Italy beats Russia

First game in Nelson

Last night was the first game in Nelson, for the Rugby World Cup.

The roads were closed and the streets were packed with cars and the roads were full of people, they were everywhere.

The kick off was at 7.30, I could hear them cheering from my house, we were checking the updates on the computer every time we heard a great big cheer from the crowd.

The score was 53-17. Italy scored 53 and Russia scored 17. I was hoping Italy would win, and they did.

By Alex D

21.8.11

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Rugby Figures in Daffodils

This morning our class put our rugby players out in the daffodils. Grandad Steven came to help us, he hammered them into the ground, because we found we couldn't reach the top of the stakes! We spread them out in their teams. Russia with Italy and USA with Australia. People going past hooted and waved. They look wonderful in the daffodils. Judi took photos of us with our rugby players.
Lucy Isle Mahe. 9

This is our kiwi running with the World

Rugby Cup.. Go the All Black!! Samantha

Typing Buddies

We taught Trafalgar Room Kids how to get on their blog and post a comment. I did the typing and Conroy watched my fingers, then he had a go at making a comment. I had to help him but he was quite good. I'm still on Level 1 typing skills but I'm getting up there. Quentin Williams. 8

Burnese, the Captain Cooker piglet

The rescue of Burnese the pig.

Burnese was rescued by Jayden and the people that work with Steve. Burnese and her siblings were in a controlled burn off, the other siblings died and the sow ran away. After they had caught the little piglet, she was kept a backpack for the rest of the day by one of the workers. Burnese was found in Dart Valley, the men thought the sow had 5 or 6 piglets. She was the runt of her litter. Burnese is a captain cooker pig. She has black fur and a little straight tail. She will live with Matt until she is old enough to live on a farm that belongs to one of the workers that works with Steve.

I want a pig to raise, they are really cute when they are little. Jasmyn

Jayden rescued Miss Burnese in a burn off. The other piglets ran away. Five piglets were dead in the burn off. Jayden saved Miss Burnese. Steve burned off space to plant trees in the forest. The burn off was at Dart Valley, it is near Motueka. Jayden put the little piglet in his backpack, and at the end of the day he gave it to Steve (Matt’s dad) to look after.
Miss Burnese is living with Matt and when she is older she will go and live on a farm. If Jayden hadn’t found her she might have died. Quentin

Steve is the forestry contractor. Steve lit a controlled fire nearby where there was a group of piglets. Most of the piglets were killed in the fire. After the fire burn off. Jayden, a man, went over the hills. Suddenly a piglet came running out and Jayden ran after it and caught it. He put it in his backpack for the whole day. When Jayden saw Steve, he gave him the pig.
So he took it home for Matt and Katherine to look after. It was a lucky pig. Dylan

A little piglet was rescued by Jayden from a controlled burn off. Jayden put the piglet in his bag for the rest of the day. After work Jayden went to Steve and gave him the piglet. When Steve got home he said to Matt “Here’s a piglet you have to look after.” Two weeks after Katharine named the piglet, Burnese. Burnese is small and black. She is really fluffy and she has a little straight tail. She will go to a farm when she’s older.
She is a really cute Piglet. Paige

We found this great story, which is based on emails, (it's a true story) in our School Junior Journal, 42. We read it to our buddies and Samantha and Jasmyn read it to the class. Ebony Beani, is a little Captain Cooker, just like Burnese.

Wednesday Night's Show

We met at school at 6.30 pm on Wednesday night in the school hall. Everyone was ready for the first show. Auckland Point is doing 2 shows.
We walked over to the Trafalgar Centre and we went on the the stage. We sang lots and lots of songs like Eye of tiger and lots of others. Our favourite is the Bad Hair Day, that was when we put on our wigs. We look wicked with our wigs on. John Philips looked great in his purple wig. We all sang well, so our teacher was giving us the good eye and the thumbs up. We looked really good in our wigs, which were all colours. Matt is wearing a green wig.
In the middle of the show some Samoan kids came out and did a dance, they had oil on them and one of them had a tatoo on his back. They were really funny when they suddenly did Dancing Queen in the middle of their Samoan dance. It was a very late night but we get to come late on Friday morning. We really enjoyed singing on the stage.
Written by Year 4 and typed by Jack T

Special Spanish Guest

Dyanira brought a special Spainish guest to visit Auckland Point School. Belqui is from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. She is a teacher and is here in NZ to learn more English. She may come back to teach in our classroom. We hope so.

Mystery vegetable grown by St Vincent Room Kids

On Wednesday we pulled out a big plant from our vegetable garden.
What is it? Can you guess?
I think it is an big big big redbeet. Victoria thinks it is an radish. Do You know what it is?
If you do, can you leave a comment about what you think it is.

By Jack Thompson Age 8 (but 9 in september)

Rock da House

Today we crossed the road to Trafalgar Centre for our first practice of Rock da House. Lots of schools who are going to be part of Wednesday night's concert were there. We all wore our wigs for Bad Hair Day.