Once New Zealand’s biggest gold mine, now a empty ghost town

Once New Zealand’s biggest gold mine, now a empty ghost town

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Waiuta was founded in 1906, it’s main income was it’s gold mine’s. Waiuta is widely known for their goldmine which was founded in 1906, known as the Birthday Quartz Reef as it was found on King Edward VII's birthday. The first mineshaft operated in 1908 called the Blackwater Shaft, and it was 563m in depth.

From 1906 to 1951 it was the South Island's largest gold mine and the village was home to 600 people. When the Second World War started, a decline in the number of miners occured, because of lot’s having to go to war. On July 9, 1951 the Blackwater Shaft collapsed, and the mine flooded.

From 1908 to 1937 gold was processed at the Snowy Battery. The gold was pounded out of the rock using the water powered ‘battery’ with iron stamps. In the Snowy River valley,  quartz was pounded to powder by heavy stamps and the gold was saved through various processes. Then they were treated with cyanide in the lowest building.

It ended up as a ghost town, because when the mine collapsed lots of people lost their jobs. Without the income of the mine there was no reason for people to stay, so they packed up and left.

Now Waiuta is a historic site for tourists to visit.

By Thomas Hardie

Personal project progres

This term I have done most of my inquiries. one of my inquiries i have almost finished, the personal project that i am almost finished is about helping the predator free new zealand project. my other project is about is about sending a camera into the lake about 20m down! i am about 2/3 of the way thru!

Week 1 Term 4 reflection

This week i think i have done a good amount!

i was lucky enough to help organize pet day, i was incharge of 1 of the games! i also ran the backing stand. me and my friend, tyler were fundraising for our personal project, our project was helping the New Zealand pest free project. we fundraised $182!

Over all I think this week was good!!!

The Importance of Integrity

Kiwi kids news featured article.

1. Why do you think integrity is important? It is important because if you don’t have integrity then you do not trust yourself. If other people did not show integrity then you can not trust them.

2.How has your integrity or character been tested to the limit? What did you do in response? When two people ask you a question were one answer would make one person upset and the other answer would upset the other person, I said they were both wrong.

3.Do you think that integrity is a part of your nature? Do your instincts warn you when you are doing something that doesn’t show integrity? I think my instincts is to trust myself, it is a part of my nature, I don’t like when I do not show integrity.

4.Do you think the whole world could one day show integrity? If not, why might this be impossible. I think it is not possible because some people do not trust themselves and some people are not trustworthy.

5.Do you think our national and international world leaders display integrity? How and how not? Be specific. I think most prime ministers and royal people try to show integrity but they have so many people to please that they find it very hard. Sometimes they could look back on a mistake and not trust themselves.

Week 5 vocab

Bob was Stirring in his sleep.

The Resort was an amazing place!

The Derelict building was falling to bits!

The ghost Tormenting bob!

The man looked crippled because of his old age!

This week we had to choose 5 words, learn what they mean, and write a sentence about them!

Kiwi kids news canpassion:

1. Why do you think compassion is important? What good does it bring to the world? If people are sad and you are compassionate it might make them happy. I no one was compassionate then everyone would be sad.

2. What good does compassion bring to the world? Think both directly and indirectly. If there wasn't compassion then there would be chaos. For example everyone would be mean to each other there would be so many robbers and no one would care.

3. Does showing compassion to others change the way people treat us. Yes because if we treat other people nicely then the will to the same, treat people the way you want to be treated. For example if you treated someone like they were useless then they will do the same.

4. How are five ways you can show compassion in your everyday life? Be nice to people, help people if they need help, if someone is sad try to cheer them up, ask people who look sad if they are ok, never harm people unless in self defence.

5. Ask your parents if they think compassion is important to the way you are raised. Ask your teacher if they think it is important to the way they teach. Ask your classmates if they think it is important to the way they interact with friends. Discuss it with them if you think you need to.

KIwi kids news, busy kid

Critical Thinking Challenges:

1. Do you believe kids being really busy is a good or a bad thing? Why? I think that it is good and bad! If you are busy with sports or other talents you may get a job to do with them! But i can be bad because you can get stressed and very tired!

2 1/2. If you think bad, think of three solutions for this issue. I think I is bad because you can get very stressed and tired! And you could not get enough time to there self.

