Last week our year 8s had their EOTC week. Where they partook in many activities such as Biking to Enfield and back, going to Orakanui Ecosantury to learn about their plants and wildlife, going to peel forest to orienteer and have some fun up in the high ropes course. We also spent Thursday and Friday together as year 8s where they split up into groups to do community activities. My favourite part of the week was orienteering at Peel Forrest, where we got to explore though out a massive bush land to try and find staples using only our brains and a map. a challenging bit for me was when we did the high ropes course on wednesday as we were so high up in the air with only a harness to hold us up. but in the end everything we did was very fun and i am so great full for our amazing teachers and parents that helped put this week together
Chloe's Blog 2020
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Monday, November 2, 2020
The Week 4 100 Word Challenge
it is the year 2020 and we are in a war where everyone is fighting for many things such as human rights, gender equality, world hunger and so much more. In this photo the world green team is fighting against those who do not agree with the world hunger agreement that we have in place. As it is war worst has come to worst and the world green team has had to go against their mottos and start using more violent per say weapons, such as this large cannon that is shown here, it is located in there secret hideout.
Monday, August 31, 2020
Why we should have longer lunchtimes
Oamaru Intermediate School
Pembroke Street
Oamaru
9400
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Dear Mrs Healey,
Having been a student at Oamaru Intermediate School for the last year and a half, I feel that my peers and myself would strongly benefit from having longer lunchtimes preferably extended from 1:25pm to 2:00pm. However not only my peers would benefit from such a change I believe that our staff would benefit too. I have many reasons to support longer lunchtimes which are all outlined in this letter….
Firstly, during lunch time we only have one hour, and by the time you eat lunch, get changed for PE and go to the toilet. It's already 1:15pm and most of our lunch has been wasted from doing necessary things that we don't have a choice on whether we do or not. Furthermore, if we had longer lunch times then there would be more room for some needed discipline. Timeouts would be increased to longer times and I know that not many people would like to have a longer timeout than necessary so this may positively affect children's behavior in and out of the classroom.
Secondly, having longer lunchtimes would take a lot of stress away from teachers having to fit PE into our school curriculum. And without having PE in the school curriculum it would give myself and my peers more time to improve in other subjects such as reading, writing and maths.As at least 85% of our pairs already play sports during lunch, it would only be a matter of encouraging that 15% of students to try something new and get out there, you never know it may be something that they move on to loving for life all because of those amazing Oamaru Intermediate staff that encouraged them.
Finally, I believe that it wouldn't be such a bore at school if we had longer lunchtimes and that people would look forward to school more if we did. We would be able to socialise more, which might I add is very important to do at this age to ensure that we have healthy and stable relationships.. If longer lunchtimes were to affect how much work we were to get done there is always the opportunity to extend our school day by 30 minutes to make up needed times.
In conclusion I strongly believe that we should be having longer lunch times to improve ourselves academically and meantally. I also believe that you should carefully consider all my points that I have stated in this letter. I hope you come back to me with a positive final decision.
Your Sincerely,
Chloe
Monday, August 10, 2020
Why Do We Need To Exercise
Monday, June 29, 2020
and then i saw it -100 word challenge
Monday, May 4, 2020
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Starting to get sick of quarintine
today i started with my business as usual, getting ready for my day when dad came over and asked me a horrid question something that i never want to hear something that made me itch inside and it was "can you go over to the wool shed and sort through the woll so that there ready for bails?" if you couldn't notice i HATED this job partly because it make me all itchy but because i knew how much wool there was and i knew that it was going to take me at least three hours to get this done. but anyway i slid into my gumboots put on my coat hopped on my quad bike and hooned over to the wool shed. to my surprise one of our workers were already there and to joy had half done the job. and even though i really didn't want to be there i still asked if they needed any help and thankfully they said no so i walked out the door back to the bike did a few victory laps and the way home and continued on with my day!