year 5 day

On Wednesday it was year 5 day when the year 6s were on camp. We went to Nayland pool and did our house captain speech. And we had a sausage sizzle it was fun when we did the house captain speeches.
At nayland pool we had to pools the one with a slide and the lane pool we weren't aloud in the deep pool. The speeches were fun because you could see your competition.
The sausage were really yum my dad helped cooked them.

by Brynley and Nick

Day three at Mistletoe bay camp

Teina:On day three at Mistletoe bay camp we went on the queen Charlotte track.It took us 1 hour and a half to get their and one hour and a half to get back.


Samara:On day three we went on a walk on the Queen Charlotte Track. At the start it was super easy until... We  came across a lot of hard roots coming out of the ground (they look like stairs) We tripped over them a lot. when we stopped every time for a break my bff Ellie will take a photo i would rate the walk 7/10. Thanks for reading over to Ellie

Ellie:on day three we went on the walk on the queen Charlotte track.On one part there were a lot of roots coming out of the ground like  stairs  we went all the way  up to the look out and back  to school and that was camp.





By Samara and Ellie and Teina

day 2 on camp

                           Day 2 at camp!

On day 2 at mistletoe bay it was our activity day. We did sailing, kayaking, bush survival, camp advertisement, orienteering and free time. A lady came and helped us with the sailing and the best people were the people who did not worry but the people who screamed weren't to good the ladies name was Nita. My favourite thing was sailing and Jasmines favourite thing was sailing as well.

By Brighton and Jasmine.  

The year six camp (day one)

Last Monday the year sixes of room 1,2 and 5 got packed and went to Camp Mistletoe bay for three days.About half way there we stopped at Pelorus bridge for morning tea and a number of (That's where we count the people there are going to Camp).When we arrived it was mid-day and we started to number of and set up tents and pack the cabins.While we were setting up the tents we saw a family of Ducks waddling around. There was a mother and two fluffed-up ducklings and they were not that cautious.There was also so a pair of ducks waddling around the camp like they have just been to an October fest and while we were eating lunch in the kitchen area they looked at us as if they were saying please help!

GoodBye Nicolai

Room 5 is fare welling Nicolai on his journey to the north island by having a shared lunch on Friday the 23rd. He has had a lot of fun at Nayland Primary School when he...went camping at Marahau campgrounds, getting a piano into the class, most frankly, Meeting Mr. Davis, meeting amazing people and learning new things. We will miss you Nicolai. :)

IMON (In memory of Nicolai.)


By Nicolai.

Mask Parade

This week we have started making gas masks for the mask parade. The mask parade is the first Friday next term. We have used recycled materials to make the gas masks. Room 3 brought some boxes in for our class. Some people have spray painted their masks. People have used some pipe tubes and milk bottles for the tank of air.

By Derek and Lucy.

rock da house

On Monday the Nayland Choir went to Nelson college to have a practise with the other primary schools for rock the house.

It was really fun.

Then on Tuesday night it was the real thing. It went till 7 to 9. It was called rock da house there was 4 people from our class Jaya, Louise, Saphire and Isaac.

We performed Uptown funk, Up, Be okay, Express Yourself, Birddog, Ring of Fire and Lest we forget,.

All the children had to wear bright coloured tops and dark pants.

from Jaya and Louise