Metal and Paper

Paper is the twig you snap under foot
Metal is the branch that just won't break
Paper is the love that can tear in a second
Metal the friendship stronger than ever
Paper the bond between human nature

By Bianca Nagaiya

Black
Black is the colour of an old mysterious gravyard
Black is the colour of a cloudy dull day
Black is the colour of poison or bad luck
Black is the colour of bad moods
Black smells like the monster in my closet
Black taste like dust left upon our window sill
Black sounds like my fire alarm in the middle of the night
Black looks like dead roses
Black feels like there is no tomorrow
Black makes me feel depressed
Black is the colour of sadness 

Original by Mele Finau
Changed by Isabella Morcom

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Oppan Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style

Najeneun ttasaroun inganjeogin yeoja
Keopi hanjanui yeoyureul aneun pumgyeok inneun yeoja
Bami omyeon simjangi tteugeowojineun yeoja
Geureon banjeon inneun yeoja

Naneun sanai
Najeneun neomankeum ttasaroun geureon sanai
Keopi sikgido jeone wonsyat ttaerineun sanai
Bami omyeon simjangi teojyeobeorineun sanai
Geureon sanai

Areumdawo sarangseureowo
Geurae neo hey geurae baro neo hey

Areumdawo sarangseureowo
Geurae neo hey geurae baro neo hey

Jigeumbuteo gal dekkaji gabolkka

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Gangnam Style

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Eh- Sexy Lady
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Eh- Sexy Lady
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eh eh eh eh eh eh eh
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Jeongsukhae boijiman nol ttaen noneun yeoja
Ittaeda sipeumyeon mukkeotdeon meori puneun yeoja
Garyeotjiman wenmanhan nochulboda yahan yeoja
Geureon gamgakjeogin yeoja

Naneun sanai
Jeomjanha boijiman nol ttaen noneun sanai
Ttaega doemyeon wanjeon michyeobeorineun sanai
Geunyukboda sasangi ultungbultunghan sanai
Geureon sanai

Areumdawo sarangseureowo
Geurae neo hey geurae baro neo hey

Areumdawo sarangseureowo
Geurae neo hey geurae baro neo hey

Jigeumbuteo gal dekkaji gabolkka

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Eh- Sexy Lady
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eh eh eh eh eh eh eh

Ttwineun nom geu wie naneun nom
Baby baby
Naneun mwol jom aneun nom

Ttwineun nom geu wie naneun nom
Baby baby
Naneun mwol jom aneun nom

You know what I'm saying

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Oppan Gangnam Style by ferg

Year eights Piopio trip by Ella Mather

This term the year eight students went to Piopio.We went to many different places during our 5 day trip in Piopio and on the trip there and back. On the way there our first stop was at the Kiwi house, it was a very educational trip but nowhere near boring. We saw many native and endangered animals at the kiwi house. Once we arrived at Piopio we settled in with our billets. We woke up early the next morning, but not too early. Our first stop was at the dairy farm were we milked the cows then fed the calf’s and lambs. The we had a good feed on the milk we just milked from the cows. Our next stop was at the Mc Donald’s lime quarry. After a quick bus ride through it was time to head back to school to meet our billets and head on home. Wednesday! half way through our trip already. But no rides for us to school today because it was FARM DAY!!!!! the day were every one just stays at home and lives the country life. For me it was the day when we went horse riding,target shooting,motorcross,feeding piglets,collecting chicken eggs and the best of all sack riding!!!Thursday. We headed off to the sheep place and shore a couple sheep. Then to our next stop my personal favourite THE LLAMA FARM! it was sooooooo much fun we arrived to see 50 llamas greeting us. The male llamas were very stubborn and would not let us pat them unlike the female llamas. After llama naming time we left to go home.

FRIDAY THE BEST DAY YET.........(what happens with the year eights on Friday stays with the year eights on Friday)

By Ella Mather hehe :P

 For the last few weeks ive been doing this band thing at the school of rock. the equipment in it is really crap and my band is called  anoying shrilankan drummer thats tommy jermain ben ashwin stella jae urn and me ferg and  our songs are entersandman and seven nation army.

