Merry Christmas to you all too!

We had a very busy end to the term too. It was a shorter term because of the rugby world cup, but we still had the same amount of work to do. We won't be back until 30th January (with a new class). If you want to start writing when you get back I can reply until we start back
The predicted temperature for Christmas day is 23c. We have had an incredible spring and there is long grass everywhere. Around my home there is hay being cut and baled. I have had my forst tomatoes from the glass house.
Good luck to the teachers for the volleyball match!
Steve Hornby

Buon Natale
Buon anno 

Merry Christmas

Sorry, we haven't had time to write this week, we've been very busy at school, we had written and oral tests. Tomorrow is our last day at school and the students are playing a vollyball match against the teachers. It's very cold here, but it's not snowing at the moment.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We're going to write next year, we'll be back on 9th January.
Bye
Laura and the 3F

Christmas-Cassie

Hi I'm Cassie and this is what I do for Christmas.... Well for starters i spend the morning I am with my mum (Kirsten) and we are going to open the presents that Santa has left for us and we check to see if the reindeer have eaten there food we leave out for them and we give Rudolph the biggest and the fattest treat and he eats it all up and we also give him his own water bowl with water in it.When we have opened our presents we have to put them in our mums room or in our room then we get our own Christmas brunch (and a brunch is a breakfast that you have at lunch time) and we have hash browns ,eggs,bacon,toast,sausages and juice as our drink.After that we have our Christmas party at dads (Dean) and he has a pool so we can swim in the nice cool water and it is all ways so nice and cold and very relaxing but first we open our presents from nanny and our other family who live in Carterton (this a town near us) and we get lots of cool things from them (i know what nanny is getting me) we all ways have so much fun at Christmas and my really funny cousin and me play tag under water and hide and go seek and with my seal sticks we can drop them and we go and find them under the water.If we are lucky we go to the grave yard and put flowers by him (he died before my sister was born).We put fake flowers by him because if they were real they would die really fast.I really miss him but at Christmas we barely even remember him because we are having to much fun.When we are giving out the presents dad puts on a Santa hat and says some ones name and he says who it is from as well of cause he does. Then we all hop in the pool for a good old swim to cool down from opening so many presents.We have 2 museums in our town.What sort of Christmas food do you have on Christmas day? we eat Christmas cake it is so good with lots of fruit like raisins ,sultanas and lots more it is really yummy.We have so much fun at Christmas time it is the best time to spend with your family.Do have fun with your family on Christmas?How do you dress up your trees?Do you have a ball that has your name on them and it has the date you got it on it?How many people come around on Christmas at your house?Do you have little chocolate truffles that you guys eat on Christmas?If you do eat them do they have marshmallow in the middle? (this message is from every one in Kauri) Hope you have a good Christmas.Do you sing Christmas songs? Have fun over your 2 weeks holiday.This is our last week at school then we get to have a long holiday
From Cassie Goodin

caitlin

Hi there I'm Caitlin I'm a year 6 at Solway Primary School and I'm leaving this year I'm sad I don't want to go, it is a great school. My family and i don't celebrate Christmas but I have holidays. I love holidays. I like to do things like

shopping, swimming, going to the South Island to see my gran and the north island to see Nana and my papa it is so fun to see them!

and i some times go to pool

Bye for now

Caitlin garton

byebye

Christmas

Hi I'm Katia and I'm a year 6 and last night I graduated from Solway. Anyway in New Zealand
we celebrate Christmas by opening presents that we get. I go to my Nana's for lunch and dinner on Christmas day. We have museums. but I never remember the names
our Christmas holidays are about 6 weeks long.

Note: Our main museum is called Aratoi and it is the museum of art and history. We also have a shear museum, about shearing sheep. We also have a fire engine museum - Jubilee Fire Museum.(this is an article about how they moved it), a car museum and 2 early settler museums.

