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Happy ANZAC day

Happy ANZAC day everyone!!!! Today is ANZAC day and that's when everyone has a long weekend to remember the soldiers who had risk their lives in the war to save our country. Today is also the 100th year since WW1 ( world war one) happened. A lot of people usually go to the dawn parade held at the Auckland museum, the dawn parade starts at 3:00 or 4:00am. 

At the dawn parade there are lots of poppies and crosses that have most of the soldiers names on them, if the people can't identify the soldier it would say Known By God. Our school has a little box filled with grass and has a crosses with the name of the soldiers that used to live around our area. I think 30 crosses have names and one has Known By God, In the front there is a bigger cross that has some words on it with a poppy next to it. 

On one of the walls of our school we have a painting of a poppy and then a soldier carrying a hurt soldier, it was painted by our associate principal Mr Jacobson. It looks really cool. He spent a whole school day painting the wall because it was a really big painting to. 

The reason why we have poppies for ANZAC is because a lot of the soldiers died on a field and a lot of poppies grew out of the grass, the field is called Flanders field. 

Zeal Zone Soldiers

This is what we had to learn about in my Zeal Zone group. First we had to make a slide about the soldier and what weapons and other stuff they needed. Later on we then had to make up a chant that has 5 facts about WW1.

ANZAC letter ( Not real letter)

Here is my made up letter for my follow up this week. I am asking the girl's grandfather in the story about how it was taking part in the war.

2015 Polyfest highlights

Intro: Yesterday morning the students, teachers and parent helpers of team 5 traveled on a bus to Manakau for the 2015 Poly-fest. All of team 5 had to transport there using 4 buses because there was a lot of students. Once we were all on the bus it was time to go, YAY!

As we arrived it was time to get off so everyone said “Thank you” to the bus driver and walked off. While we were waiting in a long queue the security guards were checking the other school’s bags. When it was our turn they didn't check our bags because Mrs Tele’a rung them up and asked if we didn't have to have our bags checked.

My first favorite thing about poly-fest was taking photo’s with Flava & Mai FM because they were really cool and I love both of their radio stations. Our first photo was with Flava, for our photo we had to get into groups of 5. After we took the photos with lava one of the guys printed 1 photo for us. When we took a photo with Mai FM they just told us to hold up a Mai FM sign and then take a selfie, that was really fun.

The second thing I enjoyed was seeing John Key the prime minister of New Zealand. He was only there for a couple minutes and then he left into the big ASB yellow cube. When John Key came all of the cameras were in the way so we couldn’t really see him properly.  

My last thing I enjoyed was learning about AUT ( Auckland University Technology) they were talking about game making. 3D printers was another thing they were talking about it was really cool watching a movie about them. We also got to see and hold some of their creations with a 3d printer.

I had so much fun at the poly-fest and it was also my first time going there so it was a great experience. Thank you to all of the parent helpers that came to the poly-fest with us, because you missed a day of work for our trip.

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Blog profile 2015

Kia Ora my name is Brooklyn I am 10 turning 11, I go to Pt England school and this year I am a year 7 which means i’m in intermediate. My home class is room 3 and our teacher is Mrs Tele’a. I have a little brother named Orlando he is really cute. My hobbies are cheer leading, hanging out with my friends, going to the beach and playing with  Orlando. some of my favorite food are McDonald's, chocolate flavored foods and juices or moosies.