Student Leader Nomination

Strive to achieve. A motto I have followed for 7 years going on 8. Although I have speaking difficulties, I'm not the most popular or liked person, and I still struggle with my grades, I strive to achieve. Being able to have even been nominated as Head boy for Panmure Bridge School was a huge honour. I have confidence that I will lead Panmure Bridge School in the best way I can during 2016 if elected. As a leader I can promise you that I’ll be respectful, have a positive attitude, be humble and most important of all, remember that leadership is action, not position.

Yesterday, I received an great surprise. I was nominated for a school leader for 2016. To show what I could do, I tried to persuade people in the senior block to vote for me to become an Student Leader in 2016.I showcased my attributes if I did become one. I am proud for the people who decided to nominate me in this Student leader nominations.

Thinkers Key

At this time of the year, you know its Christmas. For the upcoming day which surprises billions of people around the world. I thought it would great to present you my Keys which was set. It was really easy but also hard.

Confidence:Care

Today, I've added my blurb to my DLO I did last year, I did this as a own task as was signed but I just forgot to add a blurb.

Care Awards

Alan Duff

This week we had a visitor who was famous for many reason, being the creator of a controversy book by the name of Once were Warrior. He is a national icon for kids because he co-founded Duffy:Books in Homes. He talked about the inspiration of his book.

1st day of Science

This was the first day of science at Tamaki College. We made a mini moon rover out of cardboard, skewers, glue, straws, etc. We were helped by a group of Tamaki College teachers.

Why do we need a Critical Friend

What is a Critical friend great for. A critical friend is arable to help complete a task or show the mistake you make in your final result. They can show you the possible changes which you never had thought. This can help when a test is happening and you know the types of what you need because of a Critical  Friend.

CARE Awards: Respect

This  my task for Respect in the CARE Awards. I completed a brochure depicting belonging to PBS. This was fun but I was slacking when I wasn't supposed to complete this task early.

D.A.R.E

For D.A.R.E, we made a DLO on the reflection of the program. This is what we have learned.

Tech

For Tech, Year 7 & I were creating joints for our future project, We are using chisel's,Saw & Mallet. The Year 8 were working on their game on Scratch to show to other people.

Maths

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For our upcoming E-astle Test. I have tried to work on my maths to prepare me for the test. From this task I now know to use Division & decimal.

Book I have Read:

The boom I have read was a The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley. This book contains many narratives. I chose the Stolen Princess.

Maths Poster

This is my Poster on understanding the 8 times tables.I chose the 8 x 12 equation because I kept getting wrong.I used the same layout of what my 7 x question poster.

Niuean Language Week

This is the DLO which I completed for Niue Language Week.I made a factual report on Niue and Compared the Population of Niue to the 2001 Census of Panmure.

Popplet on Doctors

This is my Popplet to debrief the different types of Doctors. Every type  of doctor need to have studied Biology, Maths & Science. The most needed subject you need is reading as you need the right type that your patient needs.

Who have I taught a new Skill

For my CARE Awards, I taught Linda her 9 timetables.I taught her multiplication as she needed to learn her multiplication. It was a very hard task as she did not learn this time table.

Care Awards

Link to WeVideo

This is my video which I focused on why Positive Attitude is so important for school.It was a very average task when I completed it because many people were screaming in the cloakroom.

Maths Poster

For this week, we have been improving our knowledge of our 7 times-tables.We have made posters about understanding 7 time tables.

NZ Shakeout Day

NZ ShakeOut Day by Thomas R6 on GoAnimate

This is my buddy and my DLO on our recent NZ shakeout day and how it is important for many people to know about as there been major earthquakes around the world.

Care: Attitude

Magic Johnson is regarded as one of the famous point guard in the NBA. He faced struggles in career which made him more a icon.

Term 4 Goals

For the beginning of Term 4, we carefully picked our goals for each category of school. These are my goals for which I will be striving to complete.

My Recomandation

Title: Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Genre:Mystery

I recommend Thomas to read Adventures of Sherlock Holmes because

•  It has lots of Plots twists to make feel you confused about how could this happen
•  Very in-depth Cases to make you predict who is the offender
•  Packed with Action and Drama

Holiday Reading Challenge-Setting

Title: The Door in the Hedge
Author: Robin Mckinley
Genre: Magical
Setting: The setting of this book is Faerieland because it referenced in this couple of times.
Reference:The Last Mortal Kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland.

