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Wednesday, 13 December 2017

GRIP Student Leadership Conference

On Wednesday the 22nd of November the yr 7's at my school went on a trip to a conference.
This day involved leadership and teaching us more about leading others and having integrity, firstly the day started off with transforming into a leader. This taught us how to transform yourself into a strawberry (a strawberry is something that is the same on the outside as the inside).

The highlights of this day was learning more about leadership because I have now realised that I lead people in the right direction everyday of my life. I had learnt about reality and how often people lead others.

Next year I will be one of the leaders in the school, I will be acting as a role model around the younger students. I haven also been thinking of the role I want to be in as a leader next year, and I want to make it more fun for the people who don't enjoy Religious Education.

The teachers asked us, after the conference, what we wanted to do next year.  I want to create a wall that would be signed by the people who have been at the school. At the grip conference we were able to get badges to show that we've been at the G.R.I.P conference. 

Have you ever had an opportunity to change something in your school?

New Zealand Sign Language

This term we have been learning New Zealand sign language as one of the languages we were going to learn. I learnt the alphabet and we also have to do a project such as a short book, a poem or a song. This a video of me doing the alphabet in sign language.


Do you know any sign language?

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Saints Biography

This term we have to do biographies on Saints to make a book and we needed to work in pairs. I was with Jelena and we did it on St Jacinta and St Francisco Marto who were two child Saints from Fatima. Jacinta died when she was nine and Francisco died when he was ten. We chose these Saints because we thought that they were good role models for others. I enjoyed doing it because I learnt about Saints I hadn't heard of.

If you did this which Saint would you do it on?

Book Character Day

On Friday the 3rd of November we had a Book Character Day. We had to dress up as our favourite book character. I dressed up as a person called Anemone from the book Extinction, but I don't think anyone knew who I was. In the morning everyone in the school had a parade around the court. Then we had a dance competition between Tumu the Yr 5/6 hub and Kaupeka, but sadly Tumu won. Afterwards we had a photo of our costumes.

If you did this who would you be?

Chinese

This term in Chinese we have learnt sports and fruits these are some of them:

Sports
Basketball: Lan qiu
Football: Zu qiu
Tennis: Wang qiu
Rugby: Gan lan qiu
Table tennis: Ping pong qiu

Fruits
Apple: Ping guo
Banana: xiong guo
Watermelon: xi guo
Mandarin: Ju zi
Strawberry: Tou ma
Grapefruit: you guo
Grapes: Yu guo
Pear: li

On the 21st of November we had our last Chinese lesson for 2017, I have enjoyed learning Chinese this year but I want to learn a different language like French or Spanish next year.

Are you learning a language if you are what language is it?