Climate Change March

                      Climate Change March

On the 24th of May, Te Waka Ako marched down Queen Street to protest about Climate Change. We also brought some signs we made during school to wake up the Government. First, we got in to our groups and then the teachers gave us some orange beanies so when we get lost it would be easy to find us. After that we finally went in the bus and off we went to Queen Street. When we got to the city everyone was singing "Hey Hey Hey Ho Ho Climate Change has got to go!" As we were singing people were taking lots of videos. There were a lot of people at the march like parents, children, adults, and also high school kids. We took a break and sat down and had some food to eat. As we were eating, lots of people were walking around and looking at other people's signs. When we finished our food it was time to march down Queen street. As we all walked down Queen street everyone was shouting our chant. After about 2 minutes everyone was telling us to lie down and then we were lying down for about 1 minute then we got back us and were still walking as soon as we got half way we went back up and it was time to go back to school. The End.

Pink Shirt Day

                                                       Pink Shirt Day!
We put messages in random peoples letter boxes so that if there getting bullied we could cheer them up. We posted messages all around our school Waikowhai Primary. Some people called our school and was talking about how they liked the messages we sent to them but one person was talking on the phone and was very emotional

On the 17th of May, it was Pink Shirt Day. The hole Senior Syndicate went around Waikowhai Primary and were posting letter that say positive things on them. Everyone in the senior syndicate made 3 positive cards and some students made more for posting in random letter boxes. 

My Narrative

Last term, on week 8, the seniors wrote a narrative about a picture we chose to write about. I think my narrative is really good. I chose the diving picture because it looked really cool if you were up there because you would see such a nice view and I also picked this picture because the way they were jumping off the cliff looks really interesting. If you would like to see my narrative click the link. Link                                                         

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.