Letter To John Key

Pt England School

130 Pt England Rd

Pt england

Auckland

New Zealand

Monday, 29th of August 2016

Dear PM John Key,

My name is Zane and I am a student of Pt England School sending a letter to you about the bad water pollution that's going on at the moment. As you probably know a lot of fish and seabirds in Auckland are dying, and quick. The big reason is because of all the rubbish that is in the ocean and the fish and birds think that it might be food for them. All the rubbish and plastic gets left on the ground then gets blown into the ocean and then the fish and birds want to eat it because they think its food.

You need to do something about this. A lot of people would appreciate if you tried to stop all the rubbish going everywhere. Because at the moment it doesn't look like you care as much but maybe you should put fines on people who litter or set down some ground rules for the public. There are also some members of the public who do good and go in their own time to fix this problem. Maybe you should give some funding to these people.

If you don’t do anything about the situation now it can get a lot worse in the years to come and we wouldn't want to see what would happen if it didn't get stopped. If you see this don't just leave it, listen and do something to help the New Zealand Waters.

Yours Sincerely

Zane

The Olympics

:The Olympics:

Back in 776 BC(Before Christ) was the first ever ancient Olympic games, it was held in Olympia Greece. The games were dedicated to the Olympian god.

There were only 13 games in the ancient Olympic games and now there are at least 28. The modern games are more exciting, for numerous reasons; there are larger crowds more people can watch it from the other side of the world on the tv, heaps more countries are participating and more people are breaking records.

Every Olympics the games travel to a different location this year it's being held in Rio De Janeiro Brazil. Last year it ventured to London, England and before that was Beijing in 2008. People build new buildings, new stadiums and even new Monuments for the visitors who are going to the country for the olympics.

Because Brazil isn't seeming like a safe place at the moment because of reasons like the Zika Virus and unsafe stories  some contestants have dropped out of the big tournament.

In conclusion if you host the Olympics in your country it is given the opportunity to get more money from tourists visiting the country, tourists will be going to that country more because of what it looks like from the olympics and that will get people buying more things from shops, using hotels and just having trips around the country.

Snowy Times

As Jim a Pro Snowboarder walked to the half pipe with his friends, Gail and Loui he shouted out to his friend. “Jamal!” shouted Jim. As Jamal looked to see who was calling out, he lost control and went sliding towards his friends. “Thanks Jim” Jamal sarcastically said while he was getting to his feet. “No problem” replied Jim. As they all welcomed each other they decided what their day was going to be like. They ended up with practice, eat, practice, have fun then go home for some Xbox. That meant that their day was going to be fun filled and tiring, they got the gears they needed and let the ski lift take them up the hill.

They got to the top of the hill and looked down they were a little scared but luckily it wasn't there first time. Gail surprisingly went first and challenged the others, the rest of them went down after him. As they were getting closer and closer to Gail he pulled a sharp turn and went down another path Loui followed him but Jim and Jamal kept going straight know that the two paths collide again. Jim and Jamal were going so fast no one could catch them, they go back into one path and they got ahead of Loui and Gail and had to brake a while before they reached the end. As they drift back to the Ski Lift to go again they see some people following them but they thought nothing of it. But it was weird they were always following them, as they went back down again they just tried to do cool tricks but Jim failed and went fumbling down the hill. Luckily he was tough but that one left a big bruise.

After coming back from lunch they were standing in front of what they wanted, the half pipe. They all smiled at each other and off they went. Everyone was doing awesome skills and tricks but when they got to the bottom they were all puffed out and luckily they didn't have to walk all the way back up. They were constantly going down and back up so many times until it started getting dark. As they went for their last run down the half pipe they realized that they couldn't find Jamal. Only his goggles were found. They thought that he was playing a trick on them but after they looked around the half pipe, cafe and the area, they knew he was missing.

They called the cops reporting a missing person. Soon there were police at the half pipe looking around and asking them questions. After that they all went out looking for Jamal but they only came back with his snowboard. After hours of looking they stood at the half pipe and saw Jamal. He was limping towards the ski lift and was dripping in blood. They raced down as fast as they could to see what happened and tried to help him.

