Ihumatao

Ihumatao:

It was a very special day on Monday to be able to learn and understand the cause of protecting the land that we have and preserve it for future generations to learn from. We ( Year 11 & 12) were fortunate to visit Ihumatao and understand the daily lives of these many protectors who have given up time to able to protect and lobby for this land to be preserved. I was grateful enough to help out at the site and hope to come sometime soon( if I can). At the land, we met the protectors who were at the frontline and what led them to Ihumatao. We also got to met the leader of it all. Pania Newton. She helped tour us around the land letting us learn and understand the history of the land we stood on and also the stone walls which have been misplaced and used as borders for farming. Even though our tour came to an end. We helped and paint the boxes that are used for farming. It was a fun trip overall but a humbling experience to be able to experience for the first time life of a protector.

Who am I?

Hi, my name is Leo and I am 14 years old who is currently the Manaiakalani Ambassador for Year 9. During the holidays, I will be commenting on the Summer Learning Journey but also for another project which led by Mrs. Apelu( So, I will be staying grounded while my family goes to Australia😢😢). For Social Studies, I really liked the interaction with my class to the teacher because everyone was engaged, mainly when we had the sustainability unit, our class was having fun and co-operating with each other to finish their project. I don’t know what I disliked about Social Studies because our Teacher made everyone have fun.My favorite place in Sydney because the weather is dreadful but the scenery is beautiful.

Even though it seems like the end of the year(Literally is), we are introducing ourselves since most of us have a new teacher for Social Studies(Mrs. Gordon). We are able to write a paragraph or paragraphs about us ( What we are doing over the holidays and etc...).

Success to me?

I think I’ve been successful in helping out represent Tamaki College as a Year 9. From being the Manaiakalani Ambassador to also be a presenter at the Manaiakalani Film Festival. I felt successful because I had to chance to represent Tamaki as a Year 9 and have a chance to become confident with large crowds and also be able to socialize with other pupils of my cluster. Also, getting the chance to bond with other students from my school. For Social Studies( With Mrs. Gordon since we have started Jumpstart) we have started our Social Studies activities. We have begun with working with Business and what does success mean? It is going to be a really fun year in Social Studies.

Government

So, as part of the Social Studies Revision. We were researching about the government( Which had been researching since term 2). Since the elections have finally finished, it is a good time to reflect back.

My bubble about Social Studies so far

Today, for Social Studies we went back to term 1 and researched about our Sustainability unit we had completed. My group had decided to do focus on Rain Garden thanks to Promiseland.

Elections

So today, my heart was finally broken after finding out that National had lost( No worries, we have another election in 3 years). For Social Studies, we were understanding and figuring out what does this alliance will have in store for the next 3 years.
Drawing

My Beliefs

Dear New Kid(Don’t know your name yet)

I believe in Methodist practices because since I was a little kid, I was baptized as a Methodist. Methodist can be similar to Christians but I don’t understand how. We are considered to be a subclass of Christianity but we share different values then our other counterparts. We do accept Jesus as our god.However, we are not as ancient than our other religions because we were created just 300 years ago! Our religion was created during the century where USA was created.Hopefully, you can understand my religion and can accept it.

Your Sincere, Leo

Here is my last blog post of the Holidays. Hope you enjoyed

Bucket List

1. Create an private organisation that is structured around the will of their peers and make sure the set location city is protected in discrete.
   
2. Make sure that houses are built efficiently and swiftly( All up to regulations) to combat the housing crisis we are currently in at the moment.Also making it affordable for the less unfortunate but also first home buyers.
   

Provide donations to trust funds which focus on the student’s( Next generation of the world) way of learning, as in providing free  internet across countries and programs which allow intercontinental communications( You could use it for educational purposes as well).

4. Make myself an underground house because that would be so fun but also in case of an war.


5.Create a bill where learning your native language( Depending on what ethnicity you are) is a subject in primary/ Intermediate because there are a minority of people who do not understand their language when they enter Secondary school making it very hard to learn it.

6. Make sure the less fortunate have a place they can go to at night.

7. Create a city in the countryside which can be self-sufficient and provide jobs and houses.

8. Be able to find the cure to Lethal Diseases(Like Cancer and etc…).

9. Provide a surplus amount of computers for people to use.

10. Create artificial land to boost development.

United Power(Social Studies)

While Term 3 was folding up, Mrs. Apelu instructed the entire class to join groups which would be similar to a Political Party. My Group(Bruno, Carlos, Jasmine, Pita, Andre and me) which we called United Power is somewhat similar to the TOP party but we want to unite people who have different beliefs and support opposite parties and unite them under one name. 

Meeting Tamaki's MP!!!

So, couple weeks back, Tamaki's National MP, Simon O'Connor was lecturing us about his life as a Politician but also his reasons for representing Tamaki. He explained his career as a priest before becoming the MP for Tamaki.After his lecture, A few students( Including me😀) presented their Sustainability poster boards explaining our problems with our school( During Term 1).

SOLO:What does it mean?

On Thursday of last week ( I 've been delaying for a very long time), 9RMz were figuring out the basis behind SOLO. SOLO represents a system behind the completion of work.  The stages of SOLO is displayed like this in order( Uninstrcutural, Multistructural, Relational and Extended Abstract). We can use this taxonomy whilst grading our work. 

What if I was Prime Minister?

If I was the Prime Minister for a day( With my own party) this is what I'll do:
I think I would create a law which makes internet crimes( Like Privacy Invasion) will be stricter because if the victim is found to be doing explicit stuff or even worse, it could be used for more terrible crimes( Like Blackmail and etc...). I also want both opposition parties to be on totally opposite sides( And have a different Ideology). Also to combat Housing, I would want to have more construction workers come from abroad( And be treated with good humane conditions).

Social Studies: What is the term "Government?

Today in Social Studies( Pretty weird that the 1st week of Term 3 has only been blog posts about Social Studies), we have begun learning about the roles in our life. We have created a DLO about the Government.

Social Studies: Stranded in the Island.

Today in Social Studies, We were working on Group exercises. Bruno, Mateaki, Jamaine and I were working on a "what if?" situation. We created the roles for all four of us. We were given jobs based on what we know. We were given 3 situations that would happen on our island. I found this task really fun yet hard at times because of miscommunication with each other. I hope we can improve in the future.

Tokelau to New Zealand

Today in Social Studies, 9RMz has been focusing on migration( Mainly the migration of Tokelau). I've created a summary of a lesson I was given. I used six words to summarize my Tokelau work.   In the 20th Century, Tokelau considered education to be about building a traditional house. Their culture was different to its neighbors, the other countries had already westernized but Tokelau didn’t due to being so remote.However, New Zealand created opportunities for young Tokelauan people.  immigration was a smooth transition however, they couldn’t adapt to customs of New Zealand. Resettlement was easy for others Meanwhile for others found the transition hard due to the difference between their native and New Zealand’s Culture.

River Talks:

Yesterday, 9RMz, 9KRO and 9PSD went to the Omaru Creek to learn about the problems that the river has been facing. At the event, Glen Taylor, Point England, Te Kura and University students were with us. It was an amazing experience because we learned about the pain that the river has faced ( Really unfortunate about the actions of human beings). We watched a performance of a group which explained the pain of the river. Overall, this was a good event and hopefully, the river is cleaned  of its years of pollution.