JEFF BROWN

WHO IS JEFF BROWN?

Jeff brown was born in Toronto Canada in  January 1st 1926, and died in December 3, 2003 from a heart attack , he was 77 years old. 

He had worked in Hollywood as an editor and a writer in New York before creating the flat Stanley book, a hero book for young readers.

 He worked with an illustrator named Tomi Ungerer. 

The first book was published in 1964, the last flat Stanley book called flat again! Was published the year Jeff brown died.  

ASARA 

SUZANNE COLLINS

Early years of Suzanne Collins 

During her child hood Collins moved around a lot of places like New York, Brussels and many more. Collins Knows a  lot about the military because  her dad, Michael told her a lot of stories about his military experiences, including his deployment to Vietnam. 

Collins graduated from high school at Alabama school of fine arts in 1980. Then she went on to university and graduated in Indiana University in 1985. She then went on to do a Masters Degree in dramatic writing from  New York University.  

After University Collins moved into Television as a children’s television writer. She worked for the creator of the W.B children’s programme, she was his head writer.

Then she got Married with Charles Pryor in 1992 and they have two children together.

Vidhant 

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl top 5 selling books are...

The Twits


Matilda


The Witches


James and the giant peach


George's Marvelous Medicine



My favourite book is the BFG but it didn't make the top 5 list. 

Jayden 

Anthony Horowitz

Some quick facts about Anthony Horowitz 

Anthony began writing because he wanted to be like Tintin the character. He has travelled to all the place’s that Tintin has in his books (except the moon).


Snatmore Hall (in the switch) is based on the house where Anthony lived as a child. He had a nanny, two cook’s, two gardeners, a chauffer and he hated it.


He was sent to a revolting boarding school Orley Farm, in North London. The headmaster and his wife featured by the name in one of his TV episodes. He depicted them as mad Nazis’.


Anthony got married in Hong Kong. He didn’t understand the ceremony because it was in Chinese.

If you would like to find out more... make sure you come to our school expo in week 6. 

Seini 

Author studies

This term we are all studying different authors. Keep checking in to see what we find out about our fantastic writers.

List of authors

Jayden - Roald Dahl
Maria - J K Rowling
Anna - R J Palacio
Shalin - Elisabetha Dami
Chris - Rick Riordan
Maata - Lois Lowry
Tina - Jeff Kinney
Sina - Jacqueline Wilson
Vidhant - Suzanne Collins 
Mya - R J Palacio
Yeasin - Dave Pilkey 
Jerimiah - Roald Dahl
Mac - Morris Gleitzman  
Leah - Judy Blume
Teinakore - Andy Griffiths
Seini - Anthony Horowitz
Aisea - Roald Dahl
George - Roald Dahl
Summer - Elisabetha Dami
Levi - Brandon Mull 
Asara - Jeff Brown 

Player of the day!

Last Saturday at netball my team (Starlights) versed Matariki our schools other year 7&8 team. We lost to them by 14 points. I pretty gutted that we lost, but they played really well.

The position I played was GD so i had to defend the other teams goal, and not let them score. I was tired by the first half, but I still kept going because I was committed.

At prize-giving I was awarded, player of the day, which meant I got a certificate and a voucher for Burger King. I'm going to keep the voucher for the holidays.

It felt amazing being named player of the day.

Jayden

Book Review

Title: The boy in the stripped pajamas

Author:  John Boyne

When did the story take place? During World War two

Where did the story take place? Berlin, Germany

The main characters of the story: Bruno, his parents, Gretel, Maria, Shmuel

What the book is about is about:

This book about a boy and his family who have to move from Berlin because his father gets a new job. Bruno doesn’t enjoy his new environment because he misses his friends. On one of his walks he finds a friend called Shmuel and their friendship develops throughout the book, which leads to a surprising and sad ending.

What part did you like the best and why?

 It is when Bruno helps his friend find his Grandpa but they end up lost. We enjoyed this part because it showed that true friends will do anything for each other and that kindness is important.

By Jayden, Sina and Leah 

Year 7/8 Rugby Tournament

Wednesday 17th June, Our yr7 & 8 girls had their rugby tournament.
 We knew we had six games to play and that each game went for twenty minutes so we knew we would have to pace ourselves so we would still have energy for the last game.

 One of our best games was against ST Annes.
The girls were bigger than us, but we had the advantage of being faster than them, so we could avoid their hard tackles.

Our last game against waimahia caused many injuries. Maria had her knee twisted and squashed under one of their bigger players, so she had to be subbed off. I had my calf stood on by one of the girls and it bruised straight away, so I had to leave the field too. It was a really physical game so we were lucky it was our last one for the day.

The weather was freezing so it was really hard to stay warm in between games, we were glad when we got back on the bus and made our way back to school. It was a good day, but I wish it was a bit warmer.

By Seini

Samoan Language Week

Samoan Language Week

Here is some of our learning

Good bye Tofa soifua	Good night Manuia le po	Excuse me Tulou lava	Thank you Fa’afetai lava
Please Fa’amolemole	Where are you from? O fea ete sau ai?	Monday Aso Gafua Tuesday Aso Lua	Wednesday Aso Lulu Thursday Aso Tofi
Friday Aso Faraile Saturday To’ana’I	Sunday Aso Sa	Library Fale Tusi	Church Lotu

Hawke's Bay Earthquake

On Tuesday the 3rd February, 1931 a massive Earthquake struck Hawke's Bay. This Earthquake is known as the deadliest Earthquake in the history of New Zealand. It struck at 10:45am, which meant a lot of people were out and about.

Dawn McCormick was with her mother at the time as they were shopping for new shoes in town. she was very young but still remembers the day very clearly. When the quake struck she was pulled away from her mother and slammed into the footpath. Her mother was calling out to her the whole time to go to her but every time she would get close, the power of the quake would pull her away again. Luckily they were not hurt, her mother only had scratched legs and broken finger nails from where she had clawed the concrete to try and get to Dawn.

Declan also experienced the frightening Earthquake. He was in a building when it happened, when he felt the shakes he ran to the doorway... BAM!! part of the building fell on top of him. While he was underneath all the broken building he was praying that someone would save him, he didn't want to be buried alive. After a while he could feel the building being pulled from him, he saw two men helping him. Once it was clear, he sat up and smiled at the men that helped him, he felt relieved.

Not only was the Earthquake deadly but it started a number of fires. This caused many buildings and houses to be lost.

9 students, 12 nurses, a group of road workers and others lost their lives, altogether 258 people died and many more were injured.

I can not imagine how horrifying it was for the people involved especially the little ones. I hope we don't have another one that is as deadly.




By Tina

Hyde Train Crash

On the 4th of June, 1943, locomotive 80 782 crashed in Otago. 
About 21 people lost their lives and 47 were injured. 
The engineer of the train was Jack Corcoran. That day Jack was running late because he had been drinking that morning, so while he was driving the train he decided to speed.
When he arrived at the station some of the passengers noticed that the train had over shot the platform a bit. 

When they left everything was okay but 17 minutes out from the station, the train came to a corner, but it was going too fast, the train tilted to one side, then it evened out but then it was finally sent off the tracks. 

Jack Corcoran suffered with burns on his head because the boiler burst in the room he was in. Jack was charged with man slaughter and was sentenced to jail for 3 years. When he was released he worked in a factory but past away 5 years later. 

We felt really sorry for all the people that lost their family and friends. We're still wondering why someone didn't pull the emergency break when they knew the train was going way too fast. 



Mac and Sina