Friday Assembly

On a Friday all the classes had to go to assembly to see who gets to be a prefect. It was boring of cause and I started falling asleep. Mr Burt showed us a video that can help us use the crossing safely. Instead of running across the road use the crossing its much more safe.

Now When You get out of the car use the footpath side.

Van Gogh and Matisse

Sunflowers by Van Gogh La Musique by Matisse

Matisse and Van Gogh

In room 21 our teacher Mrs Lagitupu has set us a task to compare and contrast Henry Matisse and Van Gogh's paintings. Henry Matisse is famous for his art style Les Fauves or Fauvism (Wild Beast). And Van Gogh's art style is Expressionism, and thats what he's famous for. The two paintings that we had to compare were Matisses 'La Musique' and Van Goghs 'Sunflowers'.

What I notice about the sunflower painting is that it has only a few colours. It has lots of yellow and brownish colours. It looks like some flowers are facing down. Maybe some of the sunflowers are dead because they look tired and droopy. The flowers are sitting in a pot. The pot also has yellow and brownish colours like the flowers.

Something I notice about 'La Musique' is that the lady with the guitar is wearing blue clothes on. And that she is with someone beside her who is wearing a yellow brownish dress. Also on the painting it shows a very good background that stands out. The background has large green leaves. It looks like the lady is playing the guitar to the musical notes on the floor.

The sunflower is different to the 'La Musique' painting because the colour from the sunflower is mainly yellow and the 'La Musique painting has lots of contrasting colours.

The Holidays

I didn’t do anything exciting in the holidays. It was so boring because my friend just wanted to be a game freak 24/7. So I went down to my friends house (Kane’s), and Kane and his brothers asked if I wanted to go down to Youth Pride (Holiday programme). I said “yes why not”. When I got there I saw my mates Matthew, Lepa, Kayde, and Jephte. I was so hungry once I got there. I heard that it was going to be the last day of Youth Pride. So I knew that there was going to be a shared lunch. I said “sweet”. After that my friends told me to get something from the machine to eat, but I didn’t wanted to spend my money.

Later on we had a feed, and it was nice. There was a sausage sizzle, sausage rolls, chips, fish, and also apple pie and ice-cream. I had lots of fun at Youth Pride and it would be so cool if people can camp there. But why did I have to come on the last day? After we had our feed Kingston and I went to the basketball court and played.

Soon enough it was almost home time and it started to get boring. I hope that I will be able to go again in the next holiday and see all my friends instead of staying at home playing my game. It’s been a cool holiday for the last 2 weeks.

But next holiday I bet it’s going to be better.

De'Vyne Mihimihi

Ko Maungarei te maunga. Tamatea Mountain

Ko Tamaki te awa.

Kei Glen Innes toku kainga noho I stay in Glen Innes.

No Samoa/Tonga/Rarotonga/Aotearoa etc ahau I come from New Zealand


Ko Pt England toku kura I go to Pt England school.


Ko John Biddle raua ko Ian Elliot oku koro My grandfathers are John Biddle and Ian Elliott


Ko Harriet Patarana raua ko Angelique Speir oku kuia My grandmothers are Harriet Patarana and Angelique Speir


Ko Paul Biddle toku matua My father is Paul Biddle


Ko Tarquin Elliott toku whaea My mother is Tarquin Elliott


E ma rau oku tau. I am 12 years old.

Camp Dancing

At camp we did a dance that was like Zumba. it was very funny once we started dancing. Everyone Started to act dumb. I was acting like a jerk during zumba and it was crack up. I was doing the best dance I can and it was good. Tyler mum was the best at dancing, and I was like jealous. My dancing skills was madness, jumping up everywhere, doing lots of hand flips. Just crazy. When we were doing each song, I had a very funny face.
Now that's the end of my story.

Camp Concert

I can’t wait until I can show off my dance skills. On Camp Concert night our MC (host) was Mr Barks. I was so afraid that something funny was going to happen. All the groups got ready and it was time to hit the hall. Once I got into the hall, I thought to my self that our group Respectronicz would come last. Our leaders told us to line up in even lines, to relax and enjoy the show.

“Give it up for TEAM RESPECT” Mr Barks said. Once they came up on stage, we were all cheering “Go Cruz team”. I yelled out “where’s the pop corn”. If that was me on stage doing all those ugly, funny faces, I would be embarrassed. That was shocking. ‘Now its time to give out some awards” (Mr Barks). “Matthew Timoko for the best old skool game played”. Skux.

Next up was the RESPECT SQUAD. When the music began it was noisy as. “Impressive dance move” I said. That was wonderful. After a while I got bored and felt tired and ready to go to sleep. But it was time for the Respectronicz. I got up in a happy way, ready to show off my dance move. I was so tired, but it didn’t look like it. Showing off my Dougie has always been the same for everyone to know.

I can’t believe our group came second. So thanks to the Judges.

Camp Photo