Wednesday 29 November 2017

Wellington trip #6

A couple weeks ago I went to wellington with all the year 8's. At take off I enjoyed watching my city turn small but I did NOT enjoy walking. I showed leadership by using my leadership traits on the plane and around the city. I showed all my care values in wellington. What I enjoyed the most was hanging out with my friends and making lots of memories.

Leadership technology #5

On Thursday we went to technology, at technology I'm doing science. In science we were doing robotics. Robotics is not fun, very boring. The bus rides to Lincoln are very fun I sit next to lots of my friends on the bus. 
The CARE values I showed were respect because I respected the bus driver by talking quietly.
The leadership quality I showed was active thinking because I was actively thinking about what I was doing at tech.  

Home learning challenges #5

E9.  Research an important person or event in NZ’s history. Present your findings.

Richie McCaw has lead his team to victory three times and been motivational, resilient and a true leader to his whole team. Richie McCaw was captain for the Crusaders and for the All Black , He leed the All Blacks 3 times when winning the Rugby World Cup and holding the trophy above his head. Richie McCaw reminded the world of his brilliance as a leader when he lifted the Webb Ellis Cup in 2011, 2015 and 1987, battling through a troubling foot injury to claim rugby’s greatest prize.The all blacks have won three times, 2nd place once, 3rd place twice and 4th place once with Riche and players that have retired. Not only has Richie McCaw had a lot of victories, he never gave up on his teams.

Richie has never givin up he has kept on trying and never letting his team down while playing a game for the All Blacks or the Crusaders.Treatment for Richie injury meant he missed the early stages of Investec Super Rugby in 2012. Richie quickly made his presence felt when he rejoined his Crusaders teammates, again he lead the way with both his work-rate and skill with ball in hand. Richie McCaw lined up for the 550 km event as an official member of the Cure Kids team and supported the charity. Richie McCaw is a fantastic example of a great male leader that shows all the leadership qualities.

Tuesday 28 November 2017

Excellence key leadership role #5

On Tuesday the student leaders had a meeting with Mr Ladbrook.
We firstly talked about the chorus box we are doing.
Then he said that he had sent an email to our parent's to see if they could supervise us while we are painting it. 
After that he said to think about what part of the box do we want to paint.
Then Mr Ladbrook asked us if we have or are close to getting our excellence badge and most of the student leaders hadn't.

I showed repect by listening to Mr Ladbrook when he was speaking.

I was also being trustworthy by showing up to the meeting on time.

Monday 27 November 2017

Home learning challenge #4

R9. Offer to help around home without being asked. 15 times. Document what you have done.


  • Dishwasher x 6
  • Laundry x 2
  • Bins out on the street x 2
  • Close the curtains at night x 1
  • Open the curtains in the morning x 2
  • Make breakfast x 2

Excellence technology post #4

On Thursday the year 7/8's had technology we traveled on two buses to get to Lincoln primary school which takes about 10-15 minutes to get there.
When we got there we walked to our classes and in my case it was to design and textiles.
The first thing we did was watch a video on how we can make sand out of beer bottles and how we are losing lots of sand.
Next we got three planning sheets the first one we had was about what things we wanted to make.
The second sheet was about three options on what we could do.
Finally we did the last one and that was about our final design we are going to do.

I showed community by putting my rubbish in the bin a morning tea instead of littering because it wasn't my school.

I was also being trustworthy by doing what I was meant to at the right time.

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Operations using fractions, percentages, decimals and integers.

In Maths we have been learning to: Understand operations using fractions, percentages, decimals and integers.


Here is some evidence of my learning.


Include screenshots for all 6 IXL activities that you have completed.
Percentage problems total unknown - link you activity.
Standard place value, reversing and compensating with decimals - link your activity.

Extended Abstract assessment task - Link your Lazer Blazer task here. Include links to the answer sheet and the activity sheet.


Something that challenged me during this unit of learning was the lazer blazer task because there were lots of hard Q's in the work sheet

My next step is to continue to apply these strategies to real life/ problem solving situations.

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Key leadership role #4

Today the leaders had a meeting in our classroom through morning tea, this is the first time we have ever had a meeting through morning tea because we usually have them just throughout the eating time. We mainly talked about the trip we are going on to do the mural and I cant wait it sounds like so much fun! I showed respect by listening and sitting quietly. I showed leadership by not worrying about having to do the meeting through lunch. I was a role model by giving ideas what we could do for the mural.