Cultural Festival

Tuesday 1st December 2015

Last Friday we had a Cultural Festival and kids could go in a cultural group and perform. It started at 5:45 but everyone says that it was 6:00. We were having a Cultural Festival because some of the kids on camp didn’t pay and one kid kicked a hole in the wall which cost the school 500 dollars.  And they did extra activities like kayaking which cost more money.  Miss Elia was going to take it off the list of camp things to do, but our teacher said put it back on the list.  I wasn’t in any group because I didn’t go on camp.  But my brother Levi was in a group, he was in the Niuean group and the Sasa which is the Samoan group. Before the show, my mum had to get a singlet for my brother because when he did his dance, he was going to have to do it with no shirt on.

But when she did get it, he didn’t wear it because before he must of forgot because the teacher said, “The whole group has to wear singlet or no one can wear a singlet.”. After we got the singlet, our cousins and Aunt had just arrived to come with us and watched Levi dance. It was my cousin Toni-Lee and my other cousin Dylan. They came with there mum Aunty Mata. They came in our car but me my mom, nana and little brother were already in the car. So we were all squashed up, I don’t know why they couldn’t use their car because that's the one they came on.

When we got there were loads of people outside and even more inside the hall where we all went to watch the kids perform. When we sat down I hoped that a big guy won’t sit in front of me so that he won’t block my view the show. My cousin Dylan was on the right side of me and my other cousin Toni-Lee was on the other side of me on my left side. After we sat down it took awhile for the show to start and more and more people started coming and sitting down. After a while, the show started and the first act was the Kapahaka kids doing their thing.

First they did the Maori haka. After the haka they sung a song. I thought that their song sounded great. After them was Room 4 doing their act. They did another song but they did not sing it. It was on a tape they just danced to the song with their poipoi. But I think that they were supposed to sing but got scared in the middle of the act. Next after them was these two boys showing us some Karate moves. Their names were Alex and Richie. Richie was the little one and Alex was the bigger one. My friend Justin told me that had a six pack. I think that he could give me a huge hiding if we was my age and height.

Fourth was the Samoan girls. I can’t remember much about the samoan girls so I’m just going to skip to the next one. Later Room 5 did their act to tell us about recycling. Each of them had prop from the song. The song sounded like a baby song, but still I liked it because it was catchy. The song I think it was called Save the World. After that was my old teachers group Sound Of Glenbrae by Mr.Nath. It was so boring, they did the exact same beat for ages, then changed it and did that same beat for ages and changed back and did the same beat from in the beginning for ages. I couldn’t wait until it was over. But my mum said “That’s in Mr.Naths culture to do the same beat for ages”.

Next was the Tongan Boys dance. They were good as and heaps of their families were coming up on stage and giving them money. Too bad the teacher was going to take it off them backstage to pay for their camp. James, a year 8 in my class, looked happy as and so did the boys dancing  with him but he just looked the happiest.  Next was the Cook Island group. I thought that there was going to be a whole group but instead it started off with Ma’ara. Then later Honey and Aliayana came out on stage and did the hula with her. In the middle my cousin's asked me if I wanted play a game called Smashy Road on their IPad. It’s just like this game called Crossy Road except this time your the car and you're running away from the cops.

Next up was the one my brother Levi was in. It was the Niuean group. The first act they did was alright. But the song they did after was even better. After the song the song only the boys did the Niuean haka. After that was the Bollywood group and I didn’t pay much attention to this. I was playing Smashy Road. Later was the Tongan girls dance but they weren’t ready yet so the teacher that was taking all the money away from the kids, Mrs.Ripata said “ The Tongan Girls are not quite ready so we are going to have a little competition”. She told all the Maori,Tongan,Niuean,Samoan and other people from other cultures to come on stage and see who is the best dancer. there were heaps of people going on stage and my cousin Toni-Lee (who is a girl and he brother is a boy) wanted to go up on stage and dance so she did. She was on the Samoan side. After the the Tongan Girls were ready to dance. They stopped the contest and started the show up again and introduced the next act.

