Year Eight Girls Cannibal Gorge Recount

On the 9th of December the year eight girls went to the St James walkway to walk to Cannibal Gorge hut. 

We left school at 8:20am in the morning. We had to drive to Reefton and buy a hut ticket. Then we drove to the start of the St James walkway, and the first thing we had to do was fill in the intentions book. 

The walk is about 3 hours long and about 7km long. We had to walk through lots of avalanche zones and creek crossings.

When we got to the hut we put our bags down and went to the river which was right by the hut. The water was really cold but very refreshing. Lots of the girls went all the way under and some only went half way under. 

After the swim we had some lunch and then we got ready to walk to the next hut called Ada Hut, which was another 3km from Cannibal Gorge Hut. The walk was really nice but the ground was really wet and soggy and it was hard to keep dry feet. Once we were at Ada hut we had a look around and walked back. 

When we got back we set up where we were going to sleep and get our dinner ready. I was in a group with Mackenzie and Grace and we made pasta for tea. We used a gas cooker to boil some water. The food we were cooking was just where you had to add boiling water to it and close the packet. For desert we had apricot crumble and chocolate. 

After desert we had a go with Mrs Kemp's slingshot. Mrs Kemp put a paper plate on a bush and we had to stand some way back and put a rock in the slingshot and fire it. I was quite close to hitting the target. Then we went inside to play a game. 

Once we finished playing games we got ready for bed and then told some stories. Mrs Kemp told a scary story and scared us all. After that we went to bed but we heard some noises and it turned out to be mice. They were looking for food in our bags so we had to move all the bags to a higher surface. Once we we in bed it was really hot and we all had trouble getting to sleep. 

In the morning when we woke up it was really cold. We got up and made breakfast my group had savaloies and a muesli bar. After breakfast we went down to the river to fill up our drink bottles. 

Then we packed up and began the walk home. It was a really nice walk home and the weather was nice. We stopped and had lunch just before one of the the swing bridges. It did not take us long to get home. 

Once we were back at the cars we had a break and then headed home. On the way home Mrs Kemp kindly brought us all and ice cream. Then we came back to school just in time for the bell then headed home. 

I really enjoyed the walk and being with my friends. It is a really nice track and we were lucky with the weather. 

Digital Collage

Today we worked with Mrs Mineham. We made digital collages on our Chromebooks on a google drawing. We inserted images from the explore tool and made them into shapes. By layering them we made a NZ bird. I used the poly-line to help do some of the harder bits and layered a texture on top. I chose to make a Tomtit. I enjoyed making the collage and I think I did pretty good at matching the image. 

Scratch Animation

Scratch Animation

Measuring Angles

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival
Have you ever seen a robber at Paroa school? Well, at the Toki Pounamu Film Festival you will. Today on the fourteenth of November  the whole Karoro senior school went down to the regent theatre. Many other schools like St Patricks, Kaniere, BlakeTown and Paparoa Range who are also in the Toki Pounamu cluster were invited. 

A group of adults selected a range of films that had been sent in from lots of different schools. The videos were around one theme which was our place. Some schools created a movie about  their school and some about  their town. The videos were filmed and produced by children from those schools.

I liked the first one, which was a video created by Paroa School. It was filmed by Sammi Fahey, Caitlin Body and Pippa Robb. They chose to film a news report about a crime. The video started in a news station and then went to a news reporter and then to a detective. There was news music playing quietly which suited the theme of the video. Their video was very entertaining to watch and the footage was well filmed. There was also some slow motion and different angles. The sound was very good as well, it was easy to hear and understand because they spoke clearly.

I liked that there was a clear storyline that made sense. The music that they added also built up some suspense which made you want to keep watching it. Their video was also quite funny and enjoyable to watch. In my opinion I didn’t think that the video quite fitted to the theme of Our Place.

The film festival was a good experience and our school was lucky to go. I think that they should do it again next year, with a different theme. Next time instead of selecting only some of the videos they could play all of them, and have a whole day where you go and watch.

Angles DLO