tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22172367906310045842024-03-06T05:04:31.513+13:00JarnaThis is a record of my learning during the years I was at Pt England School.PES Blog Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03346754417165409248noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-91103949846909745952012-12-13T13:11:00.000+13:002012-12-13T13:11:07.599+13:00My Friend Description<b id="internal-source-marker_0.39815173693932593" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My friend tells lots of jokes and has a good sense of humor. Shes funny when she doesn’t get her turn because she screams NOOO!!!! She’s a great friend to have. She is great at rugby and lots of different sports.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has a go for it personality and is overall she is an amazing friend and anyone is lucky to have her as one. She is one of the many friends I wish to still have her as a friend in college and longer. The name of this great, fantastic friend is Seini-mino but we call her mino. </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-77199100042309383542012-12-13T11:01:00.001+13:002012-12-13T11:01:01.638+13:002012 Reflection<b id="internal-source-marker_0.13814206304959953" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the beginning of the year one of the things I struggled on was maths, and now I know I have improved over the months and I’m proud of my achievements in all of my subjects. The one thing I enjoyed most was sports because I got to meet a lot of different people and got to learn some sports that were new to me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the least things I enjoyed was maths because I didn’t really get into it. The most thing I am proud of this year was joining the extension group because I never knew I was that smart. This year I joined the choir aka PEPA, Pt England Performing Arts, but I didn’t enjoy it because of some of the song choices but besides that it was alright. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The achievements I have made this year were great and I am very proud of them because most of the events I have tried out for I made it in. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The thing I am most looking forward to next year is going to college because there are a lot of more opportunities in college. </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-59432497080188377642012-12-13T11:00:00.001+13:002012-12-13T11:00:53.078+13:002012 Reflection<b id="internal-source-marker_0.13814206304959953" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the beginning of the year one of the things I struggled on was maths, and now I know I have improved over the months and I’m proud of my achievements in all of my subjects. The one thing I enjoyed most was sports because I got to meet a lot of different people and got to learn some sports that were new to me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the least things I enjoyed was maths because I didn’t really get into it. The most thing I am proud of this year was joining the extension group because I never knew I was that smart. This year I joined the choir aka PEPA, Pt England Performing Arts, but I didn’t enjoy it because of some of the song choices but besides that it was alright. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The achievements I have made this year were great and I am very proud of them because most of the events I have tried out for I made it in. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The thing I am most looking forward to next year is going to college because there are a lot of more opportunities in college. </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-50369410739887257792012-12-10T09:56:00.001+13:002012-12-10T09:56:50.216+13:00Camp Ngaruawahia<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7419271841645241" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yes, the day’s finally here,” I shouted with excitement as I got out of bed. Rushing to get in the car to edger to get to school so we can pack the bus. It was a beautiful Tuesday morning today was the arrival to our year 8 camp. Once everything was packed it took a long time to get on the bus but we finally got on ready for our long journey to Ngaruawahia.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wow,” I said as we made it to the campsite. The site was amazing because the lake looked stunning and there was a pool, a hot pool, mini golf, gym, and much much more. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once we had unpack the bus we had morning tea at the playground and then went to our cabins. In my cabin was Sylvia, Mino, Selena H, Toreka, Mubasshira, Lesley and Awhina.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favourite thing at camp was the game room because there was a pool table, two table tennis tables, Foosball, and another game. The reason it was my favourite was because it was raining most the time so we use to chill out and play some games against the parents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the last day of camp we went to Waingaro hot springs. It was awesome because we got to bomb and dive in the pool. the pools we swam in was really deep. There was two huge slides that looked really cool. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of the activities were fun and this camp was a great way to finish off the year for the year 8 and I hope I can go there again in the holidays.