Athletics day - By Zoe

On Tuesday We went to do Athletics at the Ōtaki Domain we all had to dress in a house colours I was in Rimu!

When we got there we waited until 9:00.

Everyone was in there house colours some people dressed as random things but mostly there colour.

Then the girls in year 7 and 8 we stared of with high jump I didn't do it then we moved on to shot put I did that with Lyla and Rose and Kayla and other kids.

Then we did other things like the run and long jump and discus it was fun watching the ruining. 

We had lunch and they were cooking amazing  sausages and juices and stuff like that then we had  house relays I think my team won 4 house challenges and Matai won some  house relays to.

Here are some photos! I hope you liked reading my story about athletics day!

7&8 SWL 2020

Welcome to the year 7&8 SWL class blog! Here is a google slide presentation we have created collaboratively to introduce ourselves. Please check out our individual blogs, you will find them listed on the right hand side of our class blog. We hope you enjoy our blogs!

Statistics investigation

In class we have been learning about statistics investigations. This is Keira's investigation about how many people in the class are 12 years old.

1st Launch Rocket Project - By Devon

On Friday we all started our test launch with our rockets.Me,Hunter and Havin made it we made our rocket with an Sprite bottle , the wings were made with red card and our bottle cone was made out of a bottle but I do not know what bottle it was.Sadly I never watched most of the launch only my and Kobain's groups rocket but lets start with Kobain's it was tilted for some reason and it did not go high but ours went straight and went high.At the end of the day we knew that we did a pretty good job.

My test flight - by Lucy

 In My Class we have been learning about rockets. Zeph, Keira and I made a rocket together. we put our names on it and we put a parachute in the nose cone that was made out out a plastic bag. when we did our first launch it flew into the air on the side and the nose cone didn't come off the top so that made the parachute onto work because it did not fill up with air.

My test flight - By Keira

This is my rocket. It has Zeph, Keira, Lucy on it. the fins where on the bottom of the rocket and you can see the shape of them in the photo. We had 3 of them. We had a parachute and it was made from a rubbish bag. We made the nose cone from a sprite bottle. We painted NASA on it. Lucy did all the painting.

Our first test lunch  went really really bad it nearly blew up and our  parachute did not open. I think it was because  we had the nose cone on to hard. We had 60psi and 200ml of water. It was pretty cool and next time I think we should not put the nose cone on too hard.

My Otaki Map

Our class has been learning about mapping using google maps. We have learnt how to locate different places in our community. Here is an example of a map we have created.