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Tourist Speech

St John Reponse

On Monday a girl called Catherine came from St John's to show us our to save
someone life. We had to do this because with the William Pike Challenge Room

1 is doing this year anything would happen to us while we are doing like a bike

ride or tramp. She taught us the DRSABCD.

That stands for Dangers, Response, Send for Help, Airway, Breathing, Commence,
Defibrillation. These are the 7 things that can save someone’s life. Dangers is if

you find someone that had fallen off a ladder you have to check for the dangers.
Response is when you have to check for a response like “can you hear me?”. Send
For Help is when you can  dial 111 and get the ambulance. Airway is when you

have to tilt the head back and life the chin so it is easier for the person to breathe.
Breathing is when you have to look, listen and feel for normal breathing.

Commence is when you place your hands in the centre of the chest and push

down hard and fast 30 times then blow in the mouth 2 times.

Catherine then taught us the recovery position. The recovery position is when

you grab the hand of the patient closest to you and put it our of the way then

grab the arm furthest away from you and put it over their chest. Then grab the

knee furthest away from you and bend it up and you have to place your finger

on there knee and roll them over. You then have to tilt the head and lift the chin.

We had to do this in peers my peer was Hannah.

We then did CPR on a fake dummy. We had to do this in groups of eight in my
group there was me , Hannah, Rebekah, Caitlyn, Zoe, Poppy, Grace and Nyah.

We had to all grab wet wipes and wipe the dummy's mouth, chin and nose

because other people used them as well and we put some type of thin cloth on

the dummy's mouth. We all had a dummy each and we had to do 30 hard pushes

on the dummy’s chest like if we were doing real CPR then after that we had to do

2 breathes in the mouth.  

After that the whole of Room 1 went through the first one and after the first set

you keep moving around all eight of the dummy’s.

I really enjoyed this session with Catherine on how you can save someone’s life

and I had a rough Idea on how to do this but not fully knew how to do it.

Ski Response

On the 14/8/16 the year 7’s and 8’s went skiing. We all arrived at
school at 6:45am. Ms Kemp called the roll and we were then handed
our orange arm band and we headed off. We all got into our car groups
and headed out to Porters Heights ski field. In my car group there was me,
Poppy and Cullam and our car driver was Scott who is Poppy’s dad.

We arrived there around 9:30 am. We put on  our ski pants, beanies,
gloves and sunglasses we needed and got out all the cars and headed
outside of the café. When we had all got there a man called Jason called
out our last names in alphabetical order. We all one at a time walked up
to Miss Martin, got our numbers and walked into the gear hire room. In
the room there was a station for ski boots, ski helmets and goggles. I had
hired ski boots, a helmet and goggles. I then put on everything and went
outside and got my skis.

Once everyone had their gear we had all started at the beginners slope.
At the beginners slope we had learned how to do the Pizza which is how
you stop. Some people moved up from that to the intermediate slope and
some people stayed. Milan and I were some of the ones that stayed. We
had stayed for a ski lesson on how to turn and jump around cones. Milan
and I were practising so much to try show Ms Kemp that we could move
up from beginners.

Soon we had to leave the ski field and eat our play lunch. I had sandwiches
and a banana. After interval everyone got back into their skis and went back
to skiing. It turned out me and Milan practising worked and we both moved up
to the intermediate slope. I went up with Hannah and her dad. The first time I
went up I fell off the poma and I skied down because I was half way up. As
soon as I got down I had to go back to the beginner slope and practise how
to get up if you fall off, and my turns. I finally got it and went back up with
Sasha’s mum, Erin. She helped me a lot!  We only went to halfway and she
showed me how to turn and so did Rebekah’s dad, Rowan.

For the rest of the day I did the intermediate slope. I skied down with my
friends a lot. I just loved skiing at Porters and since it was my first time it was
a bit of a challenge but I got it in the end. My favourite part was definitely the
intermediate slope.

Once everyone got off the ski field at 3:30pm we took all our gear off and
handed it in. My legs and toes were so sore from being used to the heavy
boots and from skiing all day.

Geometry DLO

Te Uru Game

WALT participate in the learning of others.

Success Criteria: Be active, participate in a new cultural game,
use our listening skills, watch, ask questions and practise.

On Tuesday a class called 10CH from Greymouth High School
came to Karoro School and they had taught Room 1 a game called Te Uru.
We are doing this because it builds on our transition to high school.

There were three groups that Room 1 were split up in. In my group

there was me, Grace, Caitlyn, Lincon, Zoe, Caleb and Joshua.

The class from the high school split up as well in 3 groups to show

us different skills and drills for the game.

The first drill my group got taught was defending and getting the ball off
the opposition we also passed the ball around. The second one we went
to was learning how to catch the ball with one flat hand and learn how to
jump on a cone. The last one was just saying someone’s name before you
threw it to them. My favourite drill was the one that was like
“Piggy in the Middle” and you tried to get out of the middle by
intercepting the ball.

I would suggest that they have two games playing at once and four even
teams because we would all get even amount of turns.

Designing A Logo

Today in Ms Chowfin's class we were learning to create our own google logo. We got to change the colors of the letters and change the background to a theme and even put a background sound in. We watched a video to help us on how we start this and what we do.