Bombing off the Wharf at Camp Bentzon

It was the second day of our camp and we had been tremendously tired from our adventures,until the favourite event by far was about to happen happen. The wonderful day of,BOMBING OF THE WHARF AT KAWAU ISLAND!!!It was heaps of fun. All of my friends were laughing but bombing at the same time. Everyone enjoyed the time that they had bombing and swimming. It was like a favourite thing to do.

But now that we have gone back to school,I wish that we had not left in the first place. That place is AWESOME!!!I cannot wait to go back to Kawau Island,well hopefully I do

Spiders - How Big Is Big?

Do you know how big a tarantula can get?

It can grow up to the size of your dinner plate.Did you know that the tarantula's bite is not that dangerous,its no worse than a bee sting,unless your allergic

Camp Kindness: Day One

Would you believe it - it is finally Wednesday March 17th and we can all go on camp!

We have so many exciting experiences to write about - where to start?

First some thoughts from Matthew from the 10 pin Bowling Alley:

"STRIKE! “Yes I got a strike!”I said to myself out loud. "34 points on the chart for me, I'm taking the lead by 10 points!" After that round it was my turn again. Another strike! 44 pins knocked down in all my turns.

Now it's the seventh round; flipped seven pins out of ten! I'm still taking the lead, but only by 13.
Unoloto cought up. He only needed 1 pin bowled over to catch up to me.
"Fantastic” Miss Va’afusuaga said to Unoloto.

Finally it's the last round to finish off the game.
I came in second place out of the whole of True Flavours. My score...113.

Way to go Matthew!

More of our class have posted their experiences on their own blogs.

Check out this one from Angela, and this one from Ala, and this one from Mubasshira!

Have a read of Joe's day....
Wednesday the seventeenth of March 2010.
Today is the very first day of camp of the year. We have done roller skating, rockclimbing and ten pin bowling. I think the best one has got to be ten bin bowling!
At rockclimbing I made it up on the beanstalk in 29 seconds, but I lost by two people. One person beat me by 28 seconds and the other person made it up in 22 seconds!
Roller skating was a little sore but it was great fun.

Van Gogh with Matthew and Kayde

Our class are learning about a famous artist called Van Gogh.
One of his self portraits show him with a bandage over his head because he cut his ear off.We tried wrapping our ear with bandages too but it was hard to look as sad as Van Gogh did, we kept on laughing.


His paintings sent messages to people of how he felt, and he showed a sense of movement in his artworks.
Today people buy his art for millions of dollars and he is known as one of the world's greatest artists who ever lived.
Kayde


Van Gogh was an impressionist artist.
He was a mood showing artist but never smiled in any of his pictures.
He makes his colours show the moods he feels.
Matthew

How did Maori live in the past?

This animation was created by Matthew, showing how life was for Maori back in history.

Captain Cook Comes To New Zealand

We have been researching what it was like for captain Cook when he first came to New Zealand. He met a new and strange people, who lived very differently to the way he had been brought up in Britain.
Have a look at what we found out.

Matthew's 2010 Reflection

Finally the week has come. After days and days of waiting,its come to an end.
Its the last week of school,every childs favourite week. But I am going
to miss school,especially all the hard work i did for my school work


One theme that was hard but a bit awesome was writing. Looking back at term
1s writing and looking at it now,makes me feel proud. My writing has
really improved from last time and I’m really happy.

The next theme is maths, my favourite subject. Each term we have been
learning some thing different,which helps us kids out a lot. Well it has
really helped me out!(I am at the level AM which is a year 7 grade)

What has been the most awesome thing to do this year was going to camps.
Especially Camp Bentzon,it was the hardest camp,well for me it was.
Mostly because I came home with scraps and scratches all over me. But
camps help us to learn things that we need to.

I think the 2010 year at Pt England school has been pretty cool,to be
honest. Ive enjoyed this year. Lets see what next year has installed for
us?