Goals

• I have three goals for next term.
• To get my Technology flash.
• To become better at Math, mostly at fractions.
• To finish everything faster and to a good standard, and also to remember to glue things in.

Inquiry Change Makers

This powerpoint is about what I learnt and did this term and what i did with Change Makers.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GHtrai8zf7g0cHM-Wqd7HwY6q3KtCDR-pY9nvBHiYHk/edit

Social Dance Reflection

The social dance night was quite fun. It was really hard to hear and I had to shout instead of talking. Things that made the social dance a bit more wild was the sugar. There was loads of sugary foods and drinks and that made everyone go crazy. The dances were fun though. Overall the whole night was cool and I liked it.

Homework Changemakers

For our changemakers homework we had to research a changemaker that we liked or wanted to research about. Mine was Nelson Mandela. I like him because he has changed South Africa and has stopped them from Apartheid. To me I think that he has also changed the world. This is  a slide about him.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1057O8Xqzsrzq87oevi-38jfxtiw5LlyUI-hyTJ0jE1g/edit#slide=id.p

Writing

Quick Write 3

Hiding under my bed is something. I don’t know what. There have been reports about people going missing. And sometimes they found a bloody stain against the window or walls. It had been spurted everywhere. Then i feel something soft. SOmething really soft and wet. It’s coming up the side of my arm. I froze my heart is beating faster than a Bugatti Veyron being chased by cops. Then i reach down and it’s just my dog. I feel safe that i have him. You know it’s really funny how I feel safe with my dog, like it’s only a dog. Then it sprints away yelping. I can hear him go out of his doggy door and out onto the street.

Then i feel something sharp. Something that smells like would and a little bit of those sharpening things that are suppose to sharpen blades. Then i have the sense that there is someone standing over me. Someone getting ready to swing an axe sort of thing at me. Woah this is real, roll out of bed. I hear an ear splitting crack as my bed shatter in half under the weight of the axe. I get up and sprint downstairs. The figure doesn’t seem to chase me he just stands there. Then when i can see the door he just comes out of nowhere and swings.

Luckily it didn’t get my head unluckily it hit a gas can. Wait what is a gas can doing in my living room? Then everything gets foggy and i get to low ground. I push myself through the doggy door with all the adrenaline going through me, I start to take a video when i get outside. I hear a screech of tires, it’s the police.

They are all armed. One of my neighbours must have called them. Then the figure comes out. I notice it’s a doll. But for some reason it only has one eye. One eye little overalls on and red hair. It starts sprinting towards us. Firearm bullets piercing through it. It starts chopping madly. It only manages to get it hacked into one person though. But it was brutal. He just kept on chopping and chopping into the person until it was just tangled pieces of body and blood. Then the doll gets ready to move onto it’s next victim, but then a huge light blows it up. There was an RPG that was just behind us.

Then I fainted. I wake up in a hospital bed. There was a doll behind me. I quickly open the window next to me and throw it out. Then a doctor comes in and tells me that everything is going to be ok. I just relax after he he says that. Only to find a doll hacking into my chest when I wake up I soon fal back asleep and never wake up again.

Writing

Quick Write 2
Our sentence was I should have lied just then.

I should have lied just then. Then I could have easily just got away with wagging class. The principal doesn’t look impressed. All he says is “ I am so disappointed in you”. And then the worst thing happens. I’m afraid that I have to do this to you, but by what you’ve done I have to do it. He calls 111. Why though. I didn’t even touch the weed back there and sprint away with it. He was the only one that caught me. I’m going to have ask you one more time he says to me before he calls the number. No! I scream. And run out the door right past the office. Just to find all the cops and helicopters outside of school. I start sprinting, I hear gunshots behind and men screaming at each other. I peer around the corner. One of the policemen lunge at me but i dive into a bush. I fall down a hole in there. The cop can’t see me. I feel a stinging pain in my hand. Just to find a huge gash through the middle of it and soft tissue hanging loosely of it. I quickly grab all the leaves that have fallen down on me and put them on my gash. I feel limp and weak. Then I black out. I wake up to the sound of thundering blades on the helicopter. The army men around me have me in handcuffs. Woah I’m only 12. Why are they doing this to me. Then we cross a long wall. I know where we are. We’re in Mexico. I quickly side bash the man on my right and headbutt the one on the left. I grab their parachutes and jump out forgetting that my hands are cuffed. I pulled on the ripcord as it the parachute puffs out. I frantically get into the arm holds. They are really lose on my arms. So as i’m tightening the straps on the parachute the chopper turns round and speeds towards me.

