Thomas' story about the death of his dog Tui.

Read Thomas' sad story about the death of his dog Tui. What powerful personal voice he has put in his writing.

It was a normal night and Tui was sitting on her mat.  Mum thought she was having a hard time breathing.  The next morning we took her to the vet.  We had to wait until it was our turn. First they weighed her and then we went into a room.  They said they would have to do an operation.  I felt scared.  The next day Dad took us back to the vet.  We went into a room and they showed us some x-rays which showed the fluid that they had drained out of her.  We took her home and they said to keep an eye on her.  

A week later she was having trouble breathing so Mum took a video on her ipad and we had to put her down.  

I was so sad.  We walked into the room and the vet came in and had an injection for Tui. They put a little bit in then more and more until it was all gone.  

Tui had lost the fight.  There was silence.  Then we wrapped her up and put her in the ute.  We drove home and Dad started to dig a hole.  Once it was finshed he put her into the hole and left her in peace.

by Thomas 

The Lido

WALT use describing words in our writing.

                    At the Lido

When I waited for Karen, me and Emily got tickets to the hydroslide.  I was really nervous because I have never been on a hydroslide before.

I followed Emily carefully up the stairs. My tummy felt like I was going to be sick. I was about to tell Emily I don’t want to do this! But then I had to shake of all my nervous bits. I felt a bit better after that.

Finally the time came. I went up anther bunch of stairs. It made me tired already. Then Emily told me what to do, she said the light was green but it didn’t look green. Emily had all ready gone. It looked like it was going so fast I quickly put my feet in and closed my eyes.

Just then I opened my eyes it was pitch black with red lines all around. 

By Natalie 

A Tui in Our Playground

This morning we went for a walk to inquire about the native birds in our playground.

We talked to this beautiful tui who sang to us.

We're wondering how to attract more native birds to our school and we are going to think some questions to guide our wonderings.

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Managing Self

 WALT use our SUPER Gospel values.
Last week Mrs Tamatea came in and helped us make up some senarios where we had to make good choices when someone upset us.
She presented each group with an Oscar for our acting.

Keiana and Nicole won the Oscar for best performance.

The Feast of the Assumption

WALA the Feast of the Assumption:

Join these pieces together to see what they recreate.

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The St James' Gala

WALT apply our maths knowledge in real life contexts.


We had a great discussion about our class collection for the Gala.  One student thought we would win the class competition for donating the most goods as we have the biggest class.(28)  However the donations are based on a percentage because we have to be fair to students in small classes.
We then explored the idea of percentages and how many bags of sugar we would need this week to get 50%? (14)
Next we decided to find out our daily percentage of sugar donations for this week.  Today (Thursday) we had 15 bags and that came to 53.57%.  Anthony rounded this up to 54%.
A wondering though.......since Tim brought a 5kg bag, does that equal 3 bags?


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Dinosaur drawing which connected maths, reading, and our inquiry.

Miss Pedersen gave us each a copy of a tyrannosaurus rex

with a grid drawn on it. We talked about this grid and the

letters and numbers written down the side. We soon

discovered that this grid and these coordinates would

help us draw our dinosaur accurately.

The first job was to draw a grid, like the one on our

piece of paper, on the concrete with chalk. Our grid was

6 metres long and 6 metres wide. Each square in our

grid measured 3 metres by 3 metres.

We drew a dinosaur…

For reading last week, the kakariki group and Miss Pedersen read a story about a class of children who drew a giant dinosaur outside on the concrete. We enjoyed the story so much that we decided to draw a dinosaur of our own!

Here’s what we did:

We were then buddied up with someone else in our

group and Miss Pedersen gave us a part of the

dinosaurs body for us to focus on. This was important

because even though it was a group activity, it would

have been hard to have 9 people trying to draw the same

thing!

Then, we got to work!

Sometimes, we worked together…

And other times, we worked independently.

Miss Pedersen even got stuck in!

We used a lot of chalk and got quite dirty!

Our dinosaur finally started to take shape!

It even tried to eat us!

After  lots of colouring, our dinosaur was finally finished

We were really happy and proud of our creation.                                      

So was Miss Pedersen!