Narrative about Life In Auckland vs Syria

I dragged myself out of bed and got ready to go to school. Before I went to school, I had brushed my teeth, washed my face, got changed and made my lunch. After all of that I jumped in the car and was on my way to school. I was awaken by a gust of cold air. Our house didn’t have any insulation so our house was always cold. Goose bumps covered my body. I heard gunshots and people screaming in horror. This happened everyday, but there was nothing I could do about it. Staying in bed until it was over was what I decided to do. At lunchtime we ate our lunch and went outside to play, enjoying the sunshine. I could hear sounds of happiness and people laughing. It was also a good time to catch up with friends. It was now lunchtime and my stomach was grumbling and growling like tigers. The only thing that was going through my mind was the thought of food and what my mum and siblings were eating. Or if they were eating. “Why did life have to be so hard” I thought to myself?

I got dressed into my pajamas and jumped into my warm cozy bed.” Goodnight” my Mum whispered after closing the door. I said a little prayer and then shut my eyes. Today had been a great day and I was so thankful to have such a great life. Night had fallen. I had nowhere to sleep because so many people lived in our house. The only place free was by the door that had fallen down. The last time I slept there I felt like I was in a freezer. I moved closer towards my mother and used her body heat to keep me warm. Tonight would be another sleepless night, just like every other night in Syria.

Year 8's

Sadly this term will be the last term for the year.Which also means this is the last term for me, and all the other year 8s because we will be going to college next year.I have been at Pt England ever since I was 5. I am now 13.

One of the reason's im sad to leave is because we will be leaving our teachers and also our friends. Pt England Is an amazing school and it will be hard to say goodbye to everyone. Hopefully college will be as loving and as caring as this school.

We only have about 9 weeks until l this term is finished.

Next year I am going to Epsom girls.Also no one from Pt England is going to Epsom so it will be a change having no one that you know going with you. Which makes me even more scared going to college.

So for now GOODBYE PT ENGLAND!

D.L.O Reflection

Brooklyn & Ash DLO from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

For our DLO we made a movie about Princess Diana’s Death.The purpose of making this movie was to inform people about  how Princess Diana died. We got into a group of 3. I was with Huelo Ata and Brooklyn.

What did we do well?

The things we did well was that we finished the movie on time.

What could I do better next time?

We should’ve but in a photo of princess Diana because there was no photo of her. The news background was too babyish. Also Huelo-ata was talking while I was talking in the small picture

Because we finished on time we got the opportunity to fix up the movie and turn out negatives into positives.

I think it was a good experience because we found out a lot of information about Princess Diana.

Term 3 highlight

This term has gone very fast and there were heaps of fun memories. I have many highlights from this term. But my favourite would have to be about our dance crew Insanity, the production that is coming up,our netball shared lunch and basket training from kiwi sport.

Our netball shared lunch was celebrated with our other 12 netball teams.We got together in the hall and sat down in our team lines.We also had to sing a song to get food. We joined up with year 8 team 2. We sang Dora The Explorer. There were 4 tables full of food.It was delicious.

My next highlight is our dance insanity. It is a dance crew made up by us year 8’s, and we are performing in the school production 60’s The Quest. We are dancing to freeze-Chris Brown and Tpain, Turn up the music-Chris Brown and Kiss Kiss by Tpain and Chris Brown.

This term has being heaps of fun. It has flown by fast and I can’t wait to start next term.

Technology Routation

Every Tuesday and Thursday we(year 7 and 8s) get the opportunity to go down to Tamaki collage for Technology.We are focusing on 3 subjects Hard Materials, Food and Graphics. So far I have been in two rotations(Hard Materials and Graphics). The final rotation is my favourite Food!

For the first term I went to graphics. The graphics teacher name is Mr Nobel. We made posters and drew pictures. We also used a compass to help us draw perfect circles.

For the second rotation we made a necklace out of pewter. We had to make a template out of wood. Then cut it out. My template was a turtle and I was making it for my mum.After the pewter was poured into the template we had to file it and sandpaper it. Then the teacher Mr Grundy polished it for us.Then it was ready.


I think going to Tamaki college for technology is a good because we get to learn new things and use machinery.Its also helps us year 8's learn more since were going to college next year.

Cross Country

As we got to the court we saw everyone lined up in their age groups. We joined our age group, and waited. It was a beautiful day. The house captains were on the field cheering for their house. The house colours are Takitimu (yellow), Te Arawa (Red),Matatua(Green), Tainui (Blue).I'm in Takitimu. Each age group went up the the start line and were let go to run their race. Its started off with the 5 year olds all the way to the year 8s. Time went very fast when watched the other kids run.When it was our turn to run we lined up on the starting line. All I could think about was running and how long it would take.”On your mark get set err err “ was the sound off the siren. Then we were off. Everyone started sprinting and i didn’t want to start of being last so i just sprinted to. The hot blazing sun didn’t help it just made me feel really tired.The mud didn’t help it was slippery and muddy. We even had the choice of going through the mud slide that Miss Walters and Mrs King was standing by and taking photos. There we all massive puddles full of water as we got further down the track. We had to do 2 laps.

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