Last week on Monday we had to complete 8 activities and our project was about the Canterbury A&P show, these are the things we had to complete, a A recount about our trip to the show, find out information about an animal we saw, we had to design a ride for the show- safety, features, fun factor, the name and why they would want to go on the ride, history about the show, food truck that would be at the show and we had to figure out how much we had to give to the show, how much profit we would get out of everything etc, photo book at the show, marketing campaign and lastly the competitions, we had to choose a competitions from the show and then find information about it.
Lets now talk about what I have done;
Let's start about my ride;
It is a milkshake, so firstly you pay $10, sign a some paper incase you die, put a wristband on and then go up the elevator.
Once you make it up to the top you go on the rollercoaster then each person gets thrown into a ball filled with air and it's like a car but all around you is water and you can go wherever you want, once your time is over, you get sucked down to the bottom where there is no water and get out.
My food truck.
I can't talk about because I didn't complete it but it was meant to be a donut truck and the prices were meant to be $5 per donuts and for a dozen of mini donuts they were $4.
Heres my recount;
-Recount-
Friday 17th of November;
I woke up Friday morning and biked down to my dad's with one of my friends at 6.30am, Dad was taking my friend Kim and I to the show.
Half an hour later we arrived at the show we showed our wristbands to the people at the gate and walked behind Dad to his stand.
8.00am.
Kim and I walked past all the stands and then saw a waffle one and we were definitely getting waffles you can never turn waffles down.
From 9.00am till 12.00pm Kim and I watched some show jumping in the main arena, bought 2 bracelets and I brought this squishy toy and I was swinging it round and then it bursted and all the water stuff inside of it got all over me all over my good show top I was wearing ..
1.20pm
Kim and I walked back to my Dad's stand because I had to get ready for my race, when I arrived at Dad's stand Mum, Chloe, Grace, Hannah and Hannah's friend Az were all there, I asked mum for some headache pills because I had a super sore head, after that I went into one of the float Dad was selling and got dressed for the race, I was wearing white John Whitaker jodhpurs, brown leather riding boots and my brown leather chaps, I keep the top I was wearing before it was a baby blue short sleeve show top, I pulled my hair into a low tight bun and the placed my brown shiny KEP on my head.
1.40am, Mum, Chloe and I walked over t0 the shetlands where we got the shetlands ready, while I was getting the shetlands ready I still had a really sore head and mum had no more pill so she had to go ask the ambulance for some.
FINALLY my headache was gone by that time we already but our jockey silks on, geared up the ponies and were on them, I was wearing a purple glittery silk I had to choice to wear it because it went with the pony I was riding.
10 minutes later we were walking around and practised our lineup for the chase, we kept waiting for the person over the bridge to call us over 10 minutes later she finally called us over, now we were walking around in a smaller place on the other side of the bridge, we kept walking around in circles my pony was stressing out even more he started to jog and he was sweating like crazy he wouldn't stand still because every time I tried he tried to rear..
5 minutes later they opened the gates into the big oval we walked around it the commentators talked about us, we waved when they mentions us, my friends and family were cheering.
We all finally walked, well jogged around the whole oval we had covers on and people leading us until we got into the birdcage, the birdcage is what you go into before you line up to race, no it's not what it says it isn't a bird cage it's just a really small area, we all had to stop in there, the leader took our covers off and unclipped the lead ropes and they walked to there jumps.
It was now time we were walking into line,
Now we were all standing in line, Lesley waited till all the ponies were facing forwards and then put her hand out the downwards, we galloped off, their little legs running as fast as they can, Chloe was on my inside riding her pony Blue, we had our first hurdle it was a little pole jump and we flyed over it and the next one came up within seconds it was a bush jump, there was 5 jumps around the oval and we had to go round in 4 times, once we were just about to finish our first lap Chloe's pony Blue just ran into the inside of the oval and we don't know why he just did so now I am in 1st pace with The ponies Muffin and Burberry right behind me, it's now the 3rd lap Muffin and burberry in front of me and the my pony got a boost of energy and I took over Burberry still on the inside now Muffin was now trying to push me out of where we are meant to go but I didn't let that happen I was squeezing Foxy the pony I was riding to try get into 1st place, the finish line was just in front of me I was squeezing him to try win, he's never won before he normally comes 4th, my friends and family were cheering me on and that's what happened I came 2nd.
Thats my recount!
Heres my Histoty;
-HISTORY-
The A&P show stands for Agricultural and Pastoral.
The first A&P show was first held in a paddock on the 22nd of October 1862, a few weeks later the Canterbury A&P Association was formed was formed on the 23rd of January 1863.
In April 1863 the A&P Show Association purchased 14 acres in Colombo Street for the show to be placed there (this is now Sydenham Park)
November 1887 new show grounds opened in Addington.
In 1996 a larger facility with 145 hectares located on Curletts Road where is it still located till this day.
The show started because farmers wanted to show off their tractors and their products.
Therefore, the first ever A&P was in 1962 but the first one at the main one ( Curletts Road) was in 1996.
The show has been going for 155 years.
Heres my photo book;
https://docs.google.com/a/yaldhurst.school.nz/presentation/d/1mMxycrLqEpATZwdd2UaVnRl6ULxSpl8HuIEJDdLOodM/edit?usp=sharing
Heres the Animal one I chose Horses;
-ANIMALS/HORSES-
A Horse's first reaction is to flee when they are in danger they can kick, bite, rear and buck.
They do it for defence or they haven't been trained properly.
Horses walk, trot, canter and gallop.
They have a four beat walk, two beat trot, three beat canter and a four beat gallop.
Horses communicate with their eyes and ears and their behaviour.
If their ears are upright but turning back a little they are listening to you if they are flat backwards they are grumpy and if they are forwards they are curious.
Here are a few facts;
- Baby horses can walk and trot a few minutes after they are born.
- A baby boy horse is called a colt.
- A baby girl horse is called a filly.
- A adult girl horse is called a mare.
- A adult boy horse is called a gelding.
- A adult boy horse that hasn’t been gelded is called a Stallion
- Horses and ponies are the same but different heights.
- A horse is over 149cm.
- A pony is under 148cm.
Here's what a horse/pony looks like;
My marketing Campaign;
Fees;
0-5 = free
6-12 = $15
13-17 = $20
18+ $30
ADVERISMENT;
Radio, Newspaper, Tv
10% of the fees will go to the costing for the advertisement.
Thats the end, I didn't complete the foof truck or competitions but I tried to work to my highest standard!
Today we had to present it and Bree judged it for me and this is what my feedback was.
