Free Style Writing - Hailstones by Edith

On Tuesday we were very fascinated with the way it rained with hailstones. We were encouraged to descriptively describe this moment. We were required to use figurative language to help us critically describe what we saw, heard and felt. 

🌧️In The Moment..Hailstones🌧️

"Tap, tap, tap" gently upon the building,

the cold, frozen water it's not want we need,

the gods must be in a low spirit,

so the hailstones are in all kinds of sizes and speed.

I can hear the water drifting and pouring its way down the roof.

I can hear the tree's whistling as the leaves are in a groove.

A big sheet of grey wants to come cover our sky,

shattering glass, and frozen rain which is now solid ice.

The thunders now coming to join in on the fun,

no more kids playing, and no more bright sun.

Then following are tiny droplets of rain,

"Splish, Splash, Splosh",

It's a slushy based on life, and it just froze my brain.

Predator Free by Edith

WALA: The future plans for predators and how we can have a say in the statement!🚫🐱Predator Free🐱🚫

Kia Ora unicorns, aliens, viewers or who or whatever you are and welcome back to my blog!

In the first block we had a lady named Ms. Treena come into our classroom to teach us about what's happening in the world; we were learning about the people who are arguing about whether NZ should vanish all the predators or if we should keep them in Aotearoa. 

We have identified that New Zealanders would like to get rid of Pests that are coming over to NZ by the year of 2050