3f

Hello,
thank for the pictures. They are very nice. They're beatiful places. We would like to go on school camps, but we never go. This year we will go on a school trip, but we don't know where.
Last year we visited some museums in Turin and they were very interesting.
Are there any museums in your town?
S
It's going to be Christmas soon and we'll stay at home for two weeks. It's a very nice festivity in our country. Families stay together and eat a lot of good things. We make the Christmas Tree and decorate our houses in different ways. We also make a Crib in our houses. How do you celebrate Christmas? What do you do? What do you eat?
We eat a lot of things especially a typical cake called "panettone", it's very good.
Hope hearing from you soon
3F

Our year 5s have just been on an overnight camp. We were meant to sleep at  Mount Holdsworth which is on the edge of the forest park in the hills near Masterton. The weather was very windy so we camped at school and went for a bush walk the next day. We crossed a big swing bridge ( a wire suspension bridge). The year 6 students went ot visit the school they will go to next year. It is called masterton Intermediate and has year 7 and 8 students - 11-13 year olds.
Here are some photos from our trip

Mr H

Hi

We're in autumn now, but in December we'll be in winter. It's cold and sometimes snowy in Italy in Winter. It's foggy in the morning. We have lunch in the school canteen two days a week, but the food is not very good. In three week it's Christmas. How do you celebrate it?
Bye 3F

Hello

Hello,
My name is Charley,i am a year 6 at Solway primary school and i am 11 years old.
At Solway primary school we don't have a canteen,we bring our own lunch to school.
do you have a canteen? If so what kind of food do you have there?

Hi

We're a year 5&6 class, we study reading, maths writing and at the moment we're doing a school Election.Our school starts at 8:55 and finishes at 3:00 in the afternoon.We don't have a canteen at our school, but every Thursday students hand in a form to get a lunch order on Friday.The weather at the moment is full of westarlies, because it is have way between Spring and Summer.We don't live in a city, We live in a small, peaceful, rural country town called Masterton.In the town park there is a statue of the person who founded Masterton, Joseph Masters.

presentation

Hello,
we're 3F of "Dante Alighieri" School in Turin. Turin is a big industrial city in the north-west of Italy. There are a lot of monuments and the symbol of the city is the "Mole Antonelliana" the highest monument.
At School we study a lot of subject such as Italian, maths, science, history, English, French, P.E, T.E., Geography, Art, Music, Religion.
We start school at 8 o'clock and lessons finish at one o'clock on Mondays and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays school finishes at 4 o'clock p.m.. On Wednesdays it finishes at 2 o' clock p.m..We play baseball, basket, hitball and volleyball. We are quite good at sports. What time does school start and finish? Which subjects do you study at school? Do you study any foreign language?Do you eat in the school canteen? Is the food good? In Italy we sometimes eat in the canteen, but the food is not very good. Italian children don't like vegetables and fruit very much. And you?
In Italy it's autumn at the moment and the weather is very foggy and cold. What's the weather like in your country?
What about food? What do you eat? What's your favourite food? What's your typical dish?
In our free time we like listening to music, playing football, meeting friends, surfing the net, and so on. What about you? What kind of music do you listen to? Do you know any Italian singer?
What's the name of the city where you live? Are there any famous monuments? Are there any foreign people in your class?
write soon
Bye bye 3F

hi

We're not at school today because bad weather caused damages in some parts of Northern Italy, in particular in Liguria, a region near Piedmont. Some people died because of floods. In Turin too we had problems because the river Po has overflowed the banks yesterday. Luckily everything is ok, but school are closed as precaution.
We hope we can write next week.
Bye Laura

Hello

We really liked watching your photos. We know it's strange for you. In Turin every winter is like that. Now it's getting quite cold, days are shorter and it's often cloudy.
Yesterday we tried writing but we had problems. Luckiky today everything is ok.
My 3F this year is a good class and they're looking forward to writing to you next week.
We don't have much rugby year; people don't follow this sport. Soccer is the main sport followed by tennis.
Bye
Laura

Hello there

In the winter we had a really amazing thing happen, it snowed and it covered everything. We sometimes get snow but it hardly ever settles  on the ground. Here are some photos taken around our school. We had a day off school. There has only been snow like this about 3 times in the last 100 years in Masterton. Mr Hornby

Georgia-Rugby world cup

Hi I am Georgia and today it is 27 of October. We are all very proud of our All blacks they played great and they one the rugby world cup they especially did good in the final against France.It was a really close game . The score was 7-8 it was so close but we did it. It has been fun coming back to school cause we had school holidays 2 days ago. so how were your school holidays?
what sort of stuff did you do in the holidays? how is the weather ?The weather over here is drizzly but their is a worm breeze.
Georgia.

