Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat

On Sunday evening last week the senior syndicate went to the play 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat' at the Theatre Royal. We all thought that the play was really good and that the singing sounded lovely and strong. Victory were given free tickets to the show. After the play we all went back stage and looked at the scenery and in the orchestra pit. I hope that Victory gets more free tickets to more good shows!
By Charlie

Students give it a Fair Go

Have you ever heard of the Fair Go Ad Awards? If you haven't heard of it, it's a competition where kids make an ad about something unfair. For example Willow, Charlie, Chayenne and CJ made an ad about it not being fair when you have no friends.

CJ was the person with no friends and Chayenne was a little fairy that popped up on her hand and said "To make a friend you have to be a friend." And then she disappears.

Then CJ asks Willow if she wants to play basketball. And they become friends.

They filmed their ad on Matua Craig's iPhone. They used a time-lapse app and a green screen for the special effects.

By Freya

Victory kids dig deep

A few days ago Victory Primary School went tree planting in the Emano Street reserve. All the senior classes walked up Emano Street and met two men from NELMAC who showed us were to dig.

All of us started to dig holes but the ground was really hard so some people had trouble digging. I managed to dig seven holes. Our class planted 152 trees!



  
By Charlie

Victory mooovs

Victory kids love the milk that has been coming to Victory Primary. They think its good to have some milk when they are working so hard. Last term the seniors were the testers. They made sure that the milk is good for the rest of the Victory School. We were even given milk bins for the empty boxes.

We have to give a big thanks to Rm 14. They hand out the milk to all of the classes and check the milk bins for rubbish. Now the middles and the little ones are getting milk. They seem to enjoy it too.
By Kyan

Fruit in Schools

We are very lucky at Victory Primary School because we get a free bucket of fruit every afternoon. We always get different kinds of fruit each day, like apples, oranges, pineapples, bananas and kiwifruit. The most popular fruit that we get is apples. Fruit is really good for you because it has vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C.

By CJ and Chayenne.

Helmet Ad Results

Last term Room 11 from Victory Primary School entered a helmet ad competition. Sadly they didn't win, Avalon Intermediate from Gisborne won. The title for their ad was: No helmet no Brain. Avalon Intermediate got 165 votes and 947 views. Victory Primary got 99 votes and 220 views. By Sam

Aquaponics Update

Room 11 are building an aquaponics system for the science fair. They want to win and get some good prizes. Its up and running but now they are working on the mini version to take to the science fair. Before Room 11 go to the science fair they have to win at school. Room 11's teacher said the school science fair will be a walk in the park.

By Sam

Mr Brown Is Back

Last Friday Victory students were pleased to see that principal Mr Brown is back at Victory Primary School after a year and a half away.
What they weren't so pleased to find out was that acting principal Mrs Taylor would be stepping down so Victory students and staff decided to throw her a special surprise assembly and give her a big card.
 
by Lewis

Kids make safety ad

This term Room 11 have been filming an advertisement to encourage kids to wear helmets on scooters, skateboards, rollerblades and bikes. The video had to be in by the 28 of June. They got it in successfully. You can watch the film here. The theme is ‘No Helmet. No Brain!’ so kids need to show why they should wear a helmet.

By Sam

Author David Hill visits Victory

New Zealand author David Hill came to Victory Primary School to talk about what it is like to be an author. David told the Victory journalists that his favourite author was Nelson’s very own Maurice Gee.

David also read us some of his own work including a short story about a truck, a bridge and a really good swimmer. David said that he has just published a new book called Sinking. Sinking is about a boy and a crazy old man he sees on the way to swimming training.