Bounce
Bounce
Bounce
Bounce

I can’t believe that every day and every night (bounce)
It's getting better with you out of my life (bounce)
It’s like I flicked a switch and now I’m feeling good (bounce)
No way to stop it, now you wish that you could (bounce)

When the weekend comes I know I'll feel alive (bounce)
You will be the last thing on my mind (bounce)
No regrets, do you know what that means

It's hot it's love
We bounce to this track
And I don’t care what anybody thinks about that
Hands to the sky, and throw your head back

I can love again tonight
We’re down to this track
And I don’t care what anybody thinks about that
Hands to the sky, and throw your head back

Bounce
Bounce
Bounce
Bounce

If how, if now, if when
We’re down to this track
And I don’t care what anyobody thinks about that
I don’t care what anyobody thinks about that

Yamin's Blog NUMBER 1 on Trash To Fashion

TRASHION TO FASHION
This term everyone has been working HARD OUT on their garments for trash to fashion. We are all battling it out to win the TRASH TO FASHION MEDAL of awesomness. Topic: Kermadecs. Me and my year 7 partner Stella accepted the challenge and accomplished it with our LANDSCAPE MERMAID THINGY. We are really proud of what we have done :D. But there are some seriously good ones out there, becuase we have all taken this to the max. Some of us were chosen to go and model their outfit at the National Library closing ceremony for their kermadec exhibit. About 10 groups were chosen for this and we were one of them! :) (not to brag...). All the house groups had to weeks to finish their outfits. Now we are all nervously looking forward to the real competition where we will be judged! Good luck everybody!!!

THIS BLOGGER THING IS LIKE THE NEW FB OR TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

suppys peeps

hi. we also did trash to fasion. I was lucky because I got my booklet in on time but some people almost got killed!

piopio

Hi. When the year 8's and I went to piopio, we did a variety of things but my favourite was the pig hunt that I went on. After about two hours, we caught a 70 pounds (lb's) and had it for dinner the next day.

Hi. When the year 8s went to pio pio we got the entire week off and wrote parodies, so everything was easy.

For our yearbook page this year, we thought about what we want to achieve in life and where we want to be when we are 20, 30 , 50 etc.
We had our head shot taken and we needed to draw a body that would show our goals for the future for example, author. doctor, boss, vet.

WAITING FOR TERM TO END!!!

WAITING FOR TERM TO END!!!

 

 

I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT FROM SCHOOL, I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!!SCHOOL IS FUN BUT IT IS TOO TIRING FOR ME LIKE WAKING UP IN THE MORNING, DOING P.E. AND STUFF(BUT I AM NOT LAZY)I ACTUALLY LIKE MY NEW PLACE WHERE MY LOVELY CLASS TEACHER MRS.SHEARMAN PLACED ME BESIDE THE BESIDE THE WINDOW(WHICH I CAN SEE GREEN STUFF AND MAX L'S HSE BUT I AM NOT STALKING HIM OK!!)WHATEVER,CONTINUE.......I AM ACTUALLY SOOOOO EXCITED FOR TERM TO OVER........EXCITED MEAN TELLING MY FRIENDS ESPECIALLY AIMEE AND BEA 'I CANT WAIT FOR THE TERM TO OVER' AND THEY THINK THAT I AM CRAZY BUT THEY STILL AGREE AND THEY CANT ALSO WAIT FOR THE TERM TO OVER!!!BUT DURING THE HOLIDAYS I HAVE TO STUDY FOR MY EXAMS OTHERWISE MY MUM WOULD KILL ME!!!!!ARRGGHHH!!!!HAHAHAH!!!I AM REALLY CRAZY NOW!!!WHY????????????IDK!!!!!I CAN'T WAIT TO GET ON MY BED AND SLEEP FOR 200 HRS!!!!!!!!!!HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE IS ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

BY:DHRITI(XOXOXOX)

(THE QUESTION WHY AM I CRAZY ON THE PARAGRAPH WHAT I JUST DID WAS BECAUSE WAS AIMEE MAD ME CRAZY AND ANGRY BUT I DON'T SHOW IT!!!)



On wednesday 19/09/12 I went to national library we were doing a trash to fashion  performance with my two friends. I was the helper with one of my friend. My trash to fashion topic is Jellyfish, our garment is really cool.

TRASH TO FASHION 2012

TRASH TO FASHION!!!!

 

WE HAD TRASH TO FASHION FOR 2 WEEKS AND CATCH UP TOO.... IT IS ACTUALLY FUN CAUSE THE YEAR 8'S GET TO BE A MODEL AND THE YEAR 7'S HELP TO MAKE THE GARMENT. BEFORE WE STARTED THE GARMENT WE ARE GIVEN TO DO A BOOKLET BASE WHAT ARE U DOING WHICH IT DUES WEEK 10 AT TERM 3.(IF U DON'T DO THE BOOKLET U ARE GONNA GET IN TROUBLE, IF U WANNA GET IN TROUBLE THEN DON'T DON IT!!!)OUR THEME WAS ACTUALLY BASE ON THE KERMADECS,SO NATALIE DECIDED TO D A TURTLE WHICH IS NOT A BAD IDEA. WE ACTUALLY FACED OBSTACLES FROM DOING THE GARMENT.(WHICH WAS ANNOYING) WHILE WE WERE DOING OUR GARMENT WE HAD TO TAKE PHOTOS FOR THE BOOKLET(I WAS ACTUALLY STARTED LAUGHING WE HAD TO POST AND ACT WE THAT ACTUALLY WE ARE DOING STUFF WHICH IS DRY!!) AFTER WE FINISHED OUR GARMENT WE HAD TO START FOCUSING IN OUR BOOKLET AND YEAH. WE ACTUALLY HAD TROUBLE BUT I DON'T REALLY WANNA SHARE IT!!!!

