Novel Study

Since the start of the term we have been doing novel studies. We have a huge selection of books to study.. I chose a book called ‘Arohanui - Revenge of the Fey’. We had to read it and do some tasks that asked about the antagonist and protagonist. One of our teachers, Whaea Chrissy, said to us that it is a really complicated story because there really is no good person and bad person. After you did the normal tasks you were able to do projects. The options were pretty cool. Then a couple of days ago the teachers added a new part called ‘Create.’ You were able to do anything creative to explain what you have learnt. I haven’t completed my task yet only my project.

Duffy Assembly

Yesterday we had our first Duffy School assembly. A fake character named Zinki came in and told us a lot about herself. Apparently she was from another planet and she had landed in the bush. It reminded me of this TV show I used to watch when I was little.. She was R 18 to look at though because of her short as skirt. We sang the Duffy kid song which I guess at points of the song was boring. After that we had to close our eyes and listen to her voice and imagine space, the stars and her planet. We were told to imagine what the planet looked like and I instantly thought about the show ‘Adventure Time’ with the candy kingdom. At the end people were chosen to get a signature from her in the principal's office. It was quite an experience.

This is the Candy Kingdom

Energise: Takeaways

Yesterday in Te Ngahere Whaea Gina came in to talk to us about takeaways. Things including fast food and takeaways. We were first shown what a healthy heart looks like and what an unhealthy heart looks like. The healthy heart had a bit of fat on it and the unhealthy heart had lots of fat on it.She then showed us foods and the amount of fat that you receive from it after you eat it in little glass bottles. We learned lots yesterday and now we are more careful of what we eat. Next time someone offers me junk food like Mcdonalds might refuse it.

Listening to music argument

A couple of weeks ago Te Ngahere had to write an argument stating what we wanted to do in spare time or just anything you have wanted to do while in class. Our success criteria was to write an argument to persuade someone to do something, give me something I want or allow me to do something. I write about listening to music while I work. We had to have 3-4 paragraphs explaining why or how it helped/helps us during class time. It wasn’t too hard if you had a plan and knew what you were going to write for each paragraph. I think that my paragraphs were elaborated on a bit and next time I could elaborate even more to make it the best it could be. This is a draft.


Argument writing

Learning Intention

I am learning to write an argument to persuade someone to do something, give me something I want or allow me to do something

Focus

Entertainment

Relaxing

Listening to music

I think we should be able to listen to music in Te Ngahere. But why? You may think of it as bad. But sometimes people need to just go into their own zone. It can help by eradicating every other voice so that they can focus. Most times people just want to listen to something to keep their mind at ease.

Firstly it helps me focus because sometimes I just talk to anyone near me. When this happens I am never able to finish what I have started. But when I do listen to music and just focus on the music over talking to my peers I do get things completed. It keeps me focused only on the song and my story or work other than so many other voices.

Next it is entertaining. Sometimes the songs that are on are funny in their lyrics or what they are singing about. You can sing along to the song, but not too loud. You can even dance if you feel that happy.

Music can do other than these like it can make you happy, it can release a lot of weight off your shoulders (stress), it can reduce depression. That is if you are depressed. These are only some of the other reasons.

If somebody does the wrong like if they used their chromebook to play their songs inappropriately they should have their chromebook taken from them for the day and if they do it again they should not be able to play music again. Students near and or around whoever does that they can message or tell the teacher.

This is why I think we should be able to listen to music while working in Te Ngahere.

Rubbish DLO

The other day we had a lady named Anouk come in and talk to us about litterless lunch. She talked to us about how to reduce the amount of plastic inside of our lunches. We learned that when rubbish is put into a truck it takes it to a dump. They then proceed to dig holes in the earth and chuck all of that rubbish in. When the hole is full they cover it over and dig another hole. We learnt so much that day and are thankful to her.

Bay Orientation Day

On Thursday the year 8’s had their orientation day to Bay of Islands College. We had 5 periods split into two. But we had one full period. When we got there we had to sit inside of the library and listen Whaea Patsy ( one of the teachers) to see which group we were in. Paihia, Kawa Kawa and Oromahoe. We went to six classes to do six different things. First we had Maori, Performing Art, then Science, wood tech, reo rua, metal tech and food textiles. I liked science the best because it was fun and interesting. That day changed my perspective of the school because I used to think that it was a bad school but now i’m going to Bay.

On Tuesday some of our year 7 and 8 students went to Moerewa to participate in a 7’s rugby tournament. We played three games against Kerikeri, Kaingaroa and Okaihau Hurricanes. Our first game we lost, second game we won and third game we lost again. The day was really fun and tiring. One of my highlights for the day was my try. Before the day ended though, we had a picture with the 7’s world cup. I think we played really good but next time I think we could share the ball.