KOKAKO LODGE

Kokako Lodge - Acrostic poem 

(Red is KOKAKO LODGE highlighted)

BEFORE

                                       TaKe a look 

                              at KokakO lodge

              There is sure to be Kayacts, I wonder what colours they will be?

                       See the HunuA falls flowing,

                probably into a laKe!

                    Feeling a bit wOrried about how 

                                   my aLergies will be handled

                           There is bOund to be climbing gear, instructors as well,

                            although Despite my worries and other things like that, I am sure

         my time their will be Great,

     having fun during activitiEs. 

Kokako lodge - Acrostic poem

(Blue is KOKAKO LODGE highlighted)

AFTER

                                   TaKe a look at Kokako lodge.

                                  SurOunded by thick bushery.

                                See Kayakts, cooking materials, archery equipment, high ropes harnesses, 

                low ropes and Abseiling equipment,

                             all at Kokako Lodge.

                       See the glOw worms glistening under the moon.

Cabins of all shapes and sizes, the place to 

                                      Lay our heads. 

         Meet Chewey, JR, JOnny, Matt and Luca, our wonderful instructors for the week as well as

       our wonderful cook, Dennis making amazing meals.

                             Have Great times with friends, giggling and smiling,

                                     Excitment wherever you go at Kokako lodge!

By ELLA

We should incorporate the idea from the student government, and put in a rock garden with painted stones!

On the behalf of the student government I strongly advise that we include the student government's idea and put in a rock garden with painted stones. Reasons being that the Year 6’s will get to leave something behind, like a legacy, it will add colour to the outside learning area and it would be a great decoration.

Having a rock garden in our outside learning area would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave. As a Year 6 I know that I and many others want something to come back to that will remind us of our incredible time at Forrest Hill School, this means that we would be leaving a legacy for ourselves to come back to, so having stones with our names painted on them would fit that criteria perfectly and also be something for other students at Forrest Hill School to enjoy. I have interviewed 20 people in my Year 6 class, 19 of the students agreed with the statement above and 1 did not, therefore reinforcing the sentence above, that they felt the same way towards this. Adding to the fact that having painted stones with our names on them would be a legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind, is the fact that it was one of the Student Government's projects to complete for 2015, so for the Student Government it would be an accomplished task that others would be able to enjoy. Put yourself in a Year 6’s position, wouldn't you want to have something that will remind you of your primary school years at Forrest Hill School? Seeing there would be an individual name on each of the stones/pebbles, each stone would be unique so the Year 6’s would have there own kind of memory stone to represent them. Another thing to consider is it would be a fun activity for the Year 6’s to complete in the last week of school, sending the Year 6’s to intermediate with a smile. The last thing you want is unhappy Year 6’s going off to intermediate, dreading their last day because all they did was MATHS! Painted stones for the reasons above would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind.

We need bright colours in our outside learning area! What is a learning area without bright colours? Colour is a necessary factor in a garden, making painted stones a perfect idea. In areas of our learning area where rot and decay takes over everything in that space will seem dull, however this can be changed by putting in colourful stones with names written on them. Bright colours like yellow, green, orange and so on make people feel happy and cheerful from the colours brightness. These bright colours will remind students of their happy memories at Forrest Hill School, relating back to the fact that the stones would be a great reminder for Year 6’s who have left Forrest Hill, as strongly stated in the paragraph above, consequently these colours make for happy times! If however the learning area has dull colours such as midnight blues, black, brown e.t.c it will only remind people of sad, gloomy times not joyful and fun times. You can’t deny it, colour is needed in our learning area and the painted stones would suit that purpose perfectly!

Painted stones would be a great decoration and would be a great representation of our school. You may be wondering, what do I mean by a “great representation of our school,” well what I am meaning is that the rocks/pebbles could be placed in a specific way to create a pattern or image on the ground. These symbols could be symbols that represent our school or symbols that represent Aotearoa. For e.g to represent our school, the stones could make the symbol of our Forrest Hill School tree logo or to represent Aotearoa, the stones could be in the shape of a koru. As a result of the symbols representing our school, people would be reminded of Forrest Hill going back to the first paragraph. Also as a result of the symbols representing Aotearoa, the symbols would give meaning to our garden. On the decoration side of things the stones combined to make a symbol would make the learning space more of an interesting place to work in. The stones/pebbles would be a great representation of our school and a great decorations, both those things are needed.

In conclusion, I would love to work in the learning area if there was a rock garden with painted stones because it would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind, it would make the learning space pop with colour and finally the stones would be a great decoration and representation of our school.

Moment in time: 18/8/2015

Cross Country

Gooey, brown mud bombards the crevasses of my toes as the cross country course whizzes past me. The chorus of familiar voices from my Mum, Dad, Nana and Poppa dominate my thoughts with a million messages like; persevere to the end, I can't let them down, I have got to do my best.

