The Quail Island adventure

Last week on Wednesday all the seniors went to Quail Island. We waited for the bus to pick us up. When the bus came all the seniors went on the buses. It took half an hour to get to the Black Cat ferry. We all went in the Black Cat ferry. When we went we waved to the people who didn't come to Quail Island. The boat went to Quail Island, it was fun on the boat.

When we got on Quail Island we all went on the island. Mr Mckenzie said listen to the parents. Everyone did a scavenger hunt. We found birds and saw the island too. We went up the hill and we found a abandoned farm, we kept going up. We found a house and in the house we saw Maori pictures. Most peoples favourite part was playing on the beach and finding the crabs. Ben loved taking the photos. Piper's favourite part was seeing the view of the island. Finn's favourite bit was when we went up the big wave on the boat and we smashed in the water. Myah and Maddie's favourite bit was playing on the beach. Jarkwyn's favourite part was the history.

The people that helped to go to Quail Island was Cathy, Hamish, Pilar, Peter, Chontelle and Miss Falkner. Some groups went to the graveyard. The other groups went to the beach. Miss Falkner's group didn't do the long walk. We all met on the beach to have lunch. Finn found a shark tooth. We found a mushroom.

All the seniors went back to the boat. The boat ride was bumpy on the way back. The waves were big. We went up the wave and we smashed into the water. When we got to the docks we waited for the bus. When we got on the bus it took us to school.

We had so much fun at Quail Island that we wish we could go back again.

By Maddie and Finn

The fabulous Week Ten in Room 27

This week we did a lot. I can't explain it all in this sentence but I can show you in these paragraphs:

On the 10 of April we met Miss Falkner's Mum. Her name was Kate. She was helping us with our Community Cloth sewing. We all got a fabric heart and glued our paper hands on top.It was really fun and a new experience for a lot of us. Everyone enjoyed it and we all felt proud of our work. At the end Kate gave us an easter egg.

On Wednesday Room 27 went to Room 18 to show them how year 6's work and play and how year 2's work and play. We demonstrated Manaakitanga, one of our school values.

Also on the 10th of April we had to go to year 3 classes to eat because the year 6 and year 5 teachers were at E Pa's farewell.

This week there has been a lot of houses doing oral language. We had Kowhai doing shared book and blue doing impromptu speeches.

Thank you for reading.

By Jarkwyn and Kate.

The amazing week 8 and 9

We are coming to an end to the term. We are all very tired but had a great week with the beautiful Miss Falkner at Quail Island. Talking about Quail Island, we had a great time there. It was a very long walk. 

This week is the last week of Friday sports for the cricket A team. We are all very excited about the final game on Friday! We all hope for a win. 

For homework we had to do the Multiple Intelligence test online. Once we had all finished we used SOLO see,think, wonder to analyse the results. After that we glued our results graph onto coloured paper and stuck them on the wall. They look really great and we can see what kind of learners we are. 

On Thursday Mrs Craig watched us do writing we did recounts on Quail Island. First we did our plan and then our hooks. Kate did a great hook and this is it.

Do you want to go to a tropical island? Well this isn't the story for you. This is close enough, it's Quail island!

We liked Kate's hook because it made you think that it was a tropical island!

Lots of sports trials have been happening lately. We think that Mr W is getting in quick so he can get all the great soccer players. Good on you Mr W we would do the same!

Here are all of the trials:

 Grass Hockey 
 Netball
Soocer
Rugby (tackle)

We are also trying out some parts of this new modern learning. 
That's all from us!

Mia 
Triny


 

Awesome week 7

Welcome to epic Week 7. On Tuesday we did turbo touch we played crazy tag where everyone is in and if you get tagged you have to sit down and when the person who tagged you sits down, you stand up and run. If you tag someone at the same time you play paper scissors rock if you lose you have to sit down but if you win you continue playing.

On Wednesday and Thursday Whero did their oral language. we listened to lots of fantastic poems everyone put in lots of effort. GOOD WORK WHERO!!!!!!!!

This Wednesday we did onomatopoeia art first we had 5 minutes to write as many sounds as possible and then we chose our favourite 3 and choose 1 that we were going to make art out of. For e.g. BOOM, SPLAT and BANG.


On Thursday sadly the fabulous and beautiful Miss Falkner was away but we had the magnificent Mrs Glasson relieving us. She read us a cool book about Luther and the cloud makers it is based on stopping pollution and the consequences from it. Then we did an enjoyable quiz on the book.

On Thursday we held assembly the hosts were James M and Niamh C it was very fun. We also had  Maddie and Issy as our weather reporters and quite a few sports reporters.The people who got certificates are: Jordyn Tyler and Piper.


On Thursday Triny, Beth, Kate, Bella, and Estella went to zones swimming sports at Jelly park they all tried their hardest and did really well. An extra congratulations to Triny who is going to Cantubarys WELL DONE GIRLS!!!

by Niamh and Dominic

James the amazing violinist

James M showed us lots of things about the violin! He was an AMAZING teacher and an amazing player!

Week Six Superstars

We all knew this week was going to be great but tiring.

We started the week by finding out what math and reading group we were in. After that we went for a swim.

On Tuesday we found out that we no longer have swimming on Tuesday because of turbo touch what the class had a great time at turbo touch.We also finished off our goal setting too.

Now on to Wednesday the start of the interviews. We also reached the very exciting chapter of the novel.

On Thursday we had no milk because of school finishing really early because of interviews again.
Now it is Friday every one is excited about sport and sausages yum.

Today we are doing communication writing.We hope you love your children's writing.

Also we are going to have a great weekend and are looking forward to a great Week Seven.


Written by Piper and Isaac, with help from Estella.

Dance!

We have been doing some dance work on Fridays. Here you see us creating frozen pictures with our bodies, thinking about where the audience is, the different levels in the picture, and how we relate to each other in the picture.