My Year in GRi11

I don't know what to to tell my 31 year old self but it might go like this “did I really grow a moustache”. Remember when I won the RAGE award when I was ten Mr R had to look it up on the Internet.


Can you remember the rippa tournament we went to Wellington base backpackers I was on the 7th floor with Cooper and some people from King Country. Our first day was great we had one loss on the first day. On the second day we versus  Counties Manukau we went to golden point. We started the team got it out to Eva and she scored the try and we won.


In GRi11 we had one to one device. I had an Apple iPad 2 it is crap compared to the devices you might have in the future. My learning in Grill has been the best and I think I learned the most in this year and almost got to stage 8.


Remember in GRi11 when we got to plan our day just like at university. Here are some things you have to accomplish: get a hot wife have child hopefully a boy,  go to the Olympics and get a top three placing,make sure I'm still friends with Dom, go to 100.

Athletics Day

On the 9/11/16 our Athletics was on. We started with Long distance which I Got a four. Then we went to high jump which I am ok at. Me and my friend Dom were the last two to jump over the pole. When had morning tea why I mainly played around on the hurdles.

We had to go to the shot put which I hate doing because I am not good at it. I got the shot put half way so I got a 2 out of 4. We went to go do hurdles which I like doing. I raced first and won easily and got a 4. Then it was lunch. I had championship finals which was Sprints and Hurldles. I had to do sprints then hurdles right after.

The gun went off and the top 8 were running which was me and Dom We were right next to each other with 5 meters to go. It's over Dom you won. I wby 0.07 Miller seconds. 

Those were my main highlights for the athletics day until I felt like I was gonna die.  Dom and I a good friends so I would thank him for being a good sportsmanship and knowing the fact that I Lost to him by a tiny fraction.

Cultural sports rotation

Cultural sports rotation

On Thursday last week we had an idea of a cultural sports rotation. These are the sport options that we came up with Yoga,T ball,Gaelic Football, Kabaddi and Handball. I'm doing handball with Blake and Tyler B.

 We are doing a Cultural sports rotation because we've been learning about cultural diversity. I've been organising the sports and helping everyone to be ready for the Cultural sports rotation. We have also had to test all the sports to make sure they are safe. With the Kabaddi we had to change the rules to Ripa version. 

Learning Divisibility rules

This is a learning post about divisibility rules here a video for divisibility rules 2-12.

The Nigeria

Once upon a time in Nigeria there was guy called Charlie. It was 1924 Charlie was chased by a wild horse that escaped his cage. He sprints into a nearby cage But … it was a lion cage. The lion was sleeping Charlie was so lucky he always carried an m16 he shot the lion. The Lion survived and woke then took a rage quit and turned on Charlie and revealed his robotic 10 gauge shotguns out of both front paws  then stood up and shot Charlie fifty times until his eyeballs came out with his brain and he crumpled into a massive pool of blood.


The end

Guy Fawkes

on Saturday I went to summer hill to watch guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes is a firework display. Here are some pictures.

Yearbook entry

My best memory as a college street  is becoming a sports coach and being able a to yell at people just like mr R and my favourite teacher Mr Wimms. The worst part about being a college street kid having to sit through Mr Kennedy’s boring  assembly's. The funniest moment as a college street is in year four,Ethan farted during a test and I felt it vibrate through my chair.


Best deal at college street is not having to wear uniform,because we get to express ourselves with what we wear. In the future I would like to go to the Olympics and get a top three placing or I would represent NZ in the all blacks.


 I am proud of my getting loads of medals in in school competitions. I was also involved in the rippa tournament and we came 4 out of all of NZ. I think I learn well in grill because i can plan my day. Next year I'm going to PNINS (Palmerston north intermediate normal school) I hope PNINS is as good as college street.

sugar argument

Sugar argument  

Dear honourable  Mr Key

Mr Key I'd like to start with my opening statement to announce that you should introduce a sugar tax to Fizzy drinks like Coca Cola. In supermarkets a bottle of coke cost $1 for a 2.25 litre bottle.

Secondly Fizzy drinks are addictive like cocaine and addictive drugs.Instead of buying the healthy drink of water people buy the cheap fizzy drinks.Instead they could be buying water milk and then reason why I'd like  you to enforce the  tax cheap fizzy drinks. could also You could also use the tax funds for children's  education.

Lastly I'd like to say some people so much fizzy that they start having diabetes and obesity so you would have. To spend more government money for the hospitals in New Zealand  to try and get rid of diabetes and obesity out of other people's bodies.

Hieroglyphic narrative

This is a narraitve that I have done recently.

Vans peril

Once upon a time there was a little boy called Van. He was obsessed with Quail chicks. Which looked like the girl of his dreams.

The week Van went to the zoo with his Grandmother he wanted to see the big scary lions. Just before they got to the lion exhibit a vulture flew by and grabbed Van's basket. Which was full of quail chicks. But Van held onto his basket firmly and flew off with the vulture.

The only thing that was holding van on was his quail chicks.  Three hours later. Van started see to an island on the island he saw even more lions, but these ones were wild. There were more vultures circling around a few dead lions. Van held onto the basket for dear life, as the vulture nosed dived straight towards the dead lions.

“Oh crap” whispered Van to the quail chicks as they descended onto the lion carcass. Van quickly scrambled away from the devious vulture that kidnaped him.

Later that day van started to wonder what happened to the quail chicks then it hit him (literally) a wall of quail chick guts went straight at his face. Just as he looked up he saw the vulture staring holes into his head. Then turned around excluding the pressure then he saw it the most beautiful pirate ship he has ever seen just on the coast of the island. Manning the ship was quail chicks and van saw the woman of his dreams.