Tom Latham Meeting

On September 24th, 2015 we had a very special guest arrive at Panmure Bridge. Tom Latham of the Blackcaps arrived and played a very special match of cricket with the Year 7 & 8 of our school. He was first welcomed by Room 3. They had specially crafted a black caps player dedicated to Tom. Thanks to East Bays & Couriers for supporting this idea and also  taking photos of this event & Mrs Burke for also supporting.

My Connection

For my Holiday Reading Challenge I chose try and connect to books I have read  before.
The two books I have read in holidays or before. Two books that sounded connected was Canterbury Quake by Desna Wallace and Here comes the Marines by Loraine Orman. This is connected because the in depth perspective of these characters.They were forced into hard eras in different parts of New Zealand.This told us about what changed New Zealand into what it is today.

Supermarket Trip

It was a cold damp morning as we drove away from school we were silent( well maybe), Room 6 & 7 were going to visit Pak N Save. As we walked into the nearly empty lobby. many of us saw Room 5 and its buddy class leave, meaning it was about to be our session.  My buddy and I were assigned to a teacher aide or parent. In my group were Amato with his buddy and Ana as well.

We began our search in the aisle to categorized some types food into which we can eat everyday and what we should sometimes( occasional foods).We first began our search in the cereals aisle. This aisle was very healthy and not. As many of you know that wheat biscuits and rolled oats are one of the healthiest cereals you can have. So we went with Harraways Rolled Oat's as an everyday food. We then examined Coco Pops O's.It was pretty clear from the results that  Rolled Oats were the clear winner. 

As we continued our search for the more healthy foods we found Vita Meal as a more healthy snack food to eat against Chocolate Chip cookie. Pump water bottle was healthy than Red Bull even those it was very close.Light Blue milk was actually healthy but didn't have enough calcium as the chocolate milk. Vogel multi grain bread was healthy than iced finger buns.

In the end we were playing a type of scavenger hunt as we named fruits that were same colours and put it in the category which was recommended.This was very fun and was actually hilarious. As we headed back to the starting point our two classrooms were given a 60 dollar voucher that we could use for our healthy sandwich. Thanks to Mrs Paton and Mrs Millward for taking us to this trip sponsored by Heart Foundation.

Flip-Snack

This is my Flip Snack on our recent program on Hauora.This was called food for thought.

Flipsnack

This is my Flipsnack work which I used to showcase my learning on Idioms.We completed with the help of Mrs Paton.

Blog comments

Here is my comments on rooms or students. We were told to pick one blog from our class, school and also our cluster.

Run Jump Throw

For 2 weeks and counting we have had run,jump & throw with andy. She taught us the basic techniques of High jump, long jump & sprints.It was very tiring in the end.

Tongan Work

As many you guys know that it is Tongan Language week. So for homework we were tasked to complete a DLO on Tonga's culture and more. It was very hard to complete but was fun to learn what the tao'vala.

Fractions/Place Value knowledge

For Maths
I was learning my place value & Fractions(Sorry doesn't show). I learned to use my regrouping and properly know my improper fractions.

Vending Machine Problem

This is my problem solving which I did by using Multiplication to solve this problem. I couldn't think of another way of using answering this problem. But can you complete problem by using another way?

2nd post on blog-Comments

This is my second blog comments post. It is very hard to comment and blog it two times, but I just did .Horray!!!

Blogs Comments

This is my blog comments on other pupils in my class, school and also my cluster.It was very fun to watch other people work or videos that they created by net-books.

Care Awards

For our C.A.R.E Awards, I completed one of the task labelled under Respect.The task I completed a Drawing or Presentation on a Respected leader, I did Nelson Mandela

Internet Privacy

Here is my DLO on Cybersmart. I learn't about Internet Privacy and what we should do to stay safe on Social websites.

Go- Animate

Video

For Monday, we were using Go-Animate again to complete a task on how be cybersmart.It was fun but very complex to complete. 

Japanese

Yesterday in Japanese, we learn't more about the vowel in the Hirgana alphabet. it was also a very competition. My group were tied for 1st place at the end of the lesson.

Problem Solving

This my work on Problem Solving, We were tasked to complete challenge which was preety hard to complete. This was based on knowledge and strategy.

My Speech Topic

Today, I was learning how to write a speech.  It was very hard and impossible to finish as my topic was based on historical events. It is very hard to complete a speech in under 1 hour if you haven't researched or learnt before.

