Political Visits

At our school we are going to have an election because we have made parties. The party I am in is called The Right Party and our slogan is leading people in the right direction. Four politicians came to our school to talk to us about politics. For the last two weeks we have been visited by Jo Hayes, Duncan Webb, Poto Williams and Nicky Wagner. This is what happened for each visit.

Jo Hayes
We had to take notes every time a different politician came to visit these are some of the notes we took.
She said that you need to write a purpose in a way people will understand you and that make sure that everyone's ideas were being heard. We need to make sure that lots of people will vote for us because they might tell their friends to vote for us. I think these are the most important things that she talked to us about running a campaign. I enjoyed learning about all the different things that we could do to get people to vote for us.

Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb is in Labour and he talked to us about using social media to tell people to vote for us. These are some of the things we heard. He suggested that we could use social media pages such as blogs, Snapchat or Facebook and to communicate with people anyway possible so that most people will know our policies. I think it is very important to show people our policies to try and get them to vote for us.

Poto Williams

Poto Williams is in Labour and is trying to be reelected as the Christchurch East MP. She thinks that we should show our personality to get people to vote for us. We also need to listen to people's complaints about our school to make to sure we have policies that we need because policies are the things that would make people vote for us. We need to convince people there’s something about us that is good. I thought these were the most important points we put down in our groups.

Nicky Wagner                             
Nicky Wagner was the last politician who came to visit our school and she told us that when we make our policies we have to make sure it benefits everyone. She thinks that we need strong reasons for people to vote for us and to make sure that we have a strong plan so if we do get the most vote we know what we are going to do.

Which of them do you think had the best idea on how to get people to vote for us?

Speech Reflection

At our school we had a speech competition and I did my speech on why the English language is hard to learn. The reasons I found were that it is hard to remember what each word means if you're learning the English language and that there are quite a few words that are hard to say like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which is quite a mouthful. Also words that are said the same are confusing. I think I did okay but sadly I didn't get into the semifinals. In my speech I had a poem on google which is about plurals that I found on google. I enjoyed doing my speech and I hope you like this poem.
What would you do a speech on?

We’ll begin with box; the plural is boxes,

But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice;

But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

The plural of man is always men,

But the plural of pan is never pen.

If I speak of a foot and you show me two feet,

And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn’t two booths be called beeth?

If the singular’s this and the plural is these,

So the plural of kiss be ever called keese?

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him;

Imagine the feminine…. She, shis and shim!

Digital badges

In the year seven/eight hub we had to do a google doc challenge to see how well we know to use google docs.  I got a bronze badge because I didn't know how to do all the things such as doing a border for images. I enjoyed doing it because I learnt other things that I didn't know you could do on google docs.

How well do you know google docs?

Creativity - Geo-city

In the year 7/8 hub we had to design a city only using paper. First we got to pick our group. After that we had to design a city using cubes, triangular prisms, rectangular prisms and other different 3-D shapes. First we had to decide what were going to have in the city. We named our city Lulatte City and all our streets are hot drinks such as hot chocolate or coffee. We needed to have houses, transport, emergence services, supermarkets and some water such as a lake, river or sea. For transport we're going to make cars and I am going to design a train. For emergence services we are going to make a hospital, a police station and a fire station. We made a large supermarket to buy lots of different things. For the water we had the sea and a small lake.
Our creative thinking was okay when designing buildings but we were very creative thinking when naming streets also  it took us a while to figure out what we should call the city.  We could of been more creative when we were thinking of what shapes we're going to use for each thing.

What would you want in a city?