Waitangi

The crowd gathers around the proud flagpole to celebrate our nation. The sea of people look out at the majestic view, where the islands dot the harbour. Under the windy flags, the kapa haka group do an amazing performance.

Travelling to Kaiteriteri PART 2!

...We were heading to the South Island!

Every time, we would always stop at Rodney’s and Kirsten's house in Wellington for a little rest.

The next morning, we always played in Harry’s room. Harry is Rodney and Kirsten’s son. He is pretty crack up and sometimes, he is serious, well sometimes. Whenever we go to Harry’s house we played a cool shooting car game - it is appropriate by the way.

We cross on the ferry at 2am in the morning from Wellington to Picton, South Island!

So the next morning we are back in the car and like after 3 or 2 hours, we're finally on the ferry.
We always go on the Bluebridge ferry. While we were on the boat there was a beautiful view and after like 2 hours we’re finally at the South Island! When we were in the car and we kept on stopping and heading on, like we always.

Finally we’re at Kaiteriteri! We were 2nd out of everyone! While we were setting up the tents some more friends arrived, and helped us. Well when everyone arrived we were all were like saying hi of course and stuff. There were 2 new kids the younger one’s name was Zion. The oldest was Ausdan and he loved playing games.

While I was sitting in the tent, I was playing rat-a-tat-cat which was a card game. It is very fun. Afterwards I went into my mum and dad’s tent and watched some movies on my ipod nano. I was watching the "A Team". It is a very cool and funny movie. One of my favourite parts was taken from Braveheart where Murdock says [in a Scottish accent] "What would you give for one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!!!!!!"

After watching the A Team it was dinner time and we always had delicious food. Well after eating, Jonte my cousin and Noah my brother came back and said we're going eel hunting and I said “Can I come?" and they said “Yes”.
Then we went and we saw some other people when they caught one then they put it just on the ground it was like a snake, a tiny snake. Uncle Paul stabbed it and then put it back in the pond.

The next morning Uncle Paul said "Who wants to go fishing?" and he always picked the same people. It was Jordan ,Jonte and Noah and they took ages just to come back but then we had to go tramping!



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Traveling to Kaiteriteri PART 1

While we were packing, my family was getting ready for a holiday at Kaiteriteri. We were all packed and not ready to go, so we stayed up and worked. When my family and I were ready, we were told to go straight to bed, because we were leaving first thing in the morning. Today it was the 26th of December. On the 27th we were leaving so when I woke up, our family gathered at the table and prayed. Every time we travel we’d first pray to keep us safe while we're driving.

When we were driving, Noah was sleeping but everyone else was awake.

This might be a little sad for you but it was crackup for us. My mum was driving at night time and all these bugs are hitting the windscreen but then my mum turns and she recognised that she ran over a whole family of ducks crossing the road - even the baby ones!!!!

All of us were cracking up because we thought it was funny, But my mum thought that it was sad.  

Then jordan says “Mum, you're going to the dark side”, then Levi said “Mum you're going to the dark side” and I said “Mum you're going to the DUCK side”.

So, we’re still in the car, in Ohakune (which is near the snow mountain) and we’re all awake, including Noah. Then we stop at a motel when we’re all inside, Dad said to go look for the opossum in the tree. It was staring straight at us, but then we headed back and went to bed.

The next morning while we’re in the car we take a few stops and have a drink and some food.

When we came past an army museum in Waiouru, everyone says “woooooooooh!”

Everyone looked to the left, and outside the museum were some real tanks!!!!!!! and real guns!!!!!!! Mum said that we should check it out and then we all go to one tank and on it, it said ,that it could squash a person.

[if you look at the photos you will see us on the tank.]

It would take us 8 hours just to get to the ferry from Auckland. By the way, we were heading to the South Island.

Tune in and check out what happens next… Travelling to Kaiteriteri PART 2!

