Canterbury Floods News Report

Salam (Hello), 

This week in hurumanu 2 with Miss Alpers we have been researching about the Canterbury that has been happening this week. We read a article about the floods and had to write a detailed blog post about it.  Below this small blurb a shortened story about the floods. 

Met-service got a code-red warning in Canterbury which was expected to bring up to 400mm high by Monday. Springfield, the upper and lower part of Sewlyn Huts and peel forest, locals had to evacuate because of the massive floods. Kris Faafoi travelled throughout Canterbury to see the impact of  the rain and found out that about 3,000 houses were at risk of flooding. Burnham camp, three trucks and a ambulance got deployed to help with evacuations. Ashburton called the civil defence centre and locals got asked to boil their water. 30 houses in Selwyn district and spring field had been evacuated and safe. 

Later in the day the Selwyn district council called a emergency civil defence team to help with this situation. People living in Selwyn huts had been evacuated and sent to darfield recreation centre. The water supplier got shut down due to the amount of flooding spread  throughout Canterbury. Farmers begun struggling, most farmers found struggling got evacuated by a helicopter and moved to dry land. A river in Christchurch got hit and got closed due to major flooding. Around 8pm a big tide of fresh new flooding went towards town.  

Timaru also got declared of a state emergency, heavy rain showers came and concerned fellow locals. Two new people joined the civil defence team for Timaru to help people to evacuate. There were multiple road closers due to flooding and caused more people to evacuate. Fifty two schools and 24 early learning centres had been confirmed that it would be closed the next day. Many more problems had happened due to the flooding throughout Canterbury this included : trees falling, power cut outs, road closers etc.

I hope this blog post was interesting and taught you something about the big showers in Canterbury. Feel free to comment. What do you know about the Canterbury floods, were you involved in evacuating?  

Image of a flood 

Ashburton river flood

Women's rights ✊🏽🙎‍♀️

 Kia Ora Readers!

For the past two weeks in hurumanu one we have been learning about the protest of women's rights. We read a story about Kate Sheppard and how she got New Zealand to be the first country to allow women to vote. After we finished reading the story we got set activity's to do, one part of the activity was to make something to make people sign the petition Kate Sheppard wrote.  It had to include: a title, illustrations, and information. I decided to make mine on canva, which is a website you can make posters,info graphics,presentations, videos and much more. Firstly I used a template then changed some parts of the poster and included my own writing. This activity wasn't that challenging the hardest part was only finding illustrations. The easiest part was changing the wording and making it look neat. 

Here is my poster:

Political Decision-Making

 Hey Readers!

This week in hurumanu 1 we have been learning about Parliament and the steps it takes to the decision making of who the government would become. We watched a video about how it would happen, there are two main votes we do to select a government to be the leader of a party which is : the leader they want and who they want to represent locally. Every three years there is a election to determine who the prime minister of New Zealand would be. 

The steps parliament follows to pass a new law are: a bill ( law draft) is passed to parliament to get a read from the prime minster, next a close party reads the bill and fixes any mistakes, the public also get to read it and change it if needed, after that it gets a second reading, the mps debate the bill and it's the last chance to change the bill, it's read a third time and if it becomes certified by the Clerk of the house it's sent to the governor general for royal signing and to become a New Zealand law. 

In class today we got into groups and had to write down the differences and similarities between the process of the making of New Zealand laws and the treaty. All the groups got a piece of A4 paper to write the similarities and process, my group firstly discussed some ideas then we wrote down our ideas. Once everyone had to finish writing down the information Mr Mitchell asked all the groups about the process of the class treaty we did. There were lots of similarities to the process of New Zealand laws as well. 

The steps we did to make the treaty was... we firstly got into groups  (each table was a group) next all the groups got a piece of paper and had to get a pencil or pen. After that Mr Mitchell told us a Carr value we had to write rules for. The Carr values are: commitment, achievement, resilience and respect. We only needed to write five rules  that related to the Carr value. My group got given the carr value resilience, we all each wrote down at least one or two rules and gave each other ideas. Once all the groups had written down all the rules we passed around each of the groups rules and if needed we changed any words or rules we could. Next Mr Mitchell wrote down all of the rules on a slide show with each slide show being a carr value. The class voted if we approved on the rules. Then Mr Mitchell wrote all the rules on a google doc then printed it out to show a example of what a small version of the treaty would look like. Once Mr Mitchell printed the real version he rubbed tea bags across the paper making it look old as well as ripping some parts of the paper. Then the class all signed the treaty and got a treat which was a chocolate marshmallow egg  because it was almost easter. 

What do you know about Parliament? 

Here is the video we watched: