Pump track writing

Last week I started a piece of writing justifying why the pump track at Paihia School was one of the best facilities to be used in Paihia. I had to verify three reasons why the pump track was a good facility in Paihia. My first reason was that, the pump track is useful for those who are learning to ride a bike or learning to skate. My second reason was that, is makes Paihia School popular because of the uses it has.  Finally my third reason was that, it is a facility where families can kick back and all have a great fun at. Once my writing is complete I will post it and ask for your opinion on it.

Swim safe

Recently Te Ngahere has had a swim safe lesson on dry land. Our teacher was Tracy. She taught us five ways how to keep safe in the ocean. The first safety rule was to wear a life jacket. The second rule was to make sure when that when you are out on the boat to have a device or a flare to signal the coast guard if you ever find yourself in a bad situation. The third rule was that you have to know the lifeguard channel. The fourth rule was to always tell someone where you are going and when you are expecting to be heading back into shore. The fifth rule is to check the weather before you head out just so you know what to expect out there. It is important to know all of these things because you never know when something bad is going to occur. I learnt that not only are these rules important to my life but it could also be useful to help someone else out if they don’t know the five ways of how to keep safe on the water. I enjoyed this lesson because it taught me a lot and now I can feel safe whenever I go out on the boat.

STEAM (Newspaper structure)

On Monday the whole class participated in a STEAM project. STEAM stands for Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics. We got into groups of three or two. Each group had to create a structure using only 30 cm of tape and 2 sheets of newspaper. My group’s structure didn’t work as we expected. It was time for measuring and one of my mates took our tower up for measuring. He kept trying to balance it but it just kept falling, we didn't end up getting any results for our tower because it couldn't balance that good. After all of that we had to write our reflection of how we did and answer a couple of questions. Each question was to be filled in with a proper sentence giving a reasonable answer. I enjoyed this particular project and enjoyed collaborating well with my group to create a structure that we were proud of. I learnt that newspaper is too flimsy to use as a base for a newspaper tower and I now know that I need to make something stronger than newspaper to hold up a paper tower.