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!

Rhythm Interative's visit to PBS

Today Panmure Bridge got the amazing opportunity to have a drumming experience with our drumming teacher (visitor) John Boone featuring Wilson! LS2 was able to help the junior kids by helping with the beat of the drums and paying attention. John Boone did not only teach us a lot of drumming skills but there was a reason (theme) behind it. The theme was: Together we can make a change. Everyone listened carefully to the beat, rhythm and pattern on the drums. We all enjoyed the lesson as we had fun interacting with the drums! Another message he included was "If you can say it you can drum it." The drums we used were African drums which are called Djembe. Did you know Djembe actually translates to "brings joy"? Although, everyone had a fun time and a big thank you for John Boone for teaching us a lot of amazing drumming skills and together we can all make a change!

Robotics Design

During week 8 and 9 Victoria and I has created a design for the robotics club this year. We are really proud of how this has turned out. The theme for robotics this year is architecture so Victoria and I tried to link our drawing to the architecture style base. In the drawing we have cross over roads, the robotics EV3 machine, a crane, buildings in the back and a lovely background. At the start we were a bit stuck on how we were going to lay this out but when we linked ideas we were able to come up with this! 

Ballet Lesson with Chloe

Yesterday LS2 had the amazing opportunity to attend and try out ballet with Chloe. A big thank you to both Chloe and Fiona for making this possible. Our first exercise was to firstly loosen up our feet muscles, legs, arms and hips. After our first exercise we started by practicing a few stances and positions. Our first position was to have our feet in a little v shape. After we got the hang of our positions we did a few ballet jumps. Our challenge was to jump using left leg first in the front and using our back leg to push off. After we had finished that we used our hands as our guide using the opposite arm from our front leg and our back hand facing the side. After we all finished the few exercises Chloe taught us the opening to the swan dance. Everyone in LS2 gave everything a go and i'm sure they enjoyed Chloes way of teaching as she was fun and very productive.