Grayston Magazine 2022

NASHE’S OCEAN and they swam safely to 6
ADVENTURE land. Nashe could see her 7
mom and they flew back to 8
Nashe was on holiday at the South Africa.
beach. She and her mom Nashe Mudzengi
were going to swim in the
sea. Nashe was swimming MY SAND-WISHED
down in the ocean and she SANDWICH
could see a shark coming!
She was swimming slowly On my very tasty sand-wish
because the water was sandwich I have…
cold. However, the weather
outside was hot. When the Nice, nutty Nutella
shark was coming towards
her, Nashe could see her Terrific, tasty toasted
best friend Kate. Her mom marshmallows
was looking for her. She
went into the sea and Delicious, dry doughnuts
could see Nashe. NASHE!
She yelled. Nashe was Ordinary, octopus Oreos
swimming to her mom. Her
mom was glad to see her And huge hunks of honey
and she told her mom that Victoria Edwards
she had seen Kate.
IN THE WILDERNESS
Nashe asked, can I go back?
No! Her mom said- you can’t I have sharp claws. I live in
go back! Let’s go back to the Kruger. I am rare. I am
our room. That night, Nashe very fast
snuck out of her room to
see if Kate was there. She What am I?
saw Kate. Nashe’s mom
woke up. She was looking I am nocturnal. I have four
for her. Nashe and Kate legs. I am quite small. I have
quickly ran back to the big yellow eyes. I live in
room. trees.

In the morning Nashe and What am I?
Kate went swimming. They Carina Murphy
saw a mermaid who asked
for their help. They went ALL ABOUT ME
with the mermaid. They
realised that it was a trap I am as chilled as a panda.
and they got locked in a I am as crazy as a monkey.
cage! The mermaid was a I am as active as a
witch. Nashe was able to springbok.
escape but Kate was not! I can be as shy as a gecko.
I like to swim like a fish.
The witch was chasing Milana Kuni
Nashe and she found a
cave. She hid in the cave. ON MY SAFARI
I should go back, thought
Nashe. She went out of the On my fun safari I saw a
cave and saw the witch. huge lion eating a yummy
The witch told Nashe that a impala, a lazy leopard
shark was going to get her! climbing a brown tree, a
She quickly grabbed Kate running rhino charging
a lazy lion, a cute koala
climbing a tall tree and a
tiger stalking a baby deer.
Christine Cadle

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12 1. Ayden Yi
2. Caleb Jordaan
3 3. Emily Gwilt
4. Madison Tommy
4
102 WHEN I GROW UP

In a world of many jobs
You need bits and bobs
I’d like to be…
Two jobs not three
I’d like to be a hairdresser
And not a professor
I’d rather be an artist
Drawing and painting
landscapes in the mist
When I see a client, I will
need to take care
With their hair
Then I’ll use my comb
While I use foam
Both jobs have things that
are the same
They have brushes to tame
And paintbrushes to paint
in a frame
Kate Picton

FAMILY SIMILES

My brother is as fast as
a dolphin.
My other brother is as funny
as a clown.
My mom is as kind as a fairy.
My dad is as lazy as a
donkey.
Ethan Hart

UNDER THE SEA UNDER THE SEA FAMILY SIMILES

I am big. I am grey and I start with ‘s’ and rhyme My mom is as loving
white. I have big gills. I eat a with dark. I’m a meat-eater. as a koala.
lot of meals. I have sharp teeth. I have
no legs. My dad is as funny
What am I? as a clown.
What am I?
I live in the sea. I sometimes My sister is as sweet
hurt. I don’t have a heart. I I am electric. I have a long as candy.
have a circular head. spine. I’m dangerous. I’m
black and white. My brother is as fast
What am I? as lightning.
What am I? Madison Tommy
I have patterns. I am small. I
sometimes swim in groups. I start with ‘s’ and end with I WANT TO BE
‘h’. I have a long, sharp nose. A SOCCER PLAYER
What am I? I’m grey.
I wear a kit to show that
The middle of my name has What am I? I am legit.
an ‘e’. I am green and can
live in a swamp. I can I have six legs. I can pinch. I I kick the ball and
swim fast. have claws. I can go on land I never fall.
and swim in water.
What am I? It is fun but I don’t like
Nathan Githiari What am I? to run.
Keshav Singh
WHEN I GROW UP I scored a goal and
WHEN I GROW UP I kicked a mole.
When I grow up I want to be
When I grow up, I want I am part of a team and
A zookeeper or a to be we have a dream.
paleontologist which will
be me Two different jobs, not I’m very fast and
three. I’m never last.
I will scatter the globe
Both jobs needs skill I will earn a lot of dosh
Searching for bones and I will become posh.
And both are a thrill! Ayden Yi
I will take care of the
animals wherever they go A ranger has a gun ON MY SAFARI

