For Writing Room 9 & Room 10 Had to write a story about The Mythical Creature called The Loch Ness Monster. I didn’t really like it but I did because I like writing about what I want to write about.
Do you like writting?
My piece of writing LINK
NBC has got the opportunity every year at the start of the year to go and have swimming lessons at QEll for 2 weeks. This year I did worse than last year, last year I was in the second highest group but this year I was in the third highest group. Basically the lowest group, my least favourite part was being in the shallow pool but my instructor was really nice to us.For the first week we basically repeated the same things. And for the second week we moved on into the deep pools and started doing fun things, my group combine with the other low group.
And started with saving people, to save people we had these little objects that float that we have to hold onto, the objects were – Rugby ball, 3 floaties, water bucket, and a life jacket. For the last day of swimming this time my group and the first highest group combined. Today was the last day of swimming and we got to swim in our pyjamas we did a few games and a couple swimming lessons.
On Tuesday afternoon we got the opportunity to go see and listen to DJ Danny in the hall. DJ Danny was really kind and fun he had lots of cool things to tell us. He told us his favourite books growing up, what motivated him to be a DJ, and when he started being a DJ. (he started when he was 15 – and music motivated him to become a DJ)
My favourite part was where he had this whole slideshow and on the slideshow we saw a video of what he does and a big disco my second favourite part was when he was telling us about him.
Have you met DJ Danny before?
On Friday morning most of the year 7 and 8s from room 9 and 10 got the opportunity to go surfing at New Brighton. The instructors were Tom, Troy, James, and Rosa, they were really nice they even gave us a boost through the waves it was so fun.
They firstly taught us how to surf –
So firstly as you’re getting on the surf board you put your toes at the very back of the board where the fins are. And you start paddling with your arms/hands. Then that’s when the wave comes in and gives you a bigger boost. When you feel confident or when you feel water touching your toes you paddle 3 more times.
Then you go into chicken arms by sticking your hands on the board, then go into a seal position and slowly put any foot ford flat on the surf board. Then the other foot, then you’re ready That’s how you surf you just need to balance.
( Photos by Mr Grey )
Do you like surfing? Are you a surfer?
2025 so far has been really good and fun.
Being upstairs and getting to hang out with Whaea Kay and Mr Grey is the best part . I’ve done Technology for the first time which is so fun we go on the bus to Te Aratai every Thursday.
I am in the Mechtronics class where we make robots and do coding its pretty hard but also fun our teacher is Mr Simon hes very nice. He even has a dog named Sally shes 7 and shes very cute I think Me & Kiara are her favourite students.
Ive also done road patrol for the first time its really fun. My partner is Farrah and we do road patrol every Tuesday.
Hows 2025 been for you?
For reading I had to make a camp collage, this activity was pretty fun . Whaea Kay shared me a folder with all the camp photos and I had to find pictures from the folder to make an collage. A collage is where you have or create a group of photos and make it look nice.
This is my collage :
On Monday to Wednesday the year 7 and 8s went on school camp to Hanmer springs. I was in Williams Mum’s car with Despina and Liam, our car was so fun and funny we had lots of lollies and chips.The drive was an hour and 45 minutes. The songs we listened to were so funny and good.
Liam liked to put on different types of Fonk music the best Fonk he put on was peppa pig Fonk we were so lucky he didn’t put on cocomelon Fonk 😂 he also put on Sigma Sigma boy a LOT.
William liked putting on Fonk music too but he mostly put on Harry Styles music.
Despina put on funny songs that made us laugh. She also liked putting on songs by Sia.
I liked playing funny songs too but I also liked playing songs by Justin Beiber or Taylor Swift. I’m not a Swiftie just so you know .
The cabins were so good there were 2 bunk beds and 1 double bed. Isa and Leisha slept on the top bunks and me and despina slept on the bottom bunk and Kiara slept on the double bed. After unpacking all our stuff into our cabin we got ready for an unexpected, long, fun , hard walk.We did the dog stream walk and half the water track walk. I think half the class hated the walk but I enjoyed it. We had to go uphill a lot.
After the walk we went swimming. That was the best swim of my life !
I went down the super bowl hydra slide a lot. I only went down the thriller hydra slide like 5 times because most of my friends were scared of it. After the hydra slide I went swimming in the lazy river playing tag with the year 7 girls and boys, then I went to the hot pools and the rock pools with my friends. It was super fun.
After swimming we went back to our cabins and had a shower then prepared for dinner. For the first night we had Smashed potatoes with gravy and peas with pies for dinner. That was the best first dinner of camp ever. Then we played some spotlight. I think we played like 3 rounds of spotlight, that’s what I remember.
