Year 8's Graduation

On the 14 of December, all of the Year 8's came has one to celebrate their year together. We had Graduation at Pakurunga Sailing Club. We all had fun and everyone dressed up pretty and handsome. The year 8's enjoyed there night of fun with the teachers. All the year 8's were awesome dancers at the graduation with our parents taking pictures and videos at the end. We would like to thank Mrs Anderson,Ms Kirkpatrick,Mr Johnston,Ms Berk for providing the food and drink for us we really liked how the night went. Hope you can watch my video. 

My 2016 Review

This is a collage showcasing the events that happened in 2016. I really enjoyed this year because we worked in a new learning space and we had a mixed class. I am going to really miss this school because I wont be able to see some of my friends. My favorite part for this year was going on a trip with the whole class. 

Labyrinth

 This is a Presentation of the the Movie Labyrinth. We had a study of the movie labyrith of all the character in the movie and what personal traits are. The main character are Sarah and Jareth, Sarah is the heroine who is trying to save her baby brother from the Villian Jareth.

Making Food for Our Family

Today, I was given a challenge to make my family pizza for dinner with some hot chips. Getting the pizza in and out of the oven was a really hard job for me to do because I kept burning myself. I had my nana helping me to so I won't get hurt. With the hot chips, I had to be very careful when I put them into the oil because the oil was very very hot and I knew it would burn me if it splashed me. Everyone said the food tasted like it had lots of cheese in it but they all liked it a lot. I know this because there was none left!

Letter from Jane (Term 1 - 4)

Dear Term Four Jane,

If you get any time to read this letter, I hope you achieve your goal that you are aiming for. I hope got up to national standard. When you have read this i think you will be able to get up when everybody is in maths but you have to try. I hope when you read this you’ve study all of your times tables and know it off by heart. I hope you get into Tamaki College next year. Have you got better friends than last year. Are you joining more sports and getting into interschools. I hope you joined the netball team won most of your games. Have you got player of the day most of the times. I hope you got all four CARE awards badge. I hope you have talked in front of a big crowds and did the school assembly.

Have you completed your work and put them on your blog. Well have a good year and i’ll see on term 4 Jane.

By Jane, Term 1

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Dear Jane Term 1

Hi, This Jane Term 4

So today, I got time read this letter and enjoyed you Year 8 journey. Mostly, I have achieved my goals but still working on them. For reading, I think I’m up to national standards. I have got up to where everybody is in maths but i’m still trying. For my times tables, I know some of it but i know my times table off by heart. For my college next year, i got into Tamaki College I like hope for in the start of the year. I am still hanging out with my friends from last year and meet new people from this start of the year. I joined most of the interschool and won of the games. I’d joined the netball team and won all of my games. I’d played Goalkeeper (GK) and i enjoyed playing it. I got player of the day three times and proud of it. I only got two badges but still need two more. I spoke in front of assembly doing the Samoan Language week. For my blog, I got 121 blogspot, WOW!!

This was a good Year 8 Journey for this year and looking for next year at Tamaki College.

By Jane Term 4

 Term 4 Jane

Term 1 Jane

Migration

This a google draw that was created by Jane and Juanita. This drawing was based on migration and what migration is about. Migration was based on how and why birds like Bar-Tailed Godwit migrate to different places every year. We put in this info about push and pull factors. Push Factors means that the reason why people / species migrate because not enough food, climate change, keeping their families safe. Pull Factors means when people or species move to different places because there are move food, reproduction timing, the weather and less risk of dying.

Atheletics - Team Spirit

Today, we had the whole school doing Athletics. We had some students from Tamaki College for teaching us some games that was based on Olympics.We had multiple game we played. Today was full of team spirit. We had all of us cheering for each other and while they were trying their best on completing the game. Today was raining but we had fun playing in the rain. 

Hockey Lesson with Carly

Yesterday, the Y8's had a great lesson with Carly. We had a warm up game that was called traffic lights to practice pushing and trapping the ball. We played a game that was a shark game to practice defending, pushing, hitting the ball. We had challenge to jiggle the ball for a min to focus on the reaction and the skill control.

D reading - Following up

This is group D reading follow. We have been learning about pigeons on weather they are pest or special. We had to form our own opinions on what they are, some people in our groups think they are pest or special, mainly in this group is 50 / 50 between what they think of pigeons. We did our own montage showing on how pigeons are helpful to men. We also did a montage that shows how pigeons are pest. We did a task that we had to identify the main ideas in a text that we got given to read. We got given a challenge to retell our thinking of pigeons in 25 words. We worked collaboratively to create a sketch note on how pigeon and forming our own opinion into this sketch note, we also did another one on how pigeons are special and forming our own opinion about are pigeons are special. 

