Tamaki College Reading Programme

Our New Government

Today in Social Studies, we are learning about the new government. We were talking about what was going to happen in the next three years.

I think a lot will change with our new government.What will happen in the next three years because according to their website they are planning to make a change for the better. Like Education, Transport, Health and Immigration Policy are going to change but their is a lot of change going to happen    

I feel that unexpected things are going to happen to New Zealand in the next three year due to a new Government.

Geometry - Maths

This is my maths work, Currently we are working on our new topic Geometry. For Geometry, we working on Co-ordinates on where we went to go. My Destination are: Auckland(where we are now) Manila Philippines, Seoul South Korea, Singapore. Next we identify our Co-ordinates and how long its take to be there. 

Our Political Party Presentation - The Help

My group has been learning about Parties and governments and we are called the "The Help" check out our presentation for more information. Thank you.

Social studies - Survivor Blog Reflection

Blog Reflection

What problems did you face?
Having people on the other side and thinking weather they are nice or not

How did you solve problems?
By having a leader

Who made Decisions?
All of the group mostly made decisions.

Was their one leader who made decision?
Why/why not?
No because we don't want to have problems in our group

Why did we complete this task?
we wanted to see what we could see if we really got stuck on the island

What are the similarities and the differences between your task and the reality?
Our group were more focused on the task then the reality.

Exams

Exams

To me exams was a challenge to deal with because it was the first time we ever did in college, i expected to be hard. I think that i didn’t prepare for the exams at first, because i didn’t have enough time to study. I think i did well in english because i have been studying on that topic since term 1, so i think i’ll get the hang of it. I think that maths was hard and science too because those two subjects was the most hardest to me to get the answers. I think I could’ve done better in social studies because that subject was the main focus to me to get better point/marks. I think next time when we have exams, i have to prepare for exams.

Time Planning - Gannt Cart

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.

Sustainability Day

Review our sustainability day!  Give lots of examples!

What did you do?

We planted seeds vegetables, learning about maori myths, and what we could do to help in the rain garden.

What did you learn?

We learnt about the rain garden that it needed to be cleaned, and other places that could be built to be a better places for kids to play. We planted seed so we could feel being part of the school.  

How did you feel?

I feel like being the part of the school because we learnt so many things that was based on this school.

What do you want to learn more about?

What to learn more about what are the problems that is going on in the gardens.

I want to make a project that will be creative to do that make student very happy

DigiTech - Brief Development

In digitech, we have been been working on Brief Development in class. I have learnt the sustainability in the tamaki community and whats the happen in that area. We have been learning different attributes and features thats happens in a website. We have also been learning about different ideas to make a website interesting and for the Tamaki Community.

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. 

Hauora

Hauroa means the 4 walls that is put up into a marae. The 4 walls represent Taha Tinana - Physical, Taha Hinenagaro - Mental/Emotions, Taha Whanua, and Taha Wairua. If one wall fall then all of the walls falls because they all relay on each other to keep all on them up and standing. 

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. 

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