NZ Loses World's Steepest Street Title

NZ loses it's the worlds steepest street title dew to the fact that Welsh Seaside Town of Harlech stepping forward to take the crown. This street officially has a gradient of 37%.

Baldwin Street of West Dunedin has had this title for years and had been called long neck road. 

To qualify for the record you have to have a street paved all over with houses this also has to have a measurement that is based on the highest gradient over a section of 10m.       

The Tamaki Rubbish Pick Up

On Monday Ruapotaka School went on a school trip to the Dunkirk Reserve and picked up the rubbish along the border line of the water. When we got there the tide was out so we saw a lot of birds. I saw my favorite bird which is a seagull.

We were then told since we are walking towards the park while we pick up the rubbish we could go and play on it. My group and I were too busy walking with Hazel picking up the rubbish we even discovered a jellyfish ashore.

The Jellyfish looked astonishing because of the variety of colours that it had, it was a great day.

Skiing Season Opens For 2019

Mount Ruapehu marks the starting of "Skiing" season for 2019.

Ruapehu is the first main field to open for skiing this year. The exact date for this to happen is unknown.

All they had to do was to leave the decision to "Mother Nature". 

Teachers Undertake The Mega Strike

Primary and Secondary school teachers have taken over the mega strike due to the reason of low payments.

In total there was around 50,000 teachers on strike and had failed to show up at school.

Most schools were closed and the teachers and government are still in negotiations to decide on how much the teachers will get payed

Earthquakes Struck White Island

There have been over 100  earthquakes hitting New Zealand. Most active volcano, GNS scientist have been saying " As the quakes have been getting stronger the volcano will continue to get stronger and ready to erupt ".

22 quakes have happened so far right now and the magnitude measured are 3 or over the highest is 3:9. 

 

ERO Powhiri

Today Ruapotaka had a powhiri for our special guests from ERO. We started with the welcoming of the people from ERO and also had a haka with it. Then there was a prayer from Tristan, Leaapeni and I. 

We were then lead of by three songs and then we had Mrs Hamilton come to talk to us. As soon as it was finished we had a Hungi from ERO, Mrs Hamilton and then from our Kapa Haka teacher Mrs Riley. 

Kiwi Can

Today we had a special day with the Kiwi Can association. We had two tutors today and their names were Mrs Mac and Miss Tuia. There was a topic we had to focus on, today was Respect. We were able to shove three game into our session and they were called Bang, Changes and GKQ (General Knowledge Question).
Kiwi Can Association