The End

My 2016 calendar art

Global Warming

Make a change to global warming

Global warming is a major environmental issue affecting earth. Global warming is the temperature increasing to the extent that will eventually overheat the earth due to all the gases.

One of the many problems today that causes global warming is factories. Factories produce so much smoke and gas it is just horrible that people are working in some factories have put a hazmat suit just to walk through to get to their cars. That amount of smoke and gas is terrible for the environment it goes up to space and creates a larger heat trap which rises the temperature which impacts on different environments and crops.

The greenhouse gases co2,Methane and nitrous oxide are creating a thicker greenhouse gases layer which is trapping heat from the sun. Smoke generated from cars is called co2 that adds to the thick layer. According to Climate Kids Nasa, if there are changes to the land, air, plants, animals or energy from the sun, it can’t change in one place without changing something in another place.

The ozone layer is the only thin layer compared to the greenhouse gases layer. UV rays are cutting through and penetrating the ozone layer causing more and more to heat to come through.

I'm talking about global warming there are other bad causes like cold weather no one wants to go through an ice age again but global warming is might what cause the world explodes.

In conclusion, The thicker layer of greenhouse gases traps more heat. This results in an increase in average temperature of the earth and the earth the becomes hotter and hotter. This is called Global warming.

By Cole Phillips

My Father's Day writing

This is my Father's Day writing that I would like to share to the public.


Dad this is my favourite moment with you.

Getting ready for target shooting. Just me, my dad, an empty field and a bunch of targets. We started off close then we started to move farther and farther away from the target. I got 1 bullseye out of 30 shots.

Dad the reason why you are the best Dad in the world to me is because you help me with anything that I can't do you will never let me get my confidence down. Your dad jokes are nothing but terrible! Thank you for your enthusiasm for everything that I achieve.

Love Cole

Big holiday in Queenstown

Wednesday the 24 I arrived in Queenstown New Zealand with my family.

As time went on during the holiday I remembered all the ups and downs of  skiing. We went on Coronet peak on my first day of skiing I fell over 16 times. I went on all the chairlifts to the mountain. My favorite slope was the M1 because I got to go to the top of the peak and swivel my way down the peak on every slope.

Near the end of the skiing day me and my sister have a good snowball fight against each other

 There was a lot of fun activities to do in Queenstown one of my favorites one of my favorites was the ice skating rink.

 At the Ice Arena the ice skating rink I fell three times and did the splits once.

My information report about France

France

France are competing in the Rio Brazil 2016 Olympics and have lots of facts that I would like to share with you.

France is bordered by Belgium,Germany,Luxembourg,Switzerland,Italy and Spain. France is on the west side of Europe and is in the northern hemisphere.
The French currency is 1 euro.

The French flag is red white and blue vertical lines.

In the French capital Paris, is the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre which has the famous painting Mona Lisa. France is the most visited country in the world, with over 80 million visitors every year.



France has a lot of good things about it but they have terrible environmental issues. France has acid rain which looks like this

Haiku poem

   Ice age ice age yay

Collision course again yay

That was awesome yay 

Cole's finger spelling video

This is my name in finger spelling hope you enjoy

Adventures Of Cole And Jacob ...

Last week we created a pick a path story and it took a while hope you enjoy.

Me and my friend Jacob created a pick a path 

My Freyburg experience

In the holidays I took a trip to Freyburg which is on tremain ave.During the trip me and my little sister did voice recordings,we did 30. When we got to Freyburg my little sister and I played on the aqua run every time I gave her a 7 second head start and always won.


After I beat my sister 8 times in a row so I did 8 flips underwater in a row.There was to Japanese teens who got kicked out of the pool for swearing at random people and both of them pulled a bomb. When your not allowed to.

Swimming Sports

Swimming Sports 

Yesterday it was swimming sports and I was in 4 events  this is what i did  25 metres freestyle,25 metres breast stroke,50 metre freestyle,100 metre medley the medley is a four 25 metre lengths race. With butterfly first backstroke then breath stroke and last freestyle.



I won all of my races two of them were non-championship the other two were championship which is where you win certificates and medals. I won two of my championship races so i get two gold medals signed by mr kennedy its just a stamp. Takahe my team group won the surfboard races and came 2nd over all.   

Favourite place to learn in GRi11 2.0!

GRi11 2.0 has a variety of spaces through out the classroom.

My favourite space in GRi11 2.0 is the Hub because I can talk to my friends and the space isn't enclosed but I'm not claustrophobic. There are big windows to look out of them and see what other children are doing on the quad.

I also like the Hub because you can do all your tasks are in one room. People know what their doing so you can concentrate. Some people are irresponsible in the other rooms sometimes, like in the Hideout they talk and In the Hall of Fame everyone just wants the spinney chairs.

My swimming life

My Swimming Life


My life has changed a lot from my swimming. When I was younger I had asthma which is when you can't breathe very well and you start coughing badly. Every since I started swimming my breathing improved so I can run further. I have more control over my breathing. Now i'm enjoying life better... Much better.

The effort you need to put in to be good at swimming

I at least do two hours a week. But my training pays off when I get to race in public.

GRi11 2.0 at Sixtus Lodge

Three days ago GRi11 2.0 went to Sixtus Lodge in Apiti New Zealand. 

One of my highlights were horse riding because it was my second time.The first time I rode a horse I wasn't allowed to steer. So the Sixtus experience was quite nice considering I got to steer the horse called Les. 

My second favourite activity was the river walk which went through two glow worm caves and through a slit because I got quite wet and it was the first time I got hurt on camp. 

Me during free time ready to catch ball.