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-82783247187670608502012-11-30T11:53:00.003+13:002012-11-30T11:53:38.089+13:00Blue Light Disco<b id="internal-source-marker_0.957064745016396" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was amazed as I walked through the doors of the flashing lights and crazy dance moves. Tonight was the night for the ‘Blue Light Disco!’ The Disco was run by the cops and prefects and some people from the community.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walking through the doors where the party was, I saw my friends and started to groove to the rhythm of the music. Watching everyone dancing It was already time for a competition. There were around about 4 or 5 which were dougie, cat daddy, limbo competitions and some more.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After some comps it was time for something to eat, “Mmmm people were saying as they rushed in line for a delicious sausage sizzle and fizzy drink. After everyone was satisfied by their meal they started to dance again. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unluckily it was time for the last song. So we danced as hard as we could till the song ended. “That was awesome,” I thought to myself and that was also a great last disco.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-70665530249638745062012-11-26T12:59:00.000+13:002012-11-26T12:59:01.637+13:00My Toy Creation<b id="internal-source-marker_0.37477831030264497" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-20973889665434065802012-11-13T14:38:00.001+13:002012-11-13T14:38:41.667+13:00Narritive<b id="internal-source-marker_0.16570796119049191" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Errr,” the car jolted forward as Sam stepped on the brake and shouted, “Chris we’re here,” “Huh, oh wow the forest looks amazing, lets set up camp Sammy,” The two girls had just finished setting up when Sam heard a weird noise.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Chris,” Sam squeaked “What was that? I’m scared,” Chris replied, “Don’t worry it’s just the forest, it’s probably a rabbit or something.” They both heard it this time then decided to go and investigate. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pushing bushes and branches out of the way they saw weird looking footprints, “What the,” they said looking closer. ‘Boom’ there it was again, “Lets go see what it is Sam,” “No I don’t think it’s a good idea what if it’s a bear or something?” “Come on,” Chris said as she dragged Sam along.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ahhh,” “Shhh,” Chris said as she covered Sam’s mouth. Sam got away from Chris and hide behind a fallen tree. “Ahh!” Chris screamed as the giant creature snached her up. “Hahaha,” “What do you want from me,” Chris pleaded, “I’m going to eat you, Argh” “No!!!” Sam cried as she saw her sister getting eaten.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You monster,” Sam screamed out to the creature, “Now it’s your turn, run,” sprinting passed trees and bushes she ran for her life. She jumped over a log looking for a weapon of some sort, ”Aha you’re mine now,” she said waiting for the creature.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It went silent she looked back nothing was there, ”Boo,” “Argh,” She shouted as she went to kill the beast, “oh no,” “Bang,” the beast exploded it was done the beast was killed. Sam cried on her way back home leaving the gear behind, “Why,” She said, “Why.”</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-49724941391764305252012-11-12T09:38:00.001+13:002012-11-12T09:38:24.191+13:00Barnyard Narrative <b id="internal-source-marker_0.41458010277710855" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Come here Vivienne and Osana quickly,” called out Tom to his small chubby dogs. Turning the corner he noticed something but couldn’t see because of the dark. “Come on girls lets go check that out,” “Wow an abandoned barn,” Tom sprinted to the door. “Errr,” went the door as he entered with the two dogs. All he could hear was footsteps but they had stopped.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”Ohhh freaky house” whispered Tom. Getting closer and closer to the end of the hallway the debris got worse “Slam!!” “Woof Woof “screeched Vivienne as she was getting dragged into a room. “Vivienne NO!!!” Tom shouted with anger, “Osana come here, Osana, OSANA!,” </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom searched everywhere but had no luck, ”I wish I never came here” he sobbed, “Oww,” one of the dogs whined. Suddenly another thud, “Viv, Osana are you there,” silence filled the room as he headed towards a small door for him just to fit in. “Err, bang,” the door slammed behind him. He started to freak out as a weird sound was approaching him, “Arghh.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be continued........</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to <a href="http://pesashleight.blogspot.co.nz/">Ashleigh</a> for helping me producing this narrative.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-84145868041239788682012-09-26T10:40:00.000+12:002012-09-26T10:40:01.134+12:00The Iosefo Family Comes To Pt England<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9012222741730511"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today a very special guest came to Team 5’s team assembly. He was asked to go on Campbell live and he is a prefect at Mt Roskill Grammar. Can you guess who it is? His name is......Joshua Iosefo he is the poet of the spoken word ‘Brown Brother’.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After he watched the movie Sinarella he got angry because of all of the stereotypes so he went into his room and wrote for an hour and that is how his poem was born. After he showed his parents they said this has to get out. So at his school all of the prefects has to recite a speech so he decided to do that.