Weekly Report

This is the Weekly Report:

Report's have been given out,also our class placements for next year. Some people have been praised richly and others,well thats another story...! Well,anyway, some people have been happy with their class or sad and some don't really mind.

Recently we have been talking about aliens and UFO's, all because of Alex's talk on the question: Is there life on other planets? Lots of people talked about absolute rubbish!It was quite funny to hear what Victor and Tyler had to say!

It's almost the end of the year! It's so funny to see how much people have changed in the last five years! Next year,though,we are going to be the big people of the school. Also next year will be our chance to be Head Boy,Head Girl,Deputy Head Girl and Deputy Head Boy.

Our Big Day In is on Tuesday. If it's warm,there will be a slip and slide,also there is free sausages and other activities.

Well, thats all for now.

By Ella and Mikhael.

Weekly Report

This is the Weekly Report:

Mr. Williams has been doing the reports. All of us have been very nice to him over the past couple of weeks. Flynn has been bribing him with fudge! Yikes!

We have been doing a lot of sport lately. We have played: Non-stop cricket and American Football.

Last week four of us went to Young Writers Workshop with Elizabeth from the School for Young Writers. We had a previous workshop with Elizabeth in term two to start off our stories and this workshop was to edit them some more, to make them better and try to finish them. The selected students from our class were: Sinead, Ella, Chrissy and Victor. Last Thursday we had a session in the staff room where we read extracts to the parents, relatives and Ms. Warren.

By Ella and Sinead.

Class leader of The Week

Prepared Talks + Book Reviews this week

Here are this weeks talks and book reviews

Weekly Report

This is the weekly report.

This week was Book Week!! A lot of our books in the office were sold to many of St Albans' children. Author Ben Brown came in to talk to us about how life is being an author. We discovered that it is hard work and you don't get paid enough. Also on Thursday, we had a book parade, where you had to dress up a a book character. I, Brooke dressed up as Cinderella from Cinderella. And I, Chrissy, dressed up as a Vampire from Darren Shan : Vampires Assistant.

Because on Friday it was Show Day, we had a day off school, everyone was sobbing bitterly!

Callum is trying to stop pointing, nodding and slumping. He is trying his best!!!!!

As we get closer to the end of the year Mr.Williams is writing the reports. Much flattery is going on in room 25.

By Brooke and Chrissy

Chloes talk

Weekly Report

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Lucas has had a haircut! It is a mohawk and Mr. Williams used to call him Tintin because he said that Lucas looks like Tintin.It is very stylish!

This week some of our class members went to the zones.Brooke,Callum,Alex,Lucas and I (this is Tyler writing)I came second in long jump and sprints :)


Book Week is coming up soon and so is the book parade.Lots of people are still thinking about their costume for the book pararde.

By Ella and Tyler.

Weekly Report

This is the Weekly Report:
We are back from camp!! That Wednesday morning was very exciting for lots of people. The activities we did were;
Biking,Rock climbing,orienteering,Mission Impossible,climbing Conical Hill and then the hot pools and Games and free time. The food we ate was very yummy and it kept us going! Thank you to all the parents for the home baking! On the first night we played spotlight.We had to get to a certain tree. The first group got the wrong tree and thought they had won. Then they all got spotlighted by the parent and teachers and had to go back to the start. When we were heading to Hamner we went through Woodend,Amberley,Culverden,Waipara and some others we can't remember! I (Ella) was in a cabin with Chrissy.,Brooke and Sinead. Calvin was with Oliver,Callum H,Flynn and Ben.It was very exciting and we can't stop thanking the parents who were brave enough to come along.

Two days ago we had a our syndicate athletics. We did long and high jump,discus,shotput and sprints.Later on we had class and teacher/parent relays.Both our teams for our class won! Our relay teams were made up of Brooke,me,Chloe and Chrissy (girls) and the boys team was Tyler,Callum H,Flynn and Lucas. We had lunch late.It was very fun but very tiring!!

This is all for now as we can't think of much more.

By Ella and Calvin.

Weekly Report

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Camp is in two days and we are all very excited!The Years 6's have just left and seemed very excited.We don't blame them!Sometimes the excitement is unbearable!We definitely are extremely excited.Please remember to name everything very clearly because we do not want 13 children crying because they can't find their socks or their teddy or something like that!

As we get closer to athletics day we start practicing more and more it looks like we have some pretty talented athletes in our class. We have found out quite a lot of people like long and high jump.

