Thank you Johnson & Johnson and also The Variety Club

Thank you for taking the time to give us presents and I would like to thank Johnson and Johnson and Motat and also The Variety Club for making this happen. I’d also like to thank all the people who took time off their jobs to rap us the presents. I really appreciated it and I will try and treasure my present as long as it lasts.

Its has been a very cool experience for me because I have never experienced people giving us presents during school randomly. It was such a great day being given a mystery present it was wrapped perfectly I loved it. Thank you very much to all the helper that made this happen and have a happy Christmas.

Netbook Reflection

I have learn’t a lot of experience using this special technology device over this whole year. My teacher, Miss King has taught me a lot about using google and taught us lots of new sites that can improve our work.

The most significant thing i’ve learnt online this year is to create cool animations on this cool site called scratch. Scratch is where most people created their games from for example pacman. I have learnt a lot from all my friends I have learnt how to go on proxy servers and learnt how to download things.

I have taught a lot to my friends I have taught them how to get on to sites and helped them with their work. My work has grown a lot because of my netbook I can use the internet to search up things and also use online work sites like Math Whizz, Xtra Maths and google docs.   

Swimming

For the past two weeks year 7-8 students from pt england got to go and swim at the YMCA pools in Glen Innes. Walking down to the pools in the hot sun I noticed we were sharing the pools with Room 19. Getting into the medium pool we had to do a swimming test to see what level our swimming is at. I thought in my head I’m not a good swimmer but ill try my best. Heading to the toilets I came back and didn’t know what group I was in so I just jumped in any.
Ready to start Our lessons Rocky handed me his goggles and we started to swim. So tired of swimming we still had a lot of laps to do. Thinking in my head I wished I could of done lines instead I swam back and it was the end. “Finally over” I said as I carried my stuff to the toilets.

Potaua Mihimihi

Kia Ora Koutou

(Greetings to you all)

kua hui mai nei

(Who have gathered here)

Ki tenei whare

(To this House)

Ki te kawe mai

(To Bring)

I nga whakaaro pai

(The Good Thoughts)

Ka nui te aroha

(Great is the love)

Mo to koutou maia

(For your Strength)

Ki Te huihui mai

(assembling/gathering)

Ki Te Ako

(To Learn)

I nga mahi

(The Work)

e pa ana ki tenei kura

(Concerning this School)

Writing Sample

“Go to the Principals office” Miss Sally yelled as she pointed her finger to Christian as he  wasn’t focused on school work. Staunching angrily outside the classroom he was aware of a strange awkward whisper that had echoed through his ears. Taking a quick look back he couldn’t see anyone there. “Aye thats strange” he thought in his mind as he was destinate to find where it came from.

Feeling so anxious of trying to figure out where that whisper had come from he knew he would be in a lot of trouble if he didn’t go to the office. So he told Miss Sally and the class but they wouldn’t believe him they thought he was lying like he always does. But Christians friend Aidan believed him so they made up a plan to try find where that whisper came from.

Christians friend Aidan was gonna distract the principal while Christian tries to find where the whisper came from. He searched everywhere but there were no sounds of the whisper. Almost getting tired of searching he thought to himself “if I heard the strange whisper near my class its gotta be near there”. Arriving back at his classroom door he heard it the second time he was fortunate to figure where it was.

Searching around his classroom bay he was getting frustrated where it was coming from. “Could it be the birds” he thought as he kept searching where it was.

Taking another step in his classroom bay he could hear the screaming wind echoing straight through his ear drums as he was aware of the same particular sound. “It was the wind that whole time” he said as he rushed off to the principal office to spread the news to his friend Aidan.

Potaua - Halloween Recount

British and French isles started the celebration in order to respect the Lord of the Dead, Samhain. Druids or local priest started rituals and celebrations including bonfires, in the hopes that they would make Samhain happy.

Halloween is celebrated by having family traditions or community events. Halloween is a special day to remember the dead. The traditional event of Halloween for most countries is to dress up in a costume and walk around the neighbourhood to strangers houses.

Philippines trick-or treating is gradually replacing the tradition of Pangangaluluwà, a local version of the old English custom of souling. Some provinces in the Philippines still celebrates “Pangangaluluwa” by forming a group that will go house to house and offer a song in exchange for money or food.

For most countries halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October but some countries celebrate their Halloween day on November the 1st.

Kate Sheppard

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