I was having a rest when the earthquake happened. I was awake in my bed and the toys fell off the table, I just watched them fall! Some blocks fell onto a bed, but noone was on it, that’s a bit lucky! Then teachers told us to get up and helped us to get dressed, […]

When the earthquake was about to strike I was outside by the office with Reagan . I heard the rumble at first and then it began, so I threw my self under Mrs Dini’s desk it felt like it went for ages.:-\ .Then it finely finished . Then the bell rang a minute after the […]

When the big earthquake hit, it was quite scary.  I was at school, we had to go onto the court and turn ourselves into turtles.  I felt safe in my turtle, then we got to sing songs until my Dad picked me up.  I was so happy to see my Mum and Dad and my […]

On tuesday the 22nd of february I was outside on the playground when the 6.3 earthquake hit. I fell off the class porch and pulled my friend down with me then we all had to go to the field where nothing could fall on us. Strangely enough when my mum and dad came we managed […]

Tuesday the 22nd was an ordinary day at School, when suddenly disaster struck! Children were playing happily on this calm, greyish day – enjoying the fresh air. Then out of the blue, the ground below our feet, started to rumble and tumble like a wobbly jelly. Instantly, we all dropped to the ground like turtles […]

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 […]

On Tuesday the 22nd of February at lunchtime I  was just going to get a drink from the cloakroom with Espen, then all of a sudden there was a whole lot of shaking I was just waiting for it to stop assuming it was another aftershock, but it didn’t stop, the shaking got stronger and […]

On Tuesday the 22nd of February 2011 I woke up to find that it was raining and we were in our second day of challenge week (that’s where instead of going on camp we do daring stuff) so I thought that today’s activity would be cancelled (beach education). I got to school to find that […]

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 […]

When the earthquake happened I was scared. It shook while we were at school paying on the playground. Everyone dropped and covered their heads and the teachers came out to sit us all together. Some of us cried and wanted our mummy. We got picked up early from school and found broken things and glass […]

On the day of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake I was at home eating my lunch because I had an earache  and my mum had to take the day off work.’ When it struck, I was sitting on the chair eating a cup of noodles…… BAAAAAMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! The earthquake shook like I had never seen it before […]

Hi my name is Cherie and I go to Hornby Primary School. I am a student in Room 3 with Mr Scott. Mr Scott is a nice teacher, and his wife had a baby just after the earthquake.  I was at school when it happened. We were playing outside, and were just about to go into our classroom.  Some of my friends were […]

When the Earthquake struck on Tuesday 22nd February 2011 my class was having lunch inside.. I was leaning over a bin peeling my mandarin.. Some of my class had finished & had gone outside to the play area.. It felt like a huge monster shaking our school.. Everyone in the classroom scrambled under desks.. the […]

When the earthquake happened I didn’t know why everyone was running and screaming because I couldn’t feel it at first. Then I felt it. I knew it was an earthquake and when I ran to my classroom there was liquifaction all around it. It was flooding. I was a bit scared. Then we went onto […]

In the earthquake I was crying because I wanted Mummy.  Afterwards we were waiting in another classroom and the teacher let us watch a movie, there were two more earthquakes while we were in the classroom.

Before the earthquake happened I put my lunch box away and went to wait for my friends, and then I felt the ground moving and rumbling, then I made a turtle.  The teachers came running out and came to check on the kids.  The earthquake bell rang and we went down to the court.  I […]

“Me and my friends were playing on the playground, me, Eliza, Evelyn and Lauren then the, the, the, rumbling the tumbling the crashing the bashing it was all so scary but then it stopped. We needed to go to the field so we did but on the way I started to cry. We saw big […]