Calendars

As of Monday, Calendar art will be in the office for you to order. The art can be made into calendars, cards or diaries. This year the children have made a photo collage of their year in Room 9, with photos of different activities they have been involved with.

Hope you enjoy them.

Ship Diary

We have been learning a lot about what it was like when the first ships came from England to New Zealand. We have been looking at the diary of Jessie Jenkin's who was on board the Lord Auckland on the voyage to NZ in 1841-42.

We have start our own diary, pretending that we are on the ship travelling to NZ.

Here is Zoe's first entry from her diary.

Today is Tuesday and I am about to go on a boat to sail to Nelson in New Zealand, for 5 and 1/2 months. I have no idea what Nelson is going to be like.

Boys College

For the past 2 Fridays, a class of year 12's for Boys College, have been coming down to teach Room 9, 10 and 13 P.E. We have been learning heaps of new skills and have been having a lot of fun.

Port Nelson Ahoy!

On Tuesday, Room 9 went to the Nelson Museum to the Port Nelson Haven Exhibition about the first ship from England to Nelson. The upstairs in the Museum had been turned into a ship. We got to get dressed up even Miss Dippie, Mr Mitchell (our Student Teacher) and all our parents who came to help. We learnt how to tie reef knot and hoist a sail. We saw where they had to live. Some of the passengers had to share their bed with their whole family! We had lots of fun. We are going to read a diary of one of the passengers in class. Here are some photos of use dressed up at the museum.