Safety Rules

For WoodTech, Fusi, Lana, Jane did a poster about safety rules for tech. We came up with rules that need the be included for entering the room and where to hang the bags/coats.  

Digital Footprints

Today in health , 9RMz is learning about Digital Footprints. Digital Footprints is when you leave something behind on any kind of social media and forget about it. Why are we learning about Digital Footprints? The reason why we are learning about this is because for different reason, someone can hack into other accounts and post something rude. We are learning about digital Footprints because we all know that if you/we leave something behind, people can see it and leaving it permanently.   

Sustainability Term 2

Sustainability Term 1

What was the theme for Tamaki college?

The Theme was sustainability

What were the topics for the 6 projects?

Protecting culture and identity, Rain Garden, Housing, Parks, Healthy Food, Rubbish & Littering

What was your project and what did you learn?

My Project was Protecting Culture and Identity, I learnt that there's different points of view of should there be language classes or not

What was your favourite part of the unit?

My favourite part was getting the ideas together to complete the task

What did you see at Te Oro yesterday that stood out to you?

The project that stood out for me was the Tamaki Samoan Group performing.

He Korowai Hapori - Raupotaka Marae

Today, 17 / 03 / 2017, 9RMz went to Ruapotaka Marae to listen to Whaea Noleane talk about the situation that is going around the Tamaki Community. We are listening to the story about the back in the days when river was there resources the find and put something there. Promise, Reon, Lana, and I got chosen to hang some little houses on the He Korowai Hapori to understand what the problem in our Community. 

Fono-Fale

This Term, 9Rmz is mainly focused on the topic Fono-Fale and Hauora. Fono - Fale and Hauora are two houses but are two main things that is important to us. This model was created by Fuimaono Karl-Pulotu Endemann. This was put together because the Fono Fale was mainly focused around the Pacific view and important factors. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

Aquatics - Jane

Remaining safe around water

Why do we have to be safe around water?

Because some people don’t know how to swim. When you’re in trouble you can always raise your hand above your head and yell out for help.

How might you get into trouble in the water?

Your can get into trouble around water by swimming alone. You can also get into trouble not realising how depth the water is and how the water behave. For example; You might not realise how fast the water is running.

This is my DLO about water safety. We have to write about how we can be safe and what not to do in the water. We had to write a paragraph about the information that we wrote in the thinking grid.

Kate Sheppard - Homelearning

This week I had collaborated with my sister Jane. I have got some feedback from my teacher and telling Jane and I some advise about what to do next. This was an interesting task because Jane and I have worked quite well.