Toby about me

Kia ora my name is Toby and I like to draw, and play lego. I am 8 years old also i’m year 4 at pt england school. I enjoy school very much it is very fun of learning other things. I like to travel with my family.

I enjoy festival 1 that is where christian bands play. My favourite band is lat-aties-masaidies. I have 4 brothers and my favourite sport is volleyball.

Recount of 2015

After the Christmas holidays I was so excited that I was going to be a year 3, I was wondering of what class I was going to be in, I wanted to be in Miss King’s class or Miss Trimble’s but I was lucky to have Miss King.

When I started in her class I came everyday and did the right thing even when things got hard she enjoyed having she also said that I was a very good worker and for being nice to other people.

Well when a person named A.J.T started to be naughty Miss King told me to help him out he was quite silly but not all the time and that was good also in swimming lessons I was really good I was even in the highest group.

I enjoyed all the year three trips, we went to the museum and motat it was very very fun I loved it in Miss King’s class and even the Google expeditions which is basically these cool goggles because you would be on a roller coaster pretty fun right,! 

Some things were also quite bad but we would always sort the problems out we had no worry we'll sometimes there were huge problems going on in the class some of them were fights and for also saying bad words.

Every Tuesday after morning tea the kapa haka group would go to the hall and practice, I was one of them and I loved being in kapa haka I never got told off and always listened to whoever was speaking.

I was having so much fun in class well when it was morning tea I always enjoy it when it's morning tea or lunchtime I always and I mean always play with my friends or I just sit around but it isn't really fun but I'm you to it.

Well I'm in class I always seem to learn something from my teacher as you already know that it's the amazing Miss King who can almost always solve the problems but sometimes we just work it out.

Well sometimes she wouldn't even know how to use the apps she would just say” just muck around on it and see what you can do, it's  pretty fun I just loved being in my classroom with all my friends.

I loved being in her class she is even my favourite teacher out of all of team 3 and she was very very fun and I just totally loved it, I hope that she's my teacher for next year and that means that she's my favourite teacher in year 4.

Kei Te Pehea koe

Kapahaka Spark Performance

When the bus arrived to our school our kapa haka group were heading off to Spark I was one of them, I felt excited when we got on the bus the driver straight away started the engine, well on the way there everybody were singing any kind of songs that they knew.

I was getting quite annoyed but I didn't do anything or say anything, I just enjoyed the ride on the way to Spark, it was a kind of long ride but it was quite fun not really when we got there I was so amazed of what I was seeing I saw a 7 story building right in front of me.

When both buses were at spark Mrs Nua and Mr Burt put us into our rows of boys and girls well when they told us to get into our rows we straight away did that and headed in the humongous building, down the steps and went into the spot that we needed to be in.

The first thing that we did in that building was when Mr Burt said his speech he said it very well and even in confidence well our first song was Te Atua but first fire paddy would say whakanui e and that was when we would group in together and say our Karakia which is a prayer if you didn't know.

when we sang Te Atua it was kind of long but when we just started singing almost everybody were watching us, when we had finished everyone were applauding and next song was Rona you might not know these songs but just go with it.

Well I don't want to tell you all the songs that we sang so i’m just gonna say one well at the end of all of that singing it was the Haka which is always the last part of our performance I went hard out and I was in the middle also the camera was facing straight at me so I was lucky.

When we went back up the stairs there was food waiting outside it was for a little snack there was quiche, fruit, water to drink and some nice as sandwiches well that was all made from spark and all that made me full.

When we finished eating the two buses were still waiting but before we left all of us got to choose a bag that had a cap and drink bottle inside we were just singing outside the spark building, people were taking photos or videos but finally we went into the bus and headed off.

In the bus it was even louder than before almost everyone was singing songs but I was talking to a boy named falcon he is fire paddy's son he’s a cool guy to meet he gets along really well we were talking on the bus or basicly the whole time.

well when we got back to school we were just like doing the same thing of what we always do but my class were filming for our prizegiving we were doing the whip and nae nae and a dance to a song called call me on my cellphone.