farewell and thank you Paihia School

Kia Kotou
Ko Poerua toku Maunga
Ko Waitangi toku awa
Ko Ngatokimatawhauroa toku waka
Ko Ngapuhi te iwi
Ko Ngati Kawa te hapu
Ko Te Tii toku Marae
Ko Paihia toku Kura
Ko Katipa toku ingoa.

some of you who are reading...
probably know me,
or some you probably don't
but that doesn't matter because I'm here to say...
THANK YOU
THANK YOU, Paihia School, Thank you staff and Pta who taught me through out my learning years.
learning years which I clearly enjoyed.
so if you can all witness with me, I'd like to personally "thank" and "congratulate" teachers that taught me through out the years.
Mrs Simonds, you were the first teacher that showed me what a real begginer school experience was, and for that I am forever grateful. I can even remember how in those days I barely talked and socialised with people, but you introduced me to the light.
Mrs Newman, even though you're gone, I would always remember how much joy you gave me once I joined your class even if you were a bit grumpy (sorry if that sounded offensive).
Mrs Cameron I might not be able to remember that much experience I've had from you in your class but it's clear that you're indeed an excellent teacher.
Mrs Walliams, I remember how I got in trouble in your class "A LOT", but none of that was on Purpose, I just couldn't understand half the stuff you were teaching me so I apologise for that but I also thank you for teaching me that kind of stuff.
finally...
Whaea Becks and Whaea Chrissy, you were the best teachers that i looked up to in  school experience, new learning, new fun, new ways, you taught me how to feel good about myself.
you taught me how to give "Kindess", "respect", "honorship" "all" that good stuff to my classmates, to my Tupuna/elders and to society aka the world.
along with looking after it.
thanks to that, I can finally feel inner peace within myself.
I also want to wish Whaea Becks on his adventurous journey.
and I'd like to wish Whaea Chrissy the best of luck whenever she becomes Princible.
speaking of the Princible, I'd like to "THANK" Mrs Lindsey.
Mrs Lindsey, I honestly do not know what to say.
whenever I got into a conversation with you...
there were compliments coming LEFT AND RIGHT LEFT AND RIGHT.
they were heartwarming, very very heartwarming.
the gifts you gave, the offers you presented.
I just couldn't believe it, it was umimaginable.
you will always be respected and welcomed in my home and in my heart mrs Lindsey.

I am truly sorry to all those people I have missed and have not enlisted.
but please do not think that even if you are not on the list I do no feel a lack of respect, because I swear by my soul that somewhere in my life that you have something extremely special for me.
because of that
all I wanted to say was Thank you
and please, accept their certificate of apreciation
apreciation certificate
other then that
Have a good night folks.

Katipa's awesome adventures in the land of wellington

Kia Ora Bloggers.
Welcome to…“Katipa’s awesome adventures in the land of wellington”
Once every two years, our Principle Jane Lindsey would show a very special piece of action to the year 7 and 8s by taking us to Wellington to see outstanding sights, like the REAL treaty of Waitangi.
Sadly I cannot list all the places we went to on the post, so check out this DLO for more information (still working on it).
Anyway, I personally loved the trip because it helped some of us socialise with people we don’t talk to that much. The other reason was it just helped us to refresh ourselves from all the hardworking we do at school. What I’ve learnt from this is to be grateful for what people do for you whether it’s something small like making your lunch for school or something big like taking you to the museum. NOW I am ready to take on school work once again. BYE.

DUFFY'S LEGENDARY ADVENTURE THAT MADE HIM A "LEGEND"

Last week, more people from the duffy book community came to Paihia School.
So far I think it was our third visit…
The storie’s topic was about someone called Duffy being trapped in a game called magic bricks, then going on an adventure to try figure a way out. Here’s the DLO to tell you more about Duffy’s adventure along with the game.
This was so far the coolest story the duffy community has introduced to our school, because it was very creative and imaginative.
Their planning on the background was very well executed.
What I’ve learnt from this is, to always be creative and to always follow your imagination because it can help you get a lot of unique/interesting ideas to help entertain your audience.

KATIPA'S LEGENDARY ATHLETIC SKILLS

Every Wensday afternoon and Friday after lunch, our school does athletic training.
We do this once a year to train for the real athletics.
What? You don’t know what athletics are?
Well, athletics is basically a series of sporty activites (NOT SOCCER OR RUGBY), the activities we perform are high jump, long jump, sprints/relays, shot put and discuss.
And we do it in groups. I’m in group four.
HERE’S THE DLO ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES.
My challenges were discuss and high jump.
Sadly, I didn’t get to do Shot put or Long jump last week because we had some interferences, with the weather.
My specialties being sprints/relays.
What I’ve learnt from this is that even ANYONE have their own weaknesses, but it’s always good to try, so next time I do Athletics training I’ll try more harder.

