International News.

L.I: Exploring international current events.

This week for Reading we used Google Maps and looked international news that follow either of these reasons; Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpected, Impact, Reference, Oddity, Conflict, Negative, Continuity, Emotions, and Progress. Working in small groups, we located where the event took place and pinned them on the collaborative map. Using sites such as Kiwikids News and NZ Herald. Last week we looked at national news meaning stuff only happening in New Zealand. Now we are exploring things that are happening all around the world, international. We found some very interesting world archives, such as the fire in the Amazon Rain-forest. 

Provocation and Opinion.

Currently, I have created a provocation and opinion DLO about a major supermarket chain that is currently no longer selling energy drinks in their supermarkets to kids under the age of 16. My opinion and two perspectives to this is included in the DLO I have created above. I think that they made a good idea to ban these energy drinks as it could affect a child's health.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Greetings all. Do you enjoy using divine, mess free plastic straws? Well… A single drinking straw is actually affecting our environments in New Zealand. Each day nearly 500 million plastic straws are being used. A quarter of this amount is from New Zealand as 65,000 straws have been found on our beaches. Plastic straws pollute our oceans, land and air. But the problem gets even worse when they break down into small particles which releases their chemicals everywhere.

Did you know that plastic straws are actually one of the main reasons why the digestive systems of many marine animals are damaged? That the air slowly gets more polluted each day when these straws break down into many chemicals? All these problems can and are still being caused by plastic straws. Most plastic straws don’t biodegrade in the ocean and they are being consumed by poor animals that live in the sea or on land! This is just cruel and absolutely disgusting to the many animals that are living their lives with plastic straws in their bodies and slowly killing them, all because of us. Although, not only is this affecting innocent creatures lives but also the land we live on and the air we breathe.

Imagine the amount of pollution that is spreading around New Zealand, imagine the pain poor creatures endure nearly each day and imagine how you would feel if a single plastic straw corrupts your digestive system. This is because of our actions. Even if we only use just one a day it still increases the amount of plastic straws that are harming the earth.

Currently, companies such as fast food restaurants around New Zealand are banning plastic straws to eliminate the amount of straws we use each day. Sure it may be a bit more mess free and enjoyable to use but the amount of harm it does is insane. Also, people around New Zealand are helping by using metal straws. They can be reused over and over again and they can be put away until your next drink.

Plastic straws are affecting New Zealand and I say we should put a stop to this. If we stop using plastic straws the number of them harming the earth will decrease and save our environment from bigger trouble. You could save the life of a single creature right now by not using plastic straws. So give it a try for the sake of New Zealand!

Speeches / Why people should have more screen time?

Why people should have more screen time?



Greetings all, my name is Nyjah. We can all agree that mainly everyone has a passionate liking for screen time. Right? Well! Some people believe that screen time is bad for development but I disagree. Today, I will be possibly changing your mind about that as many people around the world has succeeded online.

Recently the last fortnite championship tournament took place on Sunday at the National Tennis Centre in New York. 16 year old Kyle Giersdorf (Bugha) won the solo competition against 99 other players! He earned 3 million dollars and many admires the skills he has. This all connects to the internet (online).

People around the world can express their talent through the internet such as entertainment, beauty, art, gaming, cooking and more. People on the internet that we know of today started small and grew in population due to their skills that is being shared online. Many groups of people at any age can be inspired to try something new because of the internet.

Large amounts of communities online help and support different kinds of real life events such as the LGBTQ community, art community, cultural communities and much more which is free and here to anyone around the world.

So much has been expressed and shared throughout the internet and this is why I think screen time helps people teach others, share skills and much more!

LI: To write a speech that persuade others to think the way you do.

This week students in Panmure Bridge School presented individual speeches to their classes so other students and teachers could vote on who would move on to the school competition in the hall. On Tuesday Mele, Jack and Marieta had the most votes and moved on to the school competition. Mele placed first, Jack second and Marieta third. Although, my speech was about why people should get more screen time. Lots of people around the world has succeeded online, started careers and earned money just by being on the internet. 

The story of the dawn raid and the Polynesian Panthers

For the past week in reading, Rakino group has been reading a text that all revolves around the story of the dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers. If you did not know the Dawn Raids were evacuation protocols which involved the police going to Polynesian homes and forcing them to show their passports that stated whether they were allowed to live in the country. If demands were not met, they were locked up and later kicked out of the country. Our challenge was to read the text and answer questions. With this new found knowledge we needed to create a DLO that showed both perspectives of the issue. 

HIIT

Today for HIIT LS2 worked on building our strength. Three stations were set around the hall for us. Although we all got into partners and completed these challenges together. Victoria (my partner) and I first started with press ups. We took turns at doing different types of push ups like army push ups or spreading our legs when doing a press up so it is a little bit more easy for us. Our next rotation was Mountain Climbers. I found this activity the most challenging as my upper body and legs were getting tired very quickly. Our last rotation was lifting ourselves up just below the bar. My partner had to hold both sides of the pole just to make sure it was stable. When pushing myself up I felt fine but when pushing down I felt very tired. Our final challenge of HIIT was a remake of the beep test. We all did a squat challenge to the song "bring sally up."

Maths Game - Mixed Decimals

During week 9 and 10 I have created a mixed decimals game. I have 5 questions in total and one out of four answers are correct. If you get a question incorrect you can always try again or click on the "help link." If you get the answer correct you move onto the next level. Each level is mixed so not every question is hard or easy. Although, each question does involve decimals and addition. When designing my presentation (game) I decided to have a flower / nature like theme. I made the flowers on the correct slide green and red for the incorrect slide. Each question involves thinking and strategies like place value. Think, Choose wisely an good luck!