the murawai

the murawai playground is a great place to hang out ,make new friends or PLAY!!
the murawai playground  is equipped with a flying fox, spider web, mini rock wall and red spinning wheels.
 murawai playground is popular so its easy to make friends. To get to  the murawai playground walk pass the gym  and turn around the corner and walk down the hill and there you are standing  still looking at the playground.
the murawai is a  cool place to hang.

The tree

The tree is a great place to climb and talk to your friends and meet new friends, it is part of geis, It's one of me and my friends favourite spots to hang out. It is a shady place to sit and talk plus it keeps you cool. Sometimes when you’re lonely, the tree is a good place to hang out... It keeps you company. The Dutch Elm also gives bright warmth to our school and lights it up.

                      

The Swimmig pool

The swimming pool is used in term 1 and 4. In term 1 we do competetive swimming where we do tryouts to be placed in group a b or group c. In term 4 we do water safty and thats where we learn how to save someone if they are drowning or how to use a life jacket.The pool is also used at luchtimes during term 1 and 4 where kids can do anthing they want .

By Shaurya

The adventure playground by Logan Roesli

The adventure playground is used every break time. Everyone can play on it or everyone can just hang out there. At the GEIS school carnival we use the adventure playground for a coure that we do.

slide

This is the slide it is part of the play ground. It is a cool place to hang out with your friends. There are two slides next to each other but when the slide is wet it is not fun because when you go down it you get wet.


by: sage theyers-cairns (:

The benches by Asha Burdess

The benches by the turf are the perfect place to eat at sit down lunch and a great place to hang out with your friends. there are 4 benches, and with some trees around them these seats are a fantastic and inspirational place where to sit to read a book, to talk, to write, etc... (:

THE SCHOOL POOL...... By Eden

 

THE SCHOOL POOL

On Mondays and Wednesdays (for Karekare Yr7's), during term 1
we practise for swimming sports. We practise things like back stroke, breast stroke
and freestyle for each event that takes place on the day. In term 4 we practise water saftey.
We each get a partner, and try to save each other by  useing Dodge balls as a floatation
devices and also boogie boards.The main event that takes place in the school pool is
swimming sports (which I am really bad at). All the mini schools come together
(Yr 8 and 7's on different days) and compete against each in breast stroke, back stroke,
freestyle and relays.

 

The pool by Jaimee

The Pool

Our school pool is used only in the terms 1 and 4. It is used for swimming at lunch times, water safety and clubs outside of school use the pool for activities.

It is located near the S.P.E.C blocks and the school hall.

There is a deep end and a shallow end to the pool, it depends on how confident you are around water for which end you swim at. There are seats/bleachers on the edge of the pool for which you sit on when you are not entering the pool.

Playground by Nikisha

fun, exciting, plaful jungle gym the plaground is used every break and lunch time by the sudents of g.e.i.s we sometimes do races and obstacle courses.
There are monkey bars slides and even a rock climing wall.

Flowers By Jayden.

Beautiful flowers

Glistening in the sunlight

Wet morning dew dripping down

Pink delicate pedals.

 

Beautiful pink and white flowers swirling

By the winds ways as the sun shines down on it like it

Is coming from heaven.

The Adventure Playground By Keanau

The adventure playground is one of our two playgrounds it is the biggest playground in the school. It is used by some in Glen Eden Intermediate School everyday. There are only some events that happen on it only during athletics day for the obstacle course it is my favourite place to be.

Gymnasium by madi

BOOM CRASH BANG goes the soccer ball into the goal. "woooo hoooo fantastic goal" screamed the crowd.

The gymnasium is used for all kinds of things especially sports. In the gym there are lots of different markings on the ground that represent the different sports you can play in the gym.

Some of the sports you can play in the gym are soccer, netball, basket ball, hockey, dodge ball, and bagminton.

The gym is also ussed for assemblys. every 2nd monday we have full school assemblys. We have it in the gym so that all 4 mini schools fit in.

That is most of the stuff the gym is used for. :):):)

The gym by Baden

When is it used ?    different mini schools use the gym on separate days. Karekare uses it on a Monday and Wednesday , Piha uses the gym on a Friday, Te henga on a Thursday and  Muriwai on a Tuesday.

Events   Alot happens in the gym. Mostly sports. For example indoor soccer, doge ball, jump jam, netball etc.

Who uses it?.  All of the mini school.

The Playground by Tyron Wood

The karekare playground is the biggest play ground at school,also it is the most popular play ground in the school.At the play ground there is a flying fox,Rock climbing wall,Ropes and alot more here are the reasons why it is the most popular play ground in the school. There are lots of activitys to do, the posbilitys are endless and it's the biggest play ground in the school.



