Rangatahi Road Patrol Training

It's getting this time of year where as the Year 8's leave Kapanui School and go to college, the Year 7's take over for their jobs, such as Mediators. On the Wednesday 27th November 2013, the Year 7’s had their training for being road patrol wardens for next year. 

We started off watching a video. After we watched the video we went onto the field acting as if we were holding the sign and saying “Signs out”, “Check”, “Clear”, “Cross now” and “Signs in”. After we have done this for a while we went out onto the road and did a real life practice. We all took turns being the leader, and to make the real life practice more realistic we had some people crossing the road.

Fonterra milk

Fonterra milk

This term kapanui school is getting fonterra milk. The folded cartons of milk will go to Thailand for roof tiles.I am a milk monitor for my class. All milk monitors get the milk from the resource room.There are 2 small fridges to get the milk from.On Tuesday & Thursday the milk monitors go to collect the milk from the resource room & the people who have brought back their permission slips have their milk.

 

Sir Jon trimmer

                                
                                                             Sir Jon Trimmer                                            
               

       On the fifth of November , the famous ballet dancer Sir Jon Trimmer came  to Kapanui school. He showed us some mime actions they do on the  stage during a performance.

       He also showed us some pictures of him being knighted and in his dance shows.  He also told us a story using his body and his face.

        Here are some photos: 

 

        

        

Cloak of Protection

Cloak of Protection Games Week

Cloak of protection  is a card game involving birds, gods and predators.
During term 3 Kapanui school took part in games week against many other school. Kapanui School had a victory against the other Enviro schools. WE HAD A TOTAL 321 the most! After games week,  Bryn & Dayna from Room 23 were named  King & Queen of the cloak & Kahu from Room 13 won prize for the most games played at home. The king & queen got their own cloak game & Kahu got some gardening supplies. It was a fun week!!!!

 

Run, jump, throw!!!

                                                         
                                                        Run, Jump, Throw!!!
               It all started in term 3 when our Inquirers  teachers set up a Sports Rotation.
 Each week we got to try a new sport and then at the start of Term 4 we had trails to get into the Interschool team. 
These are the sports we got to do...

    . sprints  ( Miss Mckenzie )
    . shot put  ( Miss Sutton )
    . long jump ( Mr Saunders )
    . high jump ( Miss Hakkens )
    . discus  ( Miss Swanson )

On Tuesday 5th November our Interschool team went to Paraparaumu Domain to compete against other schools from the Kapiti Schools. Overall we had a great day, our school even managed to win the relay at the end!

 

    
     

Rangatahi Electricity Speakers

On the last day of October (Thursday 31st October 2013) we had two speakers come in to talk to us about electricity. They were from Wellington Electricity and explained everything/most things about electricity that they knew. They gave us a demonstration about how electricity takes the most direct route to the ground. They also gave us a talk about car vs pole (car crashes into a power pole) and how the wires overhead could come down and when the car driver comes out of the car they could be shocked

Rangatahi Technology Challenges

Rangatahi Technology Challenges

In Week 2 of Term 4 we have been doing some technology challenges. They range from making a skateboard ramp (marble run made with newspaper) to making a net out of newspaper to catch a baby (and hold one of their team-mates), along with making a device to get a balloon from 3 metres away with limited supplies. We also created a bag to carry a 1.25KG weight fifty meters without dropping it in the fastest way possible. These have been very fun challenges which is great for team building and designing. Most of these challenges have been tricky in a lot of ways and some people couldn't finish them as they were also competitive.

Strike

                                             
                                                              STRIKE 

Today Kapanui school went to the hall to watch a music group called Strike. The group brought some drum kits with them and showed us a few songs they knew.
THEY WERE LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people got to go to the work shop where you learn how to play the drums.
All of our thanks to strike for coming to visit our school.

Rangatahi Golf

This term the Rangatahi syndicate had golf on the Wednesday 18th September 2013. We were going to have it the week before but it was rained off. At golf we played bowls, both with and without the golf clubs. We also had a go at hitting five items with the golf "stick", and they were a spiky plastic ball (that doesn't if you touch the spikes), a something and three rubber golf balls. The reason the golf balls were rubber is for safety.

Art week

ART WEEK

This week is art week. In Room 23 we made awesome stuff like cushions, zentangles and we've even done our calendars (we ripped pages out of a book and painted them. They look awesome, here are some photos:

Kapanui's Got Talent

Kapanuis got talent. 

During term 2 we had Kapanui's Got talent. The first four weeks for were the heats then it was the finals in week 5.
In the  finals we had an amazing performance but there could only be one winner. We had the fabulous acrobats and the amazing Cassy singing Rolling on the River.The winner was Shane-lee for the senior section & Ella,Jamilla & Charlotte doing the cup song for the junior section.

