Asthma Show

Last week on Friday we had a special show to watch in the multipurpose room. The special show was based on Asthma. We sat down and we saw a man with a flash blue suit sitting on the chair. The man's name was Chris from the song for Crossing The Road. Chris sang to the audience and he danced to the song and he chose some people from the audience to go up and hold his puppets. We sometimes had to repeat what he said when he called in his pet fish Sailor. We had an awesome time watching the Asthma Show.

Origami

Every Friday we make origami with colored paper as part of Visual Arts. We made random things with our colored paper that we received and we only managed to make farm and zoo animals. At the moment we are trying to make different things from animals. We enjoyed making different kinds of origami.

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.

Duffy Assembly

Today we had a Duffy Assembly where a 25 year old man called Myron Simpson came to talk about reading and his career and his future. He brought some of his equipment to show that he is a champion at bicycling. He showed us his expensive bicycle, shoes, helmet that his dad painted and his skin suit that can make him speed fast through the air. Some students from the crowd got chosen to wear his stuff. After that, Sini said a huge 'thank you' to Myron for coming and sharing his career with us and how great reading is. Myron Simpson has a muesli bar named after him, but it is not out in the markets.

Daffodils

On Friday 31st of August it was Daffodil Day and each class had to make Daffodils. We made Daffodils and a beautiful red vase to put our lovely Daffodils in it. I think our class had the best daffodils in the whole school. After assembly we came back to class and took lovely photos with our handmade daffodils. We had a lovely and happy afternoon on Friday.

P.E At St Kents

It was a lovely Friday morning, Ruapotaka senior syndicate went to St Kents for P.E and some of us came early, then Mrs Golder chose Sini, Miria, Cypress and I to go in the van to St Kents. When we arrived at St Kents we hopped off the van with glee and walked as proud as we could to the sport centre. When we got there the St Kents sports teacher put us in to two groups and then we played a bit of basketball. A while later, the other classes from Ruapotaka School came and sadly we had to stop our game with the coach.

Then we were put in to our groups by Miss Ginders and I was in group two with Mrs Golder but she left us and went and took photos of the wrong group. She realized that she was taking photos of a different group so she went finding her group. She finally found her group and started taking photos. Our sports teacher was a boy and he taught us some simple and easy drills to do and to warm us up before moving on to the next step.

After that, our tutor said that we could have a touch game against the other team so he took us to the other field then we played against each other. It was hard to run as fast as a cheetah to get a try because they had more people than us but the only good thing is we got a try. ‘’Yay we tried to get a score.’’ Both team had the same score so there was no group that won or lost. 

Soon we packed up and went as a group back into the sports centre and waited for the other groups to arrive so we can head back to school.

While we were waiting, we watched and laughed at a boy run and dunk the ball into the basketball hoop. It was awesome. We all had joyful time there. We all stood up and went out the St Kents door and back on the bus. The others went except for the people who got chosen to go in the van. While we were on our way to school we were listening to some music.

An Accident

Thinking back in the past was an accident that happened when I was five years of age.
It was a very hot and sunny day, when my accident happened. I was riding on my scooter gradually outside my backyard and then out of nowhere a rock came rolling near the wheels of my scooter. I got very scared and I flew off my scooter. The rock was like a magnet leaving trails of rocks behind the other. As I was riding there was a bumpy part of the footpath that made me wiggle around on my scooter which made me fly swiftly.
Later on, I had a rest on the doorstep with my scooter. Then I got up with a lot of energy, back to work with my scooter. Off I went exploring my backyard, when a humongous rock hit the wheel of my scooter and then I went flying off my scooter into the bush. A while later when I got up from the bush my body was numb. I rushed into my house with tears running down my eyes. Then I got inside and I saw in between my toes I was bleeding like a volcano erupting.
When I noticed I had a cut in between my toes I was in shock. I thought my toes were about to tear apart. I screamed out loud but I couldn't utter a sound. After that I heard a voice coming near me I turned around it was my mum. I told her all about what happened to my toes.
She straight away took me to the doctors because she thought it was very bad. As I sat in the doctors, my name was called to go and see the doctor. I entered the room and told the doctor  about my adventure in my backyard after I had my accident. My toes wsa cleaned and bandaged but when they were cleaning in between my toes it slowly started to sting like my veins were getting  cut in pieces.
Finally, they put a bandage around my toes. I respectfully said a huge “Thank you” to the doctor for helping me. When they finished putting the bandage around my toes we left the doctors and headed back home.
So if you are riding your scooter remember to check that your path is clear before you fall over and hurt yourself.

Preventing Electrical Injuries

Injuries through electrical appliances can be very bad and hurtful for people. Being careless can cause pain but you can get better by going to the doctor and taking fluids or medicine or even putting cream on your scars or burns to help stop or heal the pain. Electrical Injuries can cause young and old people to die.

Electrical appliances are to be supervised by adults and elders. Children can get burnt by playing with electrical cords  that are plugged into a socket. To keep children away from sockets you can use plastic socket covers. These can help the children to stay away from sockets. Appliance cords need to be kept away in a safe place where children cannot reach it.

The consequence of playing with electrical appliances can leave your body with scars, burns, disability, paralysis, amputation and it can damage the human body, but especially kill you.

You can stop children and adults by getting electrocuted by repairing or replacing damaged cords or plugs, having more adult supervision, maybe putting up some warnings signs around schools and homes. High voltage equipment should be kept very high away from trees and house tops.