I will find new bones of And soccer players have On my adventurous safari, I
which no one has known a lot of fun. saw a grazing zebra eating
green grass, a sleeping
I will get new animals and I Both jobs need a lot of leopard in an old tree, a tall
can see them more practice to improve giraffe eating a lot of green
leaves, a huge elephant
But looking after bones will And in both jobs you have stomping on grass and a
be my favourite chore. to quickly move. grey rhino grazing on grass.
Jake Strack van Schyndel Daniel Flammer
Rangers all deserve

To work on a reserve.

Soccer players can have a fit

But they always do it in
their kit.

If I am a soccer player, I will
have to be a good sport.

If I am a game ranger, I will
have to be a good spot.
Christie Kilpatrick

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1. Amiri Naidoo
2. Daniel Flammer
3. Victoria Edwards
4. Ethan Hart
5. Greg Veliades
6. Carina Murphy
7. Kate Picton
8. Allegra Kohlöffel
9. Mwakawashe Mushaya
10. Chloë Tao
11. Nashe Mudzengi

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Grade
3A

From left to right - First Row: Alex Van Der Ross,
Alexander Papazian, Allegra Martin, Alycia McLeod,
Annah Pillay Second Row: Ella Arnold, Gabriel Marcus,
Hamzah Paruk, James Tagg, Josiah Wanda Third
Row: Kireev Chetty, Layla Hendricks, Letlotlo Kope,
Lexi Westgate, Maryam Patel Fourth Row: Nandi
Ngcobo, Oratile Gumede, Sasha Quinan, Sofia Ruscic,
Tawananyasha Choto Fifth Row: Unnabh Jain, Vihaan
Mistry, Miss Lynda Johnson
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Grade
3B

From left to right - First Row: Arya Fenwick, Caitlyn
Hauser, Calyssa Fauré, Cooper Smith, Eza Dwayi Second
Row: Gabriel Bossenger, Hayley Chengiah, Lekhan
Vemula, Liam Yaldwyn, Lindiwe Mothobi Third Row:
Lwethu Frans, Matilde Henriquez Munizaga, Muhammad
Moorad, Mutende Siakachoma, Nikhil Daya Fourth Row:
Sebastiano Murabito, Seyhara Moodley, Tsikoyavhudi
Musandiwa, Vishay Nathoo, Yusuf Essay Fifth Row:
Mrs Nicole Cloete Absent: Amber Smit
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Grade
3C

From left to right - First Row: Akul Gupta, Anashe
Murimba, Balthazar Bouvier D'Yvoire, Caitlyn Alexander,
Connor Page Second Row: Gabriel Webb, Kefentse
Gololo, Liam Stoltz, Lukhona Mdledle, Raayu Nathalal
Third Row: Rayhaan Abdool-Gaffar, Sania Moosa, Seth
Day, Sienna Allen, Sienna Pestana Fourth Row: Sienna
Wilson, Thomas Tudor-Owen, Trinidad Baudrand,
Tshegofatso Mothemane, Zara Russell Fifth Row: Mrs
Candice Kronson
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Grade 3 1. Caitlyn Alexander
2. Lexi Westgate
Creative 3. Thomas Tudor-Owen
Writing & 4. Zara Russell
Art Gallery 5. Alex van Der Ross
6. Caitlyn Hauser
1
USING OUR
2 EDUCATION TO
CHANGE THE WORLD
3
112 I will study like Nelson
Mandela and get a job and
make lots of money to help
schools, families and kids
with no money.
Lekhan Vemula

I will use my education to
help people stand up for
themselves by using what
my parents told me and
helping people stand up for
themselves.
Yusuf Essay

I will use my education to
become a life coach to help
children that don’t believe
in themselves.
Lwethu Frans

