Fair trade sack art

This term our topic was fart trade. We made poems and wrote them on fair trade sacks with indian ink. Tyler and me did ours together, this was ours:

Their spirits fade
They barely get paid
They cant even play
They need fair trade

nutrition refeshon

Last week my class went to town to have a healthy lunch and to see a nutritionist (at New World) . The nutritionist came 3 days in a row. Two days at school and one at New World. But I missed the second day because I was sick... 'cofh cof'. When the nutritionist was here I didn't learn that much, I learnt a bit about vitamins, and to look in the 100 grams side when reading food labels. At New World we did a challenge to find a healthy and an unhealthy food in different categories. My brother (who is the head of the butchery) showed me the butchery from inside, so I didn't get all the foods. I don't know if I can say that much about the butchery, but it was made up of a giant store room and a preposition room.

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The pod nears... Personal inquiry.

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.