today we have a new teacher because miss Starkey came in with a sore throat  she is called ms winslade she is super  nice and is really cool we are  having so much fun but we all hope miss Starkey gets better posted by harry

The Triathlon!!!!

On Wednesday room 5 and room 6 did a triathlon if they signed up for it. I was in a team that had Drew, Monty and I. When Drew had finished his bike he sprinted towards me and tagged me, from there I walked into the pool and saw all my friends and my mum cheering me. Then I dived away, I started to swim my best finally I was out the water! I loved the triathlon!!!!

Weet-Bix Tryathlon
last week end.My family and i went down to dunedin so i could do the weet-bix tryathlon.Teaparu george was there along with some other athletes. one of them was an olimpic tryathlete.when i fineshed i got to run along side him and abut 5 steps from the finish he got me to put up my hands like a propper trythlete would do in  the olipics finish. that was the 20th aniversiry.
emily heath

jeans day

On Thursday the 19 holy family were doing another caritas fund raiser which was jeans day, we also had a barbeque.

Caritas  is a fundraiser  to raise money for people all over the world even in new  Zealand

By Sophie

Jeans day!!!!!!!

maria gill

A few weeks ago.  A author called Maria Gill came in to talk to us about her writing hood and what inspired her to be a writer.

 She gave us lots of tips. After her session, she took a writing work shop with a few chosen

 pupils that was chosen by Miss starkey the best teacher in the world.We started

To plan our story and I’m not kidding, we all thought that it was planning but maria thought

 ‘’no, just perfeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect.’’

HEALTHY FOOD
Today a splashiest on healthy food came and talked to us about what food is healthy and what food is not healthy. I think that we have learnt allot and now that we know we can put that idea in our brain and so we know what we are putting in our mouth we all had a blast.

The Mummy!

On Saturday in Dunedin mum and I went to the museum to see the mummy.

She is not royal but is very wealthy. I went because my class, room five are learning about Ancient Egypt!!!  Mum and I took even a video of it to show the class. If they send her back to Egypt she will not be loved because she is not royal weird isn’t it. They also had had pots and kettles made out of pure gold.

By grace Shannon

Today we had a crazy hair day. we all looked very weird, especially the teachers. Before playtime, our hole School went up to the tennis court to judge every ones hair do.
                                                    by Lukas
                                                
                                              

Swim sports

Emily Heath and Louis Hughes went to Cromwell for the qualifying swim sports. It was a great day in Cromwell and Emily made it to the finals in Dunedin. they competed in freestyle back stroke and breaststroke.

by Ruby and Jody

crazy hair day

on crazy hair day we had to decided a hair do i used a barbie drees i tied ribbon on it  and i put it over my high bun then i sprayed my hair with hair spray to stiffen it up so it stayed in nicely.
we had to bring a gold coin to fundraiser for Carita's i brag 1 dolour.
at school we had a parade to show of our glamorous hair, Mrs Fourth took a picture of my hair.
"CRAZY HAIR DAY WAS FUN".

BY HEIDI

CAZY HAIR DAY

Today it is crazy hair day. Every one came with crazy hair. IT IS VERY COOL.I love it so much.



BY   AMY!!!

Assembly practise

Room 5 are practising walk like an Egyptian by the beetles its really fast and really hard to keep up with. We need to make up a dance to it. It will be quiet  hard to learn but we will get the hang of it hope you can come to our Assembly and watch

Lent

LENT!!!!!!!!!!!

For lent we all have to promise to do something important like clean our rooms, or make our beds. It can be absolutely anything.

Then we have to try to stick to our task for forty days it’ll be hard but if all try our best our mums will be able to have more spare time.

On Wednesday the whole school had clubs my club was biking club. We had to weave in and out of cones. Then we had to practise going down hills and then we went for a 30 minute ride.

Swim sports
last Wednesday Emily Heath , Ruby Burk, Sophie h.b, Amy Morris, Lukas Shaffer, Ben Machlochlon, drew Pilkinton went to swim sports. we all got good results. We all learnt something to. I learnt to swim as hard as I can

On Friday room 5 wrote their names in hieroglyphs because they were studying ancient Egypt.
We had to write downwards insted of across because that was how they wrote.
Then we went over it in black pen to make it thick.
After that we painted it in coffee and pushed in coffee beans. I learnt that too much coffee takes out the ink of the pen.
Finally we burnt holes in it but we ended up using up lots of matches!

