Online for the Lockdown - Highlights for Te Kinga Students

Over the past month, students in Te Kinga have been adjusting to life and learning in the lockdown. When Term 2 started again, so did we - via Google Meet and by using online tools, and sites to help us continue with our studies. Everyone in  Te Kinga can be proud of the time and effort they have put into their learning throughout these unusual times - here are some highlights from home...

An interesting first day of Lockdown for Cameron and Kaelyn!

Blake's reflection about Lockdown...

My Favourite time in Lockdown - by Tara

My favourite time in lockdown was probably the day we took our dog Shadow,  for a big run. He was very excited and energetic and was able to keep up with our bikes easily. Since we are now in lockdown we don’t  go to the bush track anymore, we just bike from home to the new garage where we sometimes get supplies like flour of butter when we need it. So we biked down the big hill from our house, down the verge of the main road to the lake where we let shadow have a swim before going up to the shop. After we had our supplies we biked down the road again through corners and back up our annoyingly steep hill to home where it was now starting to rain.

Many of our students got into the spirit of ANZAC by making poppies creating special displays and models, writing ANZAC poems and making ANZAC biscuits!

Elsie and Jimi's poppy and flag display.

Mackenzie with the poppy she made to display in the window.

 

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 ANIKA'S AMAZING ANZAC BISCUIT SLIDE!

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Toby's Terrific Poppy Slide

Gunshots ringing

A dead body in the corner

Light the fuse! “kaboom!”

Large rats as big as cats

Itchy lice, ticks and flies

People dying of misery

Only stew and corned beef 

Little to no good food

IF You survive, you're a hero

Acrostic Poem by Tui

Remember Gallipoli by Blake

Remember the days of bombing

That was Gallipoli.

Remember the big gun we held

That was Gallipoli.

Remember the dust in the trench

That was Gallipoli.

Remember the gunshots firing at us

That was Gallipoli.

Remember the mud in the trench

That was Gallipoli.

Remember the fear 


That was Gallipoli.

Gunshots
Army soldiers 
Loading guns
Laughing at the other team
Ink for the letters
Poison bombs
Oil of the machines 
Lying in the trenches
Injuries 

Acrostic Poem by Kyle

This is Cameron's diorama of the WW1 battle at Gallipoli - WOW!