rugby world cup Cassie

Hi I am Cassie and we are back at school we are learning lots of new things.For the rugby word cup we had a thing going on in our class and we each got a team to go for in the rugby world cup and my team was New Zealand and I watched all of their games and they did really well in the final.The weather here is really drizzly and wet but we are still having fun.What sort of things did you guys do over the holidays? Did you do any thing for the rugby world cup?How was the weather over the holidays?Here we are really proud of the All Blacks.How did you guys get behind the rugby world cup? So what sort of things have you been doing at school? Cassie

Hi Laura
We start back at school tomorrow. The term is later this year because of the rugby world cup. We only have 8 weeks before the Christmas holidays. Our year 6 children will move on to Intermediate. Intermediate (11-13 yrs old) is just for 2 years before they go to college or high school.
Look forward to catching up with what has been happening.
Steve Hornby

Hello!

Hi to everybody,
we're back to school. In Italy the weather is still nice and quite hot.
In a few weeks we can begin writing to you after the entry tests. What about you? What's the weather like in New Zealand now? Are you working hard? What season is it there?
Bye for now.
The teacher Laura Marchese

hannah

It is week 8. we are relly working hard at the end of we will be going on a class trip it is going to be cool.

See you soon

Thank you! I'll wish good luck to my students. On Friday they'll have the English test.
School starts on 12th September. We have very long holidays in summer. As soon as we come back we'll contact you.
I'll write again to let you know about the results of the exams.
Bye Laura

Al the best

Good luck for the upcoming exams
Thank you all, it has been fun. We wish you all the best for the exams and your new schools for next year. Yes Laura we would like to continue next year. Our holidays start on 15th July, and we are back to school on August 1st. When does your new year start?

good bye

I want to say good bye to you all and thank you so much for this wonderful experience. I really liked it. School is finishing and next week exams are starting. At the end of June we're on holiday till September. I hope we can continue writing next year. When are you finishing school? When are you going on holiday?
Bye bye
Laura Marchese

Good Bye !!

Hi Everybody!
This is the last week of school and the last time we are writing to you.
It was nice to write to you and to know something about your culture.
Next week we are going to have an important exam and we are going to study hard.
We are sorry we haven't met you but you are so far from us.



WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Two weeks ago our school team won the "HIT BALL and BASEBALL Tournament" and we won a cup and some medals. We were happy and our teacher too.
We attach the video and some photos.

After the exams we are going on holiday with our friends and families and next year we are going to attend another school.
Bye Bye. 3^F :) :) :) :) :) :D :D :D :D :D XD

Hi  my name is Masaki and last Wednesday I  did 7 aside Soccer and the reason why  they call it 7 aside is because there is only 7 people on each side  of the field and there is only 7 minuets each way of the field.There is only 1 minuet for a break and the team I was in won one game and tied the other two teams.  

Hi my name is Zara last Wednesday Iwent to seven a side sport I played hockey my mum transported some kids to Hadlow school we played 3 teams. We won 1 game and lost the other games witch was a bit sad .But there were other sports like Rugby,netball and soccer. bye, see you soon

Hi my name is Georgia last Wednesday we did a 7 aside sport I played for netball and the reason why its called 7 aside is because there is only allowed 7 people in each team. there was soccer rugby and hockey. but in every game it only went for 5 minutes we only got a 2 minute break on each game. we won thee first 2 games drew 1 game and lost 2 games.we had 5 games to play. it was a really fun day. anyway bye.

3F

Hi!
We have heard the news on tv about the tornado and we are sorry for this.We hope nobody of you or your friends were injured.We've never had tornadoes in Italy but we have got some earthquake.We are back from easter holiday and now the weather in Italy is warm.We have only 3 weeks at school and them we will have an exam.We have to study hard for it.Our summer holidays start in june and end in september.We go to the seaside or to the mountains.ADDIO in italian means we don't see each other any more!
Bye for now!
3F

Ciao ,
It's kitty here. Did you hear the news ? there's been a tornado in Auckland!!!Tornadoes in New Zealand are very,very,very rare because there are no countries to blow the hot or cold wind down to N.Z.  In the tornado 14 people were injured and 1 person was killed. Car's were also lifted over roofs.the tornado destructed 10 million dollars + of property. that's all from me. addio 
Here is a link to the news story - Auckland tornado

