School-150 Years Young

On Friday 18th of August 2018, we celebrated the school’s 150th birthday.
We all dressed up in old timey clothes and our teachers addressed us as, E.g.
Miss Eloise, Miss Sanne, Master Nikau, and Master Sultaan.
After the role we decorated
some cakes in our house groups ( red, green,yellow and blue). Next the whole school went into
Indigo Room and had a class as if it were 150 years ago. We sung a song called God Save The Queen,
and we learnt maths by chanting out our 7 times tables. We were given feathers and pots of ink to
write with. We were also given some old-looking parchment to write on. We wrote out each letter
of the alphabet, and most of us made heaps of little blotches on our parchment. We had lunch inside,
in our classrooms.
Then we headed into Room One, and we were shown a mysterious parcel with
thin blue crepe paper that served as wrapping.
Next we played some old-timey games, such as
knucklebones, hopscotch, foursquare, Elastics, marbles,  skipping and stilts. We had so much fun!
We spent only a few hours on the games (sadly) but then we lined up in our house groups and shared
our cake out (smack!) Some of us got an extra! Yum! Now…out of the giant parcel came... Drum roll
please… came… 150 teddies! (not really, it was 100, but I thought 150 would suit more) we took
them home, and all in all, I think it was a great day!

By Sanne & Eloise.