Today, wonderful Eman Ghandour came and told us a bit about herself, and duffy, and how lucky we are to get books from Duffy! I think it was really cool how she and her mum and sisters started up a buisness, Called Sisters – I think, and she said that she counted all her cousins and there was 97!! Thats alot. And I love the books I got; I´m really excited to read Be Prepared, it sounds really cool and will put a new perspective on things.

Be prepared – its a twisted tale about Nala looking for Simba when he was supposedly dead, and getting some unexpected help from Scar.

Resist – Now this book is about a teenage girl being a spy to help her country, France, from the attack of the Germans.

What is your favourite book?

Ok, so we are only a week into school – and so far so good I guess. The year 8 math isn’t too hard and my friends are still as weird as ever. This year feels alot more special this year because its our last year and it really feels real. And I love being in the leadership roles it makes me feel really responsible and like a real leader of the school. Im excited for this school camp because its my last one here at NBC, we are going to Glentui for the first time,and Im in a cabin with my besties Despina, Leisha, Kiara, and Zara.

What have you guys liked about school this year?

Hello!!

For the past week the year 7s have been planning for the 2026 wellington trip. We had to plan transport, activities, and funding. Mr Gray’s most liked funding idea was a big spelling bee – Of Course. 🤣 Overall I think it was really fun to plan and I feel very excited about going. My least favourite part was having to do it – it just got boring at points.

What would you do in wellington? Any recommendations?

Kia Ora!

Last year, the year 5/6s went to a cricket festival and versed some other schools. It was so fun! We had four games and eight halves, we had 1 before morning tea, 2 before lunch and 1 after lunch. I was put in group NBC 3 with Brenna, Elise, Saffron, Lee, Jack and Henry. Jack, Henry and Lee played cricket in their own time and they were really good. It was easy to tell because Jack was a good bowler and Henry was a good batter. We first versed Rawhiti 8 and they were pretty easy, but the Rawhiti 20 group was slightly better. After those two we played Rawhiti 4 and they were pretty competitive.

Looking back this was really fun and I’d do it again but with more of my friends.

Yesterday, on the 4th of December we went to the Christchurch United Football Club fields. we were the first people to arrive and run. we got changed into our colourful costumes and put on face paint to give it pizzazz.

we ran around a obstacle course there was about 9 or 10 challenges to overcome a lot were climb over things and crawling under things.

A part of the course was a bouncy castle we had to get across a course that we had to jump on balls and get across. my favourite part was when we did the slip and slide, and my least favourite part was the fences we had to jump over.

Have you gone on a slip and slide?

One day at New Brighton Catholic school we morphed into different and extraordinary and unique book characters. Okay – I get how I sound crazy – but let me fill you in on what really happened. It Was Book Character Day!! If you don’t know already, book Character Day is where you can dress up as a book Character for a day at school. Me and my friends all remembered to dress up, Farrah and Brenna went as bluey and bingo, Leisha dressed as Matilda, Kiara dressed as Cat in the Hat, Zara went as Victor to match with Leah and I who went as Stewart and Bob the minions. In the morning we paraded in front of the other classes so we could see what each other were wearing, and to see if we could get a prize for best dressed. Sadly I didn’t get one, but my friend Leisha did! After the parade we went to the hall to look at some books to see if we wanted any – a book swap. At first I didn’t see anything I liked but then I saw this book called Vacancy, so I swapped with Farrah for a book called Mirror Mirror – which is a twisted tale about Snow White. The rest of the day we sorta just chilled and had fun. My favourite part was probably scootering with our teacher Mr Gray. He stole my scooter and ran away with Farrah, so I went and stole my sisters scooter, so together we paraded around and called ourselves the scooter brigade. And my least favourite part was chilling – that bit was boring.

If you did what did you dress up as for book Character Day?

Hola!

Today New Brighton Catholic Catholic school dressed up in a culture of our choice for cultural day. First we had to sit through assembly and we got a few representatives to say welcome in their language. After that we went outside where all the classes paraded in their cultural dress up. Then Korean class performed a dance to A.P.T, and then we danced to Head, Shoulders, Knees, And Toes in Korean. Then once we had finished that my friend Brenna, and her sister Willa did some Irish dancing which was really cool. Did you know Brenna went to nationals and finished fourth. Finally, the kapa haka finished it off with a wiata and then a haka. I loved doing this because it was really fun and interesting, but one thing I didn’t like that much was… Nothing really.

Zara, Leisha, and I dressed up Mexican. Here is our slideshow on Mexico, and here is a photo of the friend group dressed up.

Did you dress up?

What would you dress up as?

Today the year 7/8s had to do a few tasks on media. We had to make a poster of the types of different media we had consumed in the past 24 hours. I was working with my bestie Leisha. I learnt that there is a lot of media every where when you really think about it. This was not my favourite task it was kind of boring and not really engaging for me. But here is the finished result.

What media have you consumed?

On Monday the year 7 and 8s were given a photo to add captions to, and he said we had to aim our audience to our parents, because of this we had to include an inside joke.  And Mr Gray provided us with the photo from his farm which I think is really cool. I quite liked it because it was really fun and simple to do, and I wouldn’t mind doing it again.

The inside joke for me is when the chicken asks if her hair is ok. I did this because it’s a question that I ask my parents all the time, every day.

What should I do differently next time?

What’s an inside joke you have with your parents?