Safe cycling statistics.

Safe Cycling Skills - A statistical investigation

Question: Are Karoro School senior students safe cyclists on the roads?

Recently Room One students participated in a safe cycling skills programme
facilitated by the New Zealand Police.

I was sick but I will still be recording someone else's data.

Students learned about the correct way to wear their bicycle helmet. Helmets need to be tightened and they had to do an N check on their bike.

The rear wheel should be tightly fitted and the quick release lever should
be secure. If the wheel is not quick release, check that the nuts on both

sides of the wheel are secure. The spokes should not be loose. Pluck each spoke
with your finger. The sound from each spoke should be the same. If the tyre is soft
then pump it up. Check the seat isn’t loose and that it’s the right height. Make sure
that the front and back brakes are working. Check the front brake by using the
brake and pushing the bike forwards, and check the back brake by doing that but
pulling the bike backwards. The front wheel should be tightly fitted and the quick release
lever should be secure. If the wheel is not quick release, check that the nuts on both sides
of the wheel are secure.

The second session involved a skills based session on the court.

Following the court session students participated in a road circuit skills session. There were people
placed around the circuit and marks were given for using the following skills: sticking approximately
1 metre from the kerb, scanning for hazards, checking parked cars, looking behind you before using
hand signals, using the correct hand signals and looking behind you after using hand signals.

I will be using Bryce's results to graph.

He got:

Approx 1 met	Scanning for	Checking parked r	Look behind before	Correct hand signal	Look behind after	% Average Across
2/5	0/2	2/4	5/6	6/6	0/6	51.7%

	Bryce’s score	Out of
Approx 1 M from kerb	2	5
Scanning for hazards	0	2
Checking parked cars	2	4
Look behind before hand signals	5	6
Correct hand signals	6	6
Look behind after hand signals	0	6

This shows that Bryce’s best road rule is using correct hand signals. His worst is looking behind after
hand signals. Bryce is better at checking parked cars than scanning for hazards. Both looking behind
after hand signals and scanning for hazards were 0.

This graph shows which person got better scores, Max or Bryce? The percentages are meaningless
and I did not know how to fix it. The percentages should read Bryce 51.7% and Max 68.9% The graph
shows that Max is a safer biker than Bryce.

This shows that Bryce is in need of being a safer cycler and needs to bring up his scanning for hazards
and looking behind after hand signals. His and Max’s score were quite low and this shows that senior
students need to bike safer. This is a hazard to anyone on the road. My recommendation is to have
2 bike safety lessons at school per year.

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The New Team By: Arly Karoro School came second in the tournament and had a five star rating. Now the Karoro Dunkin Donuts are fighting back with 0 losses and 1 draw. The teams one draw was against Rosegold who had one Karoro student. The Dunkin Donuts line up consists of Max Welsford, Sean Bain, Cameron Dickey, Arly Bellis and Jack Henderson. 3 of these players made it into the Representative team. Their coaches say “The Dunkin Donuts need to pull up their game. There is no way that the Dunkin Donuts are going to win at their current form.”  One player Max Welsford says “We are going good so far. A few more wins and we will be right on track.” This article was written before the Dunkin Donuts recent win. The paragliding mystery. A recount of the incident by Sean. Available for $36 in any store.

The finished result. How to Make Salami and Cheese Pizza By: Arly Cover the pizza base with tomato paste. Grate some cheese and sprinkle on the base. Cut salami into even slices and put on top of cheese. Heat the oven to 190 degrees celsius on fan bake. Bake for ten minutes. Take the pizza out of the oven and enjoy. The Ivory tiles. Available for $25 in your local bookstore. Written by Arly Bellis, the award winning writer of the Techno Wars.

Paragliders Stranded By: Arly.  Told by Sean. Three paragliders were sucked into a cumulonimbus off the coast of Nusa dua last month. The three in question are named Mark, Sean and Heidi. They were presumed dead by authorities but were found three weeks later. They claimed to have been stranded on an island with an active volcano. They managed to paraglide off the island seconds before the volcano erupted. Sean decided to give us info about the fiasco. He says “It was a very frightening time for me. I’m very lucky that I wasn’t alone.” The survivors built a hut to shield from bad weather.                  The hut the survivors made.

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The Puzzle By:Arly Wordsearch Words to find: HARNESS LIFT PARAGLIDING RISERS WIND WING SPEEDBAR Jeff Crackalack 2.0. A hilarious book by Bryce De Klerk. This book is guaranteed to have you laughing and giving your friends $10 to buy this book.	See the Room one blog at http://ksrumatahi.blogspot.co.nz The Win of The Potato Peelers By: Arly People believe that the Potato Peelers won through bribes. Well that is not true. In fact the Potato Peelers won through pure appeal to the voters. People also say that the Potato Peelers won because they had potato in their name. I believe that this may be true but if the other parties wanted to appeal they should have done the same.The Potato Peelers won fair and square. Coming from the Independence party I would say that we had really strong competition and my party couldn’t rise to the challenge like the Potato Peelers did. Potato Peelers came first followed by us the Independence party.	Career Expose By: Arly Born and raised in central Argentina, Lionel Messi at 13, he moved to Spain to join Barcelona, who agreed to pay for his medical treatment. After a fast progression through Barcelona's youth academy, Messi made his competitive debut aged 17 in October 2004. At 22 years old, Messi won the FIFA World Player of the Year award by record voting margins.  We were given this information by Sports News. Rashid Jhalak Mahalid is selling paragliders for only $10 dollars. Guaranteed to be the best one flight you’ll ever have. So good you’ll wish it wasn’t your last. Rashid Jhalak Mahalid paragliders. Cheap and….cheap

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Why We Do It Truth told by: Arly. You may wonder why we do karakia before we eat food or before a Māori class. The answer is quite simple. We do karakia before food to appreciate whoever made the food and to respect those who have passed on. It sounds like praying to God doesn’t it. We do it before a Māori class to honour the dead, to keep our Māori fresh and to respect the Māori Atua. A Māori atua. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein.

