Reflection of My Week
I feel very proud of my puppet. I have finished her face, and I just need to put the wool on for hair, and tie it up into a pony-tail.Then I will be able to work on the clothes! Next time I would like to maybe paint my face black and white, or draw a New Zealand flag onto the face. And maybe, I might give my puppet a flag or something to hold.
Written by Tina Ma
Bang!
“Mum! Mum!” I screamed in pain.
It was Thursday, I had just fallen off my bike and my foot was stuck under the handle bars. “Ouch.” My Mum came and she yelled for Dad to come and help. They carried me inside and put me on the couch. Mum grabbed some ice and l placed it on my foot. That night I had a bad sleep so in the morning I was really tired and I could hardly eat my breakfast without spilling the milk everywhere! As I was having my breakfast I caught eye of the school news letter and as my eye went down the page I saw CROSS COUNTRY in big bold letters. ‘Oh no,’ I yelled, ‘because of my sprained ankle I can’t do the cross country tomorrow.’
I‘d been looking forward to running it all year so I said to myself ‘I’m going to try’. So I rested my foot and made sure I went to bed early for a good night’s sleep so that I wouldn’t be tired for the big race. The next morning I was ready to go but my foot was no different. I hopped to school without my crutches. Everyone was wondering why I was walking on my foot but I told them they would soon find out.
“GO!” Mrs O’Hanlon shouted. I ran ahead and kept on going. It was really hard because I have asthma which is when you can’t breath properly. I ran and ran coughing and coughing but I knew soon it would all be over. I ran towards the the finish line and I came 4th and got a place in the inter school team. I was very proud of myself and even though my foot was sorer than before I’m glad I tried so hard. And I can do it all again when my foot gets better.
A Million Fireflies
Finally, the time has come for New Zealand to host the Rugby World Cup! Thousands of fans were on their way from all over Auckland to watch the opening ceremony at Eden Park. The Government only expected 50,000 people to watch the opening ceremony in town, but if you times that amount by four that was the actual number. 200,000 people turned up and if any more people had gone onto the wharf the Government thought it would CRASH and BREAK!
Sparkles filled the sky from 8pm on. A BAM went off here and a BAM went off there. What a magnificent sight. The sky lit up in sparks of colour. Our eyes were as wide as dinner plates for the full 11 minutes of amazement. It looked like a million fireflies bursting colour into the navy blue sky.
Probably everyone in Auckland who was in town was squashed against strangers who were trying to get a glimpse of the sparks.
Georgia was wearing some pretty cool sliver fern earrings, while Jude had her face painted with a sliver fern on her cheek and New Zealand ROCKS painted on her forehead. Jude was also wearing a New Zealand hat, shirt and pants.
After all the sparks and BAMS, began the game. New Zealand got into a head start of ten nil. But soon enough Tonga was in the game. Both teams did very well and it was a hard first game. Dan Carter scored the first points of the Rugby World Cup. After an exciting and nerve wracking hour and twenty minutes the score was 41-10 to New Zealand. We had won the match!
VICTORY TO NEW ZEALAND!
By Jude and Georgia.
Opening Ceremony
On Friday night it was the opening ceremony for the Rugby World Cup. It was amazing with all the costumes and props even the singing was magnificent! The fireworks were squirting up all over the place, the sky was completely lit up and people swarmed in from everywhere. The wharf was packed with painted faces and even some dogs were dressed up!
But the best part was the special effects stage. All of the eyes were drawn to the stage, the big rugby ball shaped stage. It created pictures of volcanoes, the earth and the water. It showed how people believed New Zealand was discovered. Even the GREAT Jonah Lomu stared in the performance. During the performance a young boy wore a red and black rugby jersey to support Christchurch. The excitement built up as the ceremony linked onto the All Blacks vs Tonga game.
We think it is something New Zealand should be proud of. It kept us excited from the first minute to the last. Now we are looking forward to the rest of the World Cup
By Molly Turpin and Sian Stuart-St Clair
World Cup Game !!!!!!
South Africa versus Wales
Everyone had finished singing the peaceful national anthems ....and now the crowd has gone WILD waiting desperately for the rugby game to begin!!
Wales and South Africa are warming up for their battle to get through to the finals.The boys are tackling hard, running up straight to their opposition to get the ball and score a try!
Francois Steyn grabbed the ball off the ground and ran through all the hard tacklers from the Welsh team! He ran like the wind towards the try line..scoring the first try of the game for South Africa!!!!!!
Everybody’s eyes were on Morne Steyn. He was going to accomplish the conversion for his country. Then, there was silence all around. They were waiting for him to get the conversion over. “KICK” he kicked the ball and it flew into the sky like a cannon ball, through the goal posts landing onto the field. The crowd roared with excitement.
Eventually South Africa won by one point over the Welsh. The points were 17-16. It was such a close hard game it was very exciting to watch.
We think that the South Africans were more skilled than the Welsh and that they will make the finals. Maybe the All Blacks will beat the South African team but win or loose we are behind them all the way.
By Christine and Leilani
Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony
Friday was a very proud and disappointing day for New Zealand. The Opening Ceremony was a blast! Many Maori NZ citizens performed hakas. I think we all enjoyed the big screen on the Eden Park field.
Suddenly many people in the stadium counted down the Opening Ceremony with their cellphones. When they counted they opened their cellphones, when it was a tiny break they quickly closed it and they repeated that pattern. When the Opening Ceremony started the big screen on the field was turned on and a Maori woman started a call.
My favourite part of the whole Ceremony was when Ethan Bai, a 13 year old kid, went onto the field and took on one hundred Gladiators!
Then he talked to All Black legend Jonah Lomu.
