Callaghan's Ridge Walk

Callaghan's Ridge Walk

On April 11th 2019 the Room One and Room Eight students that wanted to do the William Pike Challenge participated on the Callaghan's Ridge walk.

Firstly I was in a car with the driver as Ms Kemp( my teacher) and the students Jack, Wairini, Summer and me.

When we got to the start of the walk we already had our scavenger hunts in our hands. The scavenger hunts we were given were things we had to find but we had to show a parent before we found the item or thing. I kept hearing the bird throughout the walk and I recondised their different sounds to the birds. There was things to find like the tomtit(miromiro) bird, piwakawaka(fantail), bellbird, bracket fungi, blue mushroom and other plants like the crown fern. In my group i had my brother Jack and my best friend Milan.

Our term groups also had been told we have to make a bivvy at lunch time about half way through the walk to keep our team dry while having lunch. In my group team I have had are Ethan, Aimee, David and Korban.  I also liked the sound the rain dripping loud and clear above my head. Our parent helper Rowan helped us and asked us question like where the best place will be to build our bivvy. We figured out that if you want all the water to run off the tarpoline then you need the bivvy roof to be on a slope. My group sat quietly under our bivvy and had our lunch. Soon Ms Kemp came around and gave everyone a jelly frog which I was thankful for.

On the walk our teacher told us that we were defiently going to be getting rain on the track. I love to walk in the rain but not many other people did and complained about their feet being wet. The feeling of the wet soggy and moist shoes is understandable for me and others. The track the rain did effect us and the track alot. This effected the track and us this way because it made the parts where you thought were leaves when they were leaves floating on top of water. The water from the rain did not only make me step in huge puddles of unable to see water it also made the mud on the ground of the walk slippery and so many people slipped over or fell on someone.

I part I most enjoyed/ liked was when my group team had worked really well together on our bivvy and made it a success. This was one of my favorutie because this was my second  time learning how to make a bivvy with the supplies around us.

Next time we do a tramp I would suggest maybe to do the Point Elizabeth walk. It isn't too hard or too easy and I think it would be perfect for a group of people we went with for Callaghan's. I have only done half of this walk and I would like to walk the whole thing. This walk doesn't take too long just about an hour and 45 minutes but maybe longer because we have occasional stops to keep the group up and for eating and drinking breaks.

All together I really really enjoyed this walk with Room One, Room Eight, myself and the parents as well as teachers.I would reccomend this work to anyone because I think heaps of people could be capable of doing this walk if they wanted to.

Onomatopoeia Poem

Competitive Playing

Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!

I run down the court,

1,2

Swish!

“Quick Get back on defence!”

I turn my head sharply,

Swosh! My hair beats me on the cheek

    I grab that ball off the opposition feeling good

I run down the court once more

1,2

Hitting the backboard, Swish!

“Yeahhh Jennae!”

Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout WPC Response

In Room One and Eight we are learning to 

• Design a menu suitable for cooking on a campfire
• Keep within a $5 budget
• Share the jobs and food provision fairly between team members
• Bring along all equipment we need to cook with/on/in
• Work cooperatively to cook our meal

On April 3rd in the morning Room One and Room Eight walked down to the Karoro

Beach

 to do a beach cookout. There were many parents and the teachers Ms Kemp and Mrs Maclean. In my group I had Korban, David, Ethan and myself. Each group had their own parent to help them. In my group we had Angus Taylor as our parent. At this time of the year it is Autumn so it is an open fire season.

For our team group we figured out what we wanted to cook because someone said 

nacho's and we all agreed on cooking them as well as pancakes.  At our beach cookout

 we didn't have set jobs we all just took turns doing somethings.

When our two classes walked down to the Karoro Beach we were very close to Watson's Creek and the ocean at Tasman Sea. To make our fire we used dry things like old mans beard then kindling and last thick pieces of wood in a pyramid shape.

Our two classes went because so our teaching could see how we work as a team, 

to have fun, for the William Pike Challenge for a new experience and to build new 

outdoor skills.
Doing the beach cookout didn't really have any challenges I thought we worked well as 

a team, but I managed to flip a pancake easily.

I had a really good time down at the beach with my team and I thought we worked 

very well together. If we could do this again I would like to.

This is a photo my group and I at Karoro Beach.

Turangawaewae Work

For the past couple weeks Room One and Room Eight have been learning about what our turangawaewae's are. When we did this we were trying to show a place or places you think you stand or feel belonged or good at.  

What our classes had to do was to pick two places or one we thought we belonged at or we thought we stood or even one place. We had to draw these on paper then on a type of thicker paper close to card.We sketched them out and Ms Kemp (Room Eight's teacher) checked our work then we could move onto painting. I started painting my artwork but I wanted to add something cool to my artwork so I decided to add real Kaiteriteri sand to my art. 

On the left in this picture is a painting of Kaiteriteri Beach close to Motueka. My family and I love to come here it is a really nice place to go and we go here every year. I also have family there and we love to see them once a year or even more.

On the other side of the Kaiteriteri painting on the right is a painting of the Greymouth hockey turf. I chose this as one of my turangawaewae's because I have been playing hockey since I was allowed and I could. I loved to play small sticks when I was little with my little brother Jack and I am still playing hockey now in collegiate.  I enjoy hockey and I love the sport and I feel like I belong in this certain team  I am in.

