Kaikoura Earthquake

A year on from the Kaikoura Earthquake said to be a 7.8 quake, the town's harbour was re-opened and ceremonies were held, parts of the South island are more than 5m closer to the North island.  New research was also revealed.

A study led by GNS is being published in the Journal Science.

The roads were crushed and drivers were unable to get to the town’s harbour before it reopened around the months  December to February

The Earthquake occurred on the 14th of November 2016 at exactly 11:02 PM.

From Kaikoura to Cape Campbell, the Earth was pushed closer to the North Island, as well as several metres higher in various places.

The Earthquake ruptured along a record 21 faultlines.At Least 12 major crustal faults were involved, as well as nine lesser faults.

It’s now reopened and as normal as it used to be apart from the cracks and ruptures it made.

By Ruby and Kaleece.

This is a news report I wrote with my friend with Kaleece. It's about Kaikoura Earthquake

Roald Dahl

Ruby's 3D Printing-Phone Case

This is my phone case I made on tinkercad. It was really challenging because we had to make all the holes in the phone. It was still quite  fun though.The first thing we had to do was make a box the size of a phone. Then we took the  chamfer edges and turned them into  fillets  to do that you needed to get a box shape and get a Cylinder-hole and then put it in the right place to make a corner then group and you will have a corner then duplicate the corner x 4 and put it on all the edges.  Chamfer and Fillets are when you have a sharp edge and you turn it into a round edge. It was now in the shape of a phone case.

After we made it look like a phone case we put all the holes in it. But it needed a hole to put the phone in. So then I made the edges on mine and I was done. The most easiest part(By the way I haven’t done it yet) was to print it. Because the machine did the printing for you apart from the fact that it might not work./fillets.The hardest part was making all the holes because you had to find out where all the holes would go and how to put them.  My phone case wasn’t exactly the best and would probably only fit an ipod but it was still worth it. The experience was fun but challenging which was a good thing in my Case!-get it CASE!

By Ruby.

Grandparents Day

   My Grandparents

My Grandparents, I have 3 grandparents, My Nanny my Nana and my step poppa( I mean if that counts) My closest grandparent is my Nana I go to my Nana’s Monday Tuesday Wednesday. That’s why we are going to base this story on my Nana. I’m not 100 percent sure how old she is… but i think she’s in her 70’s and she is about 73-74. Now my Nana is very nice to me she always gives me ginger crunches cherry bunches… just kidding. I get pies,hotdogs,crackers,juice, cookies, pizza and who knows(well me of course but yeah) Now let’s get on to important stuff. .She doesn’t really have a huge history, well if she does how am i supposed to know? Now she was married to my favorite poppa well um i only knew him for a year. He died and it was tragic for my brother because my brother loved  my poppa so much.  Anyways asides from the pies and hotdogs and all things nice my nana can be quite of a boss sometimes but I still like her soo much.

By Ruby

This is a story I wrote For my Nana on Grandparents day.