Halswell Idol - Finalists

Here are the finalists from "Halswell Idol"

Please feel free the email Mr Malins (fraser.malins@halswell.school.nz) with your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices.  Results by Mondaywould be great.

Enjoy!

The EJ Show Christmas Competition

Hi Guys,

Here's a reminder about the EJ Show's Christmas competition. To enter, draw a Santa and put it in the EJ Sho box in the library foyer.

Thanks,
The EJ's

Halswell Idol Year 7 - 8 Finalists

Well done to the Following 5 finalists.  Make sure that you listen next next week to their their fantastic singing.

Grace and Brittany "Skyscraper"
Kelsey, Brittany and Nicole "All Summer"
Rosie "Tomorrow"
Emily and Holly "Valarie"
Sarah "Count on Me"

Halswell Idol - Yr 5 - 6

Here are the top 10 who be recorded on Tuesday 6th December from 12:30pm

Pheobe, Amber and Kyla "Mixture of Songs"
Sam and Matthew
Amy "Grenade"
Nikita and Rebecca "Grenade"
Olivia "Last Kiss"
Nathan and Jayden "Clevland Show"
Holy "You belong to Me"
Toby "Winter Wonderland"
Abbey "Here's to you"

Halswell Idol - Yr 3 - 4

Here are the top 10 who be recorded on Monday 5th December from 1:00pm

Mayson "Girls just want to have fun"
Zac and Liam "Away in a Manger"
Meg "Hello, Hello"
Carmen "Rock 'n' Robin"
Amy "You belong with me"
Charlotte "Girl put your records on"
Seamus "Earth Song"
Calin "Last Friday Night"
Sophie and Shanae "The Climb"
Michael "Break away"

Halswell Idol Year 0 - 2 Finalists

Well done to everyone that auditioned for "Halswell Idol".

Here are the top 10 who be recorded on Monday 5th December from 12:30pm

Keisha and Jade "Tomorrow"
Kendal, Briella and Bailey "Count on Me"
Bella and Danika "Away in a Manger"
Leo and Guy "Baby"
Joely, Ashley and Ruby "ET"
Amy "Light a Bright Star"
Claudia, Devon "Like a Bright Star"
Bianca "Valarie"
Rosa, Brooke and Zoe "Marry You"
Emma, Gabriella and Chloe "Count on Me"

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Listen Live!!

To listen live, go to www.halswell.school.nz..  Once you've reached our homepage you can click on the "Activated 88.3fm" link located at the bottom right corner.

Halswell School Idol

A lifetime opportunity if you won it you would be a superstar!!!

Anyone can enter all you need to do is sign up on the sheet that will be coming round to your classes. Your class sheets will be picked up and then we will have auditions.  There will 6 - 8 people / groups from each learning team selected to record their song and played on ACTIVATED.  Then there will be a vote for the best singer / group.

More info coming to you soon

Emma & Gareth's Brainteaser

What is so fragile that sound can break it???

Get your answers or ideas into the Emma & Gareth box in Room 13

Anna & Hayley's Competition Week 8:

We played the start of a song, what was the song's name?

Remember everyone to get any answers/suggestions/ideas you have written down with your name & room number to Anna or Hayley in Room 13 :)

Thanks and good luck!
Anna & Hayley

The DJ's new Flaming Competition

We are having a competition to celebrate Guy Fawkes. Yay. We want everyone out there to draw their dream firework and send it in to the DJ's Green Box of Mystery in the library foyer by next Tuesday (15/11/11). You could be into win a surprise prize.

Emma & Gareth's Brainteaser

What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Get your answers in to the Emma and Gareth box inside room 13 by Tuesday afternoon.

You may win some time on the radio!!!

Doughnut Burger Rack Up

McDonald's Big Mac (540 calories)

Two beef patties sandwiched between three burger buns, Big Mac sauce, cheese, onion, lettuce and pickles

Burger King Whopper (670 calories)

A quarter pound beef patty, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles and onions on a toasted sesame seed bun.

Doughnut Burger (1500 calories)

Two quarter pound beef patties between two doughnuts. With cheese, bacon, and lettuce, onion, tomato and sauce if you want it.

