Procedural Writing by Hannah

How to make a glider

What you need:

popsicle sticks

cellotape

masking tape

hot glue gun

mini popsicle sticks

paper

pencil

Method:

1-Design your glider on a large piece of paper drawing the exact measurements you will need.

2-Lay 3 popsicle long ways and 3 across and 2 for the thickness.

Stick it together like the image above.

3-For the wings lay 3 popsicle sticks long ways, 2 across and 2 for the thickness. Also add another popsicle stick going horizontal at each end, repeat this step another time for landing.

Stick it together like the image above.

4-At the front of the plane make a point by cutting the popsicle sticks on an angle.

5-Using the hot glue gun, glue the wings two thirds of the way up the plane. Make a little stabiliser by getting some mini popsicle sticks a cutting them down to size for the gap you need to stabilise it with. Glue the stabiliser onto the bottom of the body of the plane. The body of the plane should be up right.

6- For the landing feet you need to place one mini popsicle stick every two centimeters and glue it onto the wings. On the other side of the mini popsicle stick glue it to the landing feet.

7- EXTRA: If you want to make your plane look more “pretty” you could make a tail or a propeller.

You finished product should look like this.

Flight by Hannah, Elizabeth and Alex

Flight

For topic this term we have been learning about flight, as part of this unit we made our own gliders. First we researched gliders to see what we need to make equal so that it can fly. We then made our plane out of popsicle sticks, mini popsicle stick, masking tape, cellotape and a hot glue gun. We then tested out planes a few times so then we can adjust the problems. A few times it crash landed and it broke so we fixed it up until we thought it was fixed.

By Hannah, Elizabeth and Alex

Chocolate Chip Cookies by Hannah S

Goal: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

125g butter (softened)

⅓ cup castor sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 ½ cups self raising flour

¾ cup of chocolate chips

Materials:

Medium sized bowl

⅓, ½, ¼ and 1 cups

Teaspoon

Beater

Wooden spoon

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160℃ .

2. Cream the butter and sugars together with a beater.

3. Crack the egg into the bowl and add the vanilla  essence into the creamed mixture and beat again.

4. Stir in the flour until it forms a dough.

5.  Fold through the chocolate chips and stir until well combined.

6. Roll tablespoon like portions and place on a greased tray, leave about 5cm between so the cookies have room to spread out.

7. Squash the balls of cookie dough to about 2cm thick.

8. Place the tray into the oven and bake for 12-15 minutes or until starting to go golden around the edges.

9. Leave the cookies on the tray to cool before moving them to a wired rack.

Narrative Writing by Hannah

You suspect someone is slowly poisoning you

Allison lay in a hard cold hospital bed in a coma. Nurse Fiona Jensen, was caring for Allison, as she lay unconscious, in the white hospital room. Allison had been in a horrific car-crash that left her in a terrible condition, she had a deep gash across her forehead, she was paralysed from the waist down as her spine had suffered a traumatic injury.

Allison was an only child and her parents died from saving her in a fire, when she was 10. Allison grew up not knowing any extended family, apart from her dad's sister Eliza, who is now her caregiver. Eliza has been in Australia, for work for the past week, right on the day when Allison was in a crash.

She opens her eyes and takes a huge breath, as if she has held her breath for the last 18 years of her life. Her body is full of life again. Allison’s golden locks sat on top of her head in a knotted mess,  she lifts her head off the well worn pillow.

Nurse Fiona, runs into the room as she hears the groan of Allison as she finishes her deep slumber. Fiona comes over and sits on the edge of the bed and says, “I will go and get Doctor Adam Thompson, so he can explain what happened to you.” As Allison nods, Fiona runs out of the room to get the doctor.

Allison’s head throbs as she tries to remember what happened before the coma. Doctor Adam rushes into the hospital room with Nurse Fiona following, not long after. Doctor Adam sighs, “Unfortunately, you have been in an accident, you also have a deep gash across your forehead, you have had a spinal cord injury that has left you paralysed, but you have a possible chance of walking again. You are extremely lucky to be alive.” He looked at her with sorrow, “My son, Isaac, too, was in that accident, he lost his life from the breakage of the bone in his neck.” Those few words made Allison feel really guilty, as she survived. “I’m very sorry for your loss, doctor.” Doctor Adam gets up and says, “There is nothing we can do now, you should probably get some rest.” Doctor Adam leaves the room with Fiona following. Allison’s eyes slowly shut as she falls into a deep sleep.

