Week 2 Term 3

 What a wonderful week. 

On Tuesday we had day 1 of our Ki O Rahi tournament

On Thursday and Friday we had the team from Thrive and STEMWana trust in helping us make 'stringdraulic' gauntlets.

On Thursday we did a rubbish walk up Te Puna Road. 

Here's some of our writing about these activities

Ki O Rahi Ki o rahi is one of the most fun and challenging games I’ve played. It taught me teamwork and resilience is the key to a fun and fair game. I learned that in order to be included you have to call out for the ball, share ideas, and try your best. Although it was tricky at first. We listened, helped, and advised each other. We encouraged each other to try our best.  After all our hard work we managed to get really good and do a tournament. The whole senior school did the tournament against each other in our houses. All in all, everyone had a great time. By Lauren McConnochie

Ki o rahi tournament. Ki o rahi is a very fun myth and legends game with a lot of running.

We did it on the field on Tuesday. It's a game like you rip people's tags and

You have to get in the middle. There are two teams Taniwha and Kioma. Kioma has to run and touch the pou and throw it in the middle.

Farryn Deane

Ki o Rahi is a game between 2 teams you want to get a point or if you are on the other team you touch the poles and run in the middle. There were 4 teams, Kotuku, Kaka, Kiwi, and Tui. We did teams on each side there were two fields, so 2 teams one each field Kiwi mostly won every game a part from one Kotuku tied with Kiwi. I was happy because we learned new skills and games.

Cai Pudney

On Tuesday the senior block did a Ki o Rahi tournament. We got our house t-shirts on and had an early brain break. We lined up and went down to the Ki O Rahi tournament and sat on the hill. My favourite bit in the tournament was defending the tupu. My lowlight was needing to wait while the other teams played each other. 

Charlie Chesham 

On Thursday and Friday, we went and did STEM with Thrive. We made gauntlets out of cardboard, string, and straws. One of the things I learned is that STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. My highlight was watching Lydia doing all sorts of funny stuff behind Niky's back while she was talking. The people hosting it (Thrive also known as Cool Bananas) were Lydia, Niky, and Rachael. I was so amazed how they even thought about how to make the gauntlets. I bet I could never think of how to do it. I was really glad that they came to Te Puna school, I hope they come back again to our school.

By Charlotte Eastham

The three classes at Te Puna School made a stringdrolic gauntlet. One class went in each block at a time. The most impressive gauntlet was Farryn's. When I put my hot glue gun down I accidentally touched it and it was very hot. I hope to do something like this again.

Brodie MacKay

On Thursday and Friday last week. The whole senior syndicate made a gauntlet out of cardboard with STEM to take home. I thought it was hard to use a craft knife to cut out the cardboard hand shape. But it was so hard to be safe and cut away from yourself. So when the teachers weren't looking I cut towards myself because it felt better. The constructors were really funny and their names were Niki, Rachael, Lydia and Sarah. But my favourite part was after they gave us some delicious snacks. But one thing I learned was that do not touch the hot glue it hurts.

By Emma Hesmondhalgh

Last week we had 3 people from STEM come and teach us about a stringdraulic gaunlet. Their names were Niki, Lydia, and Racheal but on Friday we had a lady named Sarah come and help for the first block then Lydia came and help. The gauntlets we made were made out of cardboard and controlled by our fingers. I also learned that STEM means science, technology, engineering, and maths.

Tiria

On Friday I made a cardboard gauntlet. It was easy but the challenging part was the strings threading in the straws.

Darius

On Thursday and Friday, we did STEM. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and maths. They talked about how to make a gauntlet. There were lots of steps to make them. It came from a sheet of paper to the coolest thing ever. Room 11,1 2 all 13 made a gauntlet. We made the gauntlet because it's fun to learn how it works and what it does. STEM came to Te Puna School and Te Puna School was the first school to make the gauntlet. My favourite thing was the end result, it was so cool. The thing I learned was what a gauntlet is and how it worked. I loved making the gauntlet.

Ayla Radley

The other week we made a stringdraulic gauntlet. All three classes were making a gauntlet too. We built it by using paper stencil all the way to a cardboard, stringdraulic gauntlet. I'm so happy that STEMWana came to Te Puna.

Caprice

Room 12 including me made a gauntlet. A gauntlet is a hand controlled by your fingers. Stem means science, tech, engineering, and maths. In the end, we made a stringdrolic gauntlet. After we all got a water and science kit to make filtered water. I hope we do stem again.

Kyeisha Harris

We went for a rubbish walk last week. All my class came. We did it on the side of Te Puna Rd. We found 309 pieces of rubbish. Most of the Rubbish was not recyclable. My favourite part was when I found two car bumpers.

By Luke Catto

Last week we did a rubbish run, up the road with the class. I have now learned not to litter.  We found 309  pieces of rubbish, IT'S CRAZY!!! I think there was a lot of glass everywhere. I think that the glass was the most rubbish we found and heaps of car pieces.
Kiani

On Thursday Rm 12 went on a Rubbish Walk. We went down Te Puna Road. Lots of car pieces were found. I t was mostly the front of a car. I found a bag of chips and when I went to grab it, water spilled all over me. It was very gross. Then on Friday we analysed it we found 256 pieces of landfill and 52 pieces of recycling and 5 big bits of glass and 35 small bits of glass.

Scarlett Dawson

We started to line up, then I got a rubbish bag and we were off.  We got like eleven pieces of rubbish just by the sidewalk next to the school. We crossed the road and within ten metres we had come across heaps of car pieces. We spent like forty-five seconds there and we would have found one-twentieth of a car in that one spot. Then after eighteen metres I’d found some glasses on the ground. They only had one lens in them. I looked at them and wore them for the rest of the trip. For the next five hundred metres we found heaps of rubbish on the ground and in the gutters. I even found something in a tree. We carried on and found more and more rubbish. Then we turned around and walked back around eight hundred metres outside of school. After that my legs started to slow down and within five minutes I was at the back with Miss Andrews. Then we didn’t get that much on the way back. But when we got back to the car parts we left on the way out and we found them. We picked up the car parts and walked back to school. We put our rubbish away in the art dungeon and carried on with the rest of our day.

Harper

On Thursday Rm 12 went rubbish walking, we found so many pieces, 309 to be exact. 83% of it was for landfill, 16% recyclable, less than 1% reusable. At 11.35am we started walking down Te Puna Road. We found a lot of car pieces by the intersection of Te Puna Road and Station Road. But we kept on going and left the big bits behind so we could get them on the way back. I found an avo sign broken in half. There were some cigarettes. We went with Alexia and Miss Andrews. My highlight was The next day seeing the difference we have made.

Alex Harrison

On Thursday last week, Room 12 went on a rubbish walk around Te Puna Road and Station Road. We did it because we wanted to see what we can try to stop and what we can't stop. It was easy but the challenging thing was counting it all up. Together we got a whopping 309 things!!! By Sophia Matuschka Room 12

On Thursday Room 11, 12 and 13 went on a rubbish walk. In Room 12 we found beer bottles, car parts, cans, glass, and plastic. We walked down to Te Puna road. We can change this by picking up rubbish and other people's rubbish and putting it in the bin.

Dalton Canterbury