Hockey summary

For five weeks, we learn't how to play hockey, it was very exhausting but also fun. We learn't new skills and used them in games. Our instructor, Lydia, taught us new tips and the rules of playing this game which was built on teamwork. It was very fun and active and would try again next time

My Go Animate Work

Go Animate Presentation

Today, Mrs Paton taught us how to work on Go Animate and also how to use in our works.
We retold our work by using this tool. It was Fun!

What are speeches?

Our speech competition is coming up and we checked what we will do when we say our speeches.We look at one speech and checked carefully at his body language and if he knows the topic the speech is.

Making Sappasui

This is my procedural writing on my favourite recipe. This is part of my topic, Fuel Me.I researched on the ingredient to create this recipe.

Tidy Kiwi Results

Today, we added the rubbish which were found in our classroom's benches & cloakroom.The winner won by a total of 11 rubbish pieces.

Cybersafe

For today and this week, we will learn on how to be safe on the internet or is called cyber-safe. we wrote on what a comment should look like and what it need to be a comment.

Book Report

Here is the book I read during this week.

This book is called The General(Part of the Cherub series).In this  book James is tasked in protecting the Las-Vegas army base.Does James and his friend survive the War game. You will need to find out.This book was created by Robert Muchamore.

Electives

On Tuesday, we had electives which we chose or were assigned to. There were 10 electives to choose from. I picked Book club because I wanted to read and improve my vocabulary. My elective was very silent as it went on. It was fun

What are Clauses

Here is my post on Clauses. I learn't what independent & dependent clause.  They  both have  different meanings.

Paul Cezanne

Here is my work on Paul Cezanne. we will be learning his artwork as it is  all about still life.His works are sometimes drawn  with apples or pears.Those artworks are what we are going to use in our topic,Fuel Me.

Elective

Today, We are going to complete our first Elective of the year.I chose Book-Club as my elective. Here is my information on Book Club

Term 2 Reflection

This my Term 2 reflection for this term. I had goals that I was assigned for each subject.I did complete most but you need to find out.

Beautiful Soldier

For today I have been inferencing my task to find out what Beautiful Soldier was written or inspired by which helped the song writer complete this song

Reading

For Reading we were practising our inferencing  to use in our work or improve so that we can use in our work or can use in reports.

Digitech

for Technology, the Year 7's and I were working on scratch tools that we would use on our next task which I have almost completed( well the only one) This task is what we know that we are going to complete.

Scratch

For Digitech, I did a greeting Card on scratch.This was an very hard assignment to complete. Here is my greeting card which is based on Encouragement to other people. 

Spelling Test

I did a spelling teaches me how to spell the word.This was very easy since it was the first test to complete. I learnt how to spell fowl because I always fought the pronunciation is foul but isn't. I also learnt the definition of foul other than basketball., I also know that scent means something that is smellable but now eatable. This is my example of using the word Shear. EG:I walked toward the sheep to shear it.

Percentage of soldiers who went to WW1

Since it has been 101 years since WW1 started and only 97 years since the end of WW1. I did a graph on the soldiers who were sent to WW1. From the information gathered from my group I have made a Pie chart in the percentages of Soldier  from which were deployed. I can see that Russia sent more soldiers because they have more than 30%, and that South Africa sent the least soldier by sending 78 Thousand soldiers.

Te Reo Legends Post

Last Week for Te Reo, we tasked to complete an poster of an Maori Legend and show his story, strengths and what is he now today. I completed this with my partner, Sebastian. This is always fun to make an poster on and god or Legend.

Te Reo

For Te Reo, we were asked to play an Maori maths game which teaching us how to add Maori number together. This game was very difficult to complete. My goal was to answer 5 question in under 6 seconds which I nearly beat(I got 3).

Here is the Link if you want a try:Maori Dialects

Maths

For Today I worked on my ordering Fractions, this was very easy to complete and I finished this in about 20  seconds.

Spelling

For Monday, I was learning to use more vocabulary in my writing. This was very difficult and I learnt to use paperback and how to pronounce it. The activities were very hard to complete and also very fun to do.

Camp Fotor

Last Week, most of the year 7 & 8 went to Camp. Camp was a very amazing experience to have. This was very cool and I love this Camp. This was one of the coolest camp I have ever went to. I also made a Fotor for Camp.

Rangitoto Fotor

On Tuesday the Years 7 & 8 went on a trip to Mount Rangitoto. They had fun  visiting Rangitoto. Here is my Fotor on the Rangitoto trip