2 2/2. If you think good, think of three ways to encourage other kids to get busier! I think that one way is to tell them that they will get fit if they are playing sports! Another way is to say that they could be famous because of this extra work.

3. Think about the role of teachers and parents in encouraging extra-curricular activities. Is it up to them, or to the kids themselves? I think it is up to the kids, but sometimes the parent need to decide if the kids won't!

Practical Tasks:

1. Ask your parents what they think is best, and what worked with you and your siblings.

2. Make yourself a schedule for this week that keeps you busy in the afternoon or when you would usually have downtime. If it goes well you could make it permanent! Done, i don’t have a photo!

3. Research the positives and negatives of being a kid with a busy schedule. What are the short and long term effects? Link to website that I read.

rapunzel scratch game!

This is a rapunzel scratch game!

Week 8 reflections!

This week i have done my rapunzel moment in time. i have done a lot of kahn! i have tried to stay away from big distractions so i can get my work done!

rapunzel moment in time!

This term our class has bean reading fairy tales! this week we read rapunzel, so we had to describe a moment in time!

The bright, blossoming garden was surrounded by a giant, stone wall, even though it was old it still towered above most things. No one dared to enter! It belonged to a sorceress who possessed great power, she could level hills to tiny mounds. She could give life even, but could also take it away! Without knowing the tales that it held, you could tell that the sorceress did not want anyone in! In the garden there were beautiful flowers and herbs, shining with dew!

Original sentence:

The garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared enter, because it belonged to a sorceress who possessed great power and was feared by everyone.

Week 7 reflections

This week I have started my rapunzel scratch, and almost finished my personal inquiry proposal. I have been behind on a lot of things but not I am on top of some of them! At the start of every day this week we have gone to the library, (as a school) to talk with our new principal about: How we are connected and how we can care.

Gretel and Hansel 2.0

This term we have read the Hansel and Gretel story so we had to make are own version of Hansel and Gretel!

plastic bags everywhere

Critical Questions:

1. Do you think that NOT using plastic bags is important? Or do you think it’s not a good deal? I think it is a good idea to ban plastic bags

2. What will happen if we continue to use plastic bags? Will it affect us? Will it affect other animals? Will it affect sea creatures? It will save hundreds of turtles and fish!

3. Do you think we will ever be able to get rid of plastic bags globally? I believe that we could, but only with great effort!

4. If you couldn’t use plastic anymore, what is the worst thing that would happen? I could not play with any toys.

Practical Thinking Questions:

1. What is a solution to stop plastic bags from being produced? What is a solution to stop plastic being produced? Find a replacement and use that instead of plastic

2. Ask your parents if they use more plastic lately than they used to 10 years ago. Why have they made a change? Why not?

3. This week, try and go plastic free. At home, in your lunch, at school. Give it a go! If it is easy, well done! If it is hard, send a letter to the companies that made it hard for you. Ask your favourite brand of biscuits why they package in plastic rather than paper. Write a letter to your local MP demanding change. Let’s make this happen!

Week 5 kiwi kids news

Critical Questions:

1. Why do you think lying is bad? Why do you think honesty is important? I think honesty is important because if you aren't honest people won't trust you!

2. What are some good things, if any, that can come from lying? you can get out of trouble or get out of doing something!

3. Do you think we lie for a reason, because of the way we are brought up, or simply because of human nature? I think we have evolved to be more lazy and we lie because we don't want to take blame or so don't haft to do something!

Practical Thinking Questions:

1. Do you think lying is an issue that can ever be solved? How can we do this? We could start a community challenge to go 1 week without lying and see what happens.

2. Ask your friends when the last time they lied to you was. Tell them the last time you lied to them. It might be slightly awkward, but most likely you’ll both think the other one was silly for lying in the first place.

3. Write a short story about what the world would be like if lying was impossible. Even write a little story about a family conversation at the dinner table if no one could lie… hopefully no one insults the dinner!

The no lying week had begun! Everyone was going to there windows like normal but instead of saying ‘Good morning everyone’ they instead yeled “EVERYONE BE QUIET, I HATE YOU ALL”! As i trudged down the stairs into the brightly lit kitchen i said to my older sister “get away from me you piece of trash” as i sat down!

