The tragic story of the hot air balloon

This is a demo for what I'm doing further in the year with my class, we will be doing another one like this but it focuses on Captain Cook's voyage to NZ. We will be making this slide as a class.

HUHA visit

Huha visit
On Wednesday the 7th August the group involved with the Anxiety project visited HUHA, along with 4 other students who think they have anxiety. When visiting we met 4 puppies, sadly I don't think we are able to share the names or pictures of the puppies so we won't be able to share that information.

We got to play with two of those puppies that were brother and sister, and while we were playing them we observed that the puppies were a distraction so they weren't aware of what was going on. They also made our students happier. We think this was a successful visit, and we hope to carry this on. 

Tupaia's history in NZ

Tupaia, a polynesian who used the stars to navigate his journey, assisted Captain Cook in their voyage to New Zealand and many other countries. Tupaia was skilled in many ways such as being an artist,tattooist, and even fluent in many Pasifika languages, and also learnt English while travelling on the Endeavour. Tupaia has not been credited for his help in finding New Zealand, and other countries with Captain Cook. Learning about Tupaia is a very important key part in Nz's history.

Angles

In maths we are currently learning about different angles. This is my poster explaining the different angles that we have learnt.

The anxiety project

The anxiety project

Anxiety, how animals reduce it, and how our action plan supports people with it.This report will state facts about how animals can help decrease anxiety in people, and symptoms and causes of anxiety. We have formed this project to create equity for all people with anxiety.

These are some common symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety can cause panic attacks, chest pain, shortness of breath, and sweating uncontrollably. Anxiety can happen at any time of the day, but it mostly occurs at night because it’s just you alone and your thoughts.Many children can also succumb to anxiety at school due to stress of test anxiety,homework problems, and work that’s too hard. There are many different symptoms, so this doesn’t cover every single symptom.

Animals can benefit people in many ways, especially with their mental health. For example animals release a hormone in people called oxytocin which is a stress reducing hormone, this decreases production of the stress hormone cortisol. Statistics can also support this, 74% of pet owners reported that their animals improved their mental health, and 75% of pet owners reported a friends/family members mental health has improved from pet ownership. Having a pet can also improve your physical health by taking them on walks or playing with them, which if you count that as an exercise, it’ll release a hormone in your body, that can calm anxiety and lift your mood.

To assist students at Otaki college my group has decided to plan a visit to Huha. Huha is an animal shelter that creates a safe haven for animals in need. To see the effects animals have on students with anxiety, we will be bringing a group of students from Oc,including us to visit huha. To make sure this is a pleasant experience for all of us our student councilor is making sure the group of students are comfortable with participating in this project. 

If this creates a positive effect on both students and animals, we will try to continue this on to a school event.

Our anxiety project

For our group project we are researching anxiety and finding a way to make a difference in the community. Charlotte, Karen, Lily, Jessica, Alana, and I are researching possible ways that will help decrease anxiety in school, we have found and researched that animals decrease anxiety, and so we decided that we would try and find a way to get animals into our schools or we would take our pupils to animal shelters or other places to try and decrease anxiety in our pupils. We are now trying to find and contact possible places that will allow their animals to participate in this project, and help us further in this investigation.

If you have any suggestions to help us, please comment below.

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