Do you want to change the flag?

McCaw Backs Flag Change

As part of our reading-we work independently exploring news items that have a national or international setting.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

Richie McCaw his support for a new national flag on social media. “This is the moment when I decided a new flag would be great for our country. Running out at Twickenham and seeing the two flags looking so similar. The silver fern has always been the special symbol on the All Black jersey that represents who we are as kiwis, so the new flag with a silver fern as a part of it would be a great option I believe.”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

In the finals of the rugby world cup the two flags I.e. of Australia and new Zealand flow side by side being so similar it was perhaps confusing to the thousand who had gathered for the game

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

The game took place in Twickenham which is the home stadium of English rugby union in south east in England. The stadium of Twickenham can fit up to 82,000 people.  

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.  

This event took place in 2015 in the future i think the flag will change when the next rugby world cup start and everyone will know what New Zealand’s flag looks like and it does not look similar like the Australia one.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

This event took place because when it was the rugby world cup the New Zealand flag looked the same as Australia's flag and thousands of people did not know what New Zealand's and Australia’s flag looked like.  

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Referendum-When there's a election

Decide-When you think about something

Between-Somewhere in the middle.

Humpty Dumpty was killed by a Fox.... WHAT?

Once upon a time there was an egg named Humpty Dummy that lived in scrambled city where all the eggs live in.

One day a bad Fox named Foxy entered Scrambled City. He only went to egg town to rob the houses but while he was robbing his second house he saw Humpty sitting on top of a big brick wall. Foxy could not control himself so he had to push Humpty off the wall, so he did!

After Humpty fell and splattered into pieces Foxy cooked him and turned it to scrambled eggs and shared it with himself because he was also known as the greedy sneaky Fox. After that day the egg FBI were trying to find the the person who killed Humpty dumpty, they traced the egg stains then scanned some hand prints and footprints. The handprints were fox prints so they had to enter Foxburg to ask every fox in the city questions.

While the egg FBI were asking innocent fox’s questions Foxy was telling his best friend Phoebe what he had done, then foxy said “don't tell anyone”. but when the egg FBI came to Phoebe’s house Phoebe was getting nervous and started sweating and scratching and then…. “OK FOXY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET DID IT AND TOLD ME NOT TO TELL BUT I'M SCARED, PLEASE DON'T TAKE ME TO JAIL”. Then the FBI said “calm your tail we won't take you to jail you did nothing so i'm just going to take your friend Foxy to jail, now where does he live again”?

When the FBI went to Foxy’s house they smashed the door open and tackled foxy the put him in handcuffs. While they were taking foxy in to the police car egg reporters were trying to interview him, So he turned to a camera and said “I'll return.”

THE END

I am learning to use the structure of a narrative to write and entertain my reader/Audience

There goes the Billy Ra - by Kevin

Boom, Bang, Bop There Goes The Billy-Ba

In a magical world of twisty, roads, and loopy hills lived 2 Wiggies. Wiggies were the name of the people that lived in Willy Land. The first Wiggy were named Wiggy 1 & Wiggy 2.

Both shared one truck filled with all their favourite things, but the one thing that  they loved most was the Billy-Ba. The Billy-Ba, is a trophy that they both worked together to win. in the Willy Olympics. They won it by eating the most hot dogs in 1 minute. They ate 999 hot dogs, the recent record was 997, they were so fortunate to win just by 2 hot dogs.

One same magical day, the 2 Wiggies went on a road trip over the loopy hills and on the twisty road. Where they're going will be a place you’ll never believe. A place full of...

laughter, fun, joy and all the positive things you could think of. Wiggy 1 and Wiggy 2 were so happy they’d reached their place of cuddles. Both had so much fun playing, on the wiggity swings, and the bangity sea saws. Night was hovering in, it was time to go home. They packed their possessions and belongings up and jumped into their truck.

On their way home they went face to face with bumpy bridge. They heard legends about this bridge. Wiggy 1 said to Wiggy 2 “Legends say that whoever puts a single step on the bridge will be launched into the air and fall to the Zigzag river”. They were so scared that they wanted to cross the bridge in a hurry, so Wiggy 1 pushed on the accelerator and went on full speed. A split second later they didn’t see a big, tall, steel pole, so they headed straight for it. Boom, Bang, Bop there goes the Billy-Ba.

The Wiggie’s trophy flew out of the window and fell into the river. “Noooooooo” said the wiggies. Wiggy 1 and 2 were so heartbroken and went home with tears flooding their truck.

When they got to their house, their faces were so red from crying and inside their feelings were so blue. Wiggy 1 and Wiggy 2 couldn’t get over it. The Billy-Ba again was never found again.

Alien Invasion by Isaac

Alien Invasion

This Writing was influenced by the movie “Robot Overlords”!

The Survival 

 Humankind as we knew it was gone. It has been five years, since the aliens of Glomatron has taken over our world. The resistance of our’s are dying of hunger and thirst. We have no food to feed our young ones and our hunter’s haven’t been back for one week. Run!!! The Aliens ran and destroyed the camp site and cornered all our people, than random shots came from the forest “ BA BA BA” the shots came and went, we looked around to see that the aliens were dead on the ground.

 The Separation 

 We had found a new place to stay it's a big big warehouse, we drew our weapons as we walked into the warehouse, Next thing we know we were tied down onto poles bigger than a whole mini cooper. Guns to our heads and shouting “Who are you” we told them who we were and asked who they were, I call them “ THE RESISTANCE” we joined them because a team always wins. The shakes started, the ground shaked and the building that we were in broke down then I looked around to see myself separated.

 By Myself

 Day by Day I tried to find to a way to get to the other side it was too hard, I left to the police station which had been abandoned after the first attack from the Aliens.On the way there I saw a alien that was waiting for something to eat. At first I thought it was dead until it grabbed my leg, I kicked it off ran to the gun stack got the first gun that I saw and shot it. I found a big bag which I put rifles, shotguns and snipers into.

 The Alliance 

 I found an car which had been abandoned in a car park with food and drinks drove it until I found our group again, they hopped into the van we left into the forest where we found another camp with other people. They decided that we should make an alliance so we did. They were making a plan to enter the mothership of the alien’s so it would be over.

 Our freedom 

The plan was finalized, we chose the people who were going into the ship.We were inside when we saw people captured, locked behind bar, asking and shouting to be set free.We took the people with us to help. We left into the centre of the mothership with a bomb that tyreese( A Resistor) had built. Once the bomb was timed we noticed it had only one minute to until it exploded. we jump off the ship falling into water from high ground. We saw smoke as we came up, the ship had exploded and the people that were left were free.

Chimera - Mythical creature - byGabby

Chimera - Mythical creature

In Room 8, we made a presentation about mythical creatures and their appearances. Our presentation is linked to the mysterious eel that lived in the lake near Mt.Darius in the book; 'Lake of the Dead'.

Do you like Fruit and Vegetables - By Launoa

We are learning to identify, name and group a range of vegetables and fruit, as part of our 5 + a day focus.

Manaiakalani Film Festival: Room 8 at MERC

SPS_Dines_Room 8 at MERC 2015 from Manaiakalani Film Festival on Vimeo.

This year we had our camp at Merc Longbay. We learnt new skills found our limits and pushed past them. It was a Challenging opportunity we would never forget.