Duffy Day

On the 17th of February at 11.05am our school had a Duffy show. It was about a little girl named Ruby and she lived on a farm with her mum and dad, till one day Ruby's dad was called into the army to fight for New Zealand. This meant that Ruby was not able to go to school to learn how to read. She had to get her mother to read her father's notes that he sent to her. He  was ambushed and he died. So Duffy went back in time to WW2 and saved him and everything changed in the future.      

Touch rugby With Trevor

For the last few weeks a man named Trevor came to teach us to play touch the proper way. After 3 weeks of practice we had a real game and my team lost, but it doesn't matter because we tried our best.    

Nightcore

Everyone has a favourite singer, my favourite singer is Night Core she sings songs from other singer (and her own) but is the style of  techno/trance and dance.   

Here is one of my favourite songs of her own anima libera

Childhood Friends Switched at Birth

Childhood friends Luke Monias and Norman Barkman recently discovered they were switched at birth over 40 years ago!

Luke and Norman were born on the same day in 1975 at the same hospital in Canada. They were raised in the same small community and have been close friends throughout their lives.

Our Garden

Today the school had to decide what plants we wanted to have in our garden and the plant the plants I wanted to have in our garden was the Cyathea Dealbata the reason why is because it is an NZ plant. 

   

Titanic’s last dinner menu sold

A menu from the last dinner served to first-class passenger aboard the doomed Titanic before the luxury ocean liner 
sank in 1912 has fetched 

nearly $NZ184,000 ($120,000 USD) at auction. 

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Hayne Cut By 49ers

Former Australian rugby league star turned NFL player Jarryd Hayne has been cut by the San Francisco 49ers. Hayne has been dropped to make room for a more experienced running back. Kendall Gaskins was promoted to the active roster.

Changes to pool laws creates furry

Changes to pool laws creates furry The Government is planning to repeal the swimming pool fencing that has saved 21 children from drowning act of 1987. The act of this act been put forward. The parliament by the minister for building and housing Nick Smith saying “aimed at reducing the compliance. Burden imposed on pool owners” in relation to residential pools while maintaining child safety. 

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My Halloween Costume

It's Halloween tomorrow and I'm going to be a ZOMBIE and I'm going to be going to go with my family. Room 11 did digital art on our chrome books. Here is mine form sumo paint.     

Parker Wins By TKO

New Zealand heavy wait boxer Joseph Parker extended his unbeaten professional record with a technical knock out against 45-year-old veteran Kali Meehan. Parker’s professional record now stands at 16-0.
Parker came out strong and dominated the opening two rounds. He stunned Meehan with an impressive combination one minute into the third round before then finishing him off with powerful overhand right.

Aunt's house

On Saturday all I did is clean and I didn't get paid for it, I did the dishes, beds, laundry, vacuuming (sometimes), and for all that I only got to go outside. It would be a bit nice to get paid at least $50. My luck finally changed when my mum and I went to my Aunt's house and there I helped made dinner. We had sausages, patties, steak, with some buns and macaroni salad.

21 Bagnall Avenue
 

Shake Out Drill

Today at 9:15 all classes around the New Zealand had to do a Shake Out drill. Our Principle Rang the bell 3 times and we had to stop ( stop what we were doing) drop ( Go under our desk) and hold ( hold the desk legs ) Me and my group were just relaxed but I got the worst pain I've ever had in my neck.

When we finish the drill we went out for fitness.    

Shake Out Drill- By Mr Reid

Mars

Mars is the forth planet from the sun, and is reddish. It's surface is covered with rusty-coloured rock and dust.

Mars has a giant canyon that makes Earth's Grand canyon look tiny. The canyon on Mars is longer than the distance across the US.

Mars also has a very large volcano that is 3 times as big as Mt Everest. It is called Olympus Mons. Mars has a thin atmosphere surrounding and is not enough air for a human to breath.

orbit length
( once around the sun ) -1.88 years

rotation -24.62 hours
(1 day)

mars by Mick Hyde

Looking Forward to Sport

I am back at school and the thing I'm really looking forward to is the sport that is coming around like the touch rugby and athletics. We are going to be coached on how to play touch rugby properly
and how to side step better. Athletics is cool because I like to sprint and/jog around the block. I love sprinting straight ahead, trying my best and pushing myself and my speed to another limit.
Athletics by Mark Rivkin Philanthropy
         

The Blood Moon

A Blood moon known as a ‘tetrad’ will take place on September 28th, which is just the fourth lunar eclipse in two years.

The rare event will make the moon look up to 14% larger because it is as close to the earth than it will ever be in its elliptical orbit. However there is a chance that the eclipse won’t be visible from New Zealand and as always viewing always depends on weather conditions.

So why will the moon be a ‘blood’ red colour? When the earth eclipses a full moon the direct sunlight is blocked, but the suns rays still light up the moon. However this light has already travelled through the Earths atmosphere first, and hence causing the totally eclipsed moon to look red or brownish.

Tinashe

This week Heilala, Anavea, Matali Henare and I made a shared doc and wrote a report on Tinashe. We had a paragraph each and found out that she doesn't like, CANDY and FIZZY! She is the age of 22 years born on February the 6th in 1993 and her full name is Tinashe Jorgenson Kachingwe.    
Tinashe doc

woodtech

Every Wednesday room 11 goes to Tamaki College to make food or make a project made out of wood.I made a helicopter that looks like this...

the teacher that showed us was a guy named Mr Grundy. He showed us how and where to put Joints and how to glue it together if it broke and mine broke but I don’t have the right glue to put it together again.

My helicopter sat on the table my helicopter fell on the floor sing with me

That’s all I've got to tell you Unless you want to know what I’m in now.. FOOOOOD   

Myron Simpson

Yester we walked up to the multipurpose room at 9:30am for a Duffy assembly. There we met a man named Myron Simpson and he told us about his achievements in his life and how he got to make his own muesli company. Myron Simpson started riding bikes when he was 3 and started racing for NZ when he was 8. Myron was also awarded a silver medal in the 2007 world champs in Mexico. 

Jill McDonald

jill Mcdonald                 jill Mcdonald art

 Jill McDonald

Jill McDonald was an illustrator in the no.1 kids books. She joined up with Margaret Mahy and they wrote a book called Lion In The Meadow. Jill was so interested in drawing she could draw Captain Cook and she liked to draw school children and astronauts but her favourite subject was animals. A lot of her drawing was put in a trunk and sent to Glen, who had returned to NZ a few years earlier. Jill graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 with a degree in textile design. Jill McDonald died in 1982.

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