Caterpillar Collage

Student of the week

It's a holdup

Just a couple of bandits on a gravel road, standing our ground, chanting our chant, as a huge army of horses rumbles like a hurricane towards us. The horses continue to come. My head is down so my hat covers my eyes. I raise my arm. Bam! I shoot a bullet. The horses rear and stop. My head is up. No cowgirl in the west was going to end my life when I have a taste for gold, and it is right in front of me.

Our fearless leader comes. She is on Thunder the horse. His hair is as white as snow and he is the worst horse in the west. Cass, our leader, has handcuffs that she has stolen from the sheriff. She handcuffs their leader,

“Get off, now!”’ demands Cass. She pick-pockets all of his money, as I go to the other 49 riders and raid all of their money. I also tie them up and give them to chief bandit Cass. She groups them all together with their chief. As we are doing that the other bandits whack the sides of the horses and they run away. We gather up all of the money in a hat. Just as we are about to count the money, we hear the sound of the sheriff.

“Hey cowgirl and cowboy bandits! Men, after them!”

I run. ‘Wait, I forgot  the money.’ I leap, grab it, and disappear into the bushes, just as the sheriff’s men swarm everywhere.

I find my gang and Cass whispers to me,

“That's the spirit, saving the money. Come on, let's count it and share it out,”

“1,999,  2,000…”

I’ve got more money than I could ever imagine.

welcome to 2018

Year 3 Academic Prize winner 2017

Annabelle's Speech 2017

Tree Planting at Waitahuna

Tree planting at Waitahuna

Room 4 and room 7 went tree planting at Waitahuna. We had a talk about keeping animals in the Waitahuna River safe. They had two stations an electric fishing and planting flaxes. First Room 4 went with a person named Glen and he told us how to plant the flax. We planted them around the river to help the eels to hide from predators in the Waitahuna River. The tree planting was fun because we got in different groups of three and started to plant trees while room 7 watched electric fishing. There were a lot of adults there so we got sent into groups of three with the adults and there were plants on the ground, so we just started doing the drill that we saw before. They had one thousand plants for us to plant. When it was almost time to swap over we had some morning tea.
Then we did the electric fishing with Keiran. First, he told us about his partner Angus then he showed us a long fin eel that he had caught that night with the traps in front of us. He also showed us some fish that you can only find in the Waitahuna River like the brown trout and the lamprey eel. The brown trout didn’t move much, but it did if we put our hands in. The lamprey eel really liked to move. Some people even touched it then he showed us how he got the long finned eel in this huge trap, which looked like a long net, with bait for the eels. Then he started talking about a machine that stunned the area so that they could catch the eels and try to explain to schools about how to help them. Then he showed us the machine he said stunned the water and tried to catch a fish but he couldn’t. He did stun an eel but couldn’t catch it. Keiran also said that he saw a trout. After that, we went to see a guy called Matt who talk to us like he did before. After his little talk, we went home to Lawrence.

By Annabelle