Graduation

 

Valediction

My time at Manurewa Central School is coming to an end. I have been at this school my whole life and I don’t want to go. My journey here all started in Room One.

I had a nervous look on my face, my legs were shaking and my hand was firmly gripped around mum’s fingers. It was my first day at Manurewa Central school. I was excited but very nervous at the same time. As I walked into Room one and looked around, the rest of the class were practising their alphabets. I quickly joined in. Before I knew it I was having the time of my life.

The next few years were the same, I was nervous then, the next minute I was having instant fun. In Year 3 I was very shy and I only had a few friends, but the next year I really came out. I made more friends and got along great with the teacher. The next year came, and my shyness was completely gone.

My goals as a year 5 were set very high, and I achieved them. That year I learnt that how you act as a year 5 affects how you want to be as a Year 6. In Year 6 I became a councillor. I was given different responsibilities and I did my best to take care of them properly.

All my years at Manurewa Central school have been a blast, but my favourite was this year as a Year 6. There are so many good memories to look back at this year including camp, netball and just hanging out with my friends. I also really liked spending time with the teachers. They have a younger sense of humour than I thought.

Throughout the years I made so many good and bad memories but now as I look back at them I smile because all those memories were made at Manurewa Central school. I will always remember this school and no other school could ever replace my first and my best school.

Annabeth

A long time ago, in the lonely, snow covered streets of Demelca. There was a young girl named Annabeth. Annabeth was a very misbehaved child, she would ditch school just to go shoplifting, or watch someone get hurt for entertainment. But that day was different. She felt as if she was being watched, or someone was secretly plotting against her. It wasn’t an ordinary day, so to lift her spirits, took a tiki tour and tried to get lost. As she was wandering, she came across a dark narrow alley. “Ooh, that looks fun.” she said. But deep inside of her, she was petrified.

Annabeth skipped along the frozen pathway. Soon, she came across an old chalkboard. On the chalkboard many names huddled together. Annabeth picked up an old piece of chalk and wrote her name on the board. “A-N-N-A-B-E-T-H” she spelt. Just as she was about to go off again, she noticed a small doll shop. “Sweet!” she said, “Free toys”. Annabeth hopped to the shop and put her hand on the door handle. She tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge. Annabeth checked around for any windows but there wasn’t any. With an angry face, she made a snowball and threw it at the door. She then stomped off and shouted “Stupid shopkeepers.” Once Annabeth was halfway down the alley, she heard a loud creak. Annabeth slowly turned her head and saw that the door of the doll shop was wide open.

She quickly turned around and ran, but before she entered an unusual looking doll stood on a platform in the middle of the shop. The doll looked exactly like her. It had blonde hair, a fluffy orange beanie and a purple puffer jacket that read “Kathmandu”. As soon as Annabeth stepped inside, goosebumps rose on her pale skin. All the dolls on the shelves looked like actual people. One them even looked like her cousin Rachel. Annabeth looked around, every time she moved at least one doll followed her with their eyes. Suddenly she felt a bump on her skinny leg. Annabeth looked down. A small doll on a bike seemed like it was trying to run a away. She stood the doll up and it peddled as fast as it could to try make it out the door. But, sadly, it didn’t make it. The door slammed before the doll could even make it halfway.

“That’s strange” Annabeth said to herself. But all the dolls seemed to be listening. Annabeth looked up again and realised her twin doll wasn’t on the platform anymore, it was on the top of one of the highest shelves in the whole shop. “Wow, thats a high shelf.” Annabeth said to herself. She put her left foot on an empty slot on the shelf, and pulled herself up with another empty slot. Each time Annabeth climbed higher her pink gloves slipped further and further off her hands. After a few more seconds Annabeth’s gloves slipped a little further down her hands. Annabeth got so fed up with her gloves that she automatically threw one of them on the ground. Five seconds later, she instantly regretted it. Annabeth’s hands were the coldest that they had ever been.  The skin on Annabeth’s turned a shade lighter. But she didn’t care.

Annabeth continued climbing. Soon, she reached the top. Her twin doll seemed to staring right at her. Without hesitating Annabeth grabbed the doll. Suddenly, terrifying flashes entered her mind. They were of tortured dolls in a dark prison. “Oh my -” The next thing Annabeth knew, she couldn’t move her mouth. She couldn’t move at all. The only thing that Annabeth could move was her eyes, side to side. Annabeth wanted to cry, so she tried. But she couldn’t. Neither could she do anything else. Years passed and Annabeth watched the doll shop as it got more crowded. Sadly all she could do was watch and blink. Until one day, another customer wandered into the shop. “Here we go again”. Annabeth watched, but something different happened. The girl didn’t grab her identical doll she grabbed a stick and poked it. “That’s different” Annabeth thought. A few minutes the little girl came back, but this time with a whole lot of different equipment. She had gloves, plastic bags and a long hook. Annabeth watched closely as the little girl got to work. The girl carefully slipped on her gloves, grabbed her hook and started stuffing the dolls into the plastic bags. Soon, the girl had come to Annabeth’s shelf. Annabeth’s heart started to beat, she must have been imagining it because it had never even moved in fifteen years. Or the spell was breaking.