Reading Skills - Making Connections

For this game, I got given a game that based on reading task and figure out what the students mean by the text that they had read. Each student, have got there own opinion what the text says.

Reading Skills - Main Idea

For this game, I had to learn about what was the main idea in this text and rearrange them in order. We had to put them in a hamburger and just to find out the main idea. 

Reading Skill - Questioning

Today, wem played a game that was based on what we were try to aim for in your reading. For this game, we were trying to figure out the the answer of the question that they gave us to answer. 

Smog

This is my reading task that we had to synthesize about the smog in china. We had to found out what the text means.

The Shake Out

The Shake Out from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.

This is my completed and sent in film that I made and have entered in the Outlook for Someday challenge. It has been shortlisted and I am so happy that this came out like this. Thanks to all my actors who did a fabulous job!

Here is the link to watch it: https://vimeo.com/189095082

I would like to congrats Latham, Jasmine, Sylis, Daniel, Reon for making this movie. Its really good movie and it's really good to understand. 

Researching Skills

This is a presentation for researching skills. I recently got taught how to get the right answers the question that you type up. To get the right question all you need to type up the main keywords in the question that you typed up.

Jean Batten - Jane & Manu

This what me and my partner Manu did for our schools topic 'Flight'. Our focus for today was to create a DLO about Jean Batten, who is broke the world record to fly a aeroplane from England to Australia. During on her journey, she has been exploring some other city like South America, Brazil, and for her last ever trip on the aeroplane was from England to New Zealand, Auckland, Mangere.

Cyber - Smart

Today, we got into partner to teach what some of the year 8 & 7 did in the Library. Mrs Ogilvie was teaching us about Cyber-Smart. She was telling us what websites that we can go. Two of the websites are very cool to use. One is called, Kids Info Bits, and Britannica. All those link were linked to a website called Epic.

Reading Challenges

Our learning intention was to follow the instruction and to read the question's properly.

Last week we started off with doing challenges that our teacher gave us. This practice was for the testing in the three week. Our first challenge was to read the text and then write a 25 word summarise. We then had our second challenge and that was too read the text and too fill in the blanks in.  

Rhythm Interactive

Today, after morning tea, we had Rhythm Interactive (Lucy & Johnny) to teach the seniors for  a propose for why we are doing the drumming to the beat of the song or the rhythm and instead is saying English words, Johnny & Lucy used actions to speck words to us and we actually understand what they are saying. The reason why they used actions to speck, is because they said that using action is a bigger meaning then saying words and we should use action then saying the word alot.  

Drinking Water in Schools - Paige, Jane, Jasmine

This is what Paige, Jasmine, and I did for drinking water in schools. We did an explanation for why drinking water in school would make us hydration or dehydration. Hydration means that your drinking enough water to help you to be healthy. Dehydration means that your not drinking enough water to help you be healthy. Dehydration makes you be grumpy, tried, hungry. If you want to check if your hydration, hold your hand and pinch you hand. If the skin goes down slowly and it leaves a small pump, it meaning that your hydrated but if it goes down quickly and it doesn't leave a pump it means that your not hydrated 

Run, Jump, Throw - Andi

For Run, Jump Throw, we focused on long jump. We learned about having to jump off 1, land on two. We also learned to have bent arms and bent leg when we jump. We had a game were we have to get into four groups and see how much we can jump. 

Current Events - Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D'agostino

For Current Event, Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D'Agostino that showed team spirit through working together in a race and finishing the race together. This shows what sportsmanship is all about and what sportsmanship is truly about. Having team work and team spirit will put you in good situation and putting you into a higher stage and will be reconsigned with good team spirit.  I think this kind of team spirit should be going on if someone have fallen over.

Provocation - Olympics Venues

L.I: TO consider both points of view / Opinion / Perspectives when forming an opinion. 

To make our informed opinion we have to consider both side of the perspectives into forming a opinion. The question we have to answer was Should host countries have to spend so much money on building Olympic venues? I say no because once they build the venue for the Olympic games what would they use it for when the Olympic are over. My partner said yes because, It showcases the countries, it increases tourism and it bring money / Jobs opportunities to the who wants a job. We have picked a picture of a before and after pictures of the Beijing Olympic venue. 

