The fascinating Zoo day

Leap of Faith

Walt: write a story in sequence
Leap of Faith

It felt like my life was at stake because it was like I was on top of the world for some reason. As I stood upon the earth the glitz of the oceans wow factored me, especially because it was dawn. The sight was amazing even though the earth was as still as a rock.


Mission control babbled to me for a very long time. “Are you ready to jump?”. My heart sank, because anything could happen. “No sorry not ready yet, I‘m very frightened”. “Don't worry
everything will be okay” said the Mission controller. I thought about my husband and kids and what they would be doing right now and what they looked like.

“Are you ready now?” “Yes of course I am. I am a daredevil.” JUMP! Then I finally jumped, it was very breathtaking. It felt like I was a flying eagle free from everyone. Nearly to the ground, I pulled my parachute but it did not open I panicked I screamed “help me I’m going to die, help!”

The fire brigade came with a huge trampoline for me to land on. My legs and arms felt like spaghetti. The trampoline was right there in my face I bounced, bounced like a kangaroo. Woohoo! A safe landing. I danced my way off the trampoline, ran to my husband and kids and hugged them. Earth sweet Earth.
The message of this story is that if you believe in yourself anything can happen.

Disco Fever

Our First Disco
It was an amazing feeling just to be there. Seeing my best friends made my day because I did not think that they would come. It wasn’t really about the food because most people didn’t buy much. The music was astonishing to be honest, I thought that the music was going to be the 70‘s or 80‘s music. It was more like a glow party because it was dark and I think that every child had something that glowed. The children looked mind blowing, they came in their flash clothes. I wish we could have another Disco once again.

Glen Innes School is the best!

Glen Innes School Chant

GI School is the best
We will beat the rest
Do we try hard?
Oh boy yes! we do.
We’re  humble
And never grumble!
Kick the rugby ball through the poles,
watch that soccer ball roll, roll, roll.
We go out there to play hard and to win
And when we do we grin.

The children in our school
have the force
and we’re champions of course!

Survey and Report

Walt: to write a report on our survey

A few weeks ago I decided to find out “Who is your favourite teacher in Glen Innes School?” I used excel to draw my 3D graph. My data was represented in a column graph, it was a bit tricky but I got the hang of it. My target group was the seniors of our school.

I took the survey sheet around myself and personally asked them. 25 children were surveyed. I surmised that Mrs Barry is the most popular teacher. Mr Ramkolowan was the 2nd favourite teacher but the least favourite teachers were Mrs Webster, Mrs Manu and Mr Naidoo.

I think that most of the children chose Mrs Barry because she is the Sports Teacher and she is very fun to be around, hilarious and is very good at making connections with children.

Hard Materials

Walt: write a narrative.
Technology

Every Monday the children in year seven of Glen Innes School have Technology at Tamaki College.  We do Hard Materials with Mr Grundy. He is very fun to work with.
This week we had to finish off our sketches from three weeks ago. I didn’t really enjoy the sketching because it got a bit boring and I’m not really an artist.  The measuring part was the easiest for me because I got it in one go. When we had finished our five designs we had to do the final design which is the wooden toy you would like to make with your housing joint.

I think we have Technology so that we can improve and enjoy Hard Materials. Also I think that we have Hard Materials so that we can make things with wood.


We did many things in Technology from cooking to ICT and even being creative with wood! It is not that easy to make things out of wood but once you get the hang of it you get better.  A few are very creative because they chose to do a note holder, a car, a flying car and even a space car!


I have learnt many different words like try square, axle and even wrench.  I have heard those words before but have not worked with them but now that I have started Hard Materials I have used a Try square and even a bench vice clamp.

I found so many things interesting in Technology like experimenting with the work tools. Using a Try square was fun, but my favourite thing experimenting with was the bench vice clamp and I made my housing joint.


Overall I enjoy every bit of Technology.

Come on guys get sandwich wise!