MADE Awards

For the whole of this term - (Term 3) Everyone in Marama have been working on either a Commercial, music Video, Drama, Static image or Manipulated image. The MADE Awards is a comp against other schools and collages. I chose to do a Commercial with Maddy, Lucy and Yvonne. Our Commercial topic was 'Spray on shoes!' We shot our Commercial in the school playground, and edited/Added voice overs in the blue room. This took us five weeks to plan the story board, Plan/Learn our lines, Shoot the seances and edit it! Our short 40 second Commercial about why you should buy our non-existing product, made it into the Made Awards! Now we just have to wait and see if we get a place. 

Blokes' day

Today was Ngatea Primary schools Fathers day! In the first session I was with Kennidy and her Popa, We had to make a stretcher out of news paper! Our strategy was to try and roll up news paper, stick them all together, then and handles - Also made of news paper. We did just that but it looked as though it was going to break any minute, Our creation proved us wrong! We ran the obstacle course with a weight on our stretcher finishing on 19 seconds! Then afterwards when we got to break them all up, I sat on our on and it could hold me - For a little while...  After that challenge we had lunch and my Granddad and Dad arrived. After lunch we did another challenge, We had to make a base, then add height, then add a marble hanging off string at the end. Ours was really tall, but it wasn't strong enough, it just kept falling over, so when the judges came to look..... We got disqualified! But it was fun!

Polyostering Ink Printing

For two weeks now we have been using Polyostering to print fishes with. This is to practice for our real lino print. For the lino print we are going to be printing a portrait of ourselves, but for now we have just been painting a piece of paper as our background, and using black ink to print our fish. You only have to have on retested but I have two, here they are:

  

Before I printed the polyostering.

After I printed the Polyostering.

Mi Planning

Each week all of the Marama syndicate has to create on of these docs and timetable in the slots, what they are going to do. In my Mi Plan, each week I link everything onto it, so I don't need to surf through drive. By Link I mean: Say if I was going to do writing, I would link my writing onto My Mi Plan, so that when it came to the time to do my writing, all I need to do it click on the link and it will take me to my writing doc. The reason the teachers have got us to use this online planning tool, is to teach us to manage our own learning. If I have a Maths meeting, the teachers don't call out 'Maths Group 5' They just expect us to be there on time, and if we aren't we get our gold card taken off us and have to go onto our maths doc and catch up. I enjoy using docs to plan my week because I get to pick when I do things and If I am a little behind, I can slot it in at any other free time.  Also I have color coded my Mi Plan, Pink is the time of day, Blue is my own planning, Yellow is everything that I HAVE to attend and Thursday is just plain green because it is a day for IMPACT. My Impact project is to get kids eating healthy breakfasts.

Here's a picture of my Mi Plan:

Cross Country

Last Monday I did Ngatea School cross country! I came 11th and missed out on going to Haruki plains by one place. I enjoyed going up the mud slide hill, and I also liked going through the creak, but I didn't like having to run up the killer hill. My race was the last race so after we got to go straight back to school instead of having to wait and watch everyone else races. I enjoyed it the most because I got muddy and super wet!

Term 3 Goals

This term I want to achieve My blogging milestone, My oral presentation milestone and my be published milestone.

I'm going to update my blog weekly then book in for a conference with Mrs Hull and ask for my blogging milestone. This term I'm also doing a speech on why living in the country is better than living in the city, so I will get my oral presentation if I perform that in front of Marama. Also I have entered a lot of art/writing into the upstart magazine so I'm hoping to get published in the magazine, then achieve my be published milestone.

This term I would like to be brave enough to perform my speech in front of Marama, not just in front of my writing group, but first I have to get some good marks on it.

I would also like get ninety-five out of one hundred marks on my next basic facts test this term.

My last goal this term is to get in the top twelve for cross country.

Grandparents day

On the last day of the last term it was Grandparents day!! My Grandparents came and I showed them how I learnt on the computer and also showed them some of my art. I really enjoyed the day because I got to share all my learning with them and show them how different how syndicate is compared to many other schools senor end. We also had a spacial assembly earlier and some of the year seven and eights got an academic award. I was one of them!! I really enjoyed the whole afternoon!