The Top Team logo Top Team Winners by: Arly Karoro school did very well in the top team event coming first, second and third. The obstacles were quite hard and Karoro had to push through them using teamwork. I know that sounds cheesy but the whole point of the event was to work as a team. Most of the obstacles were of water Everybody enjoyed the experience and I hope we can do it again. Our rivals (Computers and stuff) are publishing a newspaper. Be on the lookout for lies in their paper. Of course we’re joking. Their newspaper is really good. Check it out.

Soccer Tournament By:Arly. Karoro school has a lot of sport on their hands as 4 teams ran onto the field for the interschool soccer tournament. Karoro did well versing hard teams like St Patrick's, Paroa, Grey main, Cobden and Hokitika. A number of representative of the West Coast players were there. The weather forecast was poor and put a damp air around. Karoro didn’t get a placing but played well. Junior Cooks Shine By:Arly. The Maggies cooking showdown kicked off and the results were great. To qualify were 3 teams. One team was making a pasta. Another spaghetti bolognese and the final team was making curry with salad and rice along with raro. There were thirty minutes to make your meal. The team making pasta drew with the team making bolognese. The curry team came first with 9/10 points and a delicious dish. Pug productions new movie, Space Nachos is due to come out soon.

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Child Injured by: Arly A child got injured on the Porters ski field a few days ago. The child's parents asked for him not to be named and bribed us. Did I write that? Anyway the child fell off his skis and went over a jump. Luckily a wooden fence ' saved him from going over a cliff. The ski accident. The child suffered from a migraine and a bruised buttox. Luckily the child has regenerated and is going skiing next year. Rashid Jhalak Mahalid is at it again with skis for $1. These skis are guaranteed to snap after one jump. That’s like one dollar to go skiing!

1080 doesn’t just kill birds! 1080 kills birds. by: Poppy. Should we ban 1080? This is a question the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand is asking. 1080 is being put all through our beautiful bushes and killing what makes Aotearoa unique. But there is still the question “What about all stoats and rats? How are we going to get rid of them?” Well we could use more sensible attempts, like use wooden traps that only kills stoats rats… Also they way people are dropping 1080. Planes also kill the environment. They put pollution into the world and there is way too much pollution in the air. Should we still drop 1080?

Days Off School. Story of the day by: Poppy Have you ever heard of the story where children took over instead of the adults, well here it is. Boom. The school starts to shake. “Finally” the children all scream in union. The kids have been experiencing some rudeness from all the teachers. The kids created a spell bond boom that only teachers get evicted by. They finally put their plan to action. Boom! That was the children's signal to run to their bush hut. They would wait out here until it was clear. Then the school will be run by children. Teachers better watch out! See the full story by Pug productions. Note that the movie is set after the school gets taken over. Starring Arly, Sean and Poppy. Go to this link to see it. https://drive.google.com/file/ d/1Wskh81XG1kx3cWS4242 s7kTDfcwBV-6W/view?usp=sharing

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Hiking Tragedy by: Arly A lady died on the Otehake hot springs tramp. The whereabouts of where she died are unknown but her  body was found in the river about one kilometre away from the hot pools. The lady was confirmed to have no relatives in New Zealand and was a tourist named Jázmin Mills. Further inspections show grip marks on her neck. Could this be a murder? Still have dead trends? Give them to Rashid Jhalak Mahalid and he will give you candy. Trade 10 items in and he will give you a ride in his van. Choo Choo.

Worldwide News and       Computers and Stuff Make New Sport Idea by: Poppy These two papers have put their head together to create Bush Soccer. It is a sport that is played in the bush and has all the soccer rules except for outs. The ball is only out if it gets lost. It’s a hard sport because of the how the goals are in the bush. (they could be on uphill) If you are on an uphill then you will have to sort out the teams to make it easier for the team going uphill. You could find a flatish piece and play there. Now that would be fair. We got some people to try it out. Heres their review. Captain 1 : It was pretty fun. I would recommend it to other people. The best part about it was probably all of it. I think it is a really good game. The hard part about is when you kick the ball it gets stuck in the trees. Captain 2 : It was really fun. It’s better than original soccer.Yes I would recommend it to others. It was awesome. The fact that you can find paths through the trees and sneak around the other team was amazing. The trees getting in the way was annoying. https://docs.google.com /presentation/d/1JrCUp2D-D0T2zMQHSobza8zlv MHPintRzMxH4YV6CfE/edit?usp=sharing

Whales at Beach by: Poppy Whales like venturing far out at sea and some like to hug the shore and that causes them to get stranded. 400+ Pilot whales were stranded on February the 10th 2017. ¾ of the wales died. Volunteers helped out. Some children were singing to calm down the distressed animals. 50+ whales made it back to sea. Pilot Whale getting help.

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