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Some students from our school and Mercury Bay Area School are lucky enough to participate in a World Challenge trip to India (Himalaya and Rajasthan). We wish them good luck and hope they have an awesome time!!
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Look what these Room 4 boys have made...yum!
Weetbix balls.
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Room Two, Matariki Art
Awesome!!
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Room One learning about traditional Maori games.
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Kia ora koutou, e te whānau,
What a term we have had! It has been jam packed with exciting opportunities and events, and has absolutely flown by. Can you believe are half way through the year and already starting to plan for 2020?
In this newsletter, you will find heaps of exciting opportunities for both students and whānau to get involved here at school.
I am so excited by the prospect of designing a new playground, and a new set of Kapa Haka uniforms! We are looking for people to help us run the Duke of Edinburgh International Award programme and this will be a great opportunity for our youth to get involved and be empowered. The new software we are rolling out, called Career Central, will provide a great platform for teachers, students and whānau to look into possible career pathways, and have those future-focused conversations.
As you are reading this, eight students and two staff members are trekking somewhere across India, completing their three week World Challenge. What an experience! Not only did they raise over $30,000 in order to go, they are ‘giving back’ while in India, by supporting locals with different projects. I can’t wait to find out which part of the world the next World Challenge group will go too!
We have now had 8 weeks of running the Breakfast Club and I have to say it’s been a great success. This is due to the amazing Breakfast Club Crew who turn up at 7.45am and work solidly till 8.50am. Thanks must go to the staff who supervise, and to everyone who donated products. We are now trying to re-stock for Term 3, and would love any donations of jam, peanut butter, honey, marmite, vegemite, margarine, sugar, or milo.
Tomorrow we host Raglan Area School for the annual sports exchange and we look forward to seeing some great competitions, through the spirit of good sportsmanship. The draw has been posted on our Facebook page and website, but may be changed due to weather. Come down and catch a game!
In keeping with sport, there is another Interschool Sports Day planned for the first Wednesday on Term 3, for all Year 5 to 8 students, against Te Rerenga, and Colville schools. So that will be another opportunity to come and see our students in action.
I would like to take the opportunity to say good luck to the three students going to the New Zealand Area Schools National tournament in the first week of the holidays. I know you will do us proud! A huge thank you to Geoff Horton for making all of these opportunities a reality!
I hope everyone has a fantastic term holiday, and comes back refreshed and ready to go for the start of Term 3.
Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa,
Koren Hopoi
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Room 2 have been learning about Stars and trying to write and think like a scientist.
The sun is a star.
A star is a ball of gas with energy in the middle.
Stars can be different colours like white and red and other colours.
Stars can be different sizes.
People are made out of the same stuff as a star.
Mika
Stars are made of gas, they are made of energy.
They can be different colours and sizes.
People think they are rocks.
The sun is a big star.
Brody
The sun is a star, it is a big star and it is a ball of gas.
A star is made of energy and gas.
The Earth is a part of the Solar System.
Drew
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This is a letter written by a Room 4 student to a friend who has moved back to Switzerland.
Dear Awa
How are you? Thanks for the long letter you sent us. It’s getting pretty cold here. Some days I still go by bike, but I have to wear gloves and a thick jacket. Are you having a good Summer? How hot is it in Switzerland?
In May we had cross country. If you don’t know what cross country is, it is a running race, and I came third for the girls.
We have had bike lessons. Bike lessons are where a man called Paul Miller taught us some biking skills.
Recently Whaea Sandra and Matua Kelvin have been doing ripper rugby and mini ball. I am doing ripper rugby. After a few weeks of one sport we swap the classes over. Rooms Three and Four are doing it.
Room Four are missing you. I hope you come and visit us soon. It was nice having you in this class and school.
Love Nuriya
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Epic Writing from Room Seven
Tawhirimatea by Mere
Tawhirimatea twirls his way into town in a raging spin.
He is out of control as he rips the streets apart looking for trouble everywhere and with anyone!
'Swirl away you crazy maniac!' I demand.