BUT WE ACTUALLY KIND OF ENJOYED TRASH TO FASHION!!!!

 

BY:DHRITI (XOXOXO)

(WHATEVER LOL)

PIOPIO

 

Day 1:

 

On 10th September 2012 the year 8s from Parnell travelled by bus to a Rural Town Called Piopio. Our bus ride was around 2.5 hours long making stops at Pirongia and Otorohanga. At Otorohanga we went to the Kiwi House and learnt about Birds and we also went on the Kiwiana Hunt in Otorohanga Town. At the Kiwiana Hunt we ran around the town looking for answers to questions it may sound boring but it was actually very fun and TIRING! After the Kiwiana Hunt we headed back on the road to Piopio! We arrived at Piopio at about 2:45pm to see our Billets waiting on the field for us. After awkwardly meeting our billets we headed home either by school bus or by car. My billet Georgia usually takes the school bus so thats how we got home. We were on the bus for about 1 hour! Arriving home we had Afternoon Tea - Juice, Biscuits and a toasted cheese sandwich! YUM! After afternoon tea Georgia and I headed outside to feed Malca-Horse, Buffalo-Calf and Polly her dog. After we fed Malca, Polly and Buffalo we took Malca to the Horse Shed thing and put the saddle on her back and I hopped on for a ride. I rode Malca ( With Georgia by my side ) for about 2 hours around one side of Georgia's HUGE farm we headed back inside to find dinner ready. Dinner that night was Spagetti Bolognse.

 

Day 2:

 

6:45am Georgia and I headed outside to feed Buffalo, it was cold! Polly was running around jumping up and down in mud spraying mud EVERYWHERE! After breakfast we headed down the driveway to wait for the bus. After arriving at school the Parnell kids hopped onto another bus heading to a Dairy Farm.

 

That was a few days at Piopio :)

By Emily Peers

 

The end of the term!

The term is almost at an end.  We have almost finished Howl's Moving Castle and are looking forward to watching the movie.

The Trash to Fashion graments are looking awesome and I think we will have a spectacular show next term and we have made it very hard on the judges. I wouldn't want to pick a winner amongst them.

NSW Exams

Thursday 6th September 2012
Post By Samuel Mang

Have you ever been thinking about your NSW Exam test results. If Not, DON'T BOTHER READING ON because THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. If so, continue reading.

Have you ever thought ' I wish I could see my test results for my New South Wales exam today' well, of course you can't see the results of the test until you get your test results right? WRONG, you can actually see your results several weeks before you actually get your test paper by going to this site:     
http://www.eaa.unsw.edu.au/icas/student-results
The rest of the instructions are on this page.

P.S: Don't tell my mum about this

My speech By George Hatton

Thursday 6th September

My speech Posted by George Hatton

I think my speech was pretty good and persuasive as well. My topic was littering and why people shouldn't litter. My parents really liked my speech. I had accurate time but i didn't use any repition and I might of used about a few metaphors. In the end I didn't get into the speech finals but I was still very proud of myself. My brother (Freddy) got into the speech finals which I am proud of him. Well.... maybe next time I might be lucky.

Pi

Wednesday 5th September 2012
Post by Samuel Mang

Pi is an irrational number which means it goes on and on and on forever without repeating itself. Pi is used to calculate the area and circumference of a circle. All the digits of pi that I know: 3.14159265358979 (PS. Felix and Drason know way more digits of pi than I know). If you want to find more digits of pi, go to http://www.piday.org/million.php      Anyway, Here's the first thousand digits:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582
0974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086
5132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841
0270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344
6128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454
3266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209
2096282925409171536436789259036001133053054882046652138
4146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611
7931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830
1194912983367336244065664308602139494639522473719070217
9860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000
5681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409
0122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201995611212
9021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998
3729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425
2230825334468503526193118817101000313783875288658753320
8381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882
3537875937519577818577805321712268066130019278766111959
09216420198938095257201065485863

At least I think its the first thousand digits.

