Alexis Pritchard comes to Owairaka!

Yesterday we had a Kuari assembly and we had a special guest joining us.Her name is Alexis Pritchard and she is well known for boxing.She won a bronze medal in the Commonwealth games in the Gold coast last year in 2018.

She talked to us about courage and some of our goals to become courageous.She also said that part of being courageous is stepping out of your comfort zone.Then she got us into groups of six and we got some sticky notes and we had to write one thing we were comfortable with and two things we weren't so comfortable with.I wrote that I'm comfortable with Netball but I'm not so comfortable with public speaking and sharing speeches with the class and  the whole of kauri team (which I guess is basically public speaking).


here are some photo's

THE END (;

School trip to... STARDOME!!!!!

On Friday the 17th of May, Room 24, 22 and 25 went on a  school trip to the Stardome observatory.

We went in a little room and met a man named Josh. First we talked about the milky way and from afar it looked like there were quite a few stars then we zoomed in and there were even more stars but since we have light pollution we can't see them from them without a really good telescope. 

We did a little more talking about the planets and the planets were quite far apart.We then did a activity.We got split into groups and each group got a tablet.We had to go around and answer the questions here are some photos 

After that we went into the stardome and we watched a movie and it was about this company that wanted to move to another planet but in the end they had to stay on Earth because they realized that Earth was the perfect place. 

This is my tessellation

This is my new tessellation hope you like it!!

A tessellation is like a repeating pattern.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT NETBALL!!!!!

Yesterday after school at 4:20 we the school's netball team went to Windmill courts to play our first grading game (I think it was a grading game).The game started at 4:55 so we did some warm ups

Warm up games

First we did high knees then we did butt kicks and after that we had to do little jumps from 10 down to 1 so we had to face the front do ten turn right and do ten and then turn left and do ten jumps then you would face forward and do nine and you would slowly get lower.

The next warm up we did was called four corners were you have to split the team into four corners and give a ball to one side and on the opposite side you give them a ball. The other lines run into the middle (one at a time) then if you have the ball you either pass to the left or the right (or whoever faces you) and once you have past the ball you run in the middle and you have to receive the ball from your left then it keeps going on but it can get confusing sometimes.

After that we played a little more warm up games then it was finally time to play.

The game

We were at court nine and we were playing against Olsh (I think that's how you spell it) our team did great we were working together really well as a team  and in the end we got 20 to 0 or 20 nl  so we won and I was really happy about that.

P.s i'm not done

Doing VR (virtual reality) in room 8 not finished

Yesterday we had a VR session in room 8 and we were looking underwater. I think what we were doing was comparing each I guess marine environment to one another like, for example they showed us the poor knights Marine reserve and there the water was clean, there were heaps of fish, the coral was bright and everything looked great. Then we looked over to the Huaraki gulf and all you could see was green murky water plus if you looked down all you could see was rubbish and a tire.

Overall we looked at three main places and they were parengarenga (and I forgot the rest of the name),
Huaraki gulf and poor knights.

After that we looked at invasive species and how they can get in. First we looked at a squirt (I forgot that one's name as well) and we saw how they were on the poles and stopping mussels to grow and how they clean the water.

to be continued

My Mars DLO