Wednesday, 30 August 2017
My Reading Timetable
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
A Screenshot from my Time table
Probability is our new maths focus and this is a screenshot from my timetable about it.
My Hilmac Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLa0ScN1AAg
Here is a link to a youtube clip of my speech that I wrote in the perspective of my Grandad who was in the great Napier Earthquake, 1931. I wrote it for a speech competition sponsored by a local electricity called Hilmac. I hope you enjoy!
Here is a link to a youtube clip of my speech that I wrote in the perspective of my Grandad who was in the great Napier Earthquake, 1931. I wrote it for a speech competition sponsored by a local electricity called Hilmac. I hope you enjoy!
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
My Speech for the Hilmac Speech Competition
The Napier Earthquake, 1931
Imagine a calm summer’s day, an innocent breeze whistling through the trees. Everything seems peaceful, perfect.
I climbed the hill, closely followed by my loyal flock of sheep. When I reached the top, I stopped to admire the view.
Napier was spread in front of me, a buzzing hive of activity. Everyone was moving, busy, purposeful, going about their daily business. I watched an old man sitting in a street cafe sipping a coffee and reading the New Zealand Herald.
I was so lost in my thoughts that at first I did not hear the rumbling coming from deep inside the earth...I twisted around, trying to see what was happening. Dizzily I realised that that my sheep had run off the meadow that I was standing in. It didn’t take me long to see why… I was surrounded by trees, tall macrocarpa and they were swaying to and fro, about to fall any minute. I gasped and sprinted after my flock, just as a mighty tree hit the ground where I had been standing, with a terrifying thud.
My flock of sheep were running in the only safe direction, towards the house. As I leapt the fence into our garden, I saw mother peering up the hill, searching…for me.
“Mother, I’m here!” I called but my voice was drowned out by the deafening sound of another tree crashing to the ground.
Upon seeing me, Mother ushered me into the sitting room where my brother and sister were huddled under a coffee table, looking stricken. I crawled under the sofa and stared up at the mantelpiece where the old mantel clock was sliding up and down, but never quite falling off the end.
The floor felt like the ocean on a stormy night, it rose and fell making me feel seasick.
As I crouched under the sofa, hypnotised by the sliding clock, I heard crashes and thuds as houses nearby were reduced to rubble.
Waves that weren’t really waves rolled around me. My stomach lurched with fear as a light shade swung into the roof and smashed.
“What’s happening Mummy?” I whimpered.
“It’s just an earthquake Mason, honey,”She replied, but she sounded terrified.
The little boy in that story was my grandad who was only seven when an enormous earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit Hawke’s Bay and shook his family and community forever. My grandad, Mason, is now 93 years old and he lives on a farm in Havelock North, next to the Tukituki river. Grandad is always full of stories, fictional as they may seem, they all happened. Really and truly.
Thursday, 17 August 2017
Bullying doc, Reading 17.8.17
Bullying in NZ Schools
Why do you think NZ has one of the worst rates of bullying statistics around the world? Over the last few years, people have been using technology a lot more and that has increased the amount of cyberbullying in New Zealand. Also there is jealousy, which has always been a problem. Schools are competitive, there are always heaps of competitions on offer and sometimes competitions get a bit too competitive.
How big an issue was bullying at your primary school? It was pretty bad. Because it was a small school, (only 30 in each year) all the students knew each other and so if one person was bullied, a lot of the c]school knew about it. You might think that this a good thing, but when given the choice to stand up for the bullying victim or to join the bully, most people go and join the bully, thinking that it will make them look cool.
WALT - We are learning to become critical thinkers and to analyse the bias of authors.
Read the 3 reports about bullying in NZ and deconstruct the main idea. (Summarising).
- What is common between all three reports? All three reports talk about the percentages of the bullying in NZ. They also talk about what kind of bullying is happening, e.g. verbal, cyber etc.
- Why is bullying such a big issue in NZ schools? Technology is being used more and more in NZ schools. Competitivity is also increasing with many competitions available for kids to enter. Being competitive is great as long as it stays in class, not escaping into the playground or lunch area where it will probably cause some kind of argument. NZ is also going through a massive housing crisis and some kids are living in vans in free camping grounds. This can cause a HUGE impact on people’s behaviour and how they treat others.
- What should be included in Education programmes and within school cultures to inform students that bullying has a detrimental impact? At HNI we are really lucky to have a fabulous principle who talks about bullying and the impact it has on people at assemblies. I think that the government should encourage this to all NZ schools because it will help kids feel motivated to stand up against bullying.
- Have you seen cases where bullying has stopped because of bystanders and/or the victim standing up to the bully? Occasionally there is one kid who stands up and says “this is not OK” or “Stop it guys” but often kids are too scared to stand up to the bully and say “NO”. When the bully is bullying someone, it often makes them feel powerful and strong, which makes it hard for other kids to stand up to that bully.
- If you were the Prime Minister of NZ for one day, what would be the first action you would take to help reduce the bullying statistics within NZ schools? I would visit schools around me and talk about bullying and the impact it has on us. I would also send teachers all around NZ a survey asking if their school is really affected by bullying. But sometimes teachers don’t know ht is going on outside of their classroom, so I would send another survey to NZ students asking if they are victims of bullying. I would also state in the survey that it is anonymous and private, so that the students wouldn’t feel pressured to lie in their survey.
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Inquiry Weeks 1/2/3
https://www.canva.com/design/DACcL7Qyb0E/SrjtE7z8hcdemOCe04W-NQ/edit
Here is a link to a passion project Kennedy and I made for Inquiry week 1/2/3. We both have coeliac disease and if you don't already know what that is, please read our two page pamphlet!
It was heaps of fun working with Kennedy and combining our insight on coeliac onto a pamphlet. We presented our Inquiry to room 10 and it went pretty well, we both read what we had written and that worked well.
Here is a link to a passion project Kennedy and I made for Inquiry week 1/2/3. We both have coeliac disease and if you don't already know what that is, please read our two page pamphlet!
It was heaps of fun working with Kennedy and combining our insight on coeliac onto a pamphlet. We presented our Inquiry to room 10 and it went pretty well, we both read what we had written and that worked well.
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Term 3 Number Knowledge
Here is my Term 3 number knowledge test, the circled section is the section I want to work on this term so that I can do better next term. My chosen section is fractional numbers.
Passion Project, Being Coeliac
Kevin
Kevin and all the other Chinese students arrived yesterday morning, so HNI held a welcome assembly for them. The Kapa Haka group performed a fabulous version of our school song and a motivating haka and then the whole school sang the New Zealand national anthem. We also attempted the Chinese anthem but because none of HNI new it, so it didn't really work out that well.
Today during Mandarin lesson, Kevin was helping Logan with some words as well as impressing us with his writing of the Chinese characters!
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