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End compulsory sport in school

End compulsory sport in school

Schools are very good at ruining everything.

By everything, I mean they are very good at ruining all the fun stuff. It’s as if making something ‘educational’ takes all the fun out of it. Take computer games, for example. They’re fun to play at home in free time, but someone had the ‘bright’ idea of making educational computer games and although teachers think they’re fun, they’re not anything like what you’d play at home.

What else do schools ruin? Music, art, creative writing, poetry, film-making. All the things you enjoy doing in your spare time for fun suddenly lose their appeal when you’re made to do them at school.

Have I forgotten anything? Oh yes, sport. Schools ruin that too. They’re just not very good at it.

According to SPARC (Sport and Recreation New Zealand, the government body overseeing sport and participation), more children are members of sports teams outside school than inside school (50% belong to school teams, nearly 60% play sport outside school). Why’s that? Especially when sport is a compulsory subject in many schools? Well, it’s because schools ruin everything…

Clubs are set up especially to train, encourage and allow children to participate in high-quality and well-organised sport. Clubs have the right equipment. There are league and knock-out competitions, friendlies, practice sessions and, if someone truly excels at, say, netball or rugby, they can get talent-spotted or play representative sport. And club coaches know what they’re doing – it’s not a case of the Spanish teacher or the Year 6 teacher coming out to supervise and not know anything about softball or whatever.

What if it rains? Schools are not set up for wet-weather activities. Often rain and strong wind means fighting with other classes for space in the hall or computer room instead of sport. Clubs, on the other hand, often have use of indoor and outdoor training facilities or artificial surfaces to play on. Or it might be the case that at club sport, if it rains, you just get on with it!

There’s lots in the news about children’s health and diet and obesity. That’s not schools’ problem and schools shouldn't have to fix that. Schools are good at literacy and maths and children learning about the world they live in. Take out sport from the timetable and there’s more opportunity to teach children things that really matter.

Schools and teachers are excellent at teaching. They should stick to what they’re good at.

Duffy Theater

Today we had Duffy theater.It was not really my kind of play.I tried to watch but I got board because it was not like me at all.It was kind of funny,I must admit when the net came on and the NZ sandle on the net was rosies face.

Our Art Reflection

For 2 weeks R7  we have been working on our art.We have used the strategy of of Ton Schulten which is using different colours in patches of the painting.We used the primary colours to mixed up the colours, the colours we had was yellow,blue,red,black and white.




Here is two picture of me and my art:

Term two reflection

In the past nine weeks we have been trying our best to learn as much as possible so we can move on to a different stage.

In our topic we have been learning about the environment and New Zealand animals.We did a information report I read about the Kea online.We also did NZ endangered animals research, I learnt about a kakapo.



For art we have learnt how to mix colours and display them on images of landscapes.We copy the ton schulten theme for painting.We mixed the colours that we liked and painted them on our painting.

This is the landscape that I choose:

I am going to miss this terms actives.

The Botanical Gardens

At the kids garden at the botanical gardens we explored the whole kid garden. Room 5 and 7 found a kereru made out of concrete.We also found out that when we put berries in its mouth it will come out its rear end.Then we found a pond that  there was one goldfish in a pond. Then we went in the desert teamed it had a lot of cacti. In the jungle part of the the botanical gardens there was a mist that would go on now and then.It was a remembering day

weekly number challenge

Today’s Number:

715

Write it in words

seven hundred fifteen

Show it with the place value blocks

(use copy and paste)

Write it as an expanded number

(hundreds, tens and ones)

700+10+5

Add 10

725

Subtract 10

705

Make it to a tidy number

(eg. 173 + 7 = 180)

715 + 5 = 720

Double it

 1430                                  

Blog commenting

I have been learning to use positive ,helpful and thoughtful.Here are some comments I have done.

A-Z animals

A- Z animals

a	ARCTIC FOX
B	Barn Owl
C	Camel
D	Dingo
E	E l k
F	fox terrier
G	Grey wolf
h	hound
I	Iguana
J	Jackal
K	Komodo Dragon
L	Lynx
M	Mountain Lion
N	Northern American River Otter,
O	Olm
P	puff adder
Q	Quail
R	Red Fox
S	shar - pei
T	Tree Boa
U	Uakari
V	Vulture
W	wolverine
X	X- Ray tetra
Y	Yak
Z	Zebu