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.

Reflection

(Here's an somewhat official picture of the launch)

This week has been a hectic one, from assessments to the 'official' launch of the Health Science Academy. Currently on 11 credits but plan to finish two assessments in the next week or two. Factoring in other distractions to this goal is very hard so I must balance the two. Now onto the next week.

Reflection:

This week, I have been working on my assessments and have currently 11 credits at level which seven credits is currently at excellence level. All excellence credits  are for English. I also have to finish two other assessment this week so I am currently busy.

Reflection: Week 3

Welcome back to another day in reflection. This week in school, we have many assessments due  in at the end of the school, and I know I will finish it cause, well I already know. I currently have 0 credits but I hope to gain more throughout the week.

Reflection

This week in school, I feel like what went well for me is my work in science(specifically biochem). My next internal is social studies and it’s not known when the due date is, something I need help with is my just my attention to work

Social Studies: White Ribbon Day

Last week on Friday, my Social Studies class for Year 11 participated in a event wants to change and raise awareness to stop Family Violence. If you didn't know, New Zealand is currently holds the unfortunate ranking as Number 1 from OCED countries. Despite not being there, My class participated in the event and represented Tamaki College in a good way.However, I did my part by talking about what White Ribbon is by putting up posters but also talking to students about its cause.

What is Success

Food Technology

As we are entering our end of year exams, we unfortunately in our final Cooking lesson for 2018( or specifically Year 10). For our final cooking lesson, we created a chocolate cake to end our second to last tech lesson for year 10. Here are the methods and ingredients.

Ingredients:
1C of Self Raising Flour
1C of Sugar
1/2C of Oil
1C of Milk
1 Egg
1/4 C of Cocoa
Methods:
Add all ingredients as listed above:
Combine all and mix well, scoop into the muffin tray
Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 15 minutes

Food Tech:

This week, we created nachos. As in; Nachos sauce while placing upon the nachos. To be fair, it was delicious. However its sad cause this is our last cooking session of the year before jump start.

Method:

1. Dice the onions   and fry until soft add the mince and fry until its cooked

2. Add baked beans, sauce, cheese, boil for 4 mins.

3.Serve on top of the corn chips.

Ingredients:

Onions

Mince

Baked beans

Sauce

Cheese

Corn Chips

Burgers

As part of Food Tech ( This may not be in order with the other blog post that will be posted today and tomorrow), we were tasked as an assessment to design a burger to our desire and create it to how you designed it ( So the methods, and ingredients is decided by the assessment)

Ingredients:
Beef mince( Hand-made patty)
Cheese
Lettuce
Tomato
Buns
Sweet Chilli Sauce
 

Pizza

Food Tech, is currently our last rotation for Tech before we become(unofficially) Year 11 students. For our double period. We created Pizza. More specifically, a Hawaiian pizza. This was delicious as we substituted our flour dough for a pita bread base. It was delicious!

Maths

Since the beginning of term, we have been focusing on Linear applications. Linear applications are connected to graphs and patterns. To focus on this topic, we've been using Education Perfect as it is a more easier method of learning as it is fun. An exemplar of our work is an power point which explained the gradient answer ( y=mx + c)

Tamaki College Reading Programme

Food Tech

We are now in our final tech rotation of the year ( Obviously, this year has gone fast or I haven't posted in a minute), We  created Tuna salad. Now, it was fun creating it but eating it with onions is not really part of my appetite but neither less, it was fun eating it.

The effects of Tobacco to your Hauora

In health, we have been mainly focusing about how Tobacco effects your hauora( Physical,Spiritual,Mental/Emotional and Social Well-Being). Smoking damages our lungs and makes it temporarily damaged. Our lungs main function to breathe in and out oxygen but also provide oxygen to our muscles. It also helps filter out dust. 

Career's Site!!!

If your interested in my future. Why don't you visit my Careers site? As it easily shows you my ideal career for when I leave Tamaki College. Careers Site

Accenture Trip

First official blogpost of 2018, so let's get right into it...

Today( Or the 7th of March whenever you are reading this), a group of Tamaki College students and teachers headed into the city to attend a special workshop led by the Accenture team. 

At first, I  was shocked by how caring everyone were but also how different everyone was. I was also intrigued because of Timoti( an employee at Accenture) because he was currently busy in Australia because of a conference, and he took time out of his day to dial in and video call us. 

I was stunned because of the technology used. I felt like I was at home during the entire trip. Reason being that everyone (The Accenture team and TC group) were engaged in the activities and also conversations. We played two games (which had their own level of difficulty), Counter hack and Code combat (I focused on Code Combat which to me, was an interesting game).

The main hub we stayed in for most of the time was the Atutahi and the VR area( Where we experimented with new stuff) was the Mclaren room. The Staff introduced an Idea of IT and what careers can be benefitting towards you. 

Overall, I would like to thank Karl, Mark, Dimple, Sid, Blea, Emma and Dan for a wonderful time.

My Multi-Level Game

So, Digitech has been fun. We have been embedding codes and creating a number of levels for our game which we used Scratch to display our wonderful codes.

Photosynthesis:

Since the beginning of jumpstart( Week 5), we've been learning about the web of life. From the C GREN cycle to the food chain, we have spent countless periods learning more about our life. Thankfully, I am grateful for my new class(10RTe is the best class) and also my Science teacher, Mr Stoddard for helping us out these 4 weeks on accomplishing a lot of tasks.

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...).