Season Poetry

In writing we have been doing poetry, we had to choose a season to write about I chose summer because of all the sports on. Like Cricket and Football.

Rock Science

This is what I have been doing in science. Set by my teacher while in lockdown.

   

Lockdown

I don't mind being in lockdown, the worst thing is that there is no sport. But this is easy to cope with as I am just watching the 2005 ashes, cricket world cup 2019, 2003 rugby world cup and world boxing championship. Apart from that, I have been playing cricket and lots of other sports like soccer and boxing. And I have set up an experiment on my Xbox to see how good 2003 Arsenal would go in the modern Premier League, I have predicted the results and I am going to see how close I get.  It has also been fun as we can go on the farm as well.

Digital Footprint

Stay Cybersmart online. Don't share private information and don't message people you don't know.

Concluding the Journey

The Activity I enjoyed the most was Defying the odds.

 My least favorite activities were ones that I had to upload photos and take screen shots as my chromebook is away being fixed by insurance so I'm using Mum's stupid PC which I can't take screenshots with.I tried using Mum's phone to take screen shots and photos and then emailed them to myself but apparently no one else can see them although I can on this computer.

Three things I learned were:

• Who BTS were (they are a Korean pop music band).
• That the more carefully you observe something the more you see.
• There are many famous people raising awareness for global warming.

One way the Summer Learning Journey could be improved upon would be to include more sport activities.

The Wall Street Journal

Need for Speed

This is just a fast car. It is an automatic so you just need to put it in gear and put your foot on the accelerator to move it.

Rags to Riches

The dairy of Anne Frank

Dear Diary today I went to a Ed Sheeran in Halifax , England. I got to sit in the front row! The concert was amazing and after it was finished I had almost lost my voice. Right at the end he said whichever seat he drew out of a jar would get to meet him! Amazingly it was actually me! I could hardly believe what happened. I just sat there barely moving out of astonishment as I walked up I was so stunned. I had my guitar in my hand because I hadn't  thought to put it down he said lots of things and then we did a duet of I See Fire. It was so amazing.



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Putting our Heads Together

This is my poster for Heads Together.

Guiding Principals

I like this Whakatauki because it means the past is important but focus on the future.

He pai te tirohanga ki ngā mahara mō ngā rā

 pahemo engari ka puta te māramatanga i

 runga i te titiro whakamua. 

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Try your own Tapa

This is my Tapa art I spent lots of time trying to replicate the original.

The right to an Education

What happened last night the last thing I remember is watching England vs New Zealand in the rugby and England were winning then Owen Farrell got pushed over the line and ran into me by accident. Suddenly I wake up. I get up, why does everything look so different and why do I have heaps of England training shirts? I walk round. Why does everything look so different. As I am trying to look for a mirror I see an indoor pool and gym why is that here. When I finally find a mirror. I am Owen Farrell! Next minute a person walks into the room they say that I have to get to training, this can't be real. Surely. I am thrown a set of keys to and Audi R8. Next minute I wake up.

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The Irish Times

En Pointe

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The World of Hip Hop

The Royal Family Dance Crew are pretty good. They weren't what I was expecting.
I don't have any idea of how they could improve, it's not really my type of dancing but for the people who enjoy hip hop they would be cool to go and see.
They had great timing, I liked how their long hair seemed to flick around/back and forth adding to the performances fast jerky movements. They flowed easily from fast and to the point to smooth, athletic and fluid.
I thought their pink and black costumes stood out well on stage and there was a big difference between the males in black with a little pink and the women in pink with a little black.
The blonde dancer in the middle is the one who stood out to me the most.


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Top Secret Street Art

watchthisspace.org.nz   Christchurch Street Art

Some similarities are colours used, the same kind of shapes, broken up by black lines.

Some differences are one is writing and the other is not, one covers an entire building and the other just a section, one looks like it has been done for fun and the other to 'paint' building'.

Plot Points

If I were to make a movie I would call it Nothing.
It would be about a group of teenage boys (Jason, Roy, Shane, Marnus, Owen and Henry) who have their country invaded by a foreign enemy. They manage to escape and work to save their country.
They have an idea to steal and/or destroy the enemies weapons and supplies.
They target convoys for a start stealing weapons such as grenades and explosives then move their camp to a place 50 minutes hike from a huge base and plan their attack.
The movie ends just as they've blown up the training center, barracks and vehicle bay on their way to the bush a soldier faces them with a weapon held to Owen's head ordering them to stop.


DW

Hidden Figures

I don't really like this coding app because it doesn't give you a wide range of things to make. Also it only has 10 levels.

