Photography

At the start of term 2 the whole of Wainuioru School started practising taking photos for the Wairarapa Schools photo competition. We had all  taken alot of photos but we could only chose one to go in the Wainuioru competition. The staff chose the best 5 photos out of each year group and the photos that won get to go in the real Wairarapa school competition. we stopped taking photos  week 9 of term 3. There were 2 categories - living and non-living. We have not yet found out who has won but we are hoping it is someone from our school.

GARDENING

2 weeks ago, Ngaumu and Ngahape started to replant our vegetable gardens. First we weeded the weeds because the weeds were taking over. Then we planted onions and lettuce. We are trying to get a big garden so we can use the vegetables at school. We are also going to plant a variety of vegetables and fruits. We are going to use the onions for our sausages each Friday , the lettuce and onions for our burgers that we make at school. I sort of enjoy gardening although i do get annoyed when the mud dries on your hands.

School Disco

On Friday the 28th of September Ngaumu is holding a disco at the Wainuioru School hall  from 6pm till 8pm for Ngaumu Poroporo, Fernyhurst & Ngahape to enjoy. It is a fundraiser for our camp.
 The Ngaumu students all have to bring some party food such as hot chips,cookies,brownies,pizza, cake etc. We also have a disco job such as DJ/MC, gold coin entry, food stall & selling glowsticks. We hope it will be a lot of fun and hopefully everyone will turn up and support our fun night.

by Evie Tomlinson

Wainuioru school Electives

Every Thursday for 6 weeks this term, all of the children at Wainuioru School participate in an electives program.
The parents and teachers have agreed to run the electives and have offered a variety of choices and activities.
The electives we could choose this year are Crafts, kayaking, technology challenge, card making, swimming, drama, cycle skills, cooking and baking, fun with science, triplet lamb transfer, camping skills, music, Japanese, arts and crafts, print making and computer animation.
In technology challenge we have made a flagpole out of straws, a catapult and a tower made out of dried spagetti. we also had to design a structure made from straws that would hold a nut and we had to make a bird feeder house out of news paper. 
In baking, we have made cupcakes, pizza, pikelets, smoothies, sherbet and learnt how to make icing.
In card making we have made a selection of different cards with different designs on them using special card making equipment.
In drama we are doing a play called Penny and the Wolf and in fun with science we explored oobleck, made fizzy lemonade and lava lamps. It has already been a lot of fun and we are all looking forward to another 3 weeks of electives. 

Our electives only happens at our school every two years.

On Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th Molly M, Callum, Henry, Xanthe, Fin, Cameron and Holly went to a Be Inspired Conference at the Solway Copthorne.
There was about 100 and something kids from different schools that were there. Everyone got given a lanyard which had the 4 workshops that we were doing over the 2 days.

I  (Holly) was doing the High & Low rope course which was a 10 - 15 minute drive from the Copthorne.
When my group arrived we met the 2 instructors Nico and Kara.
We walked 5 minutes to the High and Low rope course. When we finally arrived we put on our harness and cow tails which are ropes that clip you on to the wire. After everyone had their gear on we got clipped on to a blue rope to help the front person climb up the ladder. When you reach the top platform you had to pick which way to go, The long course or the Short course, everyone went the long way.
At the end of the short and long course was a flying fox, which was so much fun. When we had all finished on the high rope course we went to play on the low rope course which was just swings and low wires to balance on. After having fun we walked back to the bus and drove back to the Copthorne to have lunch.

Callum did theatre sports which was in the games room. In theatre sports they did lots of acting games, and learnt to not be scared in front of an audience. One of the games Callum played was Yes Let's . Its a game when the leader says something for the others to do and they have to say yes lets. They played other acting games as well.

Cameron did Construction to Function. Their teachers were from architech and designing universitity. They had to achive a system that would stop a egg smashing at a drop of 2 metres. They were only allowed to use 4 rubber gloves, 20 straws and some cellotape. They blew up a glove to make a soft wall.
They thought it wouldnt be enough so they made a pyramid out of straws to brace it when he dropped it. The egg bounced but the egg didn't smash.

Xanthe did create a masterpiece where they had to draw a sea creature. Then outline it with ink and paint it if they wanted to but Xanthe wanted here's black and white so she didn't paint her's.

Fin did painting with light with Mr Kennard. They learn't to use a digital camera and how to use the macro unction fand taking pictures at different angles. Then they went on comic life and did a collage of the pictures they took.

Henry did the programmable Robots with Mrs Gordon. They first got taught how to programe the robot by punching in numbers to make it go forward, backwards and turn around. They also played lots of games. Henry's favourite game was the apricot picking game, where we have to make the robot drive up next to an apricot tree and pick an apricot. The person with the most apricot's win.

Finally, just before we finished on the last day a surprise visitor came to talk to us and his name was Johnson from What Now. Johnson came to talk to us about being shy, confidence and his life when he was younger and all the oppurtunities that everyone has. Johnson asked a few people what they wanted to be when they grew up and some people said All Black, Silver Fern or a nurse. He inspired alot of people and made us more confident to do stuff. When Johnson had finished talking to us we went out side and everyone got his autograph.

The be inspired conference was so much fun and everyone really enjoyed the workshops and meeting Johnson.

By Holly

25/4/15

Dear mother and father,

I’ve seen many things I wish I
haven’t. The war has been very cruel and
I’m lucky that none of my friends have died.
I am in the third battalion with a lot of Aussies. I have a few friends such as Jimmy, Stan and
Ben. I have got to go now, I’ll try to
write to you again, bie.

Yours sincerely Sean.

25th April 1915

Dear mum and dad

I am a nurse in the army I see a lot of blood and broken bones I don’t like it here just being the age of 17 its to gruesome lots of people are dying it is not nice to see so many people dying in one day at a time I am really sad I miss you lots but its to late to turn back now as our second fight is tomorrow.

Love from Rachael