Man,what a term it’s been! I mean it’s been one of the hardest term’s I’ve gone through! There were so many trainings I had to attend for the schools sports teams, designing signs to go around our school, producing PENN and much more.
One of the many highlights for me this term was participating in the schools Rugby team. I really enjoy training with my mates and we are doing really well this year and are hoping that we can go all the way. So far we have won the Auckland East tournament and are heading into the Auckland champion of champions tournament this Wednesday! Another thing that was related to Rugby throughout the term was some of my friends and I making the Bill Mclaren East Auckland team. I have really enjoyed the trainings and cannot wait for the tournament to come up!
Being able to go to the annual ‘I am making movies 2’ awards at the Auckland Museum was another highlight, making the actual movie was a highlight but making the finals for best documentary is a true honour. It was a wonderful experience especially getting to listen to an awesome all men choir! They were outstanding and really set the night!
Although this term would be the term where I was challenged the most physically it was still an enjoyable one. It was an amazing experience for me, especially sports. It’s been a term that I will never forget when I go onto college.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Tamaki Tech:LAST DAY OF SCIENCE :(
The day that I don’t like at all in the week are the Mondays. The day when you feel the most tired,weary and well the day when you just don’t want to come back to school. But one thing that really makes me want to come to school on Mondays, is knowing that we have tech at Tamaki. The fact that we can learn about different things about technology every week is pretty cool right!
Sadly this was the last week that my group would be doing science for the year! Throughout the term we have participated in the coolest experiments ever. But the final experiment was also counted as an examination. This task was one of the easier experiments of the term. All we had to do was measure and record the temperature of the water every minute which is placed in a measuring cup, while being heated up by a Bunsen burner.
Though this sounds pretty easy we still enjoyed measuring and watching the temperature change over time. We still learnt a lot from it and were still into the activity. When we had to leave we were pretty sad that it was the last time we would be in science for the year. The teacher told us about how much he enjoyed teaching and talking to us about how cool science. I AM SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING SCIENCE AS A STUDY WHEN I GO TO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly this was the last week that my group would be doing science for the year! Throughout the term we have participated in the coolest experiments ever. But the final experiment was also counted as an examination. This task was one of the easier experiments of the term. All we had to do was measure and record the temperature of the water every minute which is placed in a measuring cup, while being heated up by a Bunsen burner.
Though this sounds pretty easy we still enjoyed measuring and watching the temperature change over time. We still learnt a lot from it and were still into the activity. When we had to leave we were pretty sad that it was the last time we would be in science for the year. The teacher told us about how much he enjoyed teaching and talking to us about how cool science. I AM SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING SCIENCE AS A STUDY WHEN I GO TO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Men Of Courage: Finalist In Making Movies Competition
Not so long ago we had put in a movie for a movie competition. Our movie made the final and was also mentioned at the awards night from one of the judges. Most people thought that our movie was a standout, so if you watch this we hope that you will enjoy this as much as our school did.
Men of Courage from SchoolTV on Vimeo.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Maths Problem Solving
In our maths classes we were learning about equal addition and how they can make problems much easier. On this strategy I demonstrate how I can use this strategy. You must add or subtract an EQUAL amount on both sides.Tip:Can be only be used for subtraction!
Monday, June 20, 2011
A Scientific Experience!
Yesterday was a great oppurtunity, an oppurtunity to learn lot's of cool and awesome things about SCIENCE!!! Being able to watch people create fire right in front of you is surely fantastic for anyone to experience!!!
On this day Tamaki College were holding a spectacular Science Roadshow. Schools from around the community were able to watch,experience and certainly enjoy! My class were one of the last classes to visit the roadshow. We were seated in the schools auditorium and began to watch. In this session we are talking about temprature. A woman talked to us about how it can change and transform throughout time. Showing us cool experiments such as burning holes through thick pieces of steel and using the oxygen around us to create massive amounts of fire was certainly one of my highlights!
After giving us a cool presentation we were able to check out some cool exhibits and inventions. One of my favourite exhibits that I had a go with was an instrument called the therimin. When playing this instrument you have to use one hand to control the volume and the other hand to control the pitch of the sound. It was fascinatinating to play on and listen to such a wonderful instrument. Another one of the exhibit that I tried out was the metal detector. In this exhibit you were able to put a few metal spoons into a big sand pit and you were able to search for them with your metal detector. I had lots of fun while doing that activity as was enjoyable enough to be on the "Highlight List"!!!
