Our famous faces assembly

My Hero at Home

My Family Hero

By Reuben

 My hero is my Uncle Grant. When he was a teenager he dived in to water that he thought was much deeper than it was and he broke his neck.

He is now disabled and in a wheelchair but this hasn’t stopped him from doing incredible things.

Special qualities he has are he is really good at art and is a Paralympian. He does shooting for the New Zealand Paralympic air rifle team.
I look up to him because he is doing amazing things that are inspiring me. I would like to be a shooter or artist like him.
He makes me feel safe and cared for. He makes me feel proud because of his effort.

He has influenced me  he because has survived breaking his neck.

Tough times he has had were recovering from breaking his neck and learning to shoot and paint with a brush in his mouth.

People who have helped him are my Grandma because it must have been hard for my Grandma to look after my uncle. 

A special message I have for him is don’t give up on your dreams.

 

      

 here is his web site.  http://www.philip.net.nz/

I am reading my work about Uncle Grant at assembly.

My hero at home

My hero is Trixey. She is my dog.

Special qualities she has is she is loyal.

I look up to her. She is fast.

She makes me feel safe.

A tough time she has had was when we left her in Tekapo by mistake.

People who have helped her and looked after are Mum Dad and me.

A special message I have made for her is thank you for keeping me company and being my special friend.

   By Jason 

I am reading about Trixie at assembly. 

My hero is my dad called Bob!

Special qualities he has is he’s humble, makes good choices and cooks delicious food!

 I look up to him because he supports me and cheers me on!

 He makes me feel cheerful, happy and fair!

 He has influenced me to follow my dreams!

Some tough times he has had is he has broke his pinky and he has had a tough time with the earthquakes!

People who have helped him are the doctors and my family!

A special message I have for him is thank you for everything you have done to help our family. You protect us!

By Imagine

My 10th Birthday

    This is me [Ashley] with my 10th birthday cake. 

For my birthday I got an iPod docking speaker with a CD player attached , a netball hoop and an apron.

Famous people projects

John Key is famous by protecting our land and people and inspired me by having a
good job and has got good ideas.he is a good leader of our county.  by Madison.

Nelson Mandela is famous for going to the government in south Africa. Here are some facts,. He was sent to jail for 27 years then was elected to be the first black president in 1994.
He won the noble peace prize. In 1995 his country won the rugby world cup when he was president.
By Alice.


Florence Nightingale  is famous for being the founder of Modern Nursing. She influenced me because I have asthma and Modern Nursing saved my life. She died when she was 90 years old.
By Charlotte.

Sir Edmund Hillary  is famous because him and Tenzing Norgay where the first to climb to the top of Mt Everest on the 29th of May 1953. He made New Zealand a special place. He set up schools and hospitals for Nepal.He died in 1919. By Renee

Sir peter Jackson   is famous because he has made some of the best films of all time. he was born in 1961 and is still making great films he is working on the adventurers of Tin Tin this is coming out in 2015 or 2014
he is a great movie maker.

Measurement

Today we were starting to do our  measurement booklets .We were learning to solve measurement problems that involve length using the units mm, cm and m. We enjoyed our new books but they were a bit easy!  by Harry and Reuben

When we measure length or distance we use the units mm cm m km

 

The Amazing Liquid

On YouTube my uncle's friends made a video about a liquid that you splash on your clothes or anything special and makes them stain proof. They splashed tomato sauce, mustard and chocolate sauce on some shoes and the shoes were absolutely stainless. Unfortunately if you stain your object too much it may get tiny stains. I made this discovery when I went to America.

By James Seo

Famous New Zealanders on our notes

 

Sir Edmund Hillary's sleeping bag

On the Thursday the 8 of August Mr Gault came and told us about Sir Edmund Hillary's sleeping bag that he used when he climbed Mt Everest.

Mr Gault explained how Edmund  had to climb in the top of his sleeping bag as it didn't have a zipper.

It took Sir Edmund Hillary 2 months to climb Mount Everest.

Sir Edmund Hillary had a wife and 3 children.

He did a lot of work in Nepal starting schools for children who were very poor, because it is very poor around that part of the world. His wife and children would come and see him when he was there sometimes.

Although he was the first to climb Mount Everest he had a very sad life too.

When he was in Nepal his wife and youngest daughter were coming to see him but their plane crashed and they both passed away.

Then his friend died in the plane crash on Mount Erebus.

 

Kayla Sharland

On Wednesday 7 August Kayla Sharland a black stick  came to school. Kayla talk about the Olympics. Then she did some skills with the people that play hockey.
In the skills lesson we learnt that you can lift the ball over the stick.

She's is a New Zealand  women's hockey player in the Black Sticks and she is one of the best hockey  in new Zealand. She inspired us to play hockey and to try our hardest.

 Gracie and James.S our student councillors got a picture with Kayla.

 Her hockey stick is 38.5cm long!
Kayla showed us pictures of her time at the Olympics. She got a picture with Usain Bolt!

Winter Tournament

On Thursday the 1st of August the senior school went to winter tournament.  You could choose from 4 different sports . The sports were netball , rugby, soccer and hockey.
At netball things went really well. The Friday team won all their games! The other team won a few games but not all of them.
At rugby things didn't go as well. they lost all their games.

At hockey we won 6 and lost 4.

At soccer we won 5 and lost 2.