Rain poem

Rain poem

Rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain

I hope it all gets flushed down the drain

Were inside playing another board game

I don’t know what it’s called I forgot the name

I glance at the window pain

Oh look, here comes a train

I ask what’s for lunch and the answer is grain

Oh what another boring day of the rain

Inquiry Ideas ?

Ice cream invention

In our class we decided for our food topic we wood have an ice cream master chef competition. This is my project

Cybersmart comic strip

in our class we made a comic strip that explained 3 things NOT to do with your Chromebook

What happened to our principals car (the narrative).

Personal inquiry reflection

My inquiry is going all right. I have put my craft under the lake to film. an we accidentally imploded it. I am now making the slide and uploading the video. I think I am going to finish it in time.

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

The rise and fall of Waiuta gold mine

By Cameron

The ghost town is dotted with old broken wreckage's with moss infested chimneys that will rot for all eternity. The historic town is located at end of Snowy road. Waiuta was the South Island's biggest gold mine and at 1930 it reached around 600 people. It is also the most famous ghost town in the South Island.

History

In 1905 the gold reef was discovered. It was found on King Edward VII’s birthday so they called it Birthday Reef. In 1908 the first mine shaft the Blackwater Shaft opened. In total it was 567m deep. In 1926 a new mine opened called the Prohibition. In 1930 the population reached up to 600 people. In 1936 the Prohibition mine took over the work. It all ended in 1951 when the Prohibition mine collapsed and the town was abandoned.

Gold and contamination

The Waiuta gold mines were the most wealthy mines of the 20th century in the South Island. The mine produced nearly 750,000 ounces of gold from 1.5 million tons of quartz. That is $1,869,255,217 in today's value. The level of arsenic is 33,000 times the safe limit for drinking water. There were 96 barrels of highly-contaminated arsenic material removed from the Prohibition site for treatment and disposal at a specialised facility. It cost $3.6 million to clear out the water.

Waiuta town

Waiuta was a sports town. It’s main sport was rugby but they also played tennis. Waiuta also had a bowling green. If you go there now you can see the rotting rugby poles swaying in the breeze. As the town was abandoned and Tony Mangan’s Family was last to leave. It was left it to the ghosts and modern age explorers.