Gender Equality

For our Jump start to year 10 we started our first topic 'Equality'. One of the activities was choosing an image and writing a little quick presentation about your thoughts on the picture. So I had chosen a picture of a man and women on each side of the scale, and the scale being balanced out. The hard part of it all was trying to figure out what to say. Most would say having to present in front of the class, but I was fine with that because my speech was rather short. Here is my speech for you :)

Gender Equality. The picture above shows women and men being balanced. Now is this how the real world works ? From my point of view, it is not! Women seem to struggle in big time business's, sports, construction work, and engineering couriers due to the reasons of either 'being too soft' , 'not smart enough' or 'simply just being a women. 

In terms of business, an actual fact is in 2019 38 percent of bachelor degree level, full time students were men, and women 62 percent. But my purpose today was not to degrade men, but actually enlighten minds that women can be at the same level as men and what really is the difference. Women can be as fast, as strong, as smart. Why does being a girl change that ?

Thank You :)

Media

Today in English, Whaea Kerry had introduced us to our new topic which is Media. Media can be apps or objects that are able to spread news or other stuff around to whoever views it. Mass media is a much larger platform that shares to a rather big audience. 

Examples of media: 

- Social Media (Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat etc.) 

- T.V 

- News. News Articles 

- Website                       

Reading Response on NZ Herald News Article

 For the past week we have been learning about how to do a reading response at level 1 and also trying to understand short text. We had two forms of short text to choose from and I chose the NZ Herald News Article, I hope you enjoy it :)

Date - 24.9.2020

Title of the text - Whangarei lawn mowing Good Samaritan found 

Author - Jodi Bryant 

Summary of the text (4-6 sentences) 

Nikau Munroe Rawiri is known as a Good Samaritan after mowing Cynthia Browns. He had claimed to have been going to his mothers after mowing the cemetery lawn, to mow hers. He then passed an old lady mowing her own lawn. “I got up the road and was having conflict with myself: my head was saying to go but my heart was saying to go and help her out”. Keep in mind it was a hot day. Brown had told her daughter and she urgently sent out a search for who this man is in giving him a prize for a role at pest control. He ‘graciously declined’ and instead got given a hamper of pest control products. 

The key idea in the text - SEXY paragraph

I think that the key message in the text is you should always help people in need no matter what. By this I mean if you see that someone is in need of help then to man up and help them out. Example of this was when Nikau claimed that his mind was saying no and to carry on, but his heart was telling him to help her, so then he manned up and helped her out. In my own life, I come across times where I see people struggling. I do all that I can to help out, and make it easier for them. 

What can we learn from the text?

We can learn that if you know it is the right thing don’t just observe, be in action and do whatever you can to help. You don’t have to sacrifice your lovely skin getting burnt to help people, helping people could even be just lifting a heavy box. 

Being Cyber Smart

 Being Cyber Smart:

I highly agree that it's very important to be Cyber Smart online. Being Cyber Smart about being on the right side of the web and always doing positive and kind things. Examples of being Cyber Smart; Always on the appropriate sites at the right time, keeping passwords and security stuff Private. The one and only part I will push is making secure able passwords. How will I make sure everyone will hear this message ? I will share to my families about what I learnt and I will educate my little young ones about it to. 

Plants and Photosynthesis

Plants and Photosynthesis

For the past few weeks in Science we have been learning about Plants and Photosynthesis. At the end of the unit we were asked to answer questions in a presentation and this what myself and Jayden have done. 

Hope you enjoy: 

BOIC All About Me

Kia Ora my name is Jacque I am a year 9 at Bay of Islands College. I am New Zealand Maori, Cook Islander, and Samoan. I’m an only child. Something I enjoy is being surrounded by all of my friends and family. Challenges I have faced have been having multiple teachers, and also tests that we’ve had so far. A personal goal of mine is to be able to be able to pick up my maths. A new experience was being in the bilingual unit. It was a surprise to me as to how much maori we actually do, but has been hard to adapt to the changes.  I’m really looking forward to my years to come. If I do my full 4 years at this college,  that will be the first time I spent my whole school years at one school. I'm very excited for my years to come.