The Gibbs Family History

The Gibbs Family History

Mary Elizabeth (Waine) Gibbs was born on the 10 January 1836 in Aldsworth,
England. She died in 1920 in Nelson, New Zealand. Mary was my Great Great Great Grandmother.

She lived in a house know known as Taylors Farmhouse in Aldsworth. They had around 400 people in
Aldsworth and it was full of Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. The area was great for picnics.

The Gibbs Family started off with James Gibbs & Mary Elizabeth Waine.
They were given their marriage licence on the 16 December 1958.
They were married the next day at St Saviours Church.They had 10 children: Mary Eliza Gibbs,
Richard Waine Gibbs, Rebecca Louisa Gibbs, Frederick Giles Gibbs, Sidney Alfred Gibbs,
Ellen Jane Gibbs, John Herbert Gibbs, Harry Edward Gibbs,
Lucy Frances Gibbs (my Great Great Grandmother)
and William James Gibbs who died aged 14 months. James Gibbs died on the 1 March 1876,
one year before their planned voyage to Nelson. Despite this Mary continued to New Zealand.

Journey to New Zealand.

On the 21 April 1877 the Gibbs set off for Nelson from the East India docks, London.
They travelled in the boat Queen Bee with 20 other passengers as well as the 10 Gibbs.
The Queen Bee encountered strong winds and gales off Tasmania. On the 6 August 1877 the
Queen Bee struck ground 6 - 8 miles from the lighthouse off Farewell Spit in Golden Bay.
They were unable to relaunch the ship. They tried to get help from the shore.
When no help came they launched a lifeboat with the passengers on it.
The second mate sent a telegram to the Nelson harbour master telling him the ship
had struck Farewell Spit.

This picture is of some of the Gibbs family in the Awaroa inlet with a good haul of snapper.

Nevermoor Book Report

Nevermoor

The Trial’s of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend.

This story is about a girl called Morrigan Crow.
Morrigan Crow is going to die on Eventide. She is blamed for all of the towns
misfortunes like heart attacks, injuries and damaged property. She is listed in the
Cursed Child Register.

Until Jupiter North offers her a place in the Wundrous Society, she knows her fate is
coming. If Morrigan is not granted a place in the society she will have to go back
home to Barclaytown. She has to pass four difficult tests to get in to the top nine.
There is the book trial, the chase trial, the fright trial and finally the show trial.
In the book trial Morrigan has to answer questions the book asks of her.
In the fright trial she has to follow the candles.
There are different paths of candles to follow. She has to follow the path that she thinks is right.
The fright trail is in the cemetery. In the chase trial Morrigan has to go in a
group of five and hit one of the different coloured rings with her hand.
The rings on the outer edge are more frequent than the rings in the center.
In the middle there are four golden rings that will secure her place in the show
trial and also get to have a feast with the Elder's. In the show trial she has to show
off her strange skill.  The Elder's give the competitors a score and put them on the
leaderboard if they have the top nine scores. After the fourth trial she meets Ezra
Squall the Wundersmith. He takes her to Crow Manor and shows her how to be a
Wundersmith like himself.

I would recommend this book to people who like Fantasy or Adventure stories.

Lewis Hawkyard

Reviewed 29 April 2018

Creative Writing

“Oh, what has he done this time?”
yelled the Professor as they ran for their lives…

The few days before I had figured out how to make a dragon out of a stone.
The other scientist in the lab said “Don’t do it, it won’t work It’s Dangerous!”
But he didn't listen to the other scientists.
He carried on and started to make the dragon out of the rock!
He mixed batric acid with dynomite to create the fire that comes out of its
mouth. “I think I will put in green colouring.”
He poured in two thousand litres of green colouring into
the massive birth machine. He mixed Rhodium, Boron,
Titanium, Beryllium, Krypton but mostly Tungsten and
Titanium together to form the body of the Humongous dragon.
He started to press the button but the manager of the lab stopped him.
Mr Barclay told him Do not press that button or else I will fire you!
The scientist didn’t really care so he just pressed the button and
ran out of the building and shouted “See you later suckers.”
He jumped in his car and drove away at high speeds wanting
to get away because he knew that if he didn’t he would get caught
in the fireball of the birth machine exploding after it’s single use battery
blew up it’s fuse. “ 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 DROP AND COVER!”
A giant plume of fire went up from the lab he was in just one minute ago.
All of a sudden a giant crash made everybody turn and look at the dragon
soaring up out of the old lab. It followed the scientist in the car that
was speeding towards the White House to destroy the President
of the United States. The dragon sent a plume of fire at the
White House destroying the left wing and the guard post.
The second fireball was a lion charging at its prey.
It destroyed the main section of the White House.
The third did it all destroying the rest of the right wing
leaving only the fence and gardens standing.

What happens next is for you to decide…

The Inventory Series Book Report

The Inventory Series, by Andy Briggs

Book One.  

The Iron Fist.

