School Water Safety Swimming At The Lido

1/04/16

Every Friday GRi11 2.0 does school swimming at the lido, girls go on the bus first and at the end of our lesson the boys show up. We get put into 3 different groups, 1 in the little pool and two in the bigger pool. Each group gets assigned a colour, I'm in the colour Green which is the middle group my friend Sarah is also in my group and my friend Lola is in the red group which is the highest group, I also have a friend Siu who is in the Yellow group which is in the smaller pool. The pool is freezing when you first get in it, but after a while the pool gets way warmer. In swimming we learn how to tread water and we swam half a length doing freestyle, backstroke ,switching over from freestyle to backstroke and much more. Today is Friday so we have it again today in the middle block and i cant wait!

Written by Kristy

Womad 2016

18/ 03/16

This weekend was Womad 2016! Womad is a big music festival held in New Plymouth where i used to live. It's funny because when i was living there i never went but now that i moved to Palmerston North i have been to Womad. Womad is once every year and is only held in New Plymouth, New Zealand!

At Womad their is lots of food and cool hippie clothes to buy plus some hippie jewellery as well,you can also get a henna and a henna pen. My friend (Maya) bought a henna pen and tried to do henna on my hand but it kinda failed so then next morning when i had to go to school i looked in the mirror and saw henna all down the side of my face from my henna on my hand. I thought well i don't want this to happen tomorrow as well so i tried my hardest to scrub it off of my hand it came off of my hand just not my fingers so i had orange henna on my fingers for about 4 days!

One of my favourite foods at Womad is a Churos!This is my favourite food at Womad because they put chocolate sauce all down the middle of the churo and spilling out the top they are delicious you can also get caramel instead of chocolate.

I had sooooo much fun this year at Womad with all of my really good friends. I can't wait till next year!

This is around how many people come to Womad plus more!

Favourite Learning Space In Gri11 2.0

my favourite space in GRi11 2.0 is the Hangout!

Learning spaces in GRi11 2.0

9/3/16

This year I'm learning in GRi11 2.0 and we have four different learning spaces. We have the main space called the 'Hub' which is pretty much two classes joined together and it has a Foosball table and a ping pong table which most people play on before school starts. Their are also six tables in the hub, two of them are whiteboard tables, which the girls love draw on before school, and the rest are just normal tables with chairs.

Their is also another learning space called the 'Hangout'. The hangout is for people who want to talk and have group meetings. Their is one table in there with around five swirly chairs round it and a bench with two regular chairs.Their is also a blue couch with a little green coffee table in there.

We also have a little hallway called the 'Hall of fame'. This hallway has a long bench going all the way down from the start of the hall to the end of it.On the bench are four iMac computers, and in the morning we have monitors that get the computers from a safe (in another learning space that I will talk about next) and make sure they are charged and put them on the benches so we can use them everyday.

Last but not least, my favourite place in the whole classroom is the 'Hideout'. The hideout is a place for people who just want it to be silent in the class so they just shut the door and be quiet. It has a table with about eight chairs around it, a red couch with a little green coffee table in front of it, two big beanbags and one small beanbag, a little bench with three chairs at it and the safe where all the senior computers go.This is my favourite learning space because its really quiet and I can concentrate.

These four learning spaces all can be used in different situations. I really like how we have four different learning spaces because otherwise we would be crammed in one small classroom because we have sixty kids in GRi11 2.0. At my old school in New Plymouth we had thirty kids in one classroom and only five computers with one teacher, but in GRi11 2.0 we have almost one computer for everyone, two teachers, sometimes there are five teachers in our class and sixty kids in the classroom. I really like learning in GRi11 2.0!