Girls Cabin!

Last day of camp. I woke up at like 6:30 am. It was loud. Me and Cairo started talking then everyone woke up and said"Morning to everyone". Then suddenly we heard the boys talking, because some people went to the toilet maybe that's why.
Mrs McLean came in the cabin and said" Morning girls, hey look people are still trying to sleep so keep it down". It was akward because I thought of an idea! I said, "Hey guys why don't we pack our bags so that we can get ready to go". So we quietly went to do that in an excited way. Then we heard the BOYS. Someone said, "What are they doing?"
I said, "They must be having a disco ball in there."
 Each and every one of us got up, and rushed out the door. OMG! They're dancing. That's the first time I've seen a boy dancing. Well its not, but it was a crack up. While they were dancing they saw us outside.Oh no! They saw us, oh well. By the time we stopped laughing it was 7:00am. Mrs McLean came rushing down the hallway and said" Girls you can get changed and have breakfast after you have dressed."
Yay finally we all ran out and went to the bathrooms. It was dirty.... but who cares.

We got dressed, then we got called into the dining room, so that we knew what we had to do today. After our breakfast, everyone went to do their jobs (oh no everyone was rushing to get it over and done with)
We went to our cabin it was a MESS. Do you know why?  Because there were clothes, bags and pillows. Then Sylvia stepped on something. It was her HAIRBRUSH!  It was broken into pieces because it had NO handle.(hahaha)It was so funny everyone was laughing because she held it up and said in a mad and angry voice, "Where is the  handle to my hairbrush?" It was awkwardly silent and someone giggled. Sylvia got MENTAL well, a little bit! It took us a long time until it was clean and spotless. Our bags were heavy as some people weren't strong like ME.

It was about time we got everything in the bus. The inspection had happened, and we were back from our little walk up to the lakes behind the camp. We all ran down to our bus seats and started to, you know, TALK. I played the ukulele on the way back, me and Cairo had turns. My papa Orcades that helped passed us in his vehicle. People were having a great time and I didn't even know that we were in Wairoa. Beau-dean said, " Did we have our Fish'n'Chips?"
I said,"No." We got out of the bus and rushed to our lunch by the river. Yes Fish'n'Chips waiting for me on the table. I odered a Hot dog and it came with chips. I ate my hot dog and went to the playground, then I saw the most beautiful puppies ever.(Which were pitpulls) We got to hold them and pat them. I liked the boy dog. It was a real dog not the Hot dog that I ate! It was time to go then we left Wairoa it was an hour or 2 hours back to Napier. We passed Lake Tutira and then we were in Bayview. I said" We're nearly there Cairo". When we got onto York Ave and passed the corner we saw Porritt School Road patrolers. Finally we were there and it was good to see my mates again.
But Camp Kaitawa was AWESOME though and a good exprience for me and others. I hope Room 15 and 12 have a great time too.
By Hineawe

The waterfalls, by Kaleb.

We went to the waterfalls. The waterfalls make a big noise like a giant storm. They sounded like rain flooding the path. Shhhh.
On the waterfalls I saw white foam like the waves at the beach.
Some water is deep and some water is shallow.
Mr Ginns took our photos at the waterfalls.

CAVES

OMG! Its so dark in here.
"Hine where are you? This is so dark!" shouted Emily.
I ran out like a wild animal. Wow! this is better. We saw lots of ferns,trees and lots of diffrent things I have never seen before. We saw pinky,orangey mushrooms and lots of red berries. I think they were poisonous. Yuck when we went into one cave we saw lots of yuck wetas. When we went into another cave there were slippery rocks and slimy mud. There also was an ugly looking beetle. Wow! I all most forgot we saw a green lake. We could see right though it. It was incredible.
By Cairo


To day room 13 and room 14 went for lots of walks in the maori bush then all of room 13 and 14 went in to some wonderful caves. We went to 8 caves and then we saw a green pounamu lake. Also the rata vine was strangling the tree and Mr Ginns was telling us to pose and jump.
by BeauDean

This is us when we had finished all the caves.

Wednesday: Lou's Lookout, by Cairo

Wow! It was awesome. We looked down at the bus. It looked like a toy bus. With mini Mrs McLean, tiny Cedric and even tinier Adam. We saw small arms waving around. They looked like mini fingers flying. OMG! the lake is so huge. And the mountains are so tall.It looked so awesome. The lake looked like a bowl of soup for a giant's dinner. Wow! I wouldn't like to be in that bowl.
"Next!" shouted Mr Ginns.
Oh! Oh - why do we have to go down? Its just so awesome.

(The photo at the top of the blog is the view we saw from the top of the lookout.)

The bus looked a long way down!



What an awesome view!



