Mental Health Awareness!!

Gumboot Friday - Supporting       

             Mental Health

Jumbo - Welcome back bloggers to another good post of mine.
On Tuesday 10th of March our syndicate went around posting positive
letters to houses all around our community for Gumboot Friday. Gumboot
Friday is all about raising awareness about mental health and supporting the
people with mental health problems, having empathy for the people that
struggle with it. Our school brought our gumboots to help support - the
reason gumboots are worn is because having bad mental health can feel
like you are going through mud like going through negative thoughts.

We all wrote at least 3 positive quotes / messages to help people think good
things about themselves. The idea all started when we filled in a Healthy
Puketapapa Student Questionnaire, we got the mental health idea because
a lot of people circled that for what they thought would make our community
better. A girl named Neeve at our school came up with the idea of posting
positive notes in people's letter boxes. This mental health idea also relates
to our school focus topic - Hauora - Wellbeing.

Every year we have a different focus and this years is the best  
(In my opinion.) I think Gumboot Friday Is a good idea and I think every year
we should post positive letters to help people think good things about
themselves. Next time we are going to write on the bottom ‘’ Please pass
this on ‘’ and hopefully they will get passed on and will go further than our
area / community! Here is a link to the Gumboot Friday give a little page.
I hope you have a lovely day! Blog ya later!

Swimming ports

            🏊 Junior / Senior Swimming!! 🌊

Good evening bloggers, On Thursday 4th of April and in week 5 the Seniors and the Juniors had there swimming sports. Yesterday the seniors had there swimming sports at Cameron Pools. Everyone had to do 2 different races - backstroke and freestyle, I came 4th in both of the races out of 7 people. There were different groups, there were the Year 5 Girls / boys, Year 6 girls / boys, Year 4 girls / boys, Year 3 Girls / boys. We each had our own lane to race in, if we came 1st, 2nd or 3rd - we were in the relays. There were house relays and there were students / teacher relays. Our house group won the 1st relays and in the second relay I was in it with my year 6 friends, Neeve, Zoe, me and some others. We came 3rd in that relay, one of the teachers won! The Juniors had there swimming sports in week 5 in our small school pool and In a few years they will go to Cameron Pools, Just like us!! Unfortunately there isn't any photo's of the seniors swimming. Here is our link to our school site if you would like to see all the activities and sports / fun days we do!                        Blog ya later!!

Tread Lightly Caravan

               Tread Lightly Caravan🚆

Kia ora bloggers, welcome back to another good post of mine. This morning my class (Hauraki) had a session with the Tread Lightly crew. The Tread Lightly Caravan is a session were you learn all about our water ways and how to keep them clean and what you can and cannot put down drains, sinks, toilets and many more. We split into 3 groups to do different activities, inside was colouring and looking in the virtual reality headsets to see the problems rubbish causes in the sea. Outside, 1 group looked at all our school drains and had to discuss what was in the drain and how to we could improve our drains. Another outside activity was to learn what things you can and cannot put in drains, sinks, toilets and the rubbish bins! All the groups switched and everyone had a turn at every activity. I enjoyed our session, my favourite bit was learning new things about what you can put down the drains, sinks, toilets and rubbish bins! I thinks more schools should do this so we can keep our animal and plants alive longer. By and I'll see you again with my next post!  Click here for the site link!