THE EJ SHOW!

Doughnut Burger Recipe. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Doughnut Burger

Ingredients:

2 Glazed Doughnuts

4 Beef Patties

4 Slices of Cheese

8 Strips of Bacon

Directions:

1) Get the doughnuts. Slice in two and fry the inside until browned.

2) Get the patties and fry them in butter. Then do the same with the bacon.

3) Place one slice of cheese on the bottom of the doughnut, followed by the patty and another slice of cheese on top.

4) Add two slices of bacon, then consider for a moment if you really want lettuce and tomato. (Don’t do it!)

5) Congratulations! You’re done! Bite into the 1500-or-so-calories of goodness that you’ve just made!

THE EJ SHOW!

The EJ Show

This week on the show..........

New York's Doughnut Burger.............

The All Blacks smash Australia..............

The Warriors beat the Broncos in a thriller.............

PureBlack Cycling goes to America..............

This weeks ITM Cup wrap up.............

And some awesome interviews!

Koreans create glowing dog....

THE EJ SHOW!!!!!

The EJ Show

This week on the show.......

Glowing dog in Korea.....
The All Blacks smash the Springboks....
Warriors vs Raiders.....
ITM Cup wrap up......
The last stage of the Tour de France.....
And some awesome interviews.....

Tune in on Wednesday at 2:40pm.

Ally and Grace's Competition

This competition is for year 3-6. Remember what you have to draw your favourite scene of a suitable movie and get it into Ally in Room 13.There is a box with Ally and Grace's competition written on the side. Please put it in the box or if you see us somewhere feel welcome to give it to us. the winner receives a goodie bag and the two runners up receive a small prize too. These need to be in by MONDAY 15th or they don't count.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The DJ's New LOGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone that entered the Dj's logo compitition all of them were great. Unfortunatly we could only have 3 winners.
In 3rd place we had Liam from room19
In 2nd we had Do Gyeong from room14
and in first place we had Joe from room 14

Here is our new amazing logo.

Owwwww.......

Johnny Hoogerland crashes into a barbed wire fence after being hit by a car in the ninth stage of Le Tour de France. THE EJ SHOW!!

Anna & Gareth's Weekly Brainteaser!!!!

An electric train is travelling 100kph north and there is a 100kph wind blowing east......
what way does the smoke blow???

Get your answers in to Anna & Gareth in Room 13 by Tuesday Afternoon.:-)

Halswell School Activated DJ's

Regan and Reuben

The EJ show - Joe and Ethan

Anna and Gareth DJ's

DJ Grace and DJ Ally

DJ's - Brittany, Rosie and Grace

Dean and Jordan The DJ show

Poem By Della and Joe Hutchinson

Coat hanger mobile

The DJs

Hi guys,

This is the DJs! We have started a logo competition and we want YOU to enter! 

You can draw your logo on paper, use a computer or anything just as long as it has the DJs Activated 88.3 fm on it! The prize is 3 lollipops, a chocolate bar and air time on our radio! So enter now and put your logo in the DJs green box of mystery in the library foyer under the stick insect.

Anna & Gareth's Weekly Brainteaser

A man lives on the top of a building and every morning he takes the elevator to the bottom floor and goes up halfway in the elevator, gets out and walks the rest of the way upstairs...

Why doesn't he just take the elevator the whole way up.

Make sure you get your entries in to Anna and Gareth by tuesday afternoon!!

The DJ's

We have a new riddle for this week (week 6):

What can you catch but not throw?

If you think you know the answer put it on a piece of paper and put it in the Green Box of Mystery, which is in the library foyer. Good luck!

EJ Show Logo Competition Winners

Well done to all of the applicants of the EJ Show Logo Competition. After a lot of debating, Ethan and Joe have announced the winners.
In 4th place: Enzo Gordon
In 3rd place: Della Hutchinson

In 2nd place: Jordan Smyth
And a big congratulations to Do Gyeong Lee in first place!













 Here's the winner entry

The DJs

HI GUYS!!!
Its the DJs here. This weeks riddle (week 5) is:


I am as light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long.
What am I?
If you think you know the answer put it in the DJ's Green box of mystery along with your name and room number. You could win an awesome prize!


