Top Energy 2019 Far North Science and Technology Fair

Kia Ora Everyone. The past two terms here in Te Ngahere have been very action packed! This is because we have been doing our science fair projects. A selected group of students were taken to the Kerikeri Turner centre yesterday . These students were competing against most of the schools from the far north. These selected Students were Mark S, Mark O, Reminis, Taleisha, Imogen, Nevaeh, Zara, Missy, Nikara, Breeze, Zhynaliyah, Vanya, Mihipeka & Jack. We are also pleased to announce that Jack Andrews, Imogen Lee Phillips and Taleisha Dunn have won Prizes! We are very proud of all our amazing students. All of our students in Te Ngahere deserve to be mentioned here because they have all worked very hard and to the best of their ability, we are so proud of every single one of them. This has been a very intriguing subject for us here in Te Ngahere. Hopefully now that we know how to do it it will be a lot easier for us next year!

Energize

Today Whaea Gina came to Paihia School to teach us about healthy and unhealthy eating. We learnt that there are many different healthy food categories like meat and meat alternatives, milk and milk products, grain foods and vegetables and fruit. We learnt that even if you are a vegetarian you need meat alternative because of the protein in it and they have a good source of iron. Also the meat has to be the same size of your palm not including your fingers. We learnt that it is good to have a healthy diet. Whaea Gina also told us not to bring to many packaged things in our lunch box. 

Te Ngahere Science Fair

Last week on Friday, Te Ngahere held our first ever science fair in the whare. For about 8-9 weeks we had been gathering information, testing, and experimenting. While doing that we had to choose a real life problem and experiment it. The judges for the science fair were Mrs Lindsay and Danielle Archer, our very own marine biologist. There were projects like Water quality, Salt ice vs Homemade salt ice, Rainbow smile, and many more. During assembly (near the end of the day) Mrs Lindsay and Danielle presented the certificates for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and highly recommended. Also, one of Mrs Lindsay’s principals awards were given to the students of Te Ngahere for persevering and producing outstanding science fair projects. Overall we really enjoyed sharing our projects with the school, whanau, and members of the public. We hope that we get this opportunity next year.

Welcome Anthony

In Te Ngahere we were fortunate to have a new student in our class. His name is Anthony. Anthony is a year 8 boy and likes animals and insects, especially dogs. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ANTHONY!

Bye Jess

On Friday the 26th of July a special student of Te Ngahere sadly left our school. We are all going to miss her beautiful smile, wonderful personality, and most of all, her hugs and high fives she used to greet us with every single morning. She was a very talented person using her talking device to communicate with others. This helped her to make friends and for people to understand her like I do.

The Ned show

On Thursday 1st August 2019 Paihia School we had a visit from a lady called Nicole she is a part of the Ned show. She came into show us how we can find our mindset. She used Ned’s name as an example. Ned’s name stand for Never give up, Encourage others and do your best. Ned went on this adventure first he flew on a hot air balloon to Mt Everest the reason he went Mt Everest was because, that is the tallest mountain in the world so in order to get to the top he had to never give up. Ned meet a yetty called Yet and just as Ned went to give up Yet said “you haven’t accomplish this “yet”. Meaning don’t quit you will get it but it just hasn't happened “yet” the key word in that riddle was yet.

Then Ned  got another envelope and that one said for him to jump on a zipline to a tropical island where he met a lady captain. She sent him on an adventure through the jungle across the alligators to find an X marked in the sands so Ned dug at the x and he found a treasure box with rocks. Ned was upset because he did all that to find rocks but the lady captain said that Ned it only looks like a rock but it has been covered by non believing, giving up and not trying but inside there is something so beautiful. The captain pulled out the gem.
His last envelope said “ You will go in a flying saucer. He got lifted up in the air and he meet these aliens their rocket ship was breaking. Ned said” this looks like a giant brain” and the alien replied “ I know” and the saucer broke some more. Ned said “ brain run on learning” can you guess what the alien said “ I know”. Then Ned said “brain run on learning fuel” no surprise the alien said I know”. Wait said Ned everytime you say I know it breaks more can I see you engine room. In the engine room all the wires were unhooked. There your problem said Ned they are not connected. Ha with saying I know break things so I am not learning. So if I get rid of I know then I can grow.

Ned after that day decided to Never give up when things are hard, Encourage other because you will give them courage and Don’t say I know because you won’t grow in learning.Ned Got brought back to our school and he explain how he found his mindset and how we can use those steps. Nicole thank you for coming to our school and talking to us about how we can find our mindset. We really enjoyed learning that we can get brain freeze in learning because we are afraid of what we can’t do. What we think we could do better next time is be brave and answer some of the question. Blog you later
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