By Tyron wood

Muriwai playground by Claire Watson

 
The Muriwai playground is a place for fun and enjoyment. It's also a good place to play games like tag and sharks because it can be a challenge to the people who are in and not in. I think the Muriwai playground is a cool playground to hang out at because, if it is cold and you still have to go outside because you teacher says you have to, it has a wall that stops the wind from coming through.

The playground By Callum McGregor

the playground is a place where people can play games and socialise. The playground can be a place where your imagination can run wild. You can pretend that its a spaceship, a jungle or a dolly house and a whole lot more. The people who the playground are people who love adventure or survival some times the kindergarden kids come over a nd play in it when we are in class. It is the biggest and best playground in the school. 

the playground by Cate.

The playground is an area located at the front of the school behind the muriwai classes. The students can use the the playground at breaks one and two and at lunch time. This playground is one of the two playgrounds at GEIS. The second playground is at the back of the school near the kare kare classes. On this playground there is lot's of play equipment including a flying fox, two rock walls, monkey bars, ropes to climb and more.the playground is painting in many different bright colours to make it a fun place to play. The playground is a great place where lot's of students at GEIS spend there breaks.

Tamsyn Curin
GEIS SWIMMING POOL

Our school swimming pool is an important part of our school. It is used in Terms 1 and 4, for PE. All the classes use it for PE. You can also go swimming at lucnh time but only in the summer.  You can also go sswimming in it in the holidays, if you buy a pool key.

                                                           georgia dawson
                                                   GEIS SWIMMING POOL 

The glen eden intermediate school swimming pool is an important part of the school. Not only do students from GEIS swim in the pool, but children from other schools can come to the school in the summer holidays for a swim. It provides the students with a fun way to spend their lunchtimes whilst exercising, and provides a great place for the school swimming sports.

The Playground By Joel Armstrong

The Karekare playground is the biggest playground in the school. The main features of this playground are the climbing wall, the slide and the flying fox.This is also the most popular playground at GEIS. The school playground is used eveyday except if it is a wet day. On the parade day at GEIS we have the obstacle course. This involves pupils trying to get first place so they can win minischool points. This will help win the sports shield at the end of each term. You race across the swingy monkeybars, then across the green monkeybars, then across the blue ropes, then across the other blue ropes,

GEIS Gym by Gus

The GEIS gym has been used for many sport events.  Just recently has had a volleyball competition. Every mini school does sport in the gym at some point during the year. Miss Va'ai is in charge of the gym.

GEIS Swimming pool

         At GEIS we have the swimming pool to learn swimming but we will start swimming when it Summer season or we will start swimming on November.
         
         We will use it when we learn P.E. and every mini school can use it but not the same time.
         
         In the swimming pool we will learn to swimming and have fun in the swimming pool. So every time did we go to swimming we will very happy because out side is hot and in swimming pool is quiet cool.

1. Madi's Kitty Cat

Baking a cake on Saturday morning, I had put the sugar in the bowl and separated the eggs. I heard a mysterious sound coming from the bedroom. “EOooooooooW!!!”  I put down my whisk and tip toed towards the noise. A little nervous, but curious to discover what is behind the closed door.  As I venture forward the noise intensifies but I suspect it is just my kitty cat. I let out a sigh of relief and push open the creaky door, I am shocked to find my pure white kitten covered in orange craft paint. “Into the bath you go!”

2. Madi's Snap Shot

Piper and I had been wandering aimlessly around the damp gardens at the rear of the museum, when we came apon the most beautiful scene. To the left, smooth slate stairs strong and straight. To the right, soft and subtle steps weaving their way through the bright green undergrowth of moss and ferns. Just off the path a bird feeds in a little wooden house on a pole. The taller trees form a canopy to protect us from the drizzle of rain as the weather deteriorates. I don’t have a camera, so instead I take a picture with my mind.

3. Madi's Nightmare

I am running, crashing through the bush, they are getting closer and closer.  My breathing is hard and fast.  Suddenly a branch leaps into my path, as I duck beneath it my foot tangles with the vines growing across the forest floor. I hit the ground hard.  Discouraged but not ready to give up, I clamber towards the bright light shining through the thinning trees. The clearing only meters away, whatever it is behind me is gaining speed and momentum.  My Mum stopped the car suddenly as I let out a scream.  “It’s okay honey it was just a dream.”

the war by josh

boom i can hear the gun shoots . Kapow I can hear the booms dropping from the helicopter. I can see blood alover the ground. But then i see my friend get shoot. I cried so bad. I go in shooting everywhere boom kapow I pick up my friend and he’s got shoot he’s bleeding but he will live. I look around I see a stairway I ran towards it and i ran down the stairs but its to late he’s dead. I try to help him but its to late the last words he said was win the war.

