A Day At High School

On the 28th of April the year 8s from Pt England school went down to Tamaki College to  experience the life of high school. As we got their 2 other school were there which was Glen Innes Glen Brae. When we were sitting down more school’s started arriving then one of the teachers from Tamaki college started telling us want we are about to do.

As most of the schools arrived Miss More told all the girls to go and get our name tags then he told the boys to get it. As we all got our name tags she told us to look at our tags and see what group we and then she told all of their house colors which was Rata Kowai Puriri Totara.

When she was finished talking she all called out the groups names and we had to go to our leader.Finally we got to do our first activity meanwhile our first activity which was social studies.What we did was that we had to try and answer as much questions as we can to beat the other people.I was in groups of 1 which was Rebekah then we had to swap groups.

The next activity we done was maths with Mr Jones we played battle ships it was a really fun game to play to play the game is to have 5 ships and a number line 1 to 9 and up 7 and you have to try and hide your ships away so they don’t sink your boat if they sink all your boats then you're out.

Then we had to go back to the hall to have our interval we had a juice and a yogurt as we were eating.

At the end of the day the leaders from each group got told to pick two people from their group for a prize the small prize was a bag and the big prize was a printer then we said our thank you and we sang our waita which was nga waka e.