Kumara Trip

On Monday, 9 April we went for a trip to Kumara,


Kumara is a small town on the west coast we went in groups and had four different things to do. We went for a walk to see Londonderry Rock then we went to the old swimming bath and saw where the men and women were aloud to swim because they were not aloud to swim together back then, we got given a pack with some different stories and had to get into a group and act it out, these stories were a old tails that everyone use to talk about our story was about a ghost that came and wailed and if she came that would mean someone if going to die.
It was called the banshee.
Then we had to go somewhere else and work together in groups to make a catapult and cross a river that we couldn't touch. Then we went inside and learnt about the history then we got given some sheets and got into groups and walked down to where the old hotel use to be because there is lots of information there so we could answer the questions on the sheets. I learnt a lot about the history. My favourite activity was the walk to Londonderry Rock because it was really fun.

My Speech

My speech


In our class the year 7 & 8 had to write a speech about our writing but the year 8 just did out end of year speech about the time we have had this school so this is my speech about my time here.

Think back to a time when you fell over and everyone was watching you

Hey

My name is Alex Muir let me tell you a little bit about myself. i have been at Paparoa Range School since i was 7 and enjoyed nearly every minute of it.

It has been a roller coaster ride there has been a lot of ups and downs at this school. I have loved all the time with the girls like Caitlyn, Emily, Jess B, Jess G and Sammie and i will really miss  them a lot they have made my time here much much better i can not say that about the boys though. I have a lot of good memories some funny ones and some bad ones. that i will always remember like the water fights we have done and JessB and I walking all through the mud at school and all the camps i have had with them my favorite camp was the hanmer camp.

Thank you Miss J, and Miss Bell you have been great teachers and I will really miss you they are amazing teachers they have been my favorite teachers  that i have had and Miss Bell’s matching jewelry and thank you to Miss D for planning and organising some the fun school events that we have done. And thank you to all the board and home and school for help raising money for our school. I will miss most of the people at thIs school it has been a great 5 years thank you to most of the great people at this school that has made my time here great.

For the last 4 years i have had Mrs Weavers as my principal and she made a big change in the school and Even though we have not had our new principal for long i just want to say thank you to Mr Norrish for being here this term.  thank you everyone i have had a great time and i will really miss it next year.

Gold bar achievement 4 - Perseverance

Set yourself an endurance event time goal (maybe you want to beat your last time) and then train to achieve it. e.g. cross country, triathlon, or a cycle event


My achievement was beating my last time swimming. I know i bet my time because i did much better than the last time.

Gold bar achievement 3 - Honesty

Do at least three random acts of kindness. My first act of kindness is visiting an elderly person.

Gold bar achievement 2- Perserverance

My achievement for this task was to write a piece of writing to enter into a writing competition. This type of writing was poetry. We had to pick something to do a poem about and we had to enter the poem into a writing competition.

Gold bar achievement 1 - Perserverance

My first gold bar achievement was to improve my swimming and set a distance goal. My goal was 2km and i accomplished that by doing midland line swimming we had to swim 10 laps of the pool everytime we when swimming 1km = 40 lengths and 2km = 80 lengths. we had to do this in the blackball pool and i accomplished swimming 80 lengths.

My reflection on my writing

Have a look at my reflection.

My Reflection