Tech Reflection

This week in tech for pewter casting the only task was to finish off sanding the castings, I started off the class using the 400 grit but when it ended I'd made it to 1200 grit. To sand the designs properly we needed to rub the sanding paper onto the edges and the sides a lot to make them feel soft, for every stage of sanding before you could advance into the next one you needed to show your work to Mr Grundy so that he could check it. If he thought that you'd done a good enough job he'd give you a better piece of sanding paper, and then the sequence would repeat. The final stage of sanding is the 1200 grit piece with water, after that a liquid is wiped onto the design which makes it look shiny.

Winter Olympics

Only three people have won a medal in the Winter Olympics for New Zealand, they are: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Bronze), Nico Porteous (Bronze) and Annelise Coberger who won a silver medal. Nico Porteous won his bronze medal in freestyle skiing, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won her bronze medal in snowboarding and Annelise Coberger won her silver medal in Women’s alpine skiing.

Maori Contingent Research

This week in reading the task was to first get into our selected group as well as read and summarise the text given, the text was about how the Maori Contingent fought in the war although they were treated the same way as other soldiers. After that my group only needed to fill out the rest of the slide as well as pair up and ask set questions to each other that were related to the text, I paired up with Freeman. After we'd asked the questions we needed to write feedback related to how our partner did whilst being quizzed. Other tasks were to say whether or not we thought that we should remember the Maori Contingent's soldiers and researching a Maori Contingent war hero.

Angles Maths

 
LI: Measuring angles using a protractor.
This week in maths the first thing that we needed to do was fill out a sheet on angles in pairs with a protractor, I worked with Nyjah and together we finished the sheet and then went on to make the DLO with Jack. In the DLO we needed to put one of the questions on the sheet and then write an explanation.

Treaty Of Waitangi Quiz

Today in reading our task was to present the Kahoots that we'd been working on last week to the rest of Mrs Anderson's reading groups, in my group I was with Tai, John, San Kyaw and Zane. Since our Kahoot had 16 questions and 4 intermissions, it took a lot longer than the other Kahoots to finish. That also meant that participants had huge amounts of points too. In the quiz there were questions on a variety of things related to the Treaty of Waitangi, such as: Who did what, why someone did that and what they did.

Duffy Assembly

On Tuesday this week Panmure Bridge School had a Duffy assembly, during the assembly we were talked to by a former BMX rider and a rugby (Or rugby league) player about how reading influenced where they are now in life. The books that I chose and received were; the fifth book in the bad guys series and another one called the wand makers which from what I read is about a magical world (like the Harry Potter series).