Student Toolkits!

Talofa Lava bloggers! 

On the 28th of may some students were selected to go to Student Toolkits! Student Toolkits is a annual event where some students from the Ako Hiko Cluster (5 schools from the local area) meet at one school. Some students are picked to make a slideshow and present it to some other students that choose to go to that session. The slideshow can be of anything that was digital and fun from learning how to program spheroes to making a poster on canva.

The school that was hosting it this year was Hay Park school

Me and my friend Noah (Check out his blog here http://wpsnoahb.blogspot.com/) were picked to present a slideshow to a bunch of people (33 to be exact). We decided to do it on google slide animations.

Here is our slideshow and a few pictures from the day:

The day was really fun and exciting. They were having a bake sale to fundraiser for their camp and they had like the best chocolate cake ever! My favourite bit was probably presenting and then seeing what people made with what we showed them!

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Pink shirt day!

Hey there bloggers! 

You may recall in my earlier post about gumboot Friday that we went around the neighbourhood posting positive cards in peoples letterboxes. We did it again!

Did you know that it was Pink Shirt Day last Friday!

Pink shirt day is a day where everyone supports anti bullying so we can have a bully free world. On some Pink Shirt Days we bring in gold coin donations, but this time we had cardboard cut outs of shirts! You might be wondering how is a cardboard cut out better then a 270 dollar donation? Well this is what we did: we wrote down positive quotes on the shirts before colouring them in (Preferably pink). Then we wrote on the back: Supporting mental health and a bully free New Zealand.

Please repost into a random letterbox after you have enjoyed this message for as long as you want!

Here are a few pictures:

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Literacy and Numeracy tumble!

Hi there bloggers! 

Oh never mind it's reading time. Ugh!

Well That's not happening anymore! The Senior syndicate recently started doing... (drum roll please) Tumbles! We have a Numeracy tumble and a literacy tumble. We basically just have 2 different slide shows (One for maths and one for reading and writing). We have 3 different areas. Must do's - We have to do them before the end of the week, should do's - things that we don't have to do but we are expected to do them and could do's - things you could do in spare time. 

Have a look: 

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Term 1 Narratives

Hi there bloggers!

Welcome back to term 2! Hope you had a good holiday!

In term 1 we wrote narratives based on picture that we chose from a few the teachers gave us. I chose this picture: 

My narrative was about a man named Martin Sheller and I could tell you more but then you wouldn't read the narrative would you?

I really like writing narratives because I can use my imagination to make up whatever I like. 

I hate writing in other forms (especially recounts) because it's really hard to make exciting. My narrative was 1640 words long and had almost over 9500 characters!

Here is the link to my narrative: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UrkqAeS-BiMTN4KAvD0hPNTVRrjGlNnZpKzPmgg3I7s/edit .

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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