Science Trip

Last Thursday Year 7 & 8 learners went to Catholic Cathedral College for a science lesson afternoon. We were all thrilled and ready to have an amazing time. At CCC we met the science teacher Mr Wardrop. The first science project that we saw was when the teacher broke a glass tube and put it in some vegetable oil and it all joined back together, this was because the reflection of sunlight was different in air compared to in oil. We also completed lots of amazing experiments that involved dry ice. We looked at static electricity and learned that charges can be both negative and positive. Finally at the end we used a vandergraph that made Jessica’s, Grace’s and Jasmine’s hair go crazy and stand up because of the positive charge. Overall we had an awesome time and learnt a lot. Thank you so much CCC for teaching and letting us view science at your school.

Rosie

Year 7

Passwords

Mr Mark Madden from Manaiakalani comes to Room 1 every Wednesday from 10.00am-10.50am (and Room 4 from 9-9.50am)  to teach us more about the Manaiakalani model of ‘Learn, Create, Share’. 

This week when he came in he taught us about passwords, good ones and bad ones. An example of a bad password is, (your name)123 or 123456 or a birthday. He taught us how to make a good password, like taking the first letters of your favourite quotes or songs and changing some of the letters into different symbols. One of my ideas was, ?MniG? (?My name is Grace?). 

What are you going to do to make your passwords safe?

Grace 

Yr 7

Life Education Visit

Life Education

On Wednesday 13^th June the Life Education truck came to school to teach all the classes different things about making our lives healthier and happier. We take turns going inside learning and at the end we meet Harold the giraffe and if you are lucky Harold will tell you a joke! Room 1 is learning about making choices, with the motto ‘The best decision is an informed decision’ and we are also learning about how the brain works and learns new ideas. We discovered that we are born with 100 billion brain cells and that when we learn something they make connections and become stronger. The brain belongs to the nervous system and its main job is to be the boss of our body and keep all the other organs and systems working. We are going to learn more about influences (such as family, friends, TV, school, advertising) tomorrow.

By Jenna 

Year 8

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

Youtube

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