2016 Graduation

On Wednesday the 14th in the evening the yr 8's went over to the Pakuranga Sailing club for our Graduation. When mostly everyone was here, we had group photos. After we had our photos taken we went over to the dining room to eat our dinner, we had lasagna, salad, bun with butter, for dessert we had pavlova and ice cream, dinner and dessert was delicious. When we finished eating dinner we had our certificates handed out to us by Miss Kirkpatrick and Mr Grady. Then we went to the hall for our dance. We did the cha cha first, then rock n roll, we did those dances a couple of times, then we did our last dance, and I danced with Charlize. Then our parents were here to pick us up, I had alot of fun at Graduation, Thank Mr Grady, Mrs Berk, Ms Kirkpatrick and Mrs Anderson for organizing all of that for us.

2016 Life at PBS

This is a collage of my life at Panmure Bridge School, this collage shows what I have done this year in LS2. I've made my own collage using google drawing, it has different shapes, colorful background, and the width of the borders. In this collage I have included some photos from Term 1 all the way to Term 4. This year has been a very busy year, but we managed to get through it all. At the start of the year I was really shy and so was the others, as the year went through I was getting more confident. When I look back at this I will remember how much I have had at PBS. I have enjoyed being at PBS, and Thank you to Mrs Anderson, Miss Naiker, Miss Donaldson, Miss Kirkpatrick etc, for teaching me this year. 

Labyrinth - Charlize, Maata, Afu

Yesterday LS2 went over to the theatre to watch a movie called Labyrinth. We filled in these documents Ms. Kirkpatrick sent us. As you can see our activities we worked on as a group of four are here above. The people in my group was Victoria, Cecillia, and Te Paki. As you can here you can also see our DLO we made, included in this DLO is narrative structure, Character intro, and our favorite part of the movie. My favorite part was when Sarah saved her brother Toby and they returned home safel.y

Rockets at Tamaki College

We have had a amazing couple of days at Tamaki College. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Ferguson and Mr Dunn for having us again. We all enjoyed blowing up the rockets because it was a fun experiment and everyone had fun. It was really great to see how far our rockets went. Some of our rockets went faring then other's I think this because of our adjustments. We had a drone that had a camera on it & it was controlled by the I pad that is in Mrs Ferguson. It look really fun to controll.

Tahuna Torea - Afu

Yesterday LS2, LS1, and room 5 went to Tahuna Torea as our topic for inquiry has been flight and Godwit, so we went to see if we could find any Godwit's. In this DLO you will see what we have been doing

Rockets - Afu

Last week on Friday the yr 7's and yr 8's went over to Tamaki college for tech, after tech we had interval (morning tea), then we went with Mr Dunn to make rockets, first he showed us some videos, one of them was about how to make a straw rocket. Then Ms Kirkpatrick shared a Google presentation to us to make our predictions. Then we had to make our straw rockets, then we had to do fair testing with our straw rockets. Then we recorded our results on this google slides. On this google slides it has what I predicted, my results, the Method, and a conclusion. I had fun doing science with Mr Dunn. 

Science: Rockets - Afu

Last week on Friday all the yr 7 and yr 8's went over to Tamaki college for tech, after tech we did science with Mr Dunn. Mr Dunn showed us a couple of videos about rockets, and he showed us a video about how to make a straw rocket. When we finished watching the video we had to get into groups, my group was Sakae, Breeana, Charlize, Jorja, and Maata. We had to predict what will happen to our rocket.Then we had to make our own straw rockets, we got to pieces of straw, tape, and wings. When we made our straw rocket we had to use the straw to blow the rocket,we had to do fair testing, we done that three times, then we had to add wings then fly it three times, then we had to add our last wings then fly it three times. Then we got to make real rockets, we did not get enough time to make so we are going to make it this week. We went outside to the field to see Mr Dunn's rocket fly, it went really high. Then Mr Dunn flew Ms Ferguson's 3d carrot rocket. It went to the sky but we did not see it come down, then we had to go back to the class room and pack up, then go back to school. I had fun at Tamaki College making rockets, Thank you Mr Dunn.

Athletics Day 1!

Today we had our athletics day, we had some Tamaki students come over to PBS to help with the games.We had to be split up into groups of three, my group was John, Thomas, June, Zeba, Te paki, Paige, Juanita, and Breeana, John was our leader. We had to walk over to the hall for our first game, our first game was rob the nest,when we got inside the hall the Tamaki college students told us how to play it then we got to play the game. The next game was hurdle sponge relays, we had to jump over the hurdles to get to the bucket of water and go back to put the water in our team bucket, who ever had the most water won. The next game we played was Long jump, we had to go to the shade shelter by room 5, who ever jump the furthest, there team had won. The next game we played was shot put throw, then the last one was discuss hula hoop throw. My favourite game was the hurdle sponge relay because we got to get wet and it was fun.