Weekly reflection W6

This week i have done a lot of writing, i have finished my little red story and started my hansel and gretel!

Week 5 reflection

This week i have started a new presnall enquiry, to therrorise with two other friends if the megalodon is still living and were it could be! but apart from that i all i have done is writing more or less!

Little red riding hood 2.0

This term we have read the little red riding hood story so we had to make are own version of little red riding hood!

On this day in history divorce.

On this day in history

On this day in history

On this day in history

On this day in history!

This day in history 79 AD Mount Vesuvius Erupts

On this day in 79AD Mount Vesuvius Erupted and devastates Pompeii

Actors:

In 79AD actors:

Jakob - Volcano

Thomas, Kahi and Cameron - Pompeii residents.

Logan - Cameraman

Hundreds of years later actors:

Jakob, Kahi and Cameron - Archaeologists

Thomas - Dead Person

Logan - Cameraman

Week 5 reflection

This week I was away for wednesday and thursday because I had a bad cough.  On tuesday i did a bit of math and a the rest was writing my little red riding hood story. so far today i have been doing maths and catching up on my writing!

My Little red riding hood scratch game:

My Little red riding hood scratch game:

Week 4 reflection

This week our schools old principal left and now we have a new principal! I think I have not done a much this week as other weeks! 

Kiwi kids news W4

Critical Thinking Challenges:

1. Think about a computer game you enjoy playing. What skills do you need in order to complete it or be successful at it? Subnautica - you need to know how to manage lots jobs and how to look carefully! - My subnautica walkthrough website.

2. How do computer game designers make games fun to play? Why do you keep playing them? I think before the makers of the game make it fully public they get some certain people to play them! I keep playing subnautica because it is based around exploring, and there is always new things to to find/explore!

Practical Tasks:

Imagine there was no technology at all in your classroom. What would it look like? There would not be anyWhat learning would take place? What learning wouldn’t take place. I think that most the learning would not take place!

Is there a distinction between games and learning? I think some games are based around just playing and no learning, but sometimes the games are based around learning.

Quick write, cat-cloth v7

“The cats out of the bag now!” whispered Sven. “perfect” said Jill grasping the horrified, white cat! Then Jill proceed to strap the cat-cloth v7 onto the pour cat! The cat-cloth v7 is more or less a big broom cloth on a cat wetsuit. The cat screamed and screamed, fighting Jill, but she did not let go of the cat!

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write a story with a story starter! Learning Objective: use different sentence starters.

ON this day in history tire manufacturer!

On this day in history 1998, the world's largest tire manufacturer of the time hits its 100th anniversary!

Quick write

“Leave me alone, I’m about to watch the lights in the sky!” Pauline bellowed. It was a dark, moon lit saturday night. And Pauline’s friend Josef was repeatedly texting her saying ‘what's up?’, she had just recorded a voice message and sent it to Josef. Then Josef replied ‘are you sad?😞’. “why”!!!!! Yealed Pauline. Then a guard came and dragged her away from the festabull, “noooooooooo”.


This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write a story with adjectives and a story starter! Learning Objective: use adjectives and adverbs to make the reader want to continue reading.

Quick write, setting

Once on jutaper there was an old circus tent on the edge of a rigid clif! But it was once a tall hill. About 3 kilometers away there was a floating city! The floating city was made of glass and strong steal! It was always bustling with people, it was 7 cubic kilometers wide, and the tallest building was 3 kilometers tall!

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write about our one story setting! Learning Objective: Describe in detail the location. What does this place sound, look, taste, feel, like?

On this day in history-hurricane

There are several hurricanes happening so often and it is damaging a lot of countries.  

This day in history Fire Traps over 200 people in mines

Sorry that you can't hear them well at the start. On this day in history in 1956 a fire traps more than 200 miners and since mines can explode we must be careful around them.

Actors

Jakob/Kahi - Miners

Thomas/Gabriel - Fire

Logan - Cameraman

My website!

This is a small website that I made!

See the website Subnautica tips by Thomas H (@Thomas_H) on CodePen.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS 2.0

This term we have read the three little pigs story so we had to make are own version of the three little pigs!

Weekly reflection

This week I think I did a good amount! For example I have almost finished my V.2 three little pigs story, i have made 2 scratch games and have started my own website!

