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First week of Term 2 and the challenge had been laid by the Year 13s for the first Wooden Spoon challenge. The Staff accepted, although unsure of the rules, still managed to show what they can do. With a positive result for the Staff, the Year 13s remain custodians of the Wood Spoon until the next challenge.  The Kiwiwatch Group has had a strong start to the season with lots of students attending the monthly trips, including many new junior students. We have been catching less stoats than expected, given that we had a big mast event this year. Although we have not done any kiwi work this year, we are eagerly awaiting the results of a study by DOC and Lincoln Uni that has used remote listening devices to monitor kiwi abundance in the Nina. Despite the lack of kiwi work, we were happy to have a number of recent airings of a pair of whio (blue duck) below the Nina Hut at the Duchess confluence. Whio are nationally endangered, more so than the kiwi, and we had not seen any for a couple of years prior. Also of note is that the Kea Conservation Trust has undertaken kea banding in the Nina; we are hopeful that the Trust will involve our students in this work. Thank you to all the students and their parents who work hard to make the Nina Valley a safe place for our native toanga.
Preparations are well underway for our whole school musical production of Shrek Jr which has an opening night of Wednesday 19 June. The cast have been busily rehearsing their songs and speaking parts on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons. Primary classes are preparing for their chorus items. Meanwhile in the technology rooms Year 9 and 10 students are designing and constructing costumes and props. It's wonderful to see the whole school on board! Kikorangi have been cooking up a storm this term. Our first bake was homemade pizzas. After studying the recipe we realised it would take awhile for the dough to rise. Luckily we had plenty of school work to do in the meantime. We each made individual pizzas with cheese and spaghetti on. They tasted delicious. The following week we made pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday when Lent starts. It was really fun and we got to bring our own toppings. After we went outside and had a pancake race where you have to run and flip the pancake before passing it onto the next person. Needless to say the pancakes were not edible afterwards! We also baked a variety of snacks for our end of term movie treat. We made chocolate chip cookies, anzac biscuits, chocolate fudge slice, potato wedges and pizza! We spent all morning baking and then relaxed in the afternoon watching the movie Wonder and eating delicious homemade snacks.
Throughout Semester 1 the Outdoor Education class were given the option to complete snorkel skills or a PADI Open Water Dive course. We had 5 students opt in to the PADI course which meant they were going to complete an internationally recognised SCUBA Diving qualification. Over the duration of Semester 1 these students completed online learning, a day of skills in school pool, then they had to complete 4 dives in the sea. We were lucky enough to get involved with Dive Kaikoura so headed up there late in Term 1 to complete the course. Unfortunately we only managed to get one day in due to weather so went back on the 1st of May to get fully certified. With a water temperature of about 12 degrees the students got set and took on their final 2 dives and had their paper work signed off. Congratulations to Mackenzie, Briar, Georgia, Caleb, and Luke who are now officially Open Water Certified Divers.  |
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