Survivors - Week 8

Today room 2 got the opportunity to learn about Bedouin People. In the presentation above, we explain the many facts we learn't within the time we were with Mr Wiseman in Class 1. In my group was Elizabeth.U, Ryan.B, along with myself.

Justifying our opinions with reasons.

Film Festival

I pushed in line of my fellow peer’s and made my way to the front, finally I was in the bus. On Wednesday the 11th of November our annual Film Festival was held at the Extreme Screen in Sylvia Park, our school along with Ruapotoka School had a combined session.

This year was Ruapotoka’s very first year being present at the Film Festival this meant it was their first year entering their movies. We entered Theater two and found Ruapotoka already seated. Listening, Silence and appropriate applause was compulsory throughout the screening of the movies.

Finally I was seated, it was time to get this started. The movies ran by fast and already we went across a lot of amazing movies.  All of the movies were absolutely amazing but we came across one that I really really loved. Law and Order - Room 1, Pt England.

Their movie was based on the use of our language, and how sometimes what we say may seem like joke, but really could be offending. The actors were amazing. Overall the Manakalani Film Festival was a huge success, it was an amazing day.

Inspiration Talk

This morning after Morning Tea, the Year 8 student’s got the opportunity to talk and participate in a inspiration talk with Mr Andrew Patterson. Our inspiration talk was based around us attending college next year and the daily problems that we will be facing, like being time wise, and making the right choices.

During the talk we came across the '7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens' we were all firstly shown two movies, summarising all the 7 habits, I watched the clip and found that theses habits are surly going to be happening in college.

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens :

1. Be Proactive

2. Begin with the end in mind

3. Put First things First

4. Think Win Win

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood

6. Synergize

7. Sharpen the Saw

After watching the 2 little clips, it made me more confident about what college may be like next year. It has also taught me that, time is precious cause we have some much to do in so little time, so it's important that we are time wise. 

Bioengineering Term 4

This term, the Yr 7 & 8 extension class have been learning about the ethical and unethical situations around Biomedical Engineering. During this time of learning about Bioengineering Ana and I learnt a lot. To show that we have created this presentation above which shows the learning we carried out. Take look at what we learnt.

A Trip to Nikau Cave - Reading Wk2

For week 2 in reading, we read a book called 'A Trip to Nikau Cave' our WALT was to use evidence in the book to support answer a majority of the questions. In this book we learn't about all sorts of animals and how they have adapted and changed themselves to fit in with their surroundings. 

The Secret Underground - Reading Wk 1

During the first week of reading we were given the task to Read and answer questions about the differences between cave wetas and other wetas. We learn't all sorts of thing some things we didn't know and some things we did know of, take a look at the presentation above to see what we learn't about!

History of Superman

Immersion Assembly

Term 4 is once again over, and as always we have started term 4 with another Immersion Assembly. During Immersion Assembly each team ranging from years 1 to 8 perform a skit, movie or show, displaying what they will be learning for the rest of the term. This term our school wide topic is PES Survivor's  - outwit, outsmart, outlast.

We started the day with a pep talk from Team 1, this term they are focusing on zoo animals, and how they have adapted to their surrounding, to extend their knowledge on zoo animals, team 1 are taking a trip to the zoo, along with Marika who was a contestant in the karaoke sing off and took it out.

Team 2 & 3 are both learning about dinosaurs, but there's a catch. Team 2 are learning about the backgrounds of dinosaurs and how they didn’t adapt too well to their surroundings, causing them to become extinct. Team 3 on the other hand are creating there very own dinosaurs.

Animals are based everywhere, and to prove that, team 4 are going on a world wide safari. Team 4 are taking a world wide safari, visiting places they never knew about, not only to learn about it but to also explore the wild life.

Humans are what make up the earth and this term, team 5 are not only learning about animals, but always humans. Humans have been on earth for quite a while now, but not everyone of us are the same. Humans have also learn’t to adapt to their surroundings, like myself I have learnt that the weather changes a lot, so it is important to have the appropriate clothing.

I can’t wait to see what this term brings!

CyberSmarts Reflection - W9T3

The term is slowly coming to and end, and so is our CyberSmarts session. During the 9 weeks of having Cybersmart session, it has taught not only myself but my fellow friends a lot of values and things in order to be safe online. Being CyberSmart is and very important value that should be taught in everyone's life. One thing that I have learn't from Miss Kyla, is the importance of keeping private things private, and that number/emails/full names, shouldn't be shared online. 

Thank You Miss Kyla for you teachings. 

Cyber Smarts

Today for Maths we had Miss Kyla for the first half of the session. We talked about the many positive things about having a Mobile Phone, the Walt was to understand our rights and responsibilities with the use of mobile phones. 

Below was our task and Questions.

Make connections to student prior knowledge re: mobile phones:

Who has a mobile phone?

What is useful about having a mobile phone?