In that act all the girls had oil on their skin, they looked really shiny. During their dance, I think the crowd gave them the most money. More than the rest of the acts. People started hopping up on stage and giving them money, lots of money. After them was the Samoan Sasa group. All of the people in the Samoan Sasa were in blue. But I don’t remember much about that act. The last act was called the Tau’olunga. But this one only had Alisi a year 8 girl in my class. She was probably the person who got the most money out of all the acts.

After that my uncle took my cousin's and aunty back to my house. And we stayed behind and cleaned up the hall after it was all over. Soon we got tired of waiting and we started walking back to our house. But my little brother had gone missing we thought. But when we got home he was already there. And he had taken my friend Fraser’s scooter home with him. When we asked him where he was, he said that he had walked home by himself on Fraser’s scooter. When we saw the scoter, we took it back straight away because it was not Fraser’s it was his older brother’s scoter. And we did not want him to get trouble. Soon my cousins all went home and we went to sleep not long after.

By Jayden.F

Identity Theft!

Friday 20th November 2015

Today Rachel came again but this time she taught us about Identity Theft. First she talked about what type of Identification is Government issued and what is Non-Government issued. Then she gave us a piece of paper that has different types of identification and we were supposed  to put a "x" where we think it goes under. After that she warned us on how we could get Identity Theft. And told us the dangers of sharing personal information about ourselves.

She said that you should never say when your going on holiday on social media because people will know your not at home and people will steal your stuff. Also she said that people can steal your personal information from on line shopping company's. When you get letters don't just throw them in the bin because someone could find them and pretend to be them.

When your old credit card expire you need to cut up your card or burn it because it still has important information. Also if your credit card ever got stolen you can tell your bank to cancel your cards because it's been stolen so that the person who stole it can't use it. It was really fact and then she left.

Financial Literacy

Wednesday 18th November 2015

On Monday a lady called Rachel came and taught us about saving. But I wasn't there, but lucky she came again today and taught us about credit and she's coming again on Friday. First she told us about what she was talking about today. Then she wrote on the board who and what we would lend. First she asked us if we would lend a pencil to  our family. Then again if we should lend our favorite DVD to someone in our family.

She asked us if we would lend five dollars to someone in our family. Last she asked if we would lend our phone to someone in our family. After that she asked us if we would lend the same things to our best friend. Then last if we would lend those things to complete strangers. After that she told us that she would chose four students to do a skit.

Keti,Baden,Voni and Alisi put up there hand and asked her if they could do the skits. The first skit was about responsible lending. The one after that was one about lending  money and giving it back the when you said you would. The next one was about a not reasonable friend wreaking the DVD her friend had lended to her.

After that she talked about credit and what it is. Next about loans and how they work. After that she asked us about how we would pay back the money we owed. Last she gave us two papers we were supposed to fill in the words on the first paper witch was about saving money. The second one was about who we think is credit worthy. After that we were finished and she said that she was coming again on Friday to speak t us about something else.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Thursday 10th September 2015

For our Duffy Model Assembly we had a special guest Myron Simpson. He is a cyclist from New Zealand who came second in the Jr world championship in Mexico in 2007 , and was taught to ride a BMX bike when he was three by his father. He also has two older brothers who used to ride BMX bikes also. The first ever time he represented New Zealand was when he was 8. In his spear time when he is not training he likes to read book. He has heaps of spear time so he started up his own company called Myron's Muesli.

Even though he made a career with riding bikes his two older brother did not. But sometimes he races with his brothers for fun. At one point he showed us his bike,helmet,suit and shoes. First he told us that his shoes were special shoes that connected to the bike pedals. He shoes also had special holes on them to make him go faster and he has special covers on his shoes to cover his lasses. Next he showed us his helmet, witch he asked his uncool to paint for him because his uncool was a professional painter.

On his helmet it had a picture of the current flag and on the side it had a little picture of a kiwi on a bike in front of a silver furn with flames at the back of it. He told us that all his stuff were Aero Dynamic designed to make his go faster. His helmet was shaped funny but he told us that when he rides the wind goes right over his head and onto his back. Later he showed us his suit, it was really small but there was a picture of him racing in it so that was when we knew that it could fit him. But he said that if you crashed the suit would ripe easy.

