Year: 2022

On Friday, the 23rd of September it was Mission Day, Mission Day is a day where the students donate food or money to the Holy Angels Orphanage, and we could also wear any clothing that doesn’t have any inappropiate stuff. In the morning, we did a Assembly, we sang songs and then we put some money down on our class number. After Assembly we did our Te Reo thon, we had to translate some words Maori to English, and English to Maori, the first words were easy, but then the last words were difficult for me, then when I was finished I put my paper on Mr.Bells desk.

At Morning Tea, some of the students in Room 8 were selling Raffle Tickets, it cost 20 cents, 1 doller was 5 tickets, and 2 dollers were 10 tickets, After I bought some Raffle Tickets, I went to play in the top court, barely anyone was playing in the top court because they were in the kanopy. After Morning Tea, Room 7 watched a anime movie called “Spirited Away”.

Then at lunchtime, it was the last time the Room 8 students would sell the Raffle Tickets, I really wanted to buy some more Raffle Tickets, but the line was long and plus I was too lazy, so I decided to play soccer in the top court with some people. After Lunchtime we finished the Spirited Away movie and I loved it, the story was really cool and the art style was really beautiful, and the food scenes looked so good.

Then at 2:20, all of the classes went to the Kanopy to do the Raffle Prizes, I didn’t win any of the prizes but I was glad that one of my friends won one of the prizes. Mission Day was really cool, my favourite part of the day was when all of us watched a movie.

In 1876 2 of the Mission Sisters arrived at Kolkata, they visited some families then they decided to establish a Church. 1967 the archbishop gave the Mission Sisters a home and also in 1967 most of the children were orphans because of a war so the Mission Sisters established a school for them.

In 1981 the Mission Sisters established an orphanage for orphans. Before they started an orphanage I think the reason why they started an orphanage was because Sister Teresa brought 7 orphans. In 2006 the Mission Sisters named the parish school “Holy Angels Boarding School”.

Kalyanpur is a beautiful village filled with 92851 males and 81098 females all together its 173,949 Kalyanpur is spelled “kalyanpur” but the stations name is “Kalianpur” while the British often use “Kullianpur”.

The Commonwealth Games is a sports competition that happens every 4 years and countries enter in it. Most of the countries have been governed by the British Empire, there were 4 countries that entered the commonwealth games first, it was Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

The first commonwealth games to be held was in Hamilton in the year 1930, before the commonwealth games was called “The Commonwealth Games” it was called the British Empire Games.

In “The Road To Birmingham” we went to different landmarks,virtually, we did it virtually because of the pandemic and it would’ve cost too much, so we did it on a website where we recorded the distance we ran each day and entered it as a class, we did it by using a website and each laps we ran each day, we made them into kilometres and entered the score as a class. We had a chance to learn about these landmarks, and it was the best thing we could do as if we were actually there.

The other thing we had to do was pick an athlete and look for information about them. The athlete I chose was Moira Koster. I chose her because she did Judo and Judo is like Karate and I love karate except I don’t really know how to do karate but I love watching movies with fighting, I’d love to learn karate.

Moira Koster was born in 1990 in South Africa, Johannesburg, she competed in the 2012 London and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth. She won 1 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze, she has won multiple Oceania Championships for juniors.

My experience with the Commonwealth games was really fun. I loved how we had to run laps to move forward in the race, but some people started lying about them doing 50 laps. My favourite landmark was the Stonehenge, I loved the Stonehenge because it is ancient, and it had different theories of who put them up, one of the theories said that Merlin the wizard of Arthurian put them up.

This Sunday is a very special day, thats because its Fathers Day! A day where we honour all those fathers around the world, and appriciate the love that our fathers have given us since the beginning of our life. Today we had to make something for our fathers, most of the Room 7 made cards and the other ones made a slideshow on their chromebook, I chose to make a card since it was the easiest to make but the hard part was thinking what to write in the card. I took 5 minutes to think what I should write in the card then i came up with some writing. I put a lot of work onto my card, I hope my father will love it.

On the 27th of June the first day of swimming I was really excited, we needed our swimming gear which was a swimming bag or a bag that can fit your swimming gear, a towel, some goggles if you want to use them, our jumpers to keep us warm after and our swimming caps. Some girls didn’t have or like swimming caps so they had to tie their hair in a bun, the Year 6 girls would go to Room 6 and the Year 7 girls would go to Room 8, us Year 6 and 5 girls would have to wait for the Room 6 boy’s to get changed, once they were done us girls would go into the classroom and get changed, and after we got changed the Room 6, 7 and 8 boys would go on the bus and the bus would take them to SwimMagic school. The year 6 girls would use the Room 6 ball and the Year 7 and 8’s would use the basketballs and play.