Allison wakes up all of a sudden when she feels fluid going into her body. Doctor Thompson is standing by her bed, changing a bag full of fluid, that flows through a tube and into the veins in her hand. “Don’t mind me, I’m just changing the saline.” Allison dozes off to sleep. She awakes a few hours later when she is in immense pain. Her hand is only just able to move to reach a bright red button for medical assistance.  Nurses rush into the room and change her saline bag and gives her a few pills to get rid of the pain. After about twenty minutes the pain is gone and a nurse comes into the white room with a very serious look on her face. “We took a blood test and somehow you are getting poison into your system. Just make sure you don’t take any medicine without nurses permission and medical reason. I’ll go inform Doctor Thompson and get him to change your saline bag.” The only person who has had access to the saline bags was, Doctor Thompson.

Five minutes later Dr Thompson walks in, he has a suspicious look on his face. He says, “If anyone deserved to die in that crash it should have been you. If it weren't for you, my son would be alive right now.” Those words were really unpleasant in Allison’s point of view and they  really hurt Allison. He walks out of the room slyly and slams the door. An hour later Allison was brushing her golden locks for the first time in a week. As she starts gently brushing her hair, the brush glides through her hair but after a while big clumps of her golden locks come out after every stroke of the brush. As she see’s her hair falling out, she  lets out a high pitched scream.

Fiona runs in, “Is everything alright?” At this point Allison is freaking out, “I was brushing my hair when suddenly it started falling out.” Fiona walks over to the corner of the room where a pile of Allisons freshly washed clothes lay, she picks up a cream beanie and hands it to Allison. Allison smiles with gratitude, she places the beanie on her head. As Fiona starts to leave the room, Allison’s body stiffens, starts shaking as if there were an earthquake inside her body. Fiona shouts for other doctors and nurses for assistance. They eventually calm her down and give her back the ability to breath.

Allison falls into a deep slumber, she is asleep for 2-3 hours. Her eyes open widely as she is in immense pain, worse than before. Doctor Thompson wants her to die slowly in agony. She lets out an ear piercing scream. Doctors and nurses run in to see what the problem is. They eventually calm her down with a few painkillers, and let her rest.

When Fiona comes into change Allison's saline bag, Allison awakens. Nurse Fiona changes her saline bag. Fiona asks, “Who has changed your saline bags? Has anyone suspicious been in the room, if so what did they say?” She tried to remember, Doctor Thompson flooded her thoughts, was it him? Is he purposely trying to kill me? “Doctor Thompson is the only one who has changed my saline bag, he also said something really suspicious before, ‘If anyone deserved to die in that crash, it should have been you. If it weren't for you my son would be alive right now.” Fiona looks quite concerned, “Well the saline bag he has used has a poison symbol on it, it is normally used for humans who wish to die, because their illness cause them to much pain.” Allison tries to take every word in, she thought to herself he did try to kill me. Fiona says, “I will report him to the boss, but first I will lock your door so he can’t enter.” She shuts and locks the door.

Fiona and the executive Doctor Colin walk in to talk to speak to Allison. He explained to her that they have arrested Doctor Thompson for attempted murder. Allison felt bad, but was also relieved she will not have a doctor trying to kill her. At that point Allison’s aunt Eliza, runs in, she is bronzed after her week in  Australia. She rushes over to Allison and gives her a big hug, and whispers into her ear, “I am so glad you are okay, I didn’t want to lose another family member.” As her aunt said that, she remembered her loving parents, she felt prickles of tears in her eyes. I became relieved that my Aunt Eliza was here with me and then the next words from her will always haunt me. “Allison, I am so glad that you are alive. I am just going to find one of my good friends who works here, Doctor Thompson.”