He told us that when he was little he used to get heaps of scratches on his knees,ribs,elbows everywhere. Finally he showed us his bike, he said it's so light that he can lift it up with his pinkie finger. He told us that his bike weighed 7 kilograms and that his fastest speed on his bike was 110 kilometers per hour. In the beginning he told us if we got the question right we would get to try out his stuff.

There were two winners from Room 7, one from Room 9 and one from Room 8. Honey,Danny,Matiaki and Suwaley were the winners ad they were all from the senior block.
Honey was allowed to wear his helmet, Danny was allowed to wear his medal, Matiaki was allowed to try on his shoes and Suwaly was allowed to wear his spandex suit he was allowed to ride the bike, then Myron told Danny to hold the bike while Suwaly gets lifted onto the bike by Myron. After all that all the kids were allowed to ask him some questions about his career or life.

By Jayden.F

Poems 2015

Monday 31st August 2015

This is a rap from a mum that used vanilla ice lyrics to make her kids do the work.

Alright, stop !!! Collaborate and Listen

The living room’s a mess and so is the kitchen

Something has to be done rightly or you’ll be grounded daily and nightly

Will it ever stop?:

Yo I don’t know

Pick it all up or I’m going to blow

to the extreme

if you don’t quit acting like vandals

I’ll light up you butt

and use your ears as handles.

Careers

What I did on Saturday

Tuesday 25th August 2015

On Saturday 22nd August 2015 my school was having a fundraiser to raise money for the year 7 and 8 camp. They were having a car wash but the night before I had stayed up all night so when I woke up the next day I had slept in. It was about 10am and I thought that it was over because I didn't know what time it was I assumed that it was over. My brother went to the car wash but I thought that he would just be playing with all the kids that came that live around there.

So instead of going to the car wash I went and made my self breakfast. Then I sat down and watched some TV. So the rest of the day I just sat down and watch TV. One of the program's was Lab Rats. On this episode Mr.Davenport build's a bionic for all the bionic soldiers and Leo get angrey because he is made a student not a mentor. There are two small bionic soilders could Spin and Bob.

Spin makes Leo look bad so out of anger he punches the wall and a huge cut is made in the wall making water come in a and slowly flooding the island. But luckily Chase's and A new student join their teams together and lifts the island back up.

Carwash camp fundraiser

My Quiz

My quiz is al about marvel. The tittle of the quiz is called Marvel Quiz. Some of these question are really hard so I only did ten questions. If you click on these link you will go straight to my quiz. I hope it's fun and good luck.

Marvel Quiz

Child Abuse

I think that Child Abuse is bad because children are not adults and their not as strong they are easy to hurt and when you hit them their bones could break. Also when you hit your kids your kids are seeing you hit them and they will hit their kids back and then their kids will hit theirs and it will keep happening unless someone stops it by talking to their kids not hitting their kids.

You can also take it to far by killing your kids. Because in America two parents killed their three year old daughter Alexander. It was said by the cops that the father used to lock her in the room and make her wear a dog collar.

The mother never used to take the daughter to the doctors because she was always covered with buses and they would call the police or something like that on them. So I think that people who abuse kids are losers who pick on people who are weaker then them even if it's their own kids.

Car seat Saftey

This is my poster that a made yesterday and the day before that. On this poster it says that you have to be at least 148cm or under to sit in a boster sit or a car seat. It also says to wear your seat belt when ever you are in the car. So that you can be safe if the car has to suddenly stop.

By Jayden.F

Myths

Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl that had Jet black hair and had blue eyes with red red lips like blood. There was also three young sons of the king before he died. Each with its individual talent. For example the oldest one was as strong as 30 men and the 2nd oldest was 2 times as fast as light, the 3rd one could control lightning  and shot them out of his fingertips and his eyes. But the one thing that they all had in common that their dad gave them all a superpower each when they were born so they could protect themselves at all time.

The oldest name was ones name was Hercules and the 2nd oldest was called Zeus and youngest was called Perseus. When they meet Marry the fell for her straight away. The all tried to ask on a date but the first Hercules tried and he said I will take you to have nice picnic in the park and we can listen to the birds in the park but she declined then Zeus asked her and he said to her I will take her under the stars and look at the moon while we watch a movie but she said no then Perseus asked her to come with him to the castle and have dinner with him and she said yes. But the other brothers were Jealous of Perseus and wanted to kill him. But Marry overheard their plan and warned Perseus that they were Jealous and they wanted to kill him but he was ready.