The little girl moved her hook closer and closer to Annabeth’s dusty doll head. Then the hook grabbed Annabeth by the hips. Before Annabeth could blink she was in a whole different place. She turned her head for the first time in fifteen years and she could walk again!  Annabeth looked around, it looked like she was in an old warehouse but it was much more upgraded. “This must be the future” Annabeth said. “Yes it is” a robotic voice said. Annabeth turned around, but there was no-one behind her. Annabeth looked everywhere, but there was no-one in sight. “Who are you and what do you want with me” “I don’t want anything to do with you, it was my boss who saved you. She broke the curse and freed all the trapped people. The voice said. “Why did I get trapped in there anyway” Annabeth said as she sat on an old wooden box. “Well” the voice said “A long time ago, no-one knows for sure when, a crazy girl that was obsessed with dolls created a powerful spell to protect her dolls. Anyone that touched one of her dolls would turn into another one of her toys. When the girl died, someone found her dolls, but was careful not to touch them. That person sold her dolls but accidently touched one was trapped. The abandoned shop was then haunted, my boss broke the spell by taking you out of the shop, and here we are.” “Then where are the rest of the imprisoned people” asked Annabeth “They’ve already gone to live a better life,” replied the voice.

“So I can just go?” said Annabeth “Yup” replied the voice. Annabeth tried to sprint out the door but she forgot how to run. “Maybe I’ll just walk,” Annabeth chuckled. She made a new life in a new world, but little did she know, someone was watching her.

What's better, liquid or bar soap?

Chardonae and the Robot Dishwasher

"But that’s not fair” cried Chardonae.  “Yes it is,” replied mum. “Your brother did the dishes yesterday so you have to do them today.” “Fine,” moaned Chardonae. Chardonae walked so unenthusiastically to the kitchen, that someone could have easily mistaken her for a zombie. As she opened the kitchen door, her jaw dropped. There were mountains of dishes piled all over the place. Chardonae was so surprised, all the dishes could even fit in the kitchen.

Then, Chardonae had a fabulous idea. She would make a dish washing robot, so that she wouldn’t have to do any work and she could enjoy her time at the beach with her friends. She wouldn’t even have to supervise it. Chardonae quickly gathered all the cleaning products she could find in the house and she chucked them in garage. Then, she grabbed an old toothbrush, a toilet cleaner, mums old laptop, and some old car parts. She put all her equipment together and after a while, it made a dishwashing robot. It squeaked and beeped, then it stood up and said “I am dishwasher 300. Where are the dishes?” “They’re in the kitchen,” answered Chardonae. “Okay,” said the dishwasher in a loud robotic voice.

It walked slowly and stiffly into the kitchen and started cleaning the dishes in seconds! “Finally” sighed Chardonae. She quickly gathered her beach things together and got into the car. “Mum!” screamed Chardonae, “I’m done”. “Okay” replied mum. “I’m coming.” Mum entered the car and asked “Where to?” “Um, to the beach,” answered Chardonae.

As they arrived, she looked out the window and saw all her friends just chilling on the warm beach sand “Yes” screamed Chardonae. “They’re still here”. Chardonae leaped out of the car and sprinted towards her friends. But when she got there she realised the girls on the beach weren't actually her friends but they were just really short teenagers. “No!” wailed Chardonae “They were supposed to wait for me.” Chardonae sprinted as fast as she could back to the car and screamed. “Mum!” The car had already driven away.

Chardonae started panicking, her heart was beating so fast she was sure it would pop out any second soon. Suddenly, Chardonae noticed something shining in the sand, it was bright green cell phone. “Wow” exclaimed Chardonae “I’m so lucky”. She quickly dialled her mums number and said “Mum can you please come back and pick me up, I just realised it wasn’t my friends on the beach. It was just these tiny teenagers” “Ok” said mum “I’m on my way”.

When mum arrived Chardonae hopped in the car and didn’t say a word. She was feeling quite embarrassed. When the car stopped at Chardonae’s house, Chardonae ran inside and found all the dishes were clean and were back in the draws and cupboards. “Wow, it actually worked” exclaimed Chardonae. 