Positive Writing

Quetico Park was a great place for campers with beautiful scenery of trees, and lakes so fresh you can drink from them. This is a place where bears stray along and the park is so vast it could take days to get from one side to the other without a single human coming in sight. But people won’t be having their vacation there any more, not since the disappearance of Francis Brandywine. 

By Nathan 

Francis was 17 years old at the time, with a reckless personality and most of her choices could be questioned. Francis liked to find peaceful places where she could lie back and write in her journal, just a place where she could be alone for once. She always longed to be the different one, that found and did new things, and tonight that had all come true.

By Elizabeth

It all happened one dark, cloudy night. Francis Brandywine waited quietly in her tent on the shore near one of the many lakes in the wonderful park. As soon as she knew her family was asleep, she crept quietly out of her tent and looked at the numerous stars in the night sky. Her charcoal black hair moving with the wind. She shuffled along the muddy campground her lantern illuminating the forest around her. Trees towered over her as she continued on her way towards the canoe.

By Katia 

My family and I loved going to Quetico Park, up until this year we would go camping, hiking, fishing and kayaking around the clear blue lake, without seeing another soul. After the incident with Francis Brandywine my family and everyone else who enjoyed going to Quetico Park decided not to go.

By Hannah

 

Air Jaws by Hannah

Air Jaws

By Hannah Shallcrass

Vicious great white sharks hunt cape fur seals in waters around Seal Island in Cape Town, South Africa. Great whites can breach up to 2 metres out of the water. This is the only place where they breach.

False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa is where Seal Island is the home to 60,000 cape fur seals and South African penguins. Great whites also live around Seal Island but they hunt 400 yards out of the island which is known as the “ring of death”. The “ring of death” is where great whites surround the island awaiting the prey.

An “air jaws” shark mainly feeds on food around Seal Island. These sharks will feed on dozens of seals, penguins, and dead sea birds. They will also feed on other food such as whales devouring the meat at 35-40 pounds or more per bite.

An “air jaws” shark is highly manoeuvrable for how big it is. The shark would swim in the murky water of the ocean. A larger shark has priority so when a smaller shark is going to attack the larger shark can take over. When a seal or any other prey comes along the shark would swim at an angle of either parallel, and vertical or any other trajectory depending on where it is. The shark would swim at full speed toward the prey and breech. The shark is not always successful, when it is not it will go back and may have another attempt.

The seals will leave Seal Island in larger groups and will come back in smaller groups. Some lucky seals are well adapted to the habitat and know how things work around Seal Island. When the sharks have a feeding frenzy they become intoxicated after 2 hours of non-stop feeding. Some seals make fearless runs through the ring of death to make an escape. As the seasons change from winter to spring the air jaws abandon the island.

Air Jaws well known as great whites are amazing creatures as they have adapted to their environment and will continue to do so.

What I discovered about my family's war heroes

My great great uncle Francis Thomas Culling-Mannix was a pilot officer for world war two. He was the third and last of the Mannix boys as his brother Philip drowned when he was fourteen and Leo died of a childhood illness. Tom changed his surname to Culling-Mannix because in the war they would sort the soldiers into groups depending on the first letter of their surname. He added his third Christian name Culling to his original name so he could be with his friend who’s surname started with C unfortunately he was not put with his friend. Tom Culling-Mannix was the captain of Halifax R/502. On the afternoon of Saturday 5^th February 1944 Halifax R/502 failed to return, having been due at St. Davids at 3:51 the following morning.  Officer Francis Thomas Culling-Mannix had lost his life at sea, without a trace. Tom earned many medals the 1939-45 star, the Atlantic star, the defence medal, the war medal 1939-45 and the New Zealand war medal which were sent to his father on the 30^th May 1950.

Francis Thomas Culling-Mannix

My great great uncle Laurence H. Edwards was a RAF airman. On the 5^th September 1939 just after the war began Laurence was shot down over the North sea. He was the first Allied officer to fall into German hands. He was the first prisoner of war. Laurence was prisoner of war for 5 years. He had survived the war and passed away in the 1994.

By Hannah S