Over my past couple of years at OIS I have had an awesome time making friends, loading my brain with new knowledge and playing my favourite sports with other team mates and schools.
At OIS we are given a choice to play an instrument, we have some of the top range musicians and instructors here; there are many instruments we are given choices to play from drums or guitar to saxophone or violin and they all have amazing instructors.
Having such a friendly environment here, means that I have made heaps of new friends and I get around well with everyone.
We are also given lots of opportunities like Bloggers (OIS students update the school Blog with all the important things happening around the school), extension maths, art, fabric and hard materials (wood work).
We have two fundraisers, the chocolate sales and the spellerama, the chocolate sales are when each student is given a box of chocolates to sell worth $2 per bar and 20 bars ($40 dollars per person).Each box we sell we go into the draw to win cool prizes like I-pods or televisions .And the spellerama is when we are given two weeks to practice spelling words on our list and are tested 50 words. Per word we get right we raise 5 cents and the more sponsors we get the more money we raise. Just like the chocolate sales we go into the draw to win prizes for each card we sell.
The money we raise goes towards things like the new canteen, the lunch seats, the challenge course and other things that us students will benefit from.
In the summer each class goes swimming at least twice a week in the school pool with brand new solar heating (raised by our fundraising) we are divided into groups of our ability and are given lessons or tasks.
Every second year James Hargest college from Invercargill come down to Oamaru to have an interschool with us and billet with students from OIS, On the other years we go down to Invercargill and stay with people from there school.
We are given chances to play sports like rugby netball hockey soccer and almost any sports you can think of we currently hold the rugby title. This interschool helps us make friends with people from Invercargill and meet up with them the year after.
In year 8 camp is really exciting and we look forward to it all year, as we are given the choice to go to either, Mt Somers, Stewart Island, Wainui or Dunedin these camps are all great and we are having camp season right now, Stewart Island is away and the rest have been.
We welcome any newcomers to our school and I highly recommend it.
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By: Miguel Buick on December 23, 2008 