Aspire, Inspire and Motivation!

This morning we had the opportunity to hear a speech from Andrew Patterson and one of our past Pt England student, Raenan. They firstly talked to us intermediate students about our next step into secondary college and Raenan's experience of his 4 years of his college years.

Andrew Patterson firstly took us back to 2013, Where he first met Raenan as a Year 8. Raenan was at the stage of learning how to prepare things such as an interview, speech or being a good leader towards those who look up to him. Raenan set goals for himself, One of them were to be a head boy in college and luckily he was announced to be the deputy head boy for Tamaki College in 2018.

Raenan himself took us back to his first year attending Tamaki, as he had many opportunities for him to go for. He talked to us about him joining the "Geek Cafe" and how he was taught how to help people to use technology, especially elderly people. For me, That was pretty interesting to hear and amazing to think that elderly were/are interested in our technology.

Before ending off their interview/speech, they presented us a video of a student who attends Manurewa High school. A year 12 who was speaking his experience of having a dad as mongrel mob member, his dad was sent to jail for up to 8 years. Leaving him at a young age (7) and only coming back halfway through his year of High school (15). I found it interesting to hear and inspiring on how he was able to get through all  his troubles at home, he kept focusing on the good things and improved while he was at it.

One of the things that I mainly picked up was to keep striving even though you're at your worse, to never give up and keep working hard for those who you love. They all inspired me to keep going for new things and improve on them throughout your years of college, It was a lovely speech and I was definitely inspired.

Time for decimals.

WALT: Use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction word problems AND decimal addition and subtraction.


This week we've been learning about addition and subtraction with decimals, I learnt a range of strategies to solve this. Look in the presentation above to see what I've been learning about.

How music around us affect our emotions.

WALT: Music, Emotion and colors.


During this term one of our learning intentions were to focus on which music affects how you feel, We choose up to 6 emotions and had to match our feelings to that song. Look at the presentation above to see how I feel about some of the songs that I may love or not.

Child tooth decay - New Zealand.

WALT: I am able to distinguish between fact and opinion by identifying relevant language features the author has subtly used.
 
 This week we've been learning about Tooth decay, around New Zealand the numbers have raised and hospitals have now struggle with keeping up with dental care. Here is a presentation above to see what I've been working towards.

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems.

WALT: Use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction word problems.


Addition and subtraction word problems, this week I've been learning about partitioning, reversibility, rounding and compensation. Look in the presentation above to see how I worked out these problems.

Word Problems - Week 5.

WALT: Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems.


During this week we've also been learning about Word problems, a few in our class tend to get confused as they're focusing on the words more than the problem. Today we have a few word problems today, take a look in the presentation above to see what I've been working on.

Maths Problems - Week 5

WALT: Solve maths problems.


During class today, I've learnt how to solve math problem. From options like addition, subtraction, division, times tables all into bed-mas. To see what I've learnt and gained so far, check the presentation above.

Koko the ape: Can apes really understand American sign language?

WALT: Finding evidence in a text, Use the process of elimination to find the "best fit" answer.


During Week 1 - 2 our class has been learning towards comprehension work, finding evidence that supports our answer in the text. For an understanding of what we've been taught, We were given a task to read an article about Koko the ape. We were given questions to answer with sentences in the text. Check the presentation above to see what I've been working towards.

Motivational Talk!

Our morning today, wasn’t that normal at all. In fact we had a inspirational talk with Mr Patterson, He talked to us as to why we aspire to inspire.

During his few things he talked to us about, I picked up some advice that I found more important to me. A few things such as the word Intrinsic, What makes you do good within yourself. I thought to myself as to what makes me do good or bad within me. Things related to being considerate towards other people. Not only thinking about yourself but people who are around you and those who need it more than you do.

Mr Patterson also taught us his formula,  A + I = M. Aspiration & Inspiration to create Motivation. Doing things you love and want to do, Those who inspire you to do it and eventually trying to achieve it in your bestest ability. He explained to us that their are two kind of people in this world, A taker or a giver. Luckily or hopefully most of us are givers.

Being able to give to others, for an example: An 11 year old who gave his lunch and lunch money to a homeless who was apparently crying for a broken marriage, being kicked out of his house and losing his job that he had for a few long years. Basically you could be any age to inspire anyone, even elders. A taker, person who takes but not give in return.  Thoughtless for other people who are unkind by not showing affection to things.

During this morning, I’ve picked up a lot of things. I learnt what I would think or do during situations. My future ahead of me also. Thanks to Mr Patterson I’ve now know what to look forward too but also keeping my head high and striving to succeed.

“If you love what you do, you’ll won’t have to work.”

Maths - Word Problems!

WALT: Find an appropriate strategy to solve each word problem.


