High school SPINS

This term I have been chosen to do three spins at the Secondary School

Drama

At drama I have been learning about the main parts in drama such as place,

time, character e.t.c. We have learned many warm up games such as Bang,

numbers and whoosh. Recently we had the task of making a certain

subject of drama (comedy, action e.t.c) on how HPSS was made.

My group is comedy and it involves a Pink Ninja Warrior,

a broccoli, Narrator, News reporter and a guy named Morri 

and his butler. Next week we have some more time

to work on it and then we have to perform in front of

the other groups live, by video or presentation.

Dance Choreography

For dance choreography our main focus for the term is

to become confident learning how to choreograph a dance and

perform it in front of others. We learnt some warm ups like Chain and Bump.

We then had do write down many choreographic devices such as 

Cannon, Unison and Motif. We then made up a dance in our

group and added to it to make it the theme of electricity or

Electric current. We added slow motion moves and unison (same time)

to add effect and sharp moves

Spanish

For spanish we started off by learning some basic classroom words

such as 'can I get some water please'. We then started 

to learn the numbers of the alphabet by watching videos

and then trying to join along.We then started moving into

 spelling our own names in Spanish.

Once we had mastered that we learn't how to ask each other

our names and how to spell them.

We were then pretty confident with our alphabet and started

to move into numbers. We were split into different groups depending on 

what we already knew, then we started practicing it and 

playing games to help us get faster at them

Horse Trek

Today me and 5 other students went on the Muriwai horse trek that was organised by me and Nelle. I love horses as you probably know and that sparked the idea for me to organise this trek. I had already done the trek and had an idea of what it was like and it was really good the last time I did it.

We approached Daniel and our Learning Advisors about it and then started to get it up and running. We wrote our proposal and got that approved. We then started working on the costs and the students attending. For the 1 hour trek it was $60 so we decided we would do that one as we had already fun raised $140 from previous projects, so we could pay $20 of each students cost and they would have to pay $40.

The students who showed interest, got their names pulled out of a hat and 4 were chosen to participate. The newsletter was sent out and no parents were able to do it. Sarah then said she would do it and possibly mum too. On the day Sarah was unable to come and there was not very many people in the office so mum couldn't take us. I got a little frustrated and upset and then moved on by trying to find someone else. No one else could do it so mum talked to Lisa and she said it was fine if she took us. I was really excited so we all got ready to go.

We had a fun time on the way there as we listened to loud music and had some fun. When we got there we had some lunch and got fitted to the horses and started off on our trek. Since there was some beginners the manager and her helper walked the trek next to our horses.

We rode over the beach and through the forrest. We passed the area were Taylor Swift filmed her new video 'Out of the Woods' and through the country side. It was a great experience for all of us and we all really enjoyed it.

Reflection:
My highlight of the trek was knowing that me and Nelle had organised all of this and having the lady tell me I was a really good rider and that I was very good when talking on the phone. I am hoping for next time I do the trek it will be for Advanced riders so that we can canter instead of walking and trotting.

My challenge for the horse trek was getting the parent help because of the problems we had but we worked around them and had a great time!

My change for next time would be to fundraise more money so that no one has to pay and to send out the permission slip out earlier so we can get some more parent helps and we don't have to chase everyone up the day before.

Me on Floyd

On the beach

Through the woods

On the trail

Learning how to tie a
horse to a fence.

Javena on Jimmy

Mum on Skye

Nelle on Grace

Credits:
Thanks to Karma and the manager we have these photos.

Thank you Daniel, Kristyn, Elizabeth and Amy
for helping us organise this event.

Thanks to all the participants for making our
project happen.

Sausage Sizzle

Planning.

I decided that this year I would like to run a disco. I brainstormed fundraising ideas and decided that a sausage sizzle would earn lots of money to go towards it. I talked to Daniel and he asked me what all the profit money (about $300 - $500) will go towards and I thought maybe a class trip like rock climbing but then Daniel said we could use it for the year 8 leavers dinner.

Daniel said he already had sausages, sauce and bread so that was all set-up and ready. We then confirmed the date and started to make posters as you can see below. We also decided that another way of fundraising would be to sell Hot chocolates and coffee because it would earn us more money and give us experience so we decided to do it weekdays and made a poster for that too.

Organising.

I got onto everything as soon as I could. I printed off class lists and put notices over the loudspeaker about it and was hoping that lots of people would order one. On Monday morning Mea took orders and we got lots of orders but lots of people forgot about it over the weekend, Grace and I worked in the cafe as I am the only one who knows how to do the coffee and hot chocolate properly.

Action.

It finally came to the sausage sizzle day. We made sure the sausages and bread were defrosting and did some work in the common. When it was the middle block we organised the bread and paper towels. We then put the sausages in the oven and waited for them to be cooked. Then the sausages got delivered to learning common 1&2. Then I made Hot chocolates for the kids that ordered them in the morning. We ended up earning about $194 which was a great outcome.

My reflection.

My highlight of the sausage sizzle would be knowing that the money we raised is going towards a disco for everyone to enjoy and a time for everyone to have fun.

My challenge for the sausage sizzle would have to be making hot chocolates while running everything else at the same time and having to run around to get everything done

A change for next time would be to cook the sausages earlier so we didn’t have to rush as much as we did because they will be ready before everyone comes to get their one.