My Future Career

School.

A special place in our community.

What is a school? A school is a very special and important place for children aged 2 - 18, A school is where You and I can go to commence our adventure as School students, also school is a truly fun and safe place to create friendships among your fellow peers, also to have haystacks of fun.

School is very important to the community because schools are one of the building’s that form our community. Education is also key to why w0e go to school. School is very powerful even though people do not recognize it until perhaps they are a little bit older.

Why is it important to go to school? It is very important to go to school because we have to mentally and physically prepare for college, university and future occupations. Also on a non educated note, to make friends with others.

What to do during school? When we go to school we learn Maths, Reading, Writing, and Inquiry. We learn extra things each and every day. Just like every other school, we have Interval and Lunch, it is where we can have a rest and have something to refresh our body’s.

Subjects in school? We have so many subjects during school but the most significant of them all are English (Reading), Writing and Mathematics, these 3 subjects are really important for your future. We also have subjects such as History, Science, Art, Dance, P.E(Physical Education) and much more.

What is the importance of having a school in our community? It is very important to have a school in our community because we all have young children in our community that all require being educated to have a glorious future and to create a bond with other people. But the main reason is to prepare ourselves to find a wealthy Job to have a safe and wealthy family.

When do you finish school? For students that have approached the age of 17 or 18, you have completed your adventure and it is time to begin another adventure soon after that.

This is a picture of my class (Room 7) 2017.

Duffy role model Niva Retimanu

 

Today on the first day of the week the whole went down to the hall for a surprise visit from Duffy role model Niva retimanu.

After she introduced herself to us she read us a book "Kiss,"'kiss","Yuck, Yuck". It was a little kid could Andy and his Aunty that gave him lots of kisses and whenever she did that he said yuck.

Shortly, after that lovely book, we said our goodbyes and she went out of the hall and then we went back to class.

Trip to Rewa's Village

On Wednesday 23 August 2017 the year, 7&8 Students from Glenbrae School had the opportunity to visit the historical place up on a small hill in Kerikeri called Rewa’s Village. Rewa’s Village is set up to be like a Maori Village before the Europeans came to New Zealand

As we approached the front a man with a Taiaha came walking down the hill coming to greet us, he was our tour guide for the day. After he introduced himself we all walked up the hill together.

After walking up the hill we entered the visitor center we went into a small room full of chiefs from the past, one of the chiefs from the past was our tour guides great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather which was one of the chiefs of their village a long time ago.

Afterwards, we made our way to a view outside where we could see the river and then the tour guide explained to us the story of the river. He told us that one of the chiefs from another part of NZ came all the way to Kerikeri with his warriors to battle their tribe and they were not successful because their tribe's leader got drowned by   Ngāti Rēhia's chief at the time.

Shortly after that story, we went took a short walk down a path to a place you will see in the picture above. So that's where we went and that's where he shared another historical story about his tribe and he was talking about the small house that was there in the right corner of the small land.

Then he explained to us what the small red house was on top of the pole was, he said it was a place to hide food or what they used it for was to hide jewelry and they put it on the long pole because it was out of from land animals and humans.

After that he allowed us to go three places, one was down a hill which leads to a place where a waka was, the next lead to the beach and the last lead to some houses.

Soon after our groups visited all the three places we came back to the same place and we sang a song to the tour guide then he said back to us as a thank you. Then we left the place back up to our vans and drove off.

On our way back to the campsite we stopped at McDonald's to buy some frozen coca - cola then we drove back to the campsite.