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said that it was a risk to recite the poem in front of the school but he felt comfortable saying it. Joshua Iosefo ‘Brown Brother’ is on YouTube and he is so lucky because he got to be on live television. </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-53707693667141023172012-09-24T10:21:00.000+12:002012-09-24T10:21:19.701+12:00Tommy Kapai Wilson Presentation<iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/embed?id=1-JHHoUWhs79nTRU8h5bylqguSHCHmQOJHQLaaFMtY5E&start=false&loop=false&delayms=15000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<a href="http://pesashleight.blogspot.co.nz/">Ashleigh</a>, <a href="http://peschantef.blogspot.co.nz/">Chante</a> and I have created a presentation about Tommy Kapai Wilson who has recently came to our school. Hope you enjoy!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-10935207060489213062012-09-24T10:09:00.000+12:002012-09-24T10:09:29.852+12:00Mini Olympics at Pt England School<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3625218791421503" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A sea full of multicoloured t-shirts started chanting and cheering. Today was the Point England mini Olympics. There were 16 countries Mexico, Jamaica, Romania and many more. I was the leader for Russia.</span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #351c75;">We participated in 7 events touch, handball(The real handball they play in the Olympics), foursquare etc. We played against many teams and won some and lost some. We got lots of points for sportsmanship.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My most favourite event was foursquare (well it wasn’t really foursquare it was actually more like handball). We had to play in doubles and it was nerve racking. When I got on to the court My partner and I were on for a while.</span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #351c75;">My least favourite was three legged soccer. the reason I didn’t like it was because my partner kept wandering off. Also because the strap kept falling off.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the end it was hard to come back and sit down because of the massive crowd in the way. Finally reaching my destination it was unfortunately the end of the mini Olympics. Maybe next term we can do something like this again because everyone including me enjoyed it.</span></span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-79632762071957326582012-09-18T10:06:00.001+12:002012-09-18T10:06:55.633+12:00Tommy Kapai Wilson<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8593396795913577" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the 7 of September a very special person came to our school. Uncle Anzac aka Tommy Kapai Wilson he is very well known for writing books about a Kiwi named Kapai. When he came he talked about many things.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Tommy was younger his father lied about his age so that he could join the army (he was only seventeen). When his father came back he said, “I’m not going to be alone anymore.” He made rules which were never violence, always make ten people smile a day, hard case humour. Now Tommy pushed it up to make 20 people smile a day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later on in his life he went and worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant (I know it’s not the best job in the world but at least he had one). Then he got a job as a butler for a famous person and he got a Ferrari, a boat and lots of money. But he decided to go back home to his family.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he came back he started to write children's books and that is how he became a famous author. His most popular books are Kapai the kiwi.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe when I get older I can become an author if I try hard enough. Tommy Kapai Wilson has inspired me of what I can be or do in the future.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Tommy.</span></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-18741333229792835682012-09-18T09:16:00.000+12:002012-09-18T09:16:46.490+12:00Senior Sports Rotation<b id="internal-source-marker_0.27812338760122657"><i><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ahhhhhhhhh! My hair”, Mubba screamed as the blustery rain made her rushed to the hall for the senior sports rotation. As we arrived I was wondering what activities we were going to do. All of the houses had four groups and each group had four rotations. I was the leader for Tainui 4. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rotations my group and I participated in were cyber coach (which is a guy showing you different dance moves), Mr Jacobson’s room to watch one of our old school productions the Toy shop, and then we went to Mrs Flavell to decorate some biscuits and shells. Last of all we went to Miss M for jump jam.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favourite activity was decorating with Mrs Flavell. The reason I enjoyed decorating would have to be sharing ideas with the other kids and making a good design. Making designs with Ms Flavell was nerve racking because we only had a short period of time (now I know how people on my kitchen rules feel).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the end I was feeling stink because it came to an end but hopefully we would get to do it again.