Term 4 Reflection

Term four was a great last term at Wainui Beach School! We had Kapa Haka, Athletics, Inter-school Athletics and Culture City.  I think I would ask almost anyone at Wainui Beach School and they'd agree with me, that term four was an awesome term! For me, my favourite part of this term was Inter-school athletics, mainly because I was doing my favourite sport, High jump and that I came third out of all of Gisborne for my age. Athletics was fun doing high jump, long jump, sprints, ball throw and 200 meter sprints. 

The next event I'm going to be talking about is the Aurora program.I was lucky enough to be selected for the Aurora program. Only a few people were selected those people were Hunter, Charlie, Rylan and I . When I was there we got to go on the Waka Hourua and sail out to the middle of the bay. While we were on the boat the crew showed us how to bring the sails down, how to steer the boat with the rudder. I got to talk over the radio with the coast guards telling them when we started our trip and ending our trip.

 We went to the Aurora program twice, which I didn't know about until 4 days before it happened. The second time at the Aurora program we created an AR world showing what we saw on the trip. It was fun having the crew showing how to navigate by the stars, seeing the different parts of the waka and seeing how the waka worked! I won't really talk about kapa haka because I have a link to my kapa haka blog post that I made a couple weeks ago. It  was fun doing all these events in one term. 

Over all I think term 4 was a great term Wainui Beach School.

Marae trip 2019

The 12th of April 2019 We arrived at Te Poho o Rawiri our schools marae. We slept there for the night around about 9:am we had our powhiri to get welcomed on by the tangata whenua to the marae. As we sung some songs and they sung back and eventually the powhiri was finished.

Then we started doing rotations my groups first rotation was Kowhaiwhai/tukutuku panels basicly cutting out maori patterns and gluing them on to a long roll of paper. Our next rotation was playing maori games with koka Ngaire then we a lunch break . That's when we got told we were walking up kaiti hill when we got to the top of kaiti hill it was great to relax for a while.

 Around 7:pm we got our beds setup  then we had a kapa haka assembly type thing then had we had a rest and went to sleep. Day 2. I woke up tired but awake we got our bags and gear ready to leave then we ran and played games outside on the court. Breakfast came we formed two lines then people started to get sent off to have breakfast we had a choice of  spaghetti on toast or weet-bix some teachers went around apples and we milo.

Our first rotation on day two was playing hand-ball for a while. After that we weaved some flax with matua Nic we had morning tea we lined up our bags and stuff played around for a bit. Finally the bus came to pick us up and go back to school.   

Kapa Haka 2019!

Kapa Haka

 Wainui Beach School goes to the kapa Haka festival every year. We went on Wednesday 20th Nov. Not to brag or anything but as we Marched on to the stage our fans cheered as we slowly stood in  stepuniform... "Tu mai ra, nga tamariki!" Hunter slowly sung and ever so gently stepped forward one after another. We Knelt  down in a triangle formation as we all sung Te Kura O Wainui. Then front and second row went back into the middle at the front of  the rows where the boys

Squished into a small square we sung Haramai a Paoa followed by going back to our original spots on the stage. Then we sung Ka pioioi, Puria Nei And finally Utaina. The boys forward and the opposite for the girls to transition into the boys haka... "Kia mau!" Hunter shouted and all the boys got ready for their second haka the wainui haka. Once the Wainui haka was finished we got ready for our last haka Ka mate Ka mate.

"Ringa ringa pakia... Waewae takahia... " Hunter shouted and we started to do ka mate ka mate. After a great but fast haka the crowed applauded! After the haka we sung wainui e  then the girls marched forward. Finally we sung He honore to finish our kapa haka performance.

Once the performance finished I felt accomplished of what I've done...

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Cross country time!

So today we had cross country and it was fun. We started off walking to the track when we got there it wasn't long until the year six girls were called out the girls were about half way thru then the year six boys got called out which is the year group i'm in so I walked up to the starting line and 3... 2... 1... Clap!

All the boys started running I was around the front we ran on to the side of the road. Ran through a small line of pillars and completed a quarter of the track. Ran around to about half way in the track. By then I already had a stitch I ran over to a small car park up a small hill and down the dip up the hill and around I quickly ran over to the finish line and had another lap to run It was then when I felt a pain in my knee.

A quarter of the way through the pain went away the second lap went normally. Run through a small fence of pillars up the hill down the dip around and back and then finally I crossed the finish line get to walk finally was very relieving. 

Quick write #1

Every week we do four or less quick writes about various things. Our first quick write this week is a base sentence and we have to write six different base sentences.

Vocabulary

Every week we have about six words to find the meaning of  this week we had congregation, constellations, criminal, charming and chatting. Here is my vocab.

Term 2 reflection

Term 2 was great term with our retro tech focus and going to Museum of Technology! Hockey, E  village, soccer, Play Based Learning and just general learning! 

I'd say my favorite activities were... Art on Fridays, hockey, PBL and Tinker lab. Term 2 I'd say was the best term so far this year probably because we've only gone through 2 terms. I've enjoyed playing hockey on Wednesdays and Tuesdays. Also the shine cards amazingness is just enough to make the palms of my hands sweat and the excitement of seeing what house got the most shine cards during the week and term!

 I hope it gets better next term!