What to do in Emergency Events Lesson

On Friday, May 25th, the Room 1 students were visited by Chris Duggan from the Christchurch City Council, Education Group. Chris showed us the different types of Civil Defence emergency events that could occur such as: Tsunamis, pandemics, biohazards, earthquakes, storms and floods. Then he showed us using activities how to stay safe and stay informed. Some of the activities included having five disasters to choose from, and a list of possible actions (we then had to choose which action would help most with which disaster), matching disasters with their descriptions, then choosing the top five that occur most frequently, showing us his emergency kit and a make a plan sheet we can fill in at home. This taught us lots about natural disasters and how we can help and create plans to stay safe in these events. It was a really informative lesson and we were very grateful for learning how to be safe in an emergency.                                  By Hayley

Michael Mangan

Michael Mangan

Michael Mangan came to sing with us on Thursday 17 May. We started with a welcome by Emma and I, then we sang a really catchy song ‘Come Together Let’s Celebrate’. After singing ‘Come Together Let’s Celebrate’ we sang another song that was a bit like the first one ‘Celebrate, Let’s Celebrate’. We used a lot of really cool actions for all the songs, and we had heaps of fun clapping rythms. My favourite songs to listen, sing and do actions to were ‘Create A new Heart’, ‘Common Good’ and ‘Justice and freedom’. Michael has written over 250 songs, but unfortunately we only got to sing a few. Wow! It was a great morning and we were really grateful to have the chance to actually listen to someone as talented as Mr Mangan and learn 8 or 9 new songs.

By Rosie 

PS If you don't know who he is, check out these links to his work:

Litmus Productions

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Catholic Cathedral College Roadshow!

Catholic Cathedral College Road show

Today the travelling Catholic Cathedral College (CCC) Roadshow came to NBC. We were entertained by many different cultural performances including; kappahaka,  theatre sports (who performed a skit in 1 minute, 30 seconds, 15 seconds and then 7 seconds- which was exhilarating!),  choir (who sung ‘Beautiful Day’ and a song from the ‘Blues Brothers’),  a Samoan song  which was performed at also performed at Polyfest, a Filipino dance involving boys with fish nets and girls dressed in blue and white flower dresses (I loved how they indirectly told the story of marine life getting caught in nets), more theatre sports where they had to freeze in the middle of a scene and start a new one,  a song which was originally sung by Sam Smith, called ‘Way too Good at Goodbyes’ . It was an excellent afternoon and we really appreciate Catholic Cathedral College performance. We (the Year 7 & 8 class) were lucky enough to have a short workshop with the students from CCC at the end of the performance.

 

Jessica 

Year 7

NBC Picnic

NBC Picnic

Last Tuesday we held our school picnic in the Domain and in the school grounds.
It was a great time. There were bouncy castles, face painting, silly bikes, games
and people eating! It looked like everyone had a blast. I enjoyed the silly bikes
especially the ski sled bike and tandem bikes. A big thank you to all the people
who helped organise the evening, especially Miss Buckley!

Sean
Year 8

Holy Spirit- Pentecost Display

Holy Spirit Display

On Tuesday we helped Hannah Williams-Blakey make a Holy Spirit sculpture in the library to coincide with Pentecost on Sunday. Hannah works in a library in town and organises craft groups for kids of all ages. We started by cutting and gluing together some paper doves that everyone in the school made during buddy prayers last week. Then we cut out some triangles to represent the flames of the Holy Spirit. Once we cut them out Hannah stapled them to the wall to form flames, while she was doing that we pinned the doves to the wall. It is a inspirational sculpture and we feel if you see it you will be touched by the Holy Spirit. Hopefully you can come and see it tomorrow.

By: Holly, Malia 

Year 8

Miriama Kamo

Miriama Kamo

On Tuesday 8th May, Miriama Kamo came to NBC to talk to the juniors (year 1-3) and

Intermediate children (Year 7 & 8) about her book The Stolen Stars Of Matariki 

Which is due to be released in May this year. She also spoke about her journalism

career as a radio announcer and producer at National Radio, and then her work

at TVNZ.

Hayley introduced herself with her Mihi and Miriama then introduced

herself in Te reo as well. After that she told us a little bit about what she has done in her

career. We had the opportunity to ask questions such ‘Who inspired you in your

life?’. She answered our questions and told us about her time at NBC. Overall her

talk was very inspiring to all of us and we were grateful for her visit.

You can find out more on Miriama here

By Elijah

Year 7

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