Shark Fin Soup

Wednesday 5th September 2012
By Giovanni San Jose
                                                                      SHARKS

Sharks are beatiful animals, they have survived 450,000,000 years, they control 2/3 of the planet, but they are in danger. Men kill them for their fins because the chinese people  think that they will make them more healthy, but that they do is that they cut the shark's fins and then they throw the shark alive to the ocean so it dies slowly or is eaten by other animals. This is so cruel but is a big amount of money that you win if you do that, a kilogram of shark fin costs 300 american dollars. The men kill 10,000,000 sharks every year so please don,t eat shark fin soup.

Limericks Poem By George Hatton

Wednesday 5th September

A Limericks poem made by George Hatton


There once was a annoying duck.
Who had brought a diesel truck.
Then one day when he sang,
With a big great loud 'BANG',
 he walked into sticky bombs which made him stuck

2012 speech finals

2012 speech finals

at the speech finals 2 weeks ago Lachy presented about mans worst enemy, Leo about gun laws in america, Calvin had the same topic, Melissa did it about sugar and Jayda did it about nationalities.
Lachy won with Jayda being the runner up.

by zac

pio pio

On 10th of September year 8 students are going to pio pio for 5days.
I am really excited about going to a farm and doing the activities there.
We are going to do so many things in 5days like riding quadbikes, riding horses, shooting and much more. I think I will have a great time there.

PIOPIO

I'm very excited about going to PIOPIO, it must be very fun. I've only been to a farm once and i want to go to another one.

We have been looking at our personal journey and where we would like to go in the future.  We looked at our goals and ambitions, what would we like to do and experience in our lives. This has been an entertaining process, but sometimes it is fun to look backwards as well. Looking back over the year we have grown up and doen  so much stuff.

The mini olympics were fun. The year 8's dressed up in orange to support the Netherlands and the year 7's wore green, orange, and red to support Algeria. We all had an awesome day.

 

 

We looked at water transport in plants and learnt that the xylem transports water up and the phloem transports nutrients from photosynthesis down to the roots. We demonstrated this using food colouring and white flowers.

 

We made marble tracks and did a science fair.  Some of our experiments were awesome and some of them weren't that great. It was fun to have the yougner kids come down to look at what we had done.

 

We went the maritime musem and learnt about journeys across the ocean, we learnt how to use compasses to navigate, although if we needed to use them seriously some of us may get a bit lost.

Even dating all the way back to Wellington. This year has been one big journey.

 

 

Term 3 is half way through with a large number of events still to come.
Volleyball
Calendar art fundraising
Year 8 trip to Piopio.
Lots of exciting things in a short period of time.  We are currently reading Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones to complete our study of book adaptions which we started earlier this term with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Our individual novels studies include Bridge to Terabithia, The Hobbit, Dreamhunter, The Outsiders which has resuulted in the entire class learning the dwarf rune alphabet.

I'm walking long a boardwalk path
we're all held in suspence
Leaning over this oversized salt-bath
When will the fire commence

A small metal cannon stood below us
We quickly coverd our ears
If it didn't work i would definetly cuss
As we gazed apon the piers

Then a man lit the fuse (we were real anxious now!)
Then he told us to count down from ten
When we hit one there was an ear splitting POW!
I almost forgot where I was then

I  still think about it when other thoughts go away
And that's where I find myself today.

                                                 THE BELL
                                             RINGS 8 TIMES
                                           BEFORE THE CAN-
                                          NON BLOWS BEING
                                        HEARD ALL OVER THE
                                      MUESEUM, GOING AS LO-
                                    UD AS IT CAN, WITH PEOPLE
                               THERE     WATCHING WITH HANDS 
                           OVER THEIR EARS BUT IT IS STILL HEA-
                        RD ALL AROUND AND GIVING US A BIG FRI-
          GHT AND A GUIDE STANDING BACK WATCHING US JUMP!!
                                                
  BY EMILY PEERS =D
                                                


Welcome back to term 2.

Already we have an exciting term in the works.  We have already visited the museum and explored their displays on New Zealanders involvement in various wars, and on Tuesday we paid respect to ANZAC day with a special assembly commemorating our armed services.  Coming up this term we have a visit to the marae, and the excitment of myths and legends.

Welcome to Room 27.  Week 6! It has come so fast we are all a little stunned,  so much to do and so little time to do it in. 

We are getting bags made and writing scripts all in preparation for our trip to Wellington in a few weeks. The bags are looking awesome with some of them well on the way to being finished.  We have one more group to get through and then there will be catch up sessions to make sure everybody gets completed in time.

Yesterday we were fortunate to have a visit from some professional muisicians who with the help of some students put on a great performance of Tchouchou's Toys.  There was dancing and acting and some beautiful classical music by composed by Debussy.

Remember parents are welcome to come along and enjoy these events with us.