Camp Slide

We worked in our camp teams when we returned to school to complete a slide about our experiences to share with our families at assembly. We hope you enjoy looking at all the fun we had!

Get NZ Writing Kit

This term we have been involved in a writing task called Get NZ Writing, we were posted a package that had a variety of tasks in it for us to complete for our buddy school. Our tasks were to complete a poster all about our class (some random information was needed like how many people can lick their elbow or waggle their ears), and we also had to complete postcards titled 'I am..' and were based around metaphors. 

Today we received our mail from our buddy school 'Tunohopu 1' from Rotorua Intermediate. We have enjoyed reading their poems and finding out about their class. We also got some special gifts from them, two woven flax flowers and some Tibetan Prayer Flags. We have had heaps of fun learning about the history of the flags and hanging them up outside our classroom. 

Thanks so much to Tunohopu 1, it's been fun! 

 

  

The photos below are our posters that we sent to our buddy school.

School Camp 2017

Last week we packed up and went on an adventure of our lives creating memories that will stay with us forever by experiencing many once in a lifetime opportunities. We have about 2000 photos to choose from, so many awesome things to do in Fiordland. If you ever get the chance to go to Doubtful Sound we recommend that you make sure you get there.

Here is a piece of writing from Lucy:

I stare at the water, waiting. I know I must be patient, but I’m starting to grow bored. The wind bites at my skin, and makes my hair seem like it has a mind of its own. I watch, annoyed, as the sneaky fish take it in turns to dart forwards and nibble the bait. But they all fail to get hooked. I jerk it up and down as they swim forward, but it doesn’t work. There is still a little bait on my hook. One fish decides to be brave. But it wasn’t the best option. It swims forward and tries to grab the rest of the bait, but i pull the line up at just the right time. The hook gets caught in its skin, and it then realises it's in trouble. It won’t give up without a fight. It begins to struggle as I pull it up. Water sprays my face as the fish comes out into the air. It flips around for a few seconds, then stops. I wrap my hand around the fish to get the hook out. I grab the hook and pull it. It comes out. I decide to let the fish live, and lower it towards the water. It decides to get payback and bites my finger. I drop it in surprise. Whoops. The fish forgets how to swim. I watch as it sinks to the bottom.

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