Peak Of The Year

 This year has been... Let's just say different. It's been a rollercoaster of events and these events have been major. Most notably COVID-19 and quite a few celebrity deaths. But as the years gone past we adapted and stayed safe and we got on with the year. We did have a few Lowlights and a lot of highlights. This year has been a mess but we still got on with it and carried it on normally.

Highlights

A good thing is that we managed to come back to school and carring on with our work and change back from online classes to back to school. Although in lockdown we still carried on with our school work via online learning. We managed to have a camp even though the weather was supposed to be horrible. We got to be enviro-friendly and team up with summit forest and help them plant lots of trees. Being able to gather with lots of people for the production. Although lockdown sucked it gave me more time to spend with my family.

Lowlights

The Coronavirus was a real big set back and was probably the worst thing that happened this year. The fact that Mrs Cutler is leaving this skill for a whole year in 2021. 

I can't think of anymore lowlights because although the few lowlights there are its been a pretty great year otherwise.

Camping In School

Last week for four days the three senior classes participated and did our first ever camp in school and it was a different experience to what we normally do. Although it was in school we still did extremley fun activities to keep us proactive and let us get some of our energy out. The reason we camped at school was because weather wasn't looking to good on the forecast so we made the decsion early to cancel camp in Hohura and camp at school.

Monday

On monday was a pretty sporty day. We play lots of different games and we finished off the sports day with an amazing race which is a series of activitys which you have to complete to win the game. My team ended up coming 6th out of the classes particapating. At the end we played around, had dinner and dessert and chilled for the rest of the day. At the end and after we played we had a really fun game of spotlight. Afterwards we got ready for bed and slept in separate classrooms.

Tuesday

On tuesday we woke up and got our stuff ready to go home. After packing up and having breakfast we got on a bus to head to Matai bay for a swim and have fun snorkeling and enjoyed ourselves at the beach. Afterwards we got back on the bus and we headed back to school to go home.

Wensday

After everyone got back to school we got back on another bus to head to the movie theatres to watch "A War With Grandpa" Which is a comdey about a Grandson and Grandpa fighting over a room. And after the movies we went back home to ready ourselves for the next day.

Thursday/The Last Day Of Camp

On this day we had a pool party with all the senior classes. We had lots of baking, had lunch and enjoyed ourselves at the pools and had a fun day for the end of school camp.

Blog Comparison

 Blogs are a online tool to express and explain your learning to the world to entertain and teach them. Well in this blog comparison we identified the similarities and differences in our old blogs and our recent blogs. I can really see the difference between my blogs from then/now. The biggest difference is the length and critical thinking in the blogs. 3 years ago my blogs were around 5 lined blogs where as my current blogs are around 5 paragraphs longs. Also I can see the difference in critical thinking, my old blogs had very basic and easy words where as my new ones have much more longer and smarter words in my new blogs. Something I also noticed was the fact that I used colour in basically all my older blogs and I really liked the fact that it was appealing to look at it was very informal where as my current blogs are very formal and bland. Something I didn't use in my old blogs were paragraphs, I only used lines and those lines were really bland and boring. I also didn't use punctuation in my older blogs, I was still learning how to use punctuation at that time and didn't include them in my blogs.

Those are the most outstanding difference between the two different eras of blogs and I'm really satisfied with the improvment I've made in my blogs and can't wait to improve my bolgs one again in a later date. Right now I'm very very happy with my bloging progress and will improve ever so slightly over the future years to come.

ANGLES

 Angles are a helpful tool to use in everyday life. Mostly being used in buildings angles are their to measure and identify the degree of a shape. There are six angles that can be used, Acute, Obtuse, Right Angle, Reflex, Straight Angles, and Revolution. An acute angle is less than 90 degrees, Obtuse is more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, right angles a 90 degrees on the dot, reflex is over 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees, a straight angle is 180 degrees on the dot, and the revolution is the full 360 degrees/circle.

What do you use to measure angles?

The main tool to use is a protractor, they are either a semi-circled shape protractor or a full circle shaped protractor. Both of these protractors have to sets of numbers. The full circle goes up to 360 degrees so you can measure up to 360 degrees, The Semi-circle measures up to 180 degrees so you can measure up to 180 degrees.

How to use protractors?

On the bottom of the protractor is a little intersection.

To use the protractor you put the intersection on the baseline/vertex of the shape and use that as the measure. You don't measure the straight line of the shape, you measure the uneven line.

what ever number you get the is the degrees of the shape and this determines the angle of the shape. And remember the angle/shape rule whether it be a acute angle, obtuse angle, right angle ECT.

With this information in mind my class and I had a fun experience of going around our school and finding angles as well as measuring them. Me and my friend measured many things but ended up mostly finding right angles. It was a fun activity and helped me in progressing my learning and becoming a better learner. These angles activities we do really help me and allow me to futher extend my prior knowledge.

Athletics training

 Because term four is here and athletics is coming I have been train my best and tryin to surpass my former best. With athletics I have been working hard to enter in the competition and because the competition is better than ever this year I need to try my best.

High Jump

This year I have mainly been focusing on my high jump skills. I love doing high jump, it is my favourite sport in all of athletics and is the one thing I all ways make it in for. But in year 7 all the competition is very good and I am challenging my self to become better and keep improving my progress.

Sprints

This year I have become faster and more agile and been able to keep up with some of the fastest year 7's and even beat most of them. One thing I need to improve on is my start and ending. When I start I tend to start a little late than others giving them a head start and allowing them to get the better of me.

This year I have become more confident in my abilites and I am pumped about athletics more this year than any year. I am very excited and am going to try my best this year.

Holiday Recount

 The recent holidays has been a great 2 week break, but because holidays are over and were back at school I am forced to write this recount. So here it is.

The most significant moment in my holidays was on the first day of the holidays. On this day it was our final game for rugby. We were playing Muriwa, which is one of the best teams in the season. In this game Muriwa went hard out causing multiple injurys and because they injured one of my teammates so bad we had to end the game at half time and needed the ambulance to tend to my teammates injury. After the unfortunate events  that happened in the game we had a nice a chilling prize giving at our coaches batch and concluded the day at the beach that was near the batch.

This significant moment was the only moment that really stood out to me and is the best thing that happened to me in the holidays, then after this significant moment the second best would have to be my birthday which also happened in the holidays. And these only significant events  is all I wrote about, With these events and other i concluded my holiday and concluded this recount,

Us or the Government

 Whos fault is it for pollution, The Government or us indivigual people?

As we know pollution is becoming a major problem with global warming right around the corner. With these problems there are always people who cause the problems. Us indivigual people or the Government.

I believe the problem is being caused by both parties, Us indivigual people are the ones polluting where as the Government is doing nothing to prevent the pollution and destroying the enviroment.