Film festival reflection

  Over the last 2 terms, all the schools on the West Coast made a short film and some from each school were chosen to be played at the regent for all the schools to watch.

This was the first year the film festival was held on the west coast. It was cool watching all the other schools. But I do have some feedback for most of the movies, they need to check the sound because it was difficult to hear/understand what the films were about.

The film Caitlin, Pippa and I made was chosen from our school to be played there. It was really embarrassing because everyone knew it was us, although we were proud of the creation we had made, we still buried our face in our jerseys as the others watched. In the end, we were told that our movie was the best because it had the best camera angles and slo-mo edits in it. I am super pleased about the fact that ours was the best because I put a lot of effort into editing and planning the whole thing.

Overall the film festival was super cool, and challenging (but in a good way). All though I’m not gonna be apart of it next year I think that toki pounamu should definitely do it again.  

Armistice Day

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Click the link above and check out the website I made for my genius hour with Pippa!

My Kea

This is my slide with the kea I made out of shapes on a google drawing. He is a cooooooooool Kea!

My Asstle writing test!

Imagine your dog being stolen to be used as bait, to be killed in a ring being peered at by horrible people betting money. That’s dogfighting in a nutshell. I strongly believe that dogfighting is a horrible, cruel thing to do and should be illegal all over the world. Although it is thought as disgusting by most people, believe it or not, that in many parts of Asia, Russia, Mexico and many more countries it is still legal. Even in places where dogfighting is prohibited, there have been reports on gangs organising a fight. I think that dogfighting is a horrible sport and those who encourage it should be punished.

Firstly, one of the many reasons I believe it should be illegal is because if it were humans the police would be called immediately. If it were you being kidnapped and put in a ring how would you feel? Dogs aren’t toys and they shouldn’t be abused or treated like they are.

Secondly, dogfighting is a form of animal abuse and should be illegal all over the world because animals have feelings too. Dogs are very intelligent mammals and they are among the group that can feel emotions. Did you know dogs are one of the only animals in the world that care more for there owner than themselves? What would a poor dog be thinking as it is thrown in front of a crowd of people cheering for it to be killed? 

Thirdly, dogfighting is that popular that in some places people breed and sell special “Dogfighting dogs”. Not only that but to train the dogs to fight, the owners usually beats and abuses the dog so it becomes that scared and that angry that it then uses all of that power against the poor bait that has probably been stolen from a loving home.

But what are people doing about this? Surely other people think this is wrong? In 2013, New Zealand singer and activist Tiki Tanne made a song about dogfighting and how it is wrong. I remember it was on the news and there was a whole segment on dogfighting to raise awareness about it. And it got a lot of people talking about it at school. 

Dogs should not be treated as toys or something you can just beat and bet money on. Dogs should be loved and treated like they are apart of the family! I think dogfighting is disgusting and should be illegal everywhere, not just the place where I live. Thankfully many countries have made dogfighting illegal and are persuading others to do so, but wouldn’t it be great if dogfighting and animal abuse wasn’t a thing anymore? Wouldn’t it be great if people treated dogs like they should? 

Our vision statement

The enviro warriors came up with a new vision statement for the school. This is it. But I made this slide :)

I also included some bullet points on what the statements mean to me.

3-D hand art!

Holy moly, doesn't that look good, my friends? Of course, it does... I MADE IT.

FILM FESTIVAL!

At school this term we had to make a short film, and this is the one I created along with Caitlin and Pippa. It is the story of a robber stealing money from a bank and the two ditzy cops trying to save the day. I hope you enjoy 😁

Is that an ALIEN?

Another wevideo experiment!

Learning how to use wevideo!

For Toki Pounamu, we had to learn how to use wevideo, a video editing website. It is super cool and you can add lots of awesome effects and music!

Kayaking... Brrrrrr

Kayaking

Icy cold water… spine-chilling wind… and of course tiny little kayaks that we had to squeeze into!

