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Ko kotahitanga te kohanga reo Tihewa mauri tu, mauri oho, mauri ora Ki te whei aoi ki te te aomarama!

A good teacher is kind.helpful and caring and a good teacher wants us to really really learn.

Student Council 2011

They best thing about being in the student council for 2011 is working with the other councilors to think of ideas for assembles. Also the best experience was learning the sign language for the National Anthem. They best assemble was the last one on Friday. But no classes got Zion the lion. <span style="color: #ffb900; font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif;">The coin trail for Christchurch Kids raised just over 1000 dollars. !WOW!

5 things I learn’t this term
1. This term I learn’t how to put things on my wiki. 2. Also I’m learning how to New Zealand history in order. Kupe came first and then he went back to tell his cousins. 3. I learn’t how to count in 4’s and 3’s. 4. I learn’t in ukulele do to the E cord. 5. Also in arithmetic I learn’t how to round to hundred. 6. Also I learn’t how to do Matisse art with rip and glue.



or safety and for defense, people in the Middle Ages formed small communities around a central lord or master. Most people lived on a manor, which consisted of the castle, the church, the village, and the surrounding farm land. These manors were isolated, with occasional visits from peddlers, pilgrims on their way to the Crusades, or soldiers from other fiefdoms.

Lords: Within the fief he owned, the lord had nearly total authority. He was the judge and jury whenever a dispute needed to be settled. He was also the judge and jury for dispute between his various vassals.

Daily life during the Middle Ages is sometimes hard to fathom. Pop culture loves to focus on exciting medieval moments-heroic knights charging into battle; romantic liaisons between royalty and commoner; breakthroughs and discoveries made. But life for your average person during the Dark Ages was very routine, and activities revolved around an agrarian calendar.

Most of the time was spent working the land, and trying to grow enough food to survive another year. Church feasts marked sowing and reaping days, and occasions when peasant and lord could rest from their labors. Poor people had a harsh life the had to look after land for the local lord, harvest all the crops and look after the family. Peasant woman always wore the same blue dress with a white apron which was ripped. Rich men wore a suit with golden buttons and they wore a cloak but all the had a dagger at there sides. ost medieval homes were cold, damp, and dark. Sometimes itwas warmer and lighter outside the home than within its walls. For security purposes, windows, when they were present, were very small openings with wooden shutters that were closed at night or in bad weather. The small size of the windows allowed those inside to see out, but kept outsiders from looking in.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main pastime of the upper class was hunting. Lords hunted deer with packs of dogs and killed them with arrows. They also hunted wild boar with spears. Both men and women went hawking. In the evenings they feasted, danced and played board games such as chess and backgammon. In the mid-15th century playing cards arrived in England. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When he was not hunting the noble or knight was fighting. Their wives were also kept busy. They had to organise the servants and generally run the household. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Knights also took part in tournaments. These events drew large crowds of spectators. At them knights fought with wooden lances, swords or maces. This was called jousting. There were also tourneys (fights between teams). Tournaments often lasted four days. Two days were for jousting, one was for tourneys and one was for archery competitions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">uring the Medieval Times, you couldn't just go to Burger King and grab a cheeseburger. This page will tell you what food was like for people living in Medieval Times. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meat was very popular. Although it had weird names, (fried pig's head) it tasted good. Beef and mutton (lamb) were eaten a lot. Mutton is a kind of sheep. Venison, or deer meat, was eaten a lot too and so were poultry, game, and wild birds. The best way of preserving meat was to sprinkle it with salt. This worked, but not very well, so when the meat rotted, people would pour a sauce on it, and eat it anyway! Yuck! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vegetables were also popular. People liked eating vegetables like onions, garlic, and herbs that they would pick from the castle garden. These were eaten with meats. During Lent, (Fridays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays) people would eat fish. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The lives of peasant children would have been very different to today. They would not have attended school for a start. Very many would have died before they were six months old as disease would have been very common. As soon as was possible, children joined their parents working on the land. They could not do any major physical work but they could clear stones off the land – which might damage farming tools – and they could be used to chase birds away during the time when seeds were sown. Peasant children could only look forward to a life of great hardship. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For all peasants, life was "nasty, brutish and short."