In this book Dev has to save a piece of dangerous equipment hidden
deep away in the Inventory, a storage facility for technology that the world
isn't ready for. The Collector, is a dark person who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
One day two kids from Dev’s school come over to see Dev.
While they were at the farm the Collector attacks the Inventory.
Dev took them into the facility and they were locked up in the cafeteria
for security reasons. In the end Dev gets the Iron
Fist out of the Inventory without himself knowing he is helping the Collector...

Book 2

Gravity

Dev saves the world from being destroyed by a gravity device taken from the
Inventory by the Collector. Dev, Lot and Mason have to track down and bring
back the Newton’s Arrow before too much havoc is caused in the city.
They got a blue case from an old man in a wheelchair that had created the Newton’s Arrow.
The case contained a city that was shrunk. In the end of the book
they use the Iron Fist to get the Newton’s arrow back but without some
damage taking its toll to the city.

Book 3

Black Knight

In this book they have to stop the Collector from starting up Black Knight,
a laser beam in space. When an ancient artefact is stolen from a museum Dev, Lot and
Mason have to get it back before a message is sent to Black Knight making it send
down its wires to pull the person who wants to start it.
They were too late to stop one of the Collector’s henchmen from getting up to
Black Knight and starting it again. Dev went up in the Iron Fist to stop it from
starting up again fully.

I would recommend these books to people who like adventure stories.

Lewis Hawkyard

Reviewed 9 August 2018

Christmas Story

It was one week before Christmas and Santa’s right hand Elf Twinks went
to check the presents and found that the presents vault had been broken into.
He called the Elf security team to come and check it out.
They arrived within minutes. They looked through the security
footage and saw an elf in a black mask opening the door and
taking presents through a present teleportation device.
They decided it had to be a elf from the delivery team and the
present department. They immediately sent for all the elves
from those departments and did Dna test, but none of them
matched with the Dna traces from the shelves in the present room.
Twinks asked them to get all the elves too meet in the hospital level.
When they arrived, the hospital elves did Dna tests on every single elf.
Still none matched. They were very puzzled. Twinks went to tell Santa
the bad news. When he arrived Santa had already found out the bad news.
He told Twinks “how are we going to get presents to all of the world if they
keep on being stolen.

Suddenly Twinks ha an idea “why don’t we change the door code so only
you know it?”

The Sky Diver Animation

This animation is about a lone Sky Diver.

Trying Out Sumo Paint

Today we tryed using Sumo Paint. I made a picture of a nature sunrise. My favorite tool was the Dry Brush 2.

The Effects of Marine Pollution

This is my slideshow on marine pollution. It is about the affects of marine pollution.
I have changed it after I got the feedback from my peers. The results showed that I had to work on giving suggestions on how to help.




I have changed it after I got the feedback from my peers. The results showed that I had to work on giving suggestions on how to help.

Oil Tanker Explosion

This is my animation using google slides. I was learning to embed slides into my blog. It shows the inpact of oil in the ocean.

Our MILO Time Term 1

 For our MILO Time We have been planning to create a Talent Quest. This is so we can bring  out the Talent inside Rawhiti school students.
Our aim is to make a fun competition for everybody. We want learn how to work together better and work independently as well.


I Have now got to the stage where we need to book times for the hall so we can run it before we hand out entry forms.

For my second MILO I am recording Tom, Nabraska, Riley DG, Ryley D, Carmen and Jamie so they can make a documentary about standing on the barrels.

Last thursday for our <ILO time we went surfing with the Duke Festival. I was able to get out back and try out some turns

Christmas Holiday

At the start of January we went down to our Cousins Bach in Okiwi Bay.
We were there with our Cousins and Grandparents.

On the second day we were there we did a boys trip.

We went out in their boat and set the long line out by the mussel buoys
I had to unwind it off the reel and connect on the line with the hooks on it.
We left it there and we were going to come back to it two hours later.

James drove the boat to behind some islands where there was a work up.
Me and Jaxon put our lines in while the boat moving to see if we could catch anything.
Jaxon had a diver on the end of his line which goes down deep to try and catch a Kingfish.
I had a popper on my line it pops in the waves. We did a few laps of the area but we caught
nothing. We moved on.

At the next spot we dropped our lines with some hooks and bait on them
but we only were catching small blue cod except one that we could catch
we moved on but with still no success.

After an hour we drove on to another work up we dropped a diver and a lure
and started trawling on the second lap we both shouted “fish on!” Jaxons
fish ran down deep quickly it was probably a keepable Kingfish but we never found out because it broke the line, it would have been there fist
keepable kingfish. I had hooked on a kahwai,I managed to pull it in we
kept it.  After two more trawles and two more kahwai from me we
decided that we would go back to trying for kingfish. We had no luck catching any.

James drove the boat back to the long line when we pulled it up
all that we found was a starfish and no bait. The crabs must have had a feast.

As we were driving back we spotted a pod of dolphins and babies.
We drove over them and they happily played around the boat until Jaxon got in with them.
They probably didn’t want us hurting their younglings.
Usually Jaxon  would be able to swim with them. No chance this time.

As we were driving back up we saw some people who had been out deep
who had a massive kingfish. They were happy with that prize.

When we got back we filleted the fish and smoked all the kahawi and frooze
two of the ones we smoked the other we ate on crackers. We had a good day.