Cool Cultural Interesting Information

 

Hey people,

As part of our cultural studies, we learned that New Zealand has so many amazing things that other countries don't have! A few examples we were told to look at were Ta moko, Korowai/Kakahu, and the Haka. These three things have existed in New Zealand for years, even several decades-long. 

Our task was to research what the design was, the use, and the presentation. I did mine with Zara! Here is our slide presentation:

I found it quite interesting to research, read, and write about. I hope you did too!

Hope you learned something!

See ya later,

Spiggles  :D

Hungry, Happy, Hangi

 

Hey people, 

At school, we have been learning about our culture and what makes New Zealand so special and unique. One of the things we had to research about is the Hangi. We had to make a poster that shows the differences between a Hangi from the past and from the present.

In the past, you had to dig a pit and after finding stones wait a long time for them to heat up over a fire. Then you put the food in flax baskets and put them in the hole. Cover with sacks, sheets, and dirt. Nowadays you use a Hangi cooker, which has provided stones, metal crates, and you don't have to dig a pit!

Here is my poster/step by step in the present and past:

Sorry, the photo's a bit blurry, if it doesn't show up I will try and take a clearer photo over the next couple of days!

I really enjoyed making this but my hand did get quite tired after writing it all!

Hope you learned something!

See ya later,

Spiggles  :D

Happy Holidays and Stunning School!

 

Hey peoples, 

I hope you have all had an amazing holiday and are ready to take on the last term of the year. I have had a great holiday, I went to Methin with Zara and stayed at her batch for a couple of nights. The next day I went to Hanmer with some friends and family, and then the next day we all went to Akaroa! But now we all need to knuckle down and start concentrating on work and make sure to listen and pay attention to classes. 

In literacy, I have been working on my film with Pippa, Riley, and Olivia. We are making a Horror film about a suspected murderer. This film will involve a lot of violence and distress. Here is scene one and the script for it:

Hope you are interested, I will post the film on my blog once it is completed!

See ya later,

Spiggles

Fantastic Fantasy Essay

 

Hey peoples, 

Over the past 4-5 weeks, my literacy group has been working on our video essays. Previously we have learnt about all the different genres and their conventions. I chose to do Fantasy which ended being a 7.30minute video essay. 

Here it is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FCzIJlxsxyk4_tlzs8zMKjyRjN_EDmpA/view

Hope you learnt something!

See ya later!

Soph :D

Brilliant Blast-Off

 

Hey peoples,

After a long process of building and creating our rockets, we have finally launched them. We did this near the fitness track on the backfield. Pippa, Caprice, Tilly, and I's rocket didn't really go to plan, it only flew about 6m but it went quite a decent way up! I think the reason it didn't go that far was that the paint was all blotchy, and because we had 4 bolts all spaced around in our nose-cone, (next time we think we need to put a couple in the lid). 

Here is a video clip of our flight:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p0gzbM09TvxNlmM0I61LU07NpwBFB6xs

Please post any feedback below in the comments!

See ya later!

Soph :D

Think before you throw!

 

Hey peoples,

We have been learning a lot of coding skills over the year. First, we had to go through a tutorial/practice that helped us learn how to debug and work with Python. Python is a coding website that is a bit like Scratch, (it has all the sprites, stages, actions, etc). My PSA I coded is all about how lucky we are to have the money we have and that we shouldn't take it for granted. I chose this message because there are a lot of people out there in the world who need our help. This is for everyone because it isn't just up to a few people to help, everyone needs to do their bit.

Here is my code:

Here are a few screenshots:

This caption shows when the boy just chucks a full water bottle into the bin, the other person is poor, she doesn't have enough money for clean water.

This caption shows when a girl is telling the boy that if he doesn't want the water then perhaps donate it to the poor.

This caption shows you what is right, 'if you don't want something that costs money then think about who else might need it'. 

I hope you have learnt something today about what you might want to do in the future.

See ya later,

Soph  :D

High Jump Hullabaloo!

 

Hey peoples,

For literacy, we have just finished writing our books for children. We had to go through a process of writing an I.P.A.R.C (intro, problem, action, resolution, conclusion), character descriptions, and story draft and then finally the book! This book I wrote is about not giving up and trying your hardest, (positively changes everything)!:

Link to book!

Hope you enjoyed it!

See ya later,

Soph  :D