Kapa Haka Festival

On Thursday this week The Grey Main School Kapa Haka group will be performing at the Kapa Haka festival in Hokitika! 

We have been training very hard and Whaea Paula has been working on getting our transitions perfect before we go to the festival. So far we are looking pretty good. 

Whaea Katie has also been working very hard to get us all sorted, also on our uniforms. I have been to 4 festivals so far and this one will be my 5th. We will be competing against other schools in the grey district. There are a lot of trophies that you can win at the festival including Maanakitanga, Ki Ta Taki Tane, Ki Ta Taki Wahine and 1st 2nd and 3rd overall, also much more. 

Last year Grey Main got 2 Trophy's. I cant remember what they were but we done really well. 

I am exited and nervous about the festival!

Calender Art Tapa Cloth Designs

This week we started working on our Calendar art. We are doing Tapa designs. I decided to do korus and lines and wavy lines. Also we have to Indian ink them. We had to do a draft first trying a range of different patterns. Then we would pick our favourite 2 and draw them on our good copy. After we done our good copy we got to Indian ink them! Once the Indian ink is dry we get to stain them with tea. I cant wait to see how my one turns out in a calendar! Here are some pictures of some tapa designs that I Found! 

Prep 2018

During the next 2 weeks our whole school will be doing something called prep. Prep is where you have pretend ventures and you have pretend money and you have to come up with something crafty to make and sell your products at the markets that we have. You can also apply for jobs like- Banker, Police, Advertising Agency, Warehouse and more. Cleo Summer and I are making Wood Art. We are gonna sell our products for $15  at the mini market and if they sell to quick we will knock the price up to 20-25 at big market. We made a slide show about how to make the wood art and what we will need, also some ideas we can use! Here is our slide!

Basketball Digital Badge

This term I played basketball for Totara. I have earnt my digital badge.

ASB Netball Challenge!

This week on Monday our ASB Netball team went to Westport to play the top Buller and Hoki Teams. We played Saint Marys and Westport South. We won both of our games by a reasonable amount! To get to go to Westport we had to play a tournament here in Greymouth against all of the local schools. We won all of our games. I really enjoyed going to Westport to play! When we got to Westport we got changed, after that we went and warmed up for our first game against Buller. After that game we had a short break to eat. Then we played another game against Saint Marys. We got a trophy at the end for winning the ASB Challenge and I hope next year Grey Main wins again! 

W8 T3 Reflection

This week for writing we have been refocusing on argument writing we had to argue about why we think recycling is essential. I enjoyed writing my argument and it was also really interesting! Here is my work!

Recycling Is Essential

I Strongly Believe that recycling is essential! Many marine life animals are mistaking plastic bags or other rubbish for prey and then dying. Over 1 million animals per year are dying from ingesting plastic and having it in there system or even choking! We are breathing in the chemicals of plastic everyday because of people dumping rubbish in silly places. Also it takes 10-1000 years for plastic to decompose!

Do you ever think about how many animals die a year from eating plastic? Well over 1 million marine life animals actually dies a year from eating plastic! One Green Planet has told us that “Sea turtles are the most common animals that die from eating plastic per year. The other most common animals are Seals, Sea Lions, Sea Birds, Whales and Dolphins”. I find it very sad that innocent animals are dying every year from plastic that people have thrown in the sea!

Us Humans are breathing in the toxic chemicals from the plastic and that can not be good for our systems! BPA is a very toxic chemical in plastic. Scientists have found that BPA is in the plastic bottles that some people drink out of! BPA affects the brain and heart. Have you thought about having a drink bottle that either BPA free of made of stainless steel?

Do you know how many years it takes for plastic to break down? 10-1000 years! The plastic that is put in landfills takes that long to go away! Just remember every piece of rubbish you drop will be there for your kids life and their kids life and their kids life and so on! If we don’t start recycling now our whole world will turn into a dump!

Have you ever thought of using reusable bags for your shopping or bringing a lunch box to school instead of a plastic bag, all of these things will help save our environment!

Those 3 reasons are why I believe that recycling is essential! Do you think that? If you dont then I hope I made you change your mind!

By Ella

W7 T3 Blog Post

This is my DLO on things that I learnt this week.