Moana Mana with Wellington East

 

We met up with Wellington East students who shared their learning with us. We knew a lot about it because we are learning about it too. We discussed what it would take to make a marine reserve. 

Charlotte and Soma: On Thursday 29th of June we went down to the boat club and met some girls from Wellington East Girls and did workshops with them. We learnt about paua and its threats like Kina and Starfish. We learnt that Starfish suffocate paua by putting their arms on the holes that the paua use to breath through and then suck up all the paua inside. Kina harms paua by eating all the same food as them so the paua has nothing to feed on. Some of the workshops we did were a quiz about paua, some colouring in, we did memory and word search.

Marcia and Scarlett: A small group went down to the boat club. We met some wellington east kids and they had workshops for us to do. One of the workshops was colouring in starfish. Another one was a memory game where we needed to match sea-related photos. A word search and a match game and a fill in the blank. We did a paua quiz that was very easy. Before all of the workshops they showed us some videos and photos. They were about the differences between a marine reserve and a non marine reserves. They also wanted us to help make worser bay beach a paua hatchery and a marine reserve. They showed us Worser Bay beach and other beaches that are marine reserves and that worser bay would have more

Tech Leaders - Positive Purpose

We are the Teach Leaders. We are helping to manage devices and are helping other students with computer skills. This is developing our Positive Purpose.

Within the model of positive education, positive purpose is defined as understanding, believing in and serving something greater than yourself and deliberately engaging in activities for the benefits of others.

This will help us: 

- initiate contributing to others in the school community 

- develop a sense of responsibility to the world and a commitment to helping others develop leadership

- organise and implement activities for other students 

- develop agency with an increasing amount of self-direction 

- develop communication skills.

This is us helping the students in Autahi to share their learning on Seesaw. 

Swim Sports 2023

Swim Sports was hard work!

Marlon: ‘Ready,set , clap!’ John’s hands slammed together. I jumped off the side and dived into the pool! I kicked and gracefully swung my arms around in circles. It was the 50m freestyle race. The size of the pool was 25m long so we had to do 2 laps. 1 lap done 1 do go. ‘Slosh’ the sound of water leaking into my goggles shocked me! I shut my right eye and kept swimming. When I got to the end of my first lap I stopped for a second and fixed my goggles. Nearing the end I saw someone getting close to finishing. I speeded as fast as I could and just overtook him to become 3 place!

Fabian: I was getting into the spray pool and Ethan was counting to 20 all of us swam off and played tag. We were playing tag for about half an hour and then we had to go to swim sports. Some of my friends went to the competitive races. There were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. I didn’t do competitive but I did do the fun races they were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, dolphin diving,  mermaids, stingray, doggy paddle...

Leo M: “Ready, set, clap” I dived in I was kicking like my life depended on it, my heart was pounding, my head was aching I was almost done the first lap, but I was tired I just gave it my all. I was very tired from freestyle. I didn't stop. I was 4th in the 50 metre. 

Ethan Q: Swimming sports was fun, I sat on the bench and watched the 50 m races then it was our turn. John clapped and we were off. I dived into the pool we swam super fast I did my normal 3 strokes and breath but when I got closer to the end I breathed every 2 arms. I reached the end and I was super happy.

Gigi: Swim sports was super duper fun because we got to do different things like breaststroke, backstroke, dolphin dive, free style, stingray and wheelbarrow. Stingray was a bit hard so I had to turn up my bravery and perseverance. It was hard but I made it to the end.

Miniball: Eastern Zones

Rézi: Miniball was really fun and tiring. The first school my team versed was Seatoun A, and the second was Miramar central or St Patricks. We lost to Seatoun 4 - 12 or something close to that. It was still really fun though! We lost the other two as well, but when we played against Kilbernie school wich was kind of close but in the end they won. We had another match against a different Kilbernie team, wich was really close at the start. At one point it was 3 - 4 us losing and we felt a big burst of hope. We gave it our all, and it paid off. We didn’t win that either but it was a really good game. Super fun!

Jasper: It was Thursday 22nd of June, the miniball tournament. We were sweating before the game.
First up: Seatoun : 16-4 (to them) it was a bad loss but we kept going on 4 games later. We kept smiling!
2. 8-4
3.10-4
4.17-7
5.21-6
Then we all slumped down into the car then I remembered something. Today it was Thursday, our miniball practise!

Marlon: “Beep,” the timer started. Game on! The referee chucked the ball in the air. Zen Jumped but the other team already had the ball! We had coloured wristbands and so did the other team. We could only mark the player on the other team with the same wristband as us. I had the colour yellow. One of my friends in the other team was the one that had the yellow band. A person from the team came running up with the ball with a teammate on his trail. “Clank,” the ball flew into the hoop,over and over. “Clank,” we scored. The yellow wristband dude came running up. I jumped to try and stop the ball, but It went flying over my head. “5,4,3!” Monty chucked the ball but it missed short! “2,1!” The game was over.

Marigold: What makes good sportsmanship? Good sportsmanship is when you work as a team, pass to everyone and show kindness to your team and the other team too. If the other team wins don't be a sore loser, say good job to the other team and says thank you to the couch and ref . it is to be inclusive.

Monty: What makes good sportsmanship is showing leadership, saying good game at the end of the game, and being a role model.

Regular exercise has lots of health benefits for ākonga, such as:

- improving fitness
- providing an opportunity build and enhance Positive Relationships
- increasing concentration
- improving learning focus
- enhancing Positive Accomplishment
- building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
- encouraging healthy growth and development
- improving posture and balance
- enhancing Positive Emotions
- encouraging a better night's sleep

Marine Investigations

Some of us have been working with a marine biologist, Sally Carson. We have been investigating our local intertidal zones and putting the data together. We are presenting this information on posters. We have some wonderings about what humans are doing to the marine environment and would like to take action to look after it! Watch this space... 

Kyran: Marine Investigations
We went to the beach and did our meter squared. We found some crabs, sea anemones, mussels, seaweed, limpets, and sea stars. We made some cool digital models of our metre squares. Then we worked with a marine biologist named Sally. We made posters of what we found at the rock pools and we talked about how sea creatures survive. Also we looked at our models. We had a good time working with Sally.

Rézi: When Sally came in to talk to us about our 3D models, and to encourage us further in our learning around MOANA MANA, I was really excited. Honestly when she came it was awesome.When she came in she started demonstrating how its better to live in the lower intertidal zone than in the splash zone if you are an animal that needs water to survive, because then they can be fully covered in high tide when otherwise other animals like crabs don’t need to have seawater to survive. We played a game called survivor where we were all crabs and Sally gave us scenarios and we had to make the right choices. I was in the second to last group to fall out. Afterwards we had to make a graph around all the things we found in the marine meter squares. After morning tea, we played another game. Here we were holding pieces of paper, and the smallest animal had 2 pieces of plastic, then they got eaten by other animals etc. In the end the shark had to eat the big fish, who were already loaded with micro plastic. The shark ate them and he was full of micro plastic. We continued our posters and our graphs. She left after lunch. It was a great experience!