Teacher: Mrs Hoskin     Class Level: Year Six

The Murder at the Manor.

Chapter One.

One day on a dark, gloomy night in Gelstim Manor, there was a high pitched scream.  It was coming from the owner of the house’s room… Mona Gelstim.

The next day the cops came round to investigate.  They picked up a lot of evidence at Glestim Manor.  They analysed the evidence and came up with some suspects, Julie (the maid), Dr Zeus (the lab scientist), Will (the Butler ), Ryan (the gardener), and Simon (the caretaker).  The detective (Ashleigh) went through some of the evidence like, how tall they were and what they weighed.  This was so he could eliminate some people off the suspect list ‘til they could find out who killed Mona Gelstim.

By Joshua

Murder Mystery on the Boat.

Chapter One

I woke to a deadly scream.  I did not recognise the scream.  Someone was on the ship!  My first reaction was to run out of the cabin door.  I ran to where the scream came from.  I stopped dead in my tracks.

There at the end of the corridor was a body … a dead body!  I didn’t want to go closer but I had to see who it was.  As I got closer, I recognised the body, it was Jack the watchman.  I searched him, there was a bullet hole in the back of his neck.  Whoever came onto the ship was gone now.  The question was, who came onto the ship and why?

I decided to search the whole ship.  Once I had finished that, dawn was breaking, the crew would be getting up soon.  I decided to go back to bed when I heard the drone of a plane.

By Myles

The ground shook and there was a loud crash behind me.  Ahh!  The whole place went dark!  I was shaking with fear as I stumbled across hard rocks on the rocky ground. 

Suddenly there was an after shock.  I fell backwards onto my back.  OUCH! That hurt!  Rocks tumbled past me and hit the back wall as I lay there in pain. 

I thought to myself ‘I gotta get out of here, but how?  The entrance is blocked and my back is sore!’

“Help!” I yell aloud.  “Is there anyone our there?”

I got to my feet, opened my backpack and switched on my flashlight, looking around.  I could only see rocks and a few sticks.  In the distance I could hear screams of children from the local school, and car alarms. 

There was another aftershock and stones tumbled down the rocks blocking the cave entrance.   Just then, there was a beam of light unravelled by fallings tones.  I covered my eyes and moved out of the light. 

The smell of smoke filled the air.  I blocked my nose and waved my hands frantically!  I moved quickly to the hole and poked my head out… nothing.

I looked around.  It was my room but the smell of smoke was still in the air.

Mum was trying to wake me up by rocking the bed and the smoke was the badly burnt bacon and eggs.

By Liam 

The Cycle Safe Programme.

Today we are going to explain about a Cycle Safe programme.  People from the council taught us about this.

First of all we did a helmet check, bike check and looked at the parts of a bike.  WE learnt that if a helmet has a crack init, don’t buy it OR you need to get a new helmet.

When we started learning skills on our bike, we learnt how to do a U turn.  We also learnt some signals like stop signal, turning left and right signals, straight ahead signal and more.  We practised giving way to traffic and our road rules.

Road rules are something every road-user needs to know about.  An example of a road rule is ALWAYS stop at a stop sign even if there are no cars.  Another sign we learnt about was the “ Give Way ” sign.  This means you don’t need to stop if there are no cars, you can keep going.  AT traffic lights, you OBEY what they say eg if they are RED you need to STOP even if there are no cars.

The last things we did were a test, BUT before we did the test we did test skills and test practises.  Then by ourselves we did the road test.  When the instructors had left we did an evaluation which we did ourselves too.

Cycle Safe made us think about our road behaviour and how we need to behave on the roads.

By Pippa 

In the cycle safe programme we had a number of adults telling us if we are safe at biking.  We started our practices on Wednesday 25^th, Thursday 26^th and Monday 29^th May.

WE had about five adults making sure that our helmets were safe and that nothing was wrong with our bikes.  One adult checked parts of our bike, another adult checked our helmet.

WE had three groups with one adult in each one to learn about biking on the road as well as signalling to the left and to the right. We also learnt all the road rules to make sure that we knew what to do.

We also learnt how to do U turns that Russell helped us do with signalling.  Then two other adults helped us to do figure 8’s and giving way.

We had to do a practice of our skills and our knowledge to make sure we know what to do on the roads when there is traffic.  We also had to do a test all by ourselves on the road, 30 seconds apart.  Then all of us will be getting a certificate for participation and to say if we are safe on the road.

By Melanie 

Cycle safe is a programme to teach people to ride bikes safely.  They come to most schools around Christchurch .  When they came, one of the first things we did was a bike and helmet check.  Most of our bikes and helmets were fine.  We also learnt parts of our bikes.

The next thing we did was to learn road rules, signs and what traffic lights mean.  This was especially annoying for the kids who already knew this.  We had to sit for ages while we learnt this.

When we were doing U-turns, signalling and figure 8’s, was when a lot of people couldn’t keep their balance and fell off their bikes.  Also over the test, you could see the improvement everyone was making.

The last bit was the hardest bit of all. We had to go on the road!  Most people did practise at home, so all those people were all right.  We’re all hoping everyone passes.

By Ashleigh

In our family
Mum is a kiss in the moonlight,
A pair of three quarter jeans,
A vegie machine and as graceful as a swan.

In our family
My brother is an eating machine,
a multi-sport event,
A pair of running shoes
a no messing around person.

In our family
My sister is a hair freak,
A grumpy ‘Don’t’ person
She’s Home and Away
And a mad man girl version.  

By Ashleigh 

Slavery

Slavery is the colour of grey fog

It smells like a decaying tooth

And feels like a branding iron.

Slavery looks like a dark room trapped with torture

It tastes like tears

And sounds like whips.

By Daphne 

Owls

Silent like a mouse

Strong as a wrestler

As fast as a motorbike

Owls

By Ella

Slavery

Slavery is the colour of dark grey

It smells like a toilet pipe

It feels like rusty old chains

It looks like a volcano exploding

It tastes like rotten skin

It sounds like people dying.

By William

Falcon As fast as a bullet As silent as a mouse High as a plane King of the sky Falcon.   By Tom