Film Festival

Hi bloggers  last week we submitted our movies to Ako Hiko Film Festival. We could chose to be in film festival. Our movie was about a game show called Te Waka Ako Few. There were two players playing, the winner would win one million in gold. In the movie my roll was being the camera man. Our school submitted three movies sadly it was not ours. The movies had to be three minutes and under. We did the movie two time's the first movie was bad so we did it again it was about aliens and change but we were happy with the second one. My favourite part in the movie was when we arrested Nikhil the person that was talking.  Atreyu and I, who was one of the contestants, were Secret Agents. We had about three ads in the movie. The hardest part in the movie was when the contestant had funny lines overall it was fun.

Cross Country

Hi Bloggers On Wednesday the eleventh of September we had Cross Country. This year it was different because we had four courses. One was scoring as many goals as you could in fifteen minutesexcept the run was for fifteen minutes. We had three extra courses because we did a fun raising for the school to get a canopy over the courts. Fifty five percent of the money that we raised went to the school to get the canopy.
. The others were an obstacle course and skipping for fifteen minutes and finally it was the main run. We were in year groups. The top five in the year group went to zones. Each course

All the year sixes were telling the people that did the run where to go. After the run we had lunch then we went to the bake sale that the school had. My personal favourite part was the obstacle course. The prizes that you could get were slim and the biggest prize was a Xbox which was one thousand dollars. I am getting a plasma ball deluxe for two hundred dollars. I am also getting what I wanted which was the plasma ball. I think that Cross country was one of the best events this year.

camp

MY Camp

Day One

Hi Bloggers, on Tuesday 20th of August we went to camp to ski which was at Mt Ruapehu. We had just started to load, I was siting at the back of the bus next to my friend, we had four stops until we reached Mt Ruapehu. We were in colour groups for the activities, but for our free time we were with the people that were in our room. We were at Mt Ruapehu for four days. I was talking with my friends that were setting next to me until we reached the Hamilton Gardens. It took us one hour to get to the Hamilton Garden. When we got to Hamilton Gardens we had morning tea. Then we organised into our colour groups after morning tea. The teachers had given us pieces of paper as we had to do a scavenger hunt . In our group we had to be in pairs each pair had one piece of paper. On the paper there were photos, we had to write where we thought the photos were taken. The first group to get back got a prize from the prize box. After the Hamilton Gardens we started driving to  Edmund Hillary walkway. At the walk way there was posters we had to write some facts that were on the poster. We had 20 minutes to fill in the form. After the challenge we had lunch. After lunch we went to the 
Jim Barker Memorial. Their was two flying foxes next together so we had a race. There was also ramps that we slid down from. My group was the first to get on the bus so we could sit at the back but we had to sit at our old seats, where our bags were. Next we left for Taumaranui School, Taumaranui School was about 45 minutes away from the crossing lodge. We were very fortunate to be able to have the chance to play at Taumaranui School. Taumaranui School had a very big play ground and the play ground was cool. Then we left for the crossing lodge. When we got to the lodge we got out the bags and took them to our room. After we put are bag in our room and we sorted are gear for skiing then we went to have diner after diner we had a shower and went sleep at eight o'clock.

Day Two

At six thirty we woke up bright and shine we change into our thermals and we went to have breakfast for breakfast we had cereal and toast. After breakfast we wore our jackets we went to the bus. It took about 30 minutest to get to the where the Shuttles were. We took shuttles because buses could not go up the mountain. The floors of the shuttles were slippery. The shuttles dropped us off at Happy Valley. When we got out we organised into two groups one group was for skiing and the other group was for snowboarding. We went into a place that we could get ski gear when we got all our gear the gave us our passes. We went down to where you could ski we played with snow a bit then we went tobogganing after tobogganing we went on the gondolas. We took a photo and everyone was in it the photo. Then we came all the way back to the slopes for our lessons. Further down from the other groups we first put our skies on then we started jumping and learning how to ski. For the first lesson we were learning how to do the basics of skiing. After the lessons we went to the shuttles and went back to the lodge. We brought our skis and skiing boots with us. When we got their we changed our clothes, and went to the showers the parents would come and pick two people to go to the showers. After the showers we had afternoon tea. For after afternoon tea we had one hour of free time at the lodge. Then we had our dinner after dinner we watched a movie then we went to bed at eight o'clock.

Day Three

The parents woke us up at 6.30 we wore our thermals and track pants and we went out to breakfast it was the same thing as yesterday but the only thing different was that everybody could ski our snow board now. After we had breakfast we came to put our ski jackets and ski pant on after that we wore our ski boots And went to the bus again it took us 30 minutes to get to where we went got on to the Shuttles. When we were going up the mountains there was more snow than yesterday. The bus dropped us of at the entrance of Happy Valley. When we got there we took our ski's out of the shuttles. The teacher's gave us our passes. We took the elevator down to the entrance of the slopes. We went to our instructors but it was different this time because we were not in the same groups, because some were beater than others at skiing or snow boarding so they changed the groups. We went all the way on a hill then we raced from the top of the hill to the bottom. Some people lost control and crash but I didn't, I would stop right in time. We came down the hill three times before we went to the staff room for a break when we came out we went down the slopes a few times before it was the end of our lessons. We had one hour of free time before we came in for lunch at the cafe after my sandwich I got some hot chocolate and then I went down to ski at the slopes. Me and my friends would race down to the chair lefts and take the chair lifts and race back down. We had three hours of skiing constantly in the terrible weather until it was time to go back. We went to where we got our gear but this time we were returning it, when we took our ski boots of of we wore the shows that we left when we got our gear. We returned all our gear and went to the shuttles. When we got to the lodge we had a shower and had afternoon tea. Then we had free time at the lodge we played games and relaxed at the game room. Then it was time for dinner for dinner we had beautiful nachos with salad. Next it was game time we had decision between playing spotlight or watching a movie then we slept. I will continue the rest in another Blog.