He ignores me and carries on destructing everything in his parth, determined to cause trouble.
Tumatauenga
Beams his dark hatred-filled eyes at me
He hurls his cloak off and rampages throughout my city
His patu strikes and his taiaha penetrates our houses and he smacks down our trees
'Haere atu koe!' I roar at him.
He takes no notice and continues to dismantle our streets as he claws his way to the ngahere to celebrate his victory against his brother Tawhirimatea.
Tawhirimatea by Ryan
Always unpredictable as he stampedes across the heavy night sky.
He storms around the town looking for trouble, breathing like an angry ogre on steroids as he rips roofs off and strikes the trees with his air whip.
'Go die in a hole you crazy old goat,' I scream, but he ignores my demand with a destructive grin.
He continues his parade through the town.
As the new dawn rises, he dashes off leaving an angry message saying, 'I'll be back!'
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Matariki Haiku Poem
Stars shine bright yellow
Stars are very distracting
Stars swarm the sky.
Letting of lanterns
Winter is a cold season
It is time to feast.
by Stella
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Climate Change
The evidence is out. The planet is heating up faster and hotter than once predicted.The impact of climate change is melting glaciers,sea level rise,extreme weather and a lot of wildfires.
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Climate is the usual weather of a place over a long period of time.
These studies have looked at the climate from 500,000 years ago up until about 30 years ago.Scientists study the usual temperatures and weather patterns, like rainfall, sunshine, wind, thunder and lightning.
The weather is something that we cannot control and also the conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time eg: This week, last week, next week.
How is climate change a problem for us?
The long dry periods will make it harder to grow vegetables and fruit. Producing meat will also become difficult. These problems will all stem due to a shortage of water. Floods will have similar issues because they will wash away, damage or rot in the ground. All the problems stated above will greatly affect humans. No one can survive without water or too much of it.
What is the effect of climate change on the polar regions ?
It takes a lot of energy to warm up water. The oceans absorb heat and they get warmer. Ice is white, so it reflects heat upwards. The dark water where the ice has melted, absorbs the heat from the sun and heats the water, therefore melting ice. The warmer water causes sea ice to begin to melt in the Antarctic and the Arctic. The more dark water, the warmer the water gets and the faster the ice sheets melt.
Scientists have worked out that, at the rate the ice is melting now, it will take fifty to seventy years for all the ice to melt.
This means the water levels will rise and people will lose their land and some small islands will completely disappear. Some islands in the pacific are disappearing. These people who have lost their islands are called climate change refugees.
What can we in Coromandel do to help reduce our effect on climate change?
We could start biking or walking to wherever it is we need to go. Using electric cars would also help. We need to stop burning coal at school to heat the rooms, and find an alternative. Being more careful using water will help to save water in the storage ponds for when we have drought. Farmers should have more rules about the amount of animals they can farm and plant all along the creeks and rivers. Factories should also have restrictions with their smoke emission.
I want to live in a world which is safe; free from fossil fuel pollution, has clean and healthy rivers and drinking water and where we buy only what we need to care for our planet.
Aaliyah
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Career Central
We are signing up to a new product called 'Career Central' that delivers career education through an online platform. This is currently being used by over 100,000 NZ school students, and we will initially be rolling this out next Term to all Year 9 to 13 students.
Career Central makes it possible for students to take ownership of their career plan and for parents & caregivers to be empowered to have career conversations with their child(ren).
Students, parents and teachers will have 24/7 access on any device to this service.
Our Careers Coordinator will use this platform to manage student pathways.
In signing up to this service, Career Central will be receiving information about our students. This information is what is stored in our current student information system, and will be under the same privacy policy as that system. If you have any questions, or would like to opt out, then please contact our school's privacy officer by emailing principal@coroarea.school.nz.
For more information on this service go to https://careercentral.school.nz/how-it-works/
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Kia ora koutou,
Holidays are just around the corner, our Kiwi Can team would like to wish all our students and teachers a wonderful holiday.
And remember be safe, be awesome, be you.
Ka kite ano from the Kiwi Can team.
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