Napier earthquake 1931

This is Storm's 'Telling the Tale' of a School Journal story about the Napier Earthquake.

The Grebigol

Check out Meg's fantastic poem based on the story about 'The Grebigol'

Eoraptor Family

All About Whales

The Velodrome Trip

When we went to the Velodrome we had to choose the right size bikes. We all choose the blue bikes. The coach told us to bike on the blue line, that was as easy as ABC well that’s what I thought. Later on Poppy was speeding at a high limit. I tried to speed but bang Poppy crashed into me. I was OK but Poppy was smashed up like a blown up car. Poppy stopped biking so it was just me and Logan. We kept biking and the coach said to go on to the black line but I couldn’t do it so the coach told me I would have to use speed and when I did I was shooting like a rocket blasting off into space and I moved on to the red line and finished my journey later.

By Jahdan
Year 6

Jarhead

We have been identifying the key words in news articles and using these key words to write our own reports. The interactive whiteboard is great for highlighting keywords!

The six months old black bear cub called Jarhead is now free from the plastic container that was stuck on its head for 10 days after digging through rubbish. They had to tranquilize the mother so they could remove the container from the cubs head. It was impossible for the cub to eat or drink. Then the bears were moved to a less populated area.

By Logan
Year 7

Explanation Writing - The Water Cycle

The water cycle starts off when the lakes, rivers or sea gets evaporated. Tiny specs of water that you can’t even see float up. This is called evaporation. They are called water molecules that form a cloud. When the cloud gets full and heavier it lets stuff out. It can let out snow, hail, rain and sleet. All of them make runoffs, rivers and ground water. They go back into the sea and the water cycle starts again.

By Timu
Year 4

Explanation Writing - The Water Cycle

This is how the water cycle works. The sun evaporates the water from the sea. The molecules turn into clouds. When the clouds have too much water then it turns into rain. Then it goes into ponds, lakes and sea and starts all over again.

By Leeym
Year 3

Conservation Week Trip

Explanation Writing - The Water Cycle

This is how the water cycle works. First the molecules evaporate from the sea. After that they start to join together and make clouds which precipitate snow, rain, hail or sleet depending on the temperature. This falls into the sea, rivers, lakes or soaks into ground water. Then it does it all over again.
By Billy
Year 3

Explanation Writing - The Water Cycle

This is how the hydrosphere goes round. First water molecules get evaporated by the sun and turn to gas. The water molecules source is the sea, lakes or rivers. As the molecules get higher they bunch together and form a cloud. When the clouds get too full the water molecules come out as rain, snow, sleet or hail. This is known as precipitation. Infiltration is when the rain goes into the ground. This water is called ground water and can stay in the ground for few days to thousands of years. Sometimes when it rains heavily the rain goes over cliffs by rivers, lakes or the sea. This is called run off. All the water is returned to the sea so it can repeat its process.
By Sophie
Year 4

Explanation Writing - Earthquakes

This is my explanation of how earthquakes are formed.

The Earth has a dozen tectonic and many smaller plates floating on the mantle. The Earth has 4 layers the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. The inner core is as hot as the surface of the sun.

Firstly the plates slide into, skim past, over top of each other or bump each other. They form three types of waves. P waves or primary waves are the fastest waves, they are the first to be felt. S waves or secondary waves are the second fastest waves, they can go horizontally or vertically. Surface waves are the slowest but the most deadly. They are the waves that can knock over buildings. Surface waves roll across the ground.

A seismograph is an instrument that measures the force of an earthquake, it writes on a seismogram. A seismogram is a piece of paper. If the earthquake is small the seismograph writes small zigzags, if the earthquake is big the seismograph writes big zigzags.

Just always remember that earthquakes are super powerful.

By Poppy
Year 7

Explanation Writing - Earthquakes

I'm going to tell you how an earthquake works. On the Earth's surface there are a dozen plates that move around the world. The Earth has different layers called the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. The Earth's plates can move apart, towards and horizontally past each other. When the plates smash together the plates trigger an earthquake. P waves are the fastest and first waves to detect. S waves are the second waves they go towards sound and thirdly surface waves they run across the ground. They are the slowest and most dangerous. Now that's how an earthquake occurs.

By Marley
Year 4

Conservation Week Trip

We are super lucky to have DoC take us on awesome trips like this one to Maori Beach to celebrate Conservation Week 2010. Love NZ!