Sod turning special event in our school

Hello! My name is Fraser and I am going to tell you about the special event that occurred at my school.

Today we had a sod turning event at Glenbrae School. Nick Smith who is the Minister of both Housing and Conservation and Len Brown, the Mayor of Auckland was there to to do the sod turning with Nick Smith and Matua Jim.

First we had sausages and juice to drink.Then Hannah volunteered to do a Samoan dance to entertain the adults and the parents who came to our school even our guests.

After the bell rang, we had to go inside and put our bags away.Then we had to line up and go back down into hall and we had to sing, ‘E tasi ae lasi.We were singing loud and then we had to sit down

Matua did a speech and we all clapped at the end of his speech.After Matua Jim was Mr Afi, Bono’s grandpa he did a speech in Niuean. It was long.

When we finished our Powhiri we went outside and lined up in a semicircle then Matua Jim blessed the land.Then they started the sod turning.After the sod turning everyone went and high fived Len Brown.

Lastly the bell went and we had to go back to class. It was fun at the sod turning seeing the politicians and the Mayor of Auckland in our school.

Glasgow 2014

The Crusaders reading group are busy researching the Glasgow games. They are looking for information about what the Commonwealth is? Which countries are part of the Commknwealth and also analysing the results of the Commonweatlh games for 2014 which was held in Glasgow Scotland. 

Watch this space for their findings which will be posted this week. 

Life on Desert Road

This week I read a story called Life on Desert Road. It is about a road in the North Island which is near Tongariro National Park. I also read the biggest eruption in New Zealand created Lake Taupo near Desert Road. 

Desert Road has not houses near it so if you break down you have to wait a long time for help to come. 

By Tamati

All about me

Hi my name is Dasharn. I go to Glenbrae school it is in Glen Innes Leybourne Circle.  I have five siblings they are Santana, Shaelyn, Tama, Kyana and Noah. We live in Glen Innes in Epping Street. My parents are Crystal and Darren.

My mum lives in Glendowie on Overlea Road. My mum’s family lives out in West Auckland and my mum’s mum's name is Sonya. My dad's mum is Annabelle. She has five kids and my other nan has five as well. Soon my mum's family are moving to Gisborne. 

Going to the Auckland Museum to learn

On Monday the 28th of July 2014, Glenbrae went to the museum on a green school bus. First we had to go to the hall to get ready to go to the bus. After 30 minutes the bus came and Room 8 and Room 10 went first to the first bus and then after 2 minutes Room 7 and Room 9 went to the bus.

When we arrived at the museum we went in and we sat down because the teachers said we had to sit down. After 12 minutes we went upstairs and we learnt about how volcanoes can erupt, like lava flows, explosion volcanoes and one more that I forgot.

At the museum we learnt that they are a 165 volcanoes in New Zealand.

After 30 minutes of learning about volcanoes we had free time to see what we wanted to see. After 1 hr it was morning tea, after morning tea we went to see the 1866 town and we loved it.

After 10 minutes at the 1866 town we went to the earthquake

volcano house we waited for 7 minutes and then we saw some steam rising from the water and it started shaking and erupting

some people thought it was real and some people were scared

like some of the other girls.

After 2 hours it was lunch time we ate and then we went to see the Pacific section for 50 minutes. After 40 minutes it was home time when we started going people saw heaps of money in a donation money box and somebody got $100. I enjoyed going to the museum because we learnt about new stuff.

By Samuel

Welcome to Term 3

Today Monday 21 July our hall was once again alive with the many students of Glenbrae School gathering for assembly. The assembly was exciting because the teachers shared what they brought about the topic study for this term 'Shake it up'. 

This term we will learn about volcanoes, earthquake and tsunamis. What a fun term it is going to be and next week we are off to the museum to learn about our topic. 

This week of Thursday we will also present what we learnt from our 'Making waves' topic. 

Exciting to be back at school.

Let's beat it

Here is a cool website with quizzes which will stimulate the brain and also create a little bit of friendly competition. Let us see who is best. Good luck all

Room 7 Challenge - Maths games online