Writing

Quick Write 1
For writing Miss Fisher sometimes just gives us sentence starters and we have to write a story using that sentence starter.

At that moment I knew that I should have just left the bull alone I should have just seen the sign that it was angry. And I definitely shouldn’t have been poking it and showing it a red rag. I soon as I turn round I see that my mates have got on the motorbikes and are yelling at me to get on. Everything is going in slow motion. Then it turns back to normal. I start sprinting towards the bikes with a huge cattle beast thundering towards me from behind. As I hear the revving of the bikes i take a huge leap at the bike and i just manage to make it. But that’s not all. It hasn’t given up. Not even after we close the gate it chases us halfway through the gully until we get to the creek. This is where we practice our jumps on our motorbikes. One of the dirt bike jumps look over the creek it’s this or nothing. As the first one goes over easily we get rammed in the back by the black and white beast. That gave us a little bit of boost and we get over the creek. That’s good but the bad thing is the first one when it landed it stalled and it’s slowly starting to burn. We have to ditch both bikes we race up the hill and head back towards home.

When we get home uncle comes out. He’s always happy and he’s even more happy when he get’s to come with us and take down all the mental bulls. So when we get in we start calling Uncle!! Uncle!! Frantically. We hear him say Hurry Up! And he's already on the quad racing down to the creek with the 308 slung over his back. We see it and it’s even more angry. We know the job. It takes all the energy and adrenaline we have in us to get it done. As I slowly creep up on it from the right side I have to climb up the side of the wet grass and dirt. When I get my foot hold I jump and try to wrestle it to the ground. Then to my left louis comes in and hits it hard with a grunt. We both lean back as uncle slings the 308 over his shoulder and gets it into position. We both tell him to shoot as the bull tries to throw us off. It's like holding onto a tornado. Then we hear a deafening bang and the bull slowly grunts and falls limply to the ground. We get spurted with blood and i even have half a bull brain on my face. Well uncle seems pretty happy. He gets money for the meat. He got to shoot something today. And he has seen his nephews with their first blood. Usually the bull shakes us off when we are holding it down so we never get blood on us but this time we got blood everywhere. I’m tired all i want to do is go back home and go to sleep. And that’s exactly what i’m going to do.

Electronics

This week we have started constructing our emergency lights. I am also ready to glue my picture onto the corflute. And drill holes for LEDs.

Math

In maths we are doing a statistical investigation. Me and henry are doing if HNI students would want shorter assemblies. This our plan that we did before we made our survey.

Name/s: Tali Henry

Problem: Assembly are too long Question: How might we stop this

Strategies for investigation (what are you going to do? How are you going to tackle this?)

Make a survey Get as many names as you can for shorter assemblies Go to miss beaumont and give her reasons why we should have shorter assemblies Ask questions that are mostly open.

Break it down! Who will you need to talk to? What do you need to find out? What background information do you need?

We might need to talk to Miss Beaumont or the People who make the slides for the assemblies. We could use a tally chart/send out a survey Ask kids if they feel bored or tired when the assemblies go on.

How will you record your data? (Tally? Electronic spreadsheet to collate?)

Spreadsheet. Google Docs

Make a prediction What do you think the solution or answer is?

Most kids will want shorter so it should be shorter assemblies All the students will want longer assemblies unless you get to do something fun after assembly is done.

