dressed in their team colours, danced and swam the whole day. Everyone had a blast.  There was races for year sevens and races for year eights.

Ready.....Set.......Go! The first race was  freestyle. The year eight girls were off! They were racing through the water, eager to get to the end first. There was screaming and chanting! The race seemed to fly by. Everyone watched the girls get out of the pool. They were extremely tired.

Next up was the year 8 boys race. Zooming through the water like fish, they completed the race. Once again it was freestyle. They then went on to the year sevens, completing the races in the same sequence as the year eights.

There was races for students who did not compete in the championship races. There were also Waka races.

Everyone was dancing and chanting. The day was a hit. The teachers and students blasted music from speakers and challenged each other to dance competitions. We had games and activities running. By the end of the day everyone (students, teachers and even parents) were all worn out.

 At the conclusion of the event, Team Kakariki had wiped out the competition.But at the end of the day, it didn't matter who had the most points just as long as we had fun.

I, CROCODILE

I, CROCODILE
By Fred Marcellino

This book is a very funny book I recommend this book for you child they with laugh like I did it was a very good book so try this book for your self I know you will like it. This book was about a crocodile who was in Egypt  and one day a people from Paris came and toke him away and put him in the zoo and got showed off to everyone, soon Napoleon wanted to eat him for dinner,so he dove in to the sewer and said it was a crocodiles heaven.

Journey of the sea turtle

Journey of the sea turtle
By Mark Wilson

This book is about a mother turtle that had her eggs and left to the sea many of the baby
turtles were eaten by the Shadow birds. One of the turtles were left she went of to sea and made her way in to the big ocean. Try this book for your self.


I did not like this book my self but i recommend for children under 11 and the pictures were confusing for me.

Welcome to our school.....

W.O.W. Factor

Hi this is our blog for the W.O.W factor. We are a group of kids aged 11-13 years old at Whangarei Intermediate School, that create a fortnightly newspaper for our joyful school. This paper is commonly called W.O.W. Factor.

Uniform

Our uniform consists of khaki green shorts, White/Blue polo T-shirts, Black/Blue Hats  and a warm, fluffy, Blue jumper. 

P.R.I.D.E

P.R.I.D.E represents personal best, respect, integrity, determination and enjoyment. Our key competencies are participation and contribution, thinking, language, symbols and text.