Kyah's Triathlon Recount

WALT: We are learning to write a recount about the School Triathlon.

Taking a glimpse to my left, a line of nervous statues stand on the starting line, ready to go.

My heart was pounding, full pressure.   My nerves were uncontrollable, butterflies race inside of me, then I heard a bang! go! Tension gathered in my body Auroa School Intermediate Triathlon had come to a speedy start.   Running at high speed my opponents follow near behind but I am in the lead.  A flag stands at the last corner of the 750m run.  Bethany roams behind me greedy for victory.  I was bulleting  towards but just was not enough Bethany passed. "there is still the bike and swim my luck hasn't faded just yet I thought".

Zooming down from the run I was exhausted and speechless.  Mum stood at my bike smiling, I hurry up buckling my helmet and off and away I went "4k bike here I come" stepping and pushing my pedals as fast as possible my enemy is up ahead.  Speaking to myself come on you can do this turn your second into first.

She is a metre ahead, racing my pedals as fast as a lightning bolt.   I have achieved my goal by passing but I can not go getting my hopes up now there is still the pressuring swim.

"Splash" I am ready to start my long distance 50 metre swim there and back.   Stroking a stroke my breath was low still pushing myself as hard as possible.  "I can do this whispering to myself.

My breath has come but I am out of the sparkling, gleaming clear water and now Bethany takes a shot in the pool.  

At the end of the day I was proud of my lead but I wasn't the only  person that worked hard.

Paige's Amazing Holiday

Paige from Room Three has been lucky enough to have just come back Raratonga in the Cook Islands. She spent some time on holiday but also spent some time working hard. She made an amazing iMovie of her adventures with the help of Quade and Harry, which includes pictures that she took and video of some of the cultural performances. This is her recount about the trip.

Thump thump the plane had landed! After three hours on the plane it was cool there was a TV on every chair I got to play with it because there was games on it and we could play music and movie too. It was boiling hot once we had hopped off the plane.

Then we had a look around on the island on a bus. That night we got to have a swim, the pool was refreshing. Nana and Aunty jumped in the pool with their clothes on.


Raro (1) from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

We got dressed up and headed for breakfast waiting for another adventure. Me and Dad went to Kids Club and we made a sarong. 

That night we went to a show it was an island dance. We watched the performance. There were two guys doing a fire dance. It was awesome.

The next day we went to the Spa. I got my nails done and I was allowed to have a massage. That night I got a three hour swim.

Highlights from School Triathlon

Today at Auroa Primary School we had our first major school event - the 2015 School Triathlon. The event was supported extremely well by the local community.

Charlotte and Ebony's School Slideshow

Mackennas Hidden Slideshow

Here is a slideshow that I made from Kizoa. It was a task and we were supposed to make it around the school. To make it better we put a hidden object in. Try find it.

Tiger Slug

Tiger Slug on PhotoPeach

This slideshow was created when we had a special guest in the classroom. It was a Tiger Slug that had been brought in by one of our students. It was found on their farm in the Sliverbeet. Its known as the Grey Slug, Tiger Slug and Leopard Slug. It grows to 20cm in length. This was the biggest Tiger Slug that Ashtons Mum has ever seen. Its Latin name was Limax Maximus. It one of the biggest slugs in New Zealand. It eats other slugs and plants. It was introduced into New Zealand from Europe.

Doubling and Halving Maths

Maths Explanation from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
For math's in room 3 we had a hard question so together we found out a way to work it out and how we done that was we used doubling and halving.

Bethany and Jorja's 2015 Slideshow

This is our first official post for 2015 - we've had a number of students who have been working on producing slideshows about Auroa Primary School.

Bethany and Jorja's slideshow - Kizoa Video Maker

Jaydens Introduction to Room Three

Jaydens Room 3 Introduction from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Class Badge 2015

2015 Parent Response Form

Welcome to 2015!

We're very excited to be back in the classroom and online for 2015.  Our 2015 is 25 Y5/6 students located in Auroa, South Taranaki, New Zealand.   We've got lots of amazing projects and work to come this year and are very excited to be looking forward to all the learning in our classroom.  We'd love to hear from you and connect with other classrooms: whether your someone that we've connected with in the classroom in the past in someone new that we are going to work this year it would be great to hear from you.