the car by josh

I was in my house watching tv and I saw this car on the road. It was a fancy car like a porch it was red and it was new. The people where playing around in the car going up and down the streets and making skid marks everywhere and a whole bunch of noise. They finely left the car in their driveway. I wanted to have a look. So I took big steps and when I got there the engine was running but no one there then it suddenly stopped so i ran home as fast as i could

Baden

The cat

I was separated from my mum.  I heard a mysterious sound in the hallway.  '' should I,'' I said to myself as I slowly walk to the door.  Then suddenly a bright orange male cat sped past me.  "It was just the cat," I said to myself but as I came back I saw my cat heading towards the bath.  "No!" I shouted to the orange furry cat but it was too late.  Splash! The cat went in the warm soapy water.  Then I hear the most horrible sound a cat could ever make, like a lion just about  to kill me.    

The Lollipop Staircase by phoebe

All of a sudden there was a staircase in the middle of my house!! It was formed by lollipops and candy I was absolutely amazed I thought to myself should I explore this wonderful staircase by myself or should I get my mum and sisters?? Oh well I guess I will share so then I went to get my sisters then my mum then brought them to the stairs I said to them ''look its a staircase made out of lollipops and candy'' and then they said ''no its a gross.... foresty staircase with vines and branches but....but....but!!!!

When i was walking down the stairs
I was going to my m8s house. I saw a blue fence it was weird. So I carryed on walking. And then I got there. And I got there and we had some lunch.It was so nice. we went to mine. And we saw the blue fence and we looked over It. we saw this It was so so cool we went down It and we weher so amazed  and we saw a dog it was cool and then my nana aperd we where happy cuse my nana is a ninja the end good day

Vroom! Vroom! The car came speeding like a horse around the corner,  I wasn't worried because my friend and I were playing football in our driveway. Vroom! The engine roared and it sounded like a monster roaring. Then the car started to get faster, louder, closer and I started wondering about what car it was. As it got closer the ground started to shake like an earthquake. I walked slowly towards the racing car and screech! The racing car suddenly stoped. I bumped into the car and fainted. After I gained consciousness I asked my self "Where am I ?"
By Shaurya

The crassy driver by jennifer

Screech, suddenly the car stopped, several sets of tyres burnt on the hot, dry concrete. The person in the pink car pulled out in front of the car in front of us. She was in the lane next to us. She let the car in front of us through, in front of herself but then decided to stop half way in our lane. She rapidly started to speed of down into the horizon. Once we got pass the set of traffic lights she swerved jaggedly back into the lane next to us. Recklessly regaining control driving down into the street.    

The forbiden forest by jennifer

This morning I decided to ask my friends if they would like to walk throw the dark forbiden  forest. We jumped the fence but to our suprise it was not all forset. There was a path, we walked down it. It lead to a sudden trun. Tump! We turned suddenly. A small, unstable tree feel over. We walked up one step then I noticed something odd. A big old tree suddenly appared. We walked closer to it, there was something about the tree that was odd. Like i have seen the tree before. We decided to go home and sleep.

The movies, By Jaimee

I was heading to the movies with my friends, we were going to see a vampire movie that just come out, anyway so we were driving and the car suddeny stopped, the car had been making a sound like CLANG! the whole day, as I went to check what was wrong I opened the chipped bonnet of the car a big puff of smoke came out of the motor like smoke chugging out of a chimney, I had to call the towtrack because it was that bad, and my friends and I never got to see that movie that day.

Jayden.O. The mysterious walk, don don daaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

It was windy and cold, the track looked mysterious.  My friend and I put on our jackets and sat on the cold damp forest floor, listening eagerly to the tramping instructor. The birds were chirping as loud as a motor bike revving at the start of a race.   The orange cat was stalking them waiting patiently in the long grass. 20 minutes into our walk the rest of the class were tired and separated  into groups to have lunch and a bath in the stream.  The wilderness out here in otago has a weird and eerie feeling to it . Crash!!! 

the death staircase by callum

One day in 1973 builders built two staircases to see what one was better. They chose two friends of the street. They got the kids to run up the death stairs they thought the one on the right was better than they had a race. But they didn’t know what was going to happen it was going to change their lives forever and ever.  The whistle when off. The child on the left tripped and blood started to poor out of his leg he had to be air lifted to hospital he was stuck in a wheelchair forever and ever…

NEK MINIT by phoebe

Left my scooter outside the dairy.......NEK MINIT the car stopped suddenly narrowly missing Drop Dead Fred escaping on my MGP, '' STOOOOOOOP '' I shouted as he sped at what seemed like a hundred miles an hour, across the road, down the ditch and face planted into the duck pond, I sprinted with all my might towards him, to go and help him get out of the ditch. I grabbed his hand it was all sloppy and muddy eeeeeew, but I had forgotten that he was a trickster and he pulls me into the bog.

