⚽Sport report -futsal.⚽

15/9/2016

Today Karaka had a mini futsal tournament. Five students from Wellington East Girls coached and reffed for a bunch of teams from Karaka. I spoke to them and this is what they said “we like playing with you guys and it’s cool to see familiar faces (from the winter tournament).”

I also walked around and talked to the students and took lots of photos

Here are some of the stuff they told me

(ps sorry if what you said did not make it in the final edit!-lola)

Laura-rose said this ”The dodo doughnuts have shone skill it’s nice to see them working together no one is left out and every one has made this an extraordinary team!”

Aaron said his team was great (non-bands) and he is having fun and getting a lot of experience in futsal!

Cara said her coaches are amazing and she was have a heap of fun her team (ketchup) won 2 games and worked well together.

Anokha said it was all right she got hit but was ok her coaches were great her team (ligers) won 1 game but participated more in previous sessions.

Anikha said she had fun her coaches were nice/cool/friendly her team (lion tamers) won all of their games she thinks they did well.

Thank you for reading By Lola Mackie Karaka (ps I did take more photos!)

Sports report

Making the world a better place

Karaka kids have been exploring some of the products we use every day.  Where do they come from? What are they made from?

Unseasonal change workshop

See if you can spot your trees starting to grow on the Unseasonal Change facebook page.

Fair trade chocolate

During inquiry this term we have been finding out how we can make the world a better place. We have split Karaka into two groups to do a short inquiry into either deforestation or fair trade chocolate. The chocolate group have been investigating what the difference between fair trade chocolate production and non fair trade chocolate production is. Here are some photos of them investigating:

Here are some of the things we have learned so far:

Fair trade groweres are guaranteed a minimum price for their cacao. This makes sure that they get enough to cover their basic needs. (Jackson)

Fair trade chocolate has no palm oil (Lola F)

Fair trade chocolate ensures the farmers who work hard get the money they deserve (Kolya)

When you buy fair trade chocolate, you think that people farming the cacao are getting paid fairly, but when you buy regular chocolate you don’t know whether they are or not so buying fair trade might make you feel happier (Dylan)

At the end of the year if Trade Aid makes a profit, they give some of the profit back to the village where the chocolate came from to pay for health care and education.  (Sophie)

Year 5/6 netball

Today, the Year 5/6 netball players went to the ASB arena to compete in a netball competition. Everyone had fun and played extremely well and fairly. The Year 5's came second in their section. The Year 6's came 4th in their section. Our Year 8 refs were fantastic. And a big thanks to the parent helpers for driving and managing the teams. Thanks to Pauline for referring the Year 6 team.

It was an awesome day.

Year 6's taking a break

our awesome Year 8 refs

Year 5's post match

Matariki Inquiry sharing

On Friday we shared the work we did for inquiry with Ngaio.  They were so impressed!