FANTASTIC
PENGUIN FACTS

They swim well. They can
waddle. They can hold
their breath for 30minutes!
Penguins cannot fly and
they have no teeth. Their
feet do not freeze on the
ice. Penguins swallow their
food whole! The Great Auk
Penguin became extinct in
the 1800s.
Lindiwe Mothobi,
Sebastiano Murabito
and Calyssa Fauré

WHY THE MEERKAT HOW TO TAKE CARE 4
LOOKS SO ALARMED OF A BOG THING 5

Once upon a time, in the What you need:
middle of the day, there was • Leaves
a meerkat. He was basking
in the sun. He wasn’t • Water
alarmed at all. He thought
he didn’t need a burrow. • A bucket

One day, the meerkat met • 2-minute noodles
a frog. The frog told him
about a crocodile. The frog • A sponge
said that the crocodile
wanted to eat the meerkat! • Bread
The meerkat didn’t believe
the frog. • Jam

The next day, the same • Chips
thing happened but the
hoopoe came this time • Oreos
and said the same thing.
The hoopoe said that the • Stories
crocodile was going to eat
the meerkat. The meerkat • A knife
still didn’t listen but he
started to wonder. Was • Nutella
what the animals were
saying true? Was there a What to do:
crocodile? 1. Get a bucket and fill it

Then one day he saw the big with water. Then take the
scary crocodile with huge Bog Thing and carefully
jaws and sharp teeth. He ran put in the bucket of
for his life! The meerkat was water.
so scared he never relaxed
again. That’s why meerkats 2. After that get a sponge
always look alarmed! and scrub the Bog Thing
Allegra Martin carefully.

MARTIAL EAGLE 3. Give the Bog Thing thirty
leaves a day.
Large, scary
Hunting, resting, cresting 4. Cook two-minute
Diving down, catching prey noodles, make sure it’s
warm and then give it to
Eagles the Bog Thing.
Thomas Tudor-Owen
5. Make a Nutella, Oreo and
FLYING jam sandwich.

Out in the open. 6. Give the Bog Thing
Off the ground. chips at 10 o’clock in the
Along the skyline. morning.
Over the buildings.
Above the clouds. 7. Let the Bog Thing play
In the clouds. with stones but make
Liam Stoltz sure it doesn’t eat them!

Haley Chengiah

AFRICAN PENGUIN 6

Black, white
Building, swimming, laying

Wears a dirty tuxedo
everyday
Africa.

Mutende Siakachoma

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1. Matilde Henriquez
Munizaga

2. Arya Fenwick
3. Sienna Pestana
4. Seth Day
5. Muhammad Moorad,

Gabriel Bossenger, Nikhil
Daya and Sehara Moodley
6. Tshegofatso Mothemane
7. Maryam Patel

HOW TO CARE FOR
1 A BOG THING

1. Get a Bog Thing.
2. Put glasses on your eyes.
3. Give the Bog Thing coke.
4. Taser the Bog Thing so

that it goes to sleep.
5. Wake up the Bog Thing

by pouring water on its
head.
6. Throw the Bog Thing in
the pool so it can relax
with a coke.
7. Give the Bog Thing
medicine for his rash.
8. Take the Bog Thing out
of the pool with a net.
9. Go in the house and
get a dice to play a dice
2 game.
10. Give a sleeping pill to the
Bog Thing – make sure he
eats it!
11. Put the Bog Thing in the
box.
12. Put a pillow under his
head and a blanket over
his body.
Sienna Pestana

BIRDS

Colourful, fluffy
Flying, eating, hunting

Can be dangerous.
Amazing creatures!

Zara Russell

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WHAT IF… laughing at how white 4
she was. 5
Nelson Mandela 6
Became an astronaut, Flamingo was gracefully
Went to China and never singing by the waterhole.
came back to South Africa, Whenever she sang, the
Ate fast food every day, animals surrounded her
Refused to be President, because they loved her
Liked to drink alcohol, singing but the thing they
Banned de Klerk from didn’t like about her was
South Africa? that she had no colour. They
Poor South Africa! didn’t like animals with
Letlotlo Kope no colour. Flamingo was
so sad that she wanted to
THE PECULIAR cry but she didn’t because
CLASSROOM she was a big and amazing
flamingo. Flamingo stood
The library contemplated up to everyone and said,
quietly. “Stop laughing at me,” but
they didn’t.
The SMART board ran away.
Flamingo always took a
The bags talked loudly long swim in the waterhole.
about cars. When she was finished, she
wanted to take a walk but
The THRASS chart she didn’t know she was
meditated while smiling. walking too far. She walked
past the grassland and past
The printer sniffed the air. the desert and ended up at
the sea. She was so tired of
Three chairs jumped with being white!
delight.
Flamingo decided to eat her
The art sneezed because favourite food, shrimp! The
it had flu. more she ate, the pinker she
got. When she saw herself in
The scrap paper giggled a puddle, she was surprised.
softly. She said, “I finally have
colour!” She was so happy,
The stationery slept she went to tell the others.
peacefully. After a long talk, they all
became friends and that
The projector crawled is how the flamingo got its
across the roof. pink colour.

