Keeping Ourselves Safe Program

For the last 2 weeks room 15 have been learning about keeping ourselves safe.We have been learning about the positives and negatives about YouTube, Gmail, chatting to someone online that you don't know, snapchat and facebook. We also were learning about different types of abuse such as sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and mental abuse with the police officer constable Jacob. Room 15 also watched a video about cyber abuse. The most challenging bit for me was coming up with all the different types of abuse. The most easiest thing for me was the positives and negatives because you can do cool things and learn cool things. 


Written by Anthony  Edited by Troy

Making Material Bags

Room 15 are trying to reduce the amount of plastic so we came up with making material bags instead of plastic bags. We decided to do this after we did the waste audit. When we did the waste audit we found 33 kilograms of rubbish in a day,and a school found that in a week.

First we went and made some paper bags as some ideas. Then when the material came we finished the paper bags and started making material bags. The trickiest bit about material is it flops over a lot and you need special scissors to cut it, but you can cut it with normal left or right handed.



Written by Anthony  Edited by Troy 
    

Waste Audit reflection

On wednesday the Tui team went out on the courts to do a waste audit. The first thing we did was spread out a tarpaulin and put boxes with name tags on them.Next we put on some white powdery gloves on and helped put the rubbish on the tarp.Then we had a look at the rubbish to see what we saw then we shared what we saw on the tarp.Then we lined up in one big line and went in a circle and picked up two or three things and put them into the correct box.There were things like bottles, paper, plastic bags, soft plastics, plastic food bags and many more. When we finished we found 33 kilograms of rubbish in one day and a school found that amount of rubbish in one week. Now we are motivated to make honey wrap(beeswax wrap) so we can replace glad wrap. We also are making material bags instead of plastic bags (soft plastic bags).
written by Anthony Edited by Troy.

Camp Karakariki 2017

Camp Karakariki

In week 7 and 8 the year 5 and 6 students went to Karakariki Christian Camp. We did fun and challenging activities like rock climbing, swimming, caving, bmx riding,air rifle shooting, archery, kayaking, energise games and many more! We also hiked to the freezing waterfall and swam. Some kids were brave enough to jump off the waterfall. My favourite part of camp was rock climbing because I pushed my limits by abseiling down a huge 10 metre wall. The most challenging part for me was swimming in water where I couldn't touch the bottom with my feet. Luckily we had done swimming lessons as school before hand which helped train us for a situation such as this.I would recommend camp to people who are adventurous and wanting to push their limits. Camp Karakariki is the best!

swimming sports

On Friday room 15 , 4,7,8 and 3 went to Te Rapa pools for swimming sports.There were races like backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and a whole lot more. When we got there, we got changed into our togs;some of us were already in our togs under our clothes. When we were seated we started the races. Lucky for me I didn’t come last in every race like last year. A lot of people came first ,second and third I only came third once which was in the backstroke width. The last race was relays. There were 10 people out of 4 teams. The ten people were split in half so there were 5 on each side of the pool. When the clapper went they started the race. Room 15 came 3rd in the relay.

By Anthony

Tabloid sports day

On monday The whole of vardon school had Tabloid sports. There were activities like parachute, There was sack races , There was the bean bag throwing, There was run to fill the bucket up with the sponge There are many more activities in Tabloid sports. at the end of tabloid sports there was the holey great... TUG OF WAR. The team who win the TUG OF WAR gets remembered forever and get the house shield. Nagta go bateern go rutherfud go hillery.By Anthony 

Athletics day

Last week on Friday the middles and seniors had athletics day. There were sports like, throwing, shot put, energise games, relay races, 100 metre sprints, 200 meter sprints, and 60 metre sprints.

It was a sweltering hot day. My favourite part was shot put because the balls were really heavy and I'm a good thrower. The 100 metre sprint was really hard because it was such a boiling hot day. 

For the energise games, there was an activity where we had to throw these rainbow fish balls to a partner. We also threw a ball at a bouncy net and had to try and catch it.

At the end of the athletics day we also had a syndicate relay race. There were 4 classes competing and each class has a group of ten people. They were then split in half and sent to opposite ends. Once the clapper went you had to sprint 50 meters to the other side and run around your group and hand the batten to the other person. You keep on doing this until everybody is finished.  Room 15 did really well and managed to beat Room 14 and win the senior relay race!

By Anthony edited by Poppy 

Fair testing

Currently Room 15 are conducting an experiment. Here's what we did: First we planted some grass in yogurt contains.
       Then we made some coffee and tea and got some Hot                       water,Coke,Tap water, and some oil

 We decided that we would keep them growing for two weeks being fed every morning a tablespoon of liquid. Currently Coffee,Tap Water,Tea and hot water are growing best. We found that when we poured coke onto the plants the carbon dioxide would fizz and make a hole in the dirt. The question we want answered for this experiment is What liquid is best for your garden? We cant wait to see how this turns out.

By Anthony Edited by Poppy