Room 7 Goes to Parliament

On Tuesday we went to Parliament buildings in Wellington. We caught the train from Takapu Road railway station. We walked around Wellington city and went to the Archives to see the Treaty of Waitangi.

We saw lots of things and felt pretty special.

• Thomas: "I liked talking to Peter Dunne."


• Rachel: "I liked the debating chamber."


• Xavier: "I liked the socks on the rock. They represent different countries."


• Sereana: "I liked Pat showing us the cameras and talking about the people planning for emergencies in the basement.


• Jamuel: "I liked it when we were being watched on camera."


• "We saw some people protesting about mining."


• "The Treaty of Waitangi at the Archive was pretty special because it's really old and was signed by lots of people."

There's lots happening at St Francis Xavier today....

• We'll be playing water games on the field after lunch today because it's National Water Week..... We need to drink lots of water so we can keep our kidneys clean and healthy!
• We've been doing a lot of art work about Pompeii and how the volcano exploded and the ash storm buried the city for years and years and years!
• We're signing up for My Greatest Feat! We're going to see if our class can walk the distance of New Zealand when the All Whites at the Soccer World cup in South Africa.

A Day in Pompeii for Rooms 4 and 7

On a hot, sunny perfect day Rooms 4 and 7 took a bus trip to Te Papa for a day in Pompeii. We went past the calm blue sea, we passed by Taylor Preston, Westpac Stadium, the railway station where there was a bright blue train, the BNZ where some of our dads work and we saw the tall city buildings.

Amazing pictures were all around the walls. They were painted by slaves who put plaster on the wools then had to paint really fast before the paint dried. The coins were made of bronze- they smelled really nice and they felt bumpy and smooched.

The earthquake moved the houses at 8 am - before the volcano blew. then the shook and slid off the roof. Rocks came flying out of the sky and smashed the roof and the statues. The smoke from the volcano made it dark and really hard to see. The ashes were like a sandstorm when they exploded out of the volcano. The whole place was buried for about 1700 years.

What do you think about our visit to Pompeii?