On Monday, July 1st we went Kayaking! IN the greymouth wharf… YUCK! Before we hit the water we had to go back to the Polytech to get the right gear. Then we headed to the Greymouth swimming pool to practise. We learnt what to do when we capsized. We learnt how to paddle with the paddles correctly. We even learnt how to tip ourselves over and then come back up… But it was super hard. Because the water and the swimming pool was warm I had gotten used to it but after we arrived and the wharf and when we stepped out of the cars it was ICY! Once we had got into our kayaks and got onto the water it was really hard to balance. We played some team building games and tried to paddle up some rapids. As we were coming back into shore I suddenly lost my balance and the kayak tipped. Underwater it was even colder than I thought it would be. If we tipped we were mean to bang on the top of the boat 3 times to let the instructors know that we were in trouble, but that completely slipped my mind. I pulled my spray skirt off and back-flipped out of my kayak and came back above the water. I was shivering the whole car ride home. Brrrr. 

In conclusion I think that kayaking has been the most fun challenge yet and like I always say. I am REALLY looking forward to the next challenge.

Rock climbing adventure!

Rock climbing

On Friday 31st June the year 8’s completed their 2nd challenge. 

Picture this… Towering rock faces… Crumbling rocks plummeting to the ground… 

Well, that is what we did yesterday. ROCK CLIMBING! It was super awesome! The polytech took us again, took us to weka wall in Punakaiki. Once we had got our harnesses and done some team-building exercises we got going. 

Our first challenge was getting into groups of three and finding an instructor, to be honest, that took us longer than it should have! I was with Pippa, Caitlin and an instructor called Barbra (His real name was Mitch but his nickname was Barbra). We also had to learn all the safety protocols and learned what a “Backup Bealayer” was (Someone who is also clipped onto the climber's ropes to be a backup in case something happens to the belayer) Caitlin climbed first and I was the backup belayer, then Pippa and then… ME! At first, I found it super hard to get started Even though when I slipped the rope was there to catch me and stop me from falling I was super paranoid that something would happen. I got about ten meters up and then I stopped. It was a super tricky bit to get up and I didn't think I would do it. I wanted to come down but Barbra wouldn’t let me, he said if I wanted lunch I had to get to the top. Even though I almost pooped myself I eventually made it to the top. My favorite bit of rock climbing was getting to the top and looking around, everyone and everything looked so small and when you come down from the rock face it is even cooler because it feels like your flying. 

Rock climbing was by far one of the coolest things I have done this year and I am really looking forward to the next challenge we do!

My Tech website!

Check out this link to see my technology website!
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White water rafting the Arnold river!

For our school camp we have this thing called The William Pike challenge award! And it is super cool, it is inspired by this man called William Pike who was an out door explorer and sadly got in a bad accident which ended with him losing his leg. For WPCA we have to complete at least 5 outdoor adventures, 20 hours of community service and 20 hours of a passion project! For our first adventure we went rafting on the Arnold river!

It was super fun and we met lots of awesome new people I was in a raft with Caitlin, Pippa and Mrs. Reed and our guide called horse.

At first we had to learn how to paddle and all the safety things before we could finally get started but when we hit the water it was awesome. The rapids were HUGE and we were having so much fun. When the water was calm I let go of the rope, and untucked my feet from the special feet holes (they were for you to put your feet in so you didn’t fall out) because I didn’t think I would fall off, but unbenounced to me there were rapids right around the corner. I slipped off the edge of the boat and splashed into the icy, cold water. It was horrible, the penetrating cold water chilled me to the bone. It felt like I was underwater for hours. Finally horse latched onto my life jacket and heaved me back onto the boat. All I could hear at that point was Pippa laughing at me.

But my favourite… and least favourite part of the adventure, depending on which way you look at it. Once we reached another patch if calm-ish water, he made Pippa and I stand up on the edge of the raft and hold onto each others hands and then lean back… so we did! But as we stood up, we were approaching rocks and Horse had to turn the boat really fast or we would crash, as he turned the raft, Pippa LET GO OF ME! I fell into the water again and once more being chilled to the bone, but this time pippa pulled me back into the boat, which took AGESSSSSSS!

Shortly after that we had to get out f the river and jump in the vans to head back to the polytech. On the way exchanging jokes and drinking hot raro (which is as disgusting as it sounds).

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Multiplication Algorithms By Sammi😊😂😃😎😜💖💛💚😹😺

We have recently been learning different ways to do multiplication and this is one of them!😊😂😃😎😜💖💛💚😹😺

Kawa of care rules!

Today we had to make a drawing of one of the kawa of care rules! I chose this one; Never eat or drink around your Chromebook😜😛😋😁😂😎!