The View from the top of Mount Ngamoko

Awesome! First Day at Camp Kaitawa

Today was awesome. When I woke up I peeked out the window. I could see a wonderful view but the only thing was that I had to climb it. I gasped in shock! I did not believe I was going to climb it.
Later on that day I was on the top of that view, Mount Ngamoko. I had no idea what I just climbed. Being about 1500 metres in the air and not noticing it is pretty out of it.
Jasmine.

Year six camp by Sylvia

The year sixes in room 13 and room 14 are going to Lake Waikaremoana to stay at Camp Kaitawa next week. I'm excited to go. My Dad is coming. And Mrs McLean and Mr Fitzsimons and Mr Ginns are coming too. We are going on a six hour walk.We are staying in dormitories on bunks. There are other walks too. We will see lots and lots of beautiful scenery, and there are caves too. I'm a bit scared about the caves. We get to make our own stew for tea.
The year fives from our class will be staying behind in Mr Versey's class.

KIRI TE KANAWA: My Role model By Jasmine

Kiri Te Kanawa is a New Zealand singer who is world famous. She sings opera. Did you know she sang at Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding, and 600,000,000 people watched it worldwide on television?
She was born in Gisborne in 1944. When she was twelve her family went to live in Auckland. In 1965 she entered an important singing competition and came first. She is mother to two children and has a husband.
She has been travelling the world for many years with her singing but is returning to New Zealand soon to sing.
Kiri Te Kanawa is my role model and I love her talents.

Camp and Yachting slides

At the end of last term we had our assembly. Here is some of what we shared.

The Circus

Last Friday I went to the circus. It was held at Anderson Park. When we walked into the tent it was dark. There were lots of people talking.
Suddenly two men came out to entertain us. It was really funny. When the show started a lady came out  behind the curtains holding a long purple rope. She tied it to the pole on the tent and started to climb the rope like a sneaky spider.
Suddenly she fell but lucky she had her legs tied around the rope. We all gasped. Then we started clapping.When we finished clapping she reached the top. She started swinging. It was suddenly quiet, like a pen falling down.The lady tied her legs to the rope. She fell again and we gasped again. I thought it was scary but I still thought it was awesome.
The next part was a man coming out behind the curtains with a huge hula hoop and one little hula hope. He did some amaizing tricks with it. It was awesome.
Cairo

My Role Model

Last term we studied role models. My role model is Margaret Mahy. She was an excellent author. She wrote lots and lots of books. She never gave up because she was persistent, and a passionate achiever about books. My favourite book was Lion in the Meadow.
Margaret Mahy died in 2012. And I am very proud I want to be just like her.
Sylvia

Hine's Autumn

   

Leaves changing colour, swirling down onto the green grass

Rotten brown leaves hanging off the deciduous trees

Green leaves on the evergreens

Branches with zero leaves, waving in the wind

Birds singing in the trees.

The sleep over

In the holidays I stayed for the night at my friend Kace's house.
At first we watched Amazing World of Gumball.Then we played on his ps3. We played skate3.
We then started to build a tree hut and then stabilised it. Then we went to our friend's house. Then we came back and had dinner . We built another hut inside.We put two bean bags on the grond in the hut and a small  bed with no mattress for the side and blankets for the roof. We started to play tablet in the hut and we fell asleep.We went back to our friend's house then stated back on the hut again.  
by Caleb

Gisborne

When I went to my mum's house, my little brother ran up to me and hugged me. Then he said, "Who dat?"
 I  said, "It's me, Bo. Its me, big brother Bo."
 Then he said, "Bo."
 At 7:30 me, Adam and my mum, went to go and get some K.F.C. On Monday I went to the pools and I went to the pools six times in a row and all the time when we finished having a swim at the pools, we went to go and get beef and onions. Mum said she will go and put 20 dollars in every week so I can go and get some All Stars.

by Beaudean

Survival Swimming at Onekawa Pools

I stepped into the water, and then I did a big splash. On Wednesday 20th we went to the amazing Aquatic centre. When we got there we went to the splash park at Onekawa pools. I got heaps of pictures on the camera.
Then when we came back to the poool area we learnt how to do the "help" position, and how to get out of a rip current. You swim diagonally to get out of a rip current. Then we put lifejackets on. The first one I tried on was too small so I tried a different one and it fitted perfectly. Then we tried the group huddle, not in the water though. Then we stepped in the water. Not hopped, stepped. Then when the lady, who is called Maxine, blew the wistle we had to do something. Once, it meant to put your hand up straight. That means help when you're in the deep water, and two means to do the help position, and three and four mean to take your life jacket on and off.That was hard.
My huddle  group was Manaia, Sylvia, JmeLee, alannah and me. we did all sorts of things. I loved it, but it was hard work.
then we had a free swim. i went on the slide. it was so cool.Then I went with Sylvia's grandmother back to school. She had a cool car.
I had an amazing day. I loved it.

Michelle