COVID 19 Experience

Our COVID 19 Experiences

We have done a lot of work, sharing and talking about our experiences in lockdown. For many of us, the daily hangout was really important as it was a time to socialise as well as catch up with teacher instructions, do some puzzles and quizzes together. The teacher started by doing the quizzes and puzzles but some students asked to do it so it became a shared activity for some of due to work together on hangouts and build it for the next day.

School Kit Resilience

Resilience

We have worked with the School kit and learnt a lot about ourselves and our resilience. This is a

picture of the charging station where we can go to RESET ourselves if we need to. we started this before lockdown but it has been super helpful since as we have dealt with a new sort of school environment.

Bread Germ Test.
As a class, we decided what we would us to put germs onto bread. We used faces, taps, door handles etc.

We bagged everything up using gloves and tongs so there was no cross-contamination.

We measured daily and monitored the results as the mould grew. The TV remote was the worst plastic bag for mould.

RENE MAGRITTE
 We have been looking at the art of Rene Magritte. He specialised in surrealism which art which tries to make you use your imagination. Art that makes you think. We produced some work modelled on one of his pieces of the eye. (Using it as/like a mirror)

Swimming Term 1 2020

This year we have been going to Cobden School for swimming. Three ability groups go at a time and the pool is divided into three. It is VERY noisy but we really appreciate Cobden School letting us use there pool. We bus over and back. Everything thinks the pool is lovely and warm and just pleased that we can get in the water,

AMAZING RACE

We were lucky enough to be selected to go to Grey High School to take part in an Amazing Race. The students had organised this a part of their P.E. We had ten teams with four people in each team (Room 4 had to come with us to make up the numbers). There were five tasks that we had to do. We walked there and got there quicker than expected so they had to be really flexible and change things around.

We played seaweed while they got organised. There were 5 games and two teams played each game together then moved on to play against another tea. We had awesome fun and wre really impressed with all the preparation the students had gone to. We helped them to evaluate by filling out a google form they had sent us.

RAT ERADICATION

   

As our Student Volunteer Army community service we decided that we wanted to join the Rat Eradication program that some groups are doing in our community. We are right beside the West Coast Wilderness Trail where there has been a problem with rats and they are coming into our community, housing and having an impact on the environment.  they are responsible for the decline of a number of native and common species.

They eat the seeds and fruit of many plants so prevent them from reproducing. A year 13 group at the Greymouth High School combined with us (they have about 40 traps out we only built and set 6). They came along and taught us how to build wooden traps, set and monitor them. Rather than a one-day activity, our Student Army task will last several weeks as we have to go out and check and reset them daily. We also started our own trap line with NZ trapping so the daily data is relevant and used by DOC. (we are called BlaketownSchool Trapping on NZ Trap) Hopefully, residents in the community have fewer problems with rodents and our environment will flourish.