Kumara Trip

On Monday April 9th, the whole year 9 group at Greymouth High School went to Kumara for a English/Social Studies trip. We split up into 2 busses with 2 groups in each. When we arrived at Kumara, each group went to a different activity. The different activities were Drama, Games, Walk to a huge rock, and a lesson about Richard Seddon.

For my group in Drama, we chose to do accidents. Where we had to act out an explosion that happened in the mine. For the walk to the huge rock, the ground was all muddy. But when we got their it was just a big rock with a path around it so you can see how big it was. The lesson about Richard Seddon was just about the history of Kumara and all the things he did back when he was Prime Minister. Then our last activity was a game where we had to collect tennis balls and put them in our team circle.

Year 9 English

In English, we use a website called Hapara. Hapara is a website where each students gets invited to get their own workspace. So they can get their work. At the start, we chose a person who was inspirational to us, or inspirational to other people.

In English, we do things called Big Questions & Success Tickets. At the start of the day, we log onto Hapara and do the big question. The big question is to write a 100 word story about what happened during their week or an imaginary story. The success ticket is what we do at the end of the day. We write a review of the work that we did that day.

Our research so far has been about the Hero Cycle. While doing the work, we did things related to it, like Monomyths. The photo attached is a picture of the work we did about Monomyths.

Next term I would like to do something different than doing the Hero Cycle. Like writing a story about a certain subject. Or learning new things.