Joan Wiffen - NZ HERO Matchbox Project

Hi everyone, this is my New Zealand HERO Project that I have been working on for a few weeks now. 

Miss Blair gave us the task to present all of our information in a matchbox. I did mine on Joan Wiffen she is a fossil hunter. She found her first fossil here in New Zealand in 1865, it was a tailbone from a Theropod dinosaur. Joan's early life at the age of 16 she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. 

This is mine: 

William Pike Outdoor Challenge Rock Climbing Experience!

At Cattlestop Crag on the Port Hills at the top of Summit Rd, the year 8s and 7s went Rock Climbing and Abseiling! It was amazing I wish I could do it again and again! This exciting experience happened on Monday the 20th of June 2016. It was a 15 minute walk till we reached the rocks.  We went up in a car and I went with Tanya, Nikita’s mum.

When I stepped out of the car I could see the gondola. I felt like a bird being so high up. It was really cold in the morning, but got warmer as the day went on.  If you're wondering why we went rock climbing, it was for one of our William Pike Outdoor Challenges. The two focuses for that day was Resilience, meaning don’t give up, and the other one is Pride, that means being proud of yourself.

I climbed 4 rocks and made it to the top of all four. I was really proud of myself and still am. If I could do it again I would try to climb at least 3 or 4 more rocks. We went for a whole day. The most terrifying thing about rock climbing and abseiling was you had to trust the rope and the person who's holding the rope. Josh  was one of the teachers, he held the rope for the first two times. Then for one of them Miss Blair held the rope and Miss Todd held the rope for the last time.

Abseiling was scary because I was going from one side to the other side. The cliff was really high. You could see pretty much all of the city. Abseiling was really fun. The first two times I climbed the rocks my hands really hurt but the last two times were fine. This activity was really fun because when I was rock climbing I had to think where to go and what's the easiest way to get up. Also it has given me confidence in myself. I was afraid of heights but now not!

Here are some photos of me!

Here’s me abseiling!

How's the view?

Here’s me rock climbing!

Selfies :-P

It was such a awesome and fun day!

Week 7 100WC

100WC Week 4

Here is my 100WC for the week. I am five words over next week I will try and do 100 words. 

Down It went!

 By You - Year 6

4 Days Ago - 105 words - 0 

 Yaldhurst Model School

100 Word Challenge

 

Mum was cooking dinner, My younger brother and sister were fighting again so Mum rushed over to them. I was in my room. I heard it go, I rashed out of my room and yelled Mum to come and help. She heard me, I got the detachable tap and turned on the water. It went out, so I ran to Mum and said “Don’t just go away from the pots!” The fire alarm went back on! The fire had started again. This time Mum got a bucket and I got the tap, as the flame flickered and then went out we were all scared.

Amazing Race Facts

In Rimu class we are doing the Amazing Race. That's were you read 30 books and after you read the book you have found a fact about the country you moved on. Here is me padlet of my fasts. I hope you enjoy, shure and comment.

Created with Padlet

Reading Work 2!

           Here is my other reading work. With this two day diary we had to write what Edna Pengelly feel and what she had being boning. This was really hard because I had to found what she was doing and then write the diary like she would. I hope you enjoy and please Comment and share.

            Day one

Dear Diary,

1st of January, It was my first day of my training at Wellington District Hospital. I really want to help the soldiers so I am going to work at Wellington Hospital. I wanted to work with the soldiers really badly because                                             I couldn't fight with him. I had to work with other patients so I actually get the job to go on the boat. The only way nurses from New Zealand could help the soldiers was by going on the boat to go overseas. I applied to go on to the Active  service in January 1915 and then 3 months later I sailed away on the “vast and boundless ocean”. It was a long cramped journey to Britain.

                   

                 

 Day two

Dear Diary,

Day 2, it was the second day of my training I was very excited to do my dream job in a few more weeks or months I will be working with soldiers in no time! So many patients were coming in the hospital with broken legs, eyes missing and cuts to the bone, it was crazy. Today I got my uniform with my little hat with a red cross on it and my blue and white dress. It was the day we were going to Egypt. We had a long journey ahead of us because the fighting was going on at Gallipoli. We were sent to Egypt to the Four British run hospitals where the sick and injured men from Gallipoli were being taken. Now I get to work with soldiers. I am now very happy!

My Reading Work, Edna Pengelly's Timeline!

For my reading work we had to make a timeline for Edna Pengelly. I hope you like it, comment and shure. Here is a quick video of my timeline.