..+*The Rabbit proof fence*+..

-The Rabbit Proof Fence-

We watched a movie as a class about the British entering Australia and what had happened to the Native Australians 

(the aboriginals)

 The Movie was based off of 3 girls 6-12 and it was about what really happened to the aboriginals back in the day.

:W.A.L.T Write a story using the perspective of a half cast child in Australia.

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I've been taken, by strange people.. My hearts beating, my thoughts racing to horrible conclusions.  extremely stressed, I felt lonely. I didn't want to be taken... I didn't want this to be my fate. I arrived as a nice lady seems to greet me.. if I'll behave the'll treat me right. I was slightly relived that I wasn't the only child there, so that meant that they were going through the same thing as I , my eyes felt heavy. and if I was going to collapse. as I entered a cabin.  I was uncomfortable as others eyes pierced through me. the place was called 'Moore river''

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I was wondering how I would leave? I was to scared to leave. I stayed for 3 days constantly on edge as my thoughts wouldn't leave me alone . it was on the third day I remembered about the rabbit proof fence.. it stretched all the way to where I lived, it went everywhere. I waited till next morning when we went to prayer in the church, all of this was new to me, the assembly, the cloths.. and that weird meeting were they choose certain children to leave the Moore river. others say you can go to school if they let you, and learn to be like them. 

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the singing was distance, I chose to stay back... as other went to morning church. I dared to run for it across the path that was leading up to church.. they didn't see me.. I sprinted swiftly in between the trees, I've never ran so fast in my life. the wind blasted as I split through it. I slowed down, catching my breath I looked back, I may of stopped running but my thoughts didn't, I stared doubting if I have make the right choice. I don't know where to go, I don't have food or water! and no clue where the fence was!!

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I arrived at a river.. I took a quick drink, I was so scarred .. I don't know  if I should go back .. ''No'' I said to myself, I cant go back! the'll probably kill me if I do!  I have no choice but to find my own way home. I stopped.. frozen as I heard something , I quickly hid behind the bottom edge of the bridge , and peeked behind.. they were after me. I'd nearly fallen back, I didn't know where to hide! they're  were coming closer! I layed down in the swampy long grass in hopes of him going straight passed me. I waited a while, then I sound of the person on the horse trotting stopped, I kept hesitating.. to get up for not, I slowly emerged from the grass, he wan'st there, I ran off  into the hot desert.

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my feet ached, from walking on the hot sand.. until a little shadow in the distance.. A house! I ran over to the house. creeping around I found a chicken coop, ''eggs!'' I snuck in trying to gather as much eggs..''Aye you! what do you think your doing trying to steal my eggs?'' said a loud voice. I felt my heart drop, I slowly came out of the coop.. she said for me not to be scared... I walked over to her.. ''Ya know you could of just asked for food,'' she said, as if I knew that. she asked me where I came from and where I was going.. ''ah, your from that Moore river place,'' she said handing over a bag of food and a coat to disguise myself in.. ''hey, you be careful out there. I heard that the tracker they have at moore river is pretty good.'' she warned me.. ''.. do you know where the rabbit proof fence is..?'' I asked her. '' oh yeah! that thing goes all over the place! I think it west from here,.'' she replied then pointed in the direction.

''Now scram, before the tracker comes.''

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I walked and walked,  I was really quiet happy that not all of these new people are bad, and some were on our side. the hot sand burned on my feet, and my mouth was dry.  I wanted to find a spot of shade to cool down but there is no where I can. walking for hours and I still haven't been able to sit down and eat that was in the paper bag that the lady gave me, until I saw a big line in the distance, and I walked towards to see a fence. I threw myself onto the ground just beside the fence, the fence shaded were I was siting. it felt so good to sit down. I opened up my paper bag and ate the light brown fluffy loaf. (bread.) I deiced to rest. as I was letting my thoughts settle, I realised something... I looked to both my sides to see that this fence looked like it never ended.. could it be?? I was here! right next to the rabbit proof fence!! I felt a burst of glee as I closed my eyes, and slept.

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It was dawn, I got up and followed the fence, towards were the the sun came. walking, I revisited memories of at home.. playing with my family, my Mum, my Nana... I miss them, even though I had so much doubt that it would be nearly impossible for me to make it home, I still felt like I just have to keep going. I've been basically walking for the whole day now! I saw a couple of trees in the distance.. and A house. I wasn't sure if anyone was home so I skipped between the trees and soon found a cloths line with socks, shirts and coats.. I thought about how much my feet hurt and that some protection would be nice.. so I snatched the socks of. I decided I could maybe get some  water or food, but then when I took one step closer, I saw someone walking towards the door with a basket. hiding behind one of the bushes I saw her, she was like me. I stepped aside.. she saw me. I backed up into the tree as she slowly walked towards me. ''hey.. its okay'' she said in a soft voice. I walked slowly towards her. ''so you're from moore river? I was from that place as well.'' I was shocked. she welcomed into the house and let me eat and drink. she seemed really happy and really determent to look after me, but I needed to go I can't stay here. Night falls and she aloud me to sleep in one of the houses beds. but I was soon disturbed by the sound of a car arrive. I got up and quickly tried to get out of the house. I felt bad that I was going to leave her.. she was treating me how she wanted to be treated. 

