Bully Free Week

                    Bully Free Poster

Last week was Bully Free week, so as a task for Bully Free week we created a poster to promote it through our class and school which will be displayed in our school library. This poster informs you on what bullying is and how to prevent bullying, the criteria was to create an eye-catching, informative, creative poster which could be a collaborative poster or personal. This is my poster that I created collaboratively with other class mates.  

  

 I really enjoyed creating this poster, and I hope this poster can convince others that bullying shouldn't be happening in our school.

Have you ever been bullied, or have seen it happen? 

If so, what do you think you could do to prevent it from happening?

ANZAC Soldier Uniform

               ANZAC Soldier Uniform

This week for literacy, there was a task where you had to create and design a uniform for an ANZAC soldier going to war. For this task the criteria was to think about thickness and layers that a soldier would've worn but keeping creative and using your own ideas. So for this task, I have chosen to base my soldiers uniform on a gunner's uniform. Using a thick camouflage jacket, a thick pair of camouflage pants, a camouflage hard helmet, thick, hard leather black boots and small, brown heavy bags to carry around water bottles, extra bullets and food rations. 

This is my soldier's uniform that I have designed.

This task was really simple and was loads of fun to do. This is what I pictured for a soldier to wear.

What would you picture a soldier wearing?

Term 2 Learning Goals

                                My Learning Goals

This Term I have new goals that I want to achieve, these goals include: Literacy,Maths and R.E (Religious Education). 

Here are my 3 goals for the term.

Literacy:

This Term I want to work on my vocabulary so I can extend my sentences and use higher level words. I can do this by reading more at home and by thinking carefully about words I use.

Maths:

This Term for maths, I want to work on my fractions, decimals and measurement. I can do this by using different strategies and by practicing at home.

R.E

This term for R.E, I want to work on my reading so when I´m  reading the bible or scriptures I can pronounce words properly.

I can achieve this goal by reading the bible more and by sounding the words out aloud.

These were my goals for the term. Do you have any school goals that you want to achieve? If so what were they about, and how can you achieve that goal?

ANZAC Diamante Poem

            ANZAC Diamante Poem

This week we have been doing learning about ANZAC day, and we have been doing learning about ANZAC day with a little booklet based on ANZAC. There was one task in the booklet "Words of war" where we had to find a poem about ANZAC and answer questions about the poem. The poem I chose was called "The Red Poppy" and the poem read:

The red poppy is a symbol
To simply show we care
For all our fallen heroes
A loss we all share

The red poppy is a symbol 
For many we have lost
In every conflict of war
Their valour at cost

The red poem is a symbol 
Wear it with pride for them
As each and every year goes by 
We shall remember them

I chose this poem because the words were very moving and using this poem we had a follow up task. Using the poem we chose, we had to create our own Diamante poem a diamante poem includes nouns, adjectives and verbs and the poem is set out like this:

noun
adjective adjective
verb verb verb
noun noun noun noun
verb verb verb 
adjective adjective
noun

Using my chosen poem as an example, I created my own diamante   poem.

I hope you liked my post and have you ever written a poem before? If so what was it about?

2019 New Year, New Class, New Learning

                          

                                2019 

This year at Pompallier, I am a year 7 and I'm in a new class called Te Kahu. This year I'm super excited for all the new learning that we're going to be doing, and all the fun activities that we're going to do! I'm a white shirt this year and since I'm a senior now, I get to play in leadership roles such as: 

• House Captain - Leader of the House Group, sets up fun games for events and take charge on sports events.

• S.C.T - Special Character Team, runs events,plans events and sets up fun activities for the school like disco's, Competitions, and sport events

• Disciple - People who go around the school and sort out problems.

This year I enrolled in S.C.T because I have had lots of ideas that I wanted to do around the school when I was a junior, so I wanted to make them happen and make people smile. In S.C.T I am the secretary, which means that I write/type down all of our ideas, priorities and minutes (how long meetings take). I have also enrolled in being a Disciple, because I like sorting out problems, and I want our school to be a happy, safe and fair environment. 

This year I am enjoying all the changes that have been made, and it's a privilege to be a senior in these leadership roles.

I have the rest of the year ahead of me, and it's going to be amazing!

-Tiana  

School Year Reflection 2018

               School Year Reflection 2018

This year has been such an exciting year, there was so many cool, and fun activities we've done this year. We have done lot's of different activities over the year such as:

• Cross- Country
• Athletics
• Speeches
• Swimming
• Camp
• Kiwi Sport
• Science Projects
• Production

And much more, during all of these activities we learnt lot's of different skills like:

• Cross-Country/Athletics/Swimming/Kiwi Sport- Fitness, Perseverance
• Speeches- Confidence
• Camp-Survival skills, perseverance, team work,
• Science Projects-Measurements, maths, physics
• Production- Confidence, 

I enjoyed all of these things we have done and more! But I'm also really excited for the school holidays.

What was your favourite thing you've done in the past year?

Merry Christmas

Tiana

 

Crazy Camp

                               Crazy Camp

Camp was so much fun! There was so many fun activities over the 4 camp days and I wish it could've lasted longer though. But anyways, on Monday we had to travel to Rarawa Campgrounds for that was where camp was being held. 

Over camp there was lots of fun activities done, but these are 5 of my favourite highlights

• The CRAZY Thunderstorm! On our first night at camp, all of a sudden a huge storm came and shook up the Rarawa camp grounds, pouring with rain and clashes of thunder and lightning during this time we stayed up from 4 am     6 am! But afterwards the storm seemed quite exciting and kinda fun!

• Te Paki Sand dunes, racing down the sand on boogie boards, wind rushing past my face and skimming across the shallow water.

• Cape Reinga, going on a stroll along the cliff side of the lighthouse, waves crashing, frosty wind blowing through my hair, and an amazing view to hold in my memories.

•  The Amazing Race! Had lot's of different types of activities to do such as running, problem solving and tasks that required team work. 

• Party time! On the last day of camp before bed delicious treats were handed out as a prize for the Amazing Race so the treats gobbled up and then a party was started LOUD music, dancing, singing, spot light, shouting, spinning and lot's of FUN commenced.