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Examples of our Students work
Drawings of the model of the School Age 5
Age 10
Making Eco Bags Age 7
Age 9 Age 7
Writing about the Hyde Train Disaster
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ Hyde Rail Disaster Who helped ? A farmer heard the train crash, he ran 1.5km to get help. It was one and a half hours before the rescuers came. Some of the passengers were trapped in the wreckage for over six hours. The people in the back carriages also helped the injured passengers as much as they could. The farmer found his son on the same train. His son was killed on the train. Age 7
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ Hyde Rail Disaster Who helped? A farmer heard the crash and then saw it. He ran 1.5 km to get to it. His son was on that same train coming home from war. He was killed on the train. The people in the back carriages went down to the front of the train and helped before the rescue party got there. Age 9
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ Hyde Rail DisasterHow and why? The train crashed because the train driver was drinking alcohol. He was going too fast for a deep cutting corner at the speed of 112km/h. One of the carriages overturned a full length ahead of the engine. It had derailed 60 meters away from the train.
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Hyde Train Disaster.
Age 7
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ The Hyde Train Cash 1943. A train was going to Dunedin from Cromwell and it crashed just south of Hyde. A carriage was 60 metres a away from the locomotive. It was 1943 when it happened and it was 4 th of June.
Age 8
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ Hyde Rail Disaster How and Why? The driver crashed because he had been drinking alcohol. He was going far too fast around the curve. He was going 112kms on a 48km curve. Just before the accident the passengers were being thrown around in the train and parcels were falling from the rack. The train derailed.
Age 9
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On the 4th of June 1943 a train from Cromwell was going to Dunedin. It left the rails at 1.45 pm. It crashed on its side while going round a curve South of Hyde on the Central Otago line. 