Easter

Ciao,
we celebrate quite in the same way, the only difference is the cake we eat on Sunday, after the lunch with the family. We eat chocolate eggs and a cake which has the shape of a dove, made of flour, eggs, almonds and sultana. Nowadays some cakes have chocolate a cream inside. Delicious!!!
It's a period of Joy because we celebrate Christ's resurrection after death. There are a lot of celebrations at church beginning on Friday afternoon.
Have a happy Easter, we'll be back soon
Laura

Easter

Ciao
You may already be on holiday.
 We do celebrate Easter. Friday is called Good Friday. We have hot cross buns (a spicy bun with a cross on the top) these represent the death of Jesus on the cross. On Sunday we have chocolate Easter eggs. These represent the resurrection and the eggs mean new life. How do you celebrate Easter. Have a great Easter and enjoy your holiday.
Mr H

We really liked your video, thank you so much. We didn't go on a school trip this year, so we enjoyed looking at you.Tomorrow is our last day before Easter holiday and then we'll have only about a month of school. It'll finish on 10th June and then my students will have to pass an exam. here the weather is getting warmer and warmer every day, it's spring and the sun is shining. Do you celebrate Easter? What are you going to do on your holiday? Hope hearing from you soon. Enjoy your holiday! Laura Marchese

holiday

Thank you for the video. We liked it very much. It was very funny. We would like to have a camp like this. Tomorrow we are going to have Easter holiday and we will back to school on 2nd May. We'll have a lot of homework to do and we will have to study a lot. Bye for now. 3F

Holidays

Hi Guys
The year 6 students had an awesome camp last week, the weather was great and we had lots of fun. We are on holiday until the 2nd of May. When do you have holidays? How long do you have? We made a short video about some of the things that we enjoyed at camp. We have had a cold, wet day today, around 10 c and very windy. I think it was coming straight from the south pole. It has been mild up till now so this was a shock. (unfortunately the winter is just beginning)

The Slit is a gap between the rocks where you have to walk through, (like  a narrow cave) it is dark and the water is up to your knees.
Secret buddies are when we all draw out a name and we have to do nice things for them, it's a secret until the end of the day.
We also used inches and feet in New Zealand. We changed to the metric system in 1967. We changed money to dollars and cents (it used to be pounds, shillings and pence) and all the measurements, including inches, feet, yards and miles to millimetres, centimetre, metres and kilometres
Bye for now
Mr H

Hi Kauri's class!

At the end of this year we are having a very difficult exam and next year we will change school.

Have you ever had an exam ? We haven't got "Pizza Hut" but there are a lot of Pizzerias in our city. Have you got any Pubs ? Do you use any social network like Facebook, Netlog, Twitter etc...?

Last week we went to visit our city with an english guide. We started from "PORTA NUOVA Station" and the "Sambuy Gardens" in front of it. Then we walked along "Via Roma" and looking for english words in the windows shops. We went to see the underground car parks and the guide described the signs we saw there. We visited two famous squares : Castello square and San Carlo square. We visited the Subalpine Gallery and the Carignano Palace and we learnt a lot of new words. We took some photos and we enjoyed a lot. Then we took the bus and we came back to school.

We learnt some strange things for example that there are three cannon balls on the building in San Carlo square and there is also one near a church.

We learnt english measurement : INCH and FOOT and there are some Roman walls underground.

CU Soon

CAMP

Hi again this weekend the year 6s at our school are going on a camp to this place called Sixtus Lodge.All the year 6s are excited about it.Some year 6s can't go on it because their mums and dads won't let them go.We are having a meeting tomorrow about the days and what we are going to do and all of that kind of stuff.We'll write to you later .BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3F

Hi everybody, sorry but we haven't much time to write today because we are having an English Test. We have to study hard for our exam. Next monday we'll go out with our teacher. We'll walk aroud Turin with an English speaking guide. We hope we could understand. We hope we can write next next Wednesay. Are you all fine? What are you doing at school? bye 3F