Once they made it down the hill, they found out that he had been attacked by wolves. Luckily he had escaped with his life. As the ambulance began to go up the mountain, loud rumbles could be heard.  Seconds later tons and tons of snow came racing down the mountain towards the ambulance.  They were racing a real avalanche. Luckily the ambulance turned a corner and managed to avoid the avalanche. What a day!

Wool And Nail Art Inquiry

This is our progress that we have made in our Wool and Nail art Project we started off just from the name and now we are up to nailing the Waka, because i'm in the Hikianalia house group (Yellow) we will be nailing the shape of the awesome Waka.

Y8 Camp Reflection

Y8 CAMP

At the end of term 1 most of the year 8s went to Marsden Bay Christian Bay Camp for a school trip.

After the 2-3 hour drive in the bus we finally reached our destination and it felt good. When we hopped off the bus we were all told to grab some bags and put them on the deck and with 10 seconds of reaching the camp it started raining. After managing to take all the bags inside we sat down and ate our lunch. After lunch we go inside to the meeting room where we talk about our activities.

After we finished getting all the bags in we sat down in our groups, And then we had to learn about friendship, Teamwork and Kindness. One way they taught us how to learn teamwork was by tying our hands together and made us make fruit Kebabs.

After that we went to our cabins and set up our rooms and beds, three people from my cabin were unable to come. So as we set up our room we noticed that we only had five people and that there were ten beds. Not long after were called in to get ready for dinner. After we finished dinner the teachers asked if we wanted to stay up to stay and watch Johnny English, some people went back to their cabins to get there sleeping bag and pillow and some went back to sleep in their cabins. Halfway thru the movie it decided to crash so everyone ended up going to sleep or staying up talking.

Day #2

Today started off with breakfast, then we went to our meeting room to find out what activities we were going to do. But because it was raining we had to turn to plan B, so first we just had fun while we were suppose to be on kayaks in the water but we had fun. While we were drawing we were asked if we wanted to go on the kayaks me and Te Mauri were lucky enough to go on them for a little and then we chucked everyone in. Our next activity was the waterslide the best thing about the camp it was so fun. It was a huge slide that was awesome one kid even went and got his soap. After we finished our time on the slide we went to have a shower and change our clothes for our last activity. Our last activity was archery and it was awesome while the other boys left and played around that meant I was able to have more shots.

After we finished all our activities we went back into the meeting room to get told we were allowed free time, everyone ran outside but me and my cousin (Josh) went straight to the soccer gladiator cage. But not long after that I was told from a teacher to go to the Flying Fox because my mum wanted me to (My mum was working the on the Flying Fox). After I got to the flying fox I got to go up, and I was so scared but as soon as I hit the top I was amazed, at the awesome view amazed, Mind Blown. Still a little bit scared i decided to get this over and done with as I step over the edge I instantly forgot the fear and felt the pain of the harness.

After the free time was over we went to the meeting room to discuss how much time we would have to prepare our team item we ended up getting 1 hour to prepare our item. After we finished preparing our item we were told to head back inside for dinner. We finished dinner and went back in the meeting room to do our items.

Some were smart, funny, cool and weird in the end we came last. Once we finished that we were aloud to stay up and watch Johnny English 2 or go to sleep I decided to stay up and watch it, but again it crashed half way thru.

Day #3

Today was the day we were cleaning, clearing and preparing after 1-2 hours of cleaning we got ready to leave. As we got back to school we had to unload everything and then we got to leave.

The Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

Early monday morning was the school Immersion assembly, meaning that today was the first day back at school. All of the teachers either made a movie or a live performance.

As I walked into the hall I was excited to find out what our topic for the term was going to be. Playing in the hall on repeat a song that resembled the following “All i do is art”. Some teachers were wearing some creative costumes like a pallet of paint and a hat as a brush.

Team one talked about doing their favourite things, Chocolate and more, they made a video and said all of their favorite things. Team two talked about seasons and how they were going to draw all different things.

Team three are doing Architecture they made a funny video like Grand Designs but it was just a tent.

Out of all 5 performances my favourite was Team 4, their topic is Comics they made a humorous video with super heroes, Bat Guy, Team Leader America, Wondering woman and the Villain Bear Baxendine..

