Wellington Camp Reflection

Wellington camp

As I climb I can feel my hands slipping off the plastic rocks. I am hanging backwards and clinging on for dear life. As I grab onto my rope I hear the professional rock climbers yelling out to let go of the rope and hold onto the plastic rocks. I start sweating really bad. "My arms are killing me," I think slowly. I take a big leap to get to the next plastic rock. "Go Bella, you can do this" I hear my friends shout. I concentrate hard on their words as I heave myself up to the next plastic rock as I try to build up my grip. I take another leap and find myself where the hook that you need to unhook is. I am trying to keep my grip but my hands keep slipping. I want to take a break but I think "You can do it Bella. Just remember what your friends said." I take one more go and then start thinking "I'm really tired my arms are dying and I wanna fall asleep and rest," Then all of a sudden I shout out "Could you please lower me down." "Are you sure." I hear back. "Yes, I'm positive." "If you wish." I hear again. I put my legs out and feel myself getting lowered down till I'm sitting on the floor. I stand up and while I'm unclipping the harness I say "I'm definitely going to have another shot at the overhang next time I come up to Wellington!"

This is the overhang that I climbed on. I have no pictures of me climbing it though and that's not the full overhang cause it goes higher but it was still really fun.

Self Portraits

Information Report about Paroa School

Paroa school

Paroa school is located on the West Coast of New Zealand and it’s a quiet small school.

Paroa school originally started in 1872 but it was unofficial then was established in 1876. The school started so kids didn’t have to walk to a different school in town.

Paroa school aims to be an enviro school by achieving a bronze medal.  Paroa school is about 50 meters from the beach and they sometimes have beach clean ups because it plays a big part in the school values. Paroa School also have school committees which are sports, events, 4cs and toki these are important because it gives the students an opportunity to be leaders. There is also Tackle Patrol to help students to play on the field safely and Team Tuakana to help students on the playground and court.

Paroa school is made of 152 students 40% girls and 60% boys there are 18 staff the school has 8 classrooms and a school library where the school reads books the school also has a hall where where the school plays games and has assemblies. The school also has 2 playgrounds one for the juniors and one for the seniors the school also has a massive field.

In summary Paroa School started in 1872 and was established in 1876 the school is special to the community because they get to come to fun nights and help out on school camps and help the students. The school also couldn’t run without the PTA which helps raise money for the school to buy more resources.

By Mack.

The Current Composting situation

Whenua's Goals

This is a slide about our goals. At the beginning of the term we created our learning and personal goals, that we wanted to achieve for terms 1-3. We will then reflect on our goals and make new ones or keep exisiting ones for the rest of the year. After our Student Led Conferences we created a google drawing that presents our goals. They are displayed in our classroom.

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."