Furnware Trip

We went on a Sheppard house trip to Furnware in Hastings. We looked around the Factory and had the opportunity to design our own tables in the design studio. It was cool seeing how they made all our classroom furniture in the factory. I made a PhotoPeach about our Furnware Trip.
Furnware Trip on PhotoPeach

Inquiry Powtoon

This is my Powtoon on the difference between Invention, Innovation and Discovery.
https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/dghU9W1gwCd/?mode=movie#/

Reading Outside The Box

A 2nd Chance

Title: Friday Barnes Girl Detective

Author:  R.A Spratt

Blurb: Friday Barnes is a girl who usually goes unnoticed and is very smart. She wants to be a detective so she solves a bank robbery. She get’s 50,000 dollars for solving it and sends herself to the poshest, most expensive boarding school as a full time boarder. At the school there is lots of mysteries for her to solve. Everybody thinks she is the scholarship student so she get’s bullied.

Opinion: I think this book is very good and interesting. It hooked me in at the start and got very exciting near the end of the book.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who like mysteries and are between the ages of 8-11 years old.

Quad Death

For P.E we tried out a new game with room 10 and 11 called Quad Death. This is how to play Quad Death below and the rules.

Quad Death

Writing Purpose: To inform other HNI students the rules of the game and to develop our creative thinking ability.

Audience: Mrs Ellmore and HNI students

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfVvophGAk

Use your creativity to come up with 3 alternative names for this very exciting game!
Quad Death	Quarter Chaos	Quad Chaos

Imagine another class here at HNI has not played this game before. Complete the rules below to clearly describe the aim of the game and exactly what the rules are.

Aim of the game: To get no points by having none of the four netballs in your quarter by the end of the round and making the other team’s score lot’s of points.

Rules:

1. You need to STAY on the floor sitting down for the whole game.
2. Do NOT throw the balls too high otherwise the balls will hit the equipment on the ceiling.
3. DON’T aim for people's heads when throwing a netball.
4. When the whistle is blown you need to stop throwing the balls.
5. Wait for the whistle  before you start to throw balls out of your quarter

Game Adaptations

Use your creative thinking to explore possible adaptations to this game to enhance both the fun factor and the ability to win the game. I have given you one example for each category but challenge yourself with other ideas and thinking.

Attack	Defence	Game Plan/Strategy
Use balls other than netballs that aren’t as heavy so the speed of the travelling ball also speeds up the game.	4 players from each quad are allowed to sit on the bleaches to stretch with their arms and intercept flying balls.	People on the perimeter of the quad pass the ball to someone closer to the bleaches to allow them to throw it further into the opponent's area.

Instead of just using four balls you could use more balls if you play with more people and less balls depending on how many people are playing.

After one round the people at the front could swap with the back people so they get a turn up front throwing and catching balls.