Swimming by Aidan
In our togs, waiting to go swimming in the cold and clear school pool. Mrs Wilson our teacher yelled "Run to the pool", Everyone in the class started making chaos around the school . The class were like rampaging bulls and dying chickens. when everyone was at the pool Mrs Wilson yelled again "Six free",and six free means we have to swim six lengths of freestyle. The class quickly hung their tog bags up on the rusty hooks in the change rooms. The class ran on the concrete ground to the other end of the pool. I dive in the pool, a cold shock goes up my spine. I push through the water to take a breath. Swimming Sports by Titus
On Parawai. The School went to the Centennial. Some people Stayed at school and ever body else went to the Centennial pool. when you walk in you can smell Chlorine. I saw people Swimming , their arms out . When i Dive in the Water , I can taste chlorine. People were stretching long arms. Then the teachers had a race it was fun. Mr Iles let the school have free Time in the pool and we went back to school It was lunch. Swimming Sports by Keleigh As the sun beamed down on my sweating head on my forehead ,my heart was pounding . suddenly the buzzer went off . With all my strength I push off. I dived into the water. Splash! I hit the water. I pulled myself up through the water swimming as fast as I could. I could hear everybody cheering, yelling and screaming, bobbing my head in and out of the water. "Nearly at the end", I say to myself. I touch the wall with two hands. I swim slowly over to the other side and heave myself out. I walk over to the shade sale shivering. I grab my towel and wrap it around me. Logan Wenzlick
My Mum s family like my great poppa my grand dads dad ( Des Corbett ) and his mum great nana ( Nola Brown ) lived in Okarto for a long time. Then they got too old and had to move to a rest home in Taranaki where they still live to day. A on my mums side of the family my mums mum, (my granny), is living in Martangi with my uncle. Victoria Cowan My Nanas parents came from Scotland then they decided to live in New Zealand. when they did my nana was born and all her brothers and sisters. Then my mum was born. twenty years latter my mum and dad got mareyd, then three years latter my brother was born. I was born 7 years after my brother. Graeme Hodgson
Our family heritage goes back to 1728 it is quite amazing really,even one of our family was a dresser for the Queen of England. My granddad fort in the war then he put his name in the hat and his name got pulled out of the hat he then he got a ballot farm. My grandad met Barbara Mug and thay got married and had eight children and my mum. Thay owned a milking farm every morning my mum had to milk the cows then go to school. Once my mum drove the tractor to school. Last week we began to explore questions we had about the people in our community.
Why did they come to Thames? Why did our family come to Thames? Where did our family come from originally? We asked our parents where in the world our family came from. We then pinned a spot on the map of the world to show where we came from. Many families were originally from Aotearoa New Zealand. 8 out of 20 children have a Maori heritage from around Aotearoa including Waiomio, Tapu, and Kennedy Bay. Many other families came from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as other countries from around Europe. We asked ourselves why some families heritage was connected to European countries. Some reasons were;
Alyssa Davy My mum is from Thames and so is her mum, Nana Jene. Dad is from Auckland. Luke Moxsom Charles was from France. He was my great, great grand father. My great grand father worked in the gold mines in the Karangahake Gorge. My other great grand dad on my nana's side owned a gold mine in Thames Mary Wiki My mum's family is from Moerewa and my dad's family is from Waiomio. Caleb Howard My mum's family cam from Ireland. They came to New Zealand because the potatoes rotted in Ireland and they wanted to farm in New Zealand. Joella Johnson My mum's family came to New Zealand from England for work. She came on a ship. |
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