Read 3 Novels During the Term | Excellence Badge

 LI: to read three novels during this term.

For my one of my excellence badges I was tasked at reading three novels this term. I read a whole series consisting of three books, I had read the series Jedi Academy. The books I had read were; Jedi Academy: A new class, Principle Strikes back, and the revenge of the sis. All of these books revolve around the life of young Victor Starspeeder and his journey of becoming a great Jedi. I liked these books as they resembled Harry Potter. It gives me a sense of fantasy and overall I like the star wars saga.

ASB Get Wise

 LI: to understand how te be wise with money.

In todays ASB get wise session we played a game called "Shark Tank". This game is about starting a buisness by using the streangths our group has. We then conbined two of the streangths to create our buisness idea. We conbined gaming and hunting to create a game about hunting. We presented our buisness idea, slogan, our name and the price in the front of the class. We then pushed a marker across the white board until it reaches a certain point, each point has a certain amount of money that can be given. This was really fun and interesting.

Silver Attitude Badge

 LI: to get my Silver Attitude Badge

Today I was awarded my Silver Attitude badge. I have completed five of my silver attitude tasks so I had made an appointment with our Principle, Mr Johnston to talk about my blogpost on the said tasks. I have worked very hard on this and I am proud of myself to get my first badge.

Football Interschool

 LI: to represent my school at the football interschool.

On wednesday this week our years 3 to 8 students went to Madills Farm to play against teams, we participated in playing matches with other schools such as stonefeilds, sylvia,  an many more. To start it off we played against stone feilds, unfortunatly we lost 1-0. Our next game was against Glenbrae, unfortunatly we lost 1-0. Our third game was against Sylvia and we won 1-0. For our fourth game we played against Ruapotuka and we won 1-0.  Our final match was againts PBS yr7/8 B, this was our second team to participate as the year 7/8 team. In our final match of the day we won 3-1. 

Shameful Stain on New Zealand

 LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation

We read the article “Shameful stain on NZ’s history”, an article about New Zealand’s History on the racial discrimination on the Pasifika community. Our provocation was “Should the Government of today apologise for the dawn raids of yesterday?”. 

In order to respond to this provocation we needed to evaluate the text by looking deeply at both perspectives. A perspective is point of view, or the opinion of one side. When exploring both sides of this provocation, we formed our personal opinions based on the information we read, and the information we already knew. In our DLO we have shared our different perspectives and have made an informed collaborative response to the question we were asked. We all agree that an apology is owed. It is important that this happens. What we didn’t agree on was who should give the apology. Our current government was not the party who organised the dawn raids. The party who are historically responsible should be the ones to step up and show remorse.

ASB Get Wise

 LI: to make wise choices with your money

We had a visit from ASB who taught us to be smart with our money and to make responsible decisions on how to use your money. To help us learn these two things we played a money game about going to Fiji. We were given $1800 fake money to initiate the game, the factors of the game comes in things to pay for; passport, plane ticket, accomadation, food, activities, insurance. There were also enjoyment points for the factor (Good accomadation: 6 enjoyment points). The cheaper the factor the lower the enjoyment points are. Many other factors can come into play within the game; Insurance (Pays off any bills from bad sittuations), credit card (Pays for things & has to be paid back). The team with the most enjoyment points win, fortunantly all of our teams got the same amount of points.

I have enjoyed this game because it has taught us some smart ways to save money and it was very fun.