Science Road Show

Science Road Show

Yesterday at 26th of March, all of the year seven and eights walked down to the hall (different classes at different times) to learn and to interact with the science roadshow but before we did that, we watched  Justin and Kendall do some cool science stuff that I will now tell you.

just by looking at this picture, your probably wondering how this yellow flame came to be, well I happen to have somewhat of an answer.

One of the ways you can tell two elements apart is by doing the heat test. The heat test is when you put enough heat on the element and it produces a reaction which by that certain reaction you can easily tell what element it is.

and last but not least. 

The big long noodley line that you see is a chemical reaction between two different chemicals that produce "Elephant Toothpaste"

It chemical reaction grew bigger and bigger until it overflowing over sides and left a mess inside of the container.

And that was part of what we did at the science road show.

Festival Of The Arts Trip

Festival of the Arts trip

Yesterday on the 14th of March, my class and all the other year seven and eight classes went to Wellington
to attend the Capital E Festival of the Arts.

The first activity we did was to do with Story Studio live and group of three people who acted out
scenarios of a script but also incorporated sounds by only using regular objects.

They performed two plays for us with one being about a world where animals are extinct and the main
character life gets more exciting as they find a cat with magical powers.

The other play was about a girl who turned into a Vampire and how people wouldn’t accept her because
of her but she learns the importance of her self worth as the story goes on.

For the next activity, we went to Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus which unlike any other place
could be found in an alleyway.

The act was consisted of three people with a woman and two men. It was a musical/play that had a
lot of excitement and very difficult stunts involved. I had a lot of fun watching them perform on stage.

Lastly, we watched two mimes perform a series of funny scenarios but I found it hard to understand
what was going on due to the lack of words spoken so I was very bored during some of their plays.

My favourite scenario was when one of the men played a  monk and he was able to fight a cleaner
by stopping time. I found it really entertaining.

I had a lot of fun walking around Wellington and I wished it would never end.

Athletics Day

Athletics day is a day where the whole school gathers on a field, and sets up activities for all
the year levels to compete in.

To start the day off. Each house does a cheer and the judges pick which chant is the best and
that house revives some points. I was in Totara and we somehow ended up winning which
was quite a surprise. Then the events started to begin

Since I’m a year eight, I was placed with all the female year sevens and year eights and we
did some sporty activities and we first started of with a ruby toss.

All you needed to do was from a distance you needed to throw a ruby ball through a hula hoop
and if it went in, you had to throw it from a further distance. I didn’t do so well in this activity
as I only got past the first hoop.

The next activity we did was shot-put, It was quite simple really. All that you had to do was
throw a heavy ball as far as you could and of course make sure you did it properly.

I manged to throw the shot-put six point three meters in advance and I ended up winning the
shot-put event which was super awesome.

The third activity we did was long jump. High jump is where all you have to do is jump over a
bar that is of a certain height thats it.

Me, Valerie, Jett and Neli all managed to make it in the finals. In the end, I ended up beating
Neli and came first place in High jump.

Next we had long jump. All you have to do is see how far you can jump, simple. I didn’t do
so well in long jump and only made it in the top ten.

Then we had the sprints. Valleryie and Dayna were clearly the ones to beat. I ended up
coming third in my first race, but in my second race I came first which isn’t to bad.

And finally our last activity, Disscus. Now disscus was a mess. I’m sure that close to none
of us knew what we were doing but still managed to not hit someone in the face so I guess
that's an achievement.

And was athletics day in a nutshell.