Hayley @ Greymouth High School

Katie and I have been working on a poster to send to El Gregoe on anti- bullying. We drew the three R's which are respect, responsibility and resilience. Here are is a picture of our poster: Responsibility, Respect, Resilience

BASKETBALL! Recently our year 7 & 8 Basketball team got our new uniforms. The are red and black in colour and they are brand new. They are really comfortable to run and play in. We also got our new team basketballs. We have one game ball and the other basketballs are for our training sessions. Here are some photos! PHOTO OF OUR TEAM IN NEW UNIFORMS AND HOLDING OUR NEW BASKETBALLS

BULLYING Cries and screams come from the corridors. Loud footsteps come towards me. She tries to talk but his voice is a void. Her tears fall silently down her bruised face. She says the names but it’s all a gabble. She picks up her bag and walks out the door. Other people stare as she walks head down, down the corridor. No one helps her or try to cheer her up. Whispers and sniggers are heard from the crowd as she disappears through the door, lonely. No one is the same 😢 Why push and bully me around just because I am different from you? All people aren’t the same, some like different things than others. All human beings have something in common, they are a human being. So why bully me when I am like you, a human being? All people are different from you and you don’t have to bully them because of that reason. You may bully other people because they are NOT a bully. But I am telling you now! No one is the same so why be a bully?

Yesterday we did The West Coast Wilderness Trail. We biked for about 3-4 hours. We biked 25km from Greymouth to Kumara. At the end, we got hot chips and hot chocolate because all though the trail was very long we made it. The whole trail is 4 days long and you will bike 139km. We only biked Greymouth to Kumara. We also biked over the Tumarmaku bridge which was very exciting. On the trail we biked over a swing bridge. Here are some photos: Me and Katie at the Theartre hotel.

In our classroom we are learning to write six sentence storys. Mr's Ealam gave us a picture which was of 3 kids on water floats on the sea, I chose to only do one character. Below is my six sentence story: THE WAVE I am floating on my water float, just me, Linda the extraordinary, utmost and supreme swimmer EVER! Turning and looking at my home I see that my Dad is squinting at me from the balcony of the blue beach house, shaking his head. ‘Splatter!’ I swan dive into the clear blue water down into the depths of the ocean, holding my breath for more than a minute 30 seconds. I do it again, this time diving deeper and deeper as I start to leave my breath behind me. I feel as if I am suffocating, my breath is turning into void, floating away from my body. Desperately needing air I feel powerful muscly arms wrapping around my waist, pulling me to the surface.

Not that long ago our classroom made Tangaroa Masks. Watch the slide show to know the legend: The gift of Tangaroa. Also click on the link to know how to make them. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/16VMqUZP0YyWGDnj8RSSxc8nH3Whs0UWnGxb8pbE2a_o/edit

On Thursday and Friday, last week I attended the ICT Kids conference in Shantytown. I was in group 4, which was create websites. I learned how to make a website, and it was pretty easy. At break at lunch we were allowed to go around Shantytown and look around at all the old buildings, here are some photos:

Today we are having a Mufti day that is fundrasing for our room six camp. We had to hand a gold coin for to wear mufti. Today at break or lunch we are selling plain, butter and icing sugar flavoured popcorn. Sherbet with a lollipop attached to the packet. And last of all we are selling traffic jelly cups, that is red, green and orange jelly. Below is some pictures of the food and treats we are selling:

Last Wednesday I went to West Coast Cross Country. I came 15th place. Below is a photo of all the Awahono School students.

On Friday my Basketball team versed Papora. It was fun because I didn’t know anyone in the Papora team so I didn’t know how good they were. At the end of the game the scores were PAPORA-16 and AWAHONO-15 . If my team scored one more goal we would have won but unfortunately we didn’t .

Last Friday our classroom went to the Point Elizabeth Walkway. One of or tasks was to find the flaura and fauna like for an example, we had to find birds like Fantails. Here are some photos of me, my friend Ashleigh and the plants:

Point Elizabeth Walkway On Friday, 29th, we went on the walk Point Elizabeth. In our classroom we got split into groups with a chosen walk/ bike track. Jordan, Georgia, Zara and I are in a group and we are doing the West Coast Wilderness Bike Trail. Katie, Jenna, Sarah and Damion are already done their walk (Point Elizabeth). Jordy, Cameron, Jade, Ashleigh and Chris are doing Lankies Walkway. We are the leaders of the walk/ bike trail that got chosen. The next walk/ bike trail we are doing is the West Coast Wilderness Bike Trail, which is on the 12th of June. My classroom is doing this because our topic this term is staying healthy. All of us have tasks in our groups that we need to do like for an example, we have to search information and history about our chosen walk/ bike. Below is a check list of what we have to complete: Reading Topic activities Colour box when complete and place the link to where to find it Research presentation https://docs.google.com/presenta