New Date for Longbeach Rockclimbing Trip

Well hopefully the rain will ease soon! We have booked a new date for climbing and hope that this date will be sunny and fine! We are now going to be going to Longbeach on WDENESDAY 27th AUGUST. We are still looking for some more helpers, so if you are available and would like to join us for the day it would be greratto have you accompany us!

The Human Body - Homework Task Due 6th August

Your task is to choose a body part, organ or system.
Gather all the information you can on this body part, organ or system.
You are going to have to present your findings about this on an A4 sized page.
You will need to include on your page:
· DEFINITION of the body part, system or organ.
· DIAGRAM/DRAWING of the part, organ or system.
· EXPLANATION of what this part, system or organ does for us and its importance and relationship to other parts of the body.
· DID YOU KNOW BOX with some interesting/possible uncommon knowledge facts.
You need to be prepared to share your sheet of facts and information with the class on Wednesday 6th August.
A high standard of presentation is expected along with a detailed knowledge of all of your information.

Rockclimbing postphoned...

As you will be aware we have postphoned the rockclimbing due to weather related issues, we are in the process of rescheduling these trips and hope to confirm new dates asap. It is likely they will be in week 6-7 of this term

Did you know..... Some interesting facts about the human body!

Some interesting facts listed below, possibly all true?
Your ears never stop growing
The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
The human body is 75% water
The heart can squirt enough blood 30 feet
Your brain is 70% water
The strongest bone your femur is hollow
Blood isn’t red it is yellow and called plasma
People who have a high number of moles live longer
1 drop of blood is made of 5 million red blood cells 7,000 white blood cells and 300,000 platelets
You can lose 90%of your liver and still live
Your lungs contain 750 million tubes and capsules
Your heart beats 2.5 billion times in 66 years
Some people have over 206 bones
People who spend most of there time riding horses grow extra bones in there thighs
An average person farts 16 times a day
You lose 60 hairs a day
Pound for pound human body produces 5 times more energy than the sun
You can cut the brain directly in half and not fell anything
You shed 600,000 particles of skin every hour
It takes 15 months for the body to fully recover from even a moderately bad sunburn
If you unfold and flatten a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court
All babies are born colour blind.
Urine is made up of 96% water. The rest is protein and salt.
Babies are born with 300 bones.
If you took out all of the water in your body then you would weigh 40% of your body weight.
Your thigh is stronger than concrete.
Each eye weighs 1 ¼ ounces.
In a child there are 600 miles of blood vessels.
A new born baby’s brain weighs 3 ounces.
In the 1850’s, a man from Paris had a brain injury and all he could ever say ever again was tan.
The brain weighs 1.3 kg.
The left side of the brain controls the right and vice versa.
Ancient Greeks thought that the heart did the thinking.
The world sneezing record is held by a girl that in the 1980’s sneezed 1,000,000 times per year for 2 ½ years from 1981 to 1983/
Stomach acid is strong enough to melt through copper.
Nails are made out of protein called keratin !!!
More than 2,500 gallons of air flows through the average of a adults nose in a day!!!
The human body has 6 ponds of skin!!!
Each hand has 27 bones: eight in the wrist five in the palm and 14 in the fingers!!!
A newborn baby has300 bones, some of which fuse together to make the further 200 in the adult!!!
Every day your fingernails get longer by 2 hairs a day and if you did not cut them they would get up to 28 meters of nail during a life time each piece of hair grows 1 centimetres per month!!!

Class trip to Longbeach!! Copy of Notice

24 July 2008

Dear Parents/Caregivers

As part of the outdoor education programme the year 7 classes will be looking at self confidence and communication skills through rock climbing.

Classes will be split into three groups. Rock Climbing, where a professional rock climber will
take one group, a cave challenge activity and a third activity involving photography and sand sculpting. These are all held at Long Beach and the students will take part in each of these activities throughout the day.

We will be leaving school at 8.45 sharp and will return to school approximately 3.30pm. Children will need to take their own lunch, drink and suitable outdoor clothing.

The need for parent support, in order to keep our students safe, and also the need for transport is very important. Busses now cost between $200-$300 dollars per day, in an attempt to keep the cost down, I was hoping that we could use private vehicles and the school van rather than a bus.

The cost for this day without the use of a bus would be $14. If you are available to help on this day please return the form as soon as possible.

Room 3 = Tuesday 29th July
Room13 = Wednesday 30th July
Room 11 = Friday 1st August
Room 1 = Monday 4th August
Room 7 = Tuesday 5th August
Room 5 = Friday 8th August
Room 10 = Monday 11th August

Push Play!!!

Push play
It is recommended that kids try and do 60 minutes of push play (physical fitness) every day.
Room13 is going to participate in the push play classroom challenge.
The classroom challenge is to record 4 weeks of the fitness we do each day e.g. one person might do 20 minutes of fitness and another might do 30 minutes of fitness.
We will all try to do 60 minutes of fitness or more, at the end of the 4 weeks we will hopefully be fitter and ready for the school cross country!

By Jessie Sims