Week 4 Term 1

Hi,
This week we continued doing our tests and have completed most of them, but we have a few more to do. On Monday we learned who had gotten the position of class Councillor and also who has managed to acquire the position of house captain. This week I learned to round numbers to a significant figure in maths and I also re learned place value. In tech arts this week I learned to make a seam correctly knowing this i can now make sure all of my cut out fabric edges are not messy and are to a high standard. I also learned to sew shoulder seems together correctly so they are straight. have leaned many new techniques to use during sowing and I am happy with my progress in making my jersey. I learned a lot about the history of Mt Everest like when Edmund Hillary and his partner arrived at the summit of Mt Everest, where it is located and many other facts. overall I have enjoyed this week thoroughly and am looking forward to the next week.

Week 3 Term 1

During the past week was the danish rounders competition. It was a difficult competition but we managed to make it into the finals that take place today we are hoping to win but its going to be difficult. we are going to have to play smart and try our hardest to take the win. We are versing room 13. During danish rounders I have learned many new skills like the rules, techniques for hitting the ball etc. During class time I have took many tests and figured out where I am academically in a few subjects, tests will continue throughout this week. During tech arts this week I have learned to sew on a machine again, how to thread a sewing machine and many techniques for cutting material out. This past week we also learned softball techniques And I learned that anyone can get someone out, and if you angle your feet into a different direction you are able to hit it in a different direction.  

week 1/2 Term 1

The first few weeks have been interesting and very fun I enjoyed meeting all of the year 7's in our class and they all seem really cool. We are beginning to do our start of year tests so that at the end of the year we can revise and see how much we have improved since the beginning of the year. I am looking forward to taking part in all the activities provided including sports, wims, hopefully sports camp and i'm hoping to get into aims. settling back into class was fun, but having a holiday and not doing work everyday has made me forget some of my skills and techniques for maths, reading and writing. I hope to regain these skills over the following terms and improve in everything I do. In tech we have began to make our jerseys and i have learnt most of the international shipping signs. so far we have planned our jersey and made the design cut outs. I have really enjoyed the first few weeks at school and am looking forward to the rest of the year.  

term 3

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Through out term 3 we have completed lots of maths including algebra, pi and many more subjects. We have also done lots of reading tasks including short stories where I have continued to expand my knowledge of how to correctly complete them. this term we also held cross country overall I came 36th I tried my hardest and ran to the best of my ability. We spent many weeks training for cross country by going around around the school and sherwyn park going around both of those are 1.5 kilometers my average is about 3 kilometers which is two laps. this term we also had speeches I was confident with my speech but I think I should have knew my content better, no one in our class made it into the finals. We also had aims this term but I was not involved in it. Overall this term has been really awesome and  really enjoyed it.

Week 6 Term 2.

This week on Wednesday the school held the winter games I participated in basketball. For our first game we played Mangapiko we were not playing to our best abilities as were they, We blocked and intercepted there passes and shots to keep up with them. For our next game we played Waikato and beat them by quite a lot. We beat them because they were quite clumsy with the ball and needed to work on their shooting. We once again did not play to our best abilities But were able to take out the win because we worked together and passed round the ball lots. For our last game we played our best but were unable to take the win against Waipa because they had more experienced players in there team and played as a team very well. We were unable to score very many points because they had very tall players in there team and were easily able to block our shoots and intercept our passes. Overall our house came second and are still coming second overall. This week I got another band it is my never give up band and only need about 15 more signatures till my bronze badge. This week in science We did lots more on gravity and physics also what makes a ball role. We learned about down force and if You include more forces you are able to move and stop the object If it is in motion. Adding another force is also able to start an object moving. We also learned that if the object is bigger in mass it takes more force to start and stop the object.

week 5 term 2

This week we had Mr MC Cabe for the first two days and we did a lot of discussing about zeca virus and how they are putting our athletes at risk by sending them to the Rio 2016 Olympics because sending them there is giving them a lot of a higher chance of spreading it around the world when they return home. we also talked about how the fish in the sea are not a sustainable food source because people are over fishing and being greedy also taking more than they need. They also have specific licences and when fish they are not aloud die in the trap and they bring it up on the boat they through the dead fish they are legally not aloud to have on board there ship. we also learned that the polar bears are probably going to be extinct within 20 years because of the melting of the polar ice caps because polar bears need ice to live on and are also needed in the ocean near to the main ice burgs so that if they are swimming they are able to take a break on the ice if not they will drown.
This week a few people got there silver badge these people were Arden, cheng-yu, Caitlin, rowan and hadlee, these are the first few people of the year to receive these badges I am getting closer to receiving my bronze badge and only need 16 more signatures across a variety of bands. It was also a short week because on Friday we had teacher only day and I also finished my reading and writing and also my maths. I am proud of my self for finishing my work on time. I think I also need to work on my science fair more because I have only done my introduction, aim, hypothesis, research and still need to finish the rest.

week 4 term 2

This week was really great and enjoyable and I learned lots. This week I continued with my writing and am nearly finished it, I have learned lots of information about pandas. In science this week we learned about how Isaac newton said everything was and object and if it was still it was at rest and if it was moving it was in motion. To experiment with this we had to make a marble track that had to last for on average 20 seconds me and Josh worked together but did not make that much progress because we used most of our time discussing how we were going to tackle the job. I finally earned my first band and it is my respect band I only need about 20 more signatures to earn my bronze badge. This Friday was supposed to be winter sports I was supposed to be playing basketball but was postponed until next Thursday. For reading I have just started to write my summary and still need to write my characterization. I am confident I will get most of my work finished because for Monday and Tuesday we will be having Mr Mc Cabe and a relieve teacher and are able to select what we want to do and finish.