Yummy Teach Me Tuesday!

Today Tamzin and Millie taught us how to "pimp our doughnuts". They showed us how to cut our doughnuts and then cover them in sugar and cinnamon. Next we grilled them in a sandwich press. This made the doughnuts fresh, sweet and crispy! 

What a great idea for Teach me Tuesday! Thanks Tamzin and Millie.

Peace Week thinking

This week our thinking question was: "Where can you find peace?" These are some of our ideas.

Where can you find peace? By Neha C

Peace, peace can be anywhere depending on     

the person himself. If he is a old man who would prefer to curl up on the sofa and eat cookies while drinking hot cocoa and reading a book near the fireplace.

Sometimes for a mother all she wants to do is get away from her naughty children and just going on holiday for once. However, Sometimes for a mother it can be peaceful to just spend time with her children.

Also for a kid peace can be found in not peaceful things like the most  scariest roller coaster. It might unpleasant to adults but kids you never know what's going on in their heads like for me I would ride a roller coaster while drinking strawberry milkshake.

Where can you find peace? by Annie Z
Peace can mean different things to different situations around the world. To me peace is very important because peace is being happy, having no problems or difficult situations or fights. 
In New Zealand it is a very peaceful place, so "peace" can be found here. Peace means not noisy, and peace in families, e.g. no divorce, work and problems with friends, rules and government organisations. In other countries "peace" means no war and less strict rules. 
So as you can see peace means different things in different situations.

Where can you find peace? by Tamzin H
Peace can be found in many places. To me peace can be found on a quiet beach, but some people find peace in other places like in a quiet room or with their family. Other people find peace with nature. Some people find peace on a tropical island like Hawaii. Some people find peace on road trips or on a plane. You can also find peace snorkelling or fishing another place. You can find peace going on a relaxing holiday.

Where can you find peace? by Lukas M
Peace can be found in many places. It can be found in lonely places like if your'e in a bed and you're reading a book quietly with your room locked so you're completely by yourself. 
You can also find peace on your boat by yourself and you're enjoying the view of the golden sand and sea.

Autumn poetry

This week we came back to school to find that autumn had arrived. Some of our trees had turned from green to gold and the temperature had dropped too. On Monday we spent some time out in the grounds looking at the trees and writing poems about the things we could see, hear and feel.

Here are some of our beautiful autumn poems.

Autumn leaves- By Marina L
Autumn leaves falling from naked trees.
Sand yellow leaves falling onto soft fresh grass
Bony old trees bending in the wind
Rustling from withered claw-like leaves
The out of place tree has leaves with diseases
The smell of cinnamon comes from the shrivelled up leaves
Behind me stands the lush green everlasting trees
Autumn, autumn has come to stay
And leaves fall to the ground
Autumn, autumn has come to stay.

Autumn- By Dan T
Falling yellow leaves from fishing rod trees
The tree is feeling alone from inside to the bone
It is sad and scared
It's friends are gone
But it has to wait until spring is here.

The autumn leaf - By Millie C
The wind lifts me from my feet
My favourite friend has gone
My crispy shell and scaly patterns are so cold
Although the sun gazes at me still
I fall onto the lazy green pieces of grass
Suddenly I see a foot and then I know a beast was upon me
Autumn.

Autumn leaves- By Tamzin H
The autumn sun shines down on me
Burning my shell to a crisp
I let go of the branch I stand on,
and dance down to my old friends
The wind lifts us off the forest floor
The bees fly past humming to their nests,
A drop of rain comes hurtling down towards me
and throws me to the ground.

Team building in the Tipa team

In the first week of school back at Upper Harbour the Tipa team played some games to get to know each other better. Here are some photos of the team building games.

In this game we had to kick the ball up to the Tee and then run around it 10 times before kicking the ball back to our teams. Everyone got really dizzy!!