Congratulations to Samara Whittington for getting the right answer to last weeks riddle.

Dean and Jordan's Second Riddle

A yellow house is made of yellow bricks, a blue house is made of blue bricks, an orange house is made of orange bricks, what is a green house made of?

Put your answer on a piece of paper with your name and room number on it and put it in the green box of  mystery in the library foyer. All correct answers will be put in a hat and drawn out on Friday. The winner will get a king size cadbury dairy milk chocolate bar so get thinking and put your answer in!

Dean and Jordan.

Rosie, Grace & Brittany's Competition

Today on Activated we have two competitions, two jokes and we are announcing the winners of the radio competition last week

Radio Programme

We will now be able to broadcast 2 days a week.

Tuesday

2:00 - 2:20pm - Grace and Ally
2:20 - 2:40 pm -  Rosie, Grace and Brittany
2:40 - 3:00pm - Dean and Jordan


Wednesday

2:00 - 2:20pm - Gareth and Anna
2:20 - 2:40 pm -   Ethan and Joe (the EJ show)
2:40 - 3:00pm  - Reuban and Regan (Reubs and Regs)

The EJ show logo competition

The EJ show logo competition has been extended until Monday, week 5. Thank you, Ethan and Joe.

The DJs

We are the DJs (Jordan and Dean) and we will be on the radio live this afternoon. Tune in for the latest news and some funky music! Remember to listen out for the Riddle of the Day.

Riddle of the Day:

Take away my first letter, take away my second letter, take way all my letters and I will remain the same. 

What am I? 

Put your answer in the Green Box of Mystery in the library foyer with your name and room number on it. Ten winners will be drawn out of a hat on Friday and the winner will get a chocolate bar...

Anna & Gareths Weekly Brainteaser : )

''A man is inside a bar and outside his horse is tied to a fifty foot rope but the horse can reach grass 100 feet away. . . How?"

Remember guys to get your answers in to Anna or Gareth in room 13 with your name and room number on it. Entries must be in by Tuesday afternoon

Thanks, Anna & Gareth :D

The EJ Show Logo Comp :)

Hey Guys,
It's Ethan & Joe from the EJ Show. If you haven't already put an entry in, get on it, as you only have six days left. To enter draw a logo- by hand, on the computer, whatever you like- and put it into the EJ Show Box in the Library foyer. The winner will get a chocolate bar, a lollipop, air time on our radio, an you can have your awesome design as the EJ Show Logo. 2nd Place will get a Chocolate bar, and 3rd place will get a lollipop. Good Luck,

Joe & Ethan.

Chris' Poem

Halswell Radio Station Logo Learning Team Winners

Meet our Announcers!

Ethan, Joe, Gareth, Grace, Britney, Dean, Regan, Grace, Rosie, Anna, Reuben,  Ally
Absent: Jordan

Anna & Gareth's Weekly Brainteaser :)

''A man lives alone and one night he has a nervous breakdown. He goes to bed and turns off the light.That night 100 people died . . . HOW???

Remember guys to get your answers in to Anna or Gareth in room 13 with your name and room number on it.  Entries must be in by Tuesday.
Thanks
Anna & Gareth :)

Logo Needed

We need your help to develop a logo for our radio station!!! 

You have until Friday 5 May, to submit your design (email if it is a digital image) to Mr Malins.

Some things to consider

• that it doesn’t need the “radioactive” symbol 
• be very careful about copywrite issues
• include 88.3 if possible (this will be the frequency that we will be broadcasting on)
• include some link to Halswell School
• Our school colours are red, yellow and black

If you have any questions, please see Mr Malins

To Contact Us

You can contact us at =>  activated@halswell.school.nz

Blogger Wanted

Do you want to be part of the "Halswell School Radioactive" team but feel too nervous to be on air???  Well, we need a blogger(s) for our new radio station!

The blogger(s) will be responsible for taking and uploading photos, posting news and informing people of upcoming events and promotions on this blog.

If you think that you have the skills (or can learn them quickly) team please let Mr Malins know by Friday 8 April.  Before seeing me, make sure that you have discussed this position with your parents, as your posts will on the internet.