Netball tournament

This week me and my netball team competed in an interschool natball, we played well in all parts of the games and I think we did amazing.

We ended the interschool with a lost of 3 games and 2 wins, but overall we all had fun and enjoyed our self, for me and my year 8 that was our last games playing for PBS as we are all leaving for collage, for the games I play GA “goal attack” and GS “goal shoot” as I play best in those, everyone tried their hardest.

Netball is the only sport I enjoy and getting the chance to comlpete in this interschool and also just playing with my team has been an great experement, in collage I will absolutely join their netball team if they have one.

I really enjoyed the netball interschool as it made a lot of positive memories.

Duffys Birthday

Duffy has turned 30, and our school celebrated his birthday with special guest from Duffy homes, everyone enjoyed this event which was held this wednesday at assembely.

We also celebrated Duffys birthday with 2 cakes and cannons! To make the birthday feel like a party we all created hats and boxes where everyone made their own designs with their ideas relating to Duffy, I was one of the presenters and when I looked at our amazing school from on top of the stage, it looked very creative and fantastic.


We talked about how Alan Duff first thought of the idea to make Duffy books in homes, he came up with the idea since in 1992 he visited a school, where he found out that the chrliden from that school came from bookless homes, with no book of thier own they didn’t have much interest in reading, he wanted to make this change.

I really really enjoyed celebrating Duffy’s birthday as it was exciting and the cake was delicious, but overall I am very greatful for Duffy books in homes.

Using provocation with the Olympics

In inquiry we used provocation in our learning with the Olympics, Somthing interesting which I found out and never knew before is afther the Olympics are over most the bluding become abandom and haunted looking.

In this activerty we used provocation to look at both sides of the issue, our issue was how the contryes which are choosed to hold the olympics use billions of dollars to host the olympic games just for the houses and statiums to get abandom and forgotten after the Olympics end. Me and my partners first thought that the money was wasted and could have been used on more helpful things, for example Paris is known as the most stressful contryes, this may be because of the cost of housing and the amount of trafic that blocks the roads in Paris.

But after we looked at the other side, the other side being how it was a good choice to spend that much money on the Olympics as we think spending the money is a great opportunity to come together and get a chance to show their skills and what they have learnt in the past years, this can also help them get into a small business this could make them have profit and etc, Making paris more known and popular can not make there training go to waste, we also though that it was good as they made a profit of 700,000$ back

I liked this activerty as I really enjoy learning more about provocation, and how it shows both sides therefore you can understand them.

Tivaevae Disigns

For CookIsland Languaege week we got to try out and design our own Tivaevae.

This is my design, it represents a turtle in the middle inside a flower with a hook on each side, the reason each side looks the same is because when making your tivaevae you always have to make sure it is simitrical, it also has coconuts as coconuts were the first thing to come to my mind when thinking about the CookIsland, in my opinion I think I did really well to represent the CookIsland culture in my tivaevae.

I enjoyed this task and think it was a really cool idea to make learning about culture fun.

Beach safety

For the non-swimmers  we have an activerty where even tho we stay at school we still learn how to stay safe in water, for one of the task explained beach safety and why its important to understand and learn at school.

In this I explained how to stay safe around water and the reasons you should learn about water safety, something I would like everyone to know is “just because you should stay safe at the beach doesn’t mean don’t go have fun at the ”  this is just making sure you stay safe and not drown, when you are at the beach stay in the part that is not too deep for you, unless your a excellent swimmer safety cannot be guaranteed, swimming is also a skill that should be mastered therefore you won’t drown if in a tricky situation, ”

I Liked this task because even tho I wasn’t at swimming I still learnt alot.

Visitors Showcase

Today principals from other school have came for a visit, Me Keira, Mercy, Delilah, Folose and Riley created a showcase of some of the digital learning which is happening inside our year 7&8 classroom, I chose to showcase provocation since I really understood it and thought it was a good example to show others how much how work us and our teachers put into our learning.

Before the showcase started I greeted our guest with a cultural Maori welcome and I explained how our school works digitally. Everyone in our group chose a topic to share with our guest and I chose provocation, I explaned how we use Janus to remind us that’s its important to look at both side of the issue.

After we all finish Mrs Anderson explained more of how it was all our words and we didn’t just say what she wrote down,  we then showed around our guest the learning happening inside each class, and we showed them the library and theatre.

I enjoyed this and personally I think it growed my confidence.

 

 

Netball Yr 7&8 2024

This years netball has ended with us coming 5th in yr 7&8, last Tuesday was our last game which we all enjoyed participating and collabrating in, we all had fun in every game and have tried our hardest to get where we are.

Last week netball we lost by michael park school, it was a nice game, and also the game I relized I needed to work on my defence, our netball team has come a long way we have won and lost but played well in all, Miss Bailey and Miss Tele’a always made sure to make it to every game which we had every thuesday, and they trained us well which we are very thankful.

Integers – multiplication

LI: to multiply integers.

For our maths task we learn more about integers and how to multiply them, and what the outcome would be if for example you were multiplying -7 and 3, we would use our knowledge of  ‘Negative x positive= Negative’ therefore our answere would be -21

 Multipltying integers if just the same as if you were multiplying normal numbers, the thing different is  how you have to add the ‘-‘ if multiplying certain integers, Here another example, if your question was “-8 x -5 =?” you can find the answere out by timesing both 8 and 5 “you don’t need to worry about the negative yet” 8 x 5 =40 and looking back it says “ Positive x Negative = Negative” therefore your answer will be -21!

I enjoyed this task and I like sharing how to multiply integers.

Integers – add and subtract

LI: how to add and subtract integers.

For maths we have been strengthening our knowledge on integers by learning how to add and subtract them.


Integers are confusing when first learning about them, but going on its actually easy to understand if you remember these two thing ““When adding two negative numbers together the outcome will always be a negative number” and “When adding a negative number to a positive number, the biggest number of the two will be the outcome” keeping this in mind is a big help, another thing that helps is remembering that negative is the opposite of positive in my opinion.

I enjoyed this task because I found it easy to understand, and because when I was first learning these I thought they would be really hard.

 

Ancient and modern Olympics

We have been learning about the ancient Olympics and for a task in reading we got to compare the two to see what similarity ancient and modern olympics have.

we used the two circle put together to see what they have in common and what they hold to their self, a thing both the modern and ancient olympic have in common is training, although some things has changed both still train just in different ways, and something the modern Olympics does that the ancient olympic didn’t is let women participate.


I enjoyed comparing the two to see the new ideas the modern Olympics that added.