Hockey: 2nd Session - Afu

Yesterday us year 8's had another session of Hockey with Carly. First we started re-visioning the skills we practiced. One of the skills we practiced was dribbling the ball with our hockey stick. But the catch was, when Carly yelled out 'SWITCH!' then we had to switch with someone with the same color hockey stick as us. Some other things we did to was bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as many times we can and bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as long as we can without letting the ball drop. My favourite game I played was Shark because I liked whacking other peoples balls out of their hockey sticks.

Inquiry: The connection between the Kauaka and the Maori people

Today we have been making a storyboard on the connection between the Godwit and the Maori people. This task was our last task for inquiry. Our learning intention was to describe the importance between the Godwit to the Maori people. You can have a look at our story board if you want to, but you don't have to.

First Session - Hockey

Today for kiwi sport we had Mel taught us some basic skills for hockey, we played a game first called bull rush. The couch picked 3 people to go into the middle, then they had to call out something (e.g. Run if you are wearing a red jacket ) then you have to try and run to the other side, but if they touched you you will have to stay still and try and tag the rest of the people. It was a good warm up to get us started for hockey. Then we had to go to the hockey sticks and stand behind them, when everyone was behind one we had to go and get a ball from the bag. Then the mentor then showed us one of the basic skills, which is called dribbling. We had to hold the top of the stick with our left hand, then hold the coloured bit with our right hand, we had to move the ball side to side with the hockey stick. Then we had played a game called traffic lights, there was 6 different colours. Green - dribble the ball, Orange - stand still and move the ball side to side with the stick, Red - stop and make sure the ball is still, Purple - move backwards while dribbling the ball, Silver - dribble the ball fast, Blue - use the stick to move the ball by spinning. When we played that we had to play a game of hockey, we had to try and get the ball in between the cones. Then we had to hold the ball in our right hand, and the stick in our left hand, then we had to throw the ball and hit it with the stick. I enjoyed our first session of hockey. 

Godwit bird - Afu, Charlize, Juanita

Last week Charlize Juanita and I have created a popplet about the Godwit bird. We had to include Migration, Habitat, Diet, and Appearance. I learnt that a Godwit can fly from NZ to Alaska without stopping, and it takes longer than a week. Take a look at it and see what you did not know about these amazing birds.

Writing - Afu and Charlize and Maata

Today and Yesterday for reading we had to right a story about rescuing, we had to work in partners my partner was Charlize, and Maata. We had to plan our story first on a paper, after that we had to sit back to back with our partners. We had to write one sentence then the other person has to write a sentence, then we kept carrying on till our time was up. This writing is called 5 minutes of... I really enjoyed doing this because it was challenging when had been timed and we had to write a sentence each till our time was up.

Smog in China

Yesterday we read an short article about smog in China. After that we read the whole text, we then had to highlight some of the text and put S-T (Self to Text, something you read that sounds like one of your life experiences), T-T (Something you read that sounds similar to something else you have read), or T-W ( Something you have read that is happening in the world now). The point of this task was to relate to other things that I've read, seen, or that has happened in the world.

Hyperbole

Today I created a DLO about hyperbole and the task that we did yesterday. This DLO shows what hyperbole is and how hyperbole can help enhance in your writing. The task we did was True or false and Fill in the spaces, my favourite one was fill in the spaces because it was challenging and it was hard to think of the words that best fits in the space. 

Team Paper Plane

Today for Maths the whole class was put into a group, in my group there was Sylis, Mere, Silivia, Harry, Thomas, and Ana. We had to pick the best planes from our team that had flew the furthest, and then combine them. We had 8 minutes to make it, then we had to chose the best person that throws the paper plane for the competition, we had Thomas throw the plane. We all had to sit down except the people that are throwing the plane. They had to throw the plane three times. Our measurements were 11.20, 14.00, and 14.01. Our teams paper plane plane went the furthest, but the other people still did well. I enjoyed doing this activity because it was a collaborative challenge, it was fun and it had some learning behind it. 

Writing quiz

Today for writing we had to do a quiz about recounts, My score was 8 out of 10. I think I done well because I got most of them write. I enjoyed doing this quiz because it was challenging.

Paper Planes - Afu

Yesterday Mrs Anderson showed us a slide show in silence, the slide show had the challenges we had to do. We were put into groups, my group was Ana, Silivia, Sylis, Thomas, Mere, and Harry, we had to work collaboratively to complete our challenge. Our challenge was to see who flew the paper plane the furthest. We had to trial to test our paper planes, and we also had to make different paper planes.    

Inquiry: Jean Batten Timeline - Afu

This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we have created a timeline about our famous flyer Jean Batten. In this timeline we had to algorithm, I chose to do a 4 and 5 algorithm. I found she became the first women that had flew over the South Atlantic interesting. I chose to put links of where I got the information from, and if those links don't work you can click on this - Link 1

and Link 2. 

The Shake Out

The Shake Out from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.
A large Congratulations to Latham, Reon, Sylis, Daniel, and Jasmine for making this movie about the shake out, they have done a really great job. I really enjoyed watching this movie.