My Report On Athletics Day

My report on Athletics Day:

Yesterday - (Monday the 12th of November 2013) We had Ngatea Primary Schools Athletics! There were six events that you had to participate in, Shot-Put, High Jump, Long Jump, 80m Sprints, 200m Sprints and 800m Sprints. All students and Ngatea Primary School are divided into one of the four houses. Each house has a color, and each student has to wear their house color on sports days: eg - Cross Country, Athletics, Swimming Sports etc. Each student that wins an event, gets given house points to put towards their house, then at the end of the day they add the points up and reveal the winning house! This years winning house went to Weka, they won most relays and also did really well in all other field events. Runners up went to Patiki, then came the other two houses. This event was not optional, which meant all students had to participate and run like chaters when it came their races. Many students that got into the top three or four, get the chance to go through to Hauraki Plains! All schools from around the Hauraki send their top runners/Athletes through to Hauraki Plains, where there's more competition. For the mean time though, Many Ngatea kids are still getting over their successes from Ngatea’s Athletics.

Athletics

On Monday Ngatea Primary School had their Athletics day! I got through to the finals for most of my sprints, but didn't make it any further that the finals. For my High Jump I got in at least the top ten, but didn't get through to Hauraki Plains. I participated in the 12+ Girls relay, and our team came third. Overall, I enjoyed the day and can't wait till next time!

We All Fall Down

For the start of this term my reading club group is reading a book called We All Fall Down, By Eric Walters! It's a story about the terrorist attack on the two twin towers. It starts off with a boy called William that has to go to work with his father, because it is 'Take your Kid to work day' His Father shows him around the South Tower, because that is the tower he works in, and tells Will all the facts about the tower. The first plane flew into the North Tower first and then the second on flew into the South Tower. The part I'm up to now is just after the first Plane has hit the North Tower.

New Furniture

This week our syndicate got new furniture to suit the way we learn! We have a table with a white board on top - (Stuck to the top!) We have three awesome little chairs, a bar/high bench thing with four stools, and two different collaborative tables! Now that we have the new furniture, we can bond more with our groups, and are able to complete work faster and easier! 

Group Day

On Wednesday I participated in the Hauraki Group Day! I took my lamb Vanilla, and got a fourth for rearing, and another fourth for participating in the lading parade. For my calling I got a fifth - Which I missed out on a ribbon. And another fifth for my actual leading ring. I enjoyed the day even though there was tougher competition, and I'm proud of my lamb for getting me two ribbons!

Calf Club

Yesterday I competed in the Ngatea Primary Schools calf club! I took my lamb Vanilla and got 2nd in leading, then took out reserve champion for leading. And I also got a merit for my obstacle course! Since this is my last year I have decided to go through and compete in the HP Group Day, and I might possibly do the HP Show..... But that depends on how well I go at Group Day.

Year Eight Testing

Today all the year eights had to sit three tests in a row! Our first test was a maths test that we had to complete in 45 minutes, Our second test was a reading test that we had 25 minutes for, and our third test was a vocabulary test that we had another 25 minutes to complete it. We had to complete these tests because all of us are going to collage next year, and the tests are just to give the teachers some ideas for what classes we might need to be in. Now all of us just have to wait and see what classes we are going to be in! 

Goals for this term

This term I would like to achieve my 'Be Published' Milestone. If I want to achieve this milestone, I will have to enter myself into the Upstart magazine over and over again until some sort of my learning gets published.

My second goal for the term is to try get 90-ish out of 100 in my basic facts test. To achieve this goal I will have to work hard on my times and divides. 

My third goal for this term is to go through to Hauriki Plains Athletics. To achieve this I will have to do lots of running and practice jumping over high things - For high jump.

Volley Ball

Over the past term Marama have been walking down to the collage to learn volley ball skills from older year elevens. We had to learn the spike, serve, dig and set. After a couple of weeks practicing different ways to hit the ball, we all had to participate in a torment! We had to VS all the other seven teams then whoever came out with the most points won the competition! The team I was in came first equal with another team, and after the competition had finished, each person in our team got a certificate and two Fredos for participating! I enjoyed learning the volley ball skills and am proud of my team for coming first equal!

Term 3 Highlights & Evaluation

Last term all Marama students had to complete either a short film or a presentation of their highlights, and also evaluation on their year. This is my Term 3 Highlights and Evaluation short video.

Lino Cut/Print Evaluation

Over the past four weeks Marama have been cutting out lino prints and then stamping them with ink. You had to do a practice then you got to pick your size of lino. Next you had to sketch a self portrait then start cutting out with a lino cutter. I enjoyed this piece of art because cutting the lino was fun, and also printing and experimenting with different colors was fun. Next time I would like to cut out a background onto my lino to show more detail. Here's a picture of my lino cut and lino print:

 

Milestones

Today I achieved my blogging milestone, I had to check that my blog had two posts a week, that it had pictures/movies on it, and that it had to have weekly reflections on it! I also had to have some sort of feedback from family/Friends, so I got my Mum to take a look at my blog at tell me what she thought of it. Secondly I got my Digital Design Milestone because I made a 40 second ad about 'Spray on shoes' To get that Milestone I had to have made/create something digital and edit it using a computer! Also a couple of weeks ago I completed my Oral Presentation Milestone, because I shared my speech with my writing group, and that counts as a mini audience. Last term I achieved my perfuming arts Milestone by performing J-Rock! In total I have four Milestones and have five left to complete! My goals for next term are to achieve my 'Be Published' Milestone and my 'Careers Pathway' Milestone. The way I ma going to complete these two Milestones are by entering work/art into the Upstart Magazine, and to complete my Careers Pathway Milestone I am going to try get some sort of work experience down in the junior of school - (Because I want to be a teacher) I'm hoping to achieve my other Milestones too in my spare time in school.

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! 

J-Rock

This year I participated in J-Rock at the Cladlands event center in Hamilton! There was over 2000 people in the audience and 13 other schools performing! The name of our performance was called time changes, and it was about how technology has changed our lives so much over the past years. I was in the T.V scene where we had to act like little girls that were at a sleep over getting ready to watch their favorite T.V show! I really enjoyed performing it, even though it was nerve raking on the side, And I think that if I get the chance again I would do it!