Research Tme

This week for inquiry, we were given a small challenge to complete. In this challenge we learnt the definitions of a need and want, the difference between them, how have they been met through a product or service, and how do we know when someone needs or wants something. With this knowledge we needed to get into small groups and create a DLO that fully explained everything we learnt. For this activity I worked with Jack, Te Pounamu, Joseph and Jonathan.

The Real Cost For Adopting A Dog

For maths this week LS2 needed to research the cost of adopting a dog in groups, the people in my group were Aung Naing and Joseph. The final lifetime cost for adopting the border collie that we picked was $44,027.79. After finding how much it'd cost, we needed to present our DLO to the rest of the class.

Current Events Map

This week for reading Aung Naing, Joseph, Jack, Julian and I worked together to fill out a google map with international events. We needed to search through different news websites to find stories that fit the current event criteria. Our story for oddity is twin pandas being born in Belgium and for impact, bush fires.

Kokako Lodge Brochure

This week LS2 has been celebrating camp, one of our tasks was to create a brochure for Kokako Lodge. My group (Marieta, Joel, Viliami and Joseph) filled the outside part of the brochure with information, and the inside with pictures of what the camp, activities and waterfall look like. To make it easier for us to complete the brochure we organised ourselves into different jobs, mine was to write the introduction.

Bridge Building

For the past two weeks Ms Kirkpatrick's inquiry groups have been building bridges out of spaghetti, it sounds simple but it really wasn't because we needed to: Draw up a plan, tie spaghetti together with rubber bands, add tape to everything and also tie everything together with string. Other problems didn't help the production much either, like the sudden shortage of rubber bands and spaghetti. My group had four people in it, Fraidoon, Carl, Joseph and myself. Near the end of the week my group only had three walls so instead of having a rectangle we just connected two to make the sides, so we then had a triangle which is a stronger shape. When it was weighing time the block that could distribute the weight of the bricks wouldn't fit so instead we needed to use the hook, which wouldn't distribute the weight at all, therefore one piece of the bridge would be under lots of strain and the pieces next to it wouldn't be able to help much. After six around about one kg bricks our bridge broke. I had lots of fun whilst building my bridge because since I'd kept some rubber bands from the first day, whenever we were low on spaghetti we could just go and trade for more.

Rugby League Inter-School

Today in the Dunkirk reserve the rugby league teams from Sylvia Park, Point England and Panmure Bridge participated in the inter-school for the sport. Since there were only three teams the decision was for every team to go up against the other teams twice. For our first match we were up against Sylvia Park, we managed to win 4-3. In our second match we were against Point England, though we sadly lost 7-2. In our third match we were against Sylvia Park again and this time we did even better, beating them 7-2. At the end of our match against Point England we improved a lot, although we still lost 6-3. Thank you to Mr Ogilvie (Who coached us), other players' parents (Who supported us) and the people in charge (For setting the whole event up).