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.

STM Intermediate

L.I

Is to write a report on our intermediate school.

In the Senior School, our school time is full of fun, perseverance and hard work.

At STM intermediate department, we push our students to try things new or different. We give them many opportunities to participate in events including speech, drama, sports and many more. Students in the senior department, wear their uniforms with pride and are expected to perform high standards in their work.

Here in the intermediate department, our teachers are strict on things. They teach us new stuff and helps us to understand the strand, if we don’t get it the first time. Our teachers help us to take on more responsibility, to help us prepare for the future. Our teachers support us and are very motherly, telling us what to do and what not to do. The teachers of the Senior school, helps, encourages and supports us with all the struggles that we have.

Sports, is part of our favourite extra curriculum activities. We have competed in many TACS competitions and other events. Here at St.Mary’s intermediate,we like to participate or try new sports; like volleyball, triathlon, cross country and it varies.

I would recommend St.Mary’s intermediate because it is a big, warm and loving family. St.Mary’s will take care of it’s children and would always support the loving bond between the children.

Written by; Serena Ah Lam

The next step for me is to make sure I don't use 'sugar coating' in my sentences. Also, I need to start thinking about my sentence starters, so that they start off different.

Production Diary

Production Diary

Last week St.Mary’s participated in Dive - in, the school production. On the night of the first real act, me, Lei, Fergus and Sophie were talking so much about how exciting it was. I remember me and Lei took a slight look from the backstage curtain, to see that the area of the audience was packed full of parents and other children.

After two of the acts had finished their performances, it was time for the choir to sing. Me and Lei started whispering out our nerves, even though we weren’t doing much. After hearing the audience clap, Mrs.Hoogerbrug was queuing us to get on stage to perform our play, Goodnight Mr.Tom.

As the senior students finished the fishing scene, me and the other characters, that weren’t needed anymore, were finished. So, we went backstage and waited patiently for the other acts to finish. During the long and quiet wait, some people easily got in trouble by whispering or even just by fiddling with things they had found on the floor.

After all the acts were completed, it was time to sing the library song. Our school sounded fantastic, we were loud and on key, well some of us actually. Caden kept nudging me to sing louder, so I decided why not. I belted out the words and was confident, it was awesome. When the song finished, everyone clapped and cheered, all our work had finally paid off.

From this production, I have learnt how to be more patient and how to co-operate with others, to make things work. The thing I would’ve changed was the order or sequence of the production, because that’s the only thing I wanted to change. Other than that, the production was awesome.

Recount

WALT

recount an exciting event so that our reader knows what happened and how we felt.

Bring it on

The only thing I felt was anxiety.

I look around only to see strangers, looking and pointing to me. The only thing that I felt was embarrassment. Surprisingly I saw an old face, it’s Liz. Hot-faced, I looked down at my feet, using my mum to guide me to the building. Suddenly I heard that familiar voice;

“HI SERENA!”
Her winning english accent, irritated me but my brothers forced me to reply. I didn’t. I looked back down.  Surprisingly, I heard the cold ringing sound of the first bell.

My mum had finally ditched me, only to leave me in a room with strange children and an adult, whose faces I’d never seen before.

A girl called Lei had greeted me with a vibrant warm smile. She helped me settle into a desk next to her and 2 other girls, Alex and Shemaiah. I felt a little better but, I still felt unsure about myself.

After the tall beautiful female adult introduced herself, she warmly invited me to introduce herself. I answered most questions, where’d you come from, what ethnicity are you and other things like that.

Finally the teacher asked me the last question,

“This school is going to be hard and it’s your first day at St.Mary’s are you ready for the school year? Are you ready for the pressure?”

I then looked her straight in the eye and said

“BRING … IT...ON!!”

Memoir for Flaxmere

Flaxmere was usual enough;hoodrats roaming like they owned the place, the colour red all around, the smell of chicken and chips and even intimidating  groups of teenagers around, that I always tried to avoid when walking.My friends and I did what we normally do - we walked for a long amount of time, embraced the warmth of the hot sun, eating chicken and chips with yum, sweet chocolate, gossiping about the things we had heard in the past, playing softball in the park, enjoying our freedom while it lasts.Doing nothing important.

Inspired by James K. Baxter