On the 14th of October we had the Music Festival.People came from far and wide (well not exactly that...) to watch us perform.It went from 7.30pm to 9.35pm.As I said to Mr. Williams,I do not want to get a job in the music business .

By Brooke and Ella. :)

Prepared Talks

Victor did his prepared talk today.It was on chocolate.

Weekly Report

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Camp is coming even closer and we are getting more and more prepared.We know what tribe we're in,whose car we're going in and what activities we're doing.We all think it will be fun and a definite challenge.

On Wednesday we had a school Commonwealth games our class was Northern Ireland we came second and England came first! Samoa came 3rd.

Recently we have been practicing for the athletics.We are all getting better,apart from James whose behaviour was appalling in some of the events!

There have been a few aftershocks this week they where shocking!Also very scary!

Friday sport teams have been chosen and it will be very exciting to see how they get on!

On Thursday we had an earthquake drill.It was a rush when we were going out the door.My finger got stuck in the door!!Ouch!

By Ella and Tyler.

Weekly Report

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This week we are having a mini Commonwealth Games.We will be separated into two teams with Room 3.There will be lots of different sports which I don't know the names of,and I think it will be very fun.

Last week we got a letter from a school in the north island saying hope you're okay from the earthquake and today we will be writing back to them.

As the aftershocks continue,its still a bit worrying to be back at school. Lots of people got affected quite a lot by it, Mikhael,fleeing as he said, to Wellington. Callum H got trapped in his room,quite scary experience for him!I had just being in the loo before it started! Lots of people lost chimneys and some lost homes to this 7.1 earthquake. Lots of families were lucky,they only sustained minor damage,but some have had to have their houses demolished. Knowing now that you always have to be prepared,having torches,bottled water an a few other things will help if there ever is a big on like that ever again.

As camp is getting closer we're getting more and more ready for it. We already know who we're bunking with. Most of us cant wait for camp because we have so many exciting things we're going to do there. It will be heaps of fun!

There are now some choices of sport to do and one of them is a game for deep thinkers,apparently.No,not cricket,not touch but softball or tee ball.Apparently tee ball is a game for deep thinkers,unlike cricket,according to Mr. Williams.Well,in touch,you have to run around most of the time and you have to think who you pass to and stuff like that.So you have to think in touch too!

by Brooke and Ella.

Weekly Report

This is the weekly report:
This week we've had 2 birthdays. Sinead Washington and Ella Boot. We're still waiting for our cake but for now happy birthday.

As time ticks closer to camp,we have began to talk about it more.Thank you to all the parents who were brave enough to put their name forwards.We are all lookng foward to it.

As Mr. Williams keeps going on about runathon money more and more people are bringing it in. Take Callum Ross for example he raised 172 dollars and 20 cents, wow that's impressive.

We have been doing more and more exercise as the weather has been getting nicer.It is sort of like spring now! Well,sometimes anyway.

This week we have been writing letters to our parents asking for something we would like to have its going well, we'll let you know how its going soon.

Recently we have been using the pods to research the questions that we asked about India.Alok has been a massive help to us!He drew a map of India and labeled a lot of cities.

On Wednesday we went out to see the Kapa Haka team practise for their competition on Saturday, they were brilliant, fantastic, amazing and the Junior team did a few songs too.

On Wednesday Mrs Bateman came into our class to "inspect" us! She only did it because she wanted to check the rumors that we were the best looking class in the world.Obviously we were all very good-looking (apart from Callum Ross).

By Ella and Brooke.

Last Weeks Class Leader

Here is last week's class leader, Mikhael Johari. He did a reasonable job but he forgot to do his after school jobs.

Weekly Report

Here is this weeks weekly report. On Friday we had a yellow mufti day for daffodil day we had a school wide Jump Jam and best dressed competition, the teachers had to pick the best dressed person from their class, then Mr.Mackenzie and Mrs. Warren would choose a top five the top five would receive a Clip 'n Climb pass. From our class Flynn was chosen to represent our class in the best dressed competition, he also was in the top five and got a Clip 'n Climb pass. Also on Friday there was the Jump Jam Disco to raise money for the Jump Jam team to go the finals for New Zealand the song that got them through was 'We Rock'. We also started using the pods for our research for our India inquiry. Most of the groups found out lots information on their subject. We started to do some more physical education because the weather was improving. We played two large ball games while we were outside.

Prepared Talks + Book Reviews this week

Here are this weeks Book Reviews and Prepared Talks.

