Sewing with Bernina

In Edgewater’s sewing room in Block C, Room 8 were with their partners in front of Bernina.

Bernina is the sewing machine we used for our sewing lessons with Mrs Scott and Ms Barrot. The item we had to make was a money purse. We first designed our money purse on paper then we practiced our designs on scrap pieces of fabric. I wanted my money purse to have decorative stitches on the lines so it looked very simple. The fabric we used for our money purses was coloured felt. We all decorated our purses with decorative stitches and we closed it up with functional stitches. At the end of our lesson our teacher Mrs Dines hurried and struggled with Mrs Scott to close up our purses with domes.

Thanks to Mrs Scott and Ms Barrot at Edgewater I now know how to use a Bernina sewing machine.

Under Southern Skies Presentation

My Holidays

Learning Intention: To use the features of a recount to share a personal experience


By the time I’d finished swimming at the wave pools on Monday, my hands looked like prunes because they were so wrinkled.

Around half past one in the afternoon Mica, Cheska and I were waiting at Cheska’s house for Chaim and her mum to pick us up. We saw them in their dark blue car coming into the driveway. We hastily grabbed our bags loaded with towels and rushed through the front door ready to go to the wave pools.  Once we arrived we walked to the dressing rooms and put our bathing suits on. We put our bags on the bench and hopped in the pool. It was kind of crowded because of the school holidays.

I climbed step by step by step on the stairs walking my way up to the water slide by myself because Cheska, Chaim and Mica were all too scared. When the green light went go I pushed myself down the slide. Near the end I got stuck and two girls behind me collided and we flipped over at the end of the slide.

After swimming in waves and chlorine we all went back to the changing rooms and changed out of our bathing suits. Chaim’s mum dropped me back home and my hands were back to normal.

Swimming is essential

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Learning Intention: To use the features of explanation writing to inform our audience.   

Swimming isn’t just a great sport, it’s also an important skill to know. The number of children drowning in New Zealand has increased over in years. One reason why kids like us, drown is because they don’t know how to swim.

If you know how to swim you have a higher chance of surviving if you get caught in a rip or a dangerous disaster that includes water like floods. You would have a higher chance of surviving because with your ability to swim and your water safe knowledge you would know what to do in a situation like this.

Swimming is also a great way to keep fit because you’re working out your whole body. Maybe in a few generations we’ll be living in an underwater world. If you don’t know how to swim, you should learn now because you’re not only saving yourself you could be saving the life of someone else.