ANZAC Day by Renata

ANZAC Day means a lot to me because everybody celebrates it. My family makes ANZAC biscuits and our whanau gets together. On ANZAC Day I wake up and then wake up my family so we can celebrate and put some music on really loud.

I like ANZAC Day!

By Renata

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R3 CLASS PARACHUTES

Ruma Toru made parachutes during Science. Materials we used were: plastic bags,string, paper, scissors and a hole punch. We folded newspaper and cut out a template then used the pattern to cut out a plastic copy. Holes were punched in the corners and string was threaded through and tied, then we knotted all the pieces of string. Next we went outside on the playground to test our parachutes, the first time we tried it fell to the ground quickly. Our class discovered that when we added too much weight to our parachutes they fell to the ground fast. As we threw our parachutes off the playground, we felt excited, and happy.

 

By Bronson, Essica and Taaria

 

 

 

 

 

ANZAC Day means a lot to me...

ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corp.  ANZAC Day is a national holiday in Australia and New Zealand. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the first world war.

By Essica  Toia-Owen

Autobiography by Charles Turner

Hi my name is Charles. My birthday is on April the 4th, I was born in 2004. When I finish Pakaraka School I what to go to Bay of lslands College, it is in Kawakawa. When I leave college I want to work at McDonalds because it is cool.
                                       

Missing Flight MH370 PASSENGERS: ALIVE OR DEAD by BRONSON

THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD

PO BOX 32

AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALAND

Dear Shayne  Currie
 

Reference: Missing Flight MH370

I would like the New Zealand Herald to continue with the report about the Missing Flight MH370.

There are 239 families waiting to hear if their  loved ones are alive and safe . The families don't know what has happened to them. I think the New Zealand  Government should maintain the search for the missing passengers. Their families are very worried and sad and their children are wanting answers.


Yours Sincerely

Bronson Beckham

Statistics and Science: Testing Paper Planes

Last week for Math and Science, we did statistics on testing aeroplanes. We had to choose one thing we could make changes to on the plane and test how far our paper planes would fly. Then we had to measure with a metre ruler how far the planes flew.

Mine and Kadison's planes flew 5, 9, 2, 1 and 6 metres. After that we had to write  a summary of what we did and check it against our prediction. Then we had to put our results onto a dot plot chart. Kadison and I had a lot of fun!

Thank You

Naia Dunn

Letter Writing - Swim Safe Programme

Pakaraka School
R.D.2
Kaikohe

26/3/14

Dear Tracey and Jessie,

Thank you for coming to Pakaraka School to teach us how to swim and survive in water.

Tracey and Jessie showed us how to do a chain to survive, a huddle and a line. I liked the part when we put the clothes on to swim in the water. When we put clothes on to swim they were heavy.  I felt very good when I took the Life Jacket off .

Thank you for coming to Pakaraka School .

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An Artist's Dream

My name is Arohina Simon-Hau. I am a young student that has a mind full of creative ideas. I want to become an artist. My dream is to succeed in my learning so I can be one of those successful people that travel the word because of my artwork.

Some of the things I need to do first are to learn more art techniques like using symmetry, lines and shading. Useful skills I need to become an artist are patience, risk taking and to think outside the box for original ideas.

When I attend college, I will sign up for art classes so I can achieve my goal to become a successful artist. After I graduate from college, I will go to university and study more about art so I will become an even better artist. Then I will get a job that involves travelling the world to showcase my artwork.

Right now I have been selected by Mr Singh to design a school mural to represent our school. In the past few days I have been surveying other students for their opinion for the wall. Students have come up with interesting ideas like putting a Karaka branch in the middle or around the boarder. They also came up with ideas of the font type I should use for the writing and suggested what should be added and taken out. Next, I have to experiment with colours so they fit the design and represent our school.

Written by Arohina Simon-Hau