kapa haka

Kia Ora everyone, my name’s Katipa and welcome to my blog post.
What I was learning : I’m going to share with you my day about teaching the rest of the senior school the proper actions of Aha Ngapuhi E.
Here’s my DLO (actions are on it).
I enjoyed it because there weren’t that much important interruptions. One of them were my three mates getting in trouble for giggling. Even if I felt bad for them I felt a little bit of disappointment because it made us waste a bit of time and also because they’re some of my big inspirations in the kapa haka roopu.
Reflection: what I’ve learnt from this is even sometimes… the students have to become the teachers. And that we can’t teach students something we don’t fully understand ourselves.

writing write and some more writing

Kia Ora everyone, my name’s Katipa and welcome to my blog post.
What I was learning: today I’m going to share with you my explanation writing.
Here’s my DLO.
What I didn’t do well: I didn’t do very good in using passive voice and present tense because I didn’t really understand it.
What I did do well: what I did do well though was making my writing very persuasive.
What I did to fix my writing: I fixed my writing by participating in a group conference, my teacher explained to me what I needed to do.
Reflection: What I’ve learnt from this is even if the writing you’re supposed isn’t your type of liking, you must always use the correct sentence structure for the correct topic.

THE LEGENDARY T SHAPED

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning how to explain our writing with the correct sentence structures by using T shaped. The purpose of this was to learn new sentence structures to help us improve our writings that explains subjects.
here's a DLO
My personal favourite article was Kopinga, a place of peace, because it tells me about the Moriori people, and I actually thought the writers of the story just wrote Maori wrong, but I found out that they’re different from us.
Reflection: what I learnt from this is that even if you work by yourself, you must always find help if you really need it.
But try first. Has my DLO helped you with your writing?
If so, I’m happy I could help.

WHO WILL WIN THE RUGBY WORLD CUP?

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing an activity because we were learning to list ALL the teams that made it into the rugby world cup.
Here’s the DLO
MY learning for this was to learn about rugby groups from other countries like the Wallabies (Australian rugby team) along with learning which country the world cup was being held at, with that being Japan.
Reflection:
Thanks to this, I can now memorise the rugby world cup groups.
Have you ever had trouble knowing what group was playing?

writing

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing more writing.
Like all the other writing we’ve been doing, we had to make up our stories but it has to be from a picture, THAT THE TEACHERS SELECTED for us to do.
I love writing so much because in conferences people can give me feedback to improve my writing skills and I also like it because I love expressing my imagination to other people.
I didn’t really enjoy the part where I misunderstood the story beats because I thought that was the way we actually needed to write the story.
Also, Sadly I didn’t do very well in making sure it makes sense.
Here’s the picture I wrote about.

BYE                                                     

cultural fest

On Monday my school’s kapa haka group went to the Kaikohe Cultural festivaL.
My learning was to stay strong, pukana, do awesome actions and make my mum proud.
I think I passed those because I stood my ground strong and proud, I did pukana the whole way, I did the actions properly and I know I made my mum proud because she came to me crying in delight.
I really enjoyed the part where I found my mum crying in delight, not just because I felt good in myself, also because I made her see that my love for her is unbreakable.
What I didn’t really enjoy though was knowing that we couldn’t watch the other schools, I know we watched them on Tuesday but I had high expectations that they would’ve done better. Because on Tuesday it was the practise rounds, so they wouldn’t of went that hard, but I know they would’ve done their all on the actual festival.
Here’s the performance if you want to watch it
cultural fest
I also made some mistakes along the way like at the end when we took a knee I nearly fell.

copy right

This week in Te Ngahere we’ve been learning how to get pictures without breaking the copy right rule. We had to get the license, the author and the name of the picture.
This is a very good thing to learn about because it helped me understand copy right.
I enjoyed it because I want to use images but since its someone elses I didn’t wanna make people think it was mine.
But the hard thing was finding the license because it says License everywhere in the place you got it from and you don’t know which one it really is.

you also don’t want to copy someone’s work follow these orders:

cross country

on Friday the whole School was participating in a very special event that we do every year, CROSS COUNTRY.
Cross Country was very fun this year because sometimes when I did cross country it was muddy and wet but this time it wasn’t, SOOOO I could try my absolute best.
What I didn’t enjoy though was knowing it was my final year because I’m year 8, BUT at the same time, I’m kind of happy that I don’t have to do it again because I don’t have to trip over all the long grass that the Hill has. I also did good at running. The reason I’m informing you this is because in the past I didn’t even run sometimes, but this time I did. Probably just because I was more confident and I had no jersey on. Sadly I lost a lot of my breath at the finish line because I raced all the way to it without even breathing. Well that’s the end of the Paihia School cross country for me, hopefully I do more in College. Also no doubt that College cross country is more challenging then Primary.

