Spectacular Special Speeches

 

Hey, yet again people,

I'm not sure if you're aware, but over the past several weeks Toroa has been working on speeches. Yes, speeches, the thing where you get up (voluntarily) and speak in front of several people, apart from the fact that this was not optional!

I don't know if you know that public speaking is something I fear a lot. I know it may sound stupid but honestly, I hate it! We had to write our speech (at least 3 minutes long) and present it to the class (around 30 people). Sounds fine right? Well not for me, that is why I chose my topic to be; "The Power of a Positive Mindset".

The time approached and I was so scared and worried; "What if I messed up? What if people made fun of me?". But this was silly; the whole purpose of my speech was to be positive so I tried my best to be. When it did come to the time of me doing I shook all over, from head to toe. But I went for it and tried my best. Surprisingly every really liked it and I got 10/10! This was one of the best achievements I had ever accomplished. 

Although Mr. Shaw then had to select a handful of people to do it again, in front of the whole hub, I was one of them. Pressure built up yet again, but when it came to doing it, I knew I had one shot at this and tried (yet again) my hardest.  

The reward was (I think) best speech won $60, or something like that. And the top two from each year group went through to the Belfast competition. Now I didn't get through but I was so glad I did do the speech in front of the hub (it was optional). My speech was all about being positive, including how I used to have anxiety, etcetera. 

This time 2 years ago I couldn't tell even my closest friends about it! So anyway here is my speech:  

Hope you learnt something!

Have you ever done a speech?

What was it about?

Were you nervous like me, or did you just take it in your stride?

See ya later;

Soph   :D

Wonderful Windy Wellington

Hey again people, hope your week is going well!

Last week we (the Student Leaders) got the amazing opportunity to go to Wellington for the day, it was such an awesome experience. I had never, ever, gone to the North Island, or even flown domestically before, so everything was new for me!

We went to several different places; first of all, Christchurch Airport, then Wellington Airport, Weta Workshops, outside Parliament, had lunch on the waterfront, Te Papa, then back to Wellington, then Christchurch Airport. It was such a fun day! We all learnt so much, not only about leadership but other things too! 

Now don't tell anyone (sshhh), but here's the upcoming article about it written by Zara Dick, Sophia Turnbull, and I:

Now I'm sure you'll want to see some photos! Now I can't show you all as there is too ma- or can I...

Here's a quick collage I made (couldn't quite fit all the photos):

Here is also an example of one of the sculptures:

I hope you learnt something! And thanks for reading!

What do you know about leadership?

Have you ever been to Wellington?

If so what was your favourite part?

See ya later;

Soph   :D

Wonderfully Wicked Wearable Arts

 

Hey people,

Hope all is well and you are enjoying your extra long weekend!

As you may know from my previous posts, over the past term we have been working on our Wearable Arts pieces for inquiry. This has been such a cool experience, my friends at Chisnallwood did it last year and told me all about it (I may have been a tiny bit jealous)!

We had to get into groups of no more than six and select an issue we wanted to be showcased in our art piece that was to do with the theme. This year's theme was issues in our ocean. As you should be aware our ocean is extremely important to our planet, without it we probably wouldn't be alive.

My group selected Seismic Testing as our issue as it is a very big one that goes quite unnoticed (don't tell anyone but I didn't even know what it was either)! If you don't know, Seismic Testing is when a boat sails out to somewhere in the sea they put buoys and this device thing in the water, they then let off big bangs. This is done to detect any oils or gases in the ocean, and also the ground level. Whilst this is useful it also disturbs, injures, deafens, and kills sea animals from hundreds of miles around, it is even loud enough to kill a human!

Anyway, we had to write a speech, rap, poem, etc to be spoken in the background while the model walked and music played. I took charge of this, here is the poem I wrote about Seismic Testing:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-GYYvUC83uccMygTuxkaH5yCRy-A-cJ3720NuEvJz8/edit?usp=sharing

Of course, that doesn't really bother you, what you want to see is our outfit; The Sound of Seismic:

This took us a while to do but it was finally done! Our outfit was made up of the following elements; a hat, salt dough (the fish and boat on the hat [which isn't that easy to see]), plastic and bread bags (for the lines that represent the fish and the boat "talking", fabric and belt (for the dress which represented the ocean), wire and a holla hoop (to make/hold the skirt together), and a trampoline net (for the skirt, which represented the silence and deaths of sea animals).

I hope you learnt a lot from this post!

What was your favourite wearable art?

Have you made them before?

What are you doing for your inquiry?

See ya later;

Soph    :D