My year in GRi11 2.0

Dear future Myself

At the start of the year I was a bit nervous entering my first ever year 6 class but it’s always what I tend to do ( be scared. ). I’ve had a blast with all my mates this year in GRi11 2.0 because I’ve had loads of fun with them and also with my teachers Miss Gordon and Mr Robertson. These teachers have helped me in my next learning steps that I could achieve in the next years and they

are great teachers, because they’re fun, they’re cool, they’re nice, and they provide you  some great learning.

When I was in GRi11 2.0 their teaching style was real weird and cool because we usually don’t learn in this type of style because we get to access in our class, bean bags, hammocks, couches, leaners, kidney tables, and a lot of furniture we’ve also got 3 rooms called, the hall of fame we’re you learn, the hangout we’re you communicate, the hideout, we’re you want to have some silence.

We had a computer for each when we first entered GRi11 2.0 which was real cool because you wouldn’t need to fight because someone stole your computer, ( which I tend to do ).

We’ve had great times like when Miss Gordon got a fright because a balloon popped and that miss gordon hates it when balloons pop.

When I was in Gri11 2.0 I was involved in, Touch Rugby, Ricoh Sevens, Swimming sports, Interclub Tennis, and Open Mic for winning a scholarship for music lessons for six months and I want to thank that one on my teacher Miss Gordon who created my voice astonishing and also me.

Also our class went to camp at sixtus lodge which was real cool experiencing it as a class and while we were there we went to the glow worm cave outside the Sixtus Lodge base at night. We also did a lot of tramping ( walking ) because there were tracks across the base which were real long which almost went to 6 hours of walking. There was a funny memory in Gri11 2.0 when I slept sung in my sleep at camp and my teachers caught it on tape showing it to the class which really embarrassed me.

Well it’s came to the end of my time in Gri11 2.0 and that I’ll miss Gri11 2.0 in every single way, and I’ll be the person crying because I miss my class, it’s been great being in Gri11 2.0 and I’ll have a great time in my P.N.I.N.S class just like In GRi11 2.0 see  you everyone, ka kite ano.

Well I am pretty sad to say that it’s the end of my journey at primary school and in my class Gri11 2.0, and today I’m going to explain my year in GRi11 2.0.

Our Culture Taking Action

On the 16th of November every student in Grill 2.0 have working on subject called taking action for our unit called Culture Diversity. My group for the taking action we're organising a Culture Festival with the food group. My mother is going to be involved for the festival and she's going to bake some french pastry called a french choux which is a succulent dish flavoured with whipped cream and ice cream and sugar on top. For the Culture Festival I will be doing advertisements on my food and some facts about France and beautiful posters on attractions around France.

Our Culture group have been working so hard on the culture festival day to get ready for it. On my posters I put photo's of the eiffel tower and Louvre museum and the castle of versailles where all the kings of France lived.

The festival will only be for Grill 2.0. The food group will be making, Fried Rice, Dumplings, Sushi, Tropical jelly, gingerbread man and much more great cultural dishes.

We decided to have a cultural festival because our school haven't been focusing on the principle of culture diversity which means working just on one culture while you can work on many different cultures so our class decided to have a cultural festival.

( Here's a photo of my graphic design advertising the French Choux)

My trip to the Gold Coast Part One #7

On the 6th of July I wake out of bed and get dressed because I remembered for once that today we'll be going to Gold Coast today. I was super pumped up for it and I was so excited that I couldn't stop jumping around like a mad person.

We take our delicious breakfast and head off to our rooms to double check our suitcase to see if we've got everything in it. We head off to the airport and go to the check-in. We board our aircraft and have our safety procedure like always before takeoff and departure. in front of me I saw a inflight magazine, called Kia Ora which a great magazine because tells loads of stuff like winning wine awards and places in New Zealand that you can go to and also has stuff about Air New Zealand.

The plane zooms out in the air and is longer seen at the airport. The lovely Flight Attendant proposed me some water and fudge which was pretty nice, but that's the flight attendants job to keep people happy. The Captain announced that we'll be doing our descent towards Auckland and to make the descent a bit sweeter we got handed some Air New Zealand lollies.

We finally land on the runway smoothly and enter the domestic terminal.

Athletics Day #6

On the 9th of November our Athletics got held at our school. It's the big day and we're ready for it, we've trained weeks and weeks and now it's the day. it's now that we make ourselves proud because it's last year for me at primary school because next year I'm heading off to middle school.

I wake up at 7:15 and I'm legit tired and drowsy and I can't even bother to jump out of bed and dress myself but I thought twice and I realised that today it was athletics day so now I jumped out of bed.

I arrive at school at 8:35AM before the Athletics start so like that I can talk to my friends and have some rest.

At 8:50AM the bell goes to signal us that it's time for the Athletics to begin. The Year 6 boys ( in our grade ) start to line up alphabetical order to get ready to approach the field in the distance.

The activities that they have for Athletics is, Long Distance, Sprints, Hurdles, Throw/Shot-put, High Jump, and Long Jump, their is also an activity called relays but you need to have made the team. In Athletics There are four teams that compete against each other and those are, weka, Takahe, Kea, and Tui and they compete against each other to win the house cup. But how do they win the house cup, well in every sport activity you get given numbers from 1 - 4 and higher the number is the better it is. everyone gets a number for their house and then the staff calculate it all up and announce the scores and whatever house has the highest score, win the overall cup.

Our timetable sport activity for year 6 went like this, Long Distance, High Jump, Morning Tea break
, Shot-put/Throw, Hurdles, Lunch Time break, Sprints, Long Jump, then Relays.

We started off for long distance and I was real nervous, because usually I come 3rd or 4th in long distance but now they're a lot of people that are now faster than me so it will be real challenging.

