My Speech: Riverwater and Water Pollution

This is my speech. It is about riverwater and the water pollution. It was a fun speech to write and I wish I had wrote a little more. But it was awesome! Here is my speech.

Hi I am Cayde. I am here today to tell you about river water and water pollution. Before I start I just want you to think. What do you think about Christchurch’s rivers? Do they have good or bad water quality? Usually, the first river that comes to your head is the Waimakariri.

It is Canterbury's most well known river. It is the freshest of fresh rivers. The water is clear and the fish taste good, (But that is if you manage to get one). There is almost no boat pollution because the water flows really fast and the sand filters clean it out. I would easily have a swim in this river. But what about the next river?

The selwyn river. That river is almost the complete opposite to the Waimakariri. The water is not very clear in most of it, not all parts of this river are bad but it has a reputation for having bad water quality. There is algae growing in the river, and I definitely wouldn’t want to eat the fish from that river. Plus the river has being slowly drying up for ages now.

According to Stuff.co.nz with the high E.coli levels and toxic algae warnings, it is tough to find a safe spot to have a swim in the Selwyn river. They also said that the water quality grading of the Selwyn River at the Selwyn Huts has been very poor for years. That is pretty bad. C’mon guys I think we can do better.

There has been some talk of making canals from the waimakariri to the selwyn river. I think that that is a good idea. Because the river would have a flow and then the water quality would be much better meaning that I might just consider eating the fish from it. And maybe swimming will be an option. But there is still the job of removing the algae. It Should be fine.

I think it would be worth it because; well first  it would obviously stop the complaining from the locals. I mean jeez give the government a break, they deal with enough already. And I think that getting the selwyn river right will cost less to do then all of those Auckland things that they are doing. But hey, If we want to swim in the river, Improve the environment and catch some good fish, I think it’s money well spent. Thank you.

William Pike

A few days ago William Pike came to visit our class for the second time. He Was climbing Mt Ruapehu about 10 years ago. It erupted while he was there, causing 60 olympic sized swimming pools worth of rock and debris to come crashing down onto the mountain. Unfortunately he and his friend were sleeping in that hut at the same time. Their hut basically got demolished by the rock and a rock landed on William's leg crushing it. 

He had to get his right leg amputated. If he didn't get it amputated he would have died. But he survived! That hasn't stopped him living life to the fullest and he still want to climb to the top of the mountain. He hasn't succeeded yet but everytime he is getting further and further up. He has created the William Pike Challenge Award which our classes year seven and eights are involved in. I am excited to do this challenge and hopefully at high school we do something similar.

Author Visit!

Yesterday we had a Author come in to our class. His name is Bill Ngalekerke. He was a cool author, He knew a bit of magic and at the end he showed us his trick. He is Dutch so he is a Dutch writer and translator because he speaks very good kwinglish. But he has written most of his books in english. At first he did a lesson with us about the Greek language and how there sounds for the letters, sound like ours. Photos are down below.

Week 4 Timetable

This is my week 4 timetable. during the week you will see that there will be green, yellow or red boxes. The green means that I have done everything to a high standard. The yellow means that I have done a little bit but I got distracted, and finally red means that I did not do any work.

My Dream Timetable

A couple weeks ago Rimu made our dream timetables. It was a cool subject to do. Me and Tim made a timetable together. It was a easy timetable which does every subject that you would do, but instead of been spread out over the 5 days of school we did one subject a day except for friday. Here it our video that we made.

Children and Young Adults Book Awards

Today our whole class went to the children and young adults book awards. It was at the St Margaret's College Auditorium. It was a good day and we got to see 6 New Zealand book writers, all of which are finalists in the NZ Book Awards.

The first Author was Tania Roxborough. She lives in Lincoln and she works at lincoln High as a english teacher. She is a children’s writer. One book that i know was 15 minute Shakespeare. Some of her books include Limelight, Space Gum and Banquo’s Son. She has written a 25 books.

My Favorite person was Des Hunt. He is a well respected educationalist who has written a series of environmental adventures. He used to be a teacher but now he just writes stores. Sunken Forest is his book. It is based 60 years ago. It is based on him when he was 13 years. He went to a Summer Camp and Lake Waikaremoana. It is a great walk of NZ (I would like to walk it). The lake itself was formed by an earthquake and so there is sunken forest. There is also eels that come out of the water. They are trapped there, so they come by people bringing them there. He led us through the process he went through and included a balloon to demonstrate tension. It was a good time watching him. He was very funny.

Rugby Zones

Yesterday the Yaldhurst Rugby and Netball teams went to zones. We teamed up with Weedons School and our team had to wear their T-Shirts. It was a good day but closer to the end it started to rain. I wasn't playing though because I broke my toe. Our team did good and we only lost to the Rolleston A team (They never lost a game). I was impressed with the effort my team put in because we came second in the whole tournament so we have a good chance of going to zones.

 Thankyou to the teachers and parents who took time out of there day to come and Support us.