My Goals

Glen Innes School Vision

SCHOOL REACHed every learner’s

Values

Responsible - Using your initiative.

Effort - Putting your all into it.

Ako - Learn - Taking the risk to take the challenge.

Commitment - Courage

Honesty - Telling the truth, being truthful

What does ‘Responsibility’ mean?

1. Having a duty to deal with something or having control over someone.
2. Being accountable or blame for something.

Value of responsibility.

1. ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ is demonstrated by making good decisions, being accountable and caring for others.
2. Rely on yourself and no one else.

Swimming Information

Why is swimming compulsory?

1. You need to learn how to swim just in case you drown and you need to get to shore when no one is in your sight to rescue you.
2. Learning to swim is an absolutely good advantage for you to take when you need to learn more.
3. No matter how old you are you can still learn how to swim and swim in the pools or at the beach.

Different swimming skills.

1. Backstroke - Backstroke is wonderful for when your tired of swimming forwards.
2. Freestyle - Freestyle can be used when your having hard time getting back to shore when your good and doing freestyle properly.
3. Breaststroke - You can use breaststroke when you like to.

Water Safety:

1. Make sure someone is supervising you.
2. Never do flips and diving in shallow area of the pool.
3. Never run on the sides of the pool.
4. Don't play in the pool when someone is swimming.

Facts about swimming:

1. It could save you life.
2. Swimmers sweat in pools
3. The oldest stroke is backstroke.
4. Most of the United State’s population can’t swim.
5. In 1930 that's when rubber goggles were made.
6. Womens weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympics until 1912.
7. Swimming became an Olympic sport in 1908.
8. Australian swimmer, Fanny Durack, became the first woman to win gold medal in the 100 yard freestyle in the same year.
9. Children can take swim lessons as early as two months.
10. Swimmers use every muscle in their bodies.
11. Free Divers can hold their breath for more than 10 minutes.
12. Olympic pools hold 660,000 gallons of water, bathtubs can only hold 70 gallons.
13. Aleix Segura Vendrell is a man from Spanish who held his breath for 24 minutes and 3 seconds.
14. Nearly 2000 swimmers make it to the Olympics trials.
15. Swimmers lose 125ml of sweat inside the water.
16. Helps reduce stress.
17. Strengthens your lungs and heart.
18. Slowest Olympic swim stroke is breaststroke.
19. Started in 1896.
20. Gertrude Ederle a teenager in 1926 swan in the English Channel.
21. The Deep Eddy swimming pool was built in 1915, built in Texas.
22. Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.
23. Swimming first became an Olympic event in 1896.
24. Swimming first appeared in the Olympic during in the 1948 game.
25. The Fleishhacker Pool was the largest swimming pool in United States’. Opened on 23 April 1925.
26. It started on 1830.
27. Backstroke was added in, in 1904.
28. Womens’ swimming became Olympic in 1912.
29. Make you sweat.
30. Help you lose weight.

 

Waitangi Information

Narrative - The Journey

Once In the sunny but cloudy weather a young little girl went for a trip to the air balloon area, she wanted to go there because she wanted to have a trip in the delicate sun.

There was a lovely blue and yellow parrot flying in the air in her site around the lovely colourful air balloon. The parrot gracefully landed on the little girls hand, his claws gently nipping the sky on her index finger. She leant onto the basket lurch so she could steady herself.

While the sun was setting down it was shining down on the basket lurch it felt warm for her to hold onto. A smile went across her face as she thought about the excitement that lay ahead. The trip was to be a memorable trip so she could tell her children in the feature that they should go on a air balloon trip in the sky looking at a stunning sunset go down.

A few moments after the parrot landed on her finger it flew away to its family pack while it was flying in the cloudy white clouds. The parrot flew of gently with the little girl was raising her finger to the air. When the parrot was leaving the little girl waved goodbye.

When the sun was setting the little girl was slowly making her was back down to the ground safely as her parents were waiting for her patiently in the bright purple car. When the little girl got down she started explaining what happened to her in the air to her parents with excitement.

The little girl go down and started talking abundance to her parents she was full with enjoyable feelings because the parrot landed on her index finger.

Vocabulary

Success with team work

The Treaty Of Waitangi

The treaty of waitangi day is a national day in New Zealand  because it was the day of signing the contract on the 6th February 1840 and its known as the ‘ The Treaty of Waitangi ‘  it took place up North at the Bay of Islands.

What is waitangi day? Well waitangi day is a day were all the
schools and workers in New Zealand take a day off  because
Maoris is the occasion ( event ) for reflecting on the treaty since 1970’s .

When and why did the waitangi day happen?  Waitangi day is on
the 6th Wednesday of ( the year that is it right now.) The treaty
started because the Maoris found New Zealand first then the
British came along and thought that they were going to the
island but they didn’t, the British were killing  approximately
all the sea creatures in the ocean.

Who and how did the Maoris find the island first the
Maoris or the British ( palangi )?  The maoris is the ones
who found the island first because the first explorer was
Kupe used the stars and the ocean currents as his
navigational guides, across the Pacific on his waka hourua
( voyaging canoe ) from his Polynesian homeland of Hawiki.

When did the Maoris find this island ( New Zealand )?
The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700
years ago to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians.
The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was
dutch navigator Abel Tasman on 13 December 1642.

Quality of a good leader

My expectations for 2019

The Treaty Of Waitangi

The treaty of waitangi day is a national day in New Zealand  because it was the day of signing the contract on the 6th February 1840 and its known as the ‘ The Treaty of Waitangi ‘  it took place up North at the Bay of Islands.

What is waitangi day? Well waitangi day is a day were all the schools and workers in New Zealand take a day off  because Maoris is the occasion ( event ) for reflecting on the treaty since 1970’s .

When and why did the waitangi day happen?  Waitangi day is on the 6th Wednesday of ( the year that is it right now.) The treaty started because the Maoris found New Zealand first then the British came along and thought that they were going to the island but they didn’t, the British were killing  approximately all the sea creatures in the ocean.

Who and how did the Maoris find the island first the Maoris or the British ( palangi )?  The maoris is the ones who found the island first because the first explorer was Kupe used the stars and the ocean currents as his navigational guides, across the Pacific on his waka hourua ( voyaging canoe ) from his Polynesian homeland of Hawiki.

When did the Maoris find this island ( New Zealand )? The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years ago to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians. The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was dutch navigator Abel Tasman on 13 December 1642.

The Treaty Of Watangi

The treaty of waitangi day is a national day in New Zealand  because it was the day of signing the contract on the 6th February 1840 and its known as the ‘ The Treaty of Waitangi ‘  it took place up North at the Bay of Islands.

What is waitangi day? Well waitangi day is a day were all the schools and workers in New Zealand take a day off  because Maoris is the occasion ( event ) for reflecting on the treaty since 1970’s .

When and why did the waitangi day happen?  Waitangi day is on the 6th Wednesday of ( the year that is it right now.) The treaty started because the Maoris found New Zealand first then the British came along and thought that they were going to the island but they didn’t, the British were killing  approximately all the sea creatures in the ocean.

Who and how did the Maoris find the island first the Maoris or the British ( palangi )?  The maoris is the ones who found the island first because the first explorer was Kupe used the stars and the ocean currents as his navigational guides, across the Pacific on his waka hourua ( voyaging canoe ) from his Polynesian homeland of Hawiki.

When did the Maoris find this island ( New Zealand )? The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years ago to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians. The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was dutch navigator Abel Tasman on 13 December 1642.