Woodwork - Tech

Today for woodwork in tech some of the year 8s are starting to sand down their projects while others create the joints. I was able to complete my joint which will help join my other piece of wood together. My project is going to be a jewelry tree. I only need one joint cut out and then I will only need a few pieces added to my design. Although, next week I will be moving onto sanding down my wood so that it's smooth.  

Tech (cooking)

Today the year 8s group b had cooking tech today. Mrs Heka was not here today so Mrs Alice was our teacher. We filled out safety, health and hazard forms, named the different equipment and we also did two word searches. If we completed and filled out those forms we had the opportunity to make a health poster when working in the kitchen. My poster was about keeping safe when it comes to sharp object in the kitchen. While completing and filling out some of the forms we helped each other in case someone was stuck. I was stuck on finding some of the words in the word search and luckily the people around me helped out. The words were linked to different vegetables. The word I found the hardest to find was beetroot since it was going diagonal across the page. 

Metal Tech.

Today was group b's last session at metal tech. We all had a very fun time from the very beginning to end. I was able to finish my cake server and I am really proud on how it turned out. Although, today we tested out our final designs. We had two pizzas made fresh from Miss Heather so a big thank you to her. I would also like to say a big thank you to Mr Naicker for helping us during Metal Tech. Everyone was able to test out their Pizza Cutters and I was able to test out my Cake Server. I am really proud of my final design and I really enjoyed metal tech this year!

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Today was another amazing day at tech. This time in Metal Work with Mr Naicker I was able to move on from sanding down my handle and polishing it. I was able to get it nice and smooth ready to put the actual cake server part on. Although before I do that I have to let the polish on the handle dry so that handle doesn't stain.

Tech

Today at tech was amazing. Group B year 8's continued filling down there handles for either making a pizza cutter or a cake server. Although some people started to sand there art down with sand paper. The sides are now all smoothed out and I am going to start to sand my handle down to make it smoother.

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Today for tech group b year 8's was with Mr Naicker again which was great. Last week we started to stick out metal bits together and today we were able to file it down and cut some extra bits off. Although today my one wasn't quite finished as it wasn't that straight on the piece of metal. The good thing was that we were able to help others with there project. If you already do not know we are creating either a pizza cutter or a cake server! 

Colour theory - Tech

Today for tech the year 7s has practised colouring patterns and generally colouring in. We firstly made our own colour wheel and learnt about the three prime colours. Red,Blue and Yellow. Here is the link to my colour wheel Colour theory I learnt that red,blue and yellow are primary colours because when they mix these colours come out as secondary. Green, Purple and orange. Although you can make darker colours depending on how much of the other colour you mix with another prime colour. Next we drew out a logo and colour it in with Analogous and complementary colours. Analogous means same or close colours like with mine I used purple, dark blue and a normal shade of blue. Complementary is like the opposite of primary colours for example my green,orange and red / pink coloured in fire fox.

Graphics / Flower designing

Today for tech we had a special guest from Tamaki College helping us out! Her name is Autumn and she is a year 12. She helped us with drawing our circles and colour choice. We had four options to draw different things. A flower, Star, Cube and squares. I have made a rainbow / Summer vibe kind of colouring choice. I really like how my design turned out and this activity was very fun too! The flowers at the top are more examples of different ones. I really like the yellow and red flower as it has lots of detail and depth put into it.

Tech blog post / TinkerCad

Today for tech we have still continued with our tech designs on TinkerCad. I am almost finished as my phone stand just needs to have the bit where the phone stands. Although I am very proud of my design as I have made it myself by hand on TinkerCad. We still have enjoyed making our phone stands though. I have managed to finish most of my design which is a bunny laying down. I will place the phone bit on the back of the bunny. I will show my final design when it is completed by this design is my old creation which was not bad at first but when I compared it to my new design I saw a lot of improvement it my new design.

Tech

This week for tech the year 7s has practised shading in with colours but for this practise we have used grey or just a simple pencil. This made it easier to shade. We also drew 3d and 2d shapes which was quite the fun experience!

Digitech / Sprites

For tech we have been making sprites! My two main sprites is Gloria ( The brown haired girl ) and Faith ( the black haired girl ). The two little ones are the little version of Gloria and Faith. My favourite out of all of these sprites is Gloria! She was the first sprite I made and I was very happy with the results for her character.

Tech reflection

Today for tech we have been working on our detail designs and our shared survey. We all gave our opinions about which character should be the main one, the main background and the main story idea. I really liked the amount of effort that was put in to most of the year 7 surveys. They were very creative, and there was so much wizard theme ones too, which seemed to interest me. I really enjoyed tech, it was fun and it was great to hear that people were giving feed back.

Tech

Today it was my first time arriving at tech. Our teacher Ms Anderson is our digital tech teacher and is a very nice person. She taught us the basics of animations and how it works. Chavda had helped me with the process due to not being here today.

Tech / the last day of Mr Grundy's Pewter casting group

Tech last term and quarter this term was amazing and fun. Mr Grundy has taught us a lot about pewter casting. This was a very fun lesson we had and hope to come again and learn more from Mr Grundy. Recapping on what we did at the very start was finding the designs we want and who want to make it for. Then we started drawing on a piece of wood then cut it out. After that Mr Grundy poured the Metal Pewter inside of the mold and let it set for a while.  Then we cut the top part off and starting to file it. Then we used sandpaper to get it to a nice look then we used water and a special liquid to finish it off. Thank you so much Mr Grundy !

Pewter casting / workbook

Today at tech Mr Grundy's class our the year 7 group have been finishing off our work books to get a better score for half this term and last term. 

Pewter casting / Tech

This week for pewter casting we started on tracing our  designs. After that we then cut out the outlines on our pieces of wood then waited for the pewter to melt. after that we poured the pewter in the molds and then next week we will polish them and cut the top off.

Technology / Tech

Today was a special day for the new year 7s. We had a new teacher for tech called mr Grundy. He is a nice teacher that  teaches us about technology and other things. We started on thinking about our designs on who were gonna give it to. After that Mr Grundy showed us how to make the actual pendent. This was really cool to watch and we were all happy. After our session we went back on the bus and cant wait to go back next week Friday!