Your survey question	Open or closed question?	The reason behind it (how will this data help you in your investigation)	What kind of responses are you expecting from this question?
Why do you think that Assemblies should be shorter than they are. If you could change the assemblies at our school how would you change them. What Gender are you. What is the most boring part of the assembly for you. Do you think that the assemblies are a complete waste of time. When the speakers are talking do you switch off from what they are talking about.	Open Open Open Open	More reasons to have shorter assemblies This will tell me ideas that the kids would want to have different subjects when assembly is going on This will tell me if boys might want shorter assemblies but girls might want the assemblies to stay the same This tells me if the kids are enjoying the assembly or just think it is boring.	I think from the students everyone will say they want shorter assemblies. Just make them shorter Male and female People talking about random things

What possible barriers might you face? What might you need to do to counteract these barriers?

The teachers might not like the idea and try stop it. Miss Beaumont might be offended by it and tell us off. Kid’s might not respond to the survey so we will have to go and ask them front up If they don’t make shorter assemblies the kid’s could go on a sort of strike.

Olympic Report Sevens

In room 9 we have been working on the olympics and some of the sports in them. My sport was sevens. I chose that sport because i like how it is really  really fast. This is my report on Sevens Rugby.

From the 5th to 6th of August, countries from around the world will be competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sevens is one of the events that is held there, it involves seven men playing a game of rugby. Sevens is a game that was made quite along time ago almost two hundred years ago. Some people are getting sick of this sport as it becomes a little bit more boring for others to watch. You also may think who invented this game well that’s what I’m going to tell you in this.

In 1999 it was the first ever Sevens World Cup of seven men on one huge rugby field. Now that might sound strange but it is actually the sport of Sevens Rugby. This sport has more than a little history to it as well. It was basically invented in Scotland by two men who needed an idea that would make everything cheaper for them, they needed everything cheaper because the rugby club they played for was poor and they couldn’t afford to send twenty two men around scotland playing each other. So they made a game where there were only seven men on the field. That club was called Melrose and that was where the first sevens game was played. In 1883 Melrose played Gala in a game of sevens and being the club that invented it they won. So if we calculate 1883 to 2016 that means that sevens has been played for about 133 years!.

I wonder why there isn’t many people in that stadium mum. That might be something you would say when you watch the Wellington Sevens Tournament. The Wellington Sevens used to be the most popular tournament of Seven’s maybe on earth. It had everything everyone you needed and wanted. You were able to dress up in funny and wacky costumes there were places where you could buy drinks and food, it was everything you needed for a good time. And it was also so popular that the tickets would sell out in at least a minute. But then it all just stopped. No more wacky or funny costumes no tickets selling out in about a minute or less No more big rugby stars coming from the All Blacks to have a game of Sevens for their country. And all of this happened just because of one thing. Families were complaining of it being too loud and crazy for their children. So obviously something had to be done. The Sevens Rugby Committee made it so that it was “ Family Friendly”. Which basically means that you can cut out all the night games and turn them into ones that are being played in the day. Take out all the wacky and fun costumes. And even just taking away those small things that would lead to the biggest one. The vibe. It just left so now you may know what happened to that stadium and why there are no people inside of it.

When your grandpa says “ well back in my day” sometimes that may switch you off. Well this might not. In the 1800s there was a man called ned Haig. He was a butcher. He was also a local rugby player. This was in Scotland. Now this man would work really hard at being a butcher so he and his team could travel around Scotland and play all the other teams and play in the other competitions. He and his friend David Sanderson were getting really tired of not being able to pay or play. So they decided that they needed a game where the were less men on a field. To them it seemed like a great idea and and efficient to. It would be cheaper to travel and everyone would get more time to run with the ball. But the only problem was how were they going to get it all around Scotland and get a competition going. Well they didn’t know so they just started playing it in their club and the word went round that the Melrose Rugby club were playing rugby but they only had seven men on the field. So that was how it got around and the people who invented it.

A few fun facts are, Argentina was the first country apart from Scotland to play Sevens Rugby, Melrose Rugby club won the first Sevens title in the world.