Japanese Quiz

Recently, my school entered two teams into a Japanese Trivia Quiz, and I was in one of the teams. The quiz we went to was out of the schools in Waikato who entered. The winner went to the New Zealand wide competition.
There were 6 rounds, 10 questions for each round. There was an interval in the middle with food and drink provided, which was yummy.
My team came 4th, which was surprise as we were the only middle school there, and we got 37 out of 60 points. The winner was St Peters Cambridge.
Overall it was an enjoyable evening, I definitely had fun, and learnt some interesting facts about Japan as well.

A Memior

In English at school we are focusing on memoirs. This is a snapshot in time of a memory, usually in present tense. We are writing ours on a childhood game we used to play. I am writing mine about a snowball fight, which we used to do when we lived in England. We have a success criteria we are required to follow.


Success Criteria:

1. We have used strong verbs.
2. We have used our senses. (appropiatly)
3. We have written in present tense.

(I need to check on the rest as I'm not quite sure on them!)


As soon as I have finished editing I will post it on my blog.

Maths

At school, we are about to move on to our new maths subject, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, which I desperately need to improve on. We have just finished Geometry, which I know I learnt a lot in, including enlargement, centre of enlargement, and bisecting lines and angles.
I hope to get a better understanding of rates and ratios in this new topic, as well as converting fractions to percentages and decimals, as well other skills I need.

School Life

 

"So You Think You can Dance" Competition

Last Wednesday, my school hosted a dance competition, So you Think you Can Dance, which I was a part of. We performed twice, once during the day for the school to watch, and once in the evening, which was the actual performance. Altogether, there were around 20 groups who were part of the competition, and some special guest performers at the end.


 I was in a group 7 along with Rose (see blog) and Ellie (see blog). We danced to a mix of two songs, It's on from Camp Rock and We Go Together from Grease, so our dance was mainly musical theatre with a bit of hip hop. We were extremely surprised and grateful to come first place!

There was a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, as well as two audience response awards, which one of them was won by the teachers, The Tutu Crew. Altogether it was an amazing experience filled with laughter, fun, and of course, dancing.


While I'm here, I would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Allan, for organising the whole competition, and dealing with 20 groups of dancers. You coped amazingly, and we are all grateful.

To the two hosts, Brooke and Zoe, you did a fantastic job. You were funny, clever, and your script was appropriate for the occasion, and evidently well thought through.

To the technicians up in the box, for all the lighting, the slideshows, and basically anything that uses electricity.

And finally, the people in my group. You all put your best foot forward (literally!) and worked hard to complete the dance.

Thank you to all, and others that were a part of it, that I haven't listed here.

Visual Art

                                        British Nurse Uniform 

 

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For Tech Arts, at the very moment I am in Art. We are doing paintings in World War 1, painting either Gallipoli or Flanders Field. We had to have a foreground, a mid-ground, and a background, as well as a symbol to show which army was represented.  In each level, there had to be action.

 I decided to set mine at Gallipoli, on board a British hospital boat, facing the beach. Below are the details.


Foreground: A British nurse, holding a bowl and rag looking down.
Mid-ground: Stretchers with wounded soldiers on them, a doctor and another nurse moving between them, applying bandages and checking up on them.
Background: The sea, with boats coming across with more wounded. The actual beach, with boats being pushed off, and trenches.
Symbol: An armband on the nurse, with the Union Jack on it. The Union Jack flag being flown on the hospital boat, and the boats coming across. The red cross flag, to symbolise the hospital, also being flown and on the mid-ground nurse.



[PDF] Air Effort over Gallipoli

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A Ballad

In school we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi, and all the reasons why it was necessary. We watched a collection of short clips, called Muskets, Missionaries, Whalers and Openness and Change. Using this information, we then wrote a ballad, a type of poem that has a certain rhyming pattern and shares information. We had to have a stanza for each video we watched, and more if we wanted to.
This is mine, hope you like it!

The Treaty of Waitangi

The musket wars were long and horrendous
This latest new gun armed the offenders
Tribal boundaries bounced and rolled
Alliances changed, Europeans were told
Their trade was needed, to make strong the weak.

The Maori lived 100,000 strong
And to Aotearoa they did belong
When missionaries came
Nothing stayed the same
Writing, reading, religions, all were changed.

200 Europeans came along
Most killed the whales and their mournful song
They were out at sea for months at a time
And so decided to commit crime
 And drink and fight with no care for their kind.

Maori knew and secretly worried
And yet they loved trade, so whalers weren't harried
The Maori woman, strong and fair
Were married to Europeans, to love and care
So whalers had now protection and peace.

In 1839 William Hobson arrived
Laws were changed, land agents were deprived
Private Land Sale was to be banned
January 29th, t'was agreed hand to hand
Justice, sincerity, and good faith lead the way.

February 4th was the day of the draft
Where William Hobson began to craft
The Treaty that would,  bring about changes
Some good some bad all formed bridges
Between all people, alike and diverse.

By 1840, 500 chiefs had signed
The Treaty was global, all people signed a kind
It brought around peace, at least for an age
And it helped people, begin a new page
The Treaty of Waitangi.

 

The Final Challenge

An Audit of My Blog

We are now at the very end of the 2015 Student Blogging Challenge. I'm glad my class decided to join it as it has been entertaining and a great learning experience.
This week, we have three tasks, to write an audit, then ask someone else to look around your blog, and ask them to write one.
To evaluate the Student Blogging Challenge itself.
Finally, to fill in a form on the Blogging Challenge website.

This is my audit on my blog.





Posts:
I wrote....

16 For Student Blogging Challenge
6 School posts
1 Personal, in my own time.
Altogether (so far) I have written: 23


I am going to start writing more in my time, as the challenge as stopped, so it won't be my priority.



Comments:
Who they are from:

Mrs Hogg: 2
Brooke: 1
Rosa: 1
Renee: 2
Kaye: 1
Olivia: 1
Emily (not me): 5

Altogether I have received: 13


Where they are from:
Canada
Australia
New Zealand

I received the most comments on Student Blogging Challenge where I introduced the Challenge, and why I thought it was a good idea.
I think someone commented on it because I was introducing something new, had added a picture, and links. I then replied, which got a conversation going, which equals more comments.



My favourite post to write was the "Let's Travel" challenge, when I went to Egypt. I think because I planned it out the most, and spent the most time finding places out, I enjoyed writing about it more. Also, in real life, I would love to go to Egypt, and hope to sometime in the future.


I haven't changed themes at all, I liked Ethereal from the start, and stuck with it. My colours haven't changed either, I mainly followed this key, blue for main text, red for headings, and green for anything else, but sometimes changed it up a bit.



I think I may need a few more widgets to fill up the side a bit, it looks empty as you scroll down to real the other posts, so that is a future goal, as well as getting a title bit for the top.


I don't actually have a blog roll, I have a page with five students from over seas, for Count out Three.


So far, I haven't used any web tools, when I tried to get them onto my blog, it wouldn't work properly, so I'm still trying to work this out. When I have, I will add them to my posts.