Warrington
Room 1 meets a Seal!
10 Computers Sent to Papua New Guinea
Warrington
School year 7 and 8 boys have set up and completed ten computers to
send to a coastal village school in Gavuone Papua New Guinea.
The Gavuone children will be able to learn how to use a computer. The computers will be used for more than writing and playing games. In Gavuone School they are poorly resourced with a major lack in informative books. Because the school has no Internet a basic version of Wikipedia has been installed on each computer, this will allow the students to find and use the information for their learning.
Gavuone students and staff are excited about the new computers that they are going to receive.
The computers that have been installed with Ubuntu 10.04, they are good quality retired computers donated by the Otago University. The boys involved worked on the computers at the Dunedin Makerspace, a computer hang out place.
September
the 19th
Monday,
Room 1 Warrington School was out on a trip on the beach to find rocks
to paint for the Blueskin Bay flower show. We walked along the beach
and entered the pine forest so we could collect pine needles for
stream planting on Saturday. Levi spotted the seal relaxing behind a
tree. It looked undisturbed and harmless at the time. It started
pouring down with rain. The seal woke up and looked at us curiously,
then it moved out of its bed and hobbled towards the crowd of people,
then it stopped for a moment.
The
class fled towards the paddock that was up the hill, the seal rushed
towards us, as we moved further away and scrabbling, flipping and
flying over the gate, once we got over that we were safe. We ran
towards the closest shelter from the rain and wind, a cow shed and
then told some stories, we stayed there until the rain calmed, it was
still slightly spitting but it was much better than it was before.
We ran to the road through mud, slipping and sliding down the hill, and then collected bamboo for more planting on Saturday. When we had finished we walked back to school and had a lesson about how to approach a seal!
We ran to the road through mud, slipping and sliding down the hill, and then collected bamboo for more planting on Saturday. When we had finished we walked back to school and had a lesson about how to approach a seal!
By:
Ashlie Carbines & Lichen Sorrel
Warrington’s Cat Problem
As
most of you know Warrington has a wild cat problem, I was the unlucky
person to find 5 dead cats in the same place across the road from the
school where the kids could see them from inside the school bounds but I
only noticed them when I walked past them.
The SPCA has been called in and they have said that one had been shot in the ear, “the cats have cat aids and lots of other diseases that could be passed on to other pet cats”.
We just want to get rid of the wild cats so they don’t pass on diseases to our pets or eat native wildlife and we don’t want our pet cats shot either.
As
most of you know Warrington has a wild cat problem, I was the unlucky
person to find 5 dead cats in the same place across the road from the
school where the kids could see them from inside the school bounds but I
only noticed them when I walked past them.The SPCA has been called in and they have said that one had been shot in the ear, “the cats have cat aids and lots of other diseases that could be passed on to other pet cats”.
We just want to get rid of the wild cats so they don’t pass on diseases to our pets or eat native wildlife and we don’t want our pet cats shot either.
By Joshua Carbines
10 Computers Sent to Papua New Guinea
Warrington
School year 7 and 8 boys have set up and completed ten computers to
send to a coastal village school in Gavuone Papua New Guinea. The Gavuone children will be able to learn how to use a computer. The computers will be used for more than writing and playing games. In Gavuone School they are poorly resourced with a major lack in informative books. Because the school has no Internet a basic version of Wikipedia has been installed on each computer, this will allow the students to find and use the information for their learning.
Gavuone students and staff are excited about the new computers that they are going to receive.
The computers that have been installed with Ubuntu 10.04, they are good quality retired computers donated by the Otago University. The boys involved worked on the computers at the Dunedin Makerspace, a computer hang out place.
by Miya El-Dessouky and Jade Okey
Warrington
School Disco
On Friday the 16th Warrington School
had an 80s themed disco. You had to dress up like an 80s person.
There were two discos, one for the younger children with lots of games organised by the older Warrington students and one for the older students.
There were lots of children and many of our past students and friends came too.
Disco - all and all, most people liked the discos
On Friday the 16th Warrington School
had an 80s themed disco. You had to dress up like an 80s person.
There were two discos, one for the younger children with lots of games organised by the older Warrington students and one for the older students.
There were lots of children and many of our past students and friends came too.
Disco - all and all, most people liked the discos
By:
Indy Perry & Shea Abbott
