July 28th Weekly update

Time sure fly’s when you are busy fundraising!!  We updated our money thermometer yesterday and realised that we hadn’t posted a blog for over 2 weeks!! Sorry about that, I guess we must have been too busy selling chocolates but can you believe in just 2 weeks we have raised over $200?!!!  Awesome job everyone!!

G is currently flat out working with other students on 3 East organising 2 quizzes to be held live on the in house hospital show called Macadamia. These will be held as another fundraising activity and will be aired next Tuesday and Wednesday, so he has given me a list of things to blog about :) Here goes....

Letters from Christchurch

We hope you are enjoying reading the little snippets of letters from Chisnallwood Intermediate School. The letters have attracted enormous interest from students, families and medical staff.  The Christchurch community sure have, and continue to, experience challenging times and we look so forward to the end of the project where we hope we can do something special and put some smiles of students faces.  If you would like to read some of the letters in full and you are in the hospital, visit the 3 East learning space or the 8^th Floor where there are letters displayed on the walls.

Stories about the project

A few organisations outside the hospital have been interested in writing stories about our project and use of ipads.  This is fantastic exposure of the terrific work students are doing ans we lok forward to reading the published pieces.

Annual General Meeting

 The Trans Tasman project will also feature at our Annual General Meeting which is very exciting!     Students will be given the opportunity to help plan aspects of the display which is fabulous.

mmmm....Chocolates

720 chocolate freddo frogs arrived just over 2 weeks ago and students, families and staff have been fantastic in supporting us. G has been running a tight ship on the 8^th floor, ensuring no sneaky IOU’s occur. ‘No coin no chocolate’ is proving to be a very good policy!

 We have sold over 600 chocolates and are on our last 2 boxes now.  Students have requested to order another 10 boxes with a few different flavours. 

Help fill the Cracks wristbands

The wristbands arrived on Monday and they look amazing.  Check them out on the blog.  Wristbands are $2.00 each and can be purchased on the 3^rd and 8^th floor.  If you are on another ward and would like one please let your teacher know.

Help fill the cracks Pins

The metal pins with the fantastic project logo have not yet arrived.  They shouldn’t be too long now though  - We need to remember that the wonderful people from Ties  & Cuffs are donating the pins so it might take a little bit longer as we are not paying customers.

This is our fantastic design for the pins >

 

Hot off the press: - Live Macadamia Quizzes

Amazing news!!!   We met with Skates the Macadamia producer and they have welcomed a fundraising quiz to be help live!

Students and staff will come around next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with answer sheets and we will be asking in return for a donation towards out project appeal. For the older kids there will be an amazing prize of a ipod shuffle so we will asking for a gold coin donation for the answer sheet :)

The Prep – year 3 quiz will be on Tuesday at 2pm when the usual matchup is being played.   There will be 3 rounds, with the first person to call with all the correct answers after each round to win a prize.  There will also be lucky number spot prizes so you could be a winner just by playing!

The Grade 4+  quiz will be help on the couch Wednesday at 2pm.  There will be 4 rounds.  Answer sheets will be collected after the final round and taken back to the studio for marking.  The top 10 people with the most correct answers will go in the draw for the ipod shuffle.   There will also be runners up prizes and lucky number spot prizes for this quiz.   Prizes so far include movie tickets, zoo tickets, itunes cards, smiggle  products and much, much more.  It’s going to  be a great... 

Happy quiz planning everyone and as always, thanks heaps for all your hard work.

snippets from students in Christchurch

Here are some little bits of the letters from Chisnallwood Intermediate school students. Pls post some messages.

You may need to zoom in as they are a little hard to read

'We all waited more than an hour before the first lots of parents came rushing in. People started leaving the school but many kids were still here including me. 2 hours later mum finally came to get me. We went straight home, only stopping to get my little sister'

'Later on we went home to find the house in what I call live-able condition. We still moved though cause all the walls were floating in the air. We spent a month  at my grandmas and my 13th birthday ...'

' I hadn't heard from mum and she worked in an old brick building in town so I was worried about her...'

'We are writing to tell you about the 6.3 earthquake. It was almost one o'clock, almost lunchtime and all of a sudden the classroom started shaking. It was really scary...'

'I cried my eyes out after the earhquake. My best friend Mahina. She was there for me no matter what...'

'The bridge I go over to home/school was Broken so I had to sway through the knee, sometimes waste deep water, sewer and silt..'

'We were at school. We all got under our desks. Some got hurt Books fell down and in the technology rooms microwaves fell down. Screwdrivers. All sorts...'

'We got home. Lots broken but not my family. It broke four televisions, a heater, 6 fumy lamp things. lots of mum's favourite ornaments and any more...'

'While waiting for my parents to come pick me up I sat for awhile when I saw a little year 7 boy crying because he couldnt get hold of his parents. It was so sad...'

'It was a very cold and windy day and not many people had jerseys. It took 3 hours for my dad's best friend to come and pick me up as Dad was in Lyttelton...'

