Science With Pendulums

Science With Pendulums

This week at school we have been making pendulums one that you might know is a Newtons Cradle. like this...
I have got about half way with my pendulum seesaw this is where i have got up to on the right.
 And this is the real one in the middle.

history of wautia

This is a recount about wautia and the gold mine.

The history of Waiuta.

Where it is and why.

If you follow the Snowy Road on the West Coast you will arrive at an old ghost
town called Waiuta. A large gold vain was founded in 1905 by Jimmy Martin at
the location where Waiuta was to be founded. The gold vain was named the
Birthday Reef because it was discovered on King Edwards the VII’s birthday. 

How the miners got the gold out.

By the 1930’s Waiuta had a population of around 600 people. The miners
drilled and blasted the gold and quartz out of the rock. The timber around
Waiuta provide the people with housing and helped stabilised the mines from
collapsing. Mercury, cyanide and other toxic chemicals were used to separate
the gold from the quartz ore. In 2017 EnviroWaste cleared the chemicals from
the Prohibition Shaft site at a cost of $3.6 million.

How they get the gold out of the rocks.

There were two means of crashing the quartz to extract the gold.

1. The battery process. Gold was pounded out of the ore using a water
2. powered battery of iron stamps. This occurred at the Snowy Battery.
3. The ball mill. Iron balls in revolving steel drums crushing the quartz rock.
4. This occurred at the Prohibition Mill site.

Dates of what happened.

On King Edward the king VII birthday a reef of gold had been found. By the
1930s over 600 people had been staying at a gold mine called Waiuta.
Between 1939 and 1946 the number of men employed by the company fell
from 240 to 113 because of the First World War as there was no one to mine
and make money. On July 9th 1951 the Blackwater Shaft collapsed, and the
mine began to flood. Many people became jobless and were forced to leave
Waiuta and settle somewhere else. Many of the buildings eventually got
dismantled, and within a couple months, Waiuta became a ghost town, with
nothing to offer.

my art

In the past week my class has been doing art like a artiest the lives in the north island called Miranda Jane Caird. We think her art is so good because she has tried to make lots of different patterns. Here is some of her art.


This is my photo of the sea and a big hill with a island and some birds. I think that my art looks really cool and i am very happy with it.

snow camp

snow camp

 on week 5 my class and the younger class went for a camp to Arthers pass and mount cheeseman . I think that the snow camp was really fun but the down side of it is that the middle class came and woke me up at 6:00 in the morning! we got to go skiing at mt cheeseman and it was really cool because I have never been their. We also went to the Arthers pass outdoor education centre and played games and learnt stuff. hear are some photos.

Te Kinga work interview

in class recently we have been interviewing people about what they have been doing for their work. today we have had a interview with Jarred we talk about lots of things but i was most interested that he has worked with a puppet fish blinking its eyes.

Martins bay

Martins bay.

this is some information that i have collected about Martins bay for our school topic witch is local history. 

fair trade

fair trade 

this week we made some sack art on fair trade. You might not know what fair trade is. well it is a thing were jobs pay workers get paid more money and don,t get put in dangers areas. Thomas and i writ a poem on a sack that came from a fair trade cafe and we found coffee beans. you can read the poem we made on the sack.

we panted it with paint and put a pitcher on it and stuck it on the wall.  

the whole class did it and we all enjoined doing it and it was a bit of a challenge for me but it was fun. 

Fair trade 

their spirits fade

they barely get paid 

they can,t even play

they need fair trade.