He knew when they would attack him what they would do and how they would trick him but what they did not know that he was their half brother because their dad did not tell them that he was their half brother and that he had other powers rather than just one power because he was born with more powers than them at birth. When it was time for them to kill him he was ready they said Perseus come and join us we are about to have lunch Perseus went even though he knew what they were doing anyway he went with them. 

After they had lunch Hercules attacked him with a sword that he had in his bag. but Perseus blocked it created a shock wave that blowed both of them backwards. Then Zeus got up off the floor and run up to him in a flash and tried to punch him but Perseus created an force field that protected him from the force of the punch.

Then Perseus took down the force field and shocked Zeus with lightning and Zeus fell to the floor just then Hercules hit the ground and made a big crack in the ground but Perseus closed up the hole with his other powers like earth bending but when he was closing it up Hercules tackled him to the ground then Perseus controlled thunder instead of lighting to kill Hercules. Then a few years later Marry and Perseus got married and had kids that had Perseus same powers and Marry and Perseus  and their kids lived happily ever after the End

The Lesson was to control your temper and never get jealous.

By Jayden.F

Maths Problems

Today I learnt Decimals and fractions. The image you see before you is a image of three of the questions. but these are the word problems not the number problems. If I had to rate this out of ten I would give it a 9 or 8 because this activity was cool as and fun.

Kiwi Can

Thursday 18th June 2015

Today at Kiwi Can we learnt about integrity and reliability. For our energiser we were split into four groups and make up our own beat. He said the first person has to make a sound then the next and the next after that but not all at once. Mr Numia walked around the class pointing at us as he counted from 1234 over and over again.

Finally he stopped at Siosifa, him Mele,Justin,Aarmione,Joseph,me and Danny Joe. But Joseph and Siosifa soon had to leave for a reading test. Then Levi my brother came over and said that his whole group had to go for a test.He said could he join our group they said yes but I said no because he can be silly sometimes. Two minutes later Miss Tui came to us and showed a video on her phone. It was a video of another group from Glen Taylor.

Glen Taylor is just up the road from our school. The kids were singing a song but I couldn’t hear it because of the noise that the other kids from the other groups were making. But we thought it was too hard for our group to do. So Miss left to show another group incase they wanted to do it. Danny Joe said that we only had a little time left. Then Mele said that we should do Queen's song We Will Rock You.

But when the time was up and we had to present no one presented because they hadn’t done it yet or finished it yet. Before we went into the class Mr Mumia had gotten a ball from someone. Then he said that we were going to play a game called Big Bounce Hand Ball. Then he made us sit on the ground while he split us into two groups. We played Big Bounce Handball near the entrance of the corridor.

Then he split us into four groups and gave each group a number. My group was number three, Levi’s group was number 1, Brandon's 2 and Voni’s Four. Then Mr Numia Explained the rules to us. He said that each person has one his and has to quickly get out of the way of the other person. He also said that there are no Fool Carries and if you double bounce your out, if you touch it before it goes out, make it go out or if it bounces in your square and it goes out you're out. I was first, then it went to the next and the next until it was back to my group.

Later He turned us into two groups the two groups on the left became one and the two groups and the right became one. This time we used both squares instead of just one each. Each group used two squares. The first time we one. But the other two times we lost but on the last one we one because Brandon was the only one left.

The people that were out had to wait under the tree while the other play. But some watched them and said to the couch that he is cheating and is changing the rules to their advantage. After the game we went back into the class although some people like me wanted to keep playing. Then they did our points. But we got low points because some people like James,Levi,Mangila and some others were swearing at the coach and teachers.

At the end we got 21 points for our class. They said that Room 9 were catching up to us and fast. I think we're in the lead I hope.

By Jayden

MADD diary

Today at MADD Petia talked to us about leadership. Then he drawed five shapes on the board and said pick one of them then you will be put into that group. The choices were Triangles,Squares,Rectangles,Circles and Squiggles. I chose Triangles.