As the team 5 teachers walked up to the stage they were dressed in colors of our House Teams Red(Te Aurere), Blue ( Hine Moana), Green ( Hokulea) and Yellow ( Hikianalia). They all lined up for a race, in the end Hokulea won.

The Terrifying Forest

Autumn has just ticked over and some people were already missing Summer, but some people were looking forward to it like Jeff and Liam. Jeff and Liam are both the same age, 25. They lived in a house near a disturbing forest apparently was really nice before something happened.

Jeff and Liam always wanted to go into the forest but they didn't know what was in there, no one did. Some  nights they’d both look out at the forest entry and try see if anything came out. One night something came out of the forest, it was too dark to see exactly what it was but Jeff said “It looked like a tiny object” and since then he’s always wanted to explore the forest.

Everyone was told to never go in the forest which made made the boys more eager, and one day there curiosity got the best of them.

One day while Jeff and Liam were walking home from University they crossed past the forest and Jeff was just to excited he pressured Liam to go with him as they stood outside the entrance of the forest they heard noises, creepy noises rustling leaves, scattering and more. As they slowly started to walk through they heard someone yell there name and they both sprinted for the entrance finding out that it was there friend who saw them go into the forest, Jack.

Jack asked why they were even thinking of going thru there Jeff told them “It would be fun” and Jack replied “Oh, no no no no no!” Jeff and Jack argued for 5 minutes and then decided to all go into the forest.

As they all kept their eyes peeled for any movement they heard noises walking noises, crunching noises and weird noises as they were now speed walking they heard crying of a baby they rushed over to what looked like a baby and tried to pick it up it was just too dark to see what it really was.

Liam picked up the baby and felt how hard it was, when he noticed what it was right before it bit him Liam screamed with all his might and power  and screamed to the top of his lungs and yelled “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” as he flicked the doll of his hand they all started sprinting to the end when all of a sudden they heard laughing and footsteps that weren't theirs they looked behind them and saw so many dolls chasing them.

As they start to see the sunlight they feel things on there back little nudges on there back which increased their speed, heart rate and fear. Running towards the light, they were all scared and tired but they were determined to get out alive, coming closer and closer to the light. The boys just reaching the end just in time before one grabbing hold of Jack’s shoes, as soon as they got into the light the dolls decided to back away.

As the boys tried to catch their breath they were shocked at what had happened. As they kept running a little further they stopped to realise what just happened. They all agreed to never go in the forest again.

Zane Editing, Punctuation and Grammar

Walt: Correctly edit and punctuate sentences.

This is teaching us how to use our Punctuation, Grammar and writing.

Writing A Narrative

Rampage On The Pier

It all started on one happy day when these kids were all on a field trip from New Zealand visiting the United States Of America. This would be the day that ruined their lives.

The kids just got there and instantly they all ran to try get on a ride some stuck together and others disappeared by themselves. Zane and Taimana went on the Roller Coaster and Lucy and Ava went on the Ferris wheel. We all got candy floss, hotdogs, popcorn and lollies most of us went in groups of two we were having so much fun, but all that was about to stop.

The kids are Taimana fast as lightning, Mo scared of everything, Ava and Lucy Best Friends, David was the muscles, Tevita the president, Benjamin and Lorenzo Bestfriends, May Popular one, Miss Clark Teacher, and Zane the best.

As Ava and Lucy just got on the roller coaster within 30 seconds of it it stopped and all the other ones stopped as well, and all they heard was screaming, Lorenzo and Benjamin were on the Ferris wheel when it stopped and Zane and Taimana were eating our food we looked to our left and everyone was running past us some were jumping into the water and some weren't moving shocked I guess. We both stood up on the chair and there were Zombies?!

Ava pushes Lucy off the roller coaster and on the way down Lucy pulls Ava down with her from fear and they both splat on the ground. Mo manages to find the perfect hiding spot but was to scared to come out and reveal his spot.

I looked around thinking of all the other kids and how scared they were and Tai was stuck thinking if he should fight, run or jump into the water. These weren't normal slow stupid walking Zombies they could run and they were trapping the humans to jumping of the bridge was the only choice but they had really bad sight so they relied on their smell. Most people jumped into the water and Jordan tried to jump to the water but he missed and all his intestines splatted all over the ground.

