Youth+Week+-+Day

On Tuesday 25 May as part of [|Youth Week], we had a whole day dedicated to learning about keeping ourselves healthy. We had speakers and did activities to show us how things we put into our bodies, like drugs and alcohol travel round the body and how they affect the brain.

Humpty Dumpty - an activity to show what happens to the brain when it is affected by drugs. 

Ms Fryer - who used to work for the [|Life Education Trust New Zealand], talked about alcohol and how everything that goes into our body, travels everywhere, affecting every body part. We learned that alcohol slows down the messages our brain sends so we don't react as quickly as we need to. She had her 'friend' Mungo the monkey to help and he told us some very bad jokes like: //What has a bottom at the top? Your legs // :-) Ms Fryer talks to Mungo. After morning tea, Anna Cardno the Manager of the [|Wairarapa Branch of the Cancer Society]  and Nicky from Whaiora talked to us about smoking. From them, we heard that smoking is the biggest cause smoking affects every part of the body - not just the heart and lungs as many of us thought.

3/6/10 - Anna brought with her a big jar of cigarette butts. The Cancer Society and the Wairarapa Smokefree Network were holding a competition called "Butt Out". We were asked to guess the number of butts; we all hoped it would be heaps because the prize was $1.00 for every butt inside the jar  .And the result was : Anna and Brent Gare (More FM) made a draw out of the 4 closest entries and the winner was announced on the More FM breakfast show this morning. We are really excited to find out that Ruby Bridge from Room 13 has won the prize and will be presented with a cheque tomorrow 4 June. . She guessed 442 butts, and there were 443 in the jar. Um...how about lunch Ruby??

Anna and Nicky  After lunch, Carly, Ms Fryer's daughter visited. She is a 3rd dan black belt in Zen Do Kai karate - and a weapons expert. Her message was that to do our best in anything, we need to not be thinking about drugs because in her experience, people who are into drugs only focus on using them and buying them. She showed us a karta, her weapons and a demonstration of her nun chuku. We were VERY impressed.

Carly with her mum and showing how much she liked us - see the big smile on her face :-)