William's weekend recount

In the first day of the weekend soccer was canceled so I practiced for winter sports and played ping pong on the Kinect. At 5:00pm a friend of mum came up, and for dinner we had chicken pie.

in the second day I  went to Alex's house it was really fun there, we fed the ells there pieces of bacon one of them were huge, we also climbed big trees  but at 3:00 it was time to go. 

Some of the Schools History

Back in the 1970's when my dad had just started at a much, much different Maungatapere School, the field was being extended. When the school bought the land from the Northland Dairy Company, my poppa helped with the hoeing and the grubbing to make the field flat.
When the field had been finished, there were trees to be planted. My poppa grew all the shelterbelt trees from seed. The trees had been grown in our nursery at Redwood Orchard.
Later Poppa became the school groundsman and he looked after the field, the trees and the swimming pool. He made sure that the pool was clean enough to swim in and that the school had no litter in its grounds.
Poppa mowed the all of the open areas on his tractor-mower , while my dad used the school's ride-on mower for around the trees and buildings.

By Sasha

I Don't Think I Was Ment To Eat That.

When my mum was a little girl her older sister told her that if you like butter you like buttercups so to prove her wrong she ate one. As soon as she put it on here tong she recoiled in disgust and ran two km to get back home so she could tell on her and when she got back she got sent to bed without dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. That served her right. When she was 9 she made a milk shake with beetroot juice because she liked the colour, but that’s another story.      

 By Eva M

RUN!

                 RUN

30^th of April Rebecca her sister Claire and I went down to the creek. We were having a great time. We didn’t want to go back so we went even further, BIG mistake!

           We were fine at first. We saw two eels, a couple of sparrows and a fantail or two. Then we saw a fence but it was flattened, so we kept going.  It was after we crossed the fence that we started to hear noises.

            We’d gone about an hour down stream. We couldn’t see anyone but us and we couldn’t hear anyone but us and the noises. We were starting to get a bit freaked out. But we thought we were getting worked up over nothing. So we kept going.

             When we came to a clearing we were standing under very crumbly rock! So we had to run through the ankle-deep water. Then when came to a clearing Claire said to quickly hide behind a rock. I asked her what she’d seen. “A man in a helmet.” Then she told us to: run!

             So we practically sprinted under the crumbly rock, and when we came to a clearing we thought we could stop so we did. But then we heard a voice behind us so we sprinted off again. We kept running over rocks through trees then after about half an hour we came to the start, But we didn’t stop we went up the path until we could see people and they could see us. Then we basically collapsed on the ground from running so much in so little time.

          We haven’t gone down there since. But I plane to go there again soon.

By Sarah.

The worst mistake ever!

The worst mistake ever!

       When my dad was only about six, he went to Helena Bay Hill School. They had furnace instead of a big bin to be taken to the dump. That’s how the worst mistake ever happened.

       One day my dad had to take out the bin to the furnace to be burnt. He had to take three bins. So he carried one at a time down to the furnace to burn the paper.

         So he got to the furnace, he set the full bins down and lifted the lid and poured the first bin in. He went down to pick up the second bucket he forgot to shut the furnaces lid. Just before he poured the second bin, a big gust of wind blew and a small piece of lit paper came out of the furnace and went over towards the big school hedge, and, WHOOOSH!! The hedge burst into flames! Like colourful fireworks, red, orange and yellow.

         Of course he was scarred. So he ran to the school buildings and hid under one of them. But he found him, and got the strap, because they didn’t know it was an accident.

          But everything’s ok, the hedge is grown back to it’s normal state. Now it’s just a funny story to share!

By Sarah.

Holiday Recount

  That Sickining Smell

A couple of weeks ago we went somewhere to look at a car and this is how it happened.

“Eva get in the car we need to get going or we won’t get there in time” called me as she was locking the door. “Yes mum, coming” I said flying through the door with a pillow in hand. I wasn’t going to sit there and twiddle my thumbs, I was going to have a quick 40 winks. At first it was hard go to sleep but in the end I got to sleep.                                        

We were in kawakawa and I had woken up, I was hungry but I dad didn’t stop. We were coming out of kawakawa and dad said it was only around one hour to go. I was starting to feel a bit queasy because we were in my granny’s car and it had one of those little smelly bags and the road was winding a lot.

An hour later we pulled in a driveway. At last we were there. Mum and dad jumped out of the car but I just opened the door. After a little while I got out of the car. Once I got out of the car we got into the car we were looking at to go for a test drive. There were heaps of spider webs were the doors met the car. Mum drove down the road first, the road was bumpy. We got down to beach road, mum pulled over and dad got into the driver’s seat and went back to the house.

Mum and dad ended up buying it. I didn’t feel too bad on the way home. (Thank goodness for that) Mum and dad were going to go and pick up the car the next day. Mum said that I said that I didn’t have to go with them. Yess!

by Eva M

Easter

  As I woke up my cousins started to yell its Easter   Its Easter then me and my brother brad got our Easter egg from my mum and dad.

 As me and brad were heading back to my cousins cabin as I slipped on my cousins ball and hit the picnic table.

 As I pulled myself back up I had lots of blood coming out of my mouth and a two front teeth that were aching too.

Then I had some of my small egg then my cousin Leroy came and gave all of us an egg except one because she did not want to give him an egg so she missed out so then I gave her my egg for two little egg then I went to get a hot chocolate then we had a Easter hunt.         

by Gabby

Northland Polo Horse Trek

Sara 3/5/2011                         

Last Saturday I went to the Northland Polo Fundraiser Horse Trek. My Dad is the captain of the Northland Polo Club, so we kind of had to go. Dad woke me up at 6:30am! I got dressed into warm clothes and gumboots then set out to catch Paris, the 15 hand 6-year-old thourghbred that we are grazing at our house for the winter. I took her out the gate and over to the horse truck. Dad decided to leave her cover on as it was a bit chilly. I took her up the ramp and Dad and I jumped in the cab. Then we were off.

First we went down to the dairy, filled up the truck and had a sausage roll for breakfast. Then we headed out to my Grandparents place to pick up two of the other horses. We arrived and loaded up Castor and Dione (the other horses). We kept going and arrived Tangowahine, at the horse trek. The trek was going up the mountains at Michael Youngers farm. We arrived at about 8:00am and unloaded the horses. Then Dad went over to register while I took the covers off the horses.

Once everyone had arrived, they all registered and the two people that were riding Dione and Paris came, they all set off. I was left with the others who weren’t riding to cook the onions and sausages, butter bread and organize cakes.

Two and a half hours later they all came back along the track. I ran outside to help dad unsaddle Castor and give him (the horse) a wash. Once all the horses were sorted everyone came inside for some lunch. There were speeches and the works, and then everyone started to leave.

All the Polo people stayed for about one hour later and had drinks. We raised over $2000 for Northland Polo and had a great time. Then Dad and I loaded up the horses, were given about 50 leftover sausages, 2 loaves of buttered bread, a 2 litre bottle of tomato and BBQ sauce and a bottle of mustard then we drove off. We dropped off Castor and Dione, then arrived home unloaded Paris and went inside for some dinner. (Sausages, bread and sauce!)