Catholic Sports Tournament!

Hi,

Some time ago I did a thing called the Catholic Sports Tournament. There were 4 sports to choose from which were Soccer, Netball, Hockey and Rippa Rugby. I did Soccer.

Cycle Safety!

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On last Monday & Tuesday I, and the other year 6s that were in group 1 did a thing called: cycle safety. To sum it up, I learnt how to act on a road. On Monday, the first day of it; we stayed at school and learnt things like signaling, lifesaver look, 5 Ls, the top of the T goes before me, etc. Your probably wondering what the 5 L's are, well First L: Levers, (brake) Second: Lean, (Your bike) Third: look, fourth: leg over fifth: Leave. That's for when you've stopped and you want to go onto your bike. (It's actually 4 L's I just added leave.) The lifesaver look is when you look before you turn right onto the main road at an intersection. (When on a side road.) It's called 'lifesaver' because to turn right onto a main road you will have to go into the middle of the road before turning and if you don't do the look and go straight into the middle, you will have a chance of being hit by a car.

Signaling is just putting out one of your arms depended on what way your going to tell the cars behind you what your about to do. Top of the T goes before me. Let's explain that now. The top of the T is the main road and you are on the side road. The main road always goes straight, and always goes first. The main road is the top of the pile.

Refugee Day!

Hello,

This year's caritas focus is South Sudan so we celebrated Refugee day on it. I guess that's why we had it after all.

After a group photo of the entire Batten team, I collected cardboard with my team, Josh, Jay, Bryn, Charlie S, Oscar and Justin. We started to build a cardboard fort but it wouldn't stay up. Josh looked at what the others were doing and came up with an awesome idea! It was to put the boxes on its side then put an old curtain over top and it looked great! We also made a little storage area that was made of a box that had one of its side cut off so we can put stuff in, then a bag that you would use for bag race duck taped over top so it's like a door. We then made a security box made with a box with the top cut off then bags over top and at the front, a cut flap so that the person inside can look out and take passports n' stuff. To get inside of it you would just take the bags off then put one leg in, then the other, put the bag race bags over top and boom your in. It was a big box so I could fit in it comfortably, though we had Josh, Charlie S and Jay in it the most because they were more comfortable inside as they were smaller than the likes of me, Oscar, Bryn, or Justin. Then, Oscar cut a flap inside of the fort and any person from the outside would draw pictures on cardboard with permanent marker, lower the flap and put the picture where the flap would close or open to act like a TV from anyone inside. After our fort was made it was lunch, and they gave us rice to eat because that's what the people of South Sudan would eat once per day. After lunch, the little kids from the Rutherford team went to check out our forts. The little kids loved to come inside and check out the TV especially if it had the spongebob picture on! 

The day was REALLY fun, I wish it lasted for longer. It was a real blast and was a kick back for anyone who was having bad days previously or something like that. And, it was great that teachers were thinking outside of the box for the activity!

Korfball!

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For the past 3 days I've been playing a game called korfball. It's like netball except with different hoops and small changes to the rules. The focus is to quickly pass the ball to your teammates to score a hoop while avoiding your opponents. There is an extra 5 meters more field at the back of the hoop so that you can go behind the hoop making it easier to get rebounds. The hoops were quite strange. They were tall and the top was yellow. The ball was made of some kind of rubber, looked like a somewhat soccer ball and was very bouncy. The field you play on is usually 40 metres long and 20 metres wide. Each team has 4 boys and 4 girls but we played with 2 boys and 2 girls. It's fun. The only problem I had was my teammates doing long shots and basically giving the ball to our opponents XP. I had a fun time passing the ball around and shooting it in. The guy who was teaching us was very good at what he did in my opinion, his name was Uri.

Eel Scientist visit

Good day,

A few days ago an eel scientist came into my class. He talked to us. 
 I mean wow right! There's one thing you need to know though, Eels are amazing creatures right? Well our Urban eels AKA Long fin eels are close to endangered and we need to help them.
Urban eels are native to New Zealand and are only in New Zealand cool right?
There is a stereotype that eels are gross and slimy. Well no, yes about the slimy but, they're not as bad as people may think they are and they don't bite unless you are provoking the eels. And they're kinda cute as well. Here are some pollution that may get it: Zinc off metal roofs, Copper of disk brakes, dog poo, Car wash, plant repellent, rubbish, etc. Mega gross. And poor Edward the eel has to swim in it everyday.

Learning about South Sudan with Janet & Phill.

Hello again,

Today in the morning we gathered in room 5 to listen to Janet and Phil they work in Southern Sudan and were glad to share information about it. Here's some facts: Only had long drop toilets, literally a hole in the ground. The people of South Sudan couldn't ride in a vehicle on the road because of too many thieves, which means they had to fly. A problem with that, there were only 4 planes. The people like to dance commonly by jumping. The people liked having pictures taken of them. Cows are like money to them. People at South Sudan write songs about their cattle, name them etc. and also, the boys that protect the cows have guns. Guns are very easily sold at South Sudan and the gun that they use is the deadly AK-47. South Sudan's people are very poor so there are many thieves that'll kill you for your money or cattle. 🔫 Most tribe buildings were built on tall hills so that they could see their enemies coming. 🔭 They had Ful to eat Mashed fava beans with a tomato and chilli sauce. Jibna Salaata: Salad of feta-like crumbly cheese, tomato and cucumber. Dura: Cooked maize or millet eaten with various vegetables. Kawari: Soup comprising boiled-down sheep or cow hooves with vegetables and spices.

An Eel of a Place

Monday 11 March 2019

Last Thursday the Batten team & Hilary hub went on a field trip to see some eels, learn about eels and do activities around eels. It was really fun.  Really < Get it? Say it to yourself! Anyway that day we got into 5 groups I was in group 4. The activities we had to do were rather easy. On one we got a bowl of nice clean water then put whatever might fall into our storm water into it. Here are some: Zinc off metal roofs, Copper of disk brakes, dog poo, Car wash, plant repellent, rubbish, etc. Mega gross. And poor Edward the eel has to swim in it everyday. :] Yeah, nah. Ew. \_(ツ)_/

There's one thing you need to know though, Eels are amazing creatures right? Well 
our Urban eels AKA Long fin eels are close to endangered and we need to help them.
Urban eels are native to New Zealand and are only in New Zealand cool right?
There is a stereotype that eels are gross and slimy. Well no, yes about the slimy but, they're not as bad as people may think they are and they don't bite unless you are provoking the eels. And they're kinda cute as well.

Here's a rough picture a what an eel would have to swim through to mate: