Writing

In class we have been learning about narratives. We had to fill in a very detailed plan showing what the characters were seeing, smelling and hearing. We also had to describe the problem and the solution in pure detail.

Watch this space and over the next few weeks there might be a piece of finished writing.

THE HEART

In room 9 we have been learning about the heart. We have learnt all sorts of things like what makes the heart healthy and un healthy, some things that make your heart unhealthy are eating to much sugar because it makes your blood peasure gets high and not keeping fit because your arteries will clog and fat will get stored around your heart and it wont have any room to pump blood. Things that can keep your heart healthy are staying fit and eating the right foods like foods that come from the earth and meat.
By Taryn.

Midlands B grad rugby

On Saturday the Midlands B Grade Rugby Team played Otautau in Otautau. It was a very close game. Jonty Carin scored all of Otautaus' tries and for Midlands Ben McMaster scored two tries,  Aaron Tori scored one and Jonty Stirling scored one. So the final score was 31 to 26 both teams.

By Jonty Stirling

This year room 9 are learning about our heart. Miss Edgerton asked us nicely if we could search up some facts like [what is a heart attack] [what happens if your heart is unhealthy] [what makes a healthy heart]. It is really fun maybe sometime you could learn about the heart. from Jackson Stuart

On Thursday the Central Red Hockey Team played Girls High in 11 aside in Invercargill. Luke Hamilton scored 2 goals in the second half and  Girls high scored 2 goals in the first half. Our coach is Miss Christie and we have practices on Monday at 4.30. The final score of the game was 2 all.

by Jonty

CROSS COUNTRY

Winton school we have been training for Cross Country which is in Week 5 at Moores Estate. We go out every morning and run around the school for 15 minutes. We make sure that we warm-up and stretch. Many of us have sore legs so we have been looking forward to our rest day on Friday.  Here are some photos of hard training students!!!

    

 

By Lily and Taryn

Every Friday from 9:00am to 10:30am the year 7s go to sci/tec  half of  the year 7s from room 9 and 10 go science and the other half go to tec at tec they do building and painting there teacher is Mr Wilmot in science we have Mrs Colet we have to find out the different between  gases,liquid and solids it is the first time this term we have done it but we dome it last term as well we enjoy have this time to experiment and build these type of things.  

By Brenna 

In class we have been learning about adding and subtracting integers. The rules are:

•  if the signs are the same you add and move to the right of the number line
•  if the signs are different you subtract and move to the left of the number line

Eg. 5 + -7 = -2  (The signs in the middle are different so we subtract 7 from 5).
Eg. -8 - -7 = -1  (The signs in the middle are same so we add 7 onto -8).

by Jonty Stirling

Persuasive Writing

For our writing in Term 1 and the start of Term 2 we have been doing Persuasive Writing. One of the most popular topics were should we put a tax on junk food? First we read some other peoples persuasive writing. Their topics were child slavery and saving the whales! Then we got to plan our own. When we were planning we had to choose a topic to get us started. Once we had chose our topics we had to research facts on the Internet to get us started. Here is my finished piece of writing...

How many people each day do you pass that are either overweight, fat or obese? What is causing these problems? I have one answer...  fatty, unhealthy junk food.

Should we put a tax on fatty, unhealthy junk foods? I strongly think we should. I believe this because 60% of people in the world are overweight. If we put a tax on the unhealthy foods that our bodies don't need, it would definitely reduce obesity issues.

My second reason is that if we put a tax on unhealthy food people would stop buying them. I personally think that we eat lots of fatty food because it is so cheap. If it was more expensive people would eat out less often and make more of an effort to make their own dinner at home without all the preservatives. Not only would this cut down on the risk of heart diseases and strokes it would also save money.

My third reason is that people are eating twice the amount of salt and sugar our bodies need. This is why there is now two types of diabetes. One is caused by too much sugar and the other you were born with. Just think about all the people with sugar diabetes. If we put a tax on junk food less people would have diabetes. 

My fourth reason is that if we put a tax on junk food people would stop buying them because they can't afford them. We should put 15% tax on the fatty foods and take 15% tax off fruit and vegetables. Our bodies need healthy food and people wouldn't want to buy the unhealthy food.

That is why I believe we should put a tax on fatty, unhealthy junk food. My first reason is that so many people in the world are overweight it's not funny. My second reason is that we only buy it because it is so cheap if a tax was put on then people would stop eating out and and make their own meals at home. My third reason is that people are getting heart diseases and strokes this needs to stop! My last reason is that if we put a tax on junk food we could take it off the healthy food our bodies need.  

So what do you think? Should we put a tax on junk food?

 By Omea Hall

writing group

Yay i'm in the new writing group and we are doing really fun things like making tubes and making them so awesome. Then we will put out most loved things in them and shear with 12 people in our writing group. from Jackson

Persuasive Writing

Room 9 have been doing persuasive writing. We have been doing it on subjects like why smoking should be banned and why school uniform should be banned.

Why smoking should be banned?

Do like the smell of smoke? More and more people are smoking every day this has to stop!

I believe that smoking should be banned I believe this because it is polluting the air with smoke and killing hundreds of people and causing lung disease.

Firstly, I believe that smoking should be banned because 1/3 of people in the world are wasting their money on smokes. They are also slowly killing them selves as well. Instead of spending your money on cigarettes they could buy something like for example a house, car, clothes and food the tings that you need, but instead the people that smoke spend their money on cigarettes. If you buy one packet of cigarettes it will cost you about 8395 dollars a year.

Secondly smoking doesn’t just affect one person. It can affect everybody around the person that is smoking. So it is still dangerous being around a person that is smoking. Smoking is dangerous because it can rot your lungs and cause lung cancer it can also rot your teethe.

Finally I think that smoking should be banned because it will stop all the littering of cigarette butts and make the environment more clean and healthy.

By Isaac Todd

For the last few months Winton School has been waiting for there brand new basketball court, now it is ready and everyone has been playing on it. Kids from the ages 7 and up have enjoyed having a basket ball court here, it's good for basketball coaches and for practices for the year 7 and 8 teams, some people still use the other basketball hoops on the tennis court.
By Brenna Jardine

Our brand new basketball court