This week for writing the year 7s had to write a letter to their future self and the year 8s had to write a memoir to possibly say at the year 8 leavers dinner. Since I am a year 8 I had to write a memoir. My memoir is down below.

I still vividly remember the day I joined St Francis in term 4 in 2018 when two girls approached me and asked “do you want to be friends?” and then a friendship began with Ari and Neve on my first day of school. Later through the years our group became bigger and bigger. I still remember my first camp at Blue Skies Camp in Paiaka when I was in a cabin with absolutely no friends but that helped me out to make a lot more friends. 

In Tumu we went to Woodend, which was my favourite camp throughout my whole time at school. I still remember getting cut by barnacles at Wainui camp at term 3 in year 7 when we were coasteering (it was painful!).  Later on last year a couple weeks after camp along with Ari, Neve, Ava, Zoe, Ella, Mikayla, Ainsley and I hosted and helped out at the disco. This year we made a new friend, Summer and it feels like we have been friends for so long and we will miss her and Zoe when they arent at Marian with the rest of us. 

My friends were so helpful throughout the school years and I am so grateful for them. When I was in a wheelchair after my knee surgery my friends were such a big help and so were the teachers and I am so grateful for them.

Neve was so helpful and always helped me out when I was struggling with math questions and she was one of my first friends. Ari was a big help when I was alone, she would always include me in. Ava was helpful when my mum needed for me to stay over at someone’s house and I would always be at Ava’s house. 

Ainsley was always bringing a smile to my face everyday and I always had her in my class for 4 years so being with her for those past years was so much fun. Mikayla is so nice and kind and generous and she has a really cool dog. Zoe is so funny and won’t stop keeping a smile on my face and she is so kind and caring yet I will still miss her next year. 

Ella Warren is so funny and kind and when we were in the pbl group for the G.E.M mindfulness journal when we made cute little gratitude bracelets. Summer was such a good listener and was so kind and funny and she kept a smile on my face but I will miss her next year. Last year at the end of the term we had a water fight day where everyone got their waterguns and as soon as I reached school I was already soaking wet. We had a dunk tank, an inflatable soccer ball game and It was so much fun. The jump jam team was a really good memory especially when we got second place. 

St Francis of Assisi School has taught me about making new friendships, good values, to be confident and to learn from your mistakes. Year 8 has taught me how to be a good leader and I will take what I learnt from this school to high school and throughout to the rest of my life. I am so grateful for this school because it helped me throughout the years.

I will really miss this school and everyone here and I hope everyone takes care of themselves for next year.

Will you miss this school?

Kia Ora, a few weeks ago we looked at some picture books for inspiration for making our own picture books for a younger audience to read. My book was about an adventurous princess getting lost in a magic forest and then finding a little fairy friend that can help. My book is down below. Hope you enjoy reading!

Princess Victoria’s and Her Amazing Adventure

Do you like writing books?

Last month we were learning about saints and the month of the rosary. The month of the rosary is October and Mary is connected to the rosary. Mary is the mother of Jesus and had angel Gabriel talk to her about how Mary would be pregnant with Jesus. My create is down below.

What do you know about Mary?

Kia Ora, this term we were learning about saints. We learnt about Saint Francis, Mother Mary and many more saints. Our create task was to make a poster on how to become a saint including the four important things: Request, Beatification, Determination and Canonization. My create is down below.

How to be a Saint

Who is your favorite saint?

Kia Ora, last week we celebrated All Saints Day which is on 1st of November. All Saints Day a feast day observing the lives of the many saints for whom there is no specific feast day during the year. For our create we had to research on a saint and make a poster about the saint. My create is down below

Who is your favorite saint?

Today at school we had a school Olympic day. I had to help host the game called rob the nest with my friends. Rob the nest is a game where there is a hula hoop in the middle filled with balls and there are 4 more hoops in the corners and they would be in 4 teams lined up behind the hoop. One person from each team gets 1 ball from the hula hoop and puts it in their teams hula hoop. Once all of the balls are gone from the hoop in the middle, the teams have to steal eachothers balls. When the game was over the team with the most balls in there hoop wins. Rob the nest was really fun and we had only the juniors doing rob the nest.

Do you like playing rob the nest?

Last week for reading we had to pick a Paralympic sportsman/sportswoman and create something that an help them with their sport. I chose Nikita Howarth. She is a swimmer and has limb deficiency. I created my poster on Canva. My create is down below.

Yesterday we had to create a poem about the beauty and the complexity of God’s creation- nature. We could create any type of poem. We could have done haiku, diamante, acrostic etc. I chose to do an acrostic poem. My word was beauty and I had a lot of fun doing this. My create is down below

What poems do you like?

Kia Ora

Last week we went to Sumner beach to learn about the sand dunes. We separated into 2 groups and we both had a guide to tell us what sand dunes about and habitats. The guide asked the group if sand dunes are important and me and my friends said that sand dunes were useless before we got to learn about the sand dunes because we didn’t know what that was, later we had to make a sand dune and we got to decorate our sand dunes. Sand dunes protect peoples houses from flooding.

Do you know about sand dunes?

Kia Ora

This week for maths we had to do a statistical investigation. We could ask anyone what question but it has to be appropriate. I decided to do the question “How do you go to school?” and we had to add statements that we noticed of the graph. This task was very fun. My create is down below.

Do you like doing statistics?