It's a tad ironic given recent weather, but Nelson again holds the title as the sunniest place in New Zealand.

Nelson in the News for Sunniest Place in New Zealand. (click on this link)

Room 11 students have been writing poems about last night's wind and rain, and our run of bad weather in general over the last year.

Read the latest on last spring's flooding and last night's battering.

Weather Batters Nelson (click on this link)

Flood Repairs (click on this link)

Sunny Nelson.

Wet and loud.
Boom.
Big puddles.
Wet trees.
Wind blowing.
Louder and louder.
Rain making splashes on my window.

Latia

Sunny Nelson

Wind swooping
Round the house
Blowing everything down
SNAP!
Trees breaking
BANG!
Falling trees
Rain hitting the ground
Like fireworks
Big puddles
Soaking trees
Everything wet.

Olivia

Tahunanui Beach Trip

This sandcastle was built by Ngawhatu House (the green machine).  It looked the most impressive out of all of the sandcastles built by the four Stoke School houses but it was the first to be eaten by the sea.

I think we needed to spend more time building up the actual castle and less time on the walls. We thought the walls would help protect the castle from the incoming tide but we were so wrong! The walls only lasted 7-8 batterings from the surf.

Teach.