ipad imovie trailers

Today the year 6's left for their camp at Tutira. The year 7's as well as some honorary year 7's have worked on making movie trailers. Take a look. What do you think?

The Ranfurly Shield

We had an exciting time this week when we went and saw the 'Mighty Magpies' bring the Ranfurly Shield to Hastings. Check out some photos of us and some of our stories.

The other day the sun shone upon us and the bell rang for an early morning tea. I raced out with my friends Danielle and Rhiannon to talk to our guitar teacher Naomi. We asked “Can we go to town to see the Magpies and the Ranfurly Shield?” She happily let us go. The loud bell rang and our school converged on the centre of town to meet the Magpies and the well known Ranfurly Shield. It was very loud and I felt like the whole world was going to enclose on me. The loud bagpipes were playing in the distance as the Magpies came up on the back of the ute. All you could hear was screaming. I felt very proud as they walked up with the shield because they did so well and it was very cool to have a rugby team from Hawke’s Bay win the shield. A lot of speeches and outstanding performances later they split up and signed some autographs. It was very hectic as all of us tried to get as many as possible. I got three and one was from the Mayor Lawrence Yule. There it ended. I walked back to school with my buddy Ashlee feeling proud to be in Hawke’s Bay!

By Sophie

“Look there they are!” everyone was shouting. The bagpipes were going, everyone was cheering, because the Magpies were here with the Ranfurly shield. We were at the civic square outside the Hastings public library, sitting on the cold concrete  with the sweltering sun on our faces. Then all the Magpies jumped out of the back of the trucks, then formed a line while a kapahaka group performed for them. Once that was over they walked up the back but on the way they signed some autographs and gave out some hi-fives. The whole team was there apart from Israel Dagg. He wasn’t there because he was training with the All Black’s. Then the Captain of the Magpies Mike Coman said a few words and held up the shield for everyone to see. Then Hastings boys and the kapahaka group did tika tonu at the end. When we were walking back we got to have a photo with the one and only RANFURLY SHIELD! I was at the back holding it while the rest of the class had a hand on it. I felt really proud to be in the bay at that time because the Ranfurly shield was in Hawke’s Bay, and I hope they win next week.

  By Tyrone

       

‘’Yay yay yay’’ I said to myself we are going to see the Ranfurly shield.

Were at the parade ‘’no magpies though’’.

A lot of people are there and I could only see one school Riverslea school.

‘’Oh my gosh it is so hot’’.

Bagpipes are getting played.

Magpies on trucks.

I’m so excited.

By the time the Magpies got to the back of the library, there was a whole lot of people at the back the library.

There was about 5 school there was Riverslea , Hastings Intermediate , Hastings Central and a few more.

A few more hopped off.

Someone spoke into a microphone, and told everyone when they last had the shield was. Mike Coman said a few words about his team and the shield. Boy’s High did a fantastic haka. We were allowed to get things signed. My favourite players are Zac Guildford, Ihaia West, Alby Mathewson, Chris Eaton, Mike Coman, Gillies Kaka and Karl Lowe. I touched the shield, it felt really good. When the parade was finished we all went back to school. We went back to class and all I could think about was how exciting the day had been.

 By Riley

Duffy Theatre

We were lucky to have the Duffy Theatre visit St Joseph's school this week. They told the story of how Duffy lost his words words and couldn't read. It was an entertaining show with lots and lots of humour. Here are some pictures from the show.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

A rich couple’s Porsche broke down and they needed a place to stay coincidentally there was a hotel nearby. They went inside and asked how much a room was, the hotel owner said “Free but enter at your own risk”. The husband asked “why”? the hotel owner said “you’ll find out”. So they got a room and the number was 397.

They got their room and unpacked, by the time they had finished unpacking it was 9.00 pm. At 12.00 pm they heard thumping and screaming, from next door in 396. The next morning the lady asked is there anyone else here? The hotel owner said lots of people come but no one goes.

That night the woman got woken up by screaming and thumping, so the woman got out of bed and went next door and looked through the keyhole. She saw that the room was white she then tried to open the door but it was locked.

The next night the women woke up by screaming and thumping again. She then got up and went next door, again looked through the keyhole but this time the room was orange, again she tried opening the door but once again it was locked.

On the 3^rd night she was yet again woken up by screaming and thumping, so once more she looked through the keyhole, to find that the room was RED. In the morning she went down stairs and asked the hotel owner what was haunting the room, the hotel owner said a woman with a white dress, orange hair and red eyes.

The woman asked if she could please have the key to that room, so that night she woke up at 12.00 pm and went next door she unlocked the door. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh” she screamed she got pulled in and door slammed shut. The husband then rushed in.

And neither of them came out

THE END? Dun dun duuuuuuun.