Inquirers Winter Tournament

                                                           

                                                           Inquirers winter
                                   Tournament 

It was the 13th of August and the Kapanui's inquirers group travelled 
to the winter sporting tournament. We had spent most of last term preparing for this. This included trying out each sport and then choosing one sport. On the day, we got put into our groups then started driving to Paraparaumu. We arrived at our sport ground in a matter of time and were told when we were getting on the court or field. We got to play heaps of other schools.
It took about 2 hours and then rushed back to school.
We had a lot of fun and were tired out after!!!

Book Character Day

BOOK 

CHARACTER DAY

On the 23rd of August the whole school chose if they wanted to dress up for book character day.

There were funny costumes like Mrs Gilmores There where lots of people dressed up as things from Harry Potter to Pirates. It was a very fun day. Here are some photos of our parade we had outside after morning tea...

 

Rangatahi Winter Tournament

This term the Rangatahi syndicate are doing Winter Tournament. It is just like doing winter tournament in the Inquirers except it is more competitive and you do the sport that you play regularly. There are four sports: Hockey (with Mr Wynn), Soccer (Football, with Mrs Richards), Rugby (with Mrs Gilmore) and Netball (with Mrs Burrows). Winter Tournament was on Tuesday 27th August 2013 starting at 9:30am and was on for the rest of the day. Only the selected people get to go (not everyone goes). Soccer and Hockey were both at Mazengarb Reserve, Paraparaumu, while Netball and Rugby were at the Te Atiawa Courts and Park. Winter Tournament is a clash with technology at Otaki College and to solve this the people that were going to Winter Tournament didn't go to technology. People not going to Winter Tournament went to technology.

Here are some photos:

Life education

     Life Education

During term 3 the Life Education trust caravan visited Kapanui School. Years 1-6 got the opportunity to visit the caravan and learn about topics such as Friendship. Paula was our fantastic teacher in the caravan and we did heaps of fun activities.

 

Peace Week

Peace Week

 

At the beginning of term 3 was peace week. This was an important week to focus on the meaning of peace and what we can do to make sure we all live in Peace. Heaps of classes did Peace activities during class time. The Mediators also ran lunchtime activities promoting Peace, eg making paper cranes. It was also celebrated at Whanau time on Friday. Te Waka whanau talked about Peace and then wrote a peace message on a dove or heart. These were then displayed on a large Dove shape.

Paper Crane making with the Mediators

Electricity guest speaker

                                                     Electricity speaker

On Thursday the 1st of August 2013, the fantastic Wellington electricity crew came to Kapanui school to talk about how to be safe with electricity. This was part of the Inquirers Syndicate "It's Electrifying" unit.
EG: don't touch transformer posts. If you touch it too close, it can be strong enough to get you seriously injured for a life, be in hospital or even kill you!!!
Electricity travels everywhere, through power points to transformers to power lines to homes.
This is an experiance for everyone to do.

Rangatahi Art Interchange

In term 2 the Rangatahi syndicate had Art interchange. Each week we switched round classrooms and we did something new. In Mrs Burrows class you make poi, in Mrs Richards class you do some visual art on your face and in Mrs Glimores class you make tukutuku patterns with a partner and with Mr Wynn you make porotiti, as well as play stick games and also play rakau.

   

Poi 

Tukutuku Designs

Visual art on your face

Matariki Celebration Evening

Matariki Celebration Evening

On the 11th of July the whole school had a Matariki Evening. Firstly the Discoverors and Rangatahi did 3 waiatas from Kapa Haka. Then they looked at the class rooms. Next the Explorers and Inquirers did the same 3 waiatas and had a look around the class rooms. Room 23 had lanterns and harakeke baskets to look at.  I also saw paper lanterns in Room 13 and Tin foil rockets in Room 19.

It was an amazing night.

 

 

Carter Observatory Visit

Carter Observatory Visit

On the 16th of May 2013 Room 10 went to Carter Observatory for a special start to the Matariki topic that the entire school is doing. We went to Carter Observatory on the bus, not on the train as intended, sadly. When we arrived at 9:30am the observatory the sign said it was closed. We were all surprised!  We waited until someone came, and the person that did come was very funny. (Picture 2) He took us inside and flipped the open/closed sign to open. We then went into the educational room (Picture 3) and he talked to us about the planets and the International Space Station (ISS) and did some activities.

When he finished talking he let us explore the exhibits and then 30 minutes later we had to go into the movie room and watched a movie about Russia and America and their achievements.

After the movie we left and went to the playground in the Botanical Gardens and had lunch and a little play.

10 minutes later we went back to the bus and got driven back to Kapanui School at 1:30pm

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By Ethan - Room 10