‘My story’-Amber, 9, Halswell School

I was eating my lunch and you guessed it…another earthquake ahhhhh! I collapsed on my feet and I didn’t know what to do next, everybody got under the desk, so I did too, it was very scary .The teacher said lets go and have a look at the field when the rumbling stopped. The field […]

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The earthquake was scary.  I was scared.  It made me sad inside.  It made some people die.  Some peoples house are broken.  My and Jack’s school was broken down.  We can boil the water.  All my family are safe.

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‘My story’-Xanthe, 7, Halswell School

When the earthquake happened I was inside the classroom. Then we went running outside and huddled round Mr Jack. Mrs Woolford came running to the classroom and we had to run to the field. Then Millie’s mum came to hug us. We waited a bit then my dad came to pick me up. My dad […]

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I was busy eating my delicious peanut butter sandwich. Then the ground started to  shake, it was freaky in one way and scary in another. I dived under my friends desk, by the way, my friend is called Sam. It shook and I cried for Mum. We raced to the field where the whole school […]

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My and my friends Josh, Travis and Todd trying to get the cricket wickets off the kids who were playing Ninjas outside my classroom, Room 17. When the earthquake happened I felt dizzy and people were trying to get into the classroom, but we had stop at the steps because they were shaking too much […]

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‘My story’-Kendall, 6, Halswell School

When the Earthquake started I was having lunch with my 2 friends in the classroom. My friends where scared but I liked it. We all got under the table, then our teacher came in with room 10 and we all went outside and gathered on the field. Mum turned up to take me home but […]

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‘My story’-Fraser, 5, Halswell School

When I was in the classroom with all my friends we heard the Earthquake and we went out to the field. I was really scared but my teacher made me feel better. Mummy came to take me home. I was happy to see Mum.

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When the Earthquake happened I was at school.I was a little bit scared because it made the room shake. We all went under the tables. The bigs kids who were with us shouted “Go under the tables”. We all went under the tables then, my teacher came. My teacher said “BREATHE IN and OUT 3 times”. […]

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‘My Story’-Jake, 6, Halswell school

When the 6.3 earthquake happened we got under the tables. We lined up outside and Mrs O Callahan led us to safety. When I got to the field I got scared because water was coming out of the ground.  I felt better when I saw that the water was not going to rise above the […]

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‘I was scared’-Harry, 7, Halswell School

When the earthquake struck I didn’t know what it was until it started shaking really hard then I knew what it was. I was scared, there was heaps of liquefaction when the 5.6 struck. We were on the big field we were all cuddling together.

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I was watching my friend Callum on top of a rubbish bin, I was on the stairs by room 15, then I felt the ground shacking, I got off the stairs and did the turtle by a crack that had been filled in from the September quake, the crack was opening up a little and […]

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‘My story’-Bridget, 6, Halswell Primary

I was out side playing when the earthquake happened, so I ran to Miss Medlock (Teacher), we huddled up together then walked on the field to make sure everyone was safe. Then we did the roll so we knew everyone was there. When we were on the field my feet got wet as the liquefaction […]

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l was in my classroom eating my lunch when the earthquake happened. My friend Emma said get under the table she asked me do you think that was an aftershock. l said yes  Miss Medlock wasnt threre she was in the stafroom with the other teachers. We all ran out of the classroom and Miss medlock came […]

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I was eating lunch at my desk and I thought the earthquake was a giant!  And I got under my desk and I was scared and I was crying.  I did not like the shaking.  My teacher, Ms Moran, was at home sick that day and I just got off my chair when the earthquake happened.  […]

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‘My Story’- Jessica, 7, Halswell School

When the earthquake shook, I was at the Christchurch Hospital in room number 7.  I was with my Mum and my brother. We huddled together in the corner of the room and then we had to evacuate the hospital and sit in Hagley Park.  After a while we got in the car and went home. […]

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‘My story’-Alice, 11, Halswell School

When the quake hit I was walking back from seeing if we had to do wet day monitoring. I was standing on the decking in front of our classes with 3 other girls. It was really scary because one of the girls screamed & we went underneath the railing to the path.  We had the classrooms […]

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Everyone laughed at Nathan and his funny movie he had made on the computer. When everyone stopped laughing we felt the rumble of the earthquake, we fell to the ground as the ground shook. Then we crawled to the closest desk and got under it, The drink bottles were falling to the floor making whacking […]

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