Mid Year Reflections

I have made this prezi to reflect on this term / year. Hope you enjoy!

Rock Climbing

Rimu Year ⅞’s are participating in the 2016 William Pike Challenge. William and James were walking up Mt Ruapehu they stayed in a small cabin. It was about the middle of the night when there was a huge snow storm! William got stuck in the mud and the snow so he couldn’t move. William had to get his leg amputated but still carried on travelling New Zealand.

On Monday the Year ⅞’s went rock climbing and abseiling as our second William Pike Challenge, here is my story about my experience and feelings when I was rock climbing.

The Rimu Year ⅞’s went up to Cattlestop Crag for our second William Pike outdoor challenge. We arrived in the Port Hills and it was FREEZING.  Steve and Josh were our instructors for the day, we started walking on a narrow pathway to the abseiling wall. Below me was an amazing view of Christchurch, grass hills, rocks, roads and houses.

When I was climbing I looked down and saw an amazing view of Christchurch. I felt so small compared to this view!

We stopped at the abseiling wall and Steve talked to us about what we will be doing at this rock., we kept walking to the Rock Climbing rock. He got us to put our harnesses on to get ready for climbing.

Steve took six people to abseiling, and Josh took about fourteen to Rock Climbing. I climbed up one of the easy rock wall and I got about a ⅓ of the way up the rock and then I got down. While we were waiting to go to abseiling we explored the area Steve took 5 people to abseiling and Josh took his 6 people to rock climbing.

When we arrived at the abseiling wall I thought that it would be pretty easy! But no, after Jesse and Emily went down it was my turn, I was so scared!

I abseiled down and felt like I was walking on a wall!

Hope you enjoyed!

National Young Leaders Day!

National Young Leaders day!

Yesterday Emily, Paige, Jack, Isaac, Gus and Tim went to NYLD. 

It was fun and it had loads of fun activities. The host's were funny, the speakers were inspirational and hilarious, my favorite two speakers were Billy Graham and James Beck.

About half way through we did the mexican wave, it was so fun! At breaktime and lunch time the Horncastle arena was completely full. We seen our friend Nikita and hung out with her.

It was a really fun day, hope you enjoy :)

The Amazing Race!

This term we are doing an Amazing Race challenge. We have to read 30 books and move around countries. As we move around we need to put 1 fact about the country on a Padlet, so far I have read 2 books. We also have a google doc that we put the title of the book and write a short blurb about it. At the moment I am reading Anne Franks diary and it is an interesting book!

Created with Padlet

My 100 WC!

Here is my 100 WC for this week. I was working on orgonising my ideas into paragraphs. 

It was pitch black, the moon was my only light as I walk into the deep dark forest. I see a red flame in the distance, I walk towards it but it vanished. 

I kept walking hoping I would find the group, I hear a cracking sound and look behind me. There is is the red flame I start walking towards it but it leaves again. 

I hear the group talkig in a distance, I start running towards them and see the light again and seen the flame. As the flame flickered and then it went out. 

“Your back Katie!”

Anzac Day Study

For the last few weeks Pukeko reading group have been working on this Anzac day slide. I think it is important that we know about New Zealand history as these men fought for our country and we should know about it. Hope you enjoy!

My timetable for week 2!

This term our school value we are focusing on being an Enthusiastic Learner. This means in Term 2 we are focusing on sticking to our own timetables. This also means we are becoming good at self managing our own work and learning goals. Here is my timetable for this week. What do you think? Do you have any tips for me to manage my time better?