THE JEALOUS GIRL

      A JEALOUS GIRL

Once upon a medieval time in a village called Astley, 

 Lord Robert’s daughter Julia clever,brave but stubborn was in her chamber muttering to herself ‘I want to complete in the royal jousting competition but dad or if you prefer Lord Robert won’t let me

he shouted only strong and brave boy’s only or some-thing like that.

He shouted ‘lady like girls aren’t strong enough’ Not totally true.

Meanwhile confident Timothy,brave Julia’s best friend arrived and

Of course brave Julia shared her problem and asked for confident 

Timothy’s thought and he agreed with brave Julia, s they both were scheming a plan.

So it was the day of the of the jousting competition 

confident Timothy entered and was putting his shiny armour on when brave Julia came in and whispered ‘are ready I brought the girly make-up’ So with a puff of powder there and some lipstick there confident Timothy really looked sick.

Confident Timothy had no intention of competing, hoped into bed and acted sick,Brave Julia got on confident Timothy’s shiny armour and when his mum came in and saw how he looked sick, She said ‘you are forbidden to compete in the jousting competition you are to sick’

Confident Timothy said ‘who will take my place’ then brave Julia came in and yelled ‘I will’ but confident Timothy’s mum was didn’t know it was her because brave Julia wearing a wig. 

Confident Timothy’s mum agreed and left the room. ‘So Julia’ said Timothy ‘good luck and how are you getting away from your crazy aunt Odellia and your father’ said confident Timothy?‘Crazy aunt Odellia is sleeping and dad is out hunting’ replied brave Julia ‘O.k well bye’ said Timothy!

Brave Julia arrived at the arena and noticed her opponent was LORD ROBERT HER OWN FATHER! ‘I thought...oh my...’ Then the speaker sounded 10 minutes left till round . Meanwhile back at the chamber confident Timothy sneaked out to watch  brave Julia was upon her royal steed and then the sign went to joust brave Julia was as fat as a rocket but her dad was faster all of a sudden CRASH!!!  Julia was knocked off her royal steed her shining armour for her head fell off and so did herichy wig her special father saw and rushed to her side and so did warm hearted Timothy. Brave Julia looked up and spoke the gentle words I’m sorry dad.

The next thing is so sad so I’m not gonna give it a dramatic effect, all I’m gonna say is she died.

               THE END

by the marvelous Jayden Ham

its been along time since i went on this blog i kinda miss the 2008 class but my class now rox out loud but theres been a couple problems but there all gone=)



miss you guys lots



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New Gear, Old Problems

Hello everybody.
The new school year started this week on Wednesday. The senior school has relatively big classes this year, with 30 students in Pod 9.
While I would love to have the class put their first posts up on a blog, this is currently impossible due to a new computer system being installed at Hurupaki School. However, our new Airports are yet to arrive in New Zealand, and so we don't have any internet access in classes.
As you can imagine, this has been rather frustrating for the students and teachers alike. Hopefully we will be back online asap.
By the way, I have set up a wiki for Pod 9 this year with individual students having their own pages. I'm hoping that they will take ownership of their sites, posting their work here in the future. Watch this space. Just click on the wikispaces icon below for find it, even though there's nothing really there yet....
Hope to hear from you all soon.

The Summer Break

Hello to everybody out there. I hope that you're having a great break from school, and that Santa was good to you this year.
Just to let you know that this blog will be going off line sometime near the end of the holidays, perhaps the 28th or 29th of January. Until then you are of course welcome to use it as you have in the past.
If you have any comments or opinions about the blog and how we have used it, please leave a comment. I would really like to know how it could be improved on for the future.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays - they will be over before you know it!
Mr B.

Merry Christmas

Hello pod 9,
Just wanted to say I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and I hope you all will have a safe Christmas too. I going to tell you what Im doing for Christmas because Im really excited and I really have to tell some one so what Im doing is going to the beach with my family and we are going to have a christmas lunch there and my poppy is going to bring his boat and we are going to buy a hotdog or a buscuit (not the foodthe sea toys) and weare going to have so much fun.Well Merry Christmas and have a happy 2009 oh wait I almost forgot good luck for the year 6's that are going to intermedit (however you spell it) have fun and tell me year 5 and6's what class you are going in. Bye

Street Art

During this final term of 2008, our topic for art has been street art. The key concepts that we have been exploring have been:

1. The use of modern fonts over traditional fonts,
2. The contrast of using cold colours and hot coulurs, and
3. The use of space, and in particular the layering, or overlapping of letters in words.

Every student in Pod 9 made their work based around a fruit. Their work has been compiled into this slideshow. They worked really hard to achieve these results, and I feel these photos do not provide the same effect as seeing the works in real life, so to speak.

