EOTC-action day

On the 23 of march 2009 4 of the senior classes from summerland primary school went down to the field to have EOTC survival day there were six activities and six groups the activities were tent building, emergency shelter, emergency alarm, emergency stretcher, cooking and first aid my group (group 3) did first aid first that was about teaching us how to make slings and bandages and things like that. Tent building is making tents in groups of four. Emergency shelter is making a shelter that will protect you from the rain(buckets of water). Emergency alarm is bandaging your hurt crew, making a display that lasts 30 seconds only one of your crew can talk. Emergency stretcher is you are given some materials to make a stretcher on of the people carrying the stretcher is blinded. Cooking is you have tiny tin foil barbecue, sausages and damper (bread and water cooked to make bread). after they were done we got to eat them, yuuuuummmm! I hope you get to experience what I did that day!

EOTC big day adventure

For big day adventure on the 25th of March Room 8 and some other rooms went on a Big Day adventure. We got a list of tasks and had to finish them. We got split to groups each group has a parent helper to help and look after the group. Our first task was to catch a train to New Lynn, on the train we had a bunch of other tasks. At New Lynn we had to find a Summerland teacher to get our next list of tasks. We searched for ages! Then we found her Miss Cheeseman hiding behind a bunch of news papers! We asked for the next list of tasks we rushed to finish the task some were hard and we took quite long but we managed to finish them. Now we have to head back to the Henderson mall we ran to the bus station there was another group there so we waited with them. After a while the bus came we all got on we payed our fee. We waited to get to Henderson and get our next list of tasks. At Henderson mall we searched for the next teacher I wondered who the teacher was... Catch up on the latest update next week!

EOTC - Big Day Adventure

Hello there my name is michael and I am going to tell you about E.O.T.C.. E.O.T.C. stands for education outside the classroom, in my opinion it absolutely rocks. My favorite thing was the big day adventure mainly because we got to go ALL the way around West Auckland first of all we went to catch a train at 9.31 A.M... we missed it!! so we had to catch the 10.01 train AAAAHH oh well nobody else got it so were fine. we then we went to new lynn we had a list of questions which we answered on the train the last thing on the list was to find the teacher aaaaahhh!!! the teachers just had to be coming on the trip with s didn't they if having to be followed by an adult but teachers to! Oh well but the main annoying thing is they hide I mean come on. It took us an estimate of 12,64,235,562 years in all but we did eventually we got the sheet and we finished it before you could say wakatahimia I think that that was very very cool so we went and caught the first bus back to auckland, West field the first thing on the list was to have lunch we got 6 dollars each and still had spare we then went through the list like a rocket we went so fast that we had already finished while some people were still eating, the next place we went to was the Waitakere library and we got some rest time as we were allot faster than the teacher at getting to the library. But eventually she got here the teacher was Miss Cheeseman who as usual was fashionably late.

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E.O.T.C. week

E.O.T.C stands for Educatoin Outside The Class.

On monday, it will be the first E.O.T.C. day.It will be fun.We all will spread out to do E.O.T.C. everyday.I will feel sad if me and my friends will not be together for E.O.T.C.

On Wednesday it will be survivor day.

 I think I will be good at  Carey park Extreme day.

I really want to know what day am I going to carey park, because I love the rock climbing.

What is "Down the Drain"

Our topic this term is Down the Drain. I think the people in Waitakere City waste too much water and throw rubbish in the streams because they don't care about our environment or our underwater life. 

People put down poisonous thing that are harmful to the fish. The things people put down are thing like, blobs of paint, nail polish remover, petrol, dish washing chemicals and anything else that is poisonous to the fish. The water that goes down the drain, goes to the streams and can kill lots and lots of fish at once. 

Streams are homes for fish like, Eels,  Banded Kokopu, Red-fin bully and a lot more. So we should look after their homes and not throw rubbish in the streams.

Down the drain

Our topic this term is Down the Drain. I think Down the Drain is about water, animals and people mistreating our streams and ocean. A few people don't know that they are ruining our environment by throwing  rubbish down drains. People don't think about our environment all they care is about themselves. Don't they know that the streams are fish home? They can't breathe normally with pollution around the water. How would  you feel if you were surrounded by rubbish,germs, bacteria and sour milk? That would be DISGUSTING! I bet that's how a fishes' life would be if we don't change this disgustingness!We really need to change our environment for the sake of our peoples health and the fishes!

'Down The Drain' Courtenay-Firdaus

Well....... I think that our water goes down to the ocean. 

Some people put harmful liquids down the taps and all the taps lead to the ocean so the poison in those liquids will poison the fish and they will die.

The poison that goes down the drains are things like nail polish remover, dish washing chemicals, petrol and much more.

But not everything that pollutes the water goes down the drain its also at beaches and rivers that can harm our marine life. 

Lots of people don't realise what they are doing when they are leaving rubbish on the beaches.

The waves come in and pick up the rubbish the rubbish gets carried out to sea and the fish die.