Tuesday, 5 May 2020

MATHS

Well done to many of you for giving the Maths Puzzles a crack. 

Below is a video of Josh completing the fish puzzle. Also pictures that Aleck shared of his work. 








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Sunday, 3 May 2020

Weekend Photos

Josh has been busy during lockdown making up so many Lego creations that they had to make a shelf just so that he could display them. 
KA PAI Josh. Great DIY tricks there. 




Friday, 1 May 2020

FRIDAY PHOTOS

Ohhh I just wish I could try some of what Michael has been baking, don't these cinnamon scrolls look delicious? 



Well done to Darrens mum Angie who has been teaching him Chinese. Bear is keeping a close watch on him to see if he is doing it correctly.



Check out the letter that Savannah wrote for our ANZAC day writing. Well done!


Thursday, 30 April 2020

Writing

Below is a small piece of Amelias writing from today.

Poppy and Jasper, Poppy’s dog, are best friends. 
Poppy's dad is an inventor, he comes up with new and improved inventions to share
with the world but first he has to get them safety checked  and that's where poppy comes in. 


Poppy and her trusted companion Jasper,  test out her dad’s inventions.
So one day Poppy and Jasper went up up up in to the sky to test drive Poppy’s dad’s
new invention. It was an aircraft but then up, up, up  with them went a flying potato.
She couldn't believe her eyes. She completely froze letting go of the steering wheel and soon the
aircraft was out of control.  In about 40 seconds they crashed. 

Poppy was out for 1 minute or 2. Soon she woke from a faint noise of
a doctor yelling for assistants. He said don’t worry I’ll take good care of you.

By Amelia

Wednesday, 29 April 2020

ANZAC WORK

Anzac is what we celebrate
Remembering the fallen
Many thousands of soldiers we owe our freedom to

You  and me must never forget them
By Felix


Dear ANZAC soldiers 


Thanks for the freedom you gave us I appreciate you standing your ground and 
being so brave and fighting back and saving all of those in need. We wish you all were still alive.
Even the ones that survived and the ones that didn’t and died, the ones that came out alive were
very lucky. Like my great great grandfathers and one of them has a great story,
amazing actually.  So he went to the war and he had a penny in his pocket covering
his heart so then he went out to fight and got shot in the heart but the penny deflected it
and it saved his life. He still got pretty hurt but he still survived so that's the good thing and
he lived but then he had a heart attack and died sadly.


Levi Kerr




Anzac day


Anzac day (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) is celebrated on
the 25th of April every year as a remembrance day for the New Zealand
and Australian people who fought in the war.


In 1915 New Zealand and Australian soldiers went to capture the
Gallipoli Peninsula to open a way into the Black Sea for the allied navies.
The aim was to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire
which was an ally of Germany during the war. The Anzacs landed in
Gallipoli on the 25th of April and what had planned to be a bold attack to
knock the Ottomans out of the war  quickly became a draw.  


The attack dragged on for 8 months and by the end of 1915 the allied
forces evacuated, after both sides suffered many losses. 
Nowadays people celebrate ANZAC day by attending parades and dawn
ceremonies.
Poppies are worn to respect the people who died and some people make
Anzac biscuits
(Anzac biscuits were sent to the people at war because the ingredients
don't get spoiled over time).

By Susanne



ANZAC Day - 25th April
ANZAC: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

  • Anzac day is a national day of remembrance, it marks the day
Australia and NZ soldiers joined WW1 in 1915
  • Gallipoli is a narrow peninsula of land in Turkey
  • The Anzac goal was to seize (take control of) the Gallipoli
peninsula from the Ottoman Empire and then to capture Constantinople,
the capital of the Ottoman Empire
  • The Anzac’s landed on the beach at dawn with the Turkish soldiers
positioned high above them on the cliffs firing bullets down at them
  • The fighting lasted 8 months before the British allies evacuated the
Australian and NZ troops
  • More than 2700 New Zealand soldiers were killed and over 8000
Australian soldiers were killed
  • The first Anzac Day commemorations were held on 25th April 1916
  • There is a cenotaph / memorial in most New Zealand cities and towns.
These monuments honour the dead

By Michael



ANZAC (Australian New Zealand army corps)  day is a celebration and memory of the australian and New Zealand in the great war/world war 1 when the New Zealand/Australian army went to fight in Gallipoli. The soldiers who fought in Gallipoli are known as “ANZAC’s” ; those “ANZACs” wore a badge on their uniform. We remember Gallipoli to thank the soldiers who fought and died or got injured for the good. People normally celebrate this day by baking Anzac cookies and eating them, wearing a badge similar to the badge ANZAC soldiers wore in the 1914’s or during the battle of Gallipoli in the great war. 

By Yohann

Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Cooking at home

Well done to Aileen who has done some cooking for her family at home. She made breakfast. It looks delicious!




Thursday, 23 April 2020

FUN LEARNING AT HOME

WELL DONE to ISOBEL and her siblings. 
The Children spent quite a bit of their afternoon yesterday creating their own Jurassic Park in preparation for watching the movie tonight as a family. 







PLUS check out the Go Cart that Theo and his dad have been working on.