Inter-school Netball

This week on Wednesday the year 7/8, 6 and 5 teams went to the inter-school netball tournament at the AMI netball centre. The two positions that I played were Wing Defence and Goal Defence, whilst Aung Naing played Centre and Julian played Goal Keeper. Altogether we lost 4 matches and won 2, the year 6 team won 4 matches and lost 1 and the year 5 team won 2 matches, drew 1 and lost 2. There's a short video of all the teams playing here:

Tech

This week at tech was our last, and for it we needed to finish off our movies. Our teacher, Miss Munoz was giving out prizes for the best movie and, my group (Aung Naing, Nevaeh and myself) won the first place prize. Our movie is basically just a showcase of what you could make your robots do. Thank you to Miss Munoz for teaching us.

Should New Zealand Ban Plastic Straws?

 

This week for writing we needed to create a point of view poster with a partner on whether or not we should get rid of plastic straws. Jack and I needed to show both sides of the argument as well as write down our own opinion on the issue. We both had the same opinion which was that we shouldn't get rid of plastic straws because they are more efficient and cost less than paper, bamboo and metal straws.

STEAM Catapult Challenge

Last week for STEAM our task as a group was to create a catapult out of paper, tape and blu-tack. My group: Aung Naing, Sela, Karlos, Matthew and myself worked together to create a trebuchet. After rolling around 15 pieces of paper tightly, we taped them together to build the body. We also used a small plastic container to hold the object we were firing. Once our catapult was finished my group tested it out on a target.

Persuasive Speeches

LI: To write a speech that persuade other to think the way you do.

Last week was the annual speech competition for Panmure Bridge School. When we presented our speeches we needed to: give eye contact, show expression, hook our audiences in with persuasive language features and speak in a non-monotone voice. The people that wanted to try out for the speech competition said theirs to the class, and those who didn't said theirs to groups or friends.

Hi, I’m Alex, do you think that kids should be allowed to spend their parent’s money on video games and online websites? I don’t, here’s why:

Paragraph 2 – What is your first point?

Research shows that games and online websites can pressure or persuade children from 5-15 to purchase items, 17% of kids in the UK have accidentally bought something and 50% of children from 4-7 in Canada prefer to buy things online instead of using cash.

Paragraph 3 – What is your next point?

Children that can’t spend money on online things could learn to accept the fact that they can’t always get what they want. I also think that kids that aren’t allowed to spend money on video games would be smarter with currency. 

Paragraph 4 – What is your third point?

There have been many times when kids have clicked the wrong thing, unintentionally signed up for something or even been tricked into buying an item. All of those situations end up with a loss of money that can’t always be refunded and an upset child. Imagine, if the child spends all of their money on a video game, how are they going to buy their favourite toy? How could they buy new clothes or go to the movies if they’ve already spent all of their money?

What is the final point that you want your listeners to hear from you?

I’m not against kids playing games because they’re fun, interactive and engaging, I only think that children shouldn’t be allowed to spend any money on them until they actually know what they’re doing.

Polynesians Panthers

For the past week in reading, Rakino group has been reading a text that all revolves around the story of the dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers. If you did not know the Dawn Raids were evacuation protocols which involved the police going to Polynesian homes and forcing them to show their passports that stated whether they were allowed to live in the country. If demands were not met, they were locked up and later kicked out of the country. Our challenge was to read the text and answer questions. With this new found knowledge we needed to create a DLO that showed both perspectives of the issue. 

Swimming

This week at swimming we were floating on backs and fronts, at first we used noodles but afterwards we didn't have anything to help us stay up. We also practiced doing streamlines to and from the two platforms. After that we did more exercises with body boards.