Duffy Assembly

Duffy Assembly

On Friday 23rd October 2015, Glenbrae School had Duffy Assembly. It started after morning tea. I was so excited for the assembly to start. When everyone was assembled to the hall, the Junior classes and some of the Senior classes sat on the floor, and Rooms 9 and 10 sat on  the seats.

Before  the show started, the entertainers discussed 3 simple rules.
Rule 1: We were allowed to call out the answers
Rule 2: Our bottoms had to touch the floors or the seats during the show at all times
Rule 3: When they did the X sign. that meant that everyone had to quiet down

Soon the show started. It was about a girl who didn't like reading books. She found it boring to go to the library and read books, she would rather watch television or play games. She was failing in her grades  at school. One day, she met a  boy named Duffy, she saw him in the library, she asked him why he liked going to the library. Duffy said that he liked to imagine and dream, but the girl didn't bother to listen, so Duffy took her  to the library and asked her  some questions like 'What she likes', 'What her favourites things are' or 'What she admires'. Sooner or later, she started to read books and fairytale stories, she even started to dream and imagine. She kept visiting the library  from day after day, she asked her mum if she can get a  library card so that she can issue out some books to read. Her mother wasn't really a fan of reading, until Duffy found her a book about fishing. Once she got  her library card she started issuing out books, she kept reading, imagining and dreaming, then her grades were improving in her school work. From that day onwards, she kept dreaming and imagining by reading.

The show was hilarious  One thing I learnt is to never give up, keep imagining and dreaming by reading a lot of books.

Kiwican

Kiwican Reflection

On Friday 23rd October 2015, Rooms 10 and 9 had Kiwican straight after the Duffy Assembly. Our teachers were Miss Tuia and Mr Numia as usual. Our new theme is Respect and our new  topic is Respecting Ourselves.

We  talked  about  our  Personal  Strengths and how  everyone is  different, not everyone is the same. We had a warm up game. We were divided into 2 groups. One person goes inside the circle and says something that they think they  are good at, and the ones  that think that they  are good at it too runs around the circle. Whoever is the last person to reach there spot  has to be inside the circle and then  it is there  turn to say something  that  they think they are  good at.

After that we played a game, when  someone calls out a fruit, we had to jump away  from the taggers, but we were only allowed to jump once. If the person calling out  the fruit names calls out  something that is not a fruit, and we jump then we are out.

We played until it was time for the points. Both  classes got  23 out of 25.

Technology Reflection

Technology Reflection

On Friday 23rd October 2015, the year 7 and 8 students had technology at Tamaki College. The year 8's had Graphics and Mr Pineda was our teacher. Class started at 8:45am and ended at 10:30am.

Mr Pineda showed us a video of how to print our shirts, but we didn't bring a shirt because we went camp, so we are printing our shirts next technology. He instructed us to find a photo from the internet and copy it onto a clear piece of paper. We had to make sure that the drawing was easy to craft out for our shirts, because the drawing that we chose is our stencil. I chose a Lion's head as my stencil because Lions are one of my favourite animals. Some of us students were listening to music on our netbooks while we were drawing, because it helped us concentrate.

Throughout the session, all we did was draw our stencils.

Weekly Quiz - Term 4 Week 2

Weekly Quiz

1. Why has New Zealander Chris Cairns been in

the news?

•a. HE IS A PAST FAMOUS NZ CRICKET PLAYER WHO HAS

 BEEN ACCUSED FOR MATCH FIXING

•b. he is an actor who has just been given the lead

   role in the next Mission Impossible movie

•c. he is an author who has just won a prestigious

 international literature award

2. Last week, European and Russian space

agencies have announced plans for manned

missions to ....?

• a. Mars

 • b. Venus

  • c.THE MOON

3. Which of the following is being described as

“plasticy”, “crispy” and “slippery”?

• a. the new uniform for the Rio Olympics

• b. THE NEW BANKNOTES

• c. a dead python that was found under a

passenger’s seat on a Air New Zealand

flight

4. From November 30, New Zealand adult

passports will be valid for 10 years instead of

the current five years. Do New Zealanders

need a passport for domestic (national) flights?

• a. Yes

• b. NO

• c. Only if flying from one island to another

5. What is the name of the famous car race that

Craig Lowndes won recently along with his

Kiwi co-driver Steven Richards?

• a. Caulfield Cup

• b. BATHURST 1000

• c. Monaco Grand Prix

6. What happened to a caravan in a Cromwell

camping ground last week?

• a. A BULLET FROM A HUNTER WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CARAVAN

• b. the caravan was tipped over by a mini

tornado

• c. the caravan caught fire after being hit by

lightning

7. What was found last week in a Canterbury

river?

• a. a previously undiscovered breed of

freshwater fish

• b. a diamond ring worth $100,000

• c. ILLEGALLY DUMPED TOXIC SUBSTANCES

8. Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence is

claiming the film industry is sexist because of

the inequality in pay between female actors

and male actors. In which of the following films

did Jennifer Lawrence NOT appear?

• a. the Hunger Games films

• b. X Men: Apocalypse

 • c. INSURGENT

9. True or false, the Finance Minister has

announced the government’s finances are in

surplus (the government is spending less than

they are receiving in taxes and earnings) this

year?

