Science Roadshow

This week some students went and visited the Science Roadshow. The Science Roadshow was lots of fun, the children got to trial a whole range of different experiments as well as try to figure out the reasons why certain things worked the way they do.

Paige and Michelle trying to figure out how this experiment with rotational gravity worked. 

Jasraj and Aomi

Codi and Ethyn 

Even the teachers learnt lots too. 

 Codey, Aomi and Jasraj

And we sat down to learn about some different topics, such as how muscles work.

Aomi even won a pen with a caliper attached, which is used to measure the distance between two sides of an object.

Reminder: Science Fair projects should be coming together now, they are due next Friday.

Award of Merit - Term 2, Week 3

Ka Rawe Jireh! This weeks Award of Merit went to Jireh for the effort he has put into his narrative to promote the benefits of wearing helmets.

 
Well done to Tailena and Ceyan, who received certificates this week for their participation in soccer this year.

A moment of life and death

Oh no, Jack had a crash! On his bicycle a couple of days ago. Jack is in his 40s and still cycles to work and home 3 days a week a round trip of 28km.

Jack was a semi-professional rugby league player until he was 35 years old, he still trains regularly. Therefore he has a body that has taken much physical abuse over the years but he is quick, fit and strong.

Jack was cycling on a cycle path going downhill and banking to the right at about 50km/h. Jack drifted a little wide on the riding line, and the bike went out from underneath and came into contact with some leaf litter and other rubbish on the cycle path and the bike turned me quickly.

Jack lost most of memory of the crash with the force when his head hit the path. Luckily the cushioning effect the helmet provided meant it was like falling into a pillow.

Jack suffered the usual scrapes to Jack lower leg, upper leg, hip, arm and also the shoulder as well as some trauma to Jacks right shoulder due to the force of it coming into contact with ground.

However if it were not for the helmet Jack has no doubt he would have died.

Jireh has written this story to help promote people to make the right choice and wear their helmets.

The BrainFreezers

We are the BrainFreezers group. Our HOT question is to determine Howick Intermediate student's perception of how people receive head injuries and explore how people can avoid injuries in different situations and implement a campaign to encourage people to wear helmets.

For our social action we are going to make a picture book for Islander children to encourage them to wear helmets. We will be focussing on narrative writing to tell the story about the consequences of not wearing helmets. We are going to work with Miss Haag the art specialist teacher to make pictures for our up coming book.

by Jireh and Tristyn