Our Second Debate

On Tuesday the 12th of July 2011, Kea 2 had a debate about whether or not the minimum wage should increase to $15 an hour. On the proposing team Sasha Khurana, Trent O'Sullivan, and Jaime Swale argued that the minimum wage should rise to $15 an hour. On the opposing team Abigail Yiu, Jasmine Fowler and Serena Westerlund argued that the minimum wage should stay as it is at approximately $13 an hour. Ella Fletcher was the debate chairperson. 

Sasha Khurana and Abigail Yiu were the first speakers for their teams. Sasha made a lot of strong points about what happens in Australia regarding minimum wages and whether $13 was enough to live on. Abigail Yiu made strong points about employers losing money if the minimum wage went up to $15. Jasmine Fowler was the second speaker for her team. She had some interesting quotes to support Abigail's argument. Trent O'Sullivan argued that most people couldn't survive on such a small amount of money. The last speakers were Jaime Swale and Serena Westerlund they had very strong quotes to back up their team's arguments.


There were some particularly good questions from Rudadiso Nyamazana, Dharia Bearda, Joshua Shields and Jakob Blow which put both teams under a lot of pressure. Finally It was time to vote. The opposing team won quite convincingly. The proposing team did a great job though.

As a result of the vote, the debate chairperson announced "Kea 2 believes that the minimum wage should stay at $13 an hour and not rise to $15."

By Ella Fletcher and Dharia Bearda.   

Our Awesome Mathletics Skills

This week Kea 2 had an extraordinary Mathletics week. We tried to earn as many Mathletics points as possible in one week! The week was a massive success because we managed to stay first in the World and New Zealand from Monday through to Friday! After Friday, a British school unfortunately overtook us.

We managed to score
127,421 points in total.
We came 1st in New Zealand.

Well done us!