This was one of my favourite parts of camp. When it was bedtime we all had to go to sleep. Isa, Kiara, Despina, and Leisha were in my cabin. We pulled an all nighter but Kiara was tired so she wasn’t as energetic but she did stay up with us and Isa was pretty mad at us but her and Kiara ended up pulling an all nighter with us.
We had so much candy it was so fun and tasty, it made us even crazier. Leisha brought Tic Tacs, I brought sour strip candy and some gummies, Kiara brought lots of gummies, and Despina brought Gummy bears from Germany. We basically did an all nighter with lollies.
In the morning we got up for breakfast and got ready for mountain biking, room 9 went tree climbing and room 10 went mountain biking. Mountain biking was so scary but fun we had to bike in the rain which made it even more fun. All the bikers got wet and very muddy.
Then we had a shower but power was out for ages so we had to wait for a bit. Before the shower we were just chilling in our bunks and giving tours to other people who wanted to see our bunk room. We also got a tour of other people’s bunks.
But we kept getting ding dong ditched A LOT while we were chilling.
After a while the power came on and we were able to have a shower. As soon as we found out power was on Me and Despina were shouting we got power we got power… The showers were so warm & Hot it went from cold to warm to hot. The showers were so good.
After showering Mr Grey gave us a whole bunch of fun things to play in the hall. The first game was a cookie game where the cookie was placed on your forehead and you had to try to make it go in your mouth without using your hands. I made it into the finals. The final people had to do it again but with a gummy I didn’t pass but the gummy was so yum Isa won the round.
The next game was where Mr Grey and Whea Kay had to try to guess who had the stuffed hippo. Mr Grey was guessing some people right but Whae Kay was guessing a lot of people right. After a few games we got to practice for the camp talent show. Me,Despina,Kiara, and Leisha were in a group for the talent show. Then we had nachos for dinner.
The talent show was so good. Me,Leisha,Despina, and Kiara did a play combined with dancing,horror. It was so fun . There were people performing plays and dad jokes. But during our play I accidentally slapped Despina in the face. It was so loud everyone started laughing (I did feel bad).
Then we had a bit of free time but got told to go to bed. Instead of sleeping in our own bed, Me & Despina slept on the double bed with Kiara beside her. We had lollies and fell asleep . We were gonna pull an all-nighter but Despina and Leisha didn’t want to because they stayed up till 2 or 1 am in the morning and were so tired.
On Wednesday morning we got up earlier than the last morning and had breakfast cuz we had to pack and clean real fast. I was so excited because it was my turn to go tree climbing. Tree climbing was really scary. We had to climb really tall trees. I made it to the top of the tall hard tree. It was so scary I said I was gonna sing once I came down but I was so scared all I said was ¨ I want my Mummy.¨ I didn’t even trust the instructor to get me down. I was TERRIFIED.
After tree climbing we had snacks and a hot chocolate then we mostly did cleaning and packing.
I think we should all (Year 7s & Year 8s) thank Mr Grey and Whae Kay for dealing with dozens of kids. And also thank the parent helpers for taking time to help us, drive us, and take care of us.
(Make sure to see the next few slides)
Today in reading Room 9 & Room 10 have been doing Agency Activities. A sugar overload activity,Create growth mindsets poster,and a word find. This activity was actually really easy all I had to do was choose one of the examples from slide 3. The examples were : ⬇
1.Be curious and open-minded in our attitudes.
2.Be open to learning new skills, and enjoy the challenge.
3.Learn from our failures – they can teach us even more than our successes.
4.Focus on the learning process, not just the achievement.
5.Remember that the brain is like a muscle – the more we use it, the more it grows
6.Always keep trying. Don’t give up!
I chose example 6 . Once I chose my example all I had to do was make an infographic/poster to share growth mindsets with others. My poster was different I created my own quote,press the link to see my poster.
Do you like reading?
My Poster :
Last week and this week room 9 & room 10 have made a slideshow animation. Id say this would have been the best first cybersmart of 2025 . The challenging part was having to take time to create this animation. My animation isn’t that good but I’m proud of it . (Press The Picture To Get To The Animation ! )
Are you a Horror person? (I Am)
Today I did an activity called Create a message in a bottle . This activity was pretty easy for me, all I had to do was create a bottle with a message inside of it on google drawings . But instead of doing something simple I decided to do something a little creative .
-Press the first picture then it will send you to the google drawings.
-Then press the little brown thing inside the bottle it will send you to the 2nd picture.
-But if that doesn’t work then you can press both the pictures either one.
(they have seprate links you can look at )