Hi

Hi , I'm Kitty, there are 5 people who've been abroad in my class, including me  and Mr.Hornby. Today is the first wet school day in Masterton for 37 days !!!!!, it is autumn here. I've been to Germany and I was born in Scotland, but I've been to heaps of other places, only I've just been to the airports !!!!!yes we've eaten pizza before and Masterton has three pizza places ,Dominoes [Dominoes is closed 'cause they need a new boss],Pizza Hut[my favourite], and Powell Hut [I think it's called that] Powell hut is at mount Holdsworth]. English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become South East Scotland , and so on
Bye for now

This is me

Hi its Mali again I have been to a European country because I was born there. I've even got family over there. We had the first wet day in 37 days isn't that amazing. I do like pizza its really yum. There have been 5 people from our class in a European country. Do you have Pizza Hut? That's where you can buy pizzas they're really yum. There's a really nice pizzeria at Mt Holdsworth, that's at a mountain close to Masterton. The people that own the pizzeria are my mum's friends, they are German too.

3F

Hi Kauri's class! How are you ?
Today in Italy it's the first day of Spring but the weather is changeable but it's warmer. We are thinking about holidays . Have you ever been abroad? Have you visited an European country? Which one ? Have you heard about Lybia and about the earthquake in Japan ? Have you ever eaten Pizza ? In Italy speak a lot of dialets and in our region we talk Piedmontese . Our language italian comes from latin and what about yours ?
Bye for now, CU soon , 3^F.

The Azzurri

Way to go! The Azzurri (Italy rugby) beat the French. 22-21

hello

Hello we have made a video to teach you some Maori.
Destiny and Caitlin

3F

Yes, we celebrate mother's day in May and father's day in April.
In Italy it's almost spring, the weather is still changeable, but it's getting warmer.
on 17th March we're celebrating the 150 years of Unity of Italy and we don't go to school.
Turin was the first capital of italy, people put flags on balconies and shop windows are decorated to remember that Day.
italy is known for its food all over the world especially pizza and pasta that we cook in different way. What about you? What's your typiacal food? what do you eat at lunvh or dinner? Do you have Fast Food places?
ye for now 3F

Women's Day

Hi, no we do not celebrate Women's Day but we do celebrate mother's day on mothers day. We give all of our mums flowers and we be nice to them for the day. Do you celebrate anything else? We also celebrate fathers day, it is the same as mothers day and you get them presents. Do you celebrate fathers day? Our swimming season is over now.
Bye for now.
Holly

3F

HI! We have a similar Carneval in Venice but not as big as the one in Brasil. Every region has got its mask and the tipical mask of Piedmont are Gianduia and Colombina
In Ivrea city near Turin Carneval is celebrated throwing oranges. Tomorrow in Italy is WOMEN'S DAY. We celebrated giving tipical flowers to women. Do you celebrate it too?
Bye

Carnival

No we don't celebrate carnival. Is this the same carnival that they celebrate in Brazil? Last Friday we had our school swimming sports. The whole school travelled to the town pools to race and the top children were selected to go to the inter-school swimming sports next week. Today we had a red and black day, we got to wear red and black clothes and brought a donation. The proceeds are going to help the earthquake victims. We also had a cake stall.
The red and black day was held all over New Zealand. Red and black are the colours of Canterbury, the region where Christchurch is.

3F

We saw the photos about the earthquake and we are very sorry for what happened.
Two years ago in the centre of Italy , a region called Abruzzo happened something like this.
A lot of cities and villages were destroyed and more then 3 hundred people died.

We live in the north west of Italy in a region called Piedmont.
You can look at the map.

This year we are celebrating the 150 years of the Union of Italy.
In this days we are celebrating Carnival , people dress up in different ways and there are a lot of parades in the street.
Children have parties with their friends. Do you celebrate Carnival too?
What do you do?

Bye for now. 3F.

Map of New Zealand

Ciao
Here is a map of New Zealand, the top arrow shows where Masterton is and the other arrow shows Christchurch (where the earthquake was).

earthquake

Hi,
we're very sorry for the earthquake. We heard about it on the news. We didn't know where is exactly this town and we feared for you. It's terrible. In Italy too we had earthquakes which destroyed entire towns and villages.
Hope hearing from you soon
Laura M and 3F

Earthquake

Thank you for the photos, we have also seen some of the photos in the gallery on your website. Another devastating earthquake struck Christchurch yesterday. Although it was a smaller magnitude there was more damage and loss of life. It was shallower and closer to the city centre. Many of us at school either have friends or relatives who live in Christchurch, as far as I know all are safe and well. Here is a link to see some of the pictures from the earthquake. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/photos/4688271/Christchurch-aftershock-Feb-22
Ciao for now
Mr H

This is a photo of our school from the outside and the one above is our court yard.












