Friday 20 December 2013
Sunday 15 December 2013
Thursday 28 November 2013
Sunday 24 November 2013
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Monday 18 November 2013
Saturday 9 November 2013
Friday 8 November 2013
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Saturday 21 September 2013
The Ultimate Survivor.
On
December 12 1969 I went for a tramp in a hot and muggy jungle in Nepal for nine
days. On the first day I had to run down
a steep hill, but when I was running I tripped and lost my pack. I only had a knife, mirror and a spare shoe
lace.
Firstly
I went to find some materials for a shelter and also some firewood. I managed to use the last of the sun to
reflect off the mirror to start the fire.
It was starting to get dark and cold so I had get my fire started.
Secondly
I had to construct a shelter to sleep in overnight. To make the shelter I had to find a good site
that had a branch hanging over a flat dry spot. I placed sticks against the
branched and then covered them with leaves and more small sticks. My fire and shelter were done, now I had to
find food and water.
I
remembered that I had a spare shoelace so I made a sneer to catch some small game. Now to find water, there were no sources of
water. There was a lot of mud though and
I made a filter with some bamboo, charcoal from the fire and a bit of fabric
that I cut off my shirt. I shoved the
charcoal into the bamboo, wrapped the fabric around the top and used it as a
straw.
I
slept well. The next day I went to check
the snares, I got small hare and I
skinned it on the spot with my knife. I
took the meat back to my shelter and fire pit and cooked it. This was the first food for two days.
In
the middle of the day I saw a helicopter in the sky. I used my mirror to signal it by reflecting the sun between my two fingers
to the pilot. When the pilot saw my
signal it landed near me. I was rescued.
Thomas
Barrett-Walker
Friday 20 September 2013
Thursday 19 September 2013
Wednesday 18 September 2013
Saturday 14 September 2013
Friday 13 September 2013
Saturday 7 September 2013
Friday 6 September 2013
We are so proud of you.
Dear Students in Room 6,
You have really amazed me over the last 5 weeks. You have taken on board the Senior students role within our school. Organising for the Disco, coming early to "serve" the younger students and then showing them how to socialise and have fun. I look forward to seeing your skills put to the test again when you begin your organisation for our effort for the Mission Fair.
I am thrilled to see how the Year 8 students(girls and boys) have really engaged with their learning across the curriculum. Your writing is showing such strength and promise, in Maths you are persisting and trying to find new strategies to problem solve. Developing your time management skills, to ensure extension assignments and class work is handed in on due dates, playing Sport with flair, skill ,determination and fair play, all of these traits will serve you well as you transition to your chosen Secondary Schools. Which ever one you go to; they are so lucky to have you.:)
Arohanui tatou
MrsParker
You have really amazed me over the last 5 weeks. You have taken on board the Senior students role within our school. Organising for the Disco, coming early to "serve" the younger students and then showing them how to socialise and have fun. I look forward to seeing your skills put to the test again when you begin your organisation for our effort for the Mission Fair.
I am thrilled to see how the Year 8 students(girls and boys) have really engaged with their learning across the curriculum. Your writing is showing such strength and promise, in Maths you are persisting and trying to find new strategies to problem solve. Developing your time management skills, to ensure extension assignments and class work is handed in on due dates, playing Sport with flair, skill ,determination and fair play, all of these traits will serve you well as you transition to your chosen Secondary Schools. Which ever one you go to; they are so lucky to have you.:)
Arohanui tatou
MrsParker
Thursday 5 September 2013
Wednesday 4 September 2013
Tuesday 20 August 2013
DREAM AND DISCOVER -LEARNING AREA:CAREERS EDUCATION
Today we had the pleasure to welcome Mr and Mrs Scott members of our school Parish, to our class. They came to share their knowledge about their business with us. Yesterday we did some laying in of the learning prior to their visit. We learnt so much about bees today. Did you know bees have been on our planet for 65 million years..wow! This was such an interesting topic and thanks to the generosity of our guest speakers, we each got to take home a pot of beautiful organic honey. Mrs P ducked out at lunch to grab a loaf of bread so that we could each try the "specialness" of Manuka Honey, from the famed Scott Manuka City, in the forest of Hanmer. What a day, what an experience.
Thursday 15 August 2013
AND THE WINNERS are JACK AND SOLOMON WITH THEIR COOL EGG JEFFREY
The spring sun came out for the final part of our Challenge. Our "precious" cargo had to travel 5 metres in the air, and survive. It came down to just two teams. When Mrs Parker checked our materials, Ella and Meresia had used more than the allowed amount of paper straw, which meant Jack and Solomon ( and Jeffrey) won the "Drop the Goods" Challenge.
Well done to the rest of the class, you gave it your best!
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Monday 12 August 2013
ENCOURAGING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND AN ON LINE COMMUNITY
Please leave a comment, I am trying to encourage an online community through our blog posts, you can help! Leave a comment. For those families who have access to the internet please get busy, for families and students who have yet to get internet, come in and use the Learning Centre in the morning or afterschool. The students school wide are being taught digital citizenship. This is to give them the skills to post appropriate comments on-line. We would appreciate you taking the time to visit our blog.
Mrs Parker and the Room 6 students.
Wednesday 7 August 2013
Tuesday 6 August 2013
We are learning to hone our skills to become great writers.
This week we are reading and writing about phenomena, this weeks topic is The Northern Lights. Keep following our blog as we post our published explanations. To build our confidence and competence in writing we are working with a buddy, we each bring different strengths to the writing task that compliment each others skill base. The outcomes.. just you wait and see!
Saturday 3 August 2013
What an amazing transformation! And a superb concert item.
Today we celebrated our Feast Day at St Annes. Each class prepared a short item. I think the Room 1 puppets were fantastic, the Poem/Song by Room 2 was very jazzy and very cool. The song from Room 4 was brilliant, and the Room 5 students sang, played the recorder with style. However, I am slightly biased when I say this, the Room 6 students performed and sang beautifully, thanks to all of the class for putting yourselves OUT THERE! arohanui kia katou MrsP.
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