Ako Hiko toolkits 2019

 Ako Hiko Tool kits 2019 

On Tuesday the 28th of May, a handful of students from Waikowhai Primary School and a bunch of other schools went to Hay Park School for the Ako Hiko student led tool kits.  This is held every year in a school in the Ako Hiko cluster, which has six schools in it. The toolkit presentations were held in the different rooms in Hay Park School: Room 9, Room 6, the Library and the Hall. Some of the names of the presentations were quite interesting, like 'Sphero heroes'. The ones that I chose to go to were Sphero heroes, Google drawing art and Stop!Go!Animate! (I did not come up with those names by the way if you think they're weird).

For Sphero heroes (Interesting name), we had to use code to control the sphero, draw lines as directions as to where to make it go, and use drive, which is basically like a remote control. At the end of Sphero heroes, the presenters created a racecourse for the spheros to race on, and we had to use drive to get our teams sphero to the end of the track. I nearly came first in the race, if my sphero didn't crash and go off-course near the end of the track. For Google drawing art we had to make pictures on google drawings using the Polyline tool to mark around the lines on an image. For my image I chose a panda because it had a quite basic body design so it was easy to copy and also it was symmetrical so I could just copy and paste legs and eyes. For Stop!Go!Animate!, we had to create a stop-go animation, which was kind of easy because I just took a few pictures that seem to go into one another so that when played at a certain speed it looked like frames of animations. The animation I created is below (please don't mind the hand, it's just a mistake).

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Gumboot friday

Gumboot Friday

Hi! On Tuesday the 9th of April at 12:00, one hour before lunch, the entire senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School posted cards we created ourselves that have positive messages on them in random mailboxes and they all said ‘supporting mental health’ on the back. But what is mental health? Mental health in all about how healthy your’s and other people's minds are. We did all of that because 4 days before that, on Friday the 5th of April, it was Gumboot Friday which is about mental health. The person who created Gumboot Friday called it ‘Gumboot Friday’ because when you have low mental health, it is like your brain is wading through thick mud and you need gumboots to wade through thick mud. On Gumboot Friday you are to wear gumboots if you are able and you want to wear them. When people have low mental health they tend to feel gloomy and you can cheer them up by saying something positive and kind which is why we wrote positive things on card to send out to people. The cards were colourful and when we  finished, we decorated them with smiley faces, people standing around the Earth, hearts and other things that made people feel better (the people standing around the Earth were representing the world as one).

The card that I made!

(it says: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. I hope this makes you feel better. Senior syndicate)

The idea came from the from one of the students at our school (it was Neeve’s idea to make and post the cards in mailboxes) who had been chosen to do the Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire. This also relates to our inquiry topic (Hauora-wellbeing) because they are both about how you feel and your thinking. Above all of this, my opinion is that people should celebrate Gumboot Friday more often, every year even maybe.

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Swimming Sports

SWIMMING SPORTS

On Thursday the fourth  of April, the senior syndicate and the rest of Waikowhai Primary School went to swimming sports at Cameron Pools. We do swimming sports every year and is basically a whole lot of races ( about more than thirty) rolled into one day. After we finished our first races, we got to eat morning tea ( which is something  like chips or biscuits) and watch the other races while we waited for our second race. In both of my races I came third 😀 and after most of the races 😌 we had the house relays and also relays in our year groups and I actually got picked for the relays in our year groups but not the house relays 😞. But I think that I just BARELY made it into the relays as I came third in both my races. At the end of the day I was exhausted because I was in two races and one relay and I had sore eyes ( my goggles fell off during the relays 😵 ) but at least I had lunch to look forward to ( Sorry about no pictures, but I couldn't find any so I used emojis instead. I hope you find that okay.).

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the special assembly

The special assembly

On Friday the 15th of March, a great tragedy had occurred in Christchurch. Because of it, our school decided to hold a special assembly on Monday the 18th of March. In the assembly, we had a one

-minute silence and we also planted a Kowhai tree, as the Kowhai tree is the symbol of our school(waikowai primary school). Half of the assembly had been inside, and the other half was held outside. We sang the National Anthem and we also sang our school song, Aotearoa. The assembly was in the morning, and when we planted the Kowhai tree, sixteen people of the sixteen cultures at our school(Chinese, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Tokelauan and eleven more). After we planted the tree, one person from every class put a card around the base of the tree.

the Kowhai tree being planted.

After that we went back to class to finish making the cards to the Police, Hospital, and last but not least to the Mosques that were faced with the tragedy. If you would like to donate some money to the Mosques, please click HERE. The cards we made looked sort of like the ones below ⇩

Last week we had a lockdown drill that was supposed to teach us what to do if something like the Christchurch tragedy ever happens to us.

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the syndicate treaty

the syndicate treaty!

Welcome back  to my blog. This week (or last week; I've lost count of the days) we signed a syndicate treaty, inspired by the Treaty Of Waitangi (there is a picture of the syndicate treaty underneath).

Everyone had to sign it, and in case you haven't noticed it, our names were signed under the section: signed (the bluish lines around the picture).

We also used a fountain pen to sign the treaty:

When we created the syndicate treaty, our year groups determined what we should put in the articles.

The group I was in at the time was Year five boys and my group determined what was in 

we chose

• respect yourself to respect other people, and,
• treat other people as you want to be treated.

the teachers also added a section under HOME

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