Mt Ruapehu Camp

Hi Bloggers!

Every year our school hosts 1 major event.

Last year that event was production and this year it is... Camp!

Guess what?!

We leave for Mt Ruapehu for camp tomorrow!

We will be away from our parents for 3 nights and 4 days!

I feel a little bit nervous but mostly excited!

This will be my first time skiing so I can't wait to get up the mountain! 

We had the choice of going skiing or snowboarding and since snowboarding is meant to be considerably harder I chose skiing.

We have to be at the school by 7:30 in the morning so the bus can leave at 8:00.

I think that the hardest part of the trip will be learning how to ski because I have never skied before and it will be an interesting experience learning how to ski on the mountain.
I think when I get back I will be confident and tired but mainly happy just to get home.
I will be doing a blog about the camp when I get back!

Blog ya later!

Holiday Narratives

Hey there bloggers!

For the last 2 or 3 weeks we have been writing a narrative about our holidays.
I know that doesn't seem very exciting but we got to exaggerate what happened.

For a lot of us exaggerate meant write something that didn't happen at all, such as the ground cracking open or being in a car crash.

We had to pick a bit of our holiday to write about then exaggerate it.

We used all the same people that were there with us on the holiday but different names, for example if your mum was named Susan then your mum might be named Jennifer in your narrative.

My story was based on the time in Malaysia when the GPS told us to turn down a one-way road and when we turned all the other cars were facing us.

Here is a paragraph of my narrative:

Link

My favourite part was probably being able to exaggerate everything because if I wrote what really happened we just backed out of the road, and no one wants to read about that!

Blog ya later!

Squash

Hey there bloggers!

Every term at our school we are lucky enough to try out a new sport or activity.

This term our sport is...

SQUASH!

Squash is a game very similar to tennis, they both use a racket and a ball except the ball is really small and made of rubber.

We all got to try playing with our partner. The highest score for biggest rally in our class was 22.

This is what a Squash court looks like:

We played on a court smaller and not as high.

2 people stand on the same side of the wall and they have to hit the ball at the wall making it bounce to their opponent.

The top line is called the outer line, if you hit over it you are out.

The middle line is called the serving line, when the ball is served the ball has to hit above the serving line then after that you can hit anywhere in between the bottom and top line.

The bottom line is called the tin line, if you hit below hit you are out.

Blog ya later! 

My second ever climate change march!

Hey there bloggers!

You might have gone on a climate change march recently.

If you did you might have seen a big group of people with bright orange beanies.

Guess what?

That was us!

On my earlier march on the 15th of March just me and my friend Noah, (Check out his blog here: http://wpsnoahb.blogspot.com/) went without our school. But the teachers decided next time that there was a march our entire syndicate would go to!

So we did!

Since we were one of the first groups to reach Aotea Square a couple of us, with parents there, got interviewed by some news people!

Noah and I both got interviewed but we were really nervous.

The people running the march said that we were going to do something called a lie-in.

We would walk along the street and every few minutes we would lie down and stop traffic. We did multiple lie-ins and clogged up traffic on queens street for over 1 hour.

We did a lie-in so that then government would pay more attention to us and act on climate change.

Here are some pictures from the day:

Blog ya later!

Choir Rehearsal

Hi there bloggers!

Today our school choir walked down to Hay Park School to do their first rehearsal of the year! In case you don't know every 2 years a big group of schools choirs attend the APPA choir where we all rehearse some songs that we sing at the Auckland Town Hall in November.
Here is a picture of the Town Hall:

Today 7 of the schools (Including my school!) went down to Hay Park School to do a rehearsal. 

The schools that came for today's rehearsal were: Waikowhai Primary, Hay Park, Hillsborough, Mt Eden, North Coat, Arahoe and River dale.

We met Mr Lambert who is the principal conductor this year for the APPA choir.

We sang lots of songs including In Winter, The Moon, Rockin Robin, E  Te Tarahiki, Eye Of The Tiger, Ke Manuia Te Aho and we started a song called Les Miserables about the french revolution.

Blog ya later!

The Great Vegetable SMACK DOWN!

Hey there bloggers!

Over the last month we have been doing inquiry on fruit and vege. 

We were partnered up and we had to make a google drawing on a vegetable of our choice. I chose Bok Choy. We worked on our google drawing for a couple days and haven't really paid attention to them since, but then the teachers said...
We will be doing a vegetable SMACK DOWN! 
We have to talk to our whole class about our vegetable using the google slide. Our talk has to be under 2 minutes but not too short.
Here is my google drawing:

I think it will be really cool to learn about other vegetables and fruits in the presentation.
I chose Bok Choy because I sometimes eat it at home.
I will update the blog when we finish!
Blog ya later!

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!

Blog ya later!