Academic Day

Mount Spa 2015

Mount Spa (also known as academic day) is a competition between local schools that evolves around knowledge. Schools such as: Auroa, St Joes, Kaponga, Matapu, Mania and Opunake Primary all compete for the Mount Spa cup. Each school enters a team of around 6 to compete in the events. 

We pulled up at Kaponga, excited for the day. Our team walked through the main gates with an ambition of doing our best and hopefully winning the Mount Spa cup. The first thing that caught our attention was the vibrant bright colours of the Kaponga school. We got taken into a room that was especially set up for the competition and we took our seat. Lucy and Jamiee were our spellers. They were doing really well but unfortunately Lucy got out on the word chrysalis. We were now relying onJamiee but she misunderstood a word and she spelt Corral instead of Quarrel. With both spellers out of the competition we were started to get ready for the Numeracy. The Numeracy team consisted of  Tyler, Ben,Kiana and Brydee. The numeracy was to be done on a special app. We sat round a table as a team and worked away though all the problems. The app let us know what place we where in and at one stage we were coming fourth. Towards the end of the test we were coming first place. The last question we answered first and we sat round the table hoping we were going to place. The results were in and we had placed first. We were extremely happy with that result, as our school had never placed first in the Mount Spa competition. We had a quick break to get fresh air and have a quick snack. The next event was General Knowledge, the team was Tyler, Ben, Lucy and Jamiee. The team ended up placing third. The literacy team was Tyler Lucy, Jamiee and Brydee. The questions were really hard. 

From left: Ben, Tyler, Brydee, Kiana, Jamiee, Lucy