We've started this term up with Word problems, We had to answer decimals and fractions. Here's my presentation above, Take a look with what I've learnt this week.

Labour Day!

Working 10 or more hours in shifts, Having no break at all was such a pain to workers back in the day. October 28th 1890 was the day New Zealand decided to have a public holiday (labour day), It’s one of the day’s our people could take a day off from working. Amazingly Aotearoa was one of many countries to start an 8 hour working rate.

Every 4th Monday of October, Workers get to celebrate the right of working less than 12 hours. Way back in the days, Such as 1890 people didn’t have the option to work less or more than 12 hours and sadly some even worked for up to 18 hours. Samuel Parnell, A man who refused to work 8 hours or more as a carpenter in a shop he worked in.

Samuel Parnell. One of the most important people in New Zealand, most likely known to be a legend for being able to speak up and working only up to 8 hours in carpentry. Always explaining his rights in court, as to why he didn’t work for his normal 10 hour working day and it could and would affect his pay wage. Throughout his years of working, he did not care about a single thing of what a person had to say. He kept his ways and continued on to work his 8 hours.

It was fair enough, New Zealand had the right of claiming the right to have an 8 hour working day, but they decided to support Mr Parnell’s idea of working a full 8 hour day. Wellington judge decided for everyone in New Zealand and possibly other countries to have the right of being able to work 8 hours.

Now you know why Labour day is now here today, maybe consider a day to celebrate it yourself as it is a special day to remember. What does Labour day mean to you? Well you now know the reason so why not celebrate!

Niuean Language - Cheeehoooo!

Justifying - I can discuss and justify my responses across texts and material I read and see.


Week 1, During our literacy time our group learnt about Niue! In the presentation above, I had to state my perspective/opinion on what I personally thought and then also state what I thought the author felt in a way. We learnt about the difficulties and struggles of not being able to grow up in the Niue cultural way but also finding out ways that we could actually keep our Niue language alive!

Musical Madness! - Immersion Assembly.

Term 4 has arrived and our learning intention is now Musical Madness! As our usual start to the day for Pt England school we always host an immersion assembly, Explaining what each team is learning towards. Laughter was shown and everyone talking about what fun they’re going to have throughout the term. Well this is what I thought about it all!

Most Informative:

I reckon Team 5 had the most informative show. Throughout the whole item, they explained how they felt towards the movie that had either a song or tune to it. Weather it was scary, happy or sad they’d explain their thoughts to us audience. Showing us what Team 5 is learning towards Term 4

Most Entertaining:

The one show that caught my attention was Team 3! They were hilarious in their movie. It showed them having a conversation using songs they’d listen to on a normal day out, Not only they showed having a conversation but they also showed their emotions and feelings towards on what people had to say to them. It was as if they were actually talking to each other normally.

What do you want to find out more about this term?:

Throughout this term, I’d like to find out more about what song would affect me. Weather it would make my emotions change or will I still have the same feeling throughout the whole song, By the end of this term I would want to explain my feelings with the song I listened to and why it does.

Letter of Support!

To whom it may concern:

As you may know from my blog, I´m Rosalina! I attend Pt England school and represent being a yr 7, Im located in Auckland, New Zealand and enjoy being here. Learning about different environments here at pt england school is soo fun! Recently an earthquake occurred in the south island of New Zealand and injured several people, to show our support we decided to write a letter on our behalves.

On behalf of Pt England School we would like to say sorry for your loss and hope to continue with your great lives soon, We pray that you all stay safe during this heartbreaking time. We pray that the lord will give you strength to push through this hard time, We pray that you all will have enough food and water to survive throughout the past few days and please accept our condolences that we've provided for you specially. I hope that all our prayers will be answered to help you adults and children, Please enjoy this and I hope this will fill your heart up with joyfulness.

Regards,

Rosalina  

States of Matter!

States of matter

Task

Work on this Doc together with a partner or in a 3.

Give three examples of each state of matter?

Solid	Liquid	Gas
Linked together	Watery	Unseeable
Dense	Flowing	Fumes
Compressed	Runny	Smoke

What’s the difference between the three states of matter?

Solids	Liquids	Gases
Solids are hard	Liquids are water and Runny	Gas is unseeable

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you learned from this reading.

From this reading I learnt that everything and anything around us is made out of Matter. Every single object we see or touch is matter, Matter is atoms and molecules combined. This (matter) is anything that takes up space and has mass.

On the following days we´ve been learning about States of matter, solids and gas are different. The difference between them is: Solid is the hardest of them all, Liquids is the wateriest of them all and Gas is invisible and untouchable compared to Solid and Liquid. Reading about these three things really interested me and told me why it was watery, why it was hard and why it was invisible.