We had a very exciting line up of cars – three Ford Mustangs, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, three midget race cars, a 1929 Ford roadster powered by a Lincoln V12, two Morris Minors, a Morris Oxford wagone and two 1950 Bradfords along with a few vintage lawnmowers, plus a 1959 Ford Customline and a Ford Zephyr 6 MkIII.

The children greatly enjoyed the cars running and were able to sit in the midgets.

It cost him $50,000 for his share of the costs. He gave us the link to his photo gallery.

We went up the hill to a huge barn for morning tea. There were brownies, orange juice and tea for the adults. We sat on the steps in the barn. There were 2 dogs, a Labrador and a Great Dane.

After morning tea we had a play and then we hopped back onto the bus to go where we were going to plant our plants. Gail from the ARC showed us how to use the camping toilet and how to dig a hole and plant a plant. Kate also from the ARC was with her.

We had nine very helpful parents with us, they were, Gina, Donna, Grant, Tamati, Michael, Kylie, Shane, Chris, and Brenda. What an awesome group they were.

We started planting. First you dig the hole, make sure it is deep enough, plant the plant, place a blue fertiliser tablet next to it, firm the soil around it and do the pukeko test. That is you give it a tug to make sure pesky pukekos can’t pull them out. We had to put a blue tablet in with the plant so it could grow more easily. 550 plants later we completed the task.

Then we had delicious pizza, soup and more brownies for lunch. Then all of room 10 jumped over all of the horse jumps. It was a really cool day but then unfortunately we had to leave.

We come home tired, but very satisfied with our efforts. We really enjoyed the planting and year fives can go again next year. My favourite bit was lunch and the planting.

A very worthwhile evening and we look forward to having another next term!

Many classes used this time to practise Samoan Language in the classroom, investigate Samoa and its culture and also to do various styles of Samoan Art. MTV used this time to teach us new words each day!

We finished the week off with the Samoan Language Group taking Friday’s Assembly. This was an opportunity to showcase what each class had been doing throughout the week.

What an amazing assembly!

Each person told us all about their instrument and showed us different ways of playing their instrument.

One of our favourite parts was when we found out how long each instrument was. The tuba was the longest!

Today Room 10 and Room 11 competed in the Syndicate Final with the proposition TV is better than books. Congratulations to Room 11 who were the overall champions.