Stories from our whanau

Stories from our whanau

Hutt Central’s, Middle Syndicate Homework Weeks 7 and 8 Term 2

Hutt Central proudly promotes walking to school and we’re also all involved in Feet First, where each week we record on a chart home many times we walked, biked, scootered etc to school.

Your homework for the next two weeks is to interview someone in your family, or close friend, and ask them all about how they used to get to school. Then write a story all about their active and safe travel to school. Take some photos of the person you are interviewing. If you don’t have accesses to a camera draw her/him.

Your work must be beautifully presented- neat and tidy, border, capital letters and full stops and well edited.

Hutt Central

How Shawn walked to school

On sunny days he either walked or biked. On rainy days he takes an umbrella and walked in the rain!! He had never done FeetFirst in his life.

 By Tayla

How my Mum used to get to school? Walking

My Mum walked to school. She used to walk to school everyday. She had to walk 2 kilometres every morning to school and walk 2 Kilometres every afternoon back home.

She walked with her sister. They both went to the same school. She says they felt very good after their walk. They did not feel cold or sleepy. They felt fresh, ready to start the day. She advises me to do the same. I do not walk to school but I do take a walk back home. It’s good to walk because it keeps you healthy and fresh

Happy walking

By Muni

How Dad got to school

When Dad was small he lived far from school. He would wake up at 7:00am then he would get up get ready for school, go down to the bus stop, and get on the bus to school. Then on the way home, he got off at the bus stop and he walked a hundred metres home. When Dad got older he biked to school. There were no helmets back in those days, so you had to be careful not to fall off. Dad had to obey all the traffic rules and he looked for cars so he would not end up getting hit. Dad’s favourite thing on the way home was eating berries and throwing stones into the stream.

 By Luca

Lance

How did you get to school safely?

I used to skate and walk as I only lived four houses away

What was the name of your school?

Parkway Primary

By Harmony

Rosie

Aunty Rosie biked to school with her friend Sinead. But if it was raining one or=f their mums would take them in a car. Most of the time she enjoyed the ride. She enjoyed chatting to Sinead. She got some exercise. Rosie was scared of a house; she passed that had a big dog. It looked like it might escape and eat her on the way; she went through the roses which smelled nice. She thinks it is good that at Hutt Central everyone lives close and they don’t have to be dropped off in cars. Rosie says using cars less is good for the environment.

My Dad’s Journey

I interviewed my Dad (he is ancient) about he got too and from St Michaels (primary) and his other schools in Bradford UK.

I asked him how it took to get to school and where he had to walk to. This Dad had to say

“At my first school I was lucky because I only had to walk 5 metres to get to school .It only took 30 seconds and I only had to go out of my gate and I was in the schools grounds.

If only that was all I had to do .he even told me a story that he and his friends were picked up by hurricane!

My Dad went to school with his younger sister and his elder brother but there isn’t much to tell you about his primary school so I’ll tell you about his middle and upper schools.

When Dad went to middle school it was much further away, in fact it was five kilometres away. On sunny days he used to walk with his friends so they were safe together. On days when the weather was bad they took the bus, this was still sort of environmentally friendly because it only happened at winter time.

The high school that Dad went to was Yorkshire Martyers Collegiate School (YMCS). My story isn’t supposed to be about this but he had to get two buses to get there- it wasn’t very energy efficient ha? When the roads were blocked he had to walk in the snow! And Dad told me it snows heaps in Bradford.

By Eli

What a school life!

This is an interview about my Mum and how she used to get to school. The first primary school she went to was about 2km away from her home. Most of the time she used to ride on the back of her brother’s bike or walk. It was in New Plymouth at Vogel Town School.

The second primary school she went to was called Tui Glen School in Stokes Valley just down the hill from her house, it took 2 mins to walk there.

She rode her bike one day and after school she left it behind.

In Intermediate she used to walk to the bus stop and catch the bus. By the bus stop there was a diary and my Mum used to sneak money out of her Mum’s purse and go to the diary, she would buy raspberry twists.

Then she moved to Lower Hutt and to the Train to Taiga Intermediate, which is now called Avalon Intermediate. It was about 15 Kms to get there.

In High school she used to walk until she got her car. The first high school was Hutt High and she lived next door to where we live now.

It only took 15 mins to walk there.

At the Girls’ High School in New Plymouth she caught the bus from her Nana’s to school or took her car and it was about 6 km away. Then she moved away from Nana’s and lived with my Dad and the school was 25km away.

She took Dad’s care because it was much cooler than hers.

That’s the way my Mum used to get to school.

By Kathleen

Feet First Darrin

Born October 27 1966

Daddy walked to school when he was five. When he was six he moved to a different house a little bit further away from school so his mum dropped him to school every day. One day each week they had carless days, so daddy had to get a life from his Mum’s colleagues because his car free day was a different day.

Back in Time

When my Granddad was a boy about 10 years old, he would ride on

A horse!!!

Every morning he would get up out of bed at 3.00 in the morning and ride his bike to the stables a mile from home.

When he got there he would put the cart onto the back of the horse called Dolly and world go and deliver milk to the town.

After this job he would go back to the stables and give Dolly a big brush down, and feed her breakfast oats and hay.

Granddad would then ride his bike back home and have a bath, and then eat his breakfast of weetbix and porridge.

After all of this he would go to school and have a little sleep while his teacher was talking.

 By Max

A story about my Nana

I interviewed my Nana Ursy Tainui. My Nana grew up on a farm and her parents did not have a car. My Nana had a horse which she rode to school when she was five. When my Nana got older she walked to school with her brothers and sisters she said “first up- best dressed” which meant who ever got up first got the best jacket and shoes and gumboots. When it snowed sometimes my Nana had to walk to school in bare feet. She must have had cold feet. On the way to school my Nana enjoyed playing games with her brothers and sisters like tag or hide and seek. She also liked to tell stories to her sisters. My Nana said it used to take a long time to walk to school and she used to get tired. She said she got used to it when she got older. My Nana told she had heaps of fun walking to school when she was young.

By Jakib

How my Dad used to get to school

I asked my Dad how he used to get to and from school and this is what he had to say

When I was much younger, when I was in Pre –primary until about standard 3 my mum used to take me to school in the car. When I got a bit older, I used to ride my bike. We did not live very far from the primary school that I used to go to.

When I got to high school, I used to catch the bus. We would walk to the bus stop, and then it would stop right outside my school.

Then I got even older. When I turned 16 years old, I got a motorbike. Then I used to ride my motorbike to al my sports games and matches at other schools too.

Further information: feetfirst@nzta.govt.nz, .