My Last Year At Waikowhai Primary School

Hi guys, I'm back. This has been my last year in primary school, and sadly it's coming to an end. I'm feeling a lot of mixed emotions right now, because I feel sad to leave this school but I also am excited to move onto intermediate. I'm looking forward to doing lots of cool new things like: Coding, Basketball and lots of different and exciting things. One thing I'm scared about is being punctual, because at intermediate the bell rings at 8:30 AM. I've had a lot of highlights at Waikowhai like: Production, Camp, Tiritiri Matangi and we are going to climb up Rangitoto. 

Hope you enjoy the pics!

Production

Tiritiri Matangi

Hobsonville Run

Summer Learning Journey - Japan

Hi guys, I'm back. We had to chose a country, the countries we chose were from six different continents. I chose Japan. The reason why I chose Japan was because I have never been there and, I heard that the cuisine there was really yum. Another reason was because there is a lot of cool cultural events. Here are some facts about Japan: The population of Japan is 127 million, Japan is made up of 6852 islands, Japan suffers approximately 1500 earthquakes a year, Japan has the highest expectancy in the world with 83.7 years and Japan's criminal courts have a 99% conviction rate.

Here is the link to the Summer Learning Journey
https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome
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Bigfoot Bicycle Training!

Hi Guys, I'm back. for two days we were learning and refreshing, on how to ride bikes. The first day we just learned about the safety of biking. The first thing we talked about was the type of clothing you wear, like: closed toed shoes, non baggy pants, t-shirt and you legally have to wear a helmet. Then we talked about the bike. One thing we checked up on, was the four point check. This meant to: check your brakes, air in your tyres, reflectors and your tyre lever. Then we actually got on our bikes. First we needed to fit into our helmets. Then we got onto our bikes and rode around the field. Afterwards, we rode around the court a couple times and then stopped for lunch. When lunch finished we got onto our bikes again, and did relays on the school field. Then we rode along the court and high-fived the instructors, while pedalling. Here are some photos.

Learning

Riding on the court

High fiving teachers

Pasifika Peter Pan

Hi guys, I'm back. Last week we had our school production. We had three shows that were on Wednesday night, Thursday night and a Friday matinee. This was outstanding and gave us experience on stage. This week we have been reflecting on it, by making six thinking hats. The six thinking hats are information, positive, negative, feelings, creativity and reflection. 

Hope you enjoy!

Production was amazing, because I had been in production before but I was never in the main cast. I thought that this work was quite easy, but was challenging with the blue hat.

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Athletics Day!

Hi guys, I'm back. On Friday 2nd of November. Waikowhai Primary School, had an Athletics day. This day was filled with different athletics. The events I was great at was Sprints, 400m and High Jump. We have athletics day annually in November each year. At the end of the day we traditionally have house relays. This is when all the houses (Ruru, Kea, Tui and Pukeko) Then we are put into age groups and run. 

Hope You Enjoy!

Long Jump

House Relays

House Relays

High Jump

Watching Sprints

Athletics Day was a great day were we learnt loads of skills in Athletics. Now people that did well are competing in zones in two weeks.
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Ako Hiko Film Festival!

Hi guys, I'm back. Last term we made movies for the first annual Ako Hiko film festival. Leading up to this we looked at different shot like close up, wide shot, medium shot and dynamic shots. Another thing we did for a warm up exercise, and made knock-knock jokes. My one was about lettuce. After that we made our script. My group had Ben, Toby, Alex and me in it. Our movie had to be something about change. When we wrote our script we agreed that it would be about someone, that could change objects. I was supposed to be the main character, but I was away for one of the days so Ben was changed to it. Hope You Enjoy!

Here are some shots that we used in the film.

Medium Shot

Close Up

Up Shot

Over the Shoulder

I really liked making these films, because it gave us experience in film making and helped us work in teams. I think me and my group did really well and I like our film.

Production Rehearsals

Hi guys, I'm back. Last term we started doing rehearsals for our production. Our production this year is called Pasifika Peter Pan. It's the story of Peter Pan with a pacific twist. In our production, instead of being a part of the Lost Boys, I'm a part of the Lost Tamariki. Rehearsals stretch from 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM. One thing that I like about rehearsals, is that my group get to ride scooters on stage. Another thing I like is watching the rehearsal, especially when my friends are on. I'm feeling really confident right now about the production, because we still have three weeks to go and are pretty much there.

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