Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Homework is silly



Mark Gifkins
Principal
Parkvale School                                                            
Howard Street
Hastings


Dear Mr Gifkins, I think that homework is silly. It is very inconvenient and is not good for our health. We could be doing other things. Playing with friends and family, training for sport or getting fresh air.


Firstly, Students have done a big watt of work at school and when they go home the want to get home and play with their toys or relax and watch television, not get home and make their brains work even harder. After all, school’s for work and learning, home on the other hand is for fun and relaxation. Kids are made for exploration, excitement and enjoyment not boredom, boredom and boredom.


Secondly, The students are doing work at school and when they get home they could have better things to do than being slaved doing work that they already have done at school. At home they could like to be creative and imaginative out in their garden with toys rather than being inside doing work and getting bored at home.


Lastly students could get lots of fresh air rather than warm inside air that isn’t good for them.
They could be practicing sport or be playing with cousins or friends that they haven’t seen in a long time, you wouldn't want to ruin friendship would you.


After all this I hope you will not give students anymore homework homework is silly. It is very inconvenient and is not good for our health. We could be doing other things. Playing with friends and Relatives, training for sport or getting fresh hawkes Bay air.


I look forward to your reply.


Yours sincerly,
Vaughn Laurence.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

MarshMallow

 
It was a dark and slightly gloomy night and I clamber out of my tent, I was hungry, I needed food and Fast at that. So I grabbed my bag of marshmallows and started a campfire by rubbing two sticks  together. then I hear a bobbing sound in the murky lake  water behind me, I take a peek, nothing was there. then I heard a rustle in the bush, I turned around nothing was there.




suddenly (grrrrrrrrrrrr) RROOAARR!!!! I saw something that looked like the lockness monster, it was scaly like a lizard, it’s eyes were shaped like ovals they were as yellow as dandelion yellow dye from minecraft with a zebra stripe right down the middle. i felt that this was my chance to defend or escape, I decided to defend so I held my stick up to the beast when suddenly It’s eyes turned....pink! it took some time but then I figured it out, It was looking at the marshmallow! I threw the marshmallow up in the air and the monster / now angel jumped and ate it in mid air! I reached for another one and threw it as high as I could and the beast still jumped and caught it. I reached into the bag again, I could only feel one more! this time the fish looking monster almost swallowed my hand whole! but thankfully only ate the marshmallow, that’s when it went downhill. the monsters eyes turned back from pink to yellow when suddenly…



RRRRRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The freak screamed, I ran away into the bushes. finally I found a golden marsh mallow from my best friends campfire, threw it as hard as i could into the woods and the monster sprinted and sprinted to eat it. I ran for my life while the  giant was distracted, when suddenly there was a humongous shadow in front of me. I looked up, it was a hairy ape… just kidding it was the marshmallow monster i sprinted my life away when gurgle, gurgle then the monster fell to the ground then I asked myself why would no one eat a perfect golden marshmallow and why did the monster fall to the ground when he ate that one marshmallow?  then it came to me no one would eat a perfect golden marshmallow if it was poisonous!!!!!!! I walked back, then a twig pinched me when instantly I woke up to a green material roof. Thank *** it was just a dream ……...   

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

My art blurb

My visual art piece is a majestic Kea, surrounded by the land which is coloured in as a turquoise and a dark green colour which is representing the grass Then the turquoise and dark green carries on into the mountain range with some grey representing stone. Leading into the sky. It starts off darker then gets lighter and we can’t forget the main focus…. the majestic Kea. It has a darker touch to the lower section of the bird, and for the upper section it is lighter. I hope you like my visual art piece as I am proud of my work.