Mafoa,Keti,Aarmione and Manuae were in my group. He told us to move in different parts of the room if you were in a certain group. He gave each group a card that said what each shape ment. Then he asked the leader of each groups to come up and to read out what did their shape mean.

When Mafoa went up he said that the Triangles mean leadership.

Next was Siosifa from the Circles, there group meant caring for each other and watching each others back. After them was Lennyx from the Squares that represented hard working and focused. Later was Fusi from Squiggles that means creativeness. Rectangles Represented thinking fast.

Later he talked about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles how Leonardo is a Leader like the Triangles, how Michelangelo is caring like Circles, How Donatello is creative like the Squiggles, how Raphael is focus like the Squares and how Splinter thinks fast like the Rectangles.Last he drawed The old blue and grey Batman

Holiday Recount

Tuesday 21st April 2015

Holiday Recount

In the Holidays my cousin Toni-Lee and her dance crew from school. Entered a competition called Mega Schools. All the schools from Auckland and one from Wellington compete to one a spot in the finals and from there go and compete overseas against other crews.

My anty rang my mum and said that her daughter was going to dance at the mega schools. When my mum heard she told me to tell my friends if they wanted to come to the mega schools and watch her nese dance at the Mega Schools.

When we went to the mega schools we met my anty called Mata so we call her anty Mata. We also meet her son Dylan her other daughter Shontell and her kids Jr and Charlet.

The dance was at Vodafone Events Center. There we had to give our tickets that we brought online to these two security guards. One we got in there were people from Custom Dee selling T - shirts and people selling food. There were a lot of people waiting in line for the guards to open up the doors. The line started to get bigger as the time went by because more and more people were coming through the doors to watch all the school preform.

When they opened the doors my family and my friends sat on the ground when everyone else sat up on the cheers so they could see more. When it started the announcer came out and introduced us to all the judges. He told us what all the judges did and most of them were dances. Then he told us all the sponsors. Like My FM,Custom Dee and many more.

The first school that danced was some school I can’t remember. But I do remember the really good schools like MAGS (Mt Albert Grammar School),AGGS (Auckland Girls Grammar School),Request, The Royal Family, Prestige and some really cool schools. But the school that came first was Manure School Then in Second place came MAGS and third came this other school that I can’t remember. So all three school get to compete  to go overseas.

                             

Term 1 reflection

Monday, 30 March 2015

When school started I found out that is was going to be in room ten instead of room 9 so I was really happy because I had been in that class too long. Then one week later I went to school and they said that there was going to be a water fun day. At water fun day it was fun as Because there were a lot of activities involving water. The first activity was fun because we had to carry half of a milk carton filled with water underneath the cheer without spilling any. Then tip it into the bin. Because the house with the most water in there bin wins.

In term one we went to the MADD messenger program and learnt about different thing each time we go there. Only year seven and eight were allowed to come to the program. One time we had to go into groups like the Tongan,Samoan group,Cook Island group and some other groups. My group had Dora,Moses,Tauola,Hemi,Me,Levi,Fraser and Brandon. Moses came up with an idea to do a Samoan dance called Manu Samoa. After we and everybody did their thing this guy petia drew a picture of Captain America to show that everyone has something special inside of them.

Later on we did this other program called Kiwi Can where we did the same thing but a bit different. At kiwi can we talked about Corporation,Friendships and Working together. Each time we go there we have a new topic and they ask us what was last week topic then we tell them then we move to the new topic for this week. At the end they give us points based on our behavior. At the end of the program they see which class in the senior’s has the most points so they can get an award. Like a pizza an a movie like Glenn Taylor.

We also went to butterfly creek in term 1 to learn about Dinosaurs. Because dinosaurs is our topic this term. There we meet a lady called Salita. She showed us around the first place she showed us to was the dinosaurs kingdom where we went into this room. Where we meet this other man called Paul. Paul asked us and told us about dinosaurs.

MADD

Today at MADD we talked about Talents and Skills with just Petia. Because Caroline wasn’t there and wanted to say sorry for her absence. First he said does anyone know what a talent is or talents. We said that it means something you're good at. Then after he talked about that he talked about Skills. He asked us a question. He said does anyone know what is the difference between a Skill and a Talent. Then Lennyx said a Skill is something you practice to become good at it. Then Petia said and a Talent is Skill you were born with.