If you want to see some more photo about our school you can visit our site www.dantealighieritorino.it












Hi,
in our class there are 3 foreign people coming from Moldova,Argentina and Etiopia.
We don't know what is Mc Donald's , for us is a fast food place. Can you explain it please?
We don't have cards for the behaviour but the teachers can write on the diary.
We don't do many subject group but we study individually a lot of subjects.
We are envious you have a swimming pool in the school :( !!!!!!!

Bye for now. 3°F.

Nathanael

Hi Im Nathanael I'm 8years-old. I'm the youngest in my class. Here is a photo of me ->
I like the colours green and blue.
I'm From New Zealand and I'm part Maori and part Scottish. I have 2 dogs one called Honey and the other dog is Pipi. I have a sheep called Chicken.. I have 3 sisters. Their names are Saffron Raine and Neve

Kids

Euan

Hi Im Euan and Im 9. I am from Germany. Are any people in your class that originate from another country?. (Theres a picture of me on the right.These are my friends Bradley and Nathanael.(above right a picture of our school pool.) Netball is like basketball except you can't run with the ball.
Bye

Hi my name is Zara I'm 9 I am turning ten soon. How are you? In my class we have 2 fish and some caterpillars. Do you have any class pets?. We still haven't named our fish we have got a veg garden do you have a veg garden? After morning tea we go swimming. We have a school swimming pool. Do you have a swimming pool at your school ? What subjects do you do? I do reading,writing ,maths,handwriting,topic and that's all. I'm going to tell you about my family my mum my dad 1sister 1dog called turbo 2 cats willow and shadow and two fish . I like doing art. I play hockey but I like netball too. I like going to the beach

Hi my name is Mali I'm ten years old. My favourite sport is netball. In our classroom have fish and caterpillars. They're really fun to watch. I'm half German, my mum was born in Germany and so was I. We have cards in our classroom for our behaviour. Yellow one means that you have been really good, red card is when you have been naughty and you have to go to lunch club. (like a detention) Do you have yellow red and green cards? I've got 1 brother called Piet at Solway School. I've got one dog called Bud, he is very playful. Do you have competitions like running dancing and that kind of thing? I love doing art and writing is my favourite subject.what is your favorite sub jct i think you have seen the class photo but ill show you it again I'm up the top.you see that mark on my face is from scraping it in our school swimming pool on the botom of it.bye bye for now.

Hi it's Lucy again this is me,
I'm just going to tell you one thing that I ride pony's. We have just been swimming and it was nice and refreshing.Today I am looking after Hunter yay we were playing Mc Donalds at morning tea time do you have Mc Donalds??

One of our caterpillars made a chrysalis on the fish tank!!! Netball is a game that is mostly played by girls and it's very similar to basketball but you can not move with the ball you score hoops and you play on concrete or wooden floors and it's called a court the places you play are usually strict and the are called GD like goal defence and stuff. I play hockey but once after a hockey game I was asked to play.

Anyway do you do school productions and do you have subject groups ?
BYE

This is the symbol of Turin : the MOLE ANTONELLIANA , inside there's a Cinema Museum.


Our city is very big and there are a lot of monuments and buildings for example Valentino's Castle , Palace Madama , Palace Lascaris , Palatina Doors and the Science Museum and very famous Egyptian Museum : it is the second museum in the world , the other one is in Cairo.


There are some big parks in Turin like Valentino, Ruffini and Pellerina.

In this photo you can also see our english teacher.

At school we study maths geography history music science etc...

We have a lot of homework and we have to study a lot for the exams.

Our school is very big and it's near the Elementary school and under there is a nursery school.

We go to school everyday exept Saturday and Sunday and on Tuesday and Thursday we go to school until 4 PM.

Bye for now.

3F

This is our class , we're 21 students and we study two languages : English and French.

We haven't got a swimming pool and we don't swim and the sea is far from Turin , we go there in the summer.

We haven't got any animals or mascot.

