Pipiriki School news

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 11, 11 August 1987, Page 13

Pipiriki School news

Two Form 2 pupils from Pipiriki School, Lisa Hema and Roberta Te Huia, both 12, recently sat exams working towards scholarships to Turakina Maori Girls College. Only five such scholarships are awarded a year nationwide. The girls sat three one-hour papers on English, Mathematics and General Knowledge. Pipiriki School Principal Josephine Mikaere said the results will be known within the next few weeks. ■ ★★★ Waimarino Public Health Nurse Leigh Berry is currently running a comprehensive Red Cross first aid course at Pipiriki School, with the entire school taking part. The course involves 8-10 sessions of learning about all aspects of first aid, from how to treat minor cuts, to attending broken limbs. Mrs Berry is optimistic most of the children will attain their Junior First Aid Certificates at the end of the course. ★ ★★ The school is involved with a special on-going unit of work on photography, which has proved very popular with the children. They were visited recently by two Rural Advisers from the Wanganui Education Board who demonstrated the technique of producing 'photograms' - objects displayed on light-sensitive paper and developed in the same manner as films.

Snow is freezing it's very cold it's very cold you can be shivering fast. Correna Dinosaur Feast There was once a dinosaur feast at the very end of the forest. The dinosaurs were having a party. The Tyran-nosaurus-rex brought two brontosaurus eggs, one rat and three mice. They played pin the tail on the crocodile, catch the dinosaur. witches brew and dinosaur trap. The brontosaurus, stegasaurus, sitosaurus and of course tyrannosaurus-rex. They played until midnight then the dinosaurs had some food. There was a rat's egg, two lizards tails, some more mice and they also had some more eggs. Melanie The Swamp Creature Returns The mist circled the silent, eerie ghost-town. For the last century or so the hideous looking swamp creature has lurked in the murky waters of your death infested town. A ripple formed and the swamp creature emerged from the lake that was nothing but filth. the overgrown trees resembled the swamp creature's muscle-bound body and anything disgustingly ugly resembled its warty face. The dirty cracked branches gave a perfect effect of its razor like fangs which sat in its ravenous human crusher. He lumbered to shore and heaved his body onto the bank. The pitch black, lonely alley creaked as one drunken man hobbled around with a bottle of gin. A high-pitched, blood-cur-dling cry shrieked in the fog. Gradually the creature