These are the teachers of the accelerate academy.
Students move around for maths, depending on your math level. These are the teachers that take us on trips organise our class day and for the few lucky students these teachers are going to look after us when we to go to New Caledonia at the end of the year.

Picture1: Ms Donaldson teaching in room 3

Picture2: Mrs Vaughan teaching in room 2

Picture3: Mr Dyke teaching in room 1

The opening on the Hall

Yesterday Kaitao Intermediate were getting ready for the opening of our brand new hall its going to me great to be having our assemblies in the hall. We all should give a really nice thanks to our Principal Mr O'Rourke.
The school going to open the hall on the 12th June.

Team Leaders

Science Roadshow!

The Science Roadshow is around the corner (so are the speech competitions!) So I hope you are all excited! This year Kaitao is actually hosting the Science roadshow for all Rotorua schools. Our students in the Accelerate academy are going to host the schools, and proudly experiment with exhibits and show examples. It's going to be a lot of fun.

By Celene.

Rotorua Museum Trip

On Thursday 19th March the Accelerate Academy went to the Rotorua Museum to learn about Earthquakes and Volcanoes for our earth science topic this term.

Room 1 And 2 went down to the museum on buses then George (our host) took us upstairs (which use to be a clubroom until 1990) to the classroom which had a projector and screen and he showed us the scientific and Maori legend of why Mt. Tarawera erupted.

Then they showed us a funny video of Ngatiroirangi and how he called to his sister at Hawaiki and she sent fire taniwha's to bring warmth to Ngatiroirangi but they didn't get to him in time to save his friends. The other movie we saw was a better version of Mt. Tarawera erupting and why it erupted, The seats rocked while the mountain was erupting it was fun but pretty scary for some.

We walked up heaps of stairs to the roof and stood on the platform and looked over Rotorua. We took pictures. It was really hot in the Museum so it was nice and cool up on the roof.

Then, we went down to the dark scary basement. It's so hot down there. There were stories of a ghost and lovers down in the basement then as you go round the corner there's a man sitting in bath of mud but luckily it was fake. There was a boiler down there with the movie from the cinema of rocking seats inside. Celene and I liked scaring people when they looked inside, It was funny.

There was a part of the museum where they had an exhibit of the Mt.Tarawera and we got a sheet of questions and we had to go around in pairs finding the answers.

Everyone enjoyed the experience of learning about Volcanoes, We all learnt a lot.

Accelerates' Marae Stay

One Monday morning Accelerate Academy went to Ihenga Marae for our marae stay. But unfortunately we didn't have enough parents to stay overnight. Everyone made their way on to the bus and left to go to Ihenga Marae.When we got off the bus we made our way to the welcoming arch and waited for the Kuia to do the karanga. When the Kuia started calling us on to the marae we walked slowly with respect on to the grounds of Ihenga Marae. Then we took our shoes off and walked into the marae right before us we saw Ken Kennedy standing before us with 2 other ladies waiting for us to sit. Then he started speaking in Maori.After his speech the boys stood up to hongi and the girls stood after.When everyone finished the hongi Accelerate went outside the wharenui to eat morning tea.

When we finished morning and left Ihenga for Te Puia.We walked there in our fitness teams.When we got there we met our guides and they took us to a big tent to eat lunch. Our group had to wait for about 20-30 minutes for our guide. Once we started moving she took us to see the geysers erupting. One of the geysers erupted 40 metres high. Then she took us around the rest of Te Puia seeing the following attractions:
* The kiwi house (They had a fight)
* A place where they put the food
* little houses
* A bird catcher
* Men doing carving
* the type of patterns in the marae people used for kapahaka uniforms
* And a few other fun attractions.

The tour was sadly over but luckily we had a lot of memories to cherish.Then Accelerate Academy jumped on the buses and left to go back to school.

The next day we did a lot of fun activities at school like:
* Doing a traditional item with stick like tititorea.
* Enviro schools
* making harakeke
* Soap carving
* Kaitao values
* kowhaiwhai

After that On Wednesday we went to the buried Village to learn about the village its self and gather information about ancient times and what happened to the village and the villagers at the time of the Tarawera eruption.