Month: February 2025

Jasper Jones analysis

We read Jasper Jones by Silvey Craig. I worked with, Preslee, Pearl,Bill, Hamish, Giorgio and Stanley. 

The first part of the chapters give us an idea of the narrative style, introduces our main character Charlie Bucktins and illustrates the main plot of Laura Wisharts mysterious death. Jasper Jones is a disappointment of the town, an orphan boy who stumbled across Laruras body who was his lover and was going to get framed if he reported it to the police because of his reputation. He decides to drag Charlie into the mess to help him hide the body and solve the case on there own. 

 

 

 

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Looking for Alibrandi

Learning Goal:

AS91098 2.1 Written Text(s): We are learning to analyse specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence.

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, we chose this novel as a group, the group consists of Jayden, Ethan, Zack, Jeana, Jessica,  and Turtle.  We chose this book because it stands out more compared to the other seven books in detail and the overall theme. The starting novel consists mainly of the setting of the story, the opening characters, and the setting where everything takes place. The start of the novel grabs the attention of the reader.  As a group everyone did the first chapters 4-5, by doing this we can gather the details that explain the aspect of the book from the beginning.  Each member in the group managed to write one slide of basically each beginning of the novel. 

 

I already finished the novel, and right now I’m trying to finish the movie version of the novel. 

 

 

 

 

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National Flags of New Zealand

For this activity, We learnt about National Flags. Something I learnt while making this DLO, I learnt that The British flag that is on the NZ flag represents the Union Jacks. The blue color represents the blue sea and the sky’s surroundings. The diamond shaped postition that the stars are forming represents the southern cross signify our place in the south Pacific ocean. I enjoyed this activity because I learnt about what the diamond shaped postition that the stars are forming represents.

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Tractor Trek and Think and Be Me Show

The students had an amazing day last Thursday as the Tractor Trek came to school with Cat Levine and the Think and Be Me Show.

First up, the Tractor Trek. Our tamariki were wide-eyed with wonder as a convoy of  tractors of all shapes and sizes rumbled onto the field. The tamariki loved getting up close to the machines and even getting a chance to sit in the driver’s seat. A huge thank you to the Tractor Trek organisers and the generous tractor owners for sharing their passion with us! Ngā mihi nui to Leahana (Josiah’s mum) for taking such cool photo’s of our class.

    

 

The students were then treated to the Think and Be Me Show which included participation by lots of our own students and Whaea Jade too. This interactive and engaging show delivered powerful messages about resilience, self-belief, and celebrating our unique qualities. We are using Think and Be Me strategies to help us notice how we feel and strategies to help us manage our feelings. The characters Worry Watchdog, Angry Dragon and Cool Cat have been wonderful in helping learn the strategies. (Click on the link above to visit our class site)

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Evoloution of flags

 

LI:To understand the story behind our flag

Last week me and my classmate collaborated and made a DLO about flags our learning intention was to understand the story behind each flag we chose to do research about,

This is what we made and how we did it, first we did our research about our flags that we selected such as New Zealand, British, and the Maori flag, we researched who created it and what each colour and Designs represented,

This is the DLO that me and my classmate created, Something i liked about this subject is that i found out alot more information about each flag that i chose to research about,

and that this DLO represents my country and culture

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The United Tribes Flags of New Zealand

For this task, I discussed with my working buddy about the flags of the United Tribes of New Zealand! We have worked together finding information about the evolution and history of the New Zealand flag. And after obtaining the info we have been searching for, both of us put the information in a Google presentation, and explain its history after we have finished putting the information altogether!

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New Zealand National Flag

For this activity, We learnt about the national New Zealand flags, We went into pairs to get both sides of our prior knowledge of New Zealand, and then we reasearched about the national flag discovering on how the new Zealand flag was made and all the ones before. I found out that New Zealand was widely chossen to be our national flag since 1869.

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Group Flag

At the start of 2025 learning year our class had done resurch about The New Zealand flag. i learned about the evolution of the nz flag Like the old flags and the new flags.  something I found interesting is that They kept changeing the coulor of the flag.

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National Flags

For this activity, we learned about the national flags of New Zealand. In pairs we added information about what we already learned and discussed about what the 2 flags represents which are the United Tribes of New Zealand and the original flag. For example, the reason why the British flag is on the orginal New Zealand flag is because it represents the Union Jacks.

