first blog for Whangara

In week 6 we went for a walk to nealon park to see the freezing works and if its still there.Their are little parts of the factory like scraps there is a pillar,front of a boat piese.

In week 6 we learnt about mussels, and how they clean the water after that, we dissected the mussel.

In week 4 we went to the town museum to learn about how Gisborne used to look like before when the maori came to Nz and now.And we went on an exitbhon about what they used for hunting,wearing cloth.

4 Pictures 1 word

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/195iOEC3tszefD2i44Dm2HzEL5XFYmdwb3ldc5S-LtCg/edit#slide=id.p

TIMELINE ABOUT THE PAEKAKARIKI MARITIME ACCIDENT

polish refugees land in New Zealand

6 Facts

1.An estimated 1.7 million Poles were deported to labour camps in Siberia following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939

2.In 1943 Prime Minister Peter Fraser invited a group of Polish children to New Zealand for the duration of the war.

3. Most of the refugees chose to settle in New Zealand after the war. Relatives joined some in the late 1940s, while a small number returned to Poland.

4.A camp for the children was established near Pahīatua in Wairarapa.

5.most of the former soldiers joined free Polish forces fighting on the Allied side,

6.Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 prompted Joseph Stalin to send over 120,000 Polish prisoners to Iran

Thinking about this module write about one thing you are doing well and one thing you need to improve on. * I am good at my group work and the warm up questions i can improve on reading more

Kaitangata mining disaster

21/02/1879

On the morning of 21 February 1879, an explosion happened at the coalmine at Kaitangata, South Otago. when the crash happened there were 47 men working at the time of the disaster. At first, no one knew how many were underground.By early evening, it was clear that 34 men had been underground and that none had survived.


https://nzhistory.govt.nz/kaitangata-mining-disaster

James K. Baxter

James was New Zealand’s most accomplished poets. He had devoted the last years of his life  helping people who were doing drugs and drinking alcohol.He died in Auckland, aged 46.