The walls wheezed weakly. Tawananyasha Choto

Shut the door! WHAT IF
Alex Van Der Ross
What if Handrè Pollard,
HOW THE FLAMINGO asked for directions to
GOT ITS COLOUR the pool,
bought white cargo shorts,
Once upon a time, ablaze rode on a motorbike,
in the African sky, there was went to China,
a flamingo. She was by a became Santa
waterhole drinking water and lived in a bird nest!
when a noise disturbed
her. It was the hoopoe bird Seth Day
making its call to its babies.
Flamingo tried to drink 7
again. She heard a different
noise. It was a zebra

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1. Lekhan Vemula
2. Mutende Siakachoma
3. Sienna Wilson
4. Sania Moosa
5. Akul Gupta
6. Liam Yaldwyn
7. Lindiwe Mothobi

FISH EAGLE

Greedy, scary
1 Diving, eating, chewing

Easting fish from lakes.
African Fish Eagle.
Vishay Nathoo

HOW TO CARE FOR
NIK THE BOG THING

What you need:
• Water
• Soft grass
• A small bed
• Bog food
• A ball
• A bowl
• Stones
• Leaves
2 • A big bucket

What to do:
1. Take the bucket. Put the

soft grass in the bucket.
2. Then take the small bed

and put it in the bucket.
3. Stick stones on the

bucket.
4. Next add water to the

bucket.
5. Put your Bog Thing in the

bucket.
6. Feed the Bog Thing every

four hours.
7. Let your Bog Thing play

for two hours every day.
3 Nikhil Daya

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TIDDALIK THE FROG HOW TO CARE FOR 4
A BOG THING 5
Once upon a time there was 6
a frog called Tiddalik. He 1. Get a brush and squirt 7
lived in the Wollombi Valley. the toothpaste on the
Tiddalik was a very grumpy brush.
and greedy frog. One day
Tiddalik wandered down to 2. Brush the Bog Thing
the billabong. everywhere with just
the brush.
Tiddalik wandered down
to the billabong because it 3. Get some goats and feed
was the hottest day in the them to the Bog Thing.
world. When he arrived at
the billabong, he was so 4. Give it cold water
thirsty that he drank and with ice.
drank and drank. All the
water in the billabong was 5. Give it a ball and TV.
gone! When the animals
went for a drink there 6. Cut the Bog Thing’s
was no water for them to feathers with scissors.
drink. Kookaburra told the
animals that he knew it was 7. Put algae in a pool
that horrible frog. Kangaroo and light a fire next
wondered what they were to the pool.
going to do. Then an old
wombat told the animals to 8. Place some ice in
make Tiddalik laugh and all the pool.
the water would pour out
of his mouth. Then Wombat 9. Place the Bog Thing in
was gone. the pool.

Kangaroo was first. 10. Take him out and
Kangaroo suggested a put a blanket over him.
boxing match, but Tiddalik
did not laugh. 11. Let him sleep.
Raayu Nathalal
Next was Kookaburra with
her funny jokes. Tiddalik THINGS MY TEACHER
didn’t laugh either. All the ALWAYS SAYS
animals didn’t know what
to do. Then an eel wanted to My teacher always says –
give it a try. The eel danced Keep it up!
and danced and tied Wash your hands.
himself in a knot. Tiddalik Sit on the carpet.
started to rumble. Then When you are done,
he started smiling and he read a book.
laughed and all the water Get your hats and lunches.
poured out of Tiddalik’s Lukhona Mdledle
mouth. The water filled up
the billabong and the grass MAGIC PIANO
grew and the animals lived
happily ever after. Among the clarinet,
I hear a voice.
Arya Fenwick By the microphone,
at 3:30 in the afternoon.
Above the piano,
before I look to see,
what’s under the drums.
Below the violin, I found
a BIG PIANO.
Seyhara Moodley

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1. Nandi Ngcobo, Letlotlo
Kope, Josiah Wanda,
Alexander Papazian

2. Yusuf Essay
3. Vihaan Mistry
4. Sienna Allen
5. Lwethu Frans
6. Ella Arnold
7. Trinidad Baudrand

WALKING A DOG

Across the road.
Up and down.
Around the tree.
Around the playground.
1 Across the river.
Up the hill.
In the store.
Towards the school.
Trinidad Baudrand

GOING TO THE BEACH

TSS. TSS. My feet crash into
the sand.

We throw the ball into the
ocean, Ku-thud!

We splash each other
…TSH…TSH…TSH!

High tide is coming in.

BOOF! Goes the wave.

Pita-patter it starts to rain.

2 Grrrr! Goes the thunder.
Time to say goodbye.

Hmmm! Goes the whale.
Caitlyn Hauser

WHAT IF

What if Cyril Ramaphosa
played professional squash,
was a trillionaire,
drove a Lamborghini,
lived in a 10 story mansion
and had 100 000 security
guards.
Tshegofatso Mothemane

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HOW Koala was going to make 4
EXTRAORDINARY silly faces to made Tiddalik 5
laugh. The other animals
The art tries to run away. thought that was an
amazing idea. Koala started
The carpet jumps while practising his silly faces.
sleeping.
Kookaburra was going to
Smiles laugh when the tell the best jokes he knew.
cube gets a happygram. The other animals thought
that was a great idea. He
Books read but the chair practised in front of the
makes a noise. other animals and they all
laughed and laughed.
THRASS words jump off
their chart. All the animals tried their
best but nothing worked.
The books carry the printer Then a snake came and
in a circle. began to dance and twirl
and spin. He danced and
The cones do the floss in twirled and spun until he
front of the class. tied himself into a knot.
Tiddalik’s tummy began
Six cubes go for to rumble. Tiddalik began
a dance break. to laugh so hard that all
the water came out of his
Shut the fridge! tummy. Splash! All the
Annah Pillay water went back into the
billabong and everyone had
TIDDALIK, THE FROG water to drink.
WHO CAUSED THE
FLOOD! Eza Dwayi

Long ago in the Dreamtime, GOING TO MARS 6
there lived a frog named
Tiddalik the Greedy Frog. In the fast rocket
He lived in Australia in the Out of the good Earth
Wollombi Valley. It was a Off to scary space
hot, hot day in Australia Heading over the cool moon
so Tiddalik made his way On the craft there’s
to the billabong. He was a big hole
so thirsty he drank all the During flight I tape the hole
water in the billabong. Into the escape room
For my family!
When the other animals
went to the billabong to Vihaan Mistry
have a drink, all the water
was gone. They were all WHAT IF 7
mad because Tiddalik had
drunk all the water. The What if Nelson Mandela,
animals had a meeting bought all the sweets
to think how to get the in the shop,
water back. The wise owl went to school,
suggested that the animals planted flowers all day long,
should make Tiddalik laugh became a teacher,
so that all the water would played hide and seek,
come out of his tummy. sang songs
Kangaroo was going to do and played the drums.
a boxing match. The other
animals thought that was a Sania Moosa
great idea.

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1. Sofia Ruscic
2. Tsikoyavhudi Musandiwa
3. Cooper Smith
4. Sebastiano Murabito
5. Lukhona Mdledle
6. Gabriel Marcus
7. Rayhaan Abdool-Gaffar

KOALAS

Koalas live in Australia. They
1 live in the lovely trees and

dark branches. Koalas have
very sharp claws on their
paws. The baby joey stays
in its mother’s pouch for
six months. They are grey
and white. Koalas eat half
a kilogram of food a day.
They eat eucalyptus leaves
so they are herbivores. They
really love their tasty treats.
Did you know that people
still call koalas bears? They
are very good climbers and
they sleep for 18 hours a
day. They are related to the
kangaroo and the wombat.
They are marsupials.
Sasha Quinan