Run, Jump, Throw - Andy

Today, for LS2, We did Run, Jump, Throw for our kiwi sport. We learned to have eyes focus where we want to go. We learned to have light feet not heavy feet, Run in a straight light, Bent over, Arms in back to reduces more speed and have cheek to cheek.  

P.E Kiwi Sport - Run, Jump, Throw

On Thurdsay, We had Andy come into our school to teach a few skills about running. We learnt how do cheek to cheek and to look straight, have light feet while running, have bent arm to create more speed while running. After doing the skills, we got put into two groups to have a relay and to compete against each other. For the relay, we had to jump over 4 hurdles, run to the end of the hall, and come back sprinting to go in line to do it again.

Hover-bike - Advertisment

For writing, we got given a challenge to create a Advertisement about a hover-bike. In advertisement, we choose to put in the  Rule of Three, Rhetorical Question, and very important details to hook in the audience by buying the the product. 

Time Tables - Quizziz

Today, for maths, we have been practising recalling our times table at speed using Quizziz. We had 10 seconds to answers the question and it shows what ranked you came in. We raced against everyone in the classroom. After, an question, it shows a picture saying you that right or wrong but most of the times I got most right. 

Winter Learning Journey - Thank You

In the school holiday, Students  from Panmure Bridge School have been doing holiday winter learning journey to learn about the Olympics that is happening this August. These are the students that have been participating our school for doing the Winter Learning Journey. I would like to thank Rachel for putting in this time to put this together for us. So Thank You Rachel, I have learnt so many stuff about the Olympic Game 2016.   

Buddy Reading - Room 3 &4

Today, we had room 3 and 4 to come into our classroom with reading with. We choose your partners to reading with and pick a friends. This was our first time doing this but this went awesome for our first time.

Book Week - Customises

 Today and this week, we had the whole school dressed up in a costume that was related to the book that we decided to customises. So I went as Oliver that was in Close Your Pretty Eyes. We did the a parade in the hall. While the parade, we had some visitors from Tamaki College and some from Panmure Library. Some people who got to dress up did an amazing work today.

Advertising - Jane, Jessie, Pote

This is what Jessie, Pote, Eric and I for writing. We were learning about advertising and how it could persuade us to buy the product.  We had worked as a team to get the work done. For the explanation, we got given a challenge to write 25 words to say what advertising is about. What I learnt about advertising was about advertising can tell you the details but not the important details and it could make us jealous to buy because all your friends have it too.    

Attributing Images - Jane

Today, we have been learning how to attribute images by using google images. If you want to attributes this is how you do it. First you search up a person you want to look at. You go on search tools and look for a label for reuse. The reason why we have to attribute is because using the images normally is stealing but if your attribute is like say thank you to the person who design the photo. 

Maths - E- ako maths

This a screenshot that i have been doing in maths. For maths, I have been practising my skills on a website called: E- ako Maths. I have been focusing on exploring my tens and hundreds.   

Paralympics - Fundraiseing

Activity 2: It is very expensive for each of the Paralympic athletes to fly from New Zealand to Rio de Janeiro to compete.  Most athletes have to fundraise in order to make the money that they need to go on the big trip. Recently, Harvey Norman announced that they will be helping to raise funds for the New Zealand Paralympic team. What could you do to help raise funds to support our amazing Paralympic athletes? On your blog, list 2 different ways in which you, your family or friends could raise money to support the athletes.

For a fundraising, I will plan for me and my family to do a Siva in front of people to get heaps of money for the raise and to sell Sausage sizzle.

Paralympics - Day seven

Activity 1: At the first ever Paralympic Games in Rome, the athletes competed in eight sports. Cycling was one of them. For the cycling event, two people compete together as a team – one of the people has a disability and the other does not. Here is a picture of a para-cycling team from New Zealand:

At the moment the most famous para-cycling team in New Zealand is comprised of two female athletes – Emma Foy and Laura Thompson. Emma is blind but Laura is not. Together they work as an amazing team. Imagine that you were asked to compete in a tandem cycling event and you had to choose one person to compete with. Who would it be? On your blog, tell us who you would compete with and why. If it was me, I would choose my son, Aronui because he’s pretty fast and very funny. He would make me laugh as we biked along and would be very supportive and encouraging! I know that I could trust him to be a good teammate. Who would you choose?