''DROP DEAD FRED''

The Car Stopped Suddenly by Joel

The car stopped suddenly.

“Nice Hummer!” I said to myself.

A guy walked out and slammed the car door with a bang.  He had a thick bandana, baggy brown jeans with stains on them and a Nike sweatshirt. 

“He looks scary”, I said with a quiver.

He approached me.  I fumbled my step and fell over.

“You got any sugar?” he asked.

“W – what?” I replied confused.

“It’s my mum’s birthday tomorrow and I’m gonna bake her a cake.” He spoke in a deep voice.

“Ah .. no sorry” I breathed fearfully.

He just drove off without saying another word.

Rain,baden

It was raining as I was waiting for a taxi. The cold wet rain kept me from falling alseep. As I buttoned up my soaking coat I saw a yellow car driving round a corner with letters saying  taxi on the roof of the vehicle.  '' Taxi!" I shouted to the driver.  It looked like it was going to pass me but the automobile suddenly stopped in its tracks.  The window facing me slid down and a tough looking man told me to get in.  As I got into the car I hummed to myself quietly.

The Kingdom By Fenella

When I was younger my mum used to tell me these stories about an enchanted kingdom. I loved these stories and would always dream of being there. Years later I have learned more about this amazing place and decided that I would find the kingdom. But it would be hard to find ‘The Stairways of Fate’. Going through the tough terrains and harsh conditions I saw before my bloodshot eyes one stairway which led to the kingdom, the other to being lost for eternity. I was so ecstatic, yet trembling with fear. I took a careful step to the left.

The fabulous holiday, by Asha

The car suddenly stopped, here we are, this is like paradise. We finally got to the seaside village which was in the Spanish turistic island. At this time everyone must have been in the beach, there was no sign of people in the village, so we decided to leave our luggage at the hotel first and then go for a swim at the beach. We all agreed that was a good idea so we headed to the hotel and then made our way to the beach, after the swim mum got us some ice cream and then we went to the famous restaurant called ‘La Marinera’ this couldn’t have been a better holiday.

Dinner, Jaimee

I'm cooking dinner, my sister is upstairs having a bubble bath, my mysterious orange cat is asleep on the fire place, and my mum is in the lounge watching soaps on T.V, wow not mentioning my dad is weird, my parents separated last year and it still feels confusing like when I'm doing long division. Anyway I'm cooking dinner for the first time at my mum's new house the kitchen feels too small, and the bench feels too big but cooking is the one thing I'm good at, CLANG!! OOPS I just dropped the new pasta pot on the ground.

Felix, by Asha

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There he was, Felix, my orange cat, walking towars me knowing what was going to occur as son as he hoped onto the delightful and cozy sofa. But he didn’t jump onto the couch, instead he just lay on the mat deeply staring into my eyes. There was something mysterious about this cat. He finally cameo to the sofa and onto my lap, then I noticed something was really smelly, It was him, Felix. I decided to give him a bath. As soon as I entered the bathroom wit Felix in my hands, I approached to the sink, where I was going to clean him. Then I realised, as I turned the water on, that the soaps had been separated one from another. As I turned to put them back toghether I noticed Felix was gone.

stopped by cate

My bronzed arm hung out the of the open window of the car as we drove along the bumpy road in Darwin Australia.  My favourite Taylor swift song was pumping through my head phones as I nodded to the beat.  The black leather seat of our car was hot beneath me and was burning my legs as we drove. I turned my head to look at my dad driving the car, a look of sheer concentration on his face as negotiated the sharp corners and avoided animals suddenly running across the road as we drove along. And then we stopped...

The Forest, Jaimee

As I climbed down the creepy set of stairs, I listened intently to see if I could hear the wind whispering the words of help from the missing souls that have ventured into the forest and have never returned. As soon as I reached the bottom of the slippery set of stairs, I looked around to see if there was a way through the dark forest without leaving the track and saw another slope with stairs going up it. As I started climbing up them I heard something, SNAP!!, I turned quickly to see a dark figure staring at me.

by georgia

I shivered as I walked down the isolated road in the middle of nowhere. I walked barefoot and the sharp gravel was making my feet bleed. I didn’t know where I was going, the darkness engulfed everything. Crunch! It was the sound of gravel under car tyres. I would know that sound anywhere. I looked back, but it was pointless as I could see nothing but blackness. Then suddenly there was a blur of lights as a bright red car whizzed down the road.  The car suddenly stopped, the window rolled down, and a deep voice said ‘get in’.

‘NOW!!!’