Today Room 14, along with other classes in the school, got to witness one of the most spectacular natural events of a lifetime. At 9.18 am this morning the moon began to cross between the Earth and the Sun causing a solar eclipse. It took roughly an hour for the moon to pass from one side of the sun to the other. On it's journey creating a bright crescent in the sky as the moon shadowed the Sun's rays. We will not see an eclipse as good as this in Auckland until most of us are 31!

As the moon slowly moved across the sky we noticed the light started to fade and Greenhithe became rather airy. The temperature dropped suddenly as we were no longer being warmed by the Sun.

This was an amazing sight and thanks to Sarah (and her Dad) Room 14 were able to enjoy the view of the event without damaging our eyes. Sarah had created a pinhole camera that channelled the Sun's light into a box and presented the eclipse as a small dot on white paper. We were all very amazed! A great day!

      

      

                                                                                               

     

    

          Corbin and Riley's power point still to come.

Well done to all of those that competed today at athletics.  You have done Room 14 very proud! Lots of you scored placings in your year group which is fantastic. You should all give yourself a pat on the back for giving it a go and trying your best! - Miss Chichester :)

P.S CONGRATULATIONS to the 11 people from Room 14 that have made it to Inter-school. The most attending from one class!
                                                         

For our writing sample Max chose to write a fictional recount about the day Vesuvius erupted in 79AD at Pompeii.

The Real Story of Pompeii

By Max Cameron-Lee

Arr!!! I screamed as the ground started to shake on a summer’s morning at Pompeii. Once it stopped I did not know what had just happened.

I looked out the window at Mount Vesuvius and saw a huge black cloud of smoky ash was coming out of it. I went to my father and asked what was going on he said it was nothing to worry about, but I was very worried!!!

At about mid-afternoon I noticed it was getting very hot, I opened some windows but that just made it worse.

At late afternoon I saw that the ash cloud was starting to fall I went outside to have a look and I could not breathe. I saw people on the street, were they dead? Were they alive? No one knew. Arr!!! I saw lots of rocks flying out of the volcano everyone was screaming and then the lava started dribbling out of the volcano. I thought the world was going to end then I screamed and swallowed a lot of ash and fell to the ground in pain…and died.