Gumboot Friday

Gumboot Friday

Last Friday was Gumboot Friday. All of the teachers were wearing Gumboots to raise awareness of

mental health. Also some of the kids were wearing Gumboots too. What we did to be positive is that

we made special cards and we went to random houses and we put one card in any mailbox we want.

One of the students in my school thought of the idea of making cards and putting it inside of any mailbox. This Term our topic is Hauora-Well Being and if you are suffering from bad mental health then you 

won't have good well being. In my opinion about Gumboot Friday is that it is really good because if you

have good mental health you will feel good about yourself, but if your not Mental Health is not good  then

life can be hard. It is really important that we raise awareness of mental health.

Tread Lightly Caravan

Today the Tread Lightly Caravan came to visit our school.
They came to our school so that they can teach us how much people litter and to show us how to stop people from littering.
First we went in to the Kowhai room, And they asked us a question. They asked how do we get oxygen. Lots of people said lots of different answers like trees, water and a lot more.
We went to the caravan so that can learn and then we can teach others.
We all got 9-8 people in 3 groups and there was 3 stations to.The first station we went to was the caravan they gave us some bottles full of trash and in the caravan they had thing like drains, toilets, the rubbish bin, the sink, and lots more.
What we had to do is we all had a turn to try and put the bottle in the right place.
We had things like paint, trash, diapers, oil, and more.

One thing I learned 

To always put the right Rubbish in the right bin.
 

Christchurch Special Assembly

Christchurch Special Assembly

Friday on the 15th of March something terrible happened in Christchurch. If you don't know what happened in Christchurch there was a gunman Shooting people at Al Noor and Lynn Wood Mosques. But luckily the cops caught and arrested the gunman. He is only 28 years old, he had been preparing to shoot the two Mosques for 2 years. This is really rare this has not happened in NZ before. In school we had a Special Assembly. We made cards to show that we care about the people who died. We also went outside in front of the shade house we planted a Kowhai tree, That reason why we picked the Kowhai tree is because it represents our school. In school we watched the live feed of the Christchurch memorial, there was a famous singer called Cat Stevens that came up on the stage and sang a song for everyone who died. It was called Peace Train. Remember Always Respect Each Other. 

Te Waka Ako's Senior Syndicate Treaty.

This year we made a new Te Waka Ako Senior Syndicate Treaty.

We made the treaty this week on Tuesday.

Miss Daly made the Syndicate treaty in Te Waka Ako in the class Waitemata.

We made the treaty so that everybody could listen and also behave in our school and with our property. Everyone in Te Waka Ako Signed the Syndicate Treaty to respect each other and behave. Miss Daly has been spending hours making the Syndicate Treaty. I have learnt to sleep properly and get lots of energy to come to school and answer lots of questions.

What I will do next time is to always answer questions and be curious.

How I will improve this is I will always put my hand up to answer and ask questions.

2019 Cameron Pools

This week we went to Cameron pools. My swimming teacher's name is Rachelle.
She was really nice and showed us lots of new skills. She showed us how to float on our back
and on our tummy we also learnt to do Dolphin Dive, get out of the pool and get in the pool safely.
We also competed with girls against boys and do arm strokes. We pretended to fall down in the water and start floating for five seconds on our back and tummy.

We had so much fun.

Football Trials 2019

This year I signed up for football. Dave and Mr Rattenbury are teaching us football trials.

We all were wearing bibs. The first colour was red and the other colour was green.
We had about 7 people in each team. We always do training like we do passing saves and shots.
I've always wanted to be in the football zones we haven't picked the teams yet but there is always 7 girls and 7 boys in the football zone. We only pick people who pass at school and have lots of accuracy.

Dave our coach tells us to never give up he says when we fall down to get back up.

See ya blog you later.

Summer Learning Journey

Today we had Summer Learning Journey and Megan came in we found about it in the blue space. and in the yellow space we played a game of Kahoot and the three winners get lollies.
We also did a task there were only 4 pages but the three people who finish first win lollies.

The 2 reasons why I would like to visit the country Canada is because you could do lots of things there like could go on a hot air balloon and there are a lot of good houses there for you to live and this why I picked the country Canada.