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As I ran across the backyard of the house, into the trees and out into the dark sky on the now, cold sand. I felt the cool air as I ran towards the many stars back to the fence to sleep. as woke I got up and started walking, with my new socks my feet didn't hurt from stones as much. The days became a pattern, walk, walk, sleep, wake up, walk walk. it continued, the days merged into one big blob of painful memories. I've come across others, and the more people I've talked to the more I resized that the moore river people were after me. the people I met along the way made me have more hope in myself, mainly because of how impressed the said they were. its been so long.. I worry I'm not going the right way.. I get so tired now, my throat is now sore and every time I swallow my own spit it stings. my ankles are as if there are going to snap and my eyes are heavy. I've lost hope.. I fell to the sand.. it hurt so much..I dozed of for a second then I started pushing myself to walk just walk.. then I heard something.. faded into the distance I lifted my head.. nothing. I got up and walked over a little sand hill with the support of the fence I stood there, seeing another house, but then.. I felt a wave of emotion wash over me, genuine sadness sunk in as I screamed for my mum.. ''Gracie!'' I heard in the distance.. I didn't realise but the excitement woke me up and I screamed and ran over to that house, seeing the figures run towards me, we clashed and hugged so tight. ''Mum!'' the tears cooled my cheeks. I honestly couldn't believe it! 

I'm finely home.

..||<>+*Word art*+<>||..

We have had to  do an activity where we go on to a website called "Word art"
and then we pick either a character, or someone you now in real life!
I decided to do one of my friends Indi. We were aloud to use the dictionary to find more unique and next level words, Personally I don't think I did that much  different words and I ended up sticking with basic words.  MY next goal for if we do this again would be to use more deeper words.

                                                                             

                   

..||<>*+Te kahu 2020+*<>||..

                                                         -+Hello My name is Piper,+-
                                              <-+I am now a year 8 and Pompallier +->
                                                             Catholic School.
                                        <<-+My favourite hobbies include drawing+->>
                                                  , and pretty much just drawing.
                                      =<<-+My favourite colour is... blue or green+->>=
                                           <<-+four words to describe me is.. Art,+->>
                                                 adventurous, budgies!! and funny.
                                               <-+My strengths are.. Drawings+->
                                               -+Something I want to get better+-
                                                    at is Math.. (times,division,
                                                                 and decimals)

                      something I look forward to this year is what we will learn in the future.

..||<>Cultural At festival<>||..

..||<>Art for cultural festival<>||.. We are having An Cultural art festival at 5 pm, and kakapo has created their own piece of artwork! We did are artwork based around our favourite places in the far north, and mine was mataibay, well.. I have other favourite places but for this art we were doing I chose mataibay. One thing I would change on my piece is that I would make the sky and ocean look more different, We were originally going to to do black outlines on everything, but some of us had little details that might be effected when we do the black outlines so that's why some of us don't have them. Thank you to Sheree for helping all of us with our work and teaching us step by step.

..||Enlargement art||..

two weeks ago we had done some work on enlargement art. We got to pick someone you like or who your inspired you. I didn't know who to pick so I just decided to pick one of my favourite singers.
once we had got the picture of your person, we now get a grid'd piece of paper and (we also have to grid out our picture) and then we count the grids on out picture and enlarge them, so each piece of the picture is in the square we but it in that square that's in the other picture. Now that I look at it I kind of want to work more on the left eye and the lips because they look very off.

have you ever done this activity? and how did it go?

..||.+*Cross Country Writing*+.||..

Our cross country writing is one of those "I see, I smelt, I heard, I felt," writing. and here is mine I hope you enjoy! (sorry its very short)

I saw.. many people go ahead of me as I stumbled across the slippery mud trying not to fall over.

I smelt.. the mud, it filled the air and it stunk like sweaty dirt.

I heard.. people screaming and cheering but as we got further into the track the noise faded into the background and it was now quiet.

I felt..nervous, and scared that I would come last, and a bit disappointed and very lost as I tried to catch up, I felt better as I saw them stop to walk on the hill, that would of been my chance to jog past them.

..:||+*Pie chart*+||:..

-sorry its a bit hard to read, but here's what it said~For the last couple of days we have been learning about collecting status and learning about charts and pie charts. Today we spent maths collecting data on a subject of our choice, my one was phobias or fears, which were spiders,clowns,holes, the dark or dolls.The hardest bit for this was collecting data from other people. But I really enjoyed putting the information together and decorating the it on google drawing. It was very easy to make the pie chart because the computer does it for you, all you need to do is type the number of times people voted for a certain topic and then the number of other topics and then it’ll do it for you! This was a very fun subject to do and i’m quiet happy on how it turned out! have you ever done a pie chart?? and what was it about?