NZ Writing from School Kit

We have had a busy two weeks completing our task for School Kit. Part of this project was to collect various things around our school to put on a poster to send to another school, this took longer than we expected as everyone has different ideas about what the best thing at our school is. We had to fill out google forms to make sure we had the majority of responses on our poster.

Another task was to write a poem titled 'I am..' using metaphors, this was very difficult in the beginning but once we got started we couldn't stop. Here is the slide to view all our poems, hope you enjoy!

Senior Class 2017

Welcome to the Senior Class, 2017.
We have been very busy already this year with competing at Small Schools Athletics and many of us making it to South Otago Athletics. A few of the seniors even made it to Southland to compete.
Our class has done lots of awesome art work already, it has all been based around what makes us special. 
The first art task was called circular art we had to create a piece of art work in a shape of a circle - 3 different aspects to show how we belong

• something we like doing,
• something that links us to NZ,
• something that links us to where their family has come from.

 

We also completed some awesome word art using words to describe ourselves and people and things special to us.

         

Our self portraits were created using words about ourselves, we wrote sentences, took a photo, traced around the photo, then wrote words on top of the lines to create our masterpieces. We think all our art looks pretty cool and our classroom is bright and colourful.

            

School Science Expo 2015

Yesterday we hosted our first whole school Science Expo and what a huge success it was! Each class had science demonstrations happening, the Junior room had interactive water cycles, clouds in a jar, droplets on coins, floating paper clips and wind vanes.

The Middle class had a good range of experiments and investigations and the students could talk about the science happening in their experiment such as the chemical reactions happening in Magic Milk, bubbles in a jar, how optical illusions work and an invisible jar.

The Senior Class also science demonstrations in their class, they included experiments such as seesaw candle, densities, powered boats and vibrations from a speaker causing movement.

Eight students have been selected to participate in the South Otago Science Expo being held at Kaitangata School next week, they will share their science and get to learn from other students across the district.

Science Expo

15 September 2016

On 15 September we held a school science expo, there were groups of two throughout the school who did a display of a science experiment to middles, Juniors, parents and seniors. I was partnered up with Laytun and we did our experiment called ‘Balloon Kebabs’ where you push a kebab stick through a balloon but you have to make sure that you do it in the right place or it won’t work because the rubbers too thin. It works because the point of the skewer is being protected by the thick rubber at both ends of the balloon so it goes right through instead of popping at the sides.

Check our this link to see it in action:

Balloon kebabs

Written by Shaun

   

Yesterday on the 15th of September we had the 2016 Warepa School Science expo. Everyone from the school was included even the Juniors. We split up into pairs and chose a science experiment to do then we wrote up what we did, how we did it and the science behind it.

The whole school split into two groups - group A and group B. Group A showed their science experiments first while group B looked at other people’s experiments. Then at 1:45 we swapped over. Everyone had amazing experiments and we all had a fun day!

Written By Evie

Camp Reflections on Goals

Camp Wanaka Goals 2016

I think I was successful in achieving my goals: like learning how to ski and being able to go down McDougalls or Skyline without falling over.

I also had a lot of fun on camp with the camp parents teachers and my peers. I managed to not lose anything and had everything where and when I needed it. My last goal I think I achieved the best because I learnt a lot about the weather went and learnt how weather has a massive effect on Wanaka and different companies and their jobs.

By Keeley

Camp Reflection

Outdoor reflection:

I learnt to ski and I did not die.

I had heaps of fun snowboarding, the snow was really powdery and deep. Rock climbing was great, we got to climb up a variety of different walls and once we got to the top we let go and the lowering system let us down.  

Relationship Reflection:

I got to know my classmates better because we had to sit at different tables and beside someone different each night at tea time.

Responsibility Reflection:

I did all of my jobs really well and I organised my clothes for each day and didn't lose any belongings while at camp.

Education Reflection:

I learnt heaps about the weather and how it affects jobs, air transport and search and rescue.

By Callum

Camp Wanaka Goals 2016

I was successful in achieving most of my Camp Wanaka  goals but I did not get to the top of every climbing wall, but I attempted them all with great confidence. I made excellent connections with my classmates that I would not usually make connections with because we got to spend so much time together and also we had to play musical seats at tea time, sitting beside different people each meal. I did not lose my clothes apart from my goggles but Mrs Wilson found them, thank goodness. I did not sleep in AND I went to sleep at an appropriate time.  

I think that I participated in everything with effort and great confidence.

I definitely have a greater understanding of the weather systems now. The talks really helped me understand that.

By Isla

Reflection of Camp Wanaka 2016

With my outdoors goal, I was to get a hole in one but it didn’t happen, instead I got a hole in two.

My relationship goal was to learn something new about the people in my bunk room, I did learn something new about them, Tom snores but I do to so it doesn't matter, and Lukin is afraid of heights.

My responsibility goal was to clean dishes properly but I didn’t do the dishes, instead I put them away in there cupboards.

With my educational goal was to have a better idea of the types of helicopters. I learnt that there are different types of helicopters for different weather and rescues.

By Vaughan

My Personal Camp Goals Reflection 2016

My Outdoor goal was to be confident in all activities. I achieved this because even though I didn’t do many activities I still participated in all. I enjoyed everything I did and completed the activities.

My relationship goal was to interact with others and get to know people. I did interact with all my classmates, all comments may not of been nice. I learn’t a few new things about my classmates like what they like to do. but not a much I had thought.

My Responsibility goal was to participate in all duties. I tried to be involved, so I put away cutlery. I still called that helping and I did my part for the group!

My educational goal was to learn about how the weather affects the people in Wanaka and their jobs. I learnt that all the jobs that involved flying are affected by the wind and cloud. At the search and rescue the cold, rainy, snowy and icey weather affects the rescue.

Leah

Camp Wanaka 2016 - Reflections

We had a action packed week of fun, adventure and challenges in Wanaka for our School Camp. On return we made a class presentation called ABC of Camp Wanaka, check it out below.

Clip and Climb - Camp Wanaka

On Monday 29th August we went to clip and climb for our first activity for camp. Everyone had a turn except a few parents and one child! Everyone had a blast!

There were two different types of climbing walls, one was called clip and climb and the other was called the sport wall. There were heaps of different climbing walls such as face to face, squares, rat race, checkerplate, spaghetti junction, zig zag and dark tower. We split into two groups and started climbing! Macleod got the fastest time on the rat race with 14 seconds! People found the zig zag quite easy at first but then it can get harder as you get higher up. We had some free time and everyone chose clip and climb. After that most of us got tired and we all came out happy!

By Leah-Marie

Hockey with Greer

On Thursday the 23 of June Greer our Sports Activator come to school to teach us hockey. It was raining so it wasn't the best conditions to be playing hockey in but we all survived and learnt a lot. First of all we played a game called snowball, where their was two people in and they each had a tennis ball and they had to run round and tag as many people as they could. Once you got tug you had to grab a tennis ball, then you were in as well. We done this drill to practice being light on your feet, agility and also avoiding. Secondly we done a passing drill were we got a buddy then done different types of passing. After that we did shooting at the goal then with a defender. Finally we played a game and it was a draw here and here are some photos.