The day What Now came to visit.

When I woke up this morning it was a lovely and we had lots of visitors when we got to school. It was really exciting and fun. This day so far has been totally amazing!

Lexi (6)








The visitors were What Now. Gem picked me up for a hug.

Ella (5)



They were Charlie, Gem, Johnson and Sam the cameraman.

Taylah (7)

We were doing alphabetical order when they arrived. I was telling Gem about my kittens. We are holding them. She liked Anakin.

Nicky (7)

We were making sensory bottles and I enjoyed having Gem help me. She's my friend.

Amber-Rose (8)



I was excited because they came.

Toby (8)



I felt surprised when What Now came.

Seth (8)



I was playing with them and I was happy.

Bradley (5)


I was excited for them coming.

Taylor (6)



I felt like I needed to faint because I didn't know they were coming. It was surprising. It was quite awesome.

Nathan (7)



I hugged Gem.

Kendal (5)



When they arrived I thought "Hurray, I'm going to be on TV! I'm going to be famous."

Matt (10)



I felt nervous because I don't really like being on TV that much..

Samara (8)



I thought this is wicked because everyone's going to see me do my cartwheel thing. Charlie tried but he fell over. I showed Charlie how to do an alphabet thing but he kept writing in silly answers so I won the race.

Thomas (8)

I liked that they played tag with us.

Ollie (5)



I liked that they watched us make our bottles.

Caitlyn (7)



Charlie helped me put glitter in my bottle.

Chloe (5)



It was fun having Charlie reading Pigs Might Fly in my house. He read it really fast.

Alex (9)



I liked giving Charlie a hi five and Gem a hug.

Summer (4)



When we go back to school it will be really cool to tell my friends about Charlie, Gem and Johnson coming to visit.

Beth (7)



The presenters were fantastic with the children, so interested and fun.

Rebecca (parent)



It was cool to see the presenters helping the kids and playing with them.

Kate (parent)



Great to see the What Now presenters having so much fun with the kids.

Jane (parent)



It was lovely to see the delight on our children's faces when Gem, Charlie and Johnson walked in. Great to see them smiling.

Ange (parent)



It was really good for the kids to have the presenters here and they really ennjoyed their time. A highlight of home school.

Alison(parent)



It was great for our children to have something so positive come out what has been, for many, a traumatic experience. Home schooling has provided a bright spot in the day for both parents and kids, and the experience today with the visit from the What Now team has been the icing on the cake for our families.

Kym and Sharon (teachers and parents)

Art works

Bradley

"Cars on the road with colourful bumps and purple bumps"

Taylor

"The house has fallen down on the ground"
(ed. - I've posted the picture sideways by accident)

Summer

"A person stuck in a crack with lots ofcracks all around."

Ollie
"A house with a flood all around it"

Nathan

" A house on fire and falling down"

Lexi
"A house with bricks falling off it"

Kendal
"A hole outside my house with water in it"

Jacob

"Cars that have got stuck in the silt and sink holes"

Ella
"Houses that are falling down"

Chloe

"All the children out on the field at school crying, waiting for their mums and dads"

Caitlyn

"Broken buildings in the city"

Amber-Rose

"Houses and outside with lots of cracks"

Biscuits and Another Visitor

Today at homeschool we started the day with a visitor! Mrs Bourke came to say hello and see what everyone has been up to at Super Seagulls School of Success. The kids all loved sharing what they have been up to and what they have learnt and Circle Time was much more fun with Mrs Bourke.

Today saw us getting straight into routine. Upstairs (aka Learning Team 1) started with some maths, basic facts, skip counting and 2x timetables. Wow, were they impressive!

Alison soon came and collected some helpers for food prep. Today they decorated biscuits. They looked so yummy and they must have been because I didn't get any!

Tomorrow is our last day at our wonderful wee school. We are going to finish up with a bit of a party and a bbq. We might even get another visitor or two . . . who knows?

The Earthquake

When the earthquake happened there were lots of cars sunk in the water.
The road was covered in dirty water.
It made me feel sad. Lots of people died. Lots of people were crying at school. I was happy to see my Mum and Dad when they picked us up.
Christchurch doesn't look the same, it looks broken.

Earthquake

When the earthquake happened the earth shook.
The liquefaction was brown. It was on the road. It came up from the ground. The bumps came up at our school.
My favourite toy, Gogo Dog got broken. It was sad.
Many people died. It was very, very sad.

Earthquake Damage

Tuesday 22nd February there was an earthquake in Christchurch.
I was sad and scared at school.
In the city the building where my aunty works fell down. Houses fell down on cars and chimneys fell through roofs.
Roads are blocked.

Earthquake

On  February 22nd at 12:51pm a 6.3 earthquake shook Christchurch.
On the road there were wide cracks. There were also big holes on the path in front of somebody's house.
The bricks fell off a house. Rocks fell on cars.
Everything looked bad.