“Wait a minute, where’s the robot.” Chardonae heard a faint robot voice saying “Where are the dishes.?” “ Oh no” said Chardonae. She ran all around the house but the robot was nowhere to be found. Chardonae sprinted as fast as she could outside. In the distance she could see a black silhouette moving in and out of the other houses. “This is bad, this is really bad.”  Chardonae quickly rushed to the other houses and said “I am so sorry my robot just got completely out of control.” “Oh no,” said the people in the house. “The robot did a fantastic job!”

The people in the house showered her with money. The other houses in the neighbourhood did the same. From that day on Chardonae never had to do the dishes again and, she became a millionaire.

Drugs At Schools

In the past few years children mostly in intermediate and high school, some even in primary have been secretly handling drugs at their school. I know that some parents are completely unaware of this situation and think that their children are really safe and happy at their school, but they think wrong.

It is very unhealthy that children at the age of 11 years and up have been smoking weed, drinking and doing so many more things that involve drugs and alcohol at their school. Many children who have been involved with drugs are at risk of heart attacks, seizures, abdominal pain, and so many more side effects, especially because children are underaged anyway. GET RID OF DRUGS IN SCHOOLS!

There are probably reasons why children are taking drugs and smoking. For example, maybe the child is stressed or has family dramas and wants it all to go away. Or maybe they just want to be cool and want to fit in. So many families in New Zealand drink and smoke every day without realizing their children are watching them, and thinking it’s alright to do it at their age. It is so easy for children to just to steal the drugs, hide the drugs in their bag and take it to school to share with their friends. All parents should be constantly checking on their children even if their family is involved with drugs or not. Their child might be bringing drugs home from their friends at school.

Another big problem is that children introduce drugs to other children that are perfectly fine and healthy and the drug interest starts to spread throughout the whole school. Soon enough the whole school will be very ill and are at risk of dying.

Therefore the New Zealand government should know about this problem and stop it. Some parents know about this problem and are encouraging it, somehow thinking it’s OK. I say we stop this problem and change how the children in Auckland live, so they all can live in a healthy and safe environment where no-one is getting hurt.

References

https://www.altamirarecovery.com/treatment-specialties/drug-addiction/causes-effects-drug-addiction/

The Pink Ball

Many years ago, there was once a little, ordinary girl named Hannah. Hannah was very lonely, the only company she had was her great-aunt. Hannah and her great-aunt lived in an old hospital, in the ruins of a big city. It was very hard for Hannah to communicate with her aunt because her aunt was deaf.

Every day Hannah would go outside the hospital to see if she could find anything interesting in the other old buildings. One day as Hannah was wandering around the cracks and ruins of the city, she noticed something shiny in an old train window. Well at least it was shiny to her because everything else was quite dull. She jumped and almost tripped just to get a better look.

The next day, as soon as Hannah woke up she gathered all the sharp rocks she could find from in the front of the hospital and sprinted as fast as she could to get to the old train. As soon as she got there, she started chucking the rocks as hard as she could at the train window. At last the window broke. Hannah reached inside and retrieved a large pink ball.

On her way back to her hospital home she noticed a dim glow inside the ball. Hannah’s eyes widened and she started walking faster. When Hannah finally arrived home she became curious about the ball. She bounced it and bounced it and bounced it until she heard a massive pop. Rainbow glitter flew everywhere, her grey room became an explosion of colour. Beautiful rainbow creatures flew everywhere and some even crawled on the ground.

Hannah’s favourite creature looked like a little puppy except it was covered in beautiful, glowing rainbow tattoos. Hannah loved the rainbow explosion so much that she didn’t want it to escape. Before long, she had every rainbow bird, bat and beast locked in cages so they wouldn’t escape. It was a prison for the creatures.

The next day when Hannah woke up she noticed that one cage was open and there was nothing inside. Hannah screamed so loud that all the creatures in the cages tried to cover their ears. Luckily for her, she didn’t get told off because her great-aunt couldn’t even hear.

When Hannah finally calmed down, she decided to go and search for her creature. It took her almost two hours until she realised the missing creature was on top of an old mailbox. “Please come back to me!” begged Hannah. “I really miss you”. Sadly, the creature didn’t even want to move. Hannah ran home sobbing.

When she got back to her home she decided eating will make her sadness go away. Hannah ate as much food she could find in the old fridges, even though the food tasted stale. The next day when Hannah woke up she saw two more creatures had left the cages. Hannah was so stressed. “Why can’t the creatures just stay with me,” she cried.

Once again Hannah went out to look for the creatures. She remembered the old mailbox and ran straight there. All three creatures were hanging around the mailbox. As soon as Hannah said a word, the creatures put on a jaw dropping performance. The creatures flew, crawled and ran all over the place.