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BIRDS

Tall, endangered
Walking, breeding, laying
South Africa’s national bird

Blue Crane
Akul Gupta

WHAT IF…

My aunty
Got one hundred cats,
Bought a mansion,
Ate meat,
Became a singer,
Played rugby?
How strange!
Ella Arnold

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TIDDALICK THE FROG It got louder and louder
and louder until Tiddalick
Long ago in the dream land, LAUGHED! All the water
there lived a frog named gushed out and flowed
Tiddalick. He was a very all the way back into the
greedy frog. One very hot billabong and over the
day, he wandered down to animals. Tiddalick was never
the billabong looking for greedy again!
water. He dipped his head
down and drank and drank Sofia Ruscic
and drank and drank till the
billabong was empty. STRANGE THINGS 4
HAPPEN 5
Later that day, the animals
discovered that the water in The window sketches
the billabong was gone so angrily across the wall.
they called a meeting. In the
meeting, the wise old owl The globe spins gracefully
suggested that they tickle around the classroom.
him and everyone agreed.
First up was the kangaroo. The pillows dance happily
He jumped up and down and gently around the
and told jokes in a funny carpet.
froggy tone. But Tiddalick
did not laugh. He just closed The books meditate quickly
his eyes and fell fast asleep. on the bookshelf.

Next was the eel. He started The boxes rap loudly around
doing funny poses with the room.
his tongue out. But still
Tiddalick did not laugh. He The flags daydream merrily
just sat there and blinked on the windowsill.
like any other frog, just
much bigger. Oh my word!
James Tagg
Then along came Mr
Kookaburra. He started CAPE ROBIN
laughing and laughing and
laughing until he couldn’t Shy, small
laugh anymore. But still Mimicking, flying, running
Tiddalick did not laugh. He
just kept sitting there like a Very shy and dull.
rock. Orange bird

Now it was sloth’s turn. He Sienna Allen
got his arm warmed up and
then he started dancing… SPRING 6
the FLOSS! The sloth danced 7
the floss as slowly as a snail Spring is the new season of
but still Tiddalick did not life as new flowers bloom.
laugh.
Spring looks like people
Finally, Koala tried to playing outside again.
make Tiddalick laugh.
Koala began to jump on Spring smells like fruit
Tiddalick’s tummy and do growing.
a silly dance in the air. A
rumbling sound started. Spring tastes like freshness.

Spring sounds like birds
chirping.

Spring is the season of fun
as kids play outside.
Rayhaan Abdool-Gaffar

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1. Allegra Martin
2. Connor Page
3. Liam Stoltz
4. Calyssa Fauré
5. Sasha Quinan
6. Hamzah Paruk

WALKING THE DOG

Across the road.
1 Around the neighbourhood.

At the park playing fetch.
Inside the house resting.
With the dog.
Under the table.
In front of the TV.
Before bed.
Anashe Murimba

AT SCHOOL

On my comfy blue chair
In the big cool classroom
Below is a fun playground
At school I can read
funny books
Before break we do lots
2 of Math
Above my head are
cold fans
Across from me are my
funny friends
Near me are amazing
reading books
Cool!
Alexander Papazian

BIRDS

Colourful, loud
Flying, eating, running
Birds are different colours.
Found around the world.

Connor Page

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HOW TO CARE FOR A HOW THE FLAMINGO 4
BOG THING GOT ITS COLOUR 5

What you need Once upon a time, it was an
afternoon by the riverside.
Grape juice, ice, red paint, Elephant, Zebra, Lion and
pot, fresh meat, gold bars, Flamingo were playing.
fireproof tank, bucket, hot Elephant was bragging
peppers, phone, red rose, how big he was. Lion was
toy, book, bowl boasting how brave he was.

What to do They all had colour except
1. First put the fresh meat, for flamingo. They all
laughed at him except
hot peppers and some Zebra. He was very sad.
ice in the pot and Flamingo wanted colour.
shake it. The next day, he stayed
in his room thinking of a
2. Second, shape the gold plan. He couldn’t think of
bars into a bed, put the anything. It was time to get
toys on top of it and put some rest. He still had no
it in the fireproof tank. idea what he was going to
do.
3. Next, put the rest
of the ice in the bucket A few days later they
with the grape juice and were playing Marco Polo.
shake it up. Elephant was ‘it’. He was
going crazy. Then his trunk
4. Then paint the back of caught flamingo and threw
the phone red. him over the trees. He
landed in a pink pond. He
5. After that, put the red tried to wash the pink off
rose and the book in the in the river but that never
bowl with the Bog Thing. helped. Elephant tried to
spray water on him but that
6. Finally, before bed, give never worked.
it the food and drink you
made. Put it on the bed, He stayed in his big house
read it the book, switch for the next few days.
on the phone light and He was sad because he
sing for it. thought pink was for girls
but he got over it! That’s
Nandi Ngcobo how the flamingo got
its colour.
SPRING
Maryam Patel
Spring is as colourful
as a rainbow. SWIMMING 6