 The whistle blow and my feet startled and then I blast off and run, I run as hard as I can and I realise that I'm coming second but I can't waste all my energy because I won't be able to sprint at the end of the track. We loop around our school and now is the moment there's only 10 metres left and I'm almost beating one of the fastest people Jacob Booth and at the last second I bet him and crossed over the line with glee.

I had a great time at athletics day and that I tried hardest in every event and that we don't know what house has won yet but we'll find out in the past weeks for the update.

My Trip from Auckland to Cairns #5

When I jumped out of bed I went straight to the bathroom and dress myself at 6:00AM because the taxi was picking us up early to head over to the airport. We hop down to the reception place and then go to the restaurant and bar to eat our breakfast.

I ate some succulent breakfast with rice bubbles, toast and some juice. After Breakfast we head off into the taxi for Auckland Airport.

The taxi drops us at the international terminal and signals us goodbye. When we finished the check in we went to the immigration customs to confirm that we're leaving New Zealand. We settle ourselves once again in the Koru lounge to wait for the gate to open and start boarding. I ate some real delicious food in the lounge even though I already ate some breakfast.

The gate for Cairns was confirmed open so we scrambled ourselves towards gate 3 to board onto the aircraft. Our tickets get scanned and where off to board the aircraft. We enter the Airbus A320 and scramble ourselves to economy class to be seated. Before takeoff we had our safety procedures aboard the aircraft so like that we would be safe and ready to go. The plane vanishes in the clouds once again. Aboard the aircraft I watched one great movie which was, Maze Runner: Scorch trials, to me it was a great movie but also sad at the same time. We started to descend towards Cairns and while we were descending I saw the Great Barrier Reef in the distance of my window which was a stunning view.

We land at Cairns Airport and exit the aircraft and enter into the airport. As soon as we slip out of the airport, BANG a huge pile of hot wind collapses onto me and I wasn't surprise it was hot as because it's obviously Australia so you would be dying of to much heat but for me it was so hot that I was literally dying. We hop into our new car that we rented in Australia to travel to places that we would go to. The car starts up and departs onto the highway of Cairns but we weren't exactly staying at Cairns we were staying in a town a couple of miles away from Cairns called Port Douglas.

When we entered our hotel, ( the pullman resort ) I was stoked of how beautiful it was, it was basically a retirement village except with cooler features. I enter our appartement and for god sake we had a fan because it was to hard to handle the pressure of the sun it felt like you were getting roasted for dinner.

My brother and I were having some fun in the pool having great time squirting each other and playing games. At night we go down to the big pools and when I saw the pools my jaw collapsed to the ground after of what I saw, it was a pool city basically. After that we went back to our hotel appartement, to jump into our warm beds and sleep for the next day ahead of us.



  

My trip from Palmerston North to Auckland #4

On the 30th of September at 6:00 pm we got a call from Air New Zealand saying your flight has been delayed three hours. As soon as my dad heard it on the phone he stressed because the flight to Cairns would have been at 9:15am but the Palmerston North flight to Auckland was 30 minutes after the flight to Cairns would have taken off, so we had to think and problem solve what we could do.

Air New Zealand called us back for good news. The good news was that there was a flight today that could go to Auckland that would arrive at 12:00AM and also that Air New Zealand would pay us the flight. They also payed us a hotel at Auckland to stay for the next day.

We arrive at Palmerston North Airport and go straight to the check in for our flight to Auckland. It was 9:00PM when we arrived at the airport I was so drowsy and was about to collapse to the ground and sleep. We settle ourselves in the Koru lounge of Palmy. We hop down to the gate to get ready to hop into the plane for Auckland. We cross the tarmac to enter into the plane and the flight attendant greets me nicely aboard the plane. We had some safety procedure from the flight attendant before takeoff. When the plane is lined up with the runway the two propellors spin like blades spinning at millions of km per hour. The plane speeds up and the big metal bird flies and goes up into the clouds and vanishes without a single trace.

The Captain announces that the plane is going to descend to the runway of Auckland and had to turn off all electronic devices and stow them in the over head locker and to put tray tables back in possession. I hear the big aluminum wheels hop out of the planes wings and getting ready to land.

I see the beautiful lights of Auckland and the sky tower it looked stunning from the view of the window. I see the runway in the distance and every second coming towards it. The plane lands smoothly on the runway of Auckland international Airport. We arrive in the domestic terminal of Auckland Airport and wait in the parking area and wait for a taxi to pick us up to go to the hotel.

The taxi drives us off to Manakau to the Mercure hotel and sleep to get ready for the next day.  

My Learning Achievements this year #3

This Year in our class Gri11 2.0 we've all learned a lot of things and today I won't to share my learning achievements I've had throughout the year. In the first term of school we all were introduced to a new modern way of learning. At the start of the year I needed support on my reading and all the workshops that my teachers have been on the subject shared reading or reading has really made me push my reading skills and achieving the bits reading i've been struggling with.

Term 1 we had a P.A.T reading test. A P.A.T test is a website called nzcer online where there are many different tests like maths test reading tests and many more other tests. We start our 45 minutes on the test. Throughout the test I was struggling with the questions and words they included and I couldn't seem answer them. At end of test I was pretty disappointed of my reading test and that I didn't give it an honest effort.

Now it's term 4 and it's almost the end of the year, and also that next year we're going to middle school so I have to give my best effort in the reading test. "It's the big moment now," I say, "it's the reading test, give every thing you've got use every skill of reading your teachers have taught you, remember to be yourself, to think hard and go hard," I repeat. We start our P.A.T test and the 45 minutes are underway once again. In the reading test I use every skill that I got taught this year and use them in the reading test successfully for the questions. Our teacher spits out the word times out and as soon the test was done I was so proud of how much I had improved from at the beginning of the year and I want to thank it to my teachers.