Year 7 Sailing Day

On Friday 16 February the four Year 7 classes and the Whanau class went to Lake Rua for our Sailing Day.

                    To add to the excitement Travelon
                    (our bus company) gave us the
                    double-decker bus for our journey,
                    which was a new experience for
                    most of the students.

When we got there we were given some very good instruction about how to rig a boat.

We practiced sailing on dry land . . .

. . . and then we were off.

Oops . . . we forgot our boats.                                            There they are:

 

So a little more organising, and THIS time, we were off.

          However we had booked such
          great weather for our outing
          that there was hardly any wind
          in the morning, and the power
          boats had to give us a bit of a
          helping hand.


Seasoned yachtie Mark (AKA Popeye the Sailorman) managed to find some wind on the lake while we had our lunch.


The wind picked up a bit in the afternoon so we all had more sailing fun after lunch.

All in all it was a great day out, although we probably need a bit more work before we enter the next Americas Cup race.

7Mt Class Treaty 2018

Using the Treaty of Waitangi as our model, and the school values of Commitment, Achievement, Resilience and Respect as the basis for our rules, the following are the Articles of our 2018 Class Treaty:

The Treaty will be signed by the whole class on Wednesday 21 February 2018.

Commitment: what it looks like, sounds like, feels like

Our first Kete for the year is called "We Are Hornby" and looks at the things that make Hornby High School unique, including our school values of:

- Commitment
- Achievement
- Resilience
- Respect

In these photos were are working on a project about Commitment with Mrs Cotter to identify what it would look like, sound like, and feel like if we all showed Commitment in all of our classes.

 

 

 

This will help us to identify exactly what we need to be doing to demonstrate this important value.

Radioactive Mission Impossible Challenge

On the first school day for 2018 all Year 7 and 8 students were put into teams that went around 8 different bases throughout the afternoon. Here are some pictures of some of our students taking part in Mr Mitchell's Radioactive Mission Impossible Challenge:

We had to try to remove containers with "radioactive material" into containment fields without touching them. Most of the teams did really well with the challenge, and Mr Mitchell said that he would feel very safe if one of Christchurch's nuclear reactors went into meltdown, because we all knew how to remove the isotopes safely.