People still running around the place, screaming and crying. After all the kids jumped in the water they swam to the beach except for Zane and Taimana as they were fighting the Zombies they got up on the fence and started to kick their heads but Zane started to slip off the fence Taimana grabbed him but he wasn't able to pull him back up and they ended up falling in the water. A lot of people, men were fighting the zombies because they're so strong it's what you see at Venice Beach. Some teenagers were shooting the zombies with the air rifles from the duck game, until no one could fight them off there were way too much and it’s weird to think that they would target the Pier.

Two weeks have gone by in the infection Mo, he starved to death infection number grew a little people evacuated the country as soon as they could and plane prices went up. People tried to block out the infected side of the country even if there were other people on the other side.

Day by day the infection spread to more people at the Venice Beach. Soon the whole country would be infected. Tevita, the president was safe in his bunker with everything he needed to survive and as the infection grew he was able to lock down and warn everyone about those areas.

6 Hats Reading

This is our reading task explaining all the main details.

This Year's Reflection

I felt like my first year in intermediate was  amazing, i definitely enjoyed my first year ever in intermediate. 2015, So far i’m enjoying the life of a senior, there are many good things about being a senior.

One thing I found very satisfying this year was all the trips we went on and how many activities we did. We did activities like friday sports, and trips like Rainbows end and Polyfest and soon Parakai.

The difficult parts in this year we're moving to more work and more difficult work. I also found work extra hard from Extension, Maths and Reading & Writing. I feel like this year I maybe could’ve done more work then I have done.

I’ve enjoyed the new teachers and the ways they teach and the way they talk to us.I think that the teachers are doing good for teaching us a lot of new things.

This year has been super fun, busy, challenging and cool. I want to be able to look forward to next year as I will be a year 8.

Overall I had a really fun year, did new things and accomplished new achievements. 2015 Was an amazing year in my opinion, and I thank all the teachers for teaching me.

Extension Reflection

This year, 2015 was my first year of being in extension and it was exciting. In my first year there was a new teacher, Mrs Lagitupu.

In extension we went on trips like Tiritiri matangi Island, Maritime Museum and the G.E.G NZ Summit, all amazing places. I learnt heaps of things while I was in my first year of extension, i'm definitely looking forward to next year.

We went to Tiritiri Matangi Island to learn about the endangered birds, and how or if we could help them. And also to take a look at the beautiful Island. This place was by far my favourite, we learnt heaps of different birds and saw heaps of different amazing views and did cool challenges.

Bioengineering

This term the Year 7&8 extension class has been learning about Bio-Engineering. Here is a presentation to show what we learnt and know.

Google Expedition

Today we had the opportunity to try the Google cardboard. We were using it to see around the world and we saw some famous buildings, Sharks and even stars.

The first thing we did on those cool gadgets were we were in a crater with a cave and we were with Sir David Attenborough, If you didn't know who David Attenborough is then he is a famous narrator of documentaries and a scientist. as you moved your head it moved in the phone.

They set us challenges to try and find things like a Python and a Mantis. We visited many places including Mt Fuji, Borneo Forest, In the ocean, Dubai, Burj Khalifa 43 floor and 120 I think, some kids were even screaming from the height.  In the ocean we could see heaps of bull sharks and some people, bull sharks are supposed to be the most vicious sharks.

We also went to space we could see the moon, heaps of stars and even a continent on earth. We were asked who could name the country, It was Africa. It was so cool in space and all the places.

The Google cardboard was an amazing gadget as it felt like I was actually in a different dimension and actually in the places. We were able to see heaps of cool things and I’d like to use it again. It would be cool if we could use it for learning somehow and just have some for fun.

The Secret Underground

This on one of our literacy tasks.

A Time Something Went Missing

As I have grown up I have lost many thing’s, I wouldn’t be surprised if you have to, some things were important to me some were not.

I think that everyone loses something at once, me I have lost my favourite pair of shoes, my favourite hats my phone and my MONEY!!!. What I have missed out the most on was my money and shoes well actually I miss all of them.

