Gumboot Friday!

Gumboot Friday

Hey there bloggers!

In case you don’t know what Gumboot Friday is I will explain.

Gumboot Friday is a day where everyone is encouraged to wear gumboots in support of mental health.
Mental health is is about how
you feel about yourself, if you feel like you can’t get through another day and don’t think
you are good at anything that means your mental health is suffering.

But if you think that you are good at stuff and you are happy that means you have good mental health.
We wear gumboots because if your mental health is
suffering it’s like your brain is trying to walk through mud.

On Gumboot Friday we filled in a Healthy Puketapapa student questionnaire that asked us
what we could do to
make our community better and a senior named Neeve wrote that we could write positive
things on cards and put them in random letter boxes (Check out her blog here!).

So we did! On Gumboot Friday (The 5th of April) we made cards that said
random positive things or quotes.

My cards quoted Dr Seuss  and then finished with saying: Hope you have a….
Wonderful, awesome, amazing, epic, marvellous day!

After we made about 1 hundred cards on Tuesday the 9th of April, we went walking around the
neighbourhood putting the cards in random people's letter boxes!

This year our main Inquiry topic was on Hauora - Well being. Well being is your condition
and whether you are happy and healthy or if your sad and depressed.
We have already had someone respond saying thank you.
Please help out people with mental health issues and donate some money here:
https://www.iamhope.org.nz/donate.

Lots of awesome people have donated and just over 1 million dollars has
been raised for people with mental health issues.

This year the chairperson for Gumboot Friday is Mike King.
He was also voted the New Zealander of the year in 2018.

I think that we this was a awesome thing to do for us and our community.
We should keep doing things like this and hopefully other people will too!
These are the kinds of things that bring communities together and it’s
awesome that we can be part of that.

Blog ya later!

Senior / Middle School swim sports

Hi there bloggers!

On the 4th of April the Senior school and the Middle school went to Cameron pools to do our swimming sports. We do swim sports every 2 years and have around 27 - 28 races before we do house relays. In my school we have 4 houses: Kea, Tui, Ruru and Pukeko. In house relays the best swimmers from each year - Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 - get picked to swim for their house, one person will start swimming or dive in as soon as the race starts and as soon as they touch the other wall the next person goes until the finish. We had lots of fun on the day and my house - Kea - came 3rd unfortunately. 

Here are some photos from the day.

 

Blog ya later!

Tread Lightly Caravan

Hi there bloggers!
Today I am posting about the Tread Lightly Caravan.
The Tread Lightly Caravan is an interactive programme that raises awareness about things like pollution and climate change. One of the main focuses is on water and how we need to take care of it because without it we can't live and then the entire Eco-system would die. They visited our school today and taught us about drains and how if rubbish goes down the drain it goes straight to the ocean and fish, birds and everything else that lives in the ocean gets poisoned. We even learnt a rhyme: Only rain down the drain.
They even had a VR (Virtual reality) headset that had a video on where we could look around and it would change from place to place showing us the different islands. We saw a lot of rubbish and birds eating the rubbish before it turned to an underwater clip of you scuba diving and looking at all the plastic bottles that were underwater.
Here are some photos from the day.

Blog ya later!