Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes (whos was actually called Guido) origanly came from a man Called Guy fawkes who was the son of Edward Fawkes and Edith (nee Black or jackson). Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the spanish in the low countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Thinking Activity

This morning Miss Tito has given us a challenge to complete with only 5 different objects. Our question was , "you are stuck outside , how can you protect yourself". We all where put in to random groups of 3 and where to work together to complete the task we were given. Me and charm where given a measuring tape , banana , bike , sunflower and a paint brush. We had failed our challenge but next time we will surely succeed.

The last week of the term

“Yess” as i whispered to myself “Its almost the production and also the end of the term”

past this week students from class 19 to 22 have been gathering in room 22 to finish off the last parts of there costumes. Me and a few of my class mates have been sent to Mrs Nua’s class so that we don’t distract or disturb the dancers for the production. For 3 days from Tuesday Point England School has been putting on a production to entertain people in the community.

In Mrs Nua’s class our instruction was to do a blog post about the recent teams that have been playing in the rugby world cup games or about rugby players. I wrote about the magnificent player Jonah Lomu and all the games he has played. I’ve found out that Jonah Lomu is one of the most successful players ever in the world.

Tonight the first production will be at Point England School in the hall. I couldn’t wait until the production was going to start. This week is the last for the term our school. I am so excited to wait for the holidays.

This term I really felt disapointed in myself because I have’nt been doing good in my work. But I feel proud because of my behavior around the school. Next term i’m hoping to make that term perfect for myself.

Aussie Rules

Here is a little slideshow of all the action we done during Aussie rules. Its a similar game compared to rugby but a lot different. I hope you liked the movie.

Math Whizz

This week for maths we have been learning on a site called math whizz.

The strategy i have been learning is division. Here you can see i have completing my work and solving out problems. Here is a little snapshot on my left.

Rugby World Cup.

Last week before the rugby world cup had started I've been seeing people holding there country flags. Everyone have been waiting for the first game to start. New Zealand vs Tonga. On Friday the first game was going to start after the opening had finished. I gathered my country flag and rushed to watch the opening at Eden park Auckland. We zoomed throught the Motorway so that we dont get stuck in traffic.

Here is a little video.

Rugby World Cup.

7's Champs

Last week Our Rugby 7’s boys went to down to Tauranga to enter the Aims Games Tournament. Our boys played with pride and passion and got into the grand final. They won and are the best team in New Zealand.

When our Rugby 7’s boys came back we were all proud of our boys that we gave them a welcoming assembly. We all rushed to the hall and waited for Mr Jacobson to introduce the boys. “Come in boys!” Mr Jacobson yelled through the Microphone. The team walked through the door with pride and honour in there hearts as Mr Jacobson announced each name which started from the captain Jonty and ended with the last person, Ieremus. The crowd went wild. WE WERE SO PROUD!

My Multiple Intelligence Results

This week Room 22 have been learning about the Multiple Intelligences.  Ms T showed us a site that showed us what weaknesses and strengths we have.  My main strengths are: Music smart, people smart and body smart. My weaknessess are Nature and picture smart, word smart, number smart and Myself smart, those are the main things I will be working on.

Badminton

Two weeks ago we were invited to take a few lesson’s of badminton. The instructor that was teaching us came from the Auckland Badminton Club. Our instruction’s we were given were to grab one of the racket and made a circle around the hall.

The first lesson we were going to do for the day was to control the movement of the shuttle.

Once we made a circle around the bin we all grabbed five shuttles each and went back to our circle. Laureen our instructor told us to try and hit every shuttle in to the bin. “Yes” screamed people whacking shuttles in to the bin. We only scored one point but on the second game we scored six points and won. The second lesson we learnt was some tricks with our racket.

Our third lesson was for two people in a group so we all paired up. Once we had our groups one of the people in your groups has to grab a cone and the other has to grab a shuttle and a racket. The person that has the racket has to hit the shuttle in the air and the person with the cone has to catch it and make the shuttle land in the cone.

Our forth activity we done was to have a game with our partners in our groups. We had to try and have a game with out making the shuttle hit the ground. “dam” playing badminton was pretty hard but we tried our best.

I really had fun. I really cant wait to have another try at badminton.

Design Process for furniture.

Design Process
:Designing Furniture



A few weeks ago room 22 have been identifying problems around the street. One of the main problems we are working on now is the furniture in our street. The reason why we choose furniture is because we would really like a little place where we can relaxe and do our work in a quite place near our class.

Everyone in my class have been researching ideas for different kind of furniture such as couch’s(to sit on), hangers(for bags), Tables (to put our net books on while we are working) and shelves(to put our shoes on).

