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 **Music Festival 2011 **  On Monday the two Choir groups stood up and sang their hearts out at the Ashburton District Primary schools music festival! Year seven & eight students from Borough sang 'Electricity' and 'I’ll be there for you'. Year four, five and six students from Borough sang 'Swinging the night away' and 'I believe'. There were heaps of parents and they loved it! The Festival went for nearly three hours with lots of great singing for the audience to enjoy.

By: Amber and Jess.M

= Ashburton Borough’s time to Shine =

On Sunday 19th June 2011 Ashburton Borough School won a year 6 rippa rugby tournament at the Timaru Alpine Energy stadium.

The people in the team were: Jessica, Emma, Caitlin, Tessa, Maddy, Aiden, Elyh, Jabe, Tom and Billy.

We played four teams; Allenton, Pleasant Point, Weston and Bluestone.

When the rugby union were making the decision of who got the trip to Auckland it was a three way tie between Allenton, Pleasant Point and us. The worked out the winner on a count back of tries.

When they called out Ashburton Borough School had won we were jumping with joy. We also got a free packet of jet planes.

Now we get to compete at the Rippa Rugby Workd Cup event in Auckland during August. When we get to the airport we are going to meet the rugby education character Rugger.

The best parts of this trip are going to be meeting Rugga, playing for the Rippa Rugby World cup in Auckland, going to Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, going on a plane, going to the Sky Tower for tea and if we win in Auckland we will get to watch the All Blacks at the Rugby World Cup. Wow!

Good luck to all the primary schools competing in this wonderful event.

By Tessa. From left Jabe, Jess and Tessa

Taiaha Wananga = = = On Queens Birthday weekend Jacob, Zack and Jay were on their way to a Taiaha Wananga. The Wananga was out in Sedgemere. = = We were all very nervous because there were lots of older people than us. We learnt how to use a Taiaha (a long stick used for fighting) We also learnt a lot of discipline by doing heaps and heaps of pushups (500-600). It was a long but fun weekend. = =﻿Written by Zack= = =

Flava Festival ===Yesterday morning, the people that got picked for Flava Festival had to be at school at 7.20 and boarded the bus at 7.27. If you didn’t get there by 7.30 you would miss out. Luckily everyone was there on time.=== ===On the bus, we ran through our whole bracket twice. The first song was headed by Irihapiti, and it was called Tena Kotou. The second song was called Ko Haka Tere, and was led by Emily. The third song was called Toi mai and was again led by Emily. The fourth song was the girls poi. Then the boys took the stage to do their Haka. They got the biggest clap. The last song sung by Ashburton Borough Kapahaka team was Tui Tui Tuia. We watched a couple more groups then we had some lunch. We got a twenty-five minute play on the playground. That was fun. Everyone wanted to stay and watch Hampstead school and Ashburton College, but we couldn’t because if we did we wouldn’t have got back to school on time. The journey back was cool because we were all tired and just wanted to rest.===

**Flava festival was very fun for our Kapahaka group.**


TheRugby World Cup RoadShow

It was a cold morning Mum and I went down to Braided Rivers to the rugby world cup road show, to see what was happening Breakfast presenter Tamati Coffey was talking to the other two presenters in the studio when I came in to the road show I saw Sam C, Maddy Bremner, Caitlin Moore and Jess Lima.

When we got there, there was an extremely Giant rugby teddy bear, a tractor and a truck with the Rugby World Cup 2011 in it. You could have a picture taken with it and a lady would give you a card to a website and you can download the picture and then print it out to keep for a memory. There was two computers that you could play a game on and when you would finish the game you can put all your details on it an you could win tickets to one of the matches.

When I was able to get up to the front a man came up to Sam C, Lachie C and myself asked if we would like to try a truffle which has the ingredients of the Rugby World Cup Cake. It was so yum that I wanted to have another truffle but unfortunally I left it because I wanted to let other people try it too. There was another amazing cake of the Christchurch Broken Cathedral.

There was one lucky man that Tamati Coffey spotted when he was on air, with theUSA clothes on and he scored FREE tickets to one of the matches.

A few of the Rippa Rugby Team spoke on Air with Phill Hooper a.k.a Butterfly about what was happening with their world cup.

My mum spotted a stand House of Travel and I got a free ball that you have to blow up and we also got to sign a wall and you can put a shout out to your favorite team.

By Annabel  = ﻿Winter Tornament = = When we heard about winter tornament coming we were all excited. We were thinking what team we wanted to trial for and if we didn't play sport what team our friends are going to get into. = = Most of us trialed and most of us got in but that was when practise really started! We had one or two practises just to get us going but we were fine. = = When the day came we were so excited to be representing our school! = = There were rugby, soccor, netball and hockey teams. All teams went really well. One of the soccor teams won all there games and are going to Christchurch to play. = = Winter tornament was really fun and I hope I can do it again next year. = = By Sophie = = = =﻿=

Netball Winter Tornament!!
== When we heard about netball winter tornament LOTS of us got SOOOO EXCITED!!! From my class Sophie, Tessa and Sammantha went to the trial and other people from other classes but there wasn't enough people so we had to get people that don't really no how to play like Jade, Kudzi, Anna and Emma and they got the hang of it in the end. == == There had to be two teams, Borough gold and Borough red. Borough gold was the strongest team, Catlin, Maddy, Tessa, Emma (a different Emma), Samantha, Irhi and me were in that team. We had two practises and they went great. When the tornament came we were all nervouse and excited at the same time! == == Both teams played four rounds and Borough gold won all of them then we had two more games (if we won all four games though) and we lost both of them so we coun't go to Christchurch.:-( We had lots of fun and we hope to get in next year. ==