Our year 8 leadership camp

WALT: write a recount

It’s that time of the year again, Year 8 camp. Every year, the year 8's would go on camp and this year, year 8’s went to Kauaeranga valley in Thames. We all piled into buses and went on with our trip.

While at camp we did a lot of activities my most challenging activity was railway jigger. I jumped on the jigger and started pumping my arm. It was harder than I thought, my arm started burning inside and I could feel the flax going past my face.

I could taste my dry mouth while I was pushing my jigger and I could feel my dry lips. Nearly every students struggled to push their jiggers around the corner, even the teachers.  

Finally it had come to the end and everyone was tired and thirsty. When they all got off their jiggers, everyone fell to the ground and started moaning about how tired they were.    

Last week, the year 8's went on camp and the year 7's had to stay at school. At camp, the year 8's had lots of fun and of course we had lots of leadership opportunities and the year 7's had lots of time to build each other up. 

2nd narrative writing

Walt: Included language features.

As I looked behind me something began to move. It was a girl and she look strange, I walked to her to say hi. I introduce myself and said, “hi my name is Addy”. The girl said, my “name is Annabelle” with scary, ghost sort of voice. I was so scared I ran and ran until I got to my friend house. When I saw her I dragged her into her room and told her about the girl. I acted out what happened and she told me something very important. She said, “nobody has ever talked to her because they say that whoever does will be haunted”. Now I was scared forever. I said, “what happen to her and Ella” (my friend) said, “she was angry and she was going for a hike in the woods and got lost, I started calling my mom, I said to my mum I was so scared but my mum wouldn't believe that Annabelle would haunted me……………………..

This week we did narrative writing, We made our own docs and wrote our narrative write. We used language features to make our writing more interesting. I like doing narrative writing because you get to make your own character and make up your own things.

Auxiliary verbs

WALT: we are learning about auxiliary verbs and using them in sentence.


This week we have been learning about auxiliary verbs will, have, am and was work with miss Tito. I have Learnt that these are Auxiliary Verbs also  said as helping verbs. I hope I learn more of these verbs in the future.