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