The New Kahui's.

The New Kahui's

This week, the year 7 & 8's moved into the new Kahui's. The classes together are, TS with SH, DS with AL & MT and TZ & BH. All three buildings had different names, Mohua, Riroriro and Tieke. TS & SH are Tieke. All of the buildings are named after native birds. It took two years including the Learning Commons and Learning Street for it all to be built. I wasn't here on Monday or Tuesday so I didn't get to explore much of the classroom.

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Mohua / Yellowhead

Riroriro / Grey Warbler

Tieke / Saddleback

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When I walked into our new buildings I saw, bright orange walls, different bright colored tables, dark blue chairs, bright orange bookshelf to match the wall, white and grey walls complementing the orange. There was a large seating that looked like stairs, at the back of the seating was tables and plugs for students. There was also cubes on the sides of the seating with a table just big enough for two students. There was a large tall black table, it looked like it could only be comfortable for the tall people. There was a door leading out into the field, there was lots of classrooms in one building. 

When I walked into our new buildings I thought, that it looked much bigger and had much more space then our other classrooms. I thought it was going to be smaller, but it looked much bigger to what I had imagined. I thought I was going to get lost in these new buildings because of how similar all buildings looked. I thought that the outside area was amazing, the seating with umbrellas covering the seats to block the sun, the hill of fake grass looked nice.

When I walked into our new buildings I felt, scared, anxious and excited. I felt scared and anxious because it was new buildings and I didn't know which one to go into. I had to ask a couple of friends to know which building I was in. At the same time I felt a sense of excitement, it was a new building and new area, feeling excited is a good feeling. There was also a new timetable that I had to get used to for next term. 

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Tane Mahuta 🌱

Ella West

Ella West Visit

Today we had a special visit from Ella West.

Ella West is a New Zealand author who is widely known for her book Night Vision.

Ella came in today to talk about her two books Night Vision & Rain Fall. 

Ella started writing her book ( Night Vision ) in 2011. Night Vision is about a girl with Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). At night she would go to her parent's farm that had a forest. She had Night Vision Goggles with her so she could see better in the dark. While she was exploring the forest, she witnesses something that could get her into a lot of trouble. Night Vision is based in Ashburton, it was originally going to be based in Christchurch. 

Rain Fall is about a girls father that is a train driver that takes the coal from the mines. Her father and thousands of people are at risk of losing their jobs. 

Ella says that her goal every day is to write at least 1000 words. Her books have at least 50,000 words. 50,000 is her go-to goal. It takes her up to 1 year to write one book