K-Pop Heros

I don't mind BTS. But I would prefer it if I could understand the music. Pop is my favorite musical category but I only really like pop artists that make their own background music. I personally am not their biggest fan but I could handle hearing their music.



Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Ministry of Inspiration

Yes I would like to do the Aquabot competition because it looks cool and it would be amazing to see the Aquabot that I am controlling moving around.



SHORE JUNCTION

iMoko

Some things my family and I do to stay healthy are:

• We go to bed early enough to get a good nights sleep
• We spend many hours outside most days
• We mostly only drink water and milk
• We eat mostly whole foods and prefer to buy organic when available
• We grow and collect/harvest/hunt a lot of our food (vegetables, beef, mutton, venison, eggs and milk)

Global Meat News

Printing Prosthetics

Modern prostheses can cost tens of thousands of dollars and kids quickly outgrow them so for most children a prosthetic is an impossible dream.
e-Nable are using 3D technology to print prostheses like hands, fingers and wrists and then giving them away for free!
They don't even pretend to look like real hands - they look like something Iron Man would have which is really cool.
They are on track to provide 6,000 prostheses in the next 2 years.



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The World Wide Web

Overcoming Adversity

Last winter I hurt my Achilles tendon. I was playing 3 sports (Football, Rugby and Basketball) and I had to be really careful with my training and games so that I didn't let my team down. I went to the Physio and she taught me how to strap my leg and showed me some good stretches.

Leading by Example

These holidays I helped my little sister and brothers build a tree hut. It would be really cool to build one like this!

TripAdvisor

Everyday Heroes

5 ways to help the people affected by the fires in NSW are:

• By getting people to sponsor school kids to have a working bee.
• Doing a community garage sale.
• Volunteers such as builders, fencers, machinery drivers etc. going over to help rebuild.
• Make up packages of necessary things to send over.
• Invite people to come on holiday here to get away from it all.

ABC

Wise Words

One of my role models is my basketball coach. He says 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take'


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Celebrity Diversity

THE INUIT PEOPLE

• They are real life Eskimos
• They catch and eat food such as seal, narwhal and Caribou

THE MAYA PEOPLE

• They speak over 30 languages
• Many different words sound identical to the ear
• By the time the Spanish reached their country in the 1500's Maya people had already abandoned their great cities though no one knows why

Wikipedia 

I Have A Dream

In America there used to be segregation (keeping people separate from each other) between black and white people. In 1955 Rosa Parks gained a lot of public attention to Martin Luther King Jr's cause by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was arrested for breaking the law but she argued that it wasn't fair. On the day of her trial black people refused to use the buses and since they made up about 70% of the population in that area the buses made much less money that day. After 381 days of not using the buses the court ruled that Alabama's racial segregation law was unconstitutional and so the law was changed!



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Dear Jacinda

Freepost PO Box 18 888
Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160

22-1-20

Hokitika 7883
West Coast

Dear Jacinda

I am writing to you today about something I believe is very important to our children's well being. 
If we could get more sport programs in the NZ curriculum we would solve a wide range of issues such as:
1. Getting people outside more.
2. Allowing those children good at sports to have a better chance of competing on the world stage.
3. It would help with National obesity and type 2 diabetes freeing up money and space in our Healthcare system.
4. It would help reduce screen addiction which is becoming a big problem world wide.
5. It would help children to concentrate better on their academic studies.

I believe these points speak for themselves and would love you to take this letter into consideration.

Yours Faithfully






Andrew 

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Swimming to Safety

Yusra and her sister escaped the Syrian war and went to find safety in Europe. They travelled through Lebanon to Turkey before traveling to Greece in an overcrowded dinghy.

Not long into the sea crossing, the boat’s engine failed.  Yusra, her sister and two others jumped into the waves and swam for three and a half hours in open water to stop their dinghy capsizing, saving the lives of 20 people.

A year later, Yusra’s courage, determination and strong swimming skills were recognized by the International Olympic Committee and she became a member of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team. Yusra competed at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.

She aims to compete at the next Olympic Games. Yusra is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and works to alter global perceptions of refugees. 

National Treasure

1. My Guitar - Because I really enjoy playing it.
2. Cricket Gear: So I can play cricket because I really enjoy playing cricket.
3. Myself - Because what is the point of saving things if I can't enjoy them.

What's in a Name

If I could change my name to anything I wanted I would call myself Harry Winks because I like that name and he is a famous football midfielder.