TRUE

10. True or false, the controversial Kiwi novel Into

the River, which was previously taken off New

Zealand bookstore shelves has been classified

as Restricted 18?

FALSE

11. Why was a Danish Zoo in the news last week?

• a. it has been temporarily shut down as

multiple animals have died from an

unexplained illness

• b. THE ZOO  PERFORMED A PUBLIC DISSECTION OF A LION CUB IN THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

• c. vandals broke in to the zoo and left three

enclosures open allowing animals to

escape

12. What was found in a muesli bar manufactured

by Tasti last week?

• a. a cockroach

• b. a $2 coin

• c. A SHARP PIECE OF PLASTIC

13. A fireworks company has been ordered to pay

more than $90,000 to spectators injured at an

event last year. At what event did the accident

happen?

• a. AN ALL BLACK BLEDISlOE CUP MATCH

• b. a Justin Bieber concert

• c. a Vodafone Warriors game

14. A 62-year-old Australian man lost for six days

in the Outback has been found alive, surviving

without water and by eating ...?

• a. lizards

• b. snakes

• c. ANTS

15. Which New Zealand city is also known as the

Garden City?

• a. CHRISTCHURCH

• b. Hamilton

• c. Auckland

VISUAL QUIZ:

1. AUSTRALIA

2. KISS

3. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

4. IRELAND

5. AARON SMITH

Duffy Assembly

Duffy Assembly

On Thursday 10th September 2015, Glenbrae school had a Duffy assembly in the hall. Our guest was Myron Simpson and he is a cyclist.

Myron Simpson started riding his bike when he was 3 years old. He moved on to racing on the road a few years later. He had been to 25 countries, in 2007 he came second place and won the silver medal in Mexico at the Omnium Events. He has been representing New Zealand since he started biking.

He came to assembly with some of his gears for some students to try on. He came in with his bike, shoes, suit and his helmet. All of these gears were designed to be aerodynamic which means that it is supposed to make him cut through the wind and help him ride faster. His bike was made out of carbon fibre and he got it from France. His helmet was painted by his uncle, on top it had the New Zealand flag and on the sides it had the silver ferns symbol and a kiwi riding a bike with flames following from behind. His current team is Team Budget Forklifts, his discipline is track and road and his role is being a rider.

Myron Simpson said that vehicles are only supposed to go 40 kilometres per hour when they are around schools. The fastest that he could go was 110 kilometres per hour, faster than a car could go in the motorway. He talked to us about how reading is important and his experiences on being a cyclist. After a few minutes, he asked us some questions, he picked 4 students to try on his gears. Danny wore his medal, Honey wore his helmet, Mateaki wore his shoes and Sioeli wore his suit and got to hop onto his bike. When he finished, I got up and said thank you to him for sharing his experiences on being a cyclist and how important reading was.

I learnt to never give up, try my best and keep on reading to achieve my goals.

Poem about Nature

This is a poem that I made up myself.

I see fluffy marshmallows hanging from above
With the doors of heaven opening from the hands of God's son
Feeling the cold air shooting through my skin
Like bullets racing past a tree that is thin
Sitting on seats that are as blue as the sea
Watching the grass roaming lightly with freedom
Thousands of trees standing in a line
From where they can see the bright sun shine

Persuasive Writing: Should We Have 1 Block of Free Time

Persuasive/Argumentative Writing.

The situation that I am addressing is that students should have 1 block

of free time during school everyday. I strongly disagree with this situation because school

is a learning community for students. Having 1 block of free time on our netbooks should not happen. Students have to reach their national standards before the end of the year.

National Standards

The first reason on why I disagree is, it is just a waste of time because there are students that have not reached their national standards. Some students may be near, but most are not even half way. Students need to study to achieve their goals, playing games isn't going to get them anywhere.

Future and Learning

The second reason on why I disagree is that, if we have 1 block of free time then students will lose their focus on learning, this means that if they lose focus, it will not help them in the future. Students have dreams about who they want to be in the future or what kind of careers they want to be in. If they want to have a good future, then they have work for it to earn it, they can't get it just like that.

Foundations

Starting at Primary is the beginning of your foundation, then you move on to your 2nd foundation which is Intermediate, on your 3rd foundation comes College, your foundation continues onto University and goes on. Your future depends on your foundation, especially Primary. Having 1 block of free time a day will affect your foundation, because if you play games on your netbook for most of the day and you’ve hardly learnt anything, your brain will lose knowledge and you won’t be able to achieve your goals.

If you start your foundation off solidly then your future will be solid, which means that you will find everything okay in the future. If you start your foundation off loosely, then you will find things difficult in the future.

Time for Learning and Playing

If we start school at 8:55am and finish at 2:45pm, this means that we only have 5 hours and 50 minutes of school every Monday to Friday and we have 1 hour and 5 minutes to play during school. I think that this is enough time for us to play, if we play for another hour, then we won't have enough time to learn.

We have 5 blocks of school altogether including playtime. We only have 3 blocks of learning time and 2 blocks of playtime. The more we learn, the more our brain will function, but the less time we learn, the less our brain will function.