READCYCLEREAD

Last Thursday we had two visitors come to school, Julian and Milly Read.  Jay (Julian) is Mrs Read's Brother in-law. What was so special about these two people were, they have just arrived in New Zealand from cycling all the way from London. They left in March 2018 and arrived in New Zealand just a few weeks ago.They visited 24 different countries and have cycled 15000 kms. We asked loads of questions about their trip like what challenges they were faced with, how many haircuts did they have, what animals did you see, what type of food did you eat and what the most scariest moment was etc. If you want to find out more about what and where they are click on this link http://readcycleread.bike/ .

Whenua 2019 He Waka Eke Noa

This is our Waka, it explains who we are as individuals and who makes up Whenua (Our Class).
First we had to research about our Whakapapa, then explore what symbols were important to us, our family and culture. We then had to draft our hoe (paddles) until we were happy with our final drawings, then we published them. We also included our 4Cs and the Blue Penguin as this is who we are at Paroa School.  He Whaka Eke Noa " We are all in this together."

Highest Flag Pole Challenge

On Thursdays the Year 6s have their Technology Challenges with Mrs Hofman, while our Year 7s go to Tech at the local high school. We had to create a stable flag pole that would support a flag that we got to design. We got to use A4 paper, tape and colouring pencils for the flag design. For the pole we had to use newspaper and tape. I wonder what challenges we will be faced with this week...

Animated self portraits using google draw.

We had a lot of fun learning about how images we use from Google have to be acknowledged, and how the best images to use in our work are those we have made ourselves. We had a lesson on how to use an image (of ourselves) and use the polyline tool to draw around the image and make it our own. It was very tricky using the poly line because our faces are not square so we had to be patient and do lots of starting and stopping with this tool. These are a few of our self portraits and we hope you will go onto our blogs to see the rest of our efforts. If you have ever used this skill, we would love to see your examples.