Timetable DLO | Emil

Chess Club | Emil

Chess Club

In our school we have a chess club. We practise every Thursday at lunch time but we can practise basically whenever we want. Recently there's been a chess tournament however, I didn't go to it because I don't think I'm ready. There will be another tournament in term three which I think I'll try and go to. The chess club doesn't just exist in our school. The are chess clubs all over the West Coast and probably also in places such as Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. If you don't already play chess then I reckon you should give it a go because it's really fun!

Camp 2019 Hanmer | Emil

Hanmer Camp 2019

On the 20th of the 5th 2019 me, my class and the class that's next door went on a camp to Hanmer Springs. The camp we stayed at was named Hanmer Springs Forest Camp and they did all sorts of activities such as tree climbing, orienteering and mountain biking. Every night we were there (which was two) we went to the hot pools for at least one and a half hours. I think the best thing we did was the mountain biking because it was really fun speeding around on the tracks. I also found the tree climbing and orienteering really fun as well. 

We also did Conical Hill walk which was amazing. Once we finished the Conical Hill walk we went to a lolly shop in Hanmer.  The last thing my group did was do this cemetery study at the Hanmer springs cemetery. We had to find things such as who was the youngest and oldest people buried there. After the cemetery study we went on a walk that had these wood carvings and sculptures all along the track which was quite impressive.

I really enjoyed this camp and I think it's the best camp I've ever been on.

  

Myths And Legends | Emil

Book Week 2019 | Emil

Book Week

Book week is a week based around books and includes the entire school. For example, one of the activities we did this year for book week was, every day there was a golden ticket hidden around the school and who ever found it got a prize. Every book week there's a day (in this case Thursday) where you can dress up as a character from any book. This year I was Hagrid from the Harry Potter series.

Every year for book week all the classes have to theme and decorate their door based around a book. This year we based our door around the platform 9 and 3/4 from Harry Potter. Another one of the activities is every day this week there's been a section of a book read out over the speaker by a teacher and you have to try and guess what the book is and who the person that's reading it is. I think book week is really fun and that the school should continue doing it.

Weekend Sport | Emil

Weekend Sport

This weekend will be the very first soccer game this season. Our team plays for Grey Main and we're in the under 13's. The grades go from under sixes to the over 13's (or mens.) Our first game is on Sunday this weekend in Hokitika. I think we have quite a good team this season and that we'll do really well. This time a lot of the players that are playing are actually from Grey Main. I'm really looking forward to this season of soccer.