Surprise from Summerland School

One of the girls in our class's house had been broken into recently. You can imagine the stress that, that would have caused while trying to deal with the Earthquakes too.
John presented a parcel today to her that had been sent by Summerland School.

As you can see she is very happy to have her Nintendo Duel Screen replaced. Its great to know that while there are people out there who do horrible things, there are many more that do wonderfully caring things. Thanks Summerland School for reminding us of that.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words.

Today we had some people come to school .They taught us how to speak with a drum. I loved the show. When we were druming our hands got so sore. The drums were African drums. We would like to have another show like that. Thank you for letting us use the African drums.
By Keighley

Earthquake at Freeville School

Fortunately Freeville School has done well in the Earthquake. There were no breakages that I know of and it was given the all clear structurally. It's good to know we have such a strong and sturdy school!

From what I can see it is likely that we will not be back at school until Monday according to the Ministry of Education's website, because of the sanitation issuses. It's a legal requirement that there be drinkable water and safe clean toileting.

It was great to see some children form our class add their own recounts of what happened for them during the earthquake. I think the people of Canterbury have coped very well with this earthquake, e.g. everyone doing the right thing so that everyone survived, power and water being restored quickly, neighbours supporting neighbours and helping out people where they can.

Have you been following the updates?
I've enjoyed following the live updates from the TVNZ news website and the aftershocks on Geonet.

Stay safe everyone, and I'll see you when they let us go back to school.