Weekly Report

This is the weekly report:
Yesterday we had the Runathon.Callum H ran the most laps in the whole school,we think.He ran 23 laps!It was very tiring!Aidan C fainted and a boy called Satori threw up.

Sport has finished for this term. Nooo!!! The sports teams photos are today.Hopefully everyones got their uniforms.

Lately we have been doing our calenders.A lot of people are finished but theres still a few more to go.

Raj is back from India after 2 months.He did a prepared talk about it.

Recently we have been talking about camp.We have a lot of things to think about.

A.V.A.I.L.L has just finished and Alok and Alex went up in their reading age by 2 years thats impressive!

On Monday and Tuesday Mr Williams was sick!Everyone was in buckets of tears and we had to learn things in boats!

Recently we have started a book called Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz.Its the third book in the Alex Rider series.

We are on to the second topic of our arguments.It is homework.

On Wednesday all the choir people went to Christ Collage for the practice for the Music Festival.

By Tyler and Ella.

This Weeks Prepared Talks + Book reviews + Weekly Class Leader

Here are this weeks prepared talks and book reviews. Also we have our weekly class leader, Alok. He was a fantabulous class leader, and we enjoyed him. He was very strict, and was still a great class leader.

Weekly Report

This is the weekly report:

On Thursday 5th of August the Sports Zones tournament happened. 8 people from room 25 went to the tournament. Those people were Flynn, Callum, Aidan, Tyler, Oliver, Victor, Ella and me, Brooke. We were very impressed with the results.

On Tuesday five people from our class went to the University of New South Wales test for English.We all hope that we get good results.Also,today Aidan,Oliver and Callum H went to the Australian Math Competition.Good luck!

Lately we've been doing argument writing. We've been doing 1 subject about school uniforms. It seems that there are 6 good reasons why you should wear them and only 4 why should not.

Recently lots of people have been getting pen licences!You get them by getting thirty excellents in handwriting.Well done to everyone who has one!

Lately we've been doing quite a lot of training for the coming up runathon. We've seen a lot of people run much faster than we thought the would .

For a while now we have been playing multiplication games in class and math interchange.They have helped us with our knowledge of multiplication facts.
By Ella and Brooke

This weeks Prepared talks + Book reviews

This week, Dylan talked about Premature Babies, Callum talked about going to Disneyland, Sinead did a book review on The Tricksters, and CallumR did a book review on Deltora Quest Maze of the Beast.

Weekly Report

This is the weekly report for Room 25

This week Victor,Chrissy,Sinead and me went to Young Writers.We had to write stories and had to edit them a lot!It was useful and we learnt what to use and what to avoid.It was fun and I can't wait to do it again,in Term Four.

Recently we have started to practice our running for the runathon.The runathon is about getting money so we can go to camp in term four.It's also about getting fit.Hopefully everyone is going to do really well!

This terms topic is India and The Commonwealth.We will be using Calvin,Raj and Alok as our experts!Can everyone try and get as much information as they can for this.It will help.

This week Dylan did a fabulous talk about premature babies.I was not there to see it because of Young Writers,but everyone else said it was amazing!We are all very proud of him because he doesn't find these sorts of things easy.

Ben is finally wearing his glasses!They have made him improve in a lot of things!His reading,maths and spelling have got better.

This week,Mikhael Johari has been very tired.He had to sprint across the field to wake up and I think that definitely woke him up!

Class Leader of The Week

Here is Calvin. He was class leader this week.

Prepared Talks for this week

Here are some pictures of our children that did a prepared talk this week.

Prepared Talks

Here are some of our Prepared Talks we have had this week

Class Leader of The Week

This week, Chloe Andrews-Green is the class leader. She has the responsibility to look after the class and stand up the front with a felt pen watching out if someone is naughty. Here is a picture of her with the felt pen.

Learning about blogs

This morning Chrissy, Sinead, Victor and Oliver attended a training session with Lisa from eTime to learn about blog improving strategies. Watch this space for some exciting posts.

This is us with our buddy class, Room 12. We had lots of fun!




This is us on our trip to the Christchurch City Council Provincial Buildings. We learnt about the history of the Christchurch City Council, and explored the town. We went to places that are important to Christchurch, like Rhododendron Island, Avon Boat Sheds, The Cathedral Square, The Bridge Of Remembrance, New Regent, Victoria Square and The Original City Council Chambers.
Here is our movie:



















Made by Chrissy and Oliver.