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Throughout this term, each school has been preparing for this year’s mastermind.The books that we had to read were : Kimble Bent, Just Jack, Stomp, Digging up the past, Rahui, Nice day for a War, Super Finn, Life cycle of a Tuatara and Traveling Restaurant. The event happened at Kena Kena school in the library. On day two for testing there were seven groups. At first, I was very nervous and depressed thinking, “ Will we get into the finals?”

 Once it started, the pressure was on. First, our group wasn’t working well together and arguing and then on top of that it there was a competition to take place. Then on question 2, our group started co-operating together so that was one terrific thing. Once the first round was over, we saw that everyone had scored very high scores including us. Gladly, one round was over, now four more to go. One great thing about going to mastermind is that they provide mints for you throughout the competition – yum yum!

 After the mastermind competition, Carol  announced who would be going into the finals. Sadly, the St Patrick’s juniors didn’t make it nor the St Patrick’s senior  team 2. But the St Patrick’s  senior team1 did make it through. Congratulations  for those who also made it into the finals, but for the teams who didn’t make it, well there’s always next year unless of course you’re a year eight and going off to college.

What I liked best about mastermind this year is that we scored well and hopefully next year will improve and that I also got to read some great books. One thing that I think my group has learnt this term in mastermind is to work as a team.

Do you know what A.N.Z.A.C. means? Anzac means Australian and New Zealand Army Corp. Did you know that 2721 of the New Zealnaders were found dead. That’s almost a quater of those who served in Gallilipoli.

 This year’s dawn service will be at Anzac Cove and will mark the 97th anniversary of the landings. One of the reasons we have the landings is because it helps us remeber the Australians amd New Zealanders who served and died in the wars. 

Some people wonder why we have wars?  The answer is because some country’s aren’t happy with what they have and want more land so they try to invade other country’s but then the other country fights back so that’s how a war begins.

The reason the people chose the poppy for the symbol is because of the detail. The red petalls are for all the blood and sweat the soldiers put all their hard work into so that their country would be free. The yellow or black centre  represents  the mud desolation and the green stem is for the forest and fields where generations of men have died to make their land free.  

The Flanders field is now a war cemetery in Belgium. The fields of Flanders were the scene of many horrifying and bloody confrontation during the battle of Yres.  

The name of the book I chose is wings.Do you like honey bees and other insects because if you do then this is the book for you.It’s about a bee called Ziggy. Ziggy’s got a brand new mission to find his friends missing sisters who disappeared in the garden of Tokyo. But the city is no place for an insect especially a honey bee. Along the way Ziggy experiences fitting other insects including Torgo the mean Hornet.Will Ziggy be able to complete his mission while fitting other insects and outsmarting spiders, snakes, and hornets, to find out more then read the book Wings by Ramond Hubber. But when you’re the size of a honey bee things are really not what they seem. For me ratting this book it would be a 10/10. I  recommend  this book  because it took me through amazing adventures and I’m sure it will to you too.

Today was St Patrick’s fun day.First we went to church because as a catholic school this is what we do for special events like  this.After church we went back to class and got changed into our colours.The colour that I was in was red. Here is the team that I was in doing the tug of war.Last year we had a tug of war and blue bet red but not this time for this time red bet blue so it was a bit of a swich from last year. Other games were relays and an odd one was when you had to hold hands and get twenty hoola hoops go from one  end to the other with out letting go of the hands.The other games were when there were two lines. Some people stand on the inside of the smallest circle and some on the outside.The people on the outside have to try and hit the pole in the middle of the circle. And the people on the inside circle have to stop the ball hitting the pole without using there hands. Then there was relays and the yellow team one for the seniors and the juniors had just raced but they’re was a tie.

Today we had a Religious Education session.The session started off like this. It said that one day when the earth was very still if you looked at the ground it was pure rock but if you looked even  closer then you could see tiny people .Then out of nowhere there was a sudden wind that  made the people moove. 

Then the people were running round on the grass and found different coloured ribbins. The coloured ribbins colours were  red, yellow, green and blue. All the friends wrapped the ribbons around each other and started dancing. Then a second wind  blew. Suddenly the friends didn’t know that they were friends and the reds went into one corner the yellows went into one corner the greens went into one corner and the blues went into a corner.

Then they started to build walls so the other people couldn’t get in. But even though they were away from each other there was a bit of a problem. The reds had water but no food, the yellows had food but no water, the greens had wood for a fire but no shelter, the blues had shelter but no wood for a fire. Then a  stranger said why don’t you put your things together and share. Then they nocked over the walls and started to share and they became friends again.

The year six’s got to do to do some tye dying while the others were at tech.  What we did today was like what we did last week.  We  dyed the fabric and then dried it. After it started to dry we started to iron it until it was straight.

Then we took pictures of each other and Mrs Garton printed them for us so that we could cut them out. After that Mrs Garton told us that next week we coud do some more. 

Last week we did a piece of art. It was a star shape.What we had to do was to  write come to, your name and what your talents are and how you can share your talents with others.For mine I chose to do sport.

The reason we did this was to show what gifts God gave us and how we should use them properly. If you want to do this to then you can.

First you will need :

some pens or colour pencils 

a hb pencil 

a  white piece of paper

a black piece of paper

some glitter

and some talent

Step 1 First draw a star  on the white piece of paper write come to and your name.

Step 2 Write if you want to then what your good at on the piece of paper.

For eg you could do if you want to learn how to play the guitar.

Step 3 Draw some pictures about what you chose the come to me for about.

Step 4 Once you ‘ve   done that cut out  the star and glue it onto the black  piece of paper.

Step 5 Glue in spots where you want the glitter to be.

Step 6 Spread the glitter where the glue is and wait for it to dry.

Now you’ve got a star.

Hi my name is Therese,

I am nine years old, I was born in 2002  in Wellington Hospital , I have a passion for sport, athletics and dancing.

I have four different favourite sports . They are netball , touch , swimming , tennis .

My favourite type of dancing is hiphop. My second favourite type of dancing  is bellet .

My favourite singer is Ashley Tisdale. I am Samoan, Italian, Kiwi.

Every Thursday a Samoan lady comes into our class and teaches us a dance called the sasa.

The first thing she taught us was the beat to the sasa.

Next things that she taught us were some of the moves that go excellent with the beat.

Then she looked up on youtube some of the online dances.She showed us them and I learnt a few of the moves.

Then my teacher said that if we wanted to, we could get in a group and practise the dances and then show the class. She said that some of the times I could even do the beat to it. We all have to have a turn to do the rhythm.

Waikanae Pools

On the 17th of February the whole of St Patrick’s school  went to the Waikanae pools for a beginning of the term trip. 

We took the bus to the pools because there were too many of us. When we got there, there was absolutely no one in the pool.

 Everyone got changed and then got into the pool. The people I played with were Mary and Jasmine.

We were playing mermaids tag in the pool. After a while it got weird so I asked my brother for a piggy back .

 Then my brothers friend pulled me off  and then it happened. I sank to the bottom of the pool.Then I was chasing him round the pool for the rest of the time if I ever saw him.