Swim Sports
Last wednesday ,me,ruby, sophie,amy, lukas, ben and drew went to swim sports. We all got a good result. we all learnt something to.I learnt to not be worried while competing with others. We all agreed that the freakiest thing was standing or wallowing in or on the water \diving board waiting for the clapper to go. Lets say a big thankyou to Miss Starkey ( amanda starkey) hwo walked us up for the practices and walked some people up on the day.cheered us on. And all those times she came with a gret big smile and very happy.         
Thankyou Miss Starkey

Sincerly: Emily Heath

bike day

On Friday 2nd
It Was Bike Day At Kelly's Flat My Best Part Was The Emergency Stop. We Had To  Stop When Mark Told Us.
By Jack


on Friday 2nd march 2012
it was bike day at Kelly's flat my favourite   part was emergency stop we learnt how to stop with  both brakes.

   by Heidi

drama club

last Wednesday was the first lesson for clubs. I am in drama club we did lots of fun exiting things . Lets start from the top our class room five  lined up and went to the collaborative space. Mrs beech called out all the clubs and we went. It was very cool at the start Mrs smith  was at the door  and we were out side.Suddenly she got all shaky and said hide hide there coming there coming we all hid and i went under the table . Then it was a relief she was back to normal . after that we had to choose a felling and had to say five lines and the other club members had to guess your felling i did cheeky. then we played charade's everyone picked one from box and again the club members guest.
this was the best part we all got into partners and did our own charade my partner and i did a princess charade were i was a slave and Lucy was a princess  and we practised then showed then it was the end of class we did a prayer and Mrs smith said we need to bring a special thing then went home i cant wait till next time.

ICT Club

On Wednesday we had clubs. I was in ICT club.First we decided what we wanted to do this term for ICT.We decided to make animated movies. We went in pairs and I went with Archie.It was really annoying because the camera we were using was not saving the pictures. We overcame this and made a train crash movie using room 1's trainset.

By Ned

EYGPTION WRITING

On Friday morning miss Starkey had a extra happy mood so she announced  that we can do a fun activity
so she let us wright are names in hieroglyphic since we had been learning about ancient Egypt it wasn't that easy since they used symbols instead of letters but we had a sheet to tell us what symbol meant are letters in are names. it was heaps and heaps of fun.


              




                        BY SOPHIE HB

Successful Stone Carving

On Wednesday a group of us got together and did clubs. We did stone carving. Harry made a pencil holder and a cross. James made a dog head, cross and a car. It was easier than we thought. There was lots of different options to chose from. We all had a blast.

By James and Harry

Mummifying in Room 5

 Last week room 5 had a blast mummifying each other.We all skipped the embalming but five people got wrapped in toilet paper. Brianna, Laurie, Sophie,Drew and Ben were the five people getting wrapped. Jody, Lukas, Ruby and James were wrapping Brianna.

Brianna found it hard breathing while covered in toilet paper. Brianna had to keep still other wise the toilet paper would break. At the end it was the successful but there was toilet paper flying around EVERYWHERE so everyone joined in to help collect it.

By: Brianna and Jody.

 

Rogaine

On Wednesday we headed of to the church and Mr Cartlige explained how to read a map then we went of and looked for numbers around sticky forest we had 2 hours to find six numbers Mr Cartlige stole the numbers so Lauries groop coun't get all of them. 

CLUBS

On Wednesday the whole school did clubs. Amy did science and her group made some ooblack ! The ooblack is  a soild and a liquid , because if you  push  down  slow  your finger  goes down into the ooblack  and if  you  do it fast it will bounce your finger off!


Amy

Swim Sports

On Wednesday we had school swim sports. It was a long time until we finally got in to the water.You had your race just to lug yourself out again for another half hour wait. There were about three hundred kids from Wanaka primary, Holy Family, Hawea Flat and Tarras schools.


By Ruby

MY GRANDMA

My grandma has beautiful sapphire blue eyes and ruby lips. She has skin as soft as the finest silk and has hair the colour of butterscotch. She used to be a teacher and taught my dad when he was in college. My grandma makes really good food she even wrote a book about bread it’s called steal our bread by Marcel Pilkinton. She hates nothing but swearing

She has a bit of a daily routine mostly get up get ready for church (on Sundays) come back prepare morning tea eat read a book prepare lunch eat lunch go into the garden prepare dinner eat dinner and go to beach.

My grandma is the best. She truly blows me away.

Bike Day

On Friday room 5 participated in a bike day. It was a whole lot of fun and there were many different activities. I particularly liked the right hand turn that Miss Starkey was on.

Amanda