Gala day

Last Saturday Arrowtown School had its 150th anniversary, we celebrated it by having a Gala day.

There were all sorts of stalls. Room 11, our class, had a stall that we shared with the rest of the syndicate. It was so great that it sold out in the first hour of the gala day so only the year 6 students got to have a go at running the stall.

Our stall was called Pick a Pencil there was one huge plastic box of saw dust . There were 84 pencils all standing up, each pencil had a different coloured sticker it and each sticker stood for a prize. For example if you got a red you would get a good prize if you got a yellow it wasn't such a good prize.There were also pencils without stickers and if you got one without a sticker you didn't get a prize just the pencil.

There were other stalls to like pony rides, Mini jeeps and there was Mr Potts with his funky bikes. Lastly there were the restaurant food stalls from Arrowtown who came and set up a tent each! There was a tent for adults only no kids. The only bad thing about the day was that it was a raining.

Other than that it was great, and we all had a lot of fun!

By Kate

A victorian school.

Last Tuesday we were pretending to be in a victorian school. We walked to the chinese village or MacDonnell Road so we could walk to school.

When I got there there was SO many people in old clothes!  We took some photos and videos.

When we started walking to the school some of us were wearing bear feet and some with boots.  It was a pretty long walk but we made it, some with frostbitten feet! Actually  not as much but,  REALLY REALLY COLD feet.  I was glad I wore boots.

When we got to school we had to stay outside and wait for our teachers to allow us in.  We all lined up and waited. Then an undertaker arrived - Dun Dun Dun. Then a fine ok teacher opened the door. What Girls First!!! Well that’s a life experience for me.

.So we got in. Wow it was so empty, only 8 desks and 5 tables. Most tables only had two or three people on them.

The first thing we did was go to the hall and go through what we were doing. When one of the teachers started talking a bit loud and scary this little kid hurt himself. Well I think some people thought he was crying because he was scared, but he only hurt his arm. The teacher just yelled at him and said “GROW UP BOY”! I tell you I  felt a bit sorry for him. W started singing our prayer. After that the undertaker, actually our teacher our teacher started reading a story to us about victorian times. When he finished we waited till our teacher let us go back to class.

In class we started doing writing.  Wow It was SOOOO boring.  Now I know how boring it was for you adults. It was pretty hard to doing all that linked writing. I failed at least 10 times. I was caned like 6 times. At morning tea we had olden day food. It looked like it was old day food because it was covered in newspaper or cloth. The Bad Thing was that the Girls were allowed on the court! Which means we Had to be on The Grass!!! And you know boys we LOVE TO GET DIRTY which was SO HARD not to get dirty. The only thing we could do to not to get dirty was play tricky tag which is where you clearly tag them but if you tag them at the same time you have to do paper scissors rock. Whoever wins sits down and waits till the person that tagged you is down, then you go up and tag more people. It really never ends so we either wait till we go back inside or we wait till the bell rings.

After morning tea was done we went back inside and we did this SO HARD math it was money and it like ounce+p=6764657454563647464746364746 or Something like that. It was the hardest thing I have done. Well probably not for you anyway we did maths for about 1 hour.

Ryan

Athletics day.

On the 30th of october all the classes from year 3 up to year 8 went on the buses to go to athletics. The buses left school at 9.00 sharp. We got to Alpine Aqualand fields. When we pulled up we got out of all the buses and thanked the drives. Next we had to line up behind the our age group cones. Mr Winders walked over to the cones and turned on his giant microphone and told us what to do.

First my group went to the high jump. The first jump we did was 90cm. Then 95cm to 1m and 1.5m. After that my group went to the hurdles which were at the 24 mark line. After hurdles we went to the sprints which were 65m long. second to last was shot put and the last activity was discus.

The girls had Ms Buckenham for high jump. Mrs Hoskin and Ms Greenhalgh were organising the hurdles. Mrs Sefo was doing shot put and Mrs Brentwood did the discus.

The boys had Mr Smallridge for high jump mrs hosken and Mrs Greenhalgh also did hurdles. Mr Forsyth was doing shot put and Mr Winders was helping at the discus.

I want to say thankyou for putting this years athletics on!!!!!!!  

By Hannah.white

150 on Tuesday!

On Tuesday we had an 1863 themed day. We had to dress up as an olden day kid and get to school an old fashion way. The way I got to school was on my pony and there were about ten more kids riding their ponies. When we got to school we got a pony club picture and our parents took the ponies home.

We all went to our classes and had to sit down at a table. The girls sat separately to the boys ( which was good ). The work was really easy and really BORING. My teacher was really mean and was caning and all the kids were laughing their heads off and my teacher Mr Forsyth was laughing as he was caning.

In assembly there were three boys who had to go up the front and tell the rest of the school how they were doing with their sports training. One of them forgot to say sir at the end of ( yes sir ) he just said yes, so he had to lean on the chair and Mr Winders caned him in front of the school! He just hit the chair but accidentally hit the boy once so the boy limped back to his seat. After that torture we all sang God save the Queen.

The caning!!

Then we went back to our classrooms and did some hand writing in olden day books. Whenever a teacher or older citizen came in we had to stand up.

At morning tea all the girls were not allowed on the field with the boys and the boys were not allowed to come where the girls were.

