The New Parks by Kate

One day there was a girl walking by a park, but she never knew it was a park. That day she looked and saw it was a park. So she went to play there. Her name was Chloe and she had a dog called Coco, and a cat called Mika. Mika and Coco loved to eat ice cream but if they ate too much, they would get sick.They also liked to go to the park and they could talk. Mika was scared of dogs but she wasn’t scared of Coco. Coco didn’t try to chase her all the time. Chloe loved parks too. Her pets already knew the park was there, that’s why they always said: “stop”, but Chloe never stopped to explore it. Now she knew she would always go to play at the park with her pets. The pets loved to go on the spinning wheel, but when they got off the spinning wheel they always felt dizzy and sick. Then one day there was a whole new park next to it and everyone was there instead of at the park she had discovered yesterday. The builders were still building the park. Then Chloe recognised all the builders. They were called the Evil Club. She didn't know there real names. She tried to tell everyone that they were evil, but they didn’t believe her. Every Summer, Autumn, Spring and Winter no one but Chloe was playing at the old park anymore. Everyone laughed at her. The park got older and older, and more lonely and lonely. Chloe’s pets still liked to go on the spinning wheel but for some reason they didn't feel sick after, only dizzy. After they played at the old park they got an ice cream each, and then the pets felt sick. They told the government, but the government officials replied that they couldn’t help, they could only clean it up. The government cleaned up the park and everyone thought it was new again. Everyone started to play there again. Every week Chloe built a new part of the park. The evil club wanted their revenge and they wanted everyone to play at their park again. So the evil club built more and more and everyone found it really hard to choose to which park to go, so they didn’t go to the parks at all! They kept building until it was going on the road. Finally they stopped and saw that no one was coming to the parks anymore. They decided to go home. They put spy cameras in their parks and slowly there got to be an even amount of people in the parks. Then a girl came and looked at both parks and said: “hmmm….. which one is better than the other” and she continued: “they're both fantastic!”. She chose both of them to go on TV News Live and they became friends. It was her dream to be on tv. All of her family were watching her on tv and she became a star. Then Chloe decided to be a singer and a news star. She loved to be a star and they were so famous that everyone went to their playgrounds. By kate

Athletics Day by Devynee, Kate, Danielle, Kaelan, and Ethan

Athletics!!!!

by Devynee, Kate, Danielle, Kaelan, Ethan

On Athletics day we went out reporting the year 2’s boys and girls.

Long jump is where you try and jump the furthest that you can in a little sand pit.

When we went out reporting we first went and interviewed the long jump people. We interviewed Bella and she said she didn’t learn any new skills and her top tip is to fall on your bottom. Antonio said the long jump was awesome.

We interviewed Zoe H and she said it went good and she was one of the best long jumpers. Antonio said it went good I was one of the best jumpers.

Then we went to the High jump people. High jump is where you jump over a pole and try land on the mat. Brodie did a great jump.Then we went to the High jump people

Brodie he had no strategy but felt great about it. Divesh said that he was happy and he thought that he was determined.

Sprinting is where you try to come first in a race. Emma Re came second in her race. We interviewed Kaelan’s brother at the sprinting he said he felt good. We also interviewed Gabby from Hub 5/6 he said it was fun.

As we prepare to go out and do our athletics we feel excited and confident for sprints.

What should I share online? What should I not share?

We can share just about everything online, but should we?  
We have the tools to learn online now we are  bringing what we know about what we can share online and what we really shouldn't.

Great learning conversations overheard with Mrs Grant...
I would share my favourite learning on the blog.
I wouldn't share my last name.
Some things we might keep private (age, how many brothers and sisters we have)
Some things we will definitely keep private (Our full name, home address).
I might put my pets name up there because if my pet got lost people might be able to help me find them.

We had great discussions about what we should keep private and what we could put online.  We then had a discussion about what websites we could share on.  We decided that we could share information on website that we knew who owned them, but we still weren't going to share our private information on those sites. If we are not sure we would ask our parents or our teachers.

Today we did a lot of THINKING, CONNECTING, REFLECTING, and being SELF AWARE about our online digital footprint.

Inspired to be future Black Caps

Training to be future Black Caps?

BK: Practising our cricket skills for the last session with our awesome cricket instruction Iain.

Our determined girls took out the wicket competition with amazing collaboration. Tino pai.

Baking breakthrough

Chocolate Cake

Cooking breakthrough last Friday resulted in the most amazing chocolate cake.


We were even able to make meaning by comparing and contrast gluten free flour and regular flour in the cakes.

The verdict: The gluten free cake looked like a massive brownie so that was a huge hit.

It has even inspired this weeks baking, chocolate brownies! Yum.


Please ask your learner what ingredients they may need for this coming Friday.

Special thanks to Rachel, our parent help, who was able to share her baking talents with the group.