Visiting author: Thelma Eakin

Yesterday T1 and T2 were lucky enough to have "The Mines Afire" author Thelma Eakin. She answered our questions and we had a look at a safety lamp and a copper version of 1 of the miners statue in town. She co write this book with her friend Susan Battye. We are reading this book at the moment, it is very interesting. One interesting thing we learnt was that Mr O'Flynn actually locked the door so the kids couldn't escape, but they managed to escape in the end. We all felt very lucky to have her yesterday.

Basketball

My favourite basketball player, Paul George

Next term is another sport after school. Basketball. I live for rugby and basketball. If I play well, I can be selected to represent the West Coast in tournaments. Hopefully I am in a team with my friends. We play on Monday nights. I am so excited.

Brunner Mine Site

On a chilly Monday morning our class made a 15 minute drive to the Brunner Mine Historic Site. The ladies at Shantytown gave a guided tour around. We did activities such as mimes, dressing up and a quiz about what happened on the 26 March 1896. Yesterday was the 123rd year since the mine blew up. 
I had a awesome time on Monday and I hope that other people enjoy the place

Top: Where Brunner Mine is located
Below: The still photo of our group. I am at the top entering the mine.

Colour Day

Today we are wearing bright colours to fundraise money for the Muslim family's and communistic impacted by last weeks events in Christchurch.  Our class raised $80. Hopefully this can help all the people impacted.

Rugby This Year

Can you believe that last week I talked about touch rugby. That is a summer sport. Then a week later we are starting rugby training. I am playing for the Blaketown Under 14's this year. We start rugby in 6 weeks. We have a 7's tournament the end of this terms school holidays. I am really excited.

Road Patrol

This year I am a Road Patrol Traffic Warden. Last year we were trained by Constable Jos on what we do regarding signs, calls etc. This year I am on a Friday with Kaleb S. Ollie and Callum are on Car Park until this week where we swap jobs. That means this week I am on Car Park! This is a really fun job and I look forward to carrying on my job through out the year.

Touch

This week we had our finals for touch. We unfortunately were playing for 3rd and 4th. But we won so we got 3rd. We played Brunner again. The score was 11-2. I managed to score 2 tries. Franklin scored 2 tries, Callum also got 2, Kaleb W got 2, Ollie scored 2 and LeBron scored 1. It was a really good game and I look forward to playing again in 12 months!

Music this week

This week we had to find our favourite song and tell you why we like it. Mine is Ridiculous by Kyrie Irving. You will also know Kyrie Irving from the NBA, he plays Point Guard for the Boston Celtics.

My Cupcakes

This week is the Family Fiesta and we had to make cup cakes. Mine is a sunflower. Mine are strawberry cupcakes with black and yellow icing with and chocolate hail in the middle. This is what it looks like.

Touch

This week we had touch. I play for Blaketown Rugby. We played Brunner. We won 6-0. I didn't score any tries but I played really good defence. We went for a swim afterwards in the sea and it was surprisingly warm! It was the semi final and next week we have our final!

Music This term

This week we did music with Miss Hines. We were learning beats like crochet, minim etc. This is my slide.

Cricket Tournament

This week we had our cricket tournament. We played Paroa in the opening round. I got 2 wickets in the game. We were chasing 35. LeBron and I opened and we got 41 not out. We got subbed off so other people can have a go. We moved onto the final vs St Pats. We got 60 something, LeBron and I opened again. Things went wrong. I was bowled out first ball. The score 0 for 1. Something you don't want! We ended up losing by 20 something runs. I really enjoyed the tournament, its a shame I can't go back next year.