Mahatma Gandhi Work

Mahatma Gandhi

This week Room Eight are learning about Mahatma Gandhi, this is Eamon and Jennae’s response.

Gandhi was a very good person and stood up for his rights just like Nelson Mandela.

Gandhi has changed the way people do things and we think this has also put people together,  

and it has positively affected people in India and around the world. The meaning of the name
Mahatma means a person with love and respect. The name Mahatma also means a person in India

that is said to have preternatural powers.

Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. Just like in South Africa, but  in India, there was

unfairness going around and white people would not even sit next to the Indians on trains.

In South Africa Indians were given the worst jobs and they were made to live in horrible places.
Mahatma Gandhi wanted to change this.  He also wanted to make India one country and not all separate.
He fought for his rights just like Nelson Mandela did and he went to jail for believing

that everyone should be treated fairly.

What Mahatma Gandhi did affected many people. In the process of his goals many people got

killed for following what Mahatma Gandhi said. When Gandhi was achieving what he wanted to

do, many people didn’t want change and didn’t believe that this would help India. He said

‘An eye for an eye end  up making the whole world blind.’ Eamon and I think that this phrase Gandhi
said mean’t he didn’t like it when people fought and he thought it wasn’t right. We agree

with him that it is not right and that everyone should live peacefully together without fighting.

In India people used salt in their food.The government taxed salt and people were not allowed to collect
their own salt.  Gandhi didn’t want this to happen so he got people to keep collecting salt.

This got people to get in trouble with the police because they were collecting salt when they were

not suppose to.

Overall Gandhi was a good person and influenced people to live peacefully together. Gandhi

made people be affected by his acts and this is in a good way.

Nelson Mandela Work

Decimals, Percentages and Fractions DLO

Selfie Poem DLO

This term in Ruma Waru we had to create a selfie poem showing information about oursleves. These poems when you read them don't make sense like in words, that is how they are suppose to be. We had to write them out into a fingerprint type and then dye the background out of the colours blue, red, orange and yellow.

Treaty Of Waitangi

This year Room Eight and Room One had to relearn and go over the Treaty Of Waitangi. We had to make little booklets and waka  showing the flags that have been used as the New Zealand Flag. Everyone has also made a paper boat and each boat in our set team groups are a different waka that came with the Great Fleet.

My Mihi

My Mihi

Kia Ora koutou katoa

Ko Davey tōku maunga.

Ko Māwheranui tōku awa.

Ko Pākehā tōku iwi.

Ko Lady Jane raua ko HMS Laburnum ōku waka

No Māwhera ahau.

Ko Topliss ingoa whanau.

Ko te kura o Karoro te marae.

Ko Graeme tōku matua.

Ko Glenda tōku Whaea.

Ko kayla ōku tuakana.

ko Jayden rāua ko Jack ōku

Tungane.

ko Jennae toku ingoa.

Ko Millie tōku ngeru.

Tenā Koutou Katoa

Recording Of Mihi

Poutini and Waitaiki Legend

Poutini and Waitaiki Script

Jennae: First of all there was a legend we may have heard of. Producer Milan and Director Jennae will inform you about this legend.

Milan: Long Long ago… there was a taniwha called Poutini. He swam up and down the rough seas

of Te Tai O Poutini protecting the people and the spiritual essence of pounamu.

Jennae: One day while Poutini was resting in the warm waters of Tuhua he saw a beautiful woman, called Waitaiki, bathing in the moana. Poutini immediately fell in aroha and he snatched Waitaiki and swam south towards the mainland.

Milan: Waitaiki’s husband, Tamaahua,  was a strong chief and he was the most skilled person in the

spiritual world. When Tamaahua finally found out that Waitaiki was gone, he threw a large dart into the air;

the dart pointed in the direction that Poutini and Waitaiki were. Tamaahua and his slave quickly paddled in

their waka towards that direction

Jennae: Waitaiki and Poutini finally reached the shore at Tahanga /Taupo and Poutini lit a fire to warm them up. When Poutini heard Tamaahua coming he grabbed Waitaiki again and took off.

Milan: The chase kept going and going all around Aotearoa. Each time they stopped somewhere new Poutini lit an ahi.

Jennae:Waitaiki was terrified and makariri. She begged Poutini to turn around. After a lot of begging

Poutini listened to Waitaiki and carried her back up the West Coast.Tamaahua found his wife’s tears in the waters near Piopiotahi / Milford Sound and realised that they had turned around.  Those tears are found in the greenstone known as tangiwai.

Milan: One night Tamaahua sat down and got ready for a big fight with Poutini for Waitaiki. Poutini was concerned and said to himself, “If I can’t have Waitaiki then no one can!”

Jennae: Poutini transformed Waitaiki into pounamu, and laid her down in the makariri waters of the Arahura River. High up the Arahura River there is a stream known as Waitaki Creek, the legend says that in the waters of the aahura, at this point, lies a ledge of pounamu, the body of Waitaiki.

Milan: Tamaahua set out tin the  morning to fight Poutini and to claim Waitaiki back. He reached where Waitaiki was and realised what had happened. Tamaahua was devastated and returned back home without his wife.

Jennae: That concludes our story of Poutini and Waitaiki. Thank you for watching we will see you next Sunday on ABC News.

Milan and Jennae together: Kite Koe I muri  

Link to our video