Cleaning Up The Beach

On Thursday after athletics, we went to clean up the beach. At the beach, we had to put on some gloves. We walked across the beach searching for rubbish. Lots of people found rubbish at the beach but I didn’t. Once we finished cleaning up some of the bottoms of the beach we went up to a higher place because the teaches thought that there might be more rubbish, and there was. Liam and Jack R found two corona beer bottles there in the sand. I learned that our beach is really clean I really liked it when Liam and Jack R found the beer bottles.

How much rubbish can you find in a day at the beach?

My Amazing Passion Project

 At reading time the green group have been doing passion projects. To find the passion you had to find one on a news site. I picked the mars rover. Then you had to get a template of your passion and put it in. We write down lots of stuff about the passion. I’m pretty sure that we learned this because we are going to do it later this year. I learned how to make passion projects.

Did you know about passion projects?

Cricket Kids

We have been learning about how to play cricket. The people that taught us were Cameron and John. We learned to play continuous cricket, also how they bowl. To play continuous cricket you have one wicket and one bowler. There is a team of fielders and batters, in the bowler's team there's a backstop and bowler, and you can bowl whenever even if the batters are not at the wicket. You have one hit each for the batter then pass it to another person. We learned that because the cricket tournaments are coming up.. I liked it because it was fun and I like playing cricket.

Do you like to play cricket?

Jobs

At the start of 2021, we had to sort out jobs for the class. Some of the jobs were peer mediation, bikes, P.E shed, and gate duty. We had to do at least one of each job. Peer mediation is where you walk around the school and someone will come to you if there is a conflict, then you would sort it out. When we have to do bikes we go over to the bike shed and take all of the bikes out. The P.E shed is where you go to get the P.E gear and give the people who want P.e gear, but you need a P.e card to get them out.  For gate duty, we stand at a gate and open it for other people coming into the school. 

Did you know about these jobs?

Adventure At Clued Up Kids

 Last week on Friday Kereru and some of Piwakawaka, went to Clued Up Kids. Clued Up Kids are teaching us about safety drills. Safety things we did, was about trains, fire, earthquakes, safety around your house, Saint Johns (Hospital), a person from Search And Rescue, safety around quads, and horse safety. We did a rotation. Some people did each station. We spent 15 minutes on each one.

My favorite was the fire workshop, for that they blew up the inflatable house and we had to crawl through it, there was a map of the house there, I did it in somewhere around 5 seconds. For train safety we had to look at a video that showed what would happen to your car if a train ran into it, so you have to stop not the train, also it takes about 30 seconds for a train to stop. For the earthquake drill, we just did a drill, and the girl there also told us what we needed to in case of an earthquake. For the safety around your house, they set up a fake house, we had to spot problems on the fake house, like clothes over a heater, and other stuff like that. For the Saint John's one, we got a buddy that we worked with, we had a fake knife and put it on our arm and our buddies will bandage it up, we took turns. For the Search and Rescue, there was a police officer and a search and rescue person, they talked about stories about lost people, they also talked about staying where you are if you're lost and some of the gear that they use to find lost people. For one safety around quads, he told us we had to always have to wear a helmet, and to ride an adult quad bike you have to be 16+. For the Horse one, the girl there talked about safety around horses, they had a horse that was trained so it won't get scared. She said not to shout around horses because they could kick you or mush you, and if you were biking behind a horse call out then pass, we also pet the horse. Clued Up Kids was very fun.

Do you know all the safety things?