Camp Day - 3

27/11/14

Walking along one of the uphill paths, we noticed a small blue house,about the size of a doll house, sitting in the middle of nowhere. At first me and Mrs.Cameron thought that it was quite peculiar, but that was until we opened the little door to the little blue house. When I pulled out the book and flipped through the pages, we saw a lot of signatures of the people who had visited Matiu Sommes Island. We signed our names and rushed down hill to catch up with the rest of the group, hoping they hadn’t forgotten about us.

The sharp little pebbles that lined the track, created little cuts in my feet, but the pain was bearable. We followed the track all around until we found a place to spot the most magnificent views. As we were walking, a few of the students found, what they called, Weta motels. The small logs of wood each had three-levels that contained either a Weta or an insect of some sort.

After the short, but fun hike around Matiu Sommes Island, we headed down to wait for the ferry. We had to wait a while. During the time we waited we did a few fun activities, skimming rocks, dancing, building little huts and seeing who can throw a rock the longest distance. The fun soon finished, and we boarded onto the ferry. It was one of the best highlights I had at camp.  

Camp Experience - Bowling

A group of professional players, just as young as thirteen, bowl a strike with style. As each of our teams get put into our own lanes, we wait impatiently to have a go at bowling. Once everyone was prepared, we were able to bowl. The sound of pins getting knocked down by the size 15 bowling bowl, just made you feel excited. You just have joy,adrenaline and determination in your system, every time it was your turn. But the ignition of adrenaline soon burns out after your turn is over, hoping to be refuelled by the next round.But after a while you don’t really care about the determination to beat others because then the subject of fun takes over the whole thing. The only thing that everybody enjoyed was spending time together. We had fun because we were creating a tighter bond with each other.

By Serena Ah Lam

Leadership Confrence

At the leadership conference we listened to different speakers. My favourite speaker was Joe, the head boy from Hastings Boys High. My favourite part of his speech was how he talked to us about choosing our attitude, he taught us to see the good out of everything and to make other people’s day. From his speech, he inspired me to choose my attitude, he also motivated me to make my day, by making someone else's day.

Macy - My Reading Buddy

Macy is a seven years old. During the morning time at school, me and Macy put together a descriptive piece of writing. We decided to do it on princess Ariel. She has two features that Macy likes, She is a Princess and she is a Mermaid:

Princess Ariel

My name is Ariel. I live in a castle underwater with my parents, the king and queen, and my six older sisters. I have make-up on in this picture. I have blue eyes like the sea. My hair is red like the colour of Sebastian’s lobster shell. The things that I'm wearing is dark green like the seaweed near the beach. The reason why I am dressed like this is because I am going to the ball with the prince.

I am a Princess.

Descriptive writing

This term we are writing descriptive pieces. We are using Figurative language. Here is an example for an image I chose.

Spring covered the land with it’s blanket of fresh colours. The sky, painted with the mixture of water and fire that was then interfered with a brush of violet. Trees, wave to each other, their arms slightly bending with exhaustion, from standing tall all day. The small town hides it’s dullness behind the beauty of spring, hoping not to be seen. The breath taking view then disappears, slowly progressing to dissolve over town. The citizens wait till next time, hoping that the view will visit them once more.

Persuasive Piece of Writing

St.Mary’s intermediate department

St.Mary’s intermediate department is a place where students blossom into mature youth. The intermediate department have participated in many great learning and sporting experiences.

Our intermediate department receive many learning opportunities, including speech, drama and Tech Arts. During these learning opportunities and experiences, your children will learn how they can improve on things. They could also learn things from their experiences and put it into their daily lives, so that they could prepare for their futures.

Here in our intermediate, St.Mary’s participate in a variety of sports competition. That includes; triathlons, athletics and other sports. St.Mary’s teachers love to involve their students in as many sport’s activities as possible. For an award for participating, or getting a placing, the students earn a point towards their strips and stars, which is then put in consideration for a head role or a trophy.

In our extra curriculum area, we do many things. For example, we have our camp Wellington towards the end of the senior year.

We also have science fairs, where pupils will test out theories, whether they have achieved their aim or work on improving their project. We have statistical investigations where students will find out the majority of students  walk, bike or scoot to school, or another topic they would like to find out.

Students here at St.Mary’s have grown up to be mature adults.

St.Mary’s is a Catholic school and is influenced to be respectful, responsible and to reconcile with others.

Science Fair

For science fair, my title was Balloon in a Bottle. The thing that I had learnt from doing this project was how different water temperatures can effect balloons, and the reactions that they have. The thing I would do next time is to get some more graphs and statistics and maybe some more research on my project.