Tim Tipenes Terrific Day Visit To Paihia School

Last week on Thursday the 11th an author came to visit his name was Tim Tipene, he believes that there is a warrior inside everyone. I mostly enjoyed him telling us about himself and his life. I have only read his 1 of his 10 books called Taming the Taniwha but I would like to get read more of his stories because the have a lesson behind the and the are well written. I can only name a few like Hinemoa te Toa, Taming the Taniwha, Maui the Sun Catcher and The Wooden Fish. I hope he can come to our schools again.

General Knowledge

I was learning to learn more about the world around us. So on Wednesdays the year 7 and 8’s go to tech, we have this presentation^ to do and we have to chose a country and explain all about it. My buddy's for this project are Missy and Sonny. I think I did really well with all the recording and key info. Next time I would like to chose a more unknown country.

Awesome Amazing Animation

Narrative Story for Animation

For Writing in the past term we have made a character and the setting for it on a google drawing. Now we have done that we made a narrative of the character and setting put together. My goal for writing the narrative was to use good descriptive language, ellipsis and onomatopoeia.

Terrific Terrifying Triathlon

Last Friday we had a Paihia School Tryathlon we swam down at the beach it was a 100 metre swim. I was a great day. But I think the down side was running back to school in our cold wet togs.  My favorite was the bike ride around the field and on the pump track. At the deck the juniors cheered us on and the prize at the end was a caught being good and a bar. Next year I think we need to have another one.

Super Surf Safety

On Wednesday we went down to the beach and three lifeguards called, Liam, Sam and Tobias taught us how to use a tube to save someone. We had 4 fun activities on how to save life we played a game called beach flags, beach divers and we also played a relay, running in the water high fiving a teacher aide called Bridgette and then running out of the water without falling over it was an awesome day. I hope we do it every year.

Beach Clean Up

Kia ora, my name is Lily and last week we had beach clean up. The juniors cleaned the closest part of the beach to school and the the year 5 - 8 took the far side of the beach. Freya, Ava, Astin, Tessa and I found 371 cigarette butts and and I found 5 sea weed covered fishing lines. Somebody even found the a rugby ball in the storm water drainage. It was really gross but fun at the very same time. I am glad that Paihia School gets to have a beach clean up day every year.