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.
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
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!
We are continuing to collect data from our local rock pools. In a recent trip we went exploring around the Seatoun Headland. It is a rich and varied environment and we found many species we hadn't seen before.
Who has seen a Brittle Star? Sea Cucumber? Baby Paua, zooming across the rocks? We have!
This is the Marine Metre Squared Project in action. We use the quadrant to set a boundary and then count and record everything within it. We need to identify the species as well. How many different kinds of limpet are there? Quite a few!
A small group of us ran there to be in time for low tide. After data collection and discovering what we could we then had to run back to school. We arrived back 3 minutes after 3:00! Everybody slept well that night.
Curious Marine Scientists in action.
And it was a perfect day!
Marlon made this movie about our visit to the Worser Bay rock pool
Our Learner Attribute focus this term is "I am Connected." Marlon and Tommy made a movie to see what we think being connected means to us...
Brindas School
Bonjour, how have you been doing sorry we have took so long to reply 😅
We are connected
We have been connected to nature when we were gardening and pulling out weeds in the garden and helping the plants. When the year 10s and Gabrielle came to help us. We were connected by being with the year 10s from Scots college.
Positive Purpose
We have positive purpose days on Thursday and Friday and an example of that is moving bark chips and sand for the juniors.
Letters
We have written some letters to you, Te Aro school and Zurich school.
The letters will be coming to your school in maybe term 3 or 4. We hope you reply.
Brindas School, We have been friends for so long now and we are happy to reply for the first time in 2023 and ‘merci’ so much for the video and see you later bye 😃😃😃
From Worser Bay School /The Star Gazers
Writing by Marcia and Ethan
We made this movie for our friends in Brindas School in France to say "bonjour."
We have also been connected to our teacher and friend, Jenny who lives in London now.
Otto: It was good to see Jenny today. We haven't seen her in so long. I wonder how it has been in London. We know that she has visited Porugal, The Netherlands and is going to Italy soon. I wonder how it has been in Britain. Is it similar to New Zealand?
Chloe: Kids at Jenny's school get told off if they take off their shoes. They need to wear uniforms. It was really nice to see her.
Fabian: It was good seeing Jenny. We sang to her. I wonder when she will come back to New Zealand to visit.
Rowan: Jenny, I want to let you know that yes, we are annoying John for you!
Gigi: I wonder what different food Jenny has had in the different countries that she has been to.
Zen: It was nice to speak to Jenny. We would love to hear her talk in a british accent and say something like "A bottle of water!" I hope we get to Zoom call again.
Jasper: It was nice meeting Jenny. I wonder what food she likes in England.
Amelia: It was really cool to see Jenny. We haven't seen her for 6 months. It was very exciting. I didn't want to leave the call as she has been one of my favourite teachers. I wonder what the kids are like at her school. I wonder if they behave themselves.
Soma: Jenny said that the coffee is not so good. New Zealand coffee is much better. She is drinking tea instead.
Amber: I really liked talking to Jenny, but I really miss her. I wonder if we can facetime again... I wonder what life is like in London.
On Thursday and Friday we enjoyed Positive Purpose days. A big thank you to the Scots College students who came to help out!
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
Some of us ran workshops across the school
Thank you for the movie, Tui
Some of us moved bark and sand to make the playground a better place
Thank you for making the movie, Tui!
Working Hard Movie
Thank you, Lexi
Tommy: We had positive purpose days and the first day we had to move bark and more bark but luckily we had some year 10s to help us move the lots and lots and lots of bark and now the playgrounds looks amazing. We also did very fun computer ICT jobs I would like more positive purpose days and I would like to have more time doing the computer ICT.
Marcia: This week was really fun because on Thursday and Friday we got to do gardening with John and the other year 5s. We went over the fence to pull the things off so the plants that we were growing had good sunlight.
Chloe: This week my plus was working with Beth for the zine committee on the Positive Purpose days. I liked lifting sand in to the sand pit also working on the whare at lunch and working with the Autahi kids. Positive Purpose days was really interesting.
Ethan Q: I enjoyed doing the workshop with the juniors and teaching them how to make the algebra puzzles. I enjoyed moving the bark chips and pulling stuff out in the garden. I enjoyed being in the ICT group it was fun posting different things on Seesaw.
Zen: This week I like doing paper airplanes for the little kids because they seemed to fly like one hundred meters in the sky and the little kids liked it. I liked doing Positive Education.
Soma: My weekly goal was using positive purpose by helping little kids with learning, participating in groups, challenging myself and focusing on my report to try to get it done. My favourite part of the week was when my brother came to school and helped us move the bark chips to the playground and sand to the sandpit.
Scarlett: I showed positive purpose by helping moving bark and I helped in the garden and I did work shops with people that I have never worked with before. When we were moving the bark chips it was very heavy but I got it done.
Locky: I was involved in positive purpose this week like building the whare. We picked up bark all the way for big kids. We finished it off in 2 days. We helped in the garden for a long time. We got really dirty but that makes it good. We’re putting in hard work I love putting hard work.
We were very proud of all of our students who went to Eastern Zones XC. They showed wonderful resilience and perseverance. A big congratulations to Charlotte who got into Interzones.
Eastern zones was very tiring. It is where year 5 and 4s run 2 laps of Scots College field against other schools in the same gender and year as us. Me and Soma were going at the same paste and we were sticking together. The order for Eastern zones was year 4 boys year 4 girls year 5 boys year 5 girls year 6 boys year 6 girls. For characters I dial up was zest, bravery. When worser bay school was waiting for their turn to run we were all saying Worser bay.
By Cara
Eastern Zone Cross Country was fun and hard because we needed to do three hole laps. It was very hard that may not seem that hard but the laps were long. Everyone ran so fast. It was very hard to keep up with everyone because everyone ran so fast I was very nervous at the start but it is kinda cool because before we started I was very nervous but when we started after about the first lap i started to get very very very very very very very very very tired but i tried hard and eventually got through it and came 44th.
By Tommy
The hooter went off. I shot like a bullet. I couldn't believe my eyes when I was coming first. I rounded the first corner trying to get a big lead as I went up the first hill, my legs were burning as I tried to keep the same paste. As I ran up the second hill I could hear people cheering go Worser Bay. I finished my first lap as a girl from Miramar north school came close to passing me. I speeded up as I could hear people cheering my name.. As I got down the first hill I had moved down to second and stayed there for the rest of lap but fell back into sixth and that's where I finished at the end of the race I thought I’m going to inter zones for my third year in the row.