By Josh and Tyrone

Grim Reaper Broadway

The Grim (Grim Reaper) sneaks up on a little girl with an ice-cream. The girl turns around after Grims  attempt to scare her and she says “are you from the circus?” He sighs and says “I need to get a real job”.

 He sings up for a job which was stand up comedy. “How about that airline food”. *Cricket sounds*. “Tough crowd eh”. A guy at the front throws a tomato at his head. Grim says “who threw that?” Everyone says “boo, get off the stage!” After the show he goes into an ally and starts drinking beer. After his beer he sings a little bit of Akons song “lonely” and then says “you were always right mother, I was never meant to be a comedian, I should have been a plumber like you!”

After his little sulk, he sees a sign reading: Broadway where all your dreams come true. “That’s it” he says “I’m going Broadway”. A little while after he decides to go Broadway he flies to Hollywood. He stands in front of a Major Theatre and starts talking to a supervisor.

The supervisor gives him the job of going Broadway. Grim performs and everyone starts booing him. He decides after the show “maybe Hollywood isn’t the one for me, But California still can be!”

“Ok” Grim says “I have arrived in California and I am looking for a place wanting a comedian, it could be a bar or a restaurant.” He decides to work at a bar, and as soon as he walks in an old lady yells at him “you killed my son”. “lady, calm down” grim says ‘I am here for a performance”. The lady says back “oh, ok but you still killed my son”!

He performs and his most not boring joke is “what did the statue say to the other statue? Statue bro?” He is still getting boos at his performance and a hobo steals his scythe, so Grim yells at him “Oi, for the second time, why do you want my scythe?” The hobo says “I am the Grim Reaper now!” *Grim shoots a beam out of his hand and it zaps the hobo*. The hobo yelps and says “ok ok, you can have it back”.

 The End….. To Be Continued…..

Will Grim ever find a job, will the hobo actually give it back or will he run away?

By Kruz and Ethan

Our Baptism

FRIDAY: Its time to go to the temple. We get dressed and tie our turbans. We arrive at the temple and pray. We come out and have something to eat and something to drink. We meet our friends that are getting baptized  They were so excited like us. when the program was ended we went to our homes. We get our 5 Ks (symbols) ready and our clothes ready.

SATURDAY: We get up and do prayer at 5 am. Its 11 o’clock and we have a shower. We go to the `temple and we all pray for a hour. Its 1 o’clock now and we all gather up. We walk to the room to get baptized in. The 5 Singhs did the 5 prayers. After those 5 prayer the 5 Singhs told us what to do everyday. When we had been baptized we walked out to the Temple. People were so happy and proud of us. At the temple we listened to some of the readings from a special priest that came the U.K. After that we. After that every kid who got baptized got a trophy and the adults got special  blessing by the special priest that came. After the readings we had our photos taken and we had our dinner. For dinner we had Curry, desert and naan bread.

Everyone  was saying congrats to us and our parents.

By Amrit and Sukhmaan.

sophie and rhiannons story

In class we have been doing some buddy writing. We drew eight boxes and planned our writing in them. We separated the story into 4 paragraphs and transferred our ideas into them. Here is our story about The Potato Head's Journey 

Potato Head’s Journey

Once there were two fat juicy delicious potatoes. Miss Potato Head and Mr Potato Head. The potatoes lived on a muddy potato farm by the power station in Ireland. One by one the potatoes were picked, washed and bagged. Miss and Mr Potato Head were in the last bag and they were shipped to Germany.

While they were on their trip Miss and Mr Potato Head became best friends. It was a long and bumpy trip. Eventually Mr Potato Head fell out of the big bag and he rolled and rolled around the huge ship. He felt quite queasy. “Throw down the anchor” the sailor said fiercely. The next thing they knew they were all split up but these two were taken to the F.B.I for an assessment.

Once the president realised they could talk they became top edition spies.

They were sent on  different missions and ended up spying on each other. Little did they know they were betrayed and put in a restaurant called Labola and a ginormous hand grabbed them by the stomach and a potato peeler. They were peeled and put in a with boiling water. Luckily they escaped. The chef Ramsey’s hand slipped and they feel down the garbage disposal.

They fell for each other and ended up getting married in a resort in Hawaii. They ended up being re accepted into the F.B.I and got sent on a special mission to the Hungry Games.

They went through a circular tube and ended up in the food bowl of Cat and Pete. They tried to run away then another gigantic hand grabbed them. It was Cat. She started laughing and said “this is winning quality”. Mr Potato was now in the stomach of Cat or Kittenville. A couple of minutes later Mrs Potato was in the stomach of Pete of Kittenville. And that was the end of Mr and Mrs Potato Head.

By Sophie and Rhiannon