Vanuatu presentations

Today Rm18 & Rm19 were practising our 15 minute speeches to our various classes around the school to raise awareness about the need for water tanks in Vanuatu.

By Gigglez & Lachie

These are some pictures of their progress.

                                           Working on those costumes.

  

                                             I think Paris is up to something?!!

                                                     All sneaky peeky like.

                                  Everybody working hard at our speeches & slide shows.

Shared Lunch and Movie Tomorrow

Hi whānau!

Sorry for the late blog notice, but we are planning a shared lunch and movie tomorrow from around 10:45am-12:30pm.

Students are invited to bring along something that can be shared with their peers.  There is always plenty to go around, so please don't stress it you are unable to provide something.  :)

Many thanks

Link and registration code for class Census Data collection activity.

http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/take/

Registration code: Room 18 - 759531, Room 19 - 759532

Ed Sheeran Competition - Green shirt

Bring a green t-shirt on Friday to support our entry into the More FM Ed Sheeran Competition.  Thanks Paris T for the idea! :)  Ed Sheeran will be performing for the winning school on Wednesday 8th April.  http://www.morefm.co.nz/Win/GetEdSheeranAtYourSchool.aspx

Police Physical Competency Test (PCT)

Year 7/8 Success - PCT 

On Friday 13th March, 8 of our best Year 7/8 athletes competed at the Christchurch Physical Competency Test.  They spent the day participating in a variety of activities: Zumba, martial arts, soccer skills, rugby skills with former All Black Nathan Mauger, and the much anticipated timed Physical Competency Test (the same test that the police do as part of their entrance test).  

From a total of 78 teams, St Martins Team 1, consisting of Lauren, Holly, Torian and Jake came in 6th place.  St Martins Team 2, consisting of Amelia, Alice, Louie and Louis qualified 5th fastest and made it through to place-offs.  They improved their heat time by a whopping 16 seconds, resulting in a final standing of 4th place - 2 seconds off qualifying for nationals at Police College.  To top off a fantastic day of achievement, Torian was clocked at 26km/hr by the police laser - 1km/hr off the record for the day.  Go St Martins!

Writing Sample - The Impossible

The Disaster

The Impossible

I was born a disaster.

I will end as one too.

It’s just a fact.

My entrance to life is always very grand, to give you an example, let’s use today:

As my water body takes shape, I look around the environment that I will soon consume. I’m going to have to live here for a while, waiting for my water body to gather itself up for a new place (even after I am finished with my mission, I never die. I am immortal) my solid body, a wall of water and destruction has risen. And now they will fall…

As a tsunami, I have no guilt, no mercy, and no care. Except to bring evenness back to the world. My entrance to life has to be just as grand as my end. My rebirth taking as long as repairs to the damage I’ve done. And my kill counts as long as the people they have given life to.

I look down upon the thousands of jovial naive humans. I dive, pitiless and ready to destroy my victims. They try to run from me but I’m never-ending, ceaseless, and constant.

Later…

I am not whole now. I am floating through the wreckage I created, moving slowly and inconspicuously back to be reborn as a new disaster. I have served my purpose for now…

Written by Ella

Week 6 Writing Samples

Word Builders

Word Tower

Begin your new tower

With 26 letters

Zip A through to Z

Pile your letters into words

Stack your words into sentences

Pile them high... low... 

All different heights

Smother in your punctuation

Full stops are like red traffic lights

Commas are getting you ready

And if you see a capital letter

Go it's a green light

If you see a stanza or paragraph

It's a new part

Have shorts ones and long ones

Until you have reached a chapter

Until you have created

a whole world 

of... 

books.

Written by Chloe

A World of Wonder

To begin building your world of wonder

Search the jungle of letters

Grab letters A to Z

And make them into words.

The words form a village of sentences

Those sentences turn into paragraphs cities

Different parts of the country are chapters

They create a world of books.

Written by Mia

Wonderful World of Writing

Capital letters are the green lights telling you to write more

Full stops are the red lights telling you to take a break

Lower case letters are children running around planning

Brackets are like your mind holding extra information

Commas are the breath you take when you come up form the magical unknown of the ocean

That's the wonderful world of writing.

Written by Maisie

Stand out lines

The archers fired their exclamation mark arrows while on their hyphen horses.  The mages shot full stop fireballs at the end of the sentences out of their semi-colon staffs. - Max N. 

Exclamation marks are like a big NO!  Screaming out to the world. - Jacob

Speech marks are like microphones spreading words everywhere. - Nathan

Ellipsis means more is coming, our world is growing faster and faster.  Word by word, sentence by sentence, we have a whole town of our word world. - Georgia

Question marks are like roundabouts because you ask yourself where you want to go. - Aljāz

Fullstops are like red lights that stop us in sight.  Until the capitals come and show us the light. - Bogdan

Exclamation marks reaching speeds, zipping down the race track making it loud. - Cooper

Sentences are like towers because they have layers that build ideas to make a paragraph. - Jake