What information do you keep on your mobile phone? E.g. contacts, notes, photos, videos.

Miss Universe - New Zealand.

Yesterday afternoon, team 5 had a special visit from the intelligent contestants that participate in Miss Universe New Zealand. Miss Universe New Zealand is the New Zealand national beauty  Pageant, that contain more that 50 countries and more than 20 girls that compete against each other, to win the title of ‘Miss Universe’.

Our school was very lucky to have 16 contestants from the competition visit our school, the girls came in and talked about their on going journey in the Pageant, they talked about being in the Pageant and their challenges when competing against others, they also talked about getting endured in numerous rounds of questioning.

Girls, who get into the top 20 are often faced with challenges, this year their challenge was to be Entrepreneur. The Entrepreneur Challenge is designed for the girls to think out side of the box, they are expected to organize events, it could be something like a quiz show, dinner, and more.

50% of the money proceeds from the EC *Entrepreneur Challenge* to charity, the remaining money goes towards the girls participation in the pageant. Every contestant that pass’s the 1,000 dollar mark will receive a prize

One of the girls named Sharne, talked about how she was being Entrepreneur. Sharne Boot, created her own recycling business, because she wanted the world to be a better place. Her business is still up and running.

Bang On Time - Maths

Today in maths, our focus was to learn the Analogue time. We had question that were pretty straight forward, after our question we had a follow up activity this activity gave us 10 question and 8 seconds to answer. 

Smart Surfing - Ms Kyla

Today for maths, we had Ms Kyla in to learn about Smart Surfing. We were given the task to find information using key words. In the presentation above, we were give 10 question where we had the find the key words in searching. 

Ratio Practice - Week 5

This week, for maths we have been learning to Show what strategy we have used to solve each ratio problem. In the presentation above it shows the different question and the different ways we solve ratio problems. 

SmartFootprint - T3W5

Today in maths we had Miss Kyla in for the first half of the session. This weeks session was on cyber smart, and how everything online can be seen by everyone everywhere. Our hands on, project was to create a DLO, that explained one of the key things we picked up from a video we watched. Above is the poster I made.

My First Pay Packet Lino Nelis - Week 4

Worked hard to get money, just to come home to find you have to share it out within the family, I know the feeling sucks. This presentation was made, based on the book 'My First pay packet' it's about a young islander boy, who is seeking a job. The story is set in our very own community 'Glen Innes'. Our WALT was to make inferences.

Number of the Week - Week 5

Every week our Maths Class, get the opportunity to on the Number of the Week. Number of the week is when a number between 0 - 2000 is selected. Then we learn to use and think about this number in many different ways. The number for this week is : 1508.

Number of the week - Week 4

Every week our Maths Class, get the opportunity to on the Number of the Week. Number of the week is when a number between 0 - 2000 is selected. Then we learn to use and think about this number in many different ways. The number of the week for week 4 was - 791. 

Hobsonville Point Primary School - GEG NZ

On Wednesday the 12th of August, the Year 7 & 8 students of Extension got the opportunity to attend GEG NZ Sumit Group 2015 ( Google for Education Groups New Zealand ). This year marked the first year of it being held, and the students of Pt England Extension were lucky enough to be apart of this event.

The trip to Hobsonville was a 1hr drive, and it was pretty exhausting especially when there was no music. We arrived at HPPS (Hobsonville Point Primary School) at quarter to 9:00, just in time to collect our Swag Bags which included a map of the school, our own name tags and a bag of bagel chips, finally it was time to get GEG NZ for 2015 started.

We walked towards the school gym which was located down the hall, and we grabbed a seat. The HPPS ambassadors, lead the beginning with a Himene and a few words, they gave us house keeping rules and the day was started.

Our First session was located just down the hall 7B. We rushed down towards the classroom to find that it was packed with a whole range of people from different schools. Finally we were seated, the session started off with tips about ‘Stratch’ , how to work it, what the program features are and how the characters works.

Next, we moved onto the 2nd part of the session which was playing with the Makey Makey. The Makey Makey, was a little tool that had a lot of wires, firstly we were given a bag that included the Makey Makey, Play Dough and a whole bunch of wires.

The first thing we did was hook up the wires to the makey makey, then we made a object with the play dough, secondly my group and I plugged the black cord to the object that we made, which was a snow man, then once the the snow man was touched the sound that was put into scratch will play, and the commands that were given to the character will do what it was told to do.

Session two was just near, and we knew that our group was presenting. Our
group presentation was based on PENN (Pt England News Network), we told the audience what it was all about and how it worked. Then it was time to get the audience involved, making there very own PENN episode.

Firstly we spilt the crowd into 4 groups of 4, then it was time to put there acting skills to the test, each person had the chance to present each topic, everyone had a sentence to say. After recording the PENN made at GEG NZ was done, and was ready to be broadcasted.

In my group, there was Myself, Josephine, Stevenson, Jordan S, Ana V, Khaia, and Paige.