Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 3rd of April Blaketown school did safe cycling. We learnt how to check our bikes in an ‘M’ formation, how to indicate at corners and to indicate when stopping.

We learnt to look behind your right shoulder when passing parked cars, going through an intersection and stopping. We learnt from two police officers named Constable Terry and Constable Jos as well as two parents helping.

There was a course set up for us to do on our bikes and we had to zig-zag around cones, identify what vehicles are behind us on signs, use indications, go up ramps and do stuff like that.

The course was just out on the court, but after we done that he talked to us for a bit then we biked around the block. We had to use the skills we picked up from the course on our court on the actual road and it was just a lot of fun.

Duffy Show

Duffy Show (Diana Queenin)

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th of April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to a semi-duffy show thing. For the duffy show a lady called Diana Queenin came and showed us some stuff that she’s collected while travelling around the world.

She showed us the stinger off of a stingray, which is exactly the size of a tyrannosaurus rex tooth and has barbs on it which helps keep its prey on the stinger, although stingrays are harmless to a human unless you annoy it (in the wild). Also only in New Zealand orcas feast on stingray, which is something she taught us.

Another thing she showed us were geodes which are crystal rocks. She showed us a fake amethyst rock, which is quartz dyed purple and she showed us quartz, which can be found in rocks, which is quite interesting.

She showed us fossils found in rocks like trilobite fossils and stuff like that, that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Other things she showed us was copperite, which is dinosaur poo,  horseshoe crabs shell, which is the closest relative to a trilobite that’s alive, and she taught us how snakes kill you, as well as having a snake skin to show us, so she had quite a pile of weird, interesting stuff.

Top Team

Top Team

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th or April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to Paroa school to do top team. We had an early lunch at 11:00 something, then went to the school at 12:00. Once we got there we waited a bit sitting on the ground then after a couple minutes we were allowed to walk around while waiting. Some of us decided to play bull rush so we went over to a field and played for a couple minutes until we got called in for the people who held the game to talk about the rules and what to do.

After they talked about all that they gave a sheet to the leaders in teams that the teachers picked. On the sheet it says what activity you go to. There are 14 activities and my team started at activity 3. You get points for how well you do in the activities you do but you still do it for fun unless you’re really competitive about it for some reason.  I didn’t have the best team  and it was kind of difficult doing stuff when you team somehow doesn’t know how to move, but we did alright never the less.

The activities we did were things like trying to jump at the same time in bean bag to go forward or trying to walk at the same time on skis, which were really hard because that actually involved your entire team doing the one thing unlike some activities where it’s just one person at a time trying to throw a gumboot at a target and stuff like that.

At the end of the activities my team scored 209 and the highest scoring team got like 350 or some like that. My team definitely wasn’t the best but we tried, at least most of us did.