The Earthquake

On Tuesday 22nd of February we went to school. We were sittting on the mat and there was an earthquake.
We went under the tables.
When it finished we went onto the field. The field was wet and dirty.
Before Mum and Dad got to school Kym was looking after us. Some mums and dads had to walk through dirty water.

When we got home there was liquefaction all up our driveway and a huge hole in our driveway.
Last night Luke was playing in the hole.

Earthquake Damage

On Tuesday 22nd of February a big earthquake scared me. It was in Christchurch.

When the earthquake happened the television fell of the shelf at Nana Lee's house.

I was scared and everyone was crying at school.

There was a big hole in the road outside Kendal's house.

When the earthquake happened there were cracks at our house. The trucks were helping take away the sand.
Everything looks broken.

Damage

I was at school when the earthquake happened and everything fell over. We all ran out into the field. Lots of people were crying for their mums. Teachers wer there trying to make them feel better.

I saw bricks falling down. I needed to go through the muck. Sophie's house had the doors stuck shut.

In town the buildings fell down.
Now everything looks horrible and really bad. My Mum was in town and lots of damage happened there. Now no one is allowed in town because its not safe. People don't want any people in town because they will get hurt. So no one goes into town until it is safe to go back again.

The Earthquake

There was a scary earthquake in Christchurch on Tuesday 22nd February.

In the earthquake there were heaps and heaps of holes. There were cars stuck in the holes and I was scared.

There was heaps and heaps of damage. There was liquefaction everywhere.

Some houses fell down but not ours.
Christchurch looks different but it's going to be okay.

Earthquake Damage

On Tuesday 22nd February an earthquake shook the ground.
Huge cracks were everywhere. There was cracks as wide as my head too.
There was liquefaction. It was everywhere.
Buildings fell down on top of people. Some people got broken legs and arms. It was sad.
My Mummy had to drive the car on the footpath as there were so many holes and liquefaction on the road.

The Earthquake

On Tuesday 22nd February at 12:51pm a 6.3 earthquake shook the ground.

It made heaps of cracks. The ground had big cracks. The road had gianormous cracks too.

The water went everywhere and leapt out of the pipes. The water rushed out of the ground. I was scared.

Houses fell down. Bookcases fell down and all the books fell out. The computer fell off the table.
Our brick wall crashed down at home.

Now our buildings are being fixed. All the holes in the roads have been filled in with shingle.

Earthquake

On Tuesday 22nd of February there was an earthquake in Christchurch.

I saw a few cracks at my dairy. It was on walls, the road and the path. I have a big triangle crack at my house, outside on my deck.

My chimney is wobbly. It is going to fall. There are cracks in it. I am going to get my chimney pulled out.

There were cracks and sand in the park.

I was scared and cried a little and prayed to God. It was very scary.

Now Christchurch looks very different. It is full of cracks and holes.

Earthquake Damage

On Tuesday 22nd of February at 12:51pm a 6.3 earthquake shook the ground.

It made cracks. There are cracks around the city. At houses there were cracks in the walls.

At carparks and the Palms water came up from the earth and water came up from the ground. It came up from the pipes that broke.

The sand came up from the ground. The sand flowed over roads.

There was a hole a wee bit away from our house. Our car got stuck in a sink hole. We had to walk to Sharon's house. We had to walk through liquefaction.

Our cats got scared and ran away.

The city is broken.

Earthquakes

After the September earthquake our house was on a lean. Then on the February earthquake the window had smashed glass for miles. That was our old house. Bits of the house tumbled down. The broken window was in my bedroom.
I felt unsafe and worried and very scared because there were cracks in the class.
Christchurch looks damaged.

Earthquake

On Tuesday 22nd of February there was an earthquake in Christchurch.
There were cracks on the roads and at school. It was scary and sad.
There are heaps of different cracks. There was water on the road and footpath.

My Daddy picked me and Bradley and Noah up from school. We went home with Noah. The sand was on the road from the earthquake.

Some toys tumbled from my bed onto my floor. Houses crumbled to the ground but our house didn't.

Christchurch will be okay.

guest teachers

At home school today Tracey and Nicole came to visit.

They helped us do the cards for the people who gave us the biscuits, drinks and writing books.

Nicole and Tracey did jump jam with us at home school. I liked the I'm a believer song.

I was surprised to see them. I liked seeing them.

(Taylor, Ollie and Toby)

serious learning...!

photos of our class

With parents... (school wouldn't function without them!)
With teachers...

And the lovelies by themselves

Earthquake

A 6.3 earthquake made stuff change. People went to other people's houses because the power and water went off.



We are being homeschooled because of the 6.3. It is fun because we do fun stuff for maths like play yahtzee.



Today we baked yummy muffins. Toby, Seth, Alex, Amber-Rose, Thomas, Samara, Matt, Ollie, Charlotte, Anakin, Jacob and more are in my class. I am making a comic book with Toby and Seth. I feel happy.

I can't wait till Freeville comes back again.

The earthquake

On Tuesday 22 February there was a 6.3 earthquake. After the quake we had no power or water. After the big quake we also had big aftershocks. I was scared.

We had to sleep at other people's houses. I had to stay at Toby's house and at my Nana's house because she had power. When we were at Toby's house we couldn't get to sleep because of the aftershocks. We got ice-cream for breakfast and meatballs for tea.

We have to go to home school as well. The people that do it are Seth, taylor, Summer, nicky, Ollie, me, Toby and heaps of other people.

On the 21st March we go back to school. I can't wait.

Home schooling

On Tuesday the 22 February there was an earthquake. there was heaps of damage. It was a 6.3. It shook Christchurch. My class was very damaged and I was scared.

Now we do homeschooling. For home school we do circle time, baking, writing, reading and maths. I enjoy baking. I baked lollycake with Alison. It was very yummy. Today we baked muffins.

This is who's in my class; me, Seth, Taylor, Summer, Alex, Nicky, Ollie, Amber-Rose, Matthew, Jacob, Thomas, Samara, Bradley, Beth, Ella, Caitlyn, Nathan, Lexie, Tayla, Chloe, Kendall, Charlotte and Anakin. My teachers are my Mum and Aunty Kym. We started school at my house. Now we do school at Aunty Kym's house.

I feel happy at home school. I wish I could be home schooled forever.

The 6.3 Earthquake

At school there was a 6.3 earthquake. I was sad and scared. My class got damaged. Lots of other classes got damaged too. Lots of people were scared and lots of people got hurt. I did go to my mum's mum's house because I had no power and water.

In the 6.3 earthquake my car got stuck in liquefaction. There was a lot of liquefaction. Liquefaction is sand and water mixed together.

In the earthquake a lot of houses got damaged. The bricks came out and there were cracks along the walls. My house didn't get damaged.

In the earthquake the ground came up at Toby's house (only a little bit). Water came out of the crack on the field at school. It looked like a fountain.

Damage from the earthquake was frightening. It made me feel sad to see it.

By Seth.

The Earthquake

In my classroom the 6.3 happened. Our front door is busted. We ran out to the field. We waited and waited, finally Craig came and picked us up. To get in Craig had to break a window. He sent Sophie in to unlock the door. When we got in we saw the house had moved a little so they couldn't open the door. Mum, Bernie and Rebecca had to walk through sludge from town to get to us. Rebecca was saying oh look there is a dead goldfish. Bernie was saying there is people with blood and everything. Mum was saying we are going now. Mum had to leave her car in the Framers building on the fourth floor. Mum did all sorts of things to get to us, thike jumped in a car, walked through sluge and beat a pink morrie to QE2.
We left Sophie's place but we also left our shoes there over night in the rain.
Now we can't go to school so we are doing home school. It's really fun and we have great teachers.
by Samara

wellington

on 13 of marchI went to wellington.

I went with Ryan cherry. Me and Ryan cherry saw Stephen Fleming.

Stephen gave all of the kids free red shirts and caps.

After that we went to have breakfast. I had muffins,up and go, hash browns and a Moro gold. We got free

backpacks. I got the red backpack with a blue drink bottle.

After that we went to the zoo in shuttles.

I saw a sun bear a tiger, wallabies and baboons my favorite animal was the bear.

After we left the animal part of the zoo we went to the gift shop at the gift shop i got a soft

mercat and Ryan got a mercat too but his leg broke because he swung it around to much.

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The Earth Quake

In the Earth Quake my class room door broke and we had to go out the back door and go onto the field. Craig picked us up. He was going to take us to his home but the car got stuck and we had to take off our shoes and socks and walk through all the sewerage. He couldn't get in to the house and then Lexie had to go to toilet so lexie had to go in the next door neighbours toilet while everybody and Craig tried to get into the house. And then they called our mums then Sophies mum my mum and Diane walked home throught the sludge. On the way out we heard a smash. On the way we picked up Sam from our next door neighbour after walking through the sludge. Sam was at our next door neighbour Susans. When Samara came over to my house for a play she told me that Craig had to smash a window and send Sophie through to unlock a door. Our house was a mess. We tidied it up and had some tea. We had spaghetti on toast. By Thomas

new kitty

On wednesday I got a new kitten it likes to be in the same room as people . it likes playing with the new toy I bought. by Toby.

new kitten

I have two new kitten. They are play fool . One is black one is grey. By Nicky

sushi creator

on 10 of march at 10.50 i made sushi. I made the sushi with Toby. I made a rice ball and Toby did the same. I loved the part were we eat it.

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