Welcome to Room 9's class blog. We are a class of 31 year 5 and 6 happy pupils. Our school is a few minutes walk away from a surf beach and below the magnificent Mount Taranaki. Check out our blog to see what we've been up to.
Over the past few days Room 9 have been going to the aquatic centre doing the AWE swim safety program. We have been learning how to save people without endangering ourselves, learning how to pull someone onto a lifeboat, how to jump safely into the water (safety jump) and doing normal swimming strokes. The lessons have been very fun and could be useful in the future.
Photos taken by Miss Bain.
Written by Jack.
AWE Swimming
Since the 18th of November until the 21st of November we have been going to the aquatic center to learn about swimming. We have practiced floating , safety diving into the pool , freestyle , backstroke and life saving. It has been so fun and on the 21st we will be having a exam to see how much we have improved!
As Oakura School are thinking of becoming an enviro school, our class have mapped and labeled our school with a buddy. The labels had personal feelings like quiet and joyful on them. We also had to label the can do’s and cant do’s of the school, e.g Library: Can discuss and read books quietly. Can’t shout and run around. Some groups used satellite images and some just knew the school well. But one thing we all had in common was that we all had fun.
The year sixes have been going to the aquatic centre to do a swimming program called AWE. We learn floating and sculling, saving people with a rope and other equipment and we do backstroke and freestyle as well. It’s really fun and we have been going all week apart from Monday. The swimming lesson is fun and will be useful if we are in trouble in the sea.
Written by Rosie.
AWE swimming
This week the year sixes have been learning to swim at the aquatic centre. We get to wear a fluro green rash tops so we can easily be seen in the water. Each day we get put into 3 different groups of eight then we go to our activity and to the next and the next. We have learnt freestyle and back stroke. Room 9 is filled with very talented swimmers and we have had so much fun swimming this week.
Written by:Charlotte☺
AWE SWIM SAFETY
This week room nine and eight have been taking part in the AWE swim safety program.
We have been learning a lot of different techniques and styles. The main things we have been working on are FLOATING,FREESTYLE and BACKSTROKE. I’m sure that the whole class have really enjoyed AWE and has learnt lots.
Super fun times for little lambs. Plants blooming all there flowers. Running like the wind at the beach. In the tents like little moals. No snow on the mountain. Going to the beach.
My Lamb written by Abi.
Adorable! Athena is just about the cutest lamb you've ever met!
Time-consuming. Athena is really cute, but her HUMONGOUS appetite is hard to appease!
Hot-headed. If Athena is hungry and you don't feed her ASAP she'll get infuriated and start bleating.
Entertaining. When you run down a hill with Athena in tow, she'll leap, bleat, and toss her head.
Not easily fooled! Athena really lives up to her name by following you no matter where you go.
A complete lamb. Athena isn't the only one! She lives a happy life with her BLFF, (Best Lamb Friends Forever) Aslan.
Below: Athena and Aslan. Athena in front, Aslan in the back. Pictures to come.