</span></span></i></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-60779799432369340172012-09-14T10:58:00.000+12:002012-09-14T10:58:52.883+12:00Year 7 and 8 Social<b id="internal-source-marker_0.16774185141548514" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">Getting ready for tonight I realised that I didn’t have anything to wear. Rushing to the computer to look for a costume to wear. “Aha that’s it.” The Theme was New Zealand olympic team (Black and white)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">“Boom, boom, boom,” the music blared as I entered the hall. Lights flashing everywhere I saw Kingston dancing alone in the middle of the dance hall. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">There was only three different competitions at the social Dougie, cat daddy and azonto. My favourite competition was Dougie. Mary, Rita, James and Nezinli were the final four. “Oh, oh,” Everyone was shouting as they were dougieing “And the winner is ..... Nezinli,” Mr Barks announced as the boys started screaming and shaking Nezinli around.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">Finally everyone was saying as Selena said we could go and eat now. “Mmm..,” I said as I smelt the delicious smell of sausages. “Pick a drink any drink,” Mrs Lavakula said to us, everyone was coming in to have a good sausage sizzle. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">“Ok guys this is the final song so everyone dance,” the DJ said. Everyone started dancing then all of a sudden the music stopped and I realized that the social was over. I was bummed that we couldn’t carry on. At the end of the night I was tired and I hope we can do this again.</span></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-19565209823575781862012-08-24T09:53:00.001+12:002012-08-24T09:53:27.922+12:00Treacherous Race <b id="internal-source-marker_0.34821173432283103" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Bang!” The clappers slammed and everyone was off. Jogging a steady pace I was passing people one by one. Once I got further up ahead a lot of kids were behind me. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mud started to splatter on my legs then I heard squelching as I ran across the gross, gooey grass. I looked down at my shoes and they were soaked with dirt and water. It was a struggle to run across the mud as it felt like I was running on ice.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once I passed the bridge the track looked treacherous. “So many steps,” I thought to myself I was gasping for breath as I carried on running. Determination and perseverance made me finish the track.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yes,” I shouted as I had finally completed the track. With aching muscles I saw Brooklyn fall so I went over to help her. “Are you alright?” I asked her, “No my leg hurts,” she replied in agony. While still helping Brooklyn she said she was alright to carry on by herself.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a burst of speed I passed the finish line with pride. Walking to the water fountains I was so glad that I completed the course. I saw my friends and they look exhausted. I was happy with myself and thought I did good for my last year.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-49289327412812169882012-08-22T13:51:00.001+12:002012-08-22T13:51:10.220+12:00Bro Town Animators<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They also taught us how to find the middle in between two lines. And that's how we made our jellyfish animations, at the end of the session they gave us a pack so that we can make our own animations. Hope you enjoy my movie!!!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-83087206940245554062012-08-22T13:22:00.000+12:002012-08-22T13:22:12.751+12:00Smoking Kills<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3662880347110331" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teenagers start smoking because they think that it’s cool or maybe it is because other people do it and they feel left out. But if you smoke it is very difficult to stop. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happens to your health when you smoke? There are many consequences of smoking that are dangerous. Inside every cigarette there are 4000 different types of chemicals 200 of them cause cancer. Smoking can also cause heart problems, all of these things has a high chance of dying. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The consequences of smoking are that you could get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wrinkly skin, yellowed teeth, stained fingers, and a disgusting breath. You get these awful things by the cause of smoking and there are many many more of these consequences. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smoking is also a huge waste of money smokers spend $14-$15 per packet. Every week smokers spend $150, so every year they spend around $5110, if they stop smoking they could save $5110 every year. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So why do people start smoking in the first place? People usually start smoking because they see their friends smoke and they think it’s cool so they want to start. They also get influenced by their family because maybe all of their family members smoke and they want to be just like them. Or maybe they get pressured by peers and they can’t take and start.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smoking kills. Which path do you want to take?</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-73538316099741516112012-08-14T10:44:00.001+12:002012-08-14T10:49:50.228+12:00Gold for Our Champion Valerie Adams<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7993089833762497" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Impact; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This morning Valerie Adams has won gold for shot put. Many of you are thinking no she got silver, well you’re wrong. The reason why Valerie has the gold medal is because the Belarus woman was stripped of her gold medal because she tested positive for drugs. </span></b><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7993089833762497" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Impact; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee Mike Stanley has described Valerie Adams gold medal as 'justice served'. The drug that she was tested positive was methanol.</span></b><br />
