Amelia Peels off down the bluff!

Amelia’s Awesome Abseiling



I went abseiling at camp.

What do you know about abseiling?
First you have to put a harness on.
Then you clip a karabiner onto your harness
and put the rope through the figure eight.
You need a glove on your right hand so
that you don’t burn your hand on the rope.
You hold the rope in your right hand behind your bottom
and carefully feed the rope through it. Then you can slide,
jump and bounce down the hill.


I wanted to do it again even though it was scary.
By Adventurous Amelia

Nearly home

Hi Guys

We are at LAX!

So close till "home time''.

In Las Vegas there is a hotel called The Bellagio and every evening as the hour strikes a set of fountains go off.

This is the fountain:

School Holiday Recounts

This week we are writing about our holiday activities.
This is an image similar to Mr Neale learning to snowboard over the holidays!
We are focussing on structuring our writing by making a plan first.
Then our aim is to have an introduction, interesting events with good descriptions and a definite ending. The students are working twards their personal writing goals.Please ask them to tell you what their goal is. Mr Searle.

I'm Reading!

Hi Middles,
I am getting such a big girl and starting to read my books - thank you Meila!
I've also started reaching out for my toys so fantastic choice of toy Eylish!

Glaciers

Hi guys

Today we are driving to Dijon. (If you have heard of Dijon mustard it comes from here)

Yesterday we went up Mont Blanc pronounced Mont Blonk in France.

Built a snowman at the height of Mount Cook. Walked inside a glacier - amazing.

Covered in pumice

Hi Middles

This week we went to Pompei and Vesuvius!

Did you know that Vesuvius erupted in 1944 and the war was stopped because of so much damage? We could still see the lava flow from this as no trees were growing on it. There were some holes in the crater of Vesuvius where sulphur was escaping. Sulphur is the same thing as you can smell at Hamner Springs pools (like rotten eggs).

Guess how far apart Pompei and Vesuvius are . . . I will tell you next time I write.

Pompei is much better preserved than I expected. It is massive and awesome! We saw the dog that had been covered in ash and a few people including children. There was a cool house which was called the 'Mystery Villa' which had a secret room that the owners and their servants hid in with all their treasures, it didn't save them from the poisonous gas. Thomas and Dad ran out in to the Ampitheatre and Thomas shouted "I am Sparticus" just like in the film Sparticus. They has a big wrestle but nobody died.

:-) bye

Two terible two year olds visit school.

Pogo and Mister.

Pogo and Mister came for the day. pogo came Tuesday and mister came on Thursday
me and Meila walked mister and we did three lap’s around the school 1 walking and 2
running. Water went up mister’s leg. It looked like he had a bath. Mister was so so so so
wet so I did not want to cuddle him. His face was not wet and his back is not wet either. His
tummy was as wet as a beetroot trout that has been washed under a tap. Pogo and Mister are the colour white. Pogo is very funny because he always jumped on Mr Searle. When I was the first one at school pogo jumped on my lap. Mister is a good guard dog and he barked at Jenny when she came to see us. Pogo and mister are brothers. they have the same mum. she lives down the road. That is where pogo and mister came from.
by Tiarne