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Evolutions Of The New Zealand Flag

At the start of the year the first 1 – 2 weeks, LS2 had discussed about the evolution of the New Zealand flag. We also took a look at the history  behind the New Zealand flag and we worked together to create a google slide about the evolution of the New Zealand flag, Something I found interesting was that the cross on the New Zealand flag was called a union jack.

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Evolution of the New Zealand flag

At the start of the year for week 1 – 2 LS2 was talking about the evolution of the New Zealand flag and we also had a look of how it was changed over the years and also we had a look at the history,

then we work togetther into groups and created a google silde and talk about the evolution of the New Zealand flag.

And what i found interesting was how the other flags looked like before.

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My weekly REFLECTION week 5

Today I did my weekly reflection where I circle how I felt this week I set a SMART goal told about my reason for my rating but then Lexie realised she did bring her togs me grace and Lexie all went swimming together, I wrote about what I learned I learned resilience and what it is what did you learn this week?.

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NZ Flags History

This week we made a slideshow about the history of the new Zealand flags , who chose it , who designed it , etc . We made it because we have to learn all about our country and why this flag was chosen to be the official New Zealand Flag .

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Spencer park camp

Kia ora  today I will be talking to you about my experience at Spencer  Park camp

On February 18 2025 our  school year 8/7s attended Spencer park. We had to wake up early  and it really annoyed me because I was still very tired. We got ready and hopped in the car. I couldn’t wait to get to school. Me and my brother got to school just in time. We had to pack a tent,sleeping bag, and day bags and go to Tangaroa. When we got there we asked a teacher where to put our things and belongings.

 

Then we made our way to the astroturf. We had to talk a lot and wait a lot, which really annoyed me and we went into walking/running groups 1, 2 , 3 and 4. There was a running group which I thought was weird because who’s running 9.ks but. I chose to walk because who in the hecka is running 9.ks but the walk was pretty easy to me and some others I could’ve gone the whole way to be honest and it wouldn’t have taken as long as it was. In my opinion I honestly believe that we should’ve just kept going because we had to stop every 20/10 minutes which was very annoying and stupid.

 

 there wasn’t even any seats to sit on only grass  sometimes dirt and leaves it was kinda sore because little bugs and dirt got on my but and back and we were walking in the forest the only good thing about the forest was the shade under the trees because it was very hot and irritating and i listening to music all the way to spencer park. when we got to spencer park i layed down on the grass because i was so tired but happy that we got there we played around until everyone got there some of us played volleyball while waiting by the time everyone got there we had to do the roll after that we

 

 went to the campsite to set up our tents before hand we had to go in groups and figure out who was bringing what and what tents everyone slept in while setting up our tents and cooking food it started to rain and kind of thunder we left all our belonging outside of our tents so we had to quickly get them in the tents we waited for the rain to pass till we went back and luckily it stopped raining and we got to finish off our things and 

 

after it stopped raining all of us went back to what we were doing before the rain. after  it stopped raining everyone went back to what we were doing Tks dad was setting up more tents because there wasn’t enough  room in any of the the other tents our group was pretty big so we all had to sort out what tents everyone got to sleep in. Dante,Tiaki,Tupara did not have a tent so Tks dad had to bring more tents thanks to him none of us had to sleep outside or squeeze into other tents. I was so thankful for  that because I of course wouldn’t like sharing a tent with others because I’m getting older and need my personal space. when we sorted our tents and sleeping arrangements  we had to get ready for activities the activities were really fun and after the activities we went to play preditor it was really fun because it was dark and no one knew were anyone was going luckily most of us got flash lights so most of us could see. lastly we went to adrenelyn forest and got over our fears.

 

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Expections

At the start of school we learned about the expectations of Ls2 and we collaborated with eachother had fun and using the care values and using smart choices

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What Learning Looks Like in LS2

This week we learned Our Expectation For 2025  and how to do it the LS2 way. For a year 7 you have to learn the Expectation the Care Values and Many More and We made this slide to whoever who doesn’t know the Expectations when you Coming up to LS2 in 2026. Here is some advice for you.

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Evolution of the NZ flag

For this task we created a presentation about the Evolution of the NZ (New Zealand) flag. I collaborated and communicated with my pathner and did some research about the First and out present flag. This flag on the bottom left was called The flag of the United tribes  the first NZ flag ever and our NZ flag now.

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Evolution of flag

For our inquirya we made a slide deck about the evolution of the new Zealand flag we all got into groups and created a slide deck about the evolution My group and I collaborated and created a slide deck talking about the Evolution of the New Zealand.

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