Papatuanuku Animation

In Social Studies we have been working on an Papatuanuku Animation. We first had to make a poem and from there we were given the tasks to make a Google Slide Animation relevant to our poem, and then we had to make audio to run int he back. I wasn't able to make the audio play over the top but you can play it on it's own. Here is my presentation :)

Genetic Disease - Nga Mate Tuku Iho

Our topic for Science are Genetics, and for the past week we have been looking at Genetic Diseases. We were assigned to make a slide presentation on a Disease that we selected of a given list. I chose to do Becker Muscular Dystrophy. I personally thought this research project was very educating for me, in understanding Muscular Dystrophy. I had only heard of MD beforehand from our English Book last year "See Ya Simon". It was quite easy to find the information but was challenging to decorate my slides. In conclusion, I felt confident up there, and here is my slide show for you to view. (My information is written on my speaker notes, so you won't be able to read them)

Toku Pakihi

Kia ora, ko Jacque taku ingoa, nō te kura o Peowhairangi ahau.

E hiahia ana ahau ki te whakaatu ki a koutou ngā mahi kua oti e au ki roto taku karaehe Tikanga a- iwi. Ko taku tino kaupapa ko Toku Pakihi nātemea e whai wa ahau ki te whakapakiri i toku auahatanga. Ko ngā mea i ako ahau ko nga ahuatanga o te Rakahinonga, me te whakatairanga i toku ake Pakihi. Ki ōku whakaaro he mīharo tēnei kaupapa nāteamea ko tahi noihi te wiki hei whakaoti i tenei mahi. Ka waiho ki tēnei whakatauki hei whakaniko i tēnei pōhitanga āku, Ahakoa he iti he pounamu. Nōreira kei aku nui, kei aku rahi. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Send it Challenge

 Our topic at the moment in Science is Forces and Motion. These 2 days we were given task to make a Catapult that would send a ping pong across the room. Although ours was last minute, it was really easy to make considering the equipment we were given. It was nerve racking when doing the final tests, but it was nice watching everyone's ping pong go the distance they went. 

My group: Tamarah, Ocean, Miria, and Me. 

NZ Entrepreneur

Our new task for Future Planning in Social Studies is researching a NZ Entrepreneur. We were asked to choose a well-known Entrepreneur in New Zealand and answer questions pertaining to their business and their business journey. I choose Season Mary Downs, who is a young entrepreneur and owns the Tukau Law Limited combined with Tukau Legacy clothing line.

Tukau Law Limited is a company that was launched on the 20th of October in Kaikohe and is a part of the Legal Service Industry. Their main focus is Legal for Maori and the community in general. 

Tukau Legacy is what she mainly became famous for, her clothing brand that have the words from both Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Whakaputanga o Nga Rangatira o Niu Tireni. The backstory of her clothes are “By wearing their words, we are able to continue their legacies”. 

Season has always been eager to help her community in any way she can, she contributes a portion of her funds that she gets from her company to the community with events such as the Menstrual Cup Fundraiser, food parcels to kaumatua kuia and organising community events such as Christmas functions.

Future Planning Reflection.

 So far in term 3, we have been based around the topic of Future Planning, and we've been focused on the Working World. All things of jobs, interviews we had covered in this topic. 

Firstly, we were tasked to actually choose 3 jobs to look into on a website we were given. I had chosen Secondary School Teacher, Pharmacy Technician, and just as a fill I did Bank Worker. We looked into things like the wages, skills we’d need to have for this job, and also the different tasks you’d have to do. From there we narrowed it down to 1 job and we continued to make an Interview for this job, or any job that you’d want to go for. To plan for our interview we were given a doc with different things like that we had to fill which were hobbies, goals, values, and a few more. After pointing all these things out we had to put in a paragraph and filmed ourselves reading the paragraph. 

During this time we were unfortunate to be hit with Covid once again as a result of our second lock down. Due to this event, we returned to the online schooling via Google Meets. I must say it’s been a challenge because I’m more used to being physically present in a class. Considering I’ve come to my cousin's house for the lock down it hasn’t been hard to focus. It's been easier considering they are also working as well, but I still rather be in a more time-managed class room and being able to ask a teacher a question without the whole class having to hear you. Despite all of that, All of my classes have been amazing, and I hope everyone is doing well in their bubbles.

Leadership, Government, and Democracy.

 In Social Studies we have been looking into Leadership, Government, and Democracy. 

Firstly, Leadership. We mainly looked at what we thought a leader is and the 3 common attributes I chose were Humility, Confidence, and Dedication. 

Secondly, Democracy. I learned that Democracy is a Government System where the community chooses who they want for Government in elections every 3 years. 

Lastly, the Government. Government is a wide group of people whose aim is better for the country. 

These topics are relevant because 1 it is the name of our topic and 2, there is actually a ‘Democratic Government’ where the Government of that country abides by Democracy. We can also link Leadership into our schools. One of our activities was an Hierarchy of Leaders in our school and we looked into the positions they hold, and the importance of their roles. An extension of work that I had done was an action change regarding Marae Funding and how money should be given to marae to rebuild our whare. Rebuilding our whare begins the rebuilding of our tikanga and Reo. This topic challenged my thinking by learning the different types of councils and what each has to do individually for our communities. Overall this unit was very educating with not only Leadership,  Government, and Democracy but also who these people are and what they do for us and I am very thankful to those who have taken hold of those positions.