Behind the Curtain

THANK YOU!

On behalf of my class we just want to say thank you for inviting us to your production. We thought that it was very thoughtful of you to hire the bus for us. We enjoyed your musical Behind the Curtain, especially the humor with Wally and Mavis. I liked the slap dances, they were great. Thanks for inviting us and it was really cool. I like how the choir didn’t take over the main actors. From now on, my favourite production would be behind the curtain.

Sincerely by: TinaI loved the play!!!

Cross Country Poem

Cross Country was finally here,

The races were announced and I went to cheer,

As I heard the races go on and on,

The clappers were passed and chucked and thrown around,

As we clapped so hard and screamed and shout,

People were running as fast as they could,

I heard my race and it was announced,

I blazed off and was cheered on,

As she said “GO” I went as fast as I could,

It was a long way around but I didn’t stop for a breath or two,

I sprinted, I jogged, I even ran but never stopped,

As we came in I tried to catch up to the 1st,

But I couldn’t I came 2nd,
I was proud and cheered on the rest,

The hard work paid off,

My mum came home and I showed off,

My brother came 1st but I was still proud for me and you,

The race was over but I was still proud,

It’s finished it’s done and I’ve had fun.

Cross Country Recount

Cross  Country

I was all jumpy and had butterflies in my stomach once I found out Cross Country was tomorrow. On the day I was freaked out. I chucked my shorts in my bag and got ready really fast for school. Once I arrived I waited till the 8:30 bell rang! Once it rang I rushed into my classroom and I gave my notice. Then I got the job to collect the notices and once I had collected a little I checked the board and cross country was right after roll. After bible I was so so excited and bursting with happiness but deep inside I was so scared and nervous. The teacher quickly ran through the roll and we went outside. To keep warm I had my big warm jumper on. The year 1 and 2 race was announced. I cheered them on with the big clappers which were passed around. After race, after race, finally the year 5 girls went on. I quickly passed my jumper to a trustful friend. I wanted to come first and blasted off once the teacher said “GO”. My friend flew past really fast. I went to catch up and then she slowed down. She had got a big stitch from running so fast but I still kept running as fast as my legs could go. Fardosa caught up as we ran together but she lightly ran faster and became further ahead than me but the race was nearly over so I sprinted behind her. But unluckily I wasn’t able to catch up so she came 1st but I came 2nd. I was really proud of my friend and me too. As I finished my race I saw Nejwa come in  so I cheered her on and congratulated her too. Finally the race was over and other people came in and all were congratulated 3rd, 2nd and 1st too. I nearly forgot to mention we got medals too. As we came inside everybody got a certificate for participation. It didn’t really matter if they didn’t come 1st 2nd or 3rd it just mattered that they tried there best and for that they were all great big winners. I was so tried and luckily morning tea was right after. I ate my food. After all my effort I put into training I was proud that I came 2nd. It’s over with and were done and I got a present from my mum and my dad. My mum took me to a restaurant to have a meal and we enjoyed it and came back home. I’m still expecting my dad’s gift he said he’ll give it in the weekend.

Goal Setting

Dolphins

Character Description

Evil witch Wicked is coming. She is an ugly moley old lady with beady eyes that burn your eyes if you look into them. You can easily recognise her by her crooked pointy nose with an ugly mole on it which even she can’t stand to look at. Even though she has wrinkles her terrifying pimples can still be seen. Always she is seen carrying her cat Gribbles to use him as a shield. Pure evil can be seen in her eyes, queen of the dead. She has a wicked thought. She’s mean and nasty just like her mother and sister who are dead in the soil. If you like at her you will certainly know she plans evil and she will kill you secretly if you come to stay a night at her house. My key’s unlock to another dimension where the queen of all witches lies unseen. Her days are spent making potions to kill!! kill!! kil!! She hopes to defeat the king & queen of Oz and rule in their place. She like’s to spend day’s capturing innocent people so she can turn people into flying monkey’s. By : Tina

Trip to Observatory and Cooking

Cooking

Rockets

My Speech 2014

Animal Testing is wrong The other day I watched an animal testing video. These cruel animal testers were doing a blind deprivation test on this helpless infant monkey. His eyes were stitched shut with sewing material and his head was bound up. A plastic contraption was taped to his head. Screeching, banging, sharp, sharp sounds were playing that would make anyone flinch. What kind of people are they? Don’t they have feelings? They could’ve worked with a person but it was easier to break a poor mother’s heart, to ruin this infant monkey’s unstarted life. My purpose today is to convince you not to buy animal tested products. Tell you the truth behind animal testing and inform you about the suffering these poor, helpless, innocent animals go through. These animals have rights and shouldn’t be treated like nothing. Imagine being taken to a place where you are locked up, with barely any room for movement, in a laboratory cage. You are taken every once in a while to get your hair shaved off, and things rubbed into your skin that potentially make your hair never grow back or maybe it burns you and make’s your skin bleed. Or maybe you get a substance put into your eyes and are kept with that substance in your eyes for two weeks or more and you go blind. The result of animal experiments often prove unreliable and misleading when applied to humans, It’s wasteful. After Animal Testing there is still the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experiments and squandering precious money, time, and resources. This is because animals bodies are different to us. They don’t get the same diseases that we get and they often have very different reactions to drugs and chemicals. Animals body’s work differently to ours, they are not little humans. Chimpanzees, for example with whom we share 98% of our DNA, they don’t suffer from fatal forms of aids, hepatitis b or common malaria-diseases which kill millions of people every year. 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work. Hundreds and thousands of animals are poisoned and blinded and killed every year in outdated product tests. We are ruining poor, helpless little animal’s live’s for things we want not even need, for entertainment, Most people think animals are tested for medicines but only a small percentage is medical testing. It’s mostly for cosmetics, personal care products, household cleaning products and even fruit juice and many, many more products and because some of these products don’t even work they are tested on for heaps more medicine’s. It just really bothers me that animal testing is still allowed today. Animal’s have rights and animal tests are often unreliable and only a small percentage is medical testing, I don’t understand why it happens and because I’m a pretty smart girl and I don’t understand I definitely know it should stop. How can people live knowing animal’s are being killed every second? Even if a product has blinded an animal, it can still be marketed to you. Please help by not buying animal tested products and make donations to websites who support animal testing is wrong.


This is my speech for the speech competition at school. Unfortunately I didn't make it to the finals.