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This week in room 20 we have all been learning how to animate people running. This is my finished animation of a person running. Enjoy!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-72669765684600498012012-08-07T10:37:00.000+12:002012-08-07T10:37:30.811+12:00Valerie Adams<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">With a valiant attempt Valerie Adams threw a distance of 20.10m in the shot put. In her build up to the Olympics she had worked tirelessly for the gold she was desperate to win. However this was not to be. Coach of Valerie Adams Jean-Pierre Eggar was proud of her achievements unfortunately she had only just come second place.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-12163262632765201952012-08-01T14:47:00.000+12:002012-08-01T14:47:55.019+12:00Precious McKenzie<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9792051226831973" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Precious McKenzie is a well known New Zealand weightlifter but he wasn’t originally from here. In 1936 in Red Cross hospital in Durban South Africa was where he was born. Unfortunately when he was born he had a chest condition. Luckily he survived it and that’s how he got his name ‘Precious One’.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his early childhood his father Joseph was killed by a crocodile. After he had died his mother Christina started drinking heavily so Precious and his sister got put up to foster care. Life in foster care was horrible, where his foster mothers were evil and treated them very poorly. The foster mothers malnourished them and that caused their growth to stop at 4ft10.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later on in life he had been practicing gymnastics and his dream was to be in the circus. He wanted to be in the circus but got turned down because they said his skin colour was wrong. When he got rejected by the circus he tried a different sport, which is weightlifting. McKenzie went to try out for the South African weightlifting team and sadly didn’t get selected for the team.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Precious McKenzie moved to England and he hoped that he didn’t get treated the same as he did in South Africa. Once he got settled in England he tried out for their Olympic weightlifting team, without a doubt he made it in the team.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After he competed in the olympics for England he got emigrated to New Zealand in 1970’s. He became very well known for weightlifting here in NZ because he won gold medals in the commonwealth games. Precious McKenzie still lives here in New Zealand and is aged 75. </span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-68839440116016911172012-07-20T13:15:00.002+12:002012-08-08T21:16:19.376+12:00Brown Brother<b id="internal-source-marker_0.20307349297218025" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joshua Iosefo is a prefect at Mt Roskill Grammar. Recently the prefects at Mt Roskill had to prepare a speech to say in front of the school so Joshua decided instead of writing a speech he would write a poem. The name of the poem is “Brown Brother”. His friend Rashad recorded him while he was saying his speech and then he posted it up on youtube.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joshua Iosefo’s poem “Brown Brother” is about not believing stereotypes. Stereotypes are labelling a whole group with a characteristic often negative. Some of the stereotypes are like how brown people can't get proper jobs because their not qualified enough or that they </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Joshua’s poem was posted on youtube Rashad (friend), his dad, and Joshua ended up being on campbell live. When he was on live television he got the opportunity to recite his poem “Brown Brother”. I think the message in the poem is that you should never underestimate yourself and that be who you want to be.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2217236790631004584.post-76599268007027369282012-07-20T11:43:00.000+12:002012-07-21T08:04:36.785+12:00Precious McKenzie<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6587224109098315" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Precious McKenzie, the weightlifter, was preparing himself mentally for the final lift. The weight of the bar showed no mercy and bought tension to his body. As his muscles grew taut his veins were bulging. He was struggling to continue. Reaching towards the end he was determined to succeed.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://pesseini-mino.blogspot.co.nz/">Mino</a> and <a href="http://www.pessylviam.blogspot.co.nz/">Sylvia</a> helped me produce these few sentences.</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0