Spring looks like a monkey Playing in the pool
in a tree. At 5pm
Off the diving board
Spring feels joyful. Into the pool
Towards the deep end
Spring smells like fresh Below the water
blossoming flowers. Between the lane ropes
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Spring tastes like ice-cream.
Liam Yaldwyn
Spring sounds like
summer waves.

Spring is as wonderful
as a free bird.
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2. Anashe Murimba
3. Gabriel Webb
4. Vishay Nathoo
5. Raayu Nathalal
6. Tawananyasha Choto

HOW TO CARE FOR
A BOG THING

1 What you need
Cage, raw chicken, flint
stone, sand, target, plastic
sheet
What to do
1. First, get a cage.
2. Second, pour all the sand
into the cage. After that,
put a target in the cage.
3. Put the Bog Thing in
the cage.
4. Every morning, sharpen
his horns and trident
with flint stone.
5. Every night, put
the plastic sheet on the
cage and feed him raw

2 chicken.
Gabriel Marcus

BATELEUR

Black, red, yellow.
Flying, eating, striking.

Killing master.
Scary!

Cooper Smith

MY DOG

My dog is a better pet than
a cat. I like to play catch
with my dog. I like walking
him. I have fun swimming
with my dog, Charly. My dog
is the best pet in the world!
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A CRAZY DAY SPRING 4
5
The crazy chairs ran all over Spring is as colourful 6
the class. as flowers.

A laptop went to read a Spring looks like beautiful
book. flowers blossoming.

The white bouncing board Spring smells like grass.
drew funny drawings.
Spring feels like the
The fast fan blew all the kids warm sun.
outside.
Spring tastes like a
A self-painting brush Mc Flurry.
painted all over the board.
Spring sounds like birds
The bottle danced and the chirping.
kids laughed.
Spring is as beautiful
Three green bags coloured as flowers.
the laptop. Caitlyn Alexander

Five talking pencils jumped. ON HOLIDAY

Oh, my gosh! At the big airport
Kireev Chetty In the cold plane
Over the navy sea
EATING DINNER On the smooth runway
Inside the gray car
On a blue chair Near the cosy hotel
In my big house Beside the steaming hot
Under a white roof beach
Near the huge kitchen Toward a big wave!
Beside a silver spoon Josiah Wanda
With a shiny plate
Inside the living room SPLASH! SPLASH!
Toward the table.
Delicious! Splash, splash the waves
Oratile Gumede come.
BANG! The waves are
RED BISHOP roaring!
The tide is coming in.
Smart, short CRASH!
Flying, walking, standing The wave hits the shore.
BOOM!
The bird is cool. Gabriel Bossenger
Bird
PLAYING CRICKET
Gabriel Webb
On the fresh grass
WHAT IF… Off my very hard bat
Across the green field
Ms Johnson Near the well-made ground
Became a race car driver, Toward the best fielder
Drove backwards all the way In between his legs
to Durban, By the steps
Became a Grade 3 child, Six!
Acted like a rabbit, Hamzah Paruk
Became a singer?
Oh my word!
Alycia McLeod

