Food for thought

On the 9th of March, The seniors walked to New world, Mt.Roskill. A couple of days before we went, a lady named Adele came to our school to teach us about healthy eating. She works for the heart foundation where they provide education programmes for heart patients, school groups, etc.. We looked at healthy things to eat and non healthy things. I have presented my information in a google slides.

Reading: The first electric car

In Reading, My group and I were reading a book called "Driving us into the future". I was focusing on the first electric car. I gathered my information by using the reading journal and google. I have presented my work using emaze to share my learning.

Writing: Plastic in our environment

Plastic in our environment

The impact of our plastic in our environment is atrocious. Scientists believe that in 2050, there will be
more plastic than fish in our oceans. You need to understand that our oceans are not dumpsters where
you dump anything you want. The plastic has created a tremendous and disgusting outcome on our
environment and oceans. We must encourage people to put their rubbish in the right bin and to not litter.

Families can create a litter free lunch box by using reusable plastic containers instead of glad wrap,
tin foil, etc. I vehemently believe that if we reduce our plastic and take control of this appalling situation,
then we can become a litter free school, the oceans wouldn’t be packed with plastic, and we would
still be able to have the fish swimming around like normal fish do.

Another very serious point I want to make is about our animals. Some of our animals are getting
endangered by some of this plastic. As many birds such as seagulls live around the beaches, they are
getting caught, suffocated, and choked by plastic bags. This causes them severe injury and for some,
they die. It seems many people in this world don’t care about our environment or our animals.

Instead, most people take everything that we have for granted. So let me tell you this. All the devices
you might have, the school trips we get given, and even maybe all the accessories you might have,
these things, are privileges not rights. These are the things people choose to give us. We also have a
choice to reduce plastic and put our plastic in the right bin. To me, it seems people are just too lazy
to get up and do one simple and easy job.

Here is something that I want to leave you thinking about. “If you care about our environment,
then what changes are you going to make?”

Inquiry: Global Warming

For inquiry, the whole senior hub (Rooms 1,2 & 3) has been looking at environmental issues we face today. My partner and I have combined our information and presented it into an Emaze. We have collected our data using google, youtube, and school journals.

Softball Reflection

Softball tournament reflection 2018

“Wow, This is a really big field!” I said to myself. On Thursday the 1st of March,
we went to May Road Memorial Park where our softball tournament was held. As
my team and I were walking, we could feel the drops of wet grass going into our socks and
felt as if there was a washing machine inside our shoes. As soon as we got there,
we all started practising our pitching, catching, and throwing.
The horn squeaked as loud as my voice! The games had began!. For our very first game,
we versed Ponsonby Intermediate. We had lost against them but I thought that our team
did really well especially since it was our first softball game. We next had versed St.Joseph's
Onehunga and we scored more home runs than them but, when it was their turn to bat,
they didn’t go through all their players because they had run out of time so in softball it is
known as a nil draw. I was quite pleased that there was a draw because, it was only our second game
and we didn’t lose! “Phew” Already by the second game it was getting super duper hot.
It felt as if my face had been put in a burning hot frying pan! When we came to our very last game,
we versed Pasadena intermediate. By this point, my team and I were all really really tired
and our legs were hurting. We just all wanted to lay down. We still tried our best. It was finally
the end of our game and everyone was cheering each other on because we had won our game!
No matter if we won our games or not, we all had fun which was the main thing that mattered.
Plus, I guess, in this case, we’re all winners right!

Our softball results:

CTK (4) versus Ponsonby Intermediate (7)

CTK versus ST.Joseph’s Onehunga (DRAW)

CTK (6) versus Mt.Roskill intermediate (7)

CTK (1) versus Royal oak Intermediate (2)

CTK (2) versus Remuera Intermediate (7)

CTK (0) versus Waikowhai Intermediate (8)

CTK (10) versus Pasadena Intermediate (0)