40 Things To Do Outside

 In lockdown Ms Kemp sent us a PDF of 40 things we could do outside. We had to take a picture of us doing it.

Problem Solving

 

Japanese Poems

 Haiku Modern

Lady of the Lake

Crossing Lake Wakatipu

Docking at the farm

Haiku Traditional

Plants in Mum’s garden

Sprouting away happily

Scrumptious in my mouth

Tanka Modern

Cassie ran away

Sneaking away from the house

Caught by a kind man

Acts like nothing happened

Good lesson for her owners

Tanka Traditional

Playing basketball

Last game of the season

Four fouls that I got

Uh oh, almost too many

My coach had to take me off

By Indi

Eliza McCartney

 Achievement Objectives: 

• Understand how people sustain and culture heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.

• Understand how events have causes and effects.

Context sportsperson - Eliza McCartney

Success Criteria: 

• I will have researched and informed the readers about how many medals, injures, competition, sport she does, how she got to be in the Olympics

• I will have written a report about Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney

About Eliza McCartney.

Eliza Mc Cartney is a 24 year old New Zealander who excels at pole vault. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She was a good netball and high jumper before she started working on pole vault.

How many times has she been to the Olympics?

Eliza Mc Cartney has been to the Olympics once in Rio 2016 but also did the Commonwealth Games as well. Unfortunately she did not pole vault the 4.50 m mark which was the qualification but jumped 4.30m so she is not competing in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

How many medals has Eliza McCartney earned in the Olympics?

Eliza McCartney has earned one bronze medal from the Rio Olympics 2016. She got the bronze medal after pole vaulting 4.80m. She has also won one silver in Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. She didn’t enter the pole vault at the Commonwealth Games until the competitors were pole vaulting 4.55m. After getting to 4.70m she was pole vaulting against one other person, Alysha Newman. Eliza McCartney failed her first jump which was 4.75m but her competitor made the jump. Eliza McCartney skipped 4.75m to go and jump 4.80m but failed both attempts she had.

Has Eliza McCartney had any major injuries?

Eliza McCartney hurt her achilles in Germany a couple weeks before Rio 2016 but she managed to get bronze at the games which was awesome! One year after the Rio Olympics 2016 she had a problem with Achilles Tendonitis and a year after that she had some hamstring issues. Her medical team thinks Eliza McCartney has an autoimmune problem which mostly targets her achilles. 

Who is Eliza McCartney’s biggest competitor?

Her biggest competition in the Commonwealth Games was Alysha Newman who won gold. Alysha is 27 years old and she is from Canada. Eliza McCartney’s biggest competition in the Olympics is Katerina Stefanidi from Greece who came first in Rio 2016. Her other competition would be Sandi Morris from America who got the silver in Rio.

How did Eliza McCartney qualify for the Rio Olympics 2016?

Eliza McCartney had to jump 4.50m to qualify for the Olympics in Rio. Eliza McCartney didn’t make it into the Tokyo Olympics 2020 because she did not meet the qualifying mark of 4.70m.

By Indi

Indi commented on by Fynn

Peer Evaluation of Olympic Study

1. One thing I learned from your study was that Eliza Mccartney exists and does pole vaulting.

2. You met your success criteria because for explaining all the things in the success criteria. 

3. He pai ki ahau… I really liked that you had a lot of writing and stayed on topic.

4. Next time you could think about going more in depth with the rival or something.

Bibliography:

Stuff, Stuff 2, Wikipedia, Wikipedia 2, Wikipedia 3, NZherald

Croesus Tramp William Pike Challenge

   On Wednesday the 11th of August Room 8 went on about a 22km tramp for the William Pike Challenge. In my car group was Emma, Noah and I plus my Dad who was driving. We went through Blackball and then along the Croesus Road for about 15 minutes. When we arrived at the start of the track we all got our packs on and had a quick talk and then we started. I walked up the front for the whole time on the way to the hut except for when I waited for Olive because she was getting tired and people were passing her so she was walking alone. The three swing bridges took us a while to cross because you could only go across one at a time. 

I liked going to the front because I walked with Emma, Andrea and Amanda and we had a nice pace. We also had to do a scavenger hunt and in my group was Billie and Emma and my parent helper was my Dad. One of the things we had to do was count the swing bridges which there were three of. We stopped at every swing bridge to have a break and at Garden Gully which was where Fynn and Hamish turned around. When we got higher in the mountains we got to go into some snow. It wasn’t that thick but we still had heaps of fun throwing snowballs at each other. When we got to the hut we sat on the top of the massive bunk to eat lunch. 

On the way back down we threw snowballs again until the snow was gone. I also talked to Donna about Masterchef which we both enjoy watching for about 20 minutes which I enjoyed. When we had about 1 & ½ - 2 hours I started feeling really dizzy and not that great. I also figured out the hard way my boots were too small. Everyone was really nice and kept asking me how I was, which was really good of them. When we stopped at one point Donna gave me some sugar no-sugar lemonade which actually made me feel lots better! I had a few more sips and after a bit I felt pretty good! I still felt a little bad but I was pretty good thanks to the sugar no-sugar lemonade! When I got home later we figured out I had not eaten nearly enough food to fuel me. 

Finally we had 1km to go so we trudged on until we got to the end! 22km was a long way! We all sat down and had a talk under the shelter about how it went and then we got into our cars and drove back to school. Taking my boots off and putting my scuffs on was the best feeling ever! My feet were quite sore so it felt really good! Emma cracked a few jokes that Dad found hilarious but Noah and I were just like, “ How is that even funny?” because Emma and Dad were cracking up! 

When we dropped Emma and Noah off I got home and had a shower which was really nice. Overall it was a really good tramp and I had heaps of fun!!!