We play some sports during the PE lessons for example Hit-Ball , Softball , Volleyball , Basketball.

What is Netball ?

We like ALL BLACKS and ALL WHITE.

Bye Bye....

Destiny

Hi my name is Destiny. I am 10 years old. We like doing gardening. Do you have a garden at your school? We like going swimming in our school swimming pool. Do you like swimming? we have 9 classes in our school. How many classes do you have? Our class teachers are Mrs Booth, Mrs French, Mrs Betty, Mrs Gain and Mrs Mead, Mrs Schouten but she is going to be Mrs Hewitt soon enough, Mrs Hurrell, Mrs Paterson, Mr Simons and last but not least Mr Hornby. Who are the teachers at your school? We have 8 class pets, 2 fish, 2 chrysalises and 4 caterpillars. We have spelling words for our homework, What type of homework do you get? What sports do you do? we get to do Soccer, Hockey,Netball and Rugby.

We also get reading and something to do about countries. We have 25 people in our class. We have a play ground. Do you have a play ground? We also have a game that we haven't got the hang of it yet but when we do maybe some one will tell you how to play. What other languages do you speak other than English, Italian and french if you speak french of course.

3F

Hi to everybody. We're happy to wtrte to you on the blog.
We answer some of your questions. we don't have a pool at our school also bacause it's cold in Turin. During the summer we're not at school. We're on holiday from mid-june to mid September.
We don't have a mascot and we don't have lunch outside, but in a certain lunch room.
We have a courtyard, but we only go there to play during the lunch break. We don't have any pets. We live in a big industrial and polluted city, we don't have butterflies and caterpillars.We don't do gardening, we don't have fields nearby.
The weather here is cold even if it's getting warmer. We're waiting for spring.
We're studying hard this here because we're attending the third and last year of secondary school and we're going to have an exam in june. In september we will change school and classmates because each of us will choose a different type of school.
We must stop now.
Bye 3F

Hi

Hi,
My name is Naomi-Rose,I'm 10 years old and I'm in year 6.
We have just started our second week. And hoping to go for a swim today because it has been very hot. Do you have lunch times swims? How Hot or Cold is it for you right now?
We planted some Peas in the Garden last week. Do you do gardening at your school?
Have you heard about whats happening to Australia? We have been learning all about it. At school we have a Road Patrol and Play Ground Buddies which I am in both of them.
Do you have some thing like those? We have 9 classes in our school and some where around 11 teachers.We have lots of sport like Netball, Soccer, Hockey, Softball and even more. Do you have any of those sports? Our school goes up to year 6 so where in our last year.
Do you have a class Pet? We sort of have three, two fishes and a stuffed teddy bear called Hunter.
We have some Chrysalis and one is about to hatch and it might come today. Do you get lots of Homework or not that much? We get Reading and Spelling and something about Country.

From Naomi-Rose

Welcome

Hi to everybody and welcome to the blog.
I'm the English teacher and my class is looking forward to beginning corresponding with you. There are 22 students in my class and they study English and French as second languages. We live in Turin in the North-west of Italy and it's winter at the moment, it's very cold.
Next week we'll begin reading your posts and my students will write something about themselves.
It's nice corresponding with you,
Bye Laura

Hi

Hi,I'm Kitty. We've just been swimming and it's good weather for it too!!! Do you have a pool at your school ? Today is also Destiny's day to look after Hunter, our class mascot, tomorrow it is my day. Do you have a class Mascot? Right now everybody is starting to go out to lunch. We have our lunch outside, do you have it outside or do you have it in a certain lunch room or your class? We also have two fish that have not yet been named, one is orange and one is orange with gray and black spots. We also have two baby caterpillars. Do you have any class pets? Can't wait to blog you again. Bye for now, Kitty
Here is a picture of Hunter Bear.

Hi, we're back

Hi my names Lucy, I have moved up into Kauri. Lately we have been swimming everyday so far it has been quite hot. All of the caterpillars are out and the one in our class has turned into a chrysalis. We planted peas yesterday which was a lot of fun.Our other two classes Kanuka and Rimu (yr1 and 2 classes) are getting renevated and are nearly finished. We have been learning about thrushes. What is your weather like over there? What have you been doing?
BYE Lucy and rest of the class.