Production 2017

On Wednesday night we had our production for 2017. This is the first time we were in front of an audience so I was nervous. We did this because we were celebrating 60 years of Panmure Bridge School. In LS2 we have been doing 70's and 80's songs. We have been practising a dance so that we could present our dance to everyone who came. Pasifica and Kapa Haka also performed. Both performances were well done. Tonight we will be dancing again for everyone who comes. Thank you Zoe for teaching us the dances. 

 

Cross Country

Last week Panmure Bridge School went down to Dunkirk and had our Adidas Fun Run. The school leaders went down and helped set up. The first people to run was the young students. The last people to run was LS2. It was hard because we were running through mud. Daniel and Aj came first and Te Wai came second. I came 8th place out of the year 8 boys. At the end of the run I felt tired and proud of myself that I finished.

Kiwican

Today for the last session of kiwi can we played games for the whole session. The first game we played was called object. We had to turn a random object into something useful. My group won two times. The next game we played was hand soccer. Our group one with 4 points. The last game we played was ten down. We had to pass it around and everyone had to touch the ball onto the ground. Kiwi can today was fun because we were all getting active.

Scale Drawing

Last week I finished my scale drawing. For this task we had to find an image that we were going to enlarge by drawing it. We had to rule 1 centimetre grid over our original design. We then doubled everything and made a grid so that we could enlarge it. First we drew grid lines on an A3 paper. One thing that was hard was that we needed to make sure that we were copying the image square by square.

The Princess Bride Character Introductions

 Today I created a DLO about The Princess Bride film study. I chose to make a DLO on how the characters of the movie were introduced. I created this to show what I learnt about the characters introduction. An interesting thing that I found from the movie is that Inigo and Fezzik turned good and helped the protagonist.  

What Is A Coalition

Today we have been following the election results and what a coalition is. We found out that NZ first has the power to chose who our government is. We did some questions that we had to answer. At the end of the task everyone in our group had to know what a Coalition was. I was working with Miki, Josh S, Te Wai and Freeman.

Democracy Flow Chart

Democracy is used in a lot of countries like Australia, England and New Zealand. Democracy derives from the Greek Language. Before the English language changed to democracy the french wrote it was démocratie In New Zealand we have the queen on top with the governor-general as her representative.

Former Prime Minister

Helen Clark was one of the former Prime Ministers of New Zealand. She is now a valuable member of the United Nations. She has made New Zealand well recognised and have done great things in her time in parliament like introducing the superannuation fund. She is a very influential women and is respected by a lot of people

Government Party Jigsaw

The election is near and in every intermediate in New Zealand we are learning about the elections. Apart of our learning we have done an activity called a Government Party Jigsaw. In the jigsaw there is all the leaders of the political parties and what electorate they are in. The two main parties are Labour and National. I worked with Mataio, Tiava and Jeremiah.

Read An E Book Day

Today LS2 have been reading E-Books because it is Read An E-book Day. I use the Tamaki College Overdrive to find and read E-books. E-Book day celebrates modern day storytelling. The book that I am currently reading is called Storm Breaker. It is about a boy who is told that his uncle is was a spy. His uncle has died and he takes over his uncles mission. If you use the hashtag #eBookLove. If you want more information you can click Here. #eBookLove

Tamaki College Overdrive

Today LS2 explored the Tamaki College Overdrive. I was reading storm breaker. It is about a 14 year old boy who finds out that his uncle was a spy. He then gets sent on a mission to investigate a sketchy man by the name of Herod Sayle.   

Bullying Animation

For this task we had to create a animation about bullying. First we talked about standing up and speaking out when this happens to you or anybody. We also talked about using our WITS and being good role models. I was working with Te Wai, Harlem and CJ.

Sentence Writing

For this task we explored two word sentences. We then put in FANBOYS and AAWWUBBIS to turn them into compound and complex sentence. We had to add 2 more after we finished one. The task was a bit hard because some words didn't fit well in the sentence. We then had to find a photo to go with one of the sentences. I chose to illustrate no hitting.

Y8 College Experience

Today the Y8s went to Tamaki College and stayed there for the day to experience what it was like in college classrooms. We had timetables and we had to be organised. There were some Y9 students guiding us around the college. First we had Maths with Mr Jones. In Maths we played battleships. Then we had Science with Mr Stoddard. In Science we did some experiments with static electricity. Next we had lunch. For lunch we had Subway and it was delicious. At lunch some students got rewarded $5 to go and spend at the tuck shop. Next we had English with Mr Stevenson. We were finding visual images to make connections with words that we had to memorise. The last thing that we did was PE with Mr Moyes. We played turbo touch. It was a really fun day and a good way to experience what it was like to be a Y9 student. Thank you Tamaki College for organising the fun day that we had.