Andrew Patterson

 On Friday the 20th of November, our year 8's received a very special visit from Andrew Patterson. Mr Patterson came to our school just to give our year 8's some information about high school, because in High School it is a hard thing to figure and even figuring out what College you are going to attend next year.

The Secret Underground

 Our focus for this term is all about creatures that adapt to there surroundings/habitats.  

Cindi in da house

For the past 4-5 weeks, we have been working on our school production. We are remaking the story of Cinderella but Glenn Innes styles, It is called Cindy in da house everybody in the production has been working very hard.

We are having our first school rehearsal for our production, but there are a few things we need to work  like our dancing and also our acting. We are dressing up as our characters and putting on make up.

I think we are going to do well, because we have a very good supporting staff and I hope we all do everything good           

T's SK8R Jam Apparel

A few weeks ago, we where learning about how to be an creative person.

Miss Universe New Zealand

Yesterday afternoon, we had visitors from the Miss Universe New Zealand contestants. They came to visit our senior school, their where twenty overall but only sixteen of them came.

We had 3 girls in each classroom, it was really interesting to hear their stories, because the contestants where talking how they want to chase their dreams and being an entrepreneur. Each of the beauty pageant had 2 minutes to talk to our class

One thing that got to me was when Gabriel "said that you should never wait for your dreams always chase your dreams".     

How people receive and spend money

Intro: What is money? money is banknotes and coins that are used to purchase something you want or something you need. Also money is currently everywhere in the world, people use money to purchase or buy things like shoes, food, clothes and also different kind of things.

Where  do  you get  money? There are various ways people around the world receive money. Like if you where an adult you would get money by getting a job and working hard, And also a lot of kids get money by doing all the chores at home. Money can come from many places like your relatives.

How people spend money? I see many people around the community spending and purchasing there money on snooping through the market for things to provide for there family. Also when people see things they would like to wear they would buy it with there own money, only if you are over 21.

When I obtain money? I really struggle with saving my money, because there are so many things I would like to eat or buy. If I receive money, by one of my relatives I would spend it on things.

As the the years flow by I’ve learnt a lot of things about money, that if you spend all the money that your relatives have gave you don’t spend it right away because you might have things you like. Also I would always save my money

  

 

Mega Earthquake

                                        Mega Earthquake

                                                              

New Zealand (geologists) have found evidence that a large earthquake hits beneath central New Zealand.  A ‘megathrust’ is a very large earthquake that occurs in a subduction zone.

An subduction earthquake is when earthquakes occur on the underside of the upper plate. Where both of the plates meet,rather than meeting within the upper plate.

A group of scientists have found evidence, that two huge earthquakes that ruptured in the southern part of the Hikurangi Margin for the past 1000 years.

The margin marks the collision zones between the pacific also the Australian tectonic plates. This evidence proves that the boundary located under the Cook Strait-Marlborough area, this evidence suggest that a large earthquake could eventually rupture.

Subduction earthquakes have the strength to significantly a lot larger magnitude than upper plate fault ruptures. There could be a massive effect on a larger area, and more likely to trigger tsunami.   

                                                    

Week 7 work problem

I've learnt that 100cm equal 1m and that a perimeter is the edges of the shape and the outline

Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels

                                Home Sweet Home

Walking home with medals on my chest

knowing that it time to rest.

seeing all the soldiers who are wounded,

also looking at how they could survive.

A lot of lives where sacrificed

just as kids were born that night

I can’t forget what the soldiers have done

just for our countries that we have won.

Anzac biscuits

Today we learnt how to make Anzac.

Aspiration Talk

Today we heard from Marcus Winter aka The Sandman and Louis Gordon -Latty. We were all blessed to have them at our school,also there was Andrew Patterson he was introducing our two visitors,will met him last year he was very hilarious.

Louis Gordon- Latty was really inspirational because he was really into basketball,and basketball is one of my favorite games I've played. He is an inspiration to me because he records a lot of his games,and has a lot of detail,because he added a fans and commentary into there game.

What stood out for me was when Marcus Winter talked about how he was growing up and mentioned about the life he is in now. The inspirational thing I heard was when Marcus said "when ever you get bounced you will always have to bounce back," I have never seen one of his art,but when our teacher Mr Wiseman showed us a video of his art I was really amazed of what he does.

I am glad that they came to see our year 7 and 8's,because what I have loved about them is that they had a lot of quotes. Also they never gave up even though they got bounced from a lot of things,the thing I learnt today was to never give up and keep trying.

WW1 mascots

I have been learning about the mascots that went to war.

A day out with my friends

Guess what? Poly fest started this week. I was so excited that we were going with our friends and with our teachers. The year 7 and 8's had a opportunity to go to Parakai pools if we behaved well at the Poly fest, Mrs Tele'a was talking about how we have to behave when we are at Poly fest. I was wanting to go on the first day but we couldn't .

The student's from different schools and our year 7 and 8's were so lucky, because got to meet John key. He had a lot of photographers wanting to take a photo of him but his securities kept on telling them to go but I was excited.

Different activities all around Poly fest. Our first activity was to play squash the point of the game was to try and get the fastest serve, the fastest girl's serve was 111 and the fastest speed of the day was 124 and that was my score. My favorite activity of the day was squash, because I had a lot of fun and it had high scores the fastest in the world was 263. and at the end we got to watch some performances and walked around the stadium twice.