bay of islands college

last week the year 8’s went on a trip to Bay of Islands College.
I couldn’t wait to go there because I was thinking of how much fun I would have.
What I enjoyed about Bay was when I got there was everyone was being friendly and all the classes we attended were very cool, the subject I liked the most was probably Digital Drawing because it is like a free for all class where you make drawings out of pixels and you can make whatever you want.
What I didn’t enjoy though was my brother Charlie not being there because I was looking forward to having a good day with him but he wasn’t there because my little brother was having surgery.
I did well on all the subjects we did on the orientation day but with a little bit of help, especially wood work because I’m not very good at that.

science

In Te Ngahere we’ve been presenting our science project information to the whole school on a board. The way we had to do this was we had to make a presentation.
Print the slides (that had the information).
Finally glue all those printed information onto the board.
This was really challenging because we just finished our presentation on the day before the science fair and luckily received the board.
On the next day we finally finished the board and placed it into the whare where all the other completed boards were.
On the last bit of the day all the classes came to see the boards.
What I enjoyed about this was we were able to maybe give the juniors some ideas about what they could make when they come into our class. What I didn’t enjoy was getting sore legs and only having adults come over. To fix this we should’ve brought our remote control car earlier because that is mostly the only thing that attracted the little kids.

dragon

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing some more writing.
The objective was to find a video that you find cool and interesting, choose a part of that video and describe it in the best way you can with powerful descriptive vocab.
I liked all of this because the video that I chose suited what I liked writing about.
I did well on knowing the correct language features for the piece of writing that I was doing but I didn’t do very well on knowing which part I was going to do though because I wanted to write the whole thing but I didn’t want the readers to read TO much.
I am also happy that I got a rubric 5 because that means a massive achievement in my writing and now I look forward to get my writing to a rubric 6. So I need to deliberately and consistently use precise vocab like Expressive, academic, descriptive, technical/abstract words for affect.
Hope you enjoyed my post and even if it’s not a school activity feel free to choose a video and do the exact thing I did.

also here is the link to the story

link

NOT LET

on Thursday the entire school brought ourselves into the marae because someone called Nichole was going to give us a message with a little story about a character named Ned.
Ned’s letters (of his name) also had different meanings.
N = never give up.
E = encourage others.
D = Do your best.
I liked her message because a lot of meaning was in it and I think that whenever she explained it to people that had a complicated life it probably changed their behaviour.
What I did well was think very highly of the message she was giving us.
I hope she makes another story, with another character that has a new positive meaning.

science

in Te Ngahere we’ve been learning science.
The reason for this was because Paihia school was hosting our own science fair.
My group was Dezray and Darrius, as a group, we decided that our project will be to see what type of brand battery lasts the longest with a remote control car. I wasn’t very good at this though because I didn’t have much knowledge about batteries. What I enjoyed though was having fun with my group even though they were a bit disrespectful to the whare, for example they were playing base ball with the rakau. What I think I did do well was when we were testing I was doing some other work.

toku whanau

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to introduce our whanau in completely different ways. Unlike a pepeha we had to introduce everyone else in our whanau like my cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents.
What I enjoyed about doing this was learning how to introduce everyone else in my family in different ways because I find it sad that I just know how to introduce my siblings, mothers and dads, when I need to know my other family members.
I think I could’ve done better in presenting it because at first I thought I needed to say Ko Girly toku whaea keke instead of Ko ia Girly te tuahine o toku mama whakaangi but what I did do well was know how everyone in my family was related to me.

CRAZY CHICKENS

Te Ngahere along with the rest of the school was introduced to some people who were musicians. They introduced themselves and started playing some songs. My best song was CRAZY CHICKENS, because it allowed everyone to play around and be crazy like a chicken. What I enjoyed about the concert was that I was allowed to act crazy when doing the crazy chicken dance. What I didn’t do well was keep track with the crazy chicken song but what I did do well was just have fun and do my best.

smile project

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we were learning how to smile and wave to other people in the school at lunch because we were doing a science project about making people happy. I liked this because I loved making the juniors happy. What I think I could do better was go to some more juniors because I didn’t do many people. I was so happy to make junior's happy because we gave them a reason to feel safe at Paihia School.  After lunch our teacher, Whaea Chrissy, was very pleased with us like she was about to give us a major promotion.

Technology

In Te Ngahere we went to Moerewa School for Technology. The year 7’s went to Mr E’s class which waswoodwork and the year 8’s, including myself, went to Whaea Dot’s class to make lasagne, which could give you a hint of what her class would be about.  We had to use different types of ingredients for the lasagne that were healthy but also delicious, but we  couldn’t do it by ourselves because it’s impossible for someone to get 2 jobs at once like trying focus on both the cooking and the gathering. My teammate was Darrius who’s basically my cousin. For our lasagne we had to have a writing book to glue 3 pieces of paper in to explain to us how to make a lasagne . Darrius and I chose some categories that were vegetables only. It took a couple of hours to cook but then I needed to make white sauce. I really enjoyed Technology and if you’re from Moerewa School and you’re reading thanks for the opportunity to let us do Technology at your school.