Elective Assembly Reflection

Today we had our elective sharing assembly. The different electives were science, mosaics, dance, photography, mask making, bike riding, stomp, boot camp, book club, and scrap booking. People from each elective shared their learning and some created an e movie showcasing photo's during their time at their elective. Tim and I represented our elective Mosaics. Everyone in our group had used a stepping stone as our mosaic platform. We're taking them home today! I liked watching the dance elective performance. They had performed a dance piece going along with two different songs. It was a really cool and creative performance and I enjoyed watching it a lot. It was out there and different which made it As well as everyone else! It would've been cool to see more out there presentations or something to make it more lively. If I was still in intermediate next year, I would either go to dance, science, or mosaics again. I loved watching and listening to what people had to say. The presentations were amazing and I loved the photography e movie. It was effective and the music hooked me in as well. The picture looked amazing and professional. Even though the science elective presenters were a little un-practiced, what they had done looked really fun and I would love to do it! All of the electives looked fun and mosaics was really cool and I hope I get to do things like this in college!

Care Award Task: Respect

This is my collage showcasing life at Panmure Bridge School using photo's taken throughout this year. I created this using Pic Monkey. It includes photo from our camp, easter egg hunt, duffy assembly, vincent can gogh artwork, and so on. I used this certain image as the main one because it showcases the students of PBS. This was a part of my care award activities for attitude. 

Vincent Van Gogh inspired artwork

This is a photo of me holding my Vincent Van Gogh inspired artwork. I needed to mix different colours to get the proper one for my flower petals, vase, background, and table. I think the outcome of my painting came out how I expected it and which makes me really happy!

Heart Foundation

This is my digital learning object based around our trip to Pak'n'save. We wrote about the five different food searches we did and how we did it. We also wrote down what we learnt. This was an interesting and fun experience. I saw the big difference in the foods I like to eat and what I should be eating. I worked with shantay, sebastian, jaydon, and viva - Mrs collinbranda helped us. We worked well together and it was fun learning about the rainbows or fruit and vegetables. 

Cross Country

This is a photo from when our school went over to the Dunkirk reserve to do our cross country Fun Run! There were places 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for all year groups. In my year group, I came third place. That means i'd be going to interschool along with my other friends that came 1st or 2nd. It was a really fun day - besides the fact we had to run! 

Vincent Van Gogh DLO

This is my popplet I worked collaboratively on based around the life of Vincent Van Gogh. It links in with the artwork we did inspired by one of his famous paintings of sunflowers. This showcases his achievements and down falls in life. 

Tonga DLO

This is my digital learning object based around the culture of Tonga. I worked collaboratively with Fine. We included simple greetings and information you would find interesting about the Country and it's traditions. 

Persuasive argument - 'Breakfast in Schools'

This is my persuasive argument on whether breakfast should be provided in schools. I worked on this with my partner Sajiha. We used our version of the writing rubric to help us structure and edit our writing. Hopefully you understand our message and agree!

Should schools provide breakfast for all NZ Children?

We grow up in a generation where poverty overtakes many New Zealand families. Parents and children face everyday hardships that impact their daily lifestyle, physical well-being, and mental and emotional well-being. One of the hardships that parents face are being able to provide breakfast for their children. Approximately 15% of children go to school without having breakfast. That is almost about 55,000 children every single day!

Students who aren’t provided with breakfast are most likely to be switched off from their learning in class. Kids won’t get the nutrition they need to stay focused and energised, so this would cause massive drops in their education, since they won’t be able to concentrate on what’s being taught in their classroom. Their learning environment would be tampered with, and would lead to massive impacts in their grades -  jeopardizing their education!

It is scientifically proven that breakfast helps you maintain a more healthy body and mind. All a kid needs is a bowl of weetbix to keep them energised and enthusiastic in the morning! It helps them become motivated to participate in sports. Imagine how unhealthy kids would feel if they skipped breakfast every. If children don’t get the proper nutrition in their system, it would cause massive drops in their health and well-being.

Students that aren’t provided with breakfast become emotionally unstable. They experience a whirlwind of emotions: Such as jealousy, hatred, rage, and sadness. Children feel hatred towards other classmates and friends whose parents are able to give them their morning nutrition while they aren’t provided with it under certain circumstances. They envy those who are energised and full, while they are hungry, tired, dysfunctional, and lacking in energy. This envy leads to negative emotions, and a change in their social and active life.

Breakfast determines whether children will be active and properly engaged in their learning for the morning block. That is why our final opinion and perspective on this debate is for students that attend school to be provided with breakfast. This would lead to an enthusiastic, energized, and focused student! Breakfast needs to be provided! Don’t you agree?

Dehydration DLO

This is my google poster on why water is vital to our race's survival. In partners, we needed to write down our answer in exactly 25 words. I worked with Paige, and together we researched information to help us create our answer. We needed to have fact in it. 

My Speech

I’m going to skip the greetings and just go straight to the issue. In my opinion the more you understand the harm this causes, the more you’ll be willing to stop it. Bullying. What does this mean to you? When you hear that word, does it trigger any emotions - provoke you, in any way? Or… do you simply look the other way?  If that’s the case, I truly hope that you listen carefully. This issue needs to be explained, because I am over bullying being swept under the carpet. It does exist! It does happen, and you need to understand that!

Bullying is a form of power that is used to make someone else feel physically and emotionally unstable. It makes them feel insecure about themselves and; makes them question every choice they make. That is plain horrible. I can’t imagine Hailey Petee asked to live in fear of what might be said about her every time she left the house. I can’t imagine why Phoebe Prince asked to hear the constant stream of abuse hurled at her each time she walked out the door. I can’t imagine Amanda Todd asked to have a private photo shared with the world. All these real people have sadly started a new life in heaven; all because of bullying.

A teacher wanted to get the message of bullying out, so she told her students to get a piece of paper, and scrunch it up. Step on it and make it as mashed up as possible; but still try not to rip it. Then the students were told to unfold the paper, smooth out the mess they had made, and see how dirty and damaged it looked. The were then told to say sorry to the paper, but even though they apologized and tried to repair it, the damage didn’t go away. They were told that the scars would never no go away, no matter how much they tried to fix it. This is what happens when a person bullies someone. They say sorry, but the scars are there forever. The damage is done. I really hope you get that message. There are unseen scars, hidden tears, the feeling of dread… Bullying hurts.

Think about the digital footprint you leave behind. Think about the things that you say. Think about the information you give. Think about the reputation you want to up hold; you only have one. It’s okay to walk away. It’s okay to tell someone. It’s okay to ask for help. I want this message to get out, because bullying has to STOP! Bullying closes the door for people and makes them think they have no way out. They lose their belief in everything - that things will never get better. They turn to their faith, and they feel like their faith lets them down. I hope you guys understand the how bad bullying is. We’ve been raised in a society of hate, discrimination, racism. How serious do the consequences need to get before bullies realise bullying is not okay? Word’s hurt…

Cyber Smart

This is my digital learning object based around being cyber smart. It gives you the different scenario's on what could happen, and what you need to do to prevent it. This is a part of our c.a.r.e award activities.