Diary-+Haylee

media type="custom" key="9115270"  Term 1 -Wk1. 01-04.  Monday- First day. I was really excited about starting my new school, being in new surrondings and looking forward to everything this year! Thursday- My first swimming session and also my first full school assembly. It was so cool at assembly because since our school hall is too small for all the students to fit in, we went over to the town hall that's just across the road. Friday- My first session at the school Library, it was so much bigger than my old schools library.

Wk2. 07-11 . Monday- Today was my first day of Tech/ Arts, i got put into the drama group. Drama hasn't been my strongest point in the past but to be honest, it was so much fun. Our teacher, Mrs. Decock showed us some cool warm up games to play before we started a lesson. And she also did an acting scene which i volunteered to help and acted out in a play. It was such a cool learning experience. Tuesday- Today i had my first Batten house assembly. It was like most assemblies singing, sharing work. But what made it different was we had it as a Batten house team assembly! Thursday- My first year 7 assembly. We sung lots of new fun songs that ive never heard of before but learnt really quickly. It was a real fun assembly. Friday- Today in class, we had the art teacher Mrs.Griffin come and teach us for 1 block about Maori pou pou art. We got given an A3 piece of paper to draw our ideas and designs down and most of us finished that. She will be coming in atleast one time every week until the end of term to let us try and finish our finished pou pou's. It was fun with Mrs.Griffin.

Wk3. 14-18.  Monday- Today my class went to the ICT Room and had our very first lesson there with our own teacher. It was so cool there, i was being very cautious with the computers because they were all apples or macs which are very expensive. I learn't a lot about all the new tools and some new skills. Friday- My first Batten house sport session. I got put into the' RESPONSIBILITY' team. Our first game, was scatter ball and our second game was tee ball. Both games were really fun to play and there was nice hot sunny weather to match.

WK4. 21-25.  Thursday- Today, i attended the ' Rhythm Interactive Drumming show'. It went for about one block. We played with some South African drums. It was very unique, loud and really fun. Friday- School swim sports, all houses went over to the Jubilee pools to anticipate participants from there houses. Everybody was cheering loudly and eager for their house participants to win their races. I think that Batten house was the best supporting team there. nearly every body dressed up in red, which is Batten house's main colour, we had flags and all things red. In the end we came 2nd over all but every body showed a good team effort, even the crowd did. It was an awesome day.

Wk5. 07-11 .  Wednesday- We had Mrs.Griffin today and im finally on my pou's final copy, but iv'e got a whole A3 piece of paper to colour so i hope i can manage to finish before the holidays! Friday- Ahhhhh, School photo's today! I had my photo taken today and for the first time in my life i had to sit up the front, directley in the middle! Hope i look alright, we'll just have to wait and see.

Wk6. 14-18 . Thursday- St Patrick's day today. Heaps of people around the school were wearing green accessories. We also had a cool reliever called Mrs.Higham. One thing i remember learning that day, was that the only two countries in the whole entire world that don't have snakes in them are Ireland, and New Zealand. Friday- We had Mrs.Griffin today and i tried to make the most of my time finishing my pou, but i still have a long way to go on it. Sheppard house had a Christchurch money fundraiser today. They had an ice cream day, a $1 per ice cream! I bought a cookies and cream one, but it was so small that it was gone in probably 2 minutes.

Wk7. 21-25 .  Monday- Today we started a new routine of going over to the Pukekohe High school to learn so tips and important skills for Athletics. I'm in group #5, with Callum, Palak and Mathew as our leaders. I had alot of my friends in my class in my group which gave me alot more confidence. On our first lesson we had relays with the battons. I learnt alot of handy skills to help me improve on my passing of the batton. It was a cool experience and i cant wait till the next lesson. Wednesday- OMG, school social night! it was a really fun, but also crazy night. Me and my friend Ereon had the best time jumping and dancing around.( but mostley jumping!) Tommorow we'll all probabley laugh and joke about it! Awesomest dance party ever! Thursday- Athletics practise at the high school! Today we learnt about the skills of doing discus. It was really hard to control the discus because it was so heavy! We also had a really cool wheels day, inspired by travel wise week. I brang my bike to school, and in the afternoon block we went over to bledisloe park to a big area for biking. I was even brave enough to do the jump that they had set up.( Even though it wasn't that big!) Despite getting a cut on the side of my foot/leg, i had a really fun afternoon. Friday- This week,10-15 people from a school in Japan,( our 'sister' school) were leaving. Our school held a full school assembly based for there leaving, and our Kapa Haka group did a performance, which im sure the exchange students appreciated. Then as if in return, the Japanese pupils did a cutral performance. It was a sad farwell.

