Calendar Art

Later this term, families will have the opportunity to order calendars and diaries through school.  

Check out our photo collages below that we made for our calendars and diaries.

Calendar Art - Year 8 Girls

Calendar Art - Year 8 Boys

Calendar Art - Year 7 Girls

Calendar Art - Year 7 Boys

Wakely Shield

In the second week of the holidays David, Kristian and Misinale took part in the Wakely Shield tournament for Hastings West.  We won 74-0 against Wairoa, we drew 19-19 against Napier East, lost 21-27 against Napier West and lost 26-0 against Hastings East. Over all we came 4th in the whole tournament.  Kristian was selected into the Wakely Shield Tournament team for 2012 along with Jamie from Lindisfarne.

Written by Kristian and David

The Story Starts ......

Mrs Jackson shared a story from the Journal of Young Persons Writing called "The Story Starts..."

We wrote our own stories with the same beginning

The story starts as my cousin ran down the stairs yelling “Oh no!” 

He was holding his laptop in his arms.

“What’s wrong?” asked Aunty.

My cousin gently placed his laptop on the table.

“It’s broken,” he sobbed.

“What’s broken?” said Aunty.

“My laptop!” he yelled.

A tear slowly rolled down his freckly face.  Slowly he lifted the lid to reveal a cracked screen with a pen stuck to it.

“How did that happen?” said Aunty, as she tried to hide her smile.

“It fell off my bed and on to my pencil holder,” my cousin replied.

Michael

The story starts when my sister, Reagan, and her friend, Ella, were playing on the playstation 2, in her room, at Dad’s 50^th birthday party.  Everything was going according to plan.  Everyone got a turn and was having a blast.

“Ok guys, dinners up,” Mum said in just a whisper through the crack in the door.

“Ok.” Patrick my brother mumbled back.

I stood up, stretched and made my way over to the door, trying to avoid all the cables and controllers.  And then it happened.  Ella tripped over the box the playstation was on and it came tumbling to the ground.

At the time, we thought there was nothing wrong.  Patrick went over and set it up again and we left the room for dinner.  After dinner we went back into the vacant room.  We turned on the playstation and nothing.  This is when it got crazy.  Patrick went hysterical and was going crazy.  The playstation was his pride and joy.  He ran his fingers through his hair, brown eyes bulging with rage.

“Who did that?”

He kicked thin air, went down to his room and slammed the door.  I could just imagine him bursting into tears on his bed like his life was over.

“Don’t worry, he’ll get over it, eventually,” I said to Ella and Reagan.

I turned around and decided to enjoy the rest of the party.

Niamh

Orchestral Play In

Thursday 30th August saw Niamh (clarinet), Alexandra (violin), Kody (clarinet) from Room 3 along with Samantha (clarinet) and John (violin) also from our school, join together with about 200 other musicians.  The Orchestral Play In was an opportunity for students who learn instruments such as recorders, drums, cellos, flutes and saxophones, to combine their talents together on a larger scale.  The morning was spent rehearsing.  This was a chaotic experience and at times each instrument sections went off to practise together.  The day concluded with a concert for parents and music teachers.  Above is a brief clip of the orchestra in action.

The Twits

Last term  Mrs Jackson read us The Twits.  We ended the term having to write a book review on it.

The Twits by Roald Dahl is a funny and hysterical book about a husband and wife who are the most disgusting people in the world, but they liked to live that way.  Every day the old hags would play horrid tricks on each other or catch birds for pie, but the Roly Poly bird and the monkeys think up a brilliant plan.  I recommend this for all kids around the world if they like humour.

Brooke

A favourite thing to do

Mrs Jackson shared a story about a girl boogie boarding and how that was her favourite thing to do.

Here is Shea's story on something he loves to do.

“Go on, don’t be a wuss,” screamed my Dad. 

I couldn’t see him doing it.

I was at our families secret river spot, having a blast, right up to this dreadful moment.  I had been challenged by my brother to jump off an abandoned hydro dam, which was literally about 10 – 15 meters high.

“All right.  Here I go” were the last words that managed to escape my mouth, as I lunged off the dam, just escaping the sharp, jagged rocks and splashing down into the shimmering, fresh, spring water. 

I love the river.  Whenever I want a swim, the river is the place to be.  The swimming pools are just cramped areas infested with pee and at the beach you always get fried away by the crispy sun, and then you’ll start aching from the stinging salt water, but the river is just right.  The good part is that rivers are always rich with peace and humbleness due to the fact that a lot of families they can’t be bothered searching for good spots along the river. Another good thing is that it actually changes every year, which basically means that a 2-foot deep hole surrounded by rocks could end up being over your head. The river is by far the best location to go swimming and there are many reasons why. Clear water, awesome jumping spots, deep blue water, and a peaceful atmosphere… plus if you’re lucky you can even find spot with tonnes of yummy fish.

Shea

Term 4

Welcome back to another term.  Term 4 is only 9 weeks but it will be a busy 9 weeks.  Mrs Hutchins is back.  We have our Feast Day in Week 2, Speech competition against St Joseph's in Week 3, our Wellington EOTC experience in Week 6 as well as continuing with all our classroom work.

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Athletics

Mr Webb from Athletics NZ worked with us on our running style.  After a warm up game of "Kangaroo" we ran through the agility ladder and over the mini hurdles.  The key things to remember were to keep our body tall and look ahead, not down.  Mrs Jackson took a series of videos and the improvement can easily be seen.  We finished our session with some tag games - Yellow/Blink, Liberty and Never Ending Tag (which is our new favourite).

Our first attempt through the agility ladder

Another attempt

Still working on running tall

Do you think we improved?

Moving onto the mini hurdles

It takes a little more concentration than the agility ladder ..

.. but running tall helps.

The ultimate test is to see if we still run tall even though we have nothing to jump over.
How well did we do?