Then when our bus would arrive the Room 6 would go first then the Room 8 would go after them, the Room 6 would take the front seats, the Year 6 and 7 would take the middle seats and the Room 8 would be at the back. Then when we arrived at the SwimMagic School we’d always for the boys to finish their lessons with the Coaches, when their done we’d put our towels down on the bench and get into our lanes. I forgot which lane I was in but the coach was really fun to have, her name is Coach Seb she was fun.

On the last day of swimming I was really excited to go on the boats again but this years one was different, before we got on the boat one of the coaches gave some of us some life jackets, that was the first time I wore a life jacket it felt really uncomfortable at first but then I got used to it. Later on we got to go on the boat, it could only hold 4 people at a time,  when we got on the boat we had to fall backwards it was fun.

When all of us had fallen off the boat we got seperated into 3 teams then we had to race eachother to the end It probably doesn’t really matter who won but it was really fun. After that we had to climb out of the water and face the wall, one of the coaches pushed someone at a time then we fell into the water, after we fell into the water we had to take off our life jackets, climb out of the water, grab our stuff and say goodbye, when we got back from swimming I quickly got changed, went to my classroom, said karakia and went home. I loved to do swimming it was really fun and the Coaches were fun too, im really excited for next years swimming.

Pests like possums, stoats and feral cats hunt other animals to survive, some of those animals can’t defend themselves. Some of the animals that get killed by pests are endangered animals.

So I ask you this question, “Why should we learn to control pests?” We should learn to control pests so we don’t have to kill them and have to be worried about them killing animals.

We should learn to control pests so other animals  don’t get hurt or killed and so the endangered animals don’t become extinct like Kiwi’s or penguins.

But pests aren’t the only problem, plants are like pests. Some plants are toxic and poisonous like Oleander or Rosary Pea, some of the toxic plants cause humans and animals to get sick, and some plants carry diseases and viruses.

Stoats are a carnivorous animals there favourite animal to eat are rabbits, feral cats are more healthier than pet cats you can even tame some feral cats, hedgehogs have 5000-7000 spikes all over their body, a group of hedgehogs is called an array, possums can live up to 11 years, possums play dead so predators won’t eat them.

We should control pests so we don’t have to kill them, so defenceless animals don’t get harmed, hurt or killed even the endangered animals.

On Friday the 5th of August, Room 7 got to go on a trip to Cornwall Park, but before we went a man named Chris taught us about predators and how to set up traps, after that we left school and got on our bus.

When we arrived at Cornwall Park Chris introduced us to Charlie and Lisa, we split up into two groups Mr.Bell’s group went with Chris and Mrs Yumals group (the group I was in) went with Charlie and Lisa. Charlie and Lisa taught us about trees and nature meanwhile Chris was also teaching his groups about nature. 

Then when were done we switched leaders then later on we came back and had lunch together outside in nature, Later on we went into our original teams and played games together, then when our bus arrived we went back to our classroom and Chris handed us worksheets and trap tunnels but the trap tunnels weren’t built yet so we had to build it ourselves (the trapping tunnels were made out of black construction paper) when we were done we were allowed to put our trap tunnels anywhere in our school. 

After that Chris had to leave, everyone said their goodbyes then Chris left. I had lots of fun. My favourite part was when all of us had lunch together outside in nature.

Beatrix Potter was born on the July 28th 1866, in South Kensington, Middlesex and she died in 1943. At the age of 27 Beatrix Potter published the Peter Rabbit book and it was the first children’s book did you know that if it wasn’t for Canon Rawnsley Peter Rabbit may have never been created, she also wrote The Tale of the Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Tom Kitten and other books.

The Buckingham Palace was built in 1703, it is 319 years old. There are 775 rooms in the Buckingham Palace. The palace got its name from the house built for John Sheffield. Queen Victoria was the first English royal to live in the Buckingham Palace.

Stonehenge is a popular landmark which is located in Wiltshire England, it is believed that it was built 4000 years ago. Each stone is around 13ft high and 25 tons, the largest stone is called the Heel stone which weighs about 30 tons. One theory propose that Stonehenge was used as a Late Neolithic burial site and a monument to the dead. According to legends, Stonehenge was created by Merlin the wizard of Arthurian, another legend says invading Danes set the stones up, another legend says they were ruins of a Roman Temple.