Maioro

On the 10th of August 2017, Maioro came in to talk to us about his disability and his life story.
Maioro had spina Bifida and what he went through.
In year 7 he was at peachgrove and his teacher told him to stay behind after class, his teacher then said to him if he was into sport, he said no but he will give it a try. He tried wheelchair rugby, he like it but he was versing older kids and he got smashed. So he tried wheelchair basketball and he loved it he made it into the NZ U20's at 13 and played in it until year 13 then he got right into athletics and when he was 18 he played in the U23's world championship and go 4th in Discus and Javilin and got 2nd in shotput.

T3 W2

Term 3 Week 2

What did I learn this week? More effective ways to use a protractor in math And about Atoms in science and more about the salvation army and what they do

What was easy/hard? 

What did I do if it was easy? Tell Mr B

What did I do if it was hard? Ask someone if they knew how to do it or read over it again

What am I looking forward to?fixture

Goals-

Salvation Army

Salvation Army

On Friday the 4th of August a former staff member of southwell who now works for the salvation army came to have a talk to the whole of year 8 about what she does and how we can help. She told us about how the salvation army have set up a food market for the homeless and for the straggling. They've also set up a psychologist to help them get through the hard times and also a manager to help the sort out a budget so they can pay rent.

40 hour famine

Yesterday 27th July 2017 

A man who worked for world vision came to talk about the 40 hour famine and decision making.

First he taught us a game where he would show as two choices and we had to put hands on our head for option A and hands on hips for option B and last person standing wins. Then he showed us some videos on some refugees lives.

Term 3 Week 1

What did I learn this week? more about the 40 hour famine and refugees

What did I find easy and or challenging? I found maths easy because we had to do shapes and find area and corners and faces.

If things were easy what would I do about it? Get it done quick so I could get on with more stuff.

If things were hard what would I do about it? Ask for help.

What am I looking forward to? Getting a tour around Waikato Stadium

T2 W9

Term 2 Week 9

What did I learn this week? What different types of metals make different types of sparks and that solar power is down 60% in price.

What did I find easy and or challenging? Hard was Current Events because I couldn't copy and paste I had to type it word by word and it took so long.

If things were easy what would I do about it? Get it done quick so I could get on with more stuff.

If things were hard what would I do about it? Ask for help.

What am I looking forward to? Gwynne shield.

T2 W8

What did I find easy and challenging. Challenging is science I had trouble with finding the answer.

if things were easy what did I do.get up to date with other stuff

If things were hard what did I do. ask for help or try to work it out.

what am I looking forward to. holidays

what did I learn? that solar power cost has gone down by 6o%