We will be visualizing and modifying where and when we will be creating the perfect place for our class. But first we will need to research different idea’s and then create prototype’s of what we will be making. You can be in a group of 2(max) or either work by your self.

We have 3 weeks to complete out task. On the first week we will be needing to be finishing finding different ideas. For the second week we will be needing to measure the approximate measurements for the length and width for our prototype of out design. And on the final week we would have finish our prototype.

Once we finish our prototype we need to evaluate and reflect on our design. We might need to modify and adjust the length and hight or we might need to change the shape and be creative. For an example i changed my table holder because if i made a straight holder it wouldn't of held the base of my table.

Rugby League Session Slideshow

A few weeks ago room 22 was invited to attended some rugby league sessions.

Rugby League Session.

Yesturday our class went out for a cool session of league. The time was 10:00am and we all had to get dressed to go out and have some fun. So we lined up and walked to the junior court.
Sio Siua Taukeiaho(Our coach) put us in four even groups.
Once we were put in to those groups we all had to line up in a straight line and sit behind a cone. Once we were all seated we had a relay to see what team can come first. “Ready set go” Siua shouted out. The first person in our group ran around the cones then sprinted back. “No” Shouted our team we had lose Team 4 came first.”Ohhh” Shouted everyone as siua said that the race was only a practise. An adrenaline rush pumped throw my vanes to come first in the relay. We had two more games to play the second game we played was the same as the first relay we done but it was different. Our team mates were the cones so we had to run around each person then sprint back to the finish line.

Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow...

On Thursday the 9th we attended the science roadshow at Tamaki college. Once we entered the hall there were two scientists waiting to assist us through the process of exhibits. They showed us about our senses such as our touch,taste,smell,sound and our eyes.

After learning about our senses we all got to roam and test out the amazing inventions that we're set out around the hall. There were different kind of topics that explained each invention such as detection(radiation), heat(colour,fire), communication(phones), levers, gears, inclined planes(piano, metal detector), sound(bird songs), quirky curiosities(skeleton).

So heres a picture of one of the things i liked.

Swimming Lesson's

Every Day for two weeks at approximately 1:15p.m. Team 5 have been learning how to swim at our local pools Glenn Innes.
We learned this in case there is an emergency that involves us at sea. We have been taking lessons of what to do at sea in case something bad happens such as drowning from walling off a boat. We mostly learnt freestyle.

Ms Tito gave us a challenge. The challenge was that we have to swim back and forth for 600meters with out touching the ground it was a difficult task but most of the students succeeded.

I really like swimming because its fun and active for every age. Next year I am hoping to attend swimming again.

Here is were we swim.

Values-DLO

Taonga Time.....

Every Friday the Year seven and eight classes have a special Friday called Taonga time. In each class the teacher has a different passion that they share with others. For example my teacher (Ms Tito) is very passionate about Kapa Haka.

The Taonga group I’m in is Science with Mr Harris in Room 19. We learnt how to make different coloured goo with corn flour and water. I think that the Science class is pretty interesting because we learn different things.

There are also different groups such as Maori, Kapa Haka, Science, ICT, Sport, Music and Team Building. Each class we go in ,we learn about cool and fascinating things.

Heres a picture of what we used in our first experiment

Creative name!

Creativity comes from the word create. It means someone who has been thinking before creating something that doesn't already exist. Creativity is a thinking skill. So this is my entry for my most creative name do you think this is creative or not?

Term 1 Reflection

One of the things I was pleased about last term was my reading. In my report I obtained good results for my working habits, behaviour and academic progress. I feel proud of myself so does my family.

The thing I will be improving on is my art work. In my report my overall mark for art was below expectations. I will also need to manage my time during art because i always get distracted in doing something else when i was suppose to be finishing and managing my time in art.

My highlight for last term was writing. One of the things I improved on the most was writing. Last year for my writing was disappointing because writing was my worst subject but now I think I made a good change during writing i scored a good overall mark in my writing.


These are my results shown below:

Superb Sentence.

The tigeresss was attacking her pray with brutal force.

Superb Sentences

The nfl player aggresivley plunged at his opponent

The monsturios defender destroyed his opponent.

All about me...

Kia ora, My name is beni i'm a year 8 at point england school my favourite subjects are, maths and P.e.
my favourite hobbies are soccer,softball,basketball and ripa-rugby.Our school is amazing we have new classroom's new teachers and new students aplying for our school.
Most of our students and currently using Netboks as stationary for work such as Homework,writing and bloging.
I have 5 people living in my whanua, i am the secound oldest in my whanua and this is all about me.