When they had finished, Hannah realised she had to let the creatures go, in order for them to show their true beauty and make the city bright again. Hannah sprinted home as fast as a cheater with a huge smile on her face. As soon as she arrived she unlocked all the cages and all the creatures shot outside. From that day on Hannah enjoyed the beauty of her city and never tried to hide anything beautiful again.

Food Posters

Cinquains

Explanation - How to Swim

It is important that you know how to swim because you could drown any time you are around the sea, a river or just an ordinary pool. But if you do know how to swim, you can just swim away to land. It’s also good to swim because you’re exercising your body, and that can help you stay healthy.

This is what you have to know about your body position. First you have to get in the water. You have to make sure that when you lie down flat, your body is straight otherwise you won’t float. When you lie down in the water your head should be facing down and your chin should be near your chest. This is also known as the gliding position.

When doing freestyle, you reach with one arm, bend your elbow, then you bring down the arm that you’re reaching with down, and do the same with the other arm.

Once you’ve done that about three times, you turn your head and hips to the side to breathe and keep your ear on your shoulder. While your head is down you should be blowing out bubbles from your mouth.

Kicking is pretty easy, all you need to do is keep your legs together and straight. Then you just kick on the surface of the water, with flippy floppy feet.

Now that you know how to do freestyle I am 90% percent sure that you won’t drown in a pool that is too deep for you. You will also be very healthy and fit.

Self Portraits

Milk in Schools

Milk in Schools storyboard

Who Am I?

Who am I you ask? Well I’m a Year 6 Assyrian boy who is ten years old. I speak mostly English but at home I speak in Assyrian/Iraq. I have three sisters, a mum and a dad.

I have hair that looks black but when it shines in the sun it’s a browny colour. My eyes change colour like magic. I have a chubby body and my skin is tanned. I have kind of smooth and rough skin.

I love maths because it’s my favourite subject and I’ve learnt it since I was a little me. Plus I really enjoy gaming because it’s my passion.

I’m a nerdy boy. If you give me a pile of maths I would finish it right in front of you. I’m a funny person. When someone is down or just needs a joke I will try and make them laugh. I try to be loyal to my family. If someone does something to my family I will always try to protect them.



I am a year 6 Kiribati girl and I’m 9 years old. I have 3 siblings and a mum and dad. I speak two languages, English and Kiribati. My birthday is on the 20th of February 2007 and I was born in Botany Downs hospital.

My hair is short and straight with a dark brownie colour. When my hair is in the sun it sparkles like gold. My eyes are dark chocolate brown with a narrow almond shape. I have small gentle lips that are pink and dark brown. My teeth have a gap between them and they are serrated at the bottom. I am a tall person and I have smooth, brown skin. My nose is not pointy it's more of a flat nose.

I am not very good at dancing but I love it. I also really enjoy watching comedy movies with my family. I am good at braiding my hair when I want it to be curly.

When I’m inside I am lazy because I don't feel like cleaning or doing anything. But when I’m outside, I’m as crazy and energetic as can be. For example when I’m crazy and energetic I dance around and say hi to random people. Sometimes I am friendly to people who are sad or lonely and need a friend.

Whenever I have to go to a formal party or celebration with my family I always wear a nice top and tights but I never wear dresses. I am the kind of person who doesn’t like being teased. When I get teased I get really mad. I am the type of person who can be nice but I still stand up for myself, my friends and my family.

I am a 8 year old boy and I live in New Zealand.

I have light, blue eyes and my hair is a dark gold. Some of my hair is short like my dog’s fur and on the top of my head my hair is like my little cousin’s barbie doll’s hair. My body is big and tan because I spend a lot of time in the sun. My legs are long and my mum tells me that I’m a fast runner .

I have a good throwing arm.I’m good at video games because I completed Raymon’s legends. It has 83 levels and it was fun.

I’m annoying because I have a lot of energy.

I am a 10 years old happy, Year 6 girl. I am Indian and I speak Hindi. I am born on the 9th November 2006, in the Middlemore Hospital.  My fantastic family and me came from Fiji.

I have short, straight, black hair like a big black, soft cushion. My eyes are brown like a fake teddy bear’s

Shiny eyes. My skin is dark brown like a chocolate and shiny like the sun. My body is soft like a towel, I am a very diminutive person. My lips are red are like a rose and flexible.

I am very good at running, like a cute mouse. I am interested in playing lots of fun games and I love to go exciting trips with my friends at school.

I like to do delicious cooking with my beautiful mum and my friendly sister. I also love helping my intelligent grandma and my awesome mum, by decorating the house on Diwali.

Can you guess who this wonderful girl is?