'As the principal was asking us to  all calm down, water was pouring  out onto the field and we had to keep moving aorund to avoid getting wet...'

'We had to walk home. It took  2 hours to get back. We had to walk through slosh and I evan think some poop was mixed into it as well. When we got home I was too scared to go inside so we slept in a tent for a week...'

'It took like 2 hour before anyone could come and pick me and my friend up...'

'We could find our friends and give them big hus  to see if they were okay...'

'Later we were listening to my stepdads radio and it said that people had died. When we got  the generator working, we turnd on the tv to watch the news...'



' I was at school reading a book when it happened. We weren't ready for it. It made no noise before it hit us. Our teacher screamed "Get Down" .' 

'Only 2 glasses were broken. There were cracks in the walls in my room, a big cupboard fell down which was about 2 meters high. The power was out for about a week. We were all okay. Dad came home the next day because of the traffic and blocked roads. The sewerage line was broken and it was seeping onto the roads.We didnt return to school for about a month. Now it's all back to normal...  for now...'

'My school is fine and my house. I never lost  a pet or a friend. We also want to thank you for how  friendly you've been...'

'The teachers gave us food because  they thought we were hungry, and then we went into a class. Like 10 minutes later my mum came to get me and we went to go home and the roads were smashed. The bridge down by our school was lifted and we had to walk from our school. The roads were filled of water and I got soaked. I was sad because went home the power was out and I was so bored...'

'There was a big bump in the drive. It looked like a skateboard ramp...'

'I jumped under my desk and the force of the quake was so strong my head was being bounced up on my desk. Everybody calmly walked to the back field, shocked and shakey. We had roll call and everyone was safe...'

' When we were sitting on the back field, guess what? Another one happened and this time the back field started flooding, nearly all the students started screaming.Then I saw my mum, I just about bursted into tears.When we got back to my house, I went to check the backyard and it started to flood. I was so scared...'

'When my mum came to pick me up I was so happy to see her...'

'When my dad arrived with my little sister we decided to go to my aunties house because she lives in Rolleston.We stayed there for two weeks and then we came home for a few weeks and then we went back to school. The earthquake was really horrible but we are all helping each other out to rebuild our city. We are following your blog and really appreciate what you are doing for us...'

' I was sitting there waiting for the teacher when suddenly there was a sharp grumble and then a  long furious shake...'

'People went without power, water and sewerage for at least 2 weeks (I did). We still get aftershocks and they're normally at night and they can get big. All of us in room 7 the best class in the whole school are really thankfull for your support. We are following your blog as well...' 





"6 days after I went to Rotorua primary. It as pretty cool but I had to come back 3 months later''

" The earthquake was like a big train smashing through our house..."

"All I had to worry about now was my dad and of course my cell phone, which ended up being in the class for about 4 weeks..."

"My legs were like jelly. They felt like they would collapse..."

"During the earthquake it was quite aggressive and I was rolling around the class because I couldn't get under my desk.When the shaking stopped we got outside and lined up. then another aftershock. People screamed and cried as we made our way out to the field. As the aftershocks continued the field pipes were bursting and the fields were flooding and we had to keep moving spots.Parents were coming  and giving their kids big hugs. Finally I got to leave for home. The paths were flooded and cracked..."

"I got flung from  my chair  and hit my head on the desk. I was in pain but I just thought about getting under my desk..."

'Some peoples parents did not come until the next day...'

Weekly round up - July 8th, 2011

Hi everyone,
It sure has been a week of action this week! G has started his distant education courses on top of his already busy timetable so I am going to write the weekly update this week :)

The project is really gathering momentum and there is alot of interest across the hospital and wider community about what we are doing.

Our first few fundraising activities are about to kick into gear. The chocolates arrive next Monday and we have been given approval on the wards to sell them which is great.

500 red & black wristbands (with help fill the cracked embossed on them) have been ordered and paid for. Production will take 2-3 weeks so it won't be long before they arrive.

The wonderful creative work from students and the teacher on 3east have resulted in a wonderful logo for our project. Check out our blog a little later once we have uploaded it. Nice work guys - I have sent the logo to the wonderful people at tiesncuffs who have donated pins for adults and staff to purchase. Production of these is starting as we speak which is great news.

A young lady on 3 east has also been busy working on a stencil to print on some bags. Great idea and we look forward to seeing the end product.


So as you can see everything is shaping up well.

Next week we need the following tasks to be started:

- A holding container or box to be made to hold the wristbands and pins that will be for sale. there must be somewhere for the money to go

- Postcard (similar to the chocolate sign) that shows the items for sale and the price. On the back of the postcard we will have a blurb about what the project is about.

- A $ meter for the cafeteria back wall to display the money we are raise. I think some 3east students may have already started it.

- Find out how to add a $ meter on our blog.

- Respond to letters from Room 7 students

In the next few weeks we will also start looking at our live quiz on the hospital Macademia show.