Oakley Creek

Oakley creek is having lots of floods and looks very boring, Auckland council is going to redesign it, they asked Owairaka school for ideas. These are my ideas.

First of all I think there should be an awesome adventure playground, it would have a giant, colourful trampoline with trampolines on the sides as the net , a climbing wall, swings, slide, tall turret that you could walk up the stairs on the inside, a double flying fox that two people could go on together, a green, caterpillar seesaw with cut ropes as legs, twisting blue monkey bars that looked like waves and humungous minion statue that you could climb up.

I think there should also be sports fields (hockey turf, soccer field, Rugby field). If you did not bring their own sports gear you could hire sports gear from the sports shack next door. You wouldn’t have to pay to go on the turf.

Another idea is to have a little petting zoo. Auckland council could employ someone to look after the animals. The petting zoo would have a hamster town,a  bunny village, a llama pen and a chicken pen. It would be $1 for entry.

I also think that there should be a picnic area with big climbing trees and park tables and benches. In the picnic area there would be some hide and seek obstacles like big rocks to hide behind and small caves to hide in.

Another one of my ideas is to have a separate lane for walking and another lane for biking, scootering or skateboarding. There would also be a red and black bridge. The bridge would go over top of the creek and the bike track.

A skatepark is one of the main things you see in a park so I think there should be a skatepark. The skate park would be a colourful skatepark with each obstacle a different colour. There would be ramps, bumps and stuff like that.

In summer it gets hot so there should be a water slide to cool down in. It would be quite steep it wouldn’t be to bumpy because people might get hurt. At the end it would flatten and at the very end would be a shallow pool so you wouldn’t get grass stains.

Those are all my ideas, it would be really cool if one of my ideas was actually there, thanks for reading.

The Great Egg Drop Challenge

This is my writing about Rm 20's egg drop challenge.

On Monday the 23rd of February RM 20 did a great egg drop. If you entered you had to make a contraption, put an egg in it, then you  had to chuck it off the top of the senior playground. Most people cushioned theirs or used a parachute to decrease the velocity.

Six people entered but only four of them came to school on the day of the egg drop. Everyones egg survived, except Alice’s unfortunately cracked.

My contraption was a tomato container, it  had scrunched up plastic bags glued to the sides inside to cushion it. My invention also had two plastic bag parachutes attached to the contraption with wire. My egg survived the drop.

In my opinion the great egg drop was fabulous.