Lots of kids fell over and hurt themselves.  I was running near the senior playground and I saw a kid on the monkey bars and he fell off.  I was near Room 11 and all my friends fell over.  Then we went to the field and my Mum came and took me home.

On Tuesday 22 nd February there was a earthquake it was a 6.3 most people were crying on the second one some were crying on the first one. Some parents came to see there kinds. Zoe was crying I was not crying dad was on his way to get us but got stuck in traffic […]

I felt scared but my friend Lucy was with me.  I didn’t like the aftershock and we made our way to the back field and mummy came to get me.

I was playing in the sandpit when the earthquake hit. I ran my fastest onto the court and I did my turtle. After the earthquake we had to line up and the teachers had to count us. We went to the multi-purpose room and the teachers gave us food and we did jump jam and we watched […]

When it was the 6.3 earthquake I was waiting with Lorenzo outside the library. Suddenly the earth shook. We ran to the court and did a turtle. When it was finished we lined up in our classes. Then another 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit. We went into the turtle again. Lots of the kids were scared. […]

On Tuesday we went  swimming at kings swim school.  when we were on the bus going back to school the earthquake happened. The bus driver told miss pattson to tell the kids to be silent so that the bus driver can hear  the calls coming from the earthquake people.Then miss pattson told us we had an earthqauke but we […]

When the quake struck I was in the blue tunnel… it fell down with me in it. My brother went to the art centre then back to school. The earthquake struck and the Art Centre fell down. My house is a mess. At my school the War Memorial fell into the pool, it cut some […]

I was a home at the time because it was parent teacher interviews. 6.1 was scarier because it was only 5km deep and the other one was 50Kms deep. I was screaming. Me, my mum and my dad thought that we were going to die. My sister was thrown side to side in her cot. […]

When the Earthquake struck I was at school and my best friend was screaming beside me.  Her name is Fanchea and we are best friends and next door neighbours. Two minutes after the quake hit our teacher, Pip Richie, sprinted out of the building.  All my school mates ran to her, even Fanchea.  She froze […]

When the earth shook everyone screamed and people fell off the table. Then the teachers told us to go on to the field, and then my mum came. We went home and my Nana came and helped to clean up. We had dinner and we slept in the lounge. The next morning we packed up […]

At school when my friends and I just got out for lunch, Olly and I saw the ground shaking. We asked, “Why is the ground shaking?”, but Olly said, “it is an earthquake!” and everyone was screaming. Olly and I were really freaking out. A teacher called Pip Riches took the children to the field, […]

It all started when we were at risinghome I had finihed my writing class so I was waiting for my family outside I saw them comeing so I went to the van they got there just after me we got into the van and we got our seet belts on accept my mum who was […]

“When it happened I was freaked out! I was at Risingholme and I was in the van. I was smashing into the seat. My baby sister Janaya was SCREAMING! The van was smashing into my Mum. We needed to get our brother because he was at kindy. We saw powerlines hanging down from a shop. […]

“If an earthquake happens we go under the table. We were in the car when it happened. The van shaked and I was holding onto my seatbelt. A big flood was everywhere!!!!”

“When the earthquake hit we were at school ,our lights were shaking , we had to be turtles on the mat and then under our desks because it wasnt stopping.” “The ground was shaking, it was really noisey, We were all really scared , Mrs Parker was really brave!  our class bookstand and the toys all fell on the […]

I was sitting outside and the earthquake happened.  I felt nervous when the earthquake happened.  I ran to the quad.

A few days ago there was a HUGE earthquake. I was in the cloakroom and it just started shaking so I ran outside so the roof didn’t fall in on me (which it probably wouldn’t) and I made a turtle. I felt very scared. It felt like we could suddenly feel the world going round […]