After looking around and exploring some cool exhibits the presenters called us back in for another explanation.They told us about how amazing our body is. They told us about us humans sense of smell, our eye vision and how our ears work. One amazing fact that from the 2nd presentation was that our eyes actually pick the the images that we see up side down and our brain flips it back the right way up!
Being part of that experience was that experience made it one of the coolest experience made it one of the coolest experiences that I have had. will certainly consider taking science when I get to college!!!
On this day Tamaki College were holding a spectacular Science Roadshow. Schools from around the community were able to watch,experience and certainly enjoy! My class were one of the last classes to visit the roadshow. We were seated in the schools auditorium and began to watch. In this session we are talking about temprature. A woman talked to us about how it can change and transform throughout time. Showing us cool experiments such as burning holes through thick pieces of steel and using the oxygen around us to create massive amounts of fire was certainly one of my highlights!
After giving us a cool presentation we were able to check out some cool exhibits and inventions. One of my favourite exhibits that I had a go with was an instrument called the therimin. When playing this instrument you have to use one hand to control the volume and the other hand to control the pitch of the sound. It was fascinatinating to play on and listen to such a wonderful instrument. Another one of the exhibit that I tried out was the metal detector. In this exhibit you were able to put a few metal spoons into a big sand pit and you were able to search for them with your metal detector. I had lots of fun while doing that activity as was enjoyable enough to be on the "Highlight List"!!!
After looking around and exploring some cool exhibits the presenters called us back in for another explanation.They told us about how amazing our body is. They told us about us humans sense of smell, our eye vision and how our ears work. One amazing fact that from the 2nd presentation was that our eyes actually pick the the images that we see up side down and our brain flips it back the right way up!
Being part of that experience was that experience made it one of the coolest experience made it one of the coolest experiences that I have had. will certainly consider taking science when I get to college!!!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Technology Argument Part 1
I think that Technology is one of the big things that make mankind so amazing! I mean just think what would the world be like if we didn’t have technology? Technology is a huge help in life giving man easier lives.
One of the many things that have improved through time that are technological inventions which clearly show how technology is helpful is the mobile phone. The mobile phone is literally “Mobile”, it’s better, faster and stronger. Used mostly to send messages to others with phones or to ring them. It helps people in so many ways, rather than having to travel to tell them a message or mailing the message to them you can easily text them (If you have enough credit!).
Back in the medieval days people were sent to give messages to others around the country. Back in those days messengers were mostly sent to tell the other countries and villages about upcoming wars, new inventions and competitions.
Another reason why the mobile is well used by people is listening to songs and tunes as well as recording videos and taking pictures and snap shots. You are able to also share songs,videos and pictures with others with a thing called “Blue Tooth”.
Another way technology has helped us throughout time is through travel which leads to the invention of the car. Being able to travel at the speed limit of around 100 km per hour on the motorway is obviously a huge help! Vehicles are compulsory to use for travelling, going out and, well just for anything! Most cars around the world can carry the average of 5 people. The age that you have to be these days to drive a car is 16.
Explaining these technology creations just shows what a help technology is these days, cars,tvs,phones. Having technology around us plays a big part in our lives and especially saves us.
One of the many things that have improved through time that are technological inventions which clearly show how technology is helpful is the mobile phone. The mobile phone is literally “Mobile”, it’s better, faster and stronger. Used mostly to send messages to others with phones or to ring them. It helps people in so many ways, rather than having to travel to tell them a message or mailing the message to them you can easily text them (If you have enough credit!).
Back in the medieval days people were sent to give messages to others around the country. Back in those days messengers were mostly sent to tell the other countries and villages about upcoming wars, new inventions and competitions.
Another reason why the mobile is well used by people is listening to songs and tunes as well as recording videos and taking pictures and snap shots. You are able to also share songs,videos and pictures with others with a thing called “Blue Tooth”.
Another way technology has helped us throughout time is through travel which leads to the invention of the car. Being able to travel at the speed limit of around 100 km per hour on the motorway is obviously a huge help! Vehicles are compulsory to use for travelling, going out and, well just for anything! Most cars around the world can carry the average of 5 people. The age that you have to be these days to drive a car is 16.
Explaining these technology creations just shows what a help technology is these days, cars,tvs,phones. Having technology around us plays a big part in our lives and especially saves us.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Point England VS Ferguson Intermediate
Last week on Wednesday our Point England sevens team went up against a very tough Ferguson school, we managed to beat them 29-5 although Ferguson's defence was very strong we scored five tries! Check out our highlights!!!
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