Some examples of writing from our Kuaka Team

Last week and the week before, I went to QEII for swimming lessons with my class and L1. On the first day they tested you on arm circles to see which group you were in and I got into the highest group! The day before the dingy we did tow-to-throw. It’s where you get a long rope and tossed it into the water and Austin (my buddy) caught hold of it and I pulled him in. On the final day we wore our pjs in the pool. It felt really weird!

by Jack, Year 3

Everyone has different fingerprints, even twins. Just like snowflakes. That’s why I think fingerprints are magnificent. Criminals have burned their fingerprints so cops can’t find them. But when it heals it comes back as the same fingerprints. There are four types of fingerprints - the arch, simple loop, whorl and double loop.

by Lewis, Year 3

I will tell you how fingerprints work. We know that fingerprints are different. Your fingerprints stay the same no matter what you do. Fingerprints are very important for police to get bad guys. Simple loop is the most common fingerprint in K3 and K4.

by Dezmond, Year 3

Swimming days

My swimming coach was really nice. I felt as if I was in one of those swimming shows.

As I jumped in the freezing cold water it felt like 30 ice cubes fell into me, it was chilly. My bones got really frosty and My head got numb. My body started getting warm because I was in the water for a long time.

The following week I missed out on the life saving skills because I forgot my togs once and then I got sick. I was disappointed that I didn't get to go. But on the last day when I went swimming it was so much fun because we got to go swimming in our pjs, it was awesome. We all had a great day. We all had a great time and everybody was saying that it was fun, I agreed with them. Everyone looked great, even the swimming teacher. We were learning how to take off our pjs if we fell in deep water and then we were doing a whirl pool.We all had an awesome time. A few days before the last day of swimming we jumped in the deep end with no life jackets on. It was so much fun because I have never been in the deep end with no life jacket before.

My feet couldn't touch the ground but then the tip of my foot poked the ground in the deep end. We climbed up the side of the pool to get out. The coldness felt like intarta. The cold freezing water felt like I was going to be in the movie Frozen. I'm not joking, it was freezing, it was crazy cold, my body felt numb. It was an awesome day.

By Taneisha, KL1

KL2 noticed a large number of worms on the paths and courts around our school following the rainfall in recent weeks. Many of our students tried to save them or create worm farms of their own. This inspired us to find out more about the worms in our environment.

Tiger Worms by Esme KL2

Tiger worms have been around for 209 millions of years. There are 20,000 species of worms in the world.

Tiger worms measure between 30mm to 130mm in length. Their bodies are bright red and yellow. Tiger worms have no lungs as they breathe through their skin. They have 5 hearts and can live up to 4-5 years in the right environment.

Tiger worms eat anything organic like vegetable waste, leaves and paper. Tiger worms are found in compost piles, leave litter and manure. They will break down waste so that the compost is useful in our gardens. They will not live for long in normal soil.

Tiger worm predators are ants, centipedes, birds, snakes, toads, beetles and frogs. Tiger worms can get sunburnt and will die after a few seconds.

Tiger worms are amazing creatures to have in our compost heap.