The finish line approaches, the part to sprint finish is coming up. With the smell and squelch of mud rising from beneath, my heart beating out of my chest, the wind rifling through my hair I enter the last 100 meters, tights sticking to me all the way. 

It's intermediate time!

Wairau Intermediate

On a bright but damp Monday the 10th of August a brave Forrest Hill School year 6 committee took the charge of Wairau Intermediate, striding along from the bus not knowing what to expect. Finally a chance for me to compare between school after an intense visit to Murry's Bay Intermediate last week. 

After 2 of the technical activity's, Music Tech and Food Tech and what seemed like a family reunion with my fellow friends who graduated last year from Forrest Hill and went to Wairau, group number 3 was ready for the final rotation to Hard Tech. I had a feeling this would be my favorite activity! Entering the Hard Tech room was like walking into an old style garage, 4 brown, paint splattered tables crowded the room each housing a strange blue mechanism, I was yet to find out what these strange things where. Despite that, the thing that intrigued me most was the wall of tools, every shape, size and colour imaginable. It seemed to never end! Getting to work we started creating Dog Tags using the strange mechanism, hence the name of a "Vice Grip." By using a Hammer and a Brad with a raised letter on the end I indented my tag, resulting in a message saying "Soccer is everything." 

Wow! What an amazing time I had, THANKS Mr Murry (the principal) and Wairau Intermediate. Looks like you will be seeing me next year. 

Westlake Boys Symphonic Band

Wednesday the 5th of August

Westlake Boys Symphonic Band

All of their songs Temple, Fire, Space Walkers and September sounded professional with my favorite song they preformed being Fire because it really painted a real picture in my mind. They painted a picture in my mind by making their instruments seem to re in-act what a fire would seem like by bringing in a bass drum (a big, massive drum played on it's side) which to me made a big difference because it kind of brought in a secret sound and fire is known to be secret as it is not deliberately put there. Also helping to paint a picture in my mind, in this song someone played the crash symbols making it sound lie someone was screeching, making sense because quite often when there is a fire it is scary and when things are scary people tend to scream. The final song they preformed was called September a high tempo song that after the really painting a picture in your mind kind of songs brought us back to our senses with a groovy beat. This song I happened to know so I was kind of going with the beat which helped me to enjoy it a whole lot more.

Over all their performance was amazing and I am pretty sure the whole school loved it.

From me I say 

"Well done to them!"

Conductors:

Miss Barker

Mr Robinson 

Band:

Westlake Boys Symbolic Band

THANK YOU!!

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A white shape watched secretly from a perch on a snow covered tree. It was the snowy owl, Olivia, her bright beady eyes watching like a hawk not missing the slightest of movement. Stretching effortlessly her broad wings preparing to wait another hour throughout the driving snow for her meal to be spotted. Carefully preening her glossy brown and white feathers like a kitten, she made it look so easy. Through her curved beak she lapped up the smell of a lone field mouse, Andrew, and set flight to cautiously hover overhead, talons all ready and waiting to attack. Gliding over the fields her lunch a was spotted... Andrew had been found.


Rolling gleefully in his snow bath, Andrew the fully grown field mouse enjoyed the the winters cool breeze letting it overcome him with laughter, what a child! As he rolled back and fourth restlessly, his creamy white belly would reveal itself to the world but on one occasion when his small, fluffy head popped up for a swift unnoticeable squizz at his surroundings, his beady eyes as small as raisins being bombarded with snow continuously like a gun firing bullets at the enemy, Andrews long delicate whiskers sensed movement, spotting danger. Olivia had targeted him and was entering a full speed dive straight towards his pink button nose. He squeaked disbelievingly at his luck before he froze with intense fear, his ginger fur standing on end. Wiped back to his senses he scampered as fast as his three toed feet would carry him and clung desperately to a small shrub with his deathly claws, instantly wrapping his long spindly tail around the leaves. His tiny ears quivered as he listened for his approaching attacker.

"I am going to die," wailed Andrew as Olivia descended towards him.

"Too right you are," cackled Olivia landing gracefully beside Andrew. "Looking pretty good for my full coarse meal."

"Please don't, I will do anything," Andrew whimpered, his bottom lip quivering uncontrollably!

"Well come to think of it there is one thing that would stop you getting eaten," thought Olivia. "It is, can you be my friend as I get pretty lonely from time to time up in that tree of mine, no one to play with, no one at all and I guess I can always find an Antarctic hare to eat instead."

Hearing the sorrow in her voice Andrew answered "Of course but, but you could have picked anyone but me."

"Well I could, but you where the only one to cross paths with me so you are now the lucky one," a now cherry Olivia exclaimed. "Hop on my back and we can go for a quick tour of our wilderness!"

So off they went, two friends beaming with joy off on a big adventure.