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 32px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Castles = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stone castles first existed in the 9th century. The castle was held together with mortar. The mortar held the bricks of the castle together. Walls could be as thick as thirty feet! Passages under ground were also helpful to defenders. They have many parts to them. They are the Keep, the Sentry Walk, the moat, the Inner and Outer Bailey, the Inner and Outer gatehouse, the Curtain and the Drawbridge. They are often built on high mountains surrounded by a moat. This makes the castle harder to attack. A drawbridge lays across the moat and can be raised when under attack. Comfort is not what castles were designed for. A castle was built to be a fort and was designed to withstand a siege. The castle also has an Inner and Outer wall. In case the enemy got through the Outer wall the Inner wall was also protective to the king and his servants. The Outer wall is covered in merlons which are steel plates so it is harder to get through the wall. The holes in the wall are made for defenders to fire arrows at the enemy. There are also holes in the ceiling and floor. This allows castle inmates to look down and see if the intruder in friendly or not. If he does not look friendly they will pour a sticky substance called Greek Fire which can easily burn through flesh and kill them. These are called murder holes. A crusader castle has a second and third wall for defense. That is the design of a castle. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A castle has many defenses. One of them is that the walls had small slits in them. They were called arrow loops. These allowed the defenders to shoot arrows out at the enemy. They stood on ledges or galleries. If one defender died the rest did not care! They just went on with the battle. Round walls made each part of the castle harder to hit. Outer walls gradually got thicker and was harder to get through and harder to get over. Doors and gates had thick iron plates on them and needed more protection because they were wooden. A series of walls is farther from the moat so it would be even harder for the enemy. The castle could not get fresh food under attack. When their supplies ran out they would have to surrender. So the defenders had to get rid of the enemy before the supplies were gone. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A castle could attack in many ways. Giant crossbows and cannons were some of the main sources of attack for a castle. They also used catapults, crossbows, and bow and arrows. They started lighting arrows on fire for more destruc- tion. If they were attacking a castle and were loosing bad the horse helped them get out fast. Soldiers or Knights used ladders or scaling towers to climb over walls. They also used a battering ram to Knock down walls. Castles were very important in the Middle Ages. Food in the middle ages was different from today you couldn’t just walk down the street like Burger King. There food consisted of meat mutton was a favorite so was ham sometimes the children were allowed to drink wine, beer, ale and mead. For the rich feasts in the Great Hall were a grand affair you had drinking horns full with mead and ale platers and platers of food, fish and meat some roasted vegetables. For dessert you had lovely tarts big plates of cakes and fudge. ||
 * .... ............... || [[image:http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/CONWY1.JPG width="255" height="175" align="right"]] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As you look out the wind hole of the giant keep all you see is the moat and the giant meadows! You see the horses and nights charging towards the castle. Panic flies all over your body. You tell your servants to run and warn the defenders to prepare for a siege. BOOOM! The castle wall starts collapsing!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I like playing on the computer the things I do on it are do Harry Potter House and Wand quizzes. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I also like reading the Harry Potter novels and The Lord of the rings. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My friends describe me as Smart, Witty and a little bit Stubborn. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My favourite subject at school is Reading. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If I was at Hogwarts my house would be Ravenclaw as the rest of my family are just about all in Slytherin. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My favourite food is Japanese. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I value knowledge. ** =Cool To Be Kind 25 May= On Friday we went to see the Cool to be kind show.

Tony was the one who was running the show.

The first magic trick he did Tony got Miranna from Room 13 to turn a normal size glove into a midget one. Miranna did this by waving the wand and saying the magic word “123 Please”.

Then Tony pulled out the Smartmmonater and girls were smarter than boys.

Then Tony made the ballon swan “I’m going to give this to someone at the end of the show”.

My favorite part was when Brain asked Leah “Are you Married”.

It was really cool.

Bees Research

A Queen can decide if it is going to be a worker or a dron. Bees will only sting you if you offend them. A queen does not have a barb on its stinger so it sting more the once. A baby queen is feed royal jelly. 80% of pollen is water.




 * Forename(s) ||  || George Francis ||   ||


 * Surname ||  || Harper ||   ||


 * War ||  || World War I, 1914-1918 ||   ||


 * Serial No. ||  || 10/3586 ||   ||


 * First Known Rank ||  || Private ||   ||


 * Occupation before Enlistment ||  || Labourer ||   ||


 * Next of Kin ||  || John Harper (brother), Rangiotu, New Zealand ||   ||


 * Body on Embarkation ||  || New Zealand Expeditionary Force ||   ||


 * Embarkation Unit ||  || 9th Reinforcements Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company ||   ||


 * Embarkation Date ||  || 8 January 1916 ||   ||


 * Place of Embarkation ||  || Wellington, New Zealand ||   ||


 * Transport ||  || __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|HMNZT 37] __ ||   ||


 * Vessel ||  || Maunganui ||   ||


 * Destination ||  || Suez, Egypt ||   ||


 * Nominal Roll Number ||  || 21 ||   ||


 * Page on Nominal Roll ||  || 20 ||   ||


 * Archives NZ source ||  || __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Military personnel file __ ||   ||


 * Sources Used ||  || Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1917 ||   ||

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