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Muriwai Camp Fun Times Challenging Ourselves 

What an amazing bunch of girls we had on camp this year. They all got out there and had a blast, challenging
themselves and managing themselves with Integrity and Respect.

Wild and Wacky Wheels Day

The Friday before camp as a final fundraiser, Waikowhai School held a Wild and Wacky Wheels Day. Room 9 helped with the organisation and also 'played' a great deal. We had bikes, unicycles, scooters, skateboards, trolley boards, roller blades, remote control cars and toy cars. For those without wheels there were stilts to master and moon hoppers to enjoy.  There were lots
                                                         of skills being shown off as well as being picked up new on the
                                                         day. Our biking training earlier in the year was being put into                                                                  good practise.

                                               

Toby could do all kinds of tricks on his bike and taught the other bike students a few things.

Zoe successfully managed the stilts with her friends and races were set up.

The new school trolley boards were a great success as they could create a train of children, be rolled down the hill, used liked roller skates and spun around on.

                                      

Houghton's Bush Camp at Muriwai

 Room Nine along with Rooms Seven and Eight headed out to Muriwai for 4 days. The weather buffeted and blustered and blew, but the students rose to the challenge of doing it all in the wind and rain, thunder and lightning, and still had a great time.  They showed perseverance, bravery, integrity and respect to the peers and the adults that were responsible for them. Many pushed boundaries to achieve success. A huge ka pai to them for making camp so much fun.

                                                                   We walked Goldie Bush Walkway from Horseman Rd off Bethells Rd to Constable Rd near Muriwai, checking out the waterfalls, crossing a cool swing bridge and tackling a multitude of steep stairs going down and then of course rising back up. The following day we headed to the beach and the Gannet nesting area. On our third day we used the confidence course at camp, went orienteering and created bivouacs. At night we tackled the Burma Trail hidden in the trees with and without our torches and held a camp concert.                                                    

We have so many photos and experiences to share with our families and friends over the next few weeks.

Bullies and Warriors

Izzy really listens to the criteria she is given and tries all sorts
of new skills on her Chromebook. She has created her
own images, all of which are relevant.

       A great book to read the class is Bullies and          Warriors by Tim Tipene. Especially with                Bullying awareness Week coming up. Room          9 are really enjoying it and have done some          work around the characters and the Warrior          Kids Rules. They created posters that                    contained the rules of Warrior Kids from the          story and a little bit on what the story is                about. They also wrote Personal Responses          to the story.
     
     Izzy liked that .....

Mark now gets on well with Sean.
Sean didn’t listen to Apihana about fighting Mark.

 

Caroline is always thinking about how she treats
other people. She has Integrity. 

The criteria for being a Warrior Kid  


The story made Caroline think about .....

The story made me think about how other children in the World might be bullied.

 

Telling someone you can trust what is happening

 

Always being there for someone even when they are out and down(Not like APIHANA!)

Kayci has really applied the story to her own thinking.
She also took a photo of the book cover. 

Kayci doesn't like .....

• Mark was bullying Sean.

• Apihana said something not nice to Eric and Eric said something not nice back.

• How Apiana is rude to someone if they say something not nice to sean or do something that hurts sean.  

 

          Joyce has used lots of images to create effect.
          Can she use these images? Are they credited?

Joyce asked these questions ......

• Why did Mark decide to be nice to Sean when before he was always bullying him?

 

• Could our school get a Warrior Kids class?

• If we had Warrior Kids at school will lots of people want to sign up?

It made Joyce think about .....

• If we got a warrior kids class should I go and sign up for it

 

• If I got bullied by someone and I had to verse them for a wrestling race would I feel scared?

• If I went to warrior kids would I enjoy it?

 The students also linked the characters in dot to dot connection charts. There were many many links they could make between all the characters, but here are a few. Mark and Eric are the 2 bullies, Sean and Ravanesh and Apihana are good friends but the bullies pick on only Sean. 

         Then Warrior Kids comes to the school.

Looking Back on the end of Term One.

I have finally had a chance to read some of the ramblings of my students on what they got up to while I was away and thought I would post some on to our class page. It was fun reading back. Now I need to catch up on all the other work they did and saved to their drive files!

Kayci .... Room 9 has had a short week because of Easter. Ms Sands is on a trip to Paris for a marathon so, Miss Ikinofo is going to look after us while she is on her trip.This week with Miss Ikinofo we have been doing drama and learning how to use our body while we are moving. We also got to go to the hall to see a man called Reine, he used to be the ambulance person called Sam on Shortland St, he is also a director. He has a nephew at our school, his name is Joseph but his uncle calls him Jojo.He is Tongan, half Samoan and I think Cook Island. I was so lucky because I got to shake his hand while me and Charlotte were getting the Duffy books from him.

Dora talked about a visitor that came for their Duffy Assembly.

Last week a very talented guy came in to talk to the school about reading I bet you can’t guess who he was? Renee…. I don’t know his last name, is the ambulance driver called Sam in Shortland St. He has also Directed a really famous movie.  He was also a script write, he taught us that we don’t have to be like anybody else. Renee said that as a child he grew up in a poor neighbourhood but he loved to read Roald Dahl books. His fav was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, at the end he handed out the books I got Ransomwood and Jane Eyer!

Izzy wrote about Narrative Writing....
Writing has been very fun so far. We are planning about a narrative that we are going to write. By the way I looooooooooove narratives. People do ones about the family pet being stolen, but I think that is a bit boring.(no offence) So I am writing about a girl called October that, gets arrested for a crime she did not commit. Mine is a mystery story. I enjoy writing emotional mystery stories. It is fun!! By the way I consider mine quite emotional. Wow I just loooooooooooove narratives. I probably already typed that but really, just think about it who cares!  My favorite bit about narrative writing is creating characters and bringing them to life in my story. Narrative=Fun Fun and more Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Antonio talked about all the activities he was involved in.
Last week on Friday, we did drama and we played some drama games. We had a Duffy assembly and we had a special guest from Shortland Street and his name was Sam. Also  on Thursday, we had a netball session and I did softball training. We had a meeting and our Coach had mentioned that we will be vs other teams in Pool B and they will be very hard, but I know that deep in my heart we will win this Softball match!



Max talked about a huge Working Bee we had the day before I left. 
Some of the seniors did a huge clean up of the ‘itchy’ bush that we have at our school. It got so hot and cold, it was strange weather, but it was so worth it as it looks great. Toby, Tiakiwai, Joshua and me made a pathway down the bottom and then we made one more but we didn’t do it right so we had to put all of it back.  It took so long, it took so long I got blisters. When we were done, it looked like we had done nothing, but if you saw how hard we worked then you can comment.This is something we did not want to quit on yet.

Nice work people, you are really enjoying using your chromebooks to write your ideas down. Next to check out those narratives!!

Term Two has arrived!

Well, we are all back in school for the second term, with Ms Sands back from her travels to Europe.
We have a busy term ahead with...... more chromebook learning and starting our own blogs, camp out at Muriwai, a Wheels Day fundraiser, soccer and hockey zones, testing-testing blah blah, a Student Teacher joining us, Running Club starting up, School Production starting up, Art for next terms Art Show created, Leadership and Peer Mediation and Librarian and Back Track commitments, Friendships to build and Integrity to consider.

We are creating the word INTEGRITY for our wall, with our photos montaged onto it.
More pictures of the finished product later. At the moment this is a slideshow of our wonderful members.  goog_1058827143

We also spend time each week reading with Room 4. Check out the photos on their Class Blog.

     Room 4 @ Waikowhai Primary School