When the bright Fireworks started we were all starstruck! It was AMAZING! I loved the end especially because they just let out all the fireworks and it looked very special!
One disappointing thing was that the train transport was horrible and jammed so many people who bought tickets for the NZ vs Tonga match was late and some even MISSED OUT ON SEEING THE GAME!
Although that I bet that the whole of NZ was so honoured and proud to be an NZ citizen.
By Angus and Alan.
T.N.I.S
On Wednesday some of the year 6 people went to T.N.I.S to look around the school. Fortunately we were allowed to choose a partner. Unfortunately we were split into two groups and we could only do one thing. One group did cooking and one group worked on electrical torches. We were both in the electrical torch group.
first we were all given balloons. We blew them up and rubbed them on our head. After that we poked the balloons with a barbecue skewer dipped in detergent which made it harder to pop them. Then we made a torch out of foam, LED, plastic glass and battery. We also had a tour around the school. After, we met some of the people who baked cookies, they were all holding a packet of cookies.
By Joy and Deakyn
This week we painted our puppets different colours to represent the world cup countries because we are making them fans at a rugby game. I painted my puppet white and black because I am supporting the All Blacks. I am going to put black and white clothes and stickers on his face. We had to paint the faces very carefully and not go over the pencil line we drew, so we didn’t get smudges on our faces.
Puppets
We are making puppets that look like fans at the Rugby World Cup. On Wednesday we painted our puppets. Some people painted their faces white and black to show that they are the All Blacks fans while other people are supporting South Africa, Canada, Japan and Tonga. Some people have already put their eyes on. The puppets are going to be awesome!
The Senior Syndicate are making puppets, a person in the crowd watching the Rugby World Cup. Room 11 people are mostly on to painting the faces. I can see that there are puppets sponsoring teams from some other countries. Most people painted their face to represent the All Blacks. Mine is sponsoring the All Blacks as well!
By: Annie Lee
T.N.I.S
On Wednesday 7th the Year 6 children who are going to T.N.I.S in 2012 went there for a visit. I was so excited. I had a ride in a bus and sat on the chair. The bus arrived at T.N.I.S and Annie and I and other children went to a kitchen. The teacher talked and divided us half and half. One team went to the science room and another team didn't go. I was on the science team and we made torches.
By: Jane Son
F.P.S
Future Problem Solving
On Tuesday the 5 of September,
the Year 6 FPS group did an exam.
Our topic was Water Quality.
All students participated in groups of 4.
The test took 2 hours and it started at about 9 o’clock.
Everyone was very excited...but some were more
nervous than ever!!!
There are 6 stages.
The first step is challenges.
We identified problems from a futuristic scenario.
The second step is the U.P.
(U.P stands for Underlining Problems)
We wrote down the best problem.
The third step is solutions
We created our own futuristic solutions that help solve our U.P.
The fourth step is the criteria-Questions-
We wrote down 5 questions that are related to our U.P.
e.g. Which solution will be the easiest to manufacture?
The fifth step is applying the criteria.
We choose the 5 best solutions and grade them from 1 (worst) - 5(best) and we added up the total. The one with the most points is our group’s solution to our problem.
The sixth step is the Action Plan.
For our Action Plan we wrote down who will provide the product, when it will help us, where it will take place and how it will solve the problem.
At last we were finished!!!!!
Our papers got taken to the office in Orewa on Wednesday, to be marked by judges.
The judges get 1 group of papers from each school,
when the papers get sent back we can check the comments and feedback , we also get marked from 3 or 7 groups (the best group gets marked a 1).
It would be great if one of Sunnybrae’s FPS groups got in the finals.
By Christine Sim and Sian Stuart-St.Clair
SPORTS EXCHANGE
Last week Rooms 11, 12 and 13 had a sports exchange with St Marys School. Tapuae, netball, ripper rugby and soccer were the four different games you could choose from. The tapuae and soccer teams stayed and played at Sunnybrae, the netball teams went to the AMI Netball Center and the rugby teams went to Onewa fields. It was it was a beautiful sunny day and while I was playing netball I was dripping with sweat and thirsty all the time. Luckily I had a water bottle with me because I really needed it!
My team lost two games and won one game. I would like to do it again sometime!
By Priyanka
Sports Exchange
On Friday we had our sports exchange.
I played rippa rugby.
I think lots of people were hogging the ball and not passing, so thats probably why we lost both of our games. But its not all about winning, it’s about having fun.
Jayden got a blood nose and had to go back to school in a car.
David and Jayden were the try scorers.
Next time I would like a bigger field because people were running out of the boundary.
I think that having fun is important, more important than winning.
By Liam Greenacre
Sports Exchange
On Friday we had our sports exchange.
I played rippa.
A sports exchange is a time where we meet up with another school and play sport.
There were four different sports, taupae, soccer, rippa rugby and netball. I think that it’s not important that we win or lose, having fun is the most important thing overall. I think we all had fun no matter what sport we played. Fair play is important too. It felt good when I got the rugby ball I ran as fast as I could and tried to get a try or ripping a rip off an opponent. In my opinion it doesn't matter what sport we play, its either sport or no sport.
By Angus Avery
Last Friday Sunnybrae had a sports exchange with St Marys Primary School.
It was a hot sunny summery afternoon when we started walking down to Onewa. There were four different sports we could choose from soccer, netball, rippa and tapuae. I chose netball. Most of us were in the same teams for netball as on a Wednesday night. Soccer and tapuae stayed at Sunnybrae, while netball and rippa went down to Onewa. Luckily it wasn’t muddy on the fields. St Marys teams were quite good at netball. We only won two out of our three games. Some of our girls were being a bit silly fighting over their positions.
Overall I think everyone had fun and worked together as a team.
