If I could be anyone in the would I would be… Michael Jordan! I want to be him because he is an amazing basketball player and I love everything about basketball.
I like Michael Jordan because he can do great passes, wonderful dribbling, fantastic kicks woops not kicks… and MAGNIFECENT SLAM DUNKS!!!

I like Michael  Jordan because he is very popular and he is very cool.
Sorry Diary got 2 go…

FROM HS

They talked about how taggers effect our community and that we are the ones who have to pay the money to clean it up. If you get caught tagging you get a black mark after your name on your permanent record so when you are older you will find it difficult to get a good job.

We learned that Graffiti first appeared in the Collesium which is in Rome in Italy. A long time ago they used to write graffiti as they had no way to express their feelings so they used to write messages on the walls. The messages were for other people to read and were also for the politicians because there was no other way for people to communicate with each other.

After we listened to the speaker a small group of students were chosen to go and paint over some graffiti in our neighbourhood.

We went to a small walkway which was filled with graffiti. It was a long walk. We found a buddy and then one of the helpers gave us paint and paintbrushes. We went down the pathway and the Police Officer called Constable White showed us the fence we had to paint.

We started painting. Spikes, our class mascot was also helping us.

It was a hot day but we didn’t mind. We had to fill up our buckets with paint two times. The paint was thick and brown. I got a sore arm painting the fence because my arm was moving up and down lots.

We finished painting it just in time to go back to school for lunch. On our way back, I wasted all the water from my drink bottle to wash my hands. It was a really long way back. It was really fun. I never thought working would be so much fun.

If I could go and help the community again, I would. I learnt a lot about how tagging effects our community and how millions of our dollars are spent on tagging. I think that our money would be better spent on our schools and hospitals and making people’s lives better.

I am so glad I learned more about not tagging on other peoples property and how it affects people’s lives.

By MH

Simba is a huge lazy tiger that sleeps on our class mat when were all working hard to achieve our Personal Best. Old Simba is the laziest tiger in the world!!!

Spikes is more adventurous and goes with our class on school trips and watches over us and the class.He is very small and very cute.

Keep an eye out for Spikes adventures and make sure you give them a pet and stroke or maybe even a tin of tuna if you are ever lucky enough to meet them!!! ☺

By JD