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2. Annah Pillay
3. Eza Dwayi
4. Kireev Chetty
5. Unnabh Jain
6. James Tagg
7. Hayley Chengiah
8. Oratile Gumede
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SPRING all the water was gone. 5
The animals wondered 6
Spring is as happy as what they were going to
sunshine. do. Kangaroo told the
Spring looks like animals to go to the wise
blossoming flowers. old wombat. They went and
Spring smells like mowed found him sitting under
grass. a tree. They told the wise
Spring feels like fun. wombat what Tiddalik was
Spring tastes like sweet doing. Wise old Wombat
ice-cream. told them to put on a show
Spring sounds like that would make Tiddalik
birds singing. laugh and all the water
Spring is as exciting as would come gushing out.
an adventure.
They invited Tiddalik to
Sienna Wilson the show. Lizard told jokes
but Tiddalik didn’t laugh.
LAPPET FACED Kangaroo did a boxing
VULTURE match but that also didn’t
work. Then they heard a
Big, weird small voice. It was Eel. She
Gliding, flying, chomping twisted into funny shapes
and she went faster and
They eat their food faster until she ended up
Best scavenger ever! in a big knot. The animals
heard a grumbling sound.
Muhammad Moorad It was Tiddalik. He was
laughing and all the water
TIDDALIK came gushing out. The
THE GREEDY FROG water flowed back into the
rivers and the billabong,
Long, long ago in the and all the animals were
Wollombi Valley there happy!
was a greedy frog called
Tiddalik. He wanted to be Tsikoyavhudi Musandiwa
the biggest frog in the land.
One day Tiddalik grew a WHAT IF… 7
great thirst. He wandered
down to the billabong and Quinton de Kock
he drank and drank and Allowed India to win the
drank until all the water in T20 series,
the billabong was gone. Became an artist,
Started a school,
The other animals went to Went on holiday for a week
drink from the billabong without asking,
but when they got there Quit cricket forever?
all the water was gone. What would the Proteas do?
Then Kookaburra told the
animals he knew a place Unnabh Jain
where they could get water.
They followed Kookaburra. OSTRICH 8
They arrived at the river
and were going to lower Big, tall
their heads to drink when Eating, protecting, walking
they heard a grumbling
sound. It was Tiddalik. He Flightless bird
told the animals to get out BIG BIRD!
of his way. Then he drank
and drank and drank until Matilde Henriquez

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Grade
4A

From left to right - First Row: Aadam Rawat, Anaya
Ayodi, Anivuyini Zulu, Boikanyo Tshotetsi, Declan Gaylard,
Second Row: Emma Gotthardt, Francisco Baudrand, Ina
Blose, Jessica Osborne, Kiaran Naidoo Third Row: Liso
Engler, Luke Hart, Luke Veliades, Ntando Sithole, Nyakallo
Metsing Fourth Row: Otis Van Praet, Sian Le Grange, Ms
Cecilia Griggs
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Grade
4B

From left to right - First Row: Ariel Nyasulu, Blake Ho,
Botlhale Moroole, Christian Azar, Daniel Smit Second
Row: Evan Nair, Gabriela Cutter, James Venter, Jodi
Murphy, Laura Hardy Third Row: Lilia Paidas, Maariya
Seedat, Mark Veliades, Nusaybah Amod, Olivia Nuen
Fourth Row: Senen Naidoo, Shivank Seethiraju,
Mrs Mart-Marie Archer
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Grade
4C

From left to right - First Row: Aaradhya Suresh, Abigail
de Jong, Abigail Kilpatrick, Amy Crosby, Connor Dry
Second Row: Gabriella Pearse, Joshua Githiari, Justin
Cochran, Kaia Shaw, Kwesi Kalibo Third Row: Maria
Martin Aguilar, Mehul Mistry, Mohammed Dawood,
Nkosithandile Ngqangweni, Rachel Hatfield Fourth Row:
Spencer Cutter, Thalia Naidoo, Uzayr Royker, Mr Alistair
Buckley
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Grade 4 1. Anaya Ayodi
2. Luke Veliades
Creative 3. Kiaran Naidoo
Writing & 4. Rachel Hatfield
Art Gallery

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150 CHARLIE AND THE
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
SUMMARY

Charlie is a poor but
generous, caring, loving
and thoughtful person. He
wanted to get a golden
ticket from the Wonka
factory to go there. But
Charlie did not have enough
money to buy chocolates to
stand a chance of winning a
golden ticket.

So, to his immense surprise
and delight, Charlie’s
parents gave him early
birthday money. Then,
Charlie went to buy a
Wonka bar, and when he
opened it, he saw a golden
ticket.

Charlie went to the Wonka
factory and saw so many
wonderful ways they make
sweets, chocolates and all
sorts of magical things. His
time there is adventurous,
and in the end, he leaves in
a glass elevator and lands
back at his house.
Nusaybah Amod



MANDELA HAIKU

Nelson Mandela
Stood up for his country and
All of our rights
Rachel Hatfield