Wk8. 28-01 .  Monday- Today once again we had Mrs.Griffin and got alot more of my pou pou done than i thought i would which was really exciting to know that im nearing finishing it! Tuesday- Mrs.Griffin again, which means finishing more of my pou pou again! Wednesday- Want to know one of my biggest fears, SPEECHES! I volunteered to say my speech today and i ended up going 4th. I was scared that my hands would start shaking and my voice would be too quiet, but from the comments and feed back that i got from my class mates those twp things were fine. But still i was really nervous, but at least i got it over and done with before most people. Today was unfortunatley the last Drama (Tech/Art), session i'll have all this year. Which is really sad because im really only just starting to get really involved in it. But any way, today we all participated in a cool play which is just like the story of Cinderella, except with punk and rock added to it. I played the role of one of Cindy's ugly step sisiters. I had to dress up in an ugly dress, but then i though, hey this suits my character perfectly so i ended up liking my costume. At the end of the day, we did one last reflection of the day and then said good bye to Mrs.Decock and Drama. Thursday- Athletics training today, we did long jump. On my second attempt of jumping i all most fell over! On the mat your meant to jump off of the last colour, but i kept on jumping from the middle one no matter how hard i tried.

Wk9. 04-08.  Monday- Athletics training again today. Our group split into three groups, i was in group #3 with Matthew. He tried his hardest to tech me a new technique of throwing, but every time i ended up a failure! I still tried my hardest though. Tuesday - At lunch time i went to the art room to try and finish my pou pou. And i did, i was so relieved that atlast I've managed to finish it. With one session to spare. Thursday- Its our last session of athletics practise at the High school, we did shot put. The ball only weighed in at 4 kgs, but still i had to use two hands to carry it. So when it came to throwing it, it was like i was in slow motion!

Wk10. 11-15. Wednesday- I had my first session at art for Tech/Arts today, it wa so much fun. We learnt all about shading and HB pencils. Thursday- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Today wasnt the last day of term for my class, but it was for our teacher, Ms Morris. Any way, we had a really exciting day. When i looked at our time table this is what i read: Fun, Morning tea, Fun, Lunch time, Assembly, Fun. It was such a nice relaxed day without any sign of work! We also had a shared lunch, and a movie- ' Karate Kid'. Friday- LAST DAY OF TERM! <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Friday- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We had a relever today called Mrs.House. She is so cool and really layed back. It was basically finish off any work day, which there was hardly any work for me to finish, so i just coloured and played games and read all day until 3:00.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Term 2- Wk1. 02-06. Monday- First day back of term 2 today, it was so awesome to see everybody. Its been to long........................! It took me a long time to adjust to all the learning again, and also to waking up early in the morning. Tuesday- Had Mrs. Griffin today, she introduced us to our new term art project. Last term we did some maori po po's but we only did the heads. So this term we're going to be working in groups to make whole po po's. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I can't wait till we finally start! Wednesday- We went to the ICT room today, it was fun. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Thursday- Went to the Library today and i got out two awesome books, my favourite of the two was: 'The crowfield curse', by Pat Walsh. We also had our first full school assembly, very long and it didn't help that i was tired that day from going to bed late! But there was one thing that pricked me up, for the major production Aladin Ms. Guise is going to be giving out applications for the publisity group which got me intrested. Friday- Today was my first day at art class with Mrs.Griffin. We only have half the class in art and the other in drama so it was really spacious and not so crowded as class, which was great for a person trying to recover from a massive migrane!

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wk02. 09-13. Monday- Another batten assembly today. And also Mrs.Griffin so we had i pretty relaxed day today. Tuesday- We had Batten house sport today and my group, responsibilty did netball. We did lots of fun games. Wednesday- ICT today, and at the end of the session my teacher Miss Morris, just had to show us the stupid youtube clip of Rebbecca Black's Friday song!!Ahhh. Thursday- We had our first year 7 assembly, and everyone went totally crazy at the end when we sung heaps of songs, it was funny. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Friday- Library today, and out of the two books i got my favourite was:' Shooting the moon', by V.M. Jones. Also we went to art.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Wk3. 16-22. Monday- Another session of art, we looked at different artist's that did pop art foods, and then we started some drafts of our own pop art cup cakes. It was total torture! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tuesday- Today we had not exactly a new person because he already goes to Pukekohe Intermidiate school, but a new person to our class whose name is Matthew. We also had Mrs.Griffin and we finished our draft po po's.