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!

Climate Change March

Hi there bloggers!

On Friday the 15th of March me and my friend Noah (check out his blog here) 

went on the Climate Change March to support student action on climate change.

We saw lots of cool signs on the day and even one that said fossil fools complete with pictures of Donald Trump! My sign said: I want a future! Act on climate change now!

Unfortunately some supporters needed reminding that there were kids from primary school's because there were quite a few rude signs. We arrived at about 11am and started marching at about 1pm.

Here are some pictures from the day.

That last picture was taken from the 2nd floor on a Double Decker bus.
The day was pretty cool but it was really hot by the end of the march. There was a statue in the middle of the rallying point with his hand pointing up and some people tied a big sign to his arm to make him look like he was protesting. I think that there will be more marches until the world understands the importance of acting on climate change. If there is another protest in my area I will be protesting!
Blog ya later!

Getting to know you

Hey bloggers!

Welcome to my first post of 2019!

We have all been making getting to know you forms to get to know everyone in our learning environment a bit better. My GTKY includes subjects like what I like, who my friends are, what I don't like and my family background.

Take a look!   

 Here are some things I like:

I like basketball and play it every Thursday for the Auckland Central Cougars.   

I like reading (a lot!) and try to read for at least 1 hour a day.  

My favourite thing to do in my free time is play Fortnite (A video game made by epic games).

Here are some things that I don't like:

I used to play the violin but I had a teacher that was more used to teaching teenagers then kids like me and I didn't learn much, after that I had another teacher but by then I already disliked the violin so I quit and started playing the piano.

I don't like fast maths because I'm not good at keeping up with the numbers.

I like sports but apart from basketball and football I hate playing competitively unless it's with my friends.

Thank you for reading my first blog post of 2019!

Blog ya later!   

    

Summer Learning Journey: Week 1, Activity 1

Hi guys! 

Today is the first day of the Summer learning journey. 

We have to find 3 interesting facts about New Zealand from the Tourism NZ website.

Fact No. 1

Dairy farmers produce 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese each year for each person living in NZ

Fact No. 2

30% of NZ is covered in forest! 

Fact No. 3

NZ is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire and its most active volcano is Mt Ruapehu 

Those are my 3 Facts on NZ.

Blog ya later! 

Christmas Mufti

Hi bloggers! 

Last Friday our school had a mufti day where we could come to school in Christmas themed clothes. I came to school in a Santa hat and a Christmas sweater. Half the school came in Santa hats! It was a bit warm to wear my Christmas sweater in summer though.

We didn't do much Christmas themed things but we did jump jam in our costumes though. The Christmas Mufti was to raise for Christmas hampers for people.
Blog ya later!