Then he showed us these two big red,blue and green cards. The first card showed the number 10,000. The 10,000 represents the hours you should put into practicing your talent and to think of it as playing instead of work. So it could be funer.

The Second card was red and it said that NO means knowledge. Because if the coach says no he will say no because you not good at this are at that because and then you can learn from that mistake.

Term 1 Reflection

When school started I found out that is was going to be in Room 10 instead of Room 9 so I was really happy because I had been in that class too long. Then one week later I went to school and they said that there was going to be a water fun day. At water fun day it was fun as because there were a lot of activities involving water. The first activity was fun because we had to carry half of a milk carton filled with water underneath the cheer without spilling any. Then tip it into the bin. Because the house with the most water in there bin wins.

In term one we went to the MADD messenger program and learnt about different thing each time we go there. Only year seven and eight were allowed to come to the program. One time we had to go into groups like the Tongan,Samoan group,Cook Island group and some other groups. My group had Dora,Moses,Touala,Hemi,Me,Levi,Fraser and Brandon. Moses came up with an idea to do a samoan dance called Manu Samoa. After we and everybody did their thing this guy petia drew a picture of Captain America to show that everyone has something special inside of them.

Later on we did this other program called Kiwi Can where we did the same thing but a bit different. At kiwi can we talked about Corporation,Friendships and Working together. Each time we go there we have a new topic and they ask us what was last week topic then we tell them then we move to the new topic for this week. At the end they give us points based on our behavior. At the end of the program they see which class in the senior’s has the most points so they can get an award. Like a pizza an a movie like Glenn Taylor.

We also went to butterfly creek in term 1 to learn about Dinosaurs. Because dinosaurs is our topic this term. There we meet a lady called Salita. She showed us around the first place she showed us to was the dinosaurs kingdom where we went into this room. Where we meet this other man called Paul. Paul asked us and told us about dinosaurs.

All about me

Myths And Legends

Myths And Legends

Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl that had Jet black hair and had blue eyes with red red lips like blood. There was also three young sons of the king before he died. Each with its individual talent. For example the oldest one was as strong as 30 men and the 2nd oldest was 2 times as fast as light, the 3rd one could control lightning  and shot them out of his fingertips and his eyes. But the one thing that they all had in common that their dad gave them all a superpower each when they were born so they could protect themselves at all time.

The oldest name was ones name was Hercules and the 2nd oldest was called Zeus and youngest was called Perseus. When they meet Marry the fell for her straight away. The all tried to ask on a date but the first Hercules tried and he said I will take you to have nice picnic in the park and we can listen to the birds in the park but she declined then Zeus asked her and he said to her I will take her under the stars and look at the moon while we watch a movie but she said no then Perseus asked her to come with him to the castle and have dinner with him and she said yes. But the other brothers were Jealous of Perseus and wanted to kill him. But Marry over herd their plan and warned Perseus that they were Jealous and they wanted to kill him but he was ready.

He knew when they would attack him what they would do and how they would trick him but what they did not know that he was their half brother because their dad did not tell them that he was their half brother and that he had other powers rather than just one power because he was born with more powers than them at birth. When it was time for them to kill him he was ready they said Perseus come and join us we are about to have lunch Perseus went even though he knew what they were doing anyway he went with them. After they had lunch Hercules attacked him with a sword that he had in his bag. but Perseus blocked it created a shock wave that blowed both of them backwards. Then Zeus got up off the floor and run up to him in a flash and tried to punch him but Perseus created an force field that protected him from the force of the punch.

Then Perseus took down the force field and shocked Zeus with lightning and Zeus fell to the floor just then Hercules hit the ground and made a big crack in the ground but Perseus closed up the hole with his other powers like earth bending but when he was closing it up Hercules tackled him to the ground then Perseus controlled thunder instead of lighting to kill Hercules. Then a few years later Marry and Perseus got married and had kids that had Perseus same powers and Marry and Perseus  and their kids lived happily ever after the End

The Lesson was to control your temper and never get jealous.

By Jayden.F