Sport.de

Worth Her Weight In Gold

Intabeni

Kruger National Park

Table Mountain
Robben Island

                                               The Springboks                 

The Big Five

Cape of Good Hope

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Making A Racket

1. They have agents negotiating deals for them.
2. The 3rd best ever tennis player Djokovic has earned $20 million more than Serena Williams.
3. Venus and Serena Williams are fighting for gender equality.
4. Tennis is apparently quite close in payments for men and women.

One question I would like answered is if men are often paid more because they have more spectators watching their sport and so more money is brought in via ticket sales and views?



World Bank Group

Acheiving our Dreams

My Pappa's dream job is to be a PH (professional hunter) in South Africa (which is where he comes from).
Six ways I could support him in achieving this job would be:
1. Help raise money for all of us to move to South Africa.
2. Go out hunting with him so he could practice taking people out more.
3. Ask him lots of questions about South Africa to make sure he knows how to answer tourists.
4. Get him to teach me how to be a more accurate shot so he can help the people he takes out.
5. Research then ask him lots of questions about different animals.
6. Learn about dangerous things so he would feel like we'd be safe over there.



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Miracle on the Hudson

These holidays I went to Hanmer Springs for a holiday and I went on the biggest waterslide in New Zealand. I was a bit nervous to go on it but I was BRAVE and it was heaps of fun.



NZ Herald

Discovering Aotearoa

My Great Grandparents on Mum's side come from Scotland (my Grandmother 'Du'ee' was born in NZ not long after they arrived here) and I'm 8th generation West Coaster on Mum's Dad's side though their name is Sullivan so originally from Ireland.

On my Dad's side my last name is Harrington which is of Celtic origin. Nana says we are a little bit English and a little bit Irish.



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Scaling New Heights

The charity I choose is The Champion Centre.
It is in Christchurch.

It provides early intervention services to babies and pre-school aged kids with significant disabilities.  
 
The Champion Centre offers services for children who have special needs or children whose developmental progress is at risk. Children who attend the centre have a wide range of special needs. These include Down syndrome, other genetic disorders, cerebral palsy, extreme prematurity, epilepsy, developmental dyspraxia, Autism Spectrum Disorder and brain injury.

Nanogirl

I would not like to live in a Tiny House one day because I would like a bigger house that has more room for things such as an indoor sports area (like Owen Farrell's) for when it rains and I don't want to go out.

I do think the Tiny Houses look cool and are a great idea for the housing crisis so more people can afford to own a home. I think this one looks quite nice:


Stuff.co.nz

The Right to Vote

If Kate Sheppard were to be replaced on the NZ $10 note I think a good replacement would be Nancy Wake. I think she would be a great figure because she was really brave, she joined the French Resistance Movement helping the Allies and even killed a Nazi soldier with her bare hands. She was the most wanted woman of the Gestapo with a 5 million franc price on her head. 



Yahoo News New Zealand

School Strike for Climate

Three facts I have learned from the School Strike for Climate Australia website are:

• They have 3 demands which are 1. No new coal, oil and gas products 2. 100% renewable energy generation and exports by 2030 and 3. Fund a just transition and job creation for all fossil fuel workers and communities
• They are students at school striking from school to try and get attention for their cause. 
• They haven't got any ideas how to achieve their demands. 

We fence all our waterways to make sure no stock have access. 

SLJ - Belle of the Ball

The book I have chosen is Return of the Temauji which is the 8th book in the Brotherband series. The book is by Australian writer John Flanagan. I like it because it is very entertaining and interesting. Once I have started reading it I find it very hard to stop.

The book is about a crew of Skandians (Vikings) trying to fight off a giant army from crossing the border. The problem is they don't know where they are going to cross and there are only 10 of the Herons (plus a dog) trying to stop thousands of Temauji - how will they do it?



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Romeo and Juliet

This m'rning i did wake up and wenteth and hadst a quick showeth'r at which hour i wast done i putteth on a manchest'r unit'd kit with ronaldo on t.  At which hour yond wast done i apace did grab an apple and ranneth out the doth'r because i hadst football practiceth and we hadst a pro playeth'r cometh in to teachest us some stuffeth.

SLJ - Medical Mavericks

The Nobel winner I have chosen is Barack H. Obama. I have chosen him because he is someone I know about but I didn't know he won a Nobel and I would like to learn what for. Obama got the Nobel prize for making the connections between Americans and civilians of other countries. He even made more Americans connected. And he ensured that many counties would work with America. He also made attempts to make the world nuclear free. And ended the Iraq war by withdrawing American troops from Iraq.

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