Zach the Soccer star

I got one of these awards last year and one this year for Soccer.
By Zachary

Krypton Factor by Dean & Sarah

Two teams from Summerland took part in the annual Krypton Factor competition. After each activity we were able to eat and relax. We enjoyed the relaxing part. The activities included shooting basketballs, finding place names on a map of NZ, putting a large jigsaw together, general knowledge and a memory game.

We had to work as a team and encourage each other. We also encouraged other schools even when we were competing against them.

We were really excited when we found we had won the huge cup. We were stunned into silence then erupted into a huge cheer. We would like to thank Miss Davies, our parents and all the teachers who came to support us. We really had a great, exciting day!

** This was an article featured in our Summerland Newsletter written by Dean and Sarah - great work guys!




Tumeke 12 were lucky to have 2 students as part of the winning team! We were so proud of all the students that competed, especially our own students! A BIG thanks to Miss Davies for coaching and organising the teams!

Room 12's Monarch Butterfly

We have been very lucky to have been able to watch caterpillars and Monarch Butterfly's around our classroom as Hollie's Mum brought us a swan plant. We had some big caterpillars that we thought would turn into a chrysalis. But we came back after the weekend and they had disappeared! We were very disappointed.

But on Monday Miss S. brought the swan plant inside the classroom. When we moved the pot we discovered a chrysalis hanging on the side of our pot! We were VERY excited to see it there. We watched and waited for it to hatch... and it did on Wednesday! Here is a movie of our butterfly trying out her new long legs and wings.

Butterfly Photos

Photos taken by Zanobia, Zach and Miss S.

Zach's James & The Giant Peach Quiz

Mysterious White Box By Megan

One really boring and rainy day Miss Signal walked in with a really weird white box. The first thing I started to wonder was who is it from and who's it for I was so hoping it was for me! My brain starting buzzing and zapping and I really wanted to go open the box but then my buzzing and zapping went down because we're not allowed to open the box yet OH MAN!!!! I shouted to myself. Then we passed the mysterious box around the class to each of the big tables. I was so hoping for the box to come to my table, what!!!!I It didn't come to our table that's unbelievable! So I drooped down like a flower that hadn't had water in three weeks! Hollie (a girl in my class) had a chance to pick up the mysterious box but nobody else did. I wasn't that drooped about picking up the box. I really hope and I think that there will be something nice to send us off for the end of the year. I sort of annoyed because Miss Signal won't let us open the box till the end of the year! The wonderful End!=)

By Megan

Budulinek By Diana

Once there was a boy named Budulinek and his grandpa and grandma.  Every afternoon his grandpa and grandma went to the woods to get some wood for the fire. But Budulinek had to stay home. When he was eating his rice a mother fox came and whispered "if you let me eat your rice, I will let you have a ride on my tail Budulinek said he would like to but he would not open the door. The mother said "don't open the door , open the window. So he opened the window and mother fox jumped in and ate the rice. Then  she put Budulinek on her tail and took him to her hole.Budulinek was starting to cry, but mother fox said "I have two sons and you can play with them''. So Budulinek became happy and played with the kids all day, then began to cry again. Mother fox said "don't go out now its too dark " while the foxes and Budulinek were having their dinner, Budulinek's grandpa and grandma were looking for Budulinek. Then they got instruments and grandpa got a big bag. They sang a song. Then 1 little fox jumped out from the hole then another fox jumped out. Next the mother fox came to stop the noise. They caught mother fox and Budulinek was still in there, so they dug a hole and pulled Budulinek out. 

Zach's Moon Walk

The peach falling of the cliff by Levi

James And The Giant Peach Quiz By Jackie