I hope I could go to Poly fest with the year 7 and 8's, because I had a lot of fun with my friends and all the parents that came.

          

Tortilla wraps

Last week we made tortilla wraps

Ingredients

Tortilla
Lettuces
rated carrots
 40g Ham
sauce
cheese

Last week we made tortilla wraps we added all the ingredients together so that we could make a healthy lunch. Because once a daily a lot of people eat junk food but it dosent make your body that much confident to eat veggies. That why we eat healthy food

My goals for this year/term

My  Goals 

My goals for this term is to move up a level on writing because I don't understand the language of writing. My other goal is to co operate with all the classmates of class one or to get my work done on time.

My goal for this year is to get a good reputation to get into a good college.

And my other goal is to make it into a representative team like roller mills.

And my other goal for this year is to move all my subjects up a level

  

Te tuhi art gallery

     

                                          Te tuhi art gallery

On monday we went on a trip to the Te tuhi art gallery, It was my first going to the art gallery because I've never been there before. I was wondering what to ask about how they made this gallery and how many years has it been functioning for 34 years that is amazing I was looking forward to go to Te tuhi art place because I love art sometimes when I am bored I like to draw.

We finally arrived to the Te tuhi art gallery It looked so small but as we went inside it was quite big, We met our instructor and his name was Jeremy he was really kind to us we learned different type of tapa names. Like the masi which is an fijian name, the ngatu which is from tonga and also the siapo which is from samoa, we made our own tapa on a piece of the first thing we had to do was scrunch the paper and use dye so it looks real then we used a brown pastel and a pencil to finish it off.

Then Jeremy took us for a look around the place and it was fun because we got to see how other cultures like to draw. after Jeremy took us into this room where we have to see how they use to film in the olden days and how they film in the new days.

It  was an good experience for me because It was my first seeing different kind of art mixed with there cultures, I would want to go there in the holidays because It was fun to see a lot of people there enjoying art    

Technology

                                               Technology

Every Tuesday mornings some of the year 7 and 8 students walk down to Tamaki college for technology (Tech). at technology we have three different classes we have graphics, food  and hard materials. It’s good that we go to tech because we experience good things

It was fun at our first activities because we got to make chocolate brownies, the equipment we needed was cocoa,eggs,milk and we added a little bit of coconut crumbs. we had to mix the eggs with the milk so that it would have some taste in it then we put it in the oven, as I took a bite It filled my taste buds with joy.

In Graphics it is quite fun because we got to make 3D boxes. And its good to work with my friends because we get to make food and put it in the burger box, our teachers name was Ms heka she was the best because we  made a lot of different food.

Sometimes I feel like going to technology everyday because we get to experience good things. I like having good food teachers because we get to make anything like pasta or biscuits and other things on the last day.

Tangle Pattern

At the start of the term our teachers decided to make a class tangle pattern, to make a class pattern we had to listen to Ms Pagets instructions because we didn’t know what to do. It seemed really fun because we got to draw things that relate to your culture.

The first thing our whole class had to do was to search on google for some patterns because we were creating a class tangle. I was searching for some island design because it related to my culture, I was also looking at some maori design because it looks very interesting.

As the rest of the class was still planning there tangle patterns I had already started on my design, Ms paget had drew to  dots at the end of the tangle patterns so that were to finish our patterns. In my art I drew some lines and koru patterns

It was an very good experience, because we got to draw some really cool patterns and we could make it look very interesting. As soon as you finished you had to write a 4 paragraphs about what you just did.

Taniela's soccer

                           How to play Soccer

Every Monday mornings class 5 goes to the court to learn how to play soccer sometimes we have it on the field. Then our instructor introduced her self to us her name was Sofiya, she was a very kind instructor

We all had to go the yellow the first game we played was stuck in the mud, it was an very hard game because a lot of people got in the middle and we had to run away from them. It was fun because I kept on getting to the other side

Then Sofiya took us in to some real drills they were pretty easy because we just had to dribble the all around the cone and come back to our team. If we were good at doing our drills Sofiya would let us play a game of soccer

Sofiya put us all into equal teams in the other team they had a lot of experienced people in the other team. But when we played we were playing as a team but at the end of the game we beat them by a lot of points.

I was so happy that we ended up playing a Fifa world cup tournament because it was fun. Sofiya was a good instructor because she was teaching us how to play soccer

Taniela's Color wheel

Colour

Introduction paragraph

P1 - Primary Colors   Red,blue and yellow

P2 - Secondary colors  Green,orange and violet

P3 - Tertiary colors  Green,orange,gold,purple,navy and light blue

P4 - conclusion

Do you like colors well I do?, did you know that in the the primary colors there are red,blue and yellow there could be a little bit of green. Did you know that primary colors can be combined to make a useful range of colors.

In the secondary colors there are green, orange and violet and secondary colors are made by mixing two or more primary colors.

In our class we are painting about animals that are around the world, like sea life animals. In our painting we have to show a lot of details and have a lot of patterns for the animals inside body

I think that colours are a big thing of our lives because everywhere I go I see colors everywhere because a lot of people like to paint on there houses so it could look very nice.