Three little pigs scratch game

This is a three little pigs scratch game!

On this day in history, Plane crash!

On this day in history in 1985 a thunderstorm causes a plane to crash at the Dallas/Fort worth airport in Texas. it kills 135 people. in the video the person with the lighting bolt is the thunderstorm. this was done in 20 minutes.

Kiwi kids news feachered news!

Critical Thinking Challenges:

1) Imagine that the rest of the world really has forgotten New Zealand exists, what are the pros and cons of being in the world but not part of it?  

1)- A pro is we have a higher chance of not being in a war or a battle between two countries! A con is that we might be left out of some things!

2) Why would, for example, India or China be upset if a map was made without their country on it, but map-makers are happy to forget New Zealand?

2)- Because we are a ‘humble’ country.

3) Use a computer or by freehand, draw your own map of the world and remove a country without telling anyone. What does the map look like? Is it odd or is the missing country unnoticeable? Show it to classmates, can they recognise which country is missing?

4) Research into how maps have changed and evolved over time. Look at all the changes and how map-makers have shown the world in different ways. What kinds of things do you notice? Can you spot the same countries and cities in maps from different times and places?

This website might be a good starting point oldmapsonline.org

5) Visit worldmapswithout.nz and look at all the maps that people have made with An Important Missing Ingredient… OK?

OTDIH Israel welcomes its one millionth immigrant

• Israel welcomes its one millionth immigrant

This is Gabriel and my on this day in history! We were given 20 minutes to make this!

So what: Millions of immigrants are all over the world and some get beat up every day!

quick write, paperback writer!

30/7/18

Once there was a young boy whose name was Alton, he was very clumsy.

One day when he was at school he was on the highest point

of the playground and locking of the lege

to see if his friend was coming when he slipped and fell!

In the second that he was in the air he realized that he wanted to be a...

Paperback writer!

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write something about a paperback writer!

On this day in history!

This is my OTDIH with

Gabriel, it is a stop-motion of when New Zealand's capital was moved from auckland to wellington!

So what: It is an important event because if it did not happen acland would be the capital!

Quick write

This is the story of the fastest man alive! When he was a baby he would race around the living room! If there was a door he would run thru the wall! He even crawled on his father's exercise machine at full speed!

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write a conflict about a sports person!

On this day in history.

We had 20 minutes to make a video on something that had happened on this day in the past. We did ours on a swarm of grasshoppers destroyed hundreds of acres of crops in america.

Three little pigs plot line

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write/draw the Three little pigs plot line,(it is unfinished)

The crowning of Henry II

This is gabriel's, cameron's and my this day in history.

 It is the crowning of Henry II.

So what: this was a big historical event and if it did not happen there would be lots of wars!

Quick write

In the school holidays I met my cousin by law, She came to see us on the first week of the holidays, she is leonine.

This is my quick write, I was givon 5 minutes to write something about my cousin!

(It was supposed to be a narrative!)

On this day in history

This is a team video made by gabriel and me!

It is the apollo 11 landing, I can't edit in my scratch, so here is the link!

I would like to understand more about how it landed.

So what,It was a big step in  space travel, and without it we wouldn't know as much as we know about space!

How to make fermented raspberry Kefir Ice Cream!

Fermented raspberry Kefir Ice Cream

You can make this rich, creamy probiotic ice cream in under 5 hours!

Serves 4

Ingredients

For the Raspberry Kefir Ice Cream:

• 2 cups kefir
• 3 to 4 tablespoons coconut syrup or maple syrup
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons MCT oil
• 8-10 raspberries
• pinch sea salt
• crushed ice
• 2 cup cheap iodized salt

Instructions

To make the raspberry Kefir Ice Cream:

1. In a quart-sized freezer bag, combine kefir, coconut syrup, vanilla, MCT oil, raspberries, and sea salt.
2. Seal the bag -- well!
3. In a gallon-sized freezer bag, add a layer of crushed ice and 1 cup iodized salt.
4. Put the quart bag with the ice cream mixture into the gallon bag.
5. Add another layer of ice and the remaining salt on top.
6. Seal the bag well and shake, shake, shake for 7 to 10 minutes until you achieve your desired texture. Place in freezer for 1-3.

7. Now eat!!

THE END!!!!!