After that we went back to class and did some maths which was fun but boring. Then we had to go out for drills and that was fun. We did star jumps and bends over each side and putting our foot out the side and in fast when he said to.

After that all the girls had to sit at the junior playground to eat and play but we were allowed to play on the court and the boys had to sit in the intermediate seating and the boys were only allowed to play on the field and on the big kids playground. At one o’clock the Arrow miners band came and performed on the court and we all danced like cowboys and cowgirls. Then the bell rang and we had to go and line up in front of our classrooms and wait for our teachers.

We went in and sat down and started to line up again for folk dancing drill on the court. We had to do a heel toe one and a Pigeon house one then we went back to class and went home. By the way the kids didn’t really get caned it was just pretend.

                                                                                              By Tessa

Me in the green bonnet!

A DAY IN A LIFE OF A VICTORIAN SCHOOL

Last Tuesday we dressed up in a olden days costume for our 150 years celebration! People joined either a walking school bus or they rode a horse or donkey! We had to play outside before the bell rang and the Mr Forsyth, our teacher, checked us for clean hands.

The girls would have worn Ankle length skirts and a long sleeved top tucked into their skirt, leather boots or shoes and a bonnet. The boys would wear little cheese cutter caps and shorts and braces with a shirt.

The bell wasn't like normal we used the old bell. At lunch time the Arrow Miners Band came and played some music, some people were dancing to them! All of us had an olden day lunch in a paper bag such as a cheese sandwich and maybe a bit of fruit and a two biscuits. We did P.E. with Mr Winders the whole school did some stretches and star jumps. We had our picture taken by Mr Young. Every class got their picture taken. Everyone was in style and looked really good!

In my class we used a little book, in the book was some handwriting which we had to copy out, and some art of a sheep.

There was a Dunces cap which some people did wear. Also some teachers were pretending that they actually caned students. The day was really fun!

Stella, Room 11

150th Gala Day

150th Gala Day

Plunk the coin drops into the bucket as I walk in into the hall. There’s everything from cakes to scarves, mystery bottles  to  soap. As I walk out I pull my wet hood up and run to shelter. Scattered in front of rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4 were scout stalls, nail in a hay bale, chocolate coin throw, cupcake stands and finally pick a pencil. I tested my luck guess on the chocolate throw two times and you would never guess but I actually won big and by big I mean milky way super pack!

Afterwards I waded over to the Patagonia stand. “Mate, rip off!” but I bought an ice cream anyway. After I swam over to the horse shoe  toss and I won a crunchie bar. After a Quick cupcake I hopped on to of Mr Pott’s crazy bikes and before I knew it I was doing crazy burnouts on the green machine. After a good 3½ hours I walked home. The wind whistled  and led the bad weather away and the sun began to shine through the clouds.

Tobin

The Museum Visit

Last Monday we went to the museum. First we got off the bus & into the reception area. We went into the monthly gallery & we met a woman called Amy who was going to show us around. We looked at photos of Arrowtown people from 150 years ago. Then we chose a photograph to draw. We used some tea bags and dabbed the stuff in the tea bags onto the paper to make it look old.

The next room we went into was the room with all the old pianos and then we sat in a semicircle. .Amy gave out some stuff to some of us. I got to hold a bone & Joshua got to hold some grapes. Next Amy put out a timeline & we had to put our stuff onto its age mark. I think the bone went on the 1800 & under mark.

We went down to the old Arrowtown area & the first place everyone went was the old man on the long drop that says, “Oy! Go away! Can't you see I’m busy!”

The last area we went into was the old school classroom. Amy got out some old slates and told us to practice writing fancy A’s, B’s, C’s and D’s.

Finally we walked back up to the reception area & got on the bus & went back to school.

My favorite bit was when we were drawing the pictures & dabbing the teabags on them.

Please E-mail me & tell me your favorite bit about the museum.

Some classes did not do the drawing & teabag thing.

There might be some photos on the Lakes District Museum Arrowtown Site.  

By Samuel Alexander Clark.

The museum trip

Last Monday we went to the museum. First we went to the gallery and looked at people from the olden days. Amy gave us a sheet to fill out. What we had to do was choose a picture in the gallery and answer these questions… what clothes were they wearing, were they rich, were they poor and what were their facial expressions.  

After that we did some art. Amy gave us some cardboard and some pictures of kids from the olden days and some pens and pencils. First we had to put the piece of paper on top of the cardboard and draw the out line of the picture. When we took of the paper of we could see a faint mark where we traced the picture, we drew over the outline so we could see it better. After we finished drawing the face the eyes the hair and the mouth we coloured the picture in. Soon the picture was done Amy gave us some wet tea bags. We picked up the tea bags and dabbed them over our picture so it looked really old then we left them to dry.

Third we went down stairs and looked at some stuff from the olden days there was lot’s of cool stuff like farming stuff, shears, tea pots, shoes, baskets and heaps more stuff. We made a timeline with them to see what was the oldest thing and what was the newest thing. The oldest thing was a poha which is a maori food basket and the newest thing were grapes that people use to make wine around here.

Next we went in to the olden day classroom and practised writing on slate boards with chalk. It was quite hard. After that we got to have look around museum we saw a fire engine, horse gear, guns, maori stuff, scuba diving gear and there was also a projector screen that told you about the life of a kiwi.

By Leila Korani