2015 Swimming Sports

It was a warm and sunny day for our school sports. Bao-Tram and Anna (cousins from Vietnam) were together, waiting to start.

Everyone is watching the swimming in the big pool. Can you spot James?

Hao-Ren has just been in the pool and is warming up again.

Ashin is waiting for his turn in the pool again.

Neil and his friends were in charge of the numbers.

James is ready to do back stroke.

2014 senior syndicate speeches

Aria, James, Neil and Ashin all stood up and said their speech in front of the class this term. Here is Neil's speech, full of jokes!

Hey, James, can you please stand up?
Can you guess what my speech is about?

That's right - it's not easy being me. I am going to tell you why.

Being a twin AND cleaning the house AND leaning English is not easy.

It is not easy because we get the same present for our birthday, same shoes, same clothes.
People also call us the same name, maybe because we have the same face and maybe the same colour of skin and hair.
How would you feel if you get into trouble for something that your twin did, and that's why it is hard being a twin.

The next one I would like to talk about is cleaning the house.
Cleaning the house is really hard because I have to clean birds' poo and their cage. It takes 10 minutes to clean the cage. 
And I hate cleaning my room! I have to pick up my toys, my clothes and make my bed, and also have to clean the disgusting smelly toilet. And I have to wash the dishes, and I wish I could play 'minecraft', not wash the dishes!!
I have to clean the shower and the lounge, it's really hard work!
I also have to clean the garage and the backyard. That's why it's not easy cleaning the house.

There is another thing that is hard being me. That is learning English.
Do you know how many words I have to learn?
Maybe a million!
People tell me things that I don't understand.
A ball to me is something to bounce. When I read about a girl going to a fancy dress ball - guess what? -  I thought she is going to play with a bouncy ball!

Now you can see why it is hard being me. I have a twin, I have to clean the house and learn English.
If this keeps happening I will pull my hair out and scream like a girl!!!
Thank you.

TRIP TO THE W.O.W MUSEUM

 There were lots of different cars and dresses

this is one dress, we were not allowed to take some photos. I don't know why.

 W.O.W means World Of Wearable art

this is another dress they are all pretty special!

This car looks pretty cool because on that car is the English flag on it.

There were also old cars and they look awesome.

This car is really rusty and I don't think that it can drive.

The modern cars are also awesome because they are inside large and this got a TV and stuff like that

By Ture

Tika Tonu

 

That is Ture he is doing Tika Tonu (Haka)

Ashin's How To......

How to make a Laser Gun Potion.

First, put some lava.
Next, get some books.
Then, add some fish.
Next, put some eyes.
Then, smack 5 times.
Finally, your laser gun potion is ready!

Ashin's self portrait.

Lesley's Orchard

" Hi, i'm emma again."

"This time we went to Lesley's home, it was fun"

"That was Lesley when she was picking some graps for us."

"This are all Esol children and behind us are some parents from use."

"This are some YUMMY Apples from Lesley."

"They are so long the posts, what du you think?"

                                            We had all really much apples and many bags.

             By morning tea we had lots of different sorts of cakes. Julia brought a cake with chocolate fish.

"These are some photos that we take."

Solar system models in room 1. James' one is pinned up on the curtains. He is watching an orbiting mobile solar system that was made by Theo.

Julia and Trish are both part of the ESOL team. Julia is working with Ashin, Jimmy and Thanh. While Trish is at the computer with Neil.

Ture's Presentation on his city of Hamburg

MY HOLIDAY IN PAIHIA, by Ture

Paihia is great for a holiday!
In Pahia I saw dolphins swimming.
We stayed in a big house.
Paihia has a nice beach with interesting shells.
I drove the boat to Russell!
We saw inside a Maori meeting house, and we watched a haka.

Emma's Holidays

"Hallo i'm Emma again,
now I will tell you about my Holidays in Hobbiton.
We drove in a bus to the houses built for the Hobbits.
There were lots of big houses in the grass. They looked funny!
There was a man-made tree with leaves that had been painted by school children.When they were finished Peter Jackson said"They are not the right color!"
So, the children had to paint 2000 more leaves.
There was one house that we could go into and it was fascinating because the furniture was huge!
I would recommend going to Hobbiton because it is very cool if you see the movie and then go to the set."

"By Emma"

2014  

Once again, our ESOL students come from all over the world!! Below is  a  photo of our newest

 ESOL students. 

They are:

Ture from Germany, Ashin from India , Tang from Vietnam and last but not least, Beyon. 

Beyon is Ashin's brother.

Emma's Poster

" Hi I'm Emma,

I com from Germany and I'm 9 years old."

"This is my poster.

 From the differences from the school in Germany and New Zealand."

Natureland trip

We had a great time visiting Natureland. We were lucky to go 'behind the scenes' and see the blue tongued lizard and also the baby mice.
We have made a book to go in the library at school.
Siao-Wei has written a letter to the editor of the paper because she is worried that Natureland may close.
She also wrote a letter of thanks to Natureland, so she has been busy!

Natureland Visit

Click on these photos to have a closer look.

Neil from room 1 drew this World Earth Day poster.

Around the earth there are power lines, cars and houses.

He is showing us how much people have changed the earth.

2013

At the end of 2012 we said goodbye to Zyrene  and Ton Kau, who are both now attending Broadgreen Intermediate. I am sure that they are joining in as many activities as possible and really having fun! 

Anna, Zakyla, Jimmy, Jasmin and Ashla are also no longer on the ESOL roll. But they are still here at Nayland Primary, and we stay in touch.

So presently the ESOL roll has just 6 children on it - James, Neil, Mya, Tommy , Siao-Wei and 

Hao-Ren.

Siao-Wei and Hao-Ren have been lucky to spend their holidays in Taiwan and are due back on the 25th of March. They will have plenty to tell us!!

TRIP TO BROADGREEN HOUSE IN 2012

Zyrene  is   wearing  a  yoke   to  carry  buckets  of  milk.  

She and Neil and James found many things at Broadgreen House that they use in the Philippines.

Ashla is a 'puppet pal' expert!

Zyrene, Neil and Jessie are from the Philippines!  Neil and Jessie are twins. They are not used to our cold weather.