For the Paralympics, I would choose my young brother Malosi because he is very competitive for sports, He would be focus though out the games and I would be able to trust him to be a good teammate.

Writing the end of the story - Winter Learning Journey

( STARTING STORY )IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE SITTING IN THE CROWD AT THE OPENING CEREMONIES FOR THE RIO OLYMPICS THIS AUGUST. THE CEREMONY HAS JUST STARTED AND ALL OF THE OLYMPIC ATHLETES ARE PARADING AROUND THE STADIUM IN THEIR UNIFORMS WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN…

(Ending Story) BOOM! Boom! Boom!, a gun just fired into the crowd, it shot one of the Athletes. It shot Laren Boyle. She was on the ground, people are surrounding

her. Me and my friends go and see what did happen. I saw the person who shot her but I couldn't see the person who shot her but it looked like it was somebody from the USA. I went to go and chase her but I was too late. She ran really really fast. I went to see where she went but instead I had an idea that might really work. I gathered my friends up and told them the plan. When I look up she was just standing there just blending in the the fans. I went the the person but she just vanished in thin air. She sent me a letter saying to meet me up in the changing room and to by there just myself. I went into the changing room just to talk this person for the reasons why she did it. I went close to her, it look like she was wearing a masked that look like the person from the NZ team. I went to open her masked then......

This is one of my story that i wrote about the topic that i had to relate above my story. I had to write 10 - 20 long sentences. I think this is a interesting story to write about. What do you think who was the person behind the mask? Do you think you could finished the rest of the stroy? Write in the comment below.

Winter Learning Journey - Entertaining the Crowed

This Maria Tutaia. I think she go to the Olympics because she has hasn't been to the Olympic games cause the netball sport is not in the Olympic games.

Winter Learning Journey - Rank the Uniforms

 2012 NZ Olympic Uniform. #1

 2008 NZ Olympic Uniform. #3

 2004 NZ Olympic.  #2          

Today I was given a challenge to ranks these NZ Team Olympic uniform in order from 1 to 3. 

Today I had to rank these NZ Team Olympic Uniform in order from 1 to 3. To first rank #1. The reason why choose that first because of the style and look. 2nd  the reason why choose it to be #2 because it was matching and it had to sliver fern to represent New Zealand. #3 the reason why I choose it last because it looked like it was too ugly (no offence) but it had to have the silver fern to represent New Zealand. 

Winter Learning Journey - Nelson Mandela

This is Nelson Mandela. He inspire me because he was fighting for his own rights to be everywhere like person can be. He inspired me to be the best I can be even thought bad thing a still surrounded by me. 

Winter Learning Journey - Marjorie Gestring

Activity 2:  In 1936, a 13 year old girl named Marjorie Gestring became the youngest person to ever win an Olympic gold medal. She won the gold medal in the springboard diving competition. Imagine that you were alive in 1936 and you had the chance to interview her. On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask the Olympic champion (if you had the chance to meet her!). Here is the 5 question to ask her if i was alive in 1936:

Who inspired you to go to the Olympics?

Were you allowed to go to the Olympic because of your age?

Were you still in school when it happens?
Who was your coach?
How long was it to practice your moves?

Winter Learning Journey - Eddie the Eagle

This is movie is about Eddie the Eagle who is trying to be the best he can to ski at the Winter Olympics. He always believed in himself to be in the Olympics but everyone he knew thought he was joking around but he was really serious about the skiing. I think I would recommend that movie to everyone because it's about believing that he can do and he will do it.   

Winter Learning Journey - Laren Boyle

This is Lauren Boyle. She is going to Rio to compete in the Olympic Game. For the Olympics, she the a swimmer for the New Zealand team. Lauren is New Zealand's most successful swimmer, winning five of the country's 10 medals ever won at the FINA World Championships. I would like to meet her because swimming is my favourite sport and I would like to know more tips and tricks. 

Winter Learning Journey - Valerie Adam

This is Valerie Adam. She is going to Rio to compete in the Olympic Games. Valerie competes for Pakuranga Athletic Club has been coached by Jean-Pierre Egger since 2010. She has been a shot putter for the New Zealand team. In 2009 to 2014 she was ranked the 1st in the world, Wow!.  

Winter Learning Journey - Photos

 Activity 2: Take a picture of yourself playing one of the 28 Olympic sports and post it to your blog along with the name of the sport and a brief description of what you are doing in the picture.

This is me (Jane) doing the position of Sprinting. I decided to do this because it was the first thing that came in my head.