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

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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.