But this will be about my phone, so on a sunny weekend me my cousin and my mum were outside at the park. While me and Louis were playing with the ball and playing music (on my phone), my mum was relaxing on the bean bag. We were playing soccer, taking penalties and trying to skill each other. After around an hour or so, we got bored so we all packed our stuff and drove home. After around 10-20 minutes it started raining.

When we got home we started playing xbox after the rain cleared I walked louis back to his house and back. When I got home I played some more xbox and then had a shower and went to sleep. When I woke up I went into the lounge had breakfast and then when to go grab my phone… But as I walked in my room it wasn’t where it usually was and after that I remembered, I didn’t bring my phone back home.

So I ran out to my mum and told her that “I left my phone at the park!”. As I was wondering if it broke (from the rain) and so I ran across to the park to see if my phone was there sadly it wasn’t I ran home and told my mum that “It wasn’t there”.

A few days later my mum got a call apparently someone got my phone and called my mum. I was pretty excited when she told me, he told her to pick it up at the dairy so a few days later my mum went to the dairy and got back for me. I don’t know if it was wet but I was happy when I saw it was still working.

Immersion Assembly

First day of term 4 2015, as usual there's always a immersion assembly at the beginning of the term. Some were still recovering from the holidays.

To start things off Mr Burt made a movie for the beginning of term 4 it was about an annoying bird called a fiapoko (bird), and how it annoying a couple of kids at their own house at point Dingaling. As it annoyed the kids it got so bad that they called the fiapoko exterminators, and the fiapoko exterminators came to the house and the kids showed them to the bird as the exterminators killed the bird. The exterminators took the bird back to the house and put it in the oven, after it was cooked they pulled out a bag of KFC. (In this film no fiapokos were hurt as they were made up).

As we walked into the hall we saw some teachers dressed up in dinosaur masks and tutus. At this moment we didn’t know what our topic was so we were ready for what was to come. It went in order from Team 1 to Team 5. Each team had their own movie. Team 1 is going to the zoo to see how the animals adapt and live in the zoo. And they had a karaoke competition, they chose kids from year 1 to year 8. The prize was a trip to the zoo with team 1.

Team 5’s topic was about adaptation and how others have adapted to the surroundings. The team 5 teachers (Miss Peato, Miss Hockley, Miss Ingrim and Miss Clark) made a game show and the teachers were contestants on the stage, they were having a noodle eating contest but the challenge was to eat it with chopsticks. The first person to eat it all wins, as they got ready to start we could tell who was going to win, As they ate one teacher, Miss Clark was speed ahead as in eating them and it wasn’t long for her to finish the plate. The reason she won so quickly was because of where she was brought up, she was brought up in Tibet a region in China. Which is where people use chopsticks, After she won the other contestants had something to say. They said it wasn't fair since they were from Samoa, Tonga, England and New Zealand, Miss Peato (Samoa) explained that where they're from they don’t use chopsticks.

Kauri Island

This is our reading tasks.

Fair Choclate

This is our literacy work.

GEG NZ SUMMIT Recount

On wednesday we went to GEG NZ Student SUMMIT (Google Education Groups) in Hobsonville Point Primary School.
We were greeted by Toby Carr CEO and Founder of DEXTECH.

The first place we went to was to a garage band presentation from a girl from Long Bay School. Her presentation didn’t go exactly the way she wanted it to but it was very helpful a lot of information. She used examples she was entertaining and a good speaker. We were not able to use garageband because of our computers. We noted this in a book and at the end she wanted a crowd so that she could sing using garageband in the background.

Then we went to go eat morning tea, before our first group presented, While the group got ready to present we went to go find a presentation we found one that was all about google apps like Google drive, Google Slides and Google Docs. They had online padlets for us to help them in there google slides and others…

The 3rd thing we went to was our presentation so we were all nervous and as soon as we got there. In this group was Mary, Collin, Taimana, Iisa, Ariana So we started presenting and the presentation was going good, Live actions. We were doing good as no troubles and everything was under control. There was work shown as well as animations.

Our final presentation for the day was google cardboard and the sphere. It was really cool and interesting. It is a thing on your phone and a cardboard box where you cover your eyes and you can move around and see things. Its kinda like Oculus Rift on your phone.