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

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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

Proportions and Ratios

In maths we have been learning about proportions and ratios. Here is my example of putting known decimals onto a number line:

Sacrament Strand

This is my R.E poster that is about the way of living a young Christian life.

Hastings Art Gallery

Instantly, as I entered through the exhibit doors, I was stunned. From wall to wall, each wall was covered in different pieces of art. I was impressed. Each piece was unique in it's own way. The colours, sent off a message, of how the person in the portrait was feeling. 

The first pieces of art, I wanted to look at, were the mini sculptures in the cases.When I have finished inspecting the details of the sculptures, I partnered up with Lei so that we could exchange thoughts about the paintings. We were surprised when both of us had different takes on the pieces of art. On one of the portraits, that used charcoal as a medium, my view was that the old woman was happy and that she was happy doing  what she was doing.

When it came to the inter actives, it looked as if everyone was enjoying it, I know I was. At, one end there was an activity where you had to trace the silhouette behind the shadow, and on the other there was  a place where you had to sketch the person in front of you. My favourite was the one where you sketch yourself while looking in the mirror.

On the way out there was a que to take photos. Me and Lei lined up and put on funky costumes. We took two photos and watched as others took theirs. When we finished it was time to leave. I enjoyed my visit and hope to see more of it in the future.

Electronics