I think you'll see the quality that everybody strived for during this learning.
Enjoy.




Mr B.

Theme

This is our theme work about falling and sinking

Falling and sinking are the same because....

-both involve objects being pulled by gravity.

-both can be reduced by making things wider and flatter in shape.

Falling and sinking are different because....

-objects fall through air and sink through liquid.

-falling is faster than sinking because liquid is thicker than air.

-some objects that fall, don't sink.

We made tin foil boats to make rocks float.

The best designs that held the most weight were the ones that had the largest areas and had high sides. The high sides stopped the water getting in and the large areas stopped the shapes falling through the water.

Hurupaki Tapuwae Champions

Today Pod 9 and Pod 10 played the final of the Hurupaki Senior School Tapuwae competition. It was a very tight battle, with some very long periods of play without goals being scored.

In the end Pod 9 came out on top by a score of 18-15. Both teams played exceptionally well and can be proud of the way that they played - hard but fair. Pod 7 finished third, and Pod 8 fourth.

On the whole, I think the competition has been a success and I intend to run similiar competitions next year.

Hopefully we will have photos of the "trophy presentation" next week, depending on when it will be held.

Mr B.

Gravity

The force of gravity is constant, all objects fall at the same rate.

Fair testing

A fair test is when all conditions are exactly the same for both tests.

Things we used for tests ...

-Blue shot put

-Green shot put

-Red petanque ball

-Green hockey ball

-Brown hockey ball

-Tennis ball

-Green petanque ball

-Sponge

-Foam softball

In all fair tests, the objects landed at the same time. This means that the force of gravity IS constant. All objects fall at the same rate!!!!

That is what we learned about gravity yesterday ... so we'll post some more tomorrow.

Elmoluva

slowest to fall fastest to fall

The flat paper fell slowly because it had the most area hitting the air. The air stopped the paper from falling.

The streamlined paper fell quickly because the air only hit a small area of the paper. The air could not push the paper.

What do we know about Gravity?

Yesterday the class watched some videos about skydiving and the use of parachutes and discussed how and why things fall or sink. We had used a bus stop activity to explore some ideas about gravity and air. There were 7 statements written on card that each individual had to decide was true or false.

Some of the statements were "Air can push against things", "When an object is floating, it is not falling", and "We can speed up or slow down the rate at which an object falls through the air." Some of the results were very interesting.









Click on the pictures to get a better look at them.
At the end of our unit, we will revisit these and see if our opinions have changed at all.

Cheyenne's Xmas Presentation

Here is Cheyenne's presentation about Xmas. She made it for her homework last week.
Each slide will show for 4 seconds, so you will need to pause the video to read all of the writing on some of the slides. Sorry that it's a bit hard to read in places.

Recently...

Hi Bronte, and everybody else.
We have been very busy lately, and have been doing lots of different things. Unfortunately, we have not had the cow lately, so have not been able to make some posts on the blog. We should put something up this or maybe next week.
In art, we have been making some street art, which I will take photos of and post next week hopefully. We also designed a new logo for the school. I wonder if anybody from Pod 9 will win the school-wide competition. Hope so.
Did you know that next Friday (5th Dec) is National Jandal Day. This is to raise money for Surf Lifesaving NZ. We're going to have a competition at school, where you can win a battery powered motorboat.
Pod 9 won their Tapuwae semi-final yesterday against Pod 7 and will play either Pod 8 or Pod 10 in the final next week.
As for me (Mr B), I'm spend these 2 days at this year's TechQuest at Forum North. I'm taking a workshop on podcasting. I must say that I'm very impressed with what the students have been able to do. I'm sure the kids back at school would love to see the results.
Until next time, be safe.
Mr Buckland.

Hi everyone it is me Bronte again,
Just seeing how you all are.Well did you see Victoria in the news paper. well Vicki you look great. Have you guys been doing anything fun? well if you have let me know because I really want to know what you have done . Ok?Well better go and get my dinner. later ;-)

Hi everyone
Just seeing how you guys are, have you been doing any thing interesting? Well today we did word wall art if you are wondering what that is, when you get a tile a small one or you can use a big one and you need some paper tissue p.v.a glue and you use ribbons and you need to use rub on words like little sayings and what you do you get a picture hook and you hot glue gun it on the back. Then when you have done that you put p.v.a glue on the top of the tile and put the tussie paper on the tile and lightly push it down and press the air bubbles out then glue the tussie paper around the edges then you can decorate it with ribbon and stickers and whatever other stuff you want on it then you get a hair dryer and dry the glue then when the glue drys rub the little saying or word on that you want on it then that is pretty much it well better go.