Kia Ora, My name is Paikea Cecil. I am one of the thirty fortunate students who got selected to be part of a class called Akomanga Kaihanga. Our main Social Studies teacher is Ms Apelu. Karl is our main project teacher. The purpose of being part of this class is so we can come up with our own ideas that could help or predict something in our community for a better future.
At the start of the term each of us got put into five teams of six. I am in a team called Island Skittles. The other four teams are Team Renegade, Team Polys, Team Donk Corn and Team Jaxxz. The people in my team are Mary, Mathew, Leanah, David, Cherryanne and Me.
My team's main idea or focus is Water Safety. Our point is that we want more kids to be aware of things like rips or rough rivers. We think that a lot of kids, especially polynesian kids like to hang out at places like the beach or the pools. But sometimes when they're at the beach they could be in a situation where they are swimming and a rip takes one of them out. So we want to provide lessons to teach children how to survive in water when they are alone.
At our school we found out that one of the P.E teachers, Mr Moyes, has a water safety programme for Year 10’s. Me and Mary got to talk to him and he said that this programme is mainly about survival, it's not about knowing how to swim like freestyle or backstroke. The reason why we wanted to talk to Mr Moyes was so that we could ask him if it was possible if this water safety programme can get extended to Year 9’s as well. He said that he will talk to his team about what our group is wanting to try and make happen. But extending Mr Moyes water safety programme was one of our main ideas so that more kids could be involved.
We thought of another idea we didn’t think would work but possibly could. This idea would have to take a lot of time and evidence. We were thinking that Tamaki College should have their own pool. Mr Dunn said that Tamaki College is getting some new buildings and if he can he will put a pool part of the new buildings plan. This idea on building a pool for Tamaki College could take a while to confirm this. Me and my group are gonna have to talk to some people like T.R.C, Mr Dunn and the Head boy and girl.
I think that this project is on the right path and ideas we thought of at the beginning of term 1 are coming to life. Me and my team would love Mr Moyes to get more kids in his programme and to experience it. But if Tamaki College had their own pool Mr Moyes wouldn’t have to worry about booking swimming lanes at our local pool down the road. It could also be easier for more students to be involved in the swimming programme. But the swimming pool idea could take a while to make happen.
Task Description - This was our Social Studies task for homework. I wanted to explain how we started our project and what happened at the start of Term 1. I elaborated on what my team main ideas are and where we are up to at the moment.
At the start of the term each of us got put into five teams of six. I am in a team called Island Skittles. The other four teams are Team Renegade, Team Polys, Team Donk Corn and Team Jaxxz. The people in my team are Mary, Mathew, Leanah, David, Cherryanne and Me.
My team's main idea or focus is Water Safety. Our point is that we want more kids to be aware of things like rips or rough rivers. We think that a lot of kids, especially polynesian kids like to hang out at places like the beach or the pools. But sometimes when they're at the beach they could be in a situation where they are swimming and a rip takes one of them out. So we want to provide lessons to teach children how to survive in water when they are alone.
At our school we found out that one of the P.E teachers, Mr Moyes, has a water safety programme for Year 10’s. Me and Mary got to talk to him and he said that this programme is mainly about survival, it's not about knowing how to swim like freestyle or backstroke. The reason why we wanted to talk to Mr Moyes was so that we could ask him if it was possible if this water safety programme can get extended to Year 9’s as well. He said that he will talk to his team about what our group is wanting to try and make happen. But extending Mr Moyes water safety programme was one of our main ideas so that more kids could be involved.
We thought of another idea we didn’t think would work but possibly could. This idea would have to take a lot of time and evidence. We were thinking that Tamaki College should have their own pool. Mr Dunn said that Tamaki College is getting some new buildings and if he can he will put a pool part of the new buildings plan. This idea on building a pool for Tamaki College could take a while to confirm this. Me and my group are gonna have to talk to some people like T.R.C, Mr Dunn and the Head boy and girl.
I think that this project is on the right path and ideas we thought of at the beginning of term 1 are coming to life. Me and my team would love Mr Moyes to get more kids in his programme and to experience it. But if Tamaki College had their own pool Mr Moyes wouldn’t have to worry about booking swimming lanes at our local pool down the road. It could also be easier for more students to be involved in the swimming programme. But the swimming pool idea could take a while to make happen.
