Circumference problems

This week we have been trying a variety of tasks that involve using circumference.

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Hockey

Winter sports has started and I'm on the year 7/8 hockey team.

Last week we played south and we lost, 8-1.  We are just a new team and they were more experienced than us.  I scored the one goal.

The thing that our team did well was passing.  Next game we need to work on staying in positions, for example sometimes people would push a bit wide.

Hannah, who is charge of all the sport, is going to change the time of the games so I can referee some of the year 5/6 games because there aren't enough referees.  I help out the junior team.  They are really good.

I also play outside of school for Marist Hockey.   I have played for three years.  I like playing because  it is a running game and you get to score goals - and get chocolate afterwards!

By Rueben

Shirley Boys Visit

Today the year eight boys got to go to Shirley boys and experience some of the classes on offer.   There was baking, art,  claymation recreation of the ANZAC invasion, team games, sausage sizzle and coin tossing (maths!). They finished off the day with a resounding waiata. 

Whakainaka project.

We are a part of a city wide project to protect our whitebait.. It is called the whakainaka project. Inaka is the Ngai Tahu word for whitebait.

We go out on Wednesday afternoon to Anzac Drive where the old Kate Sheppard rest home used to be. We check five sites for pests.

We put peanut butter cards on the posts and when we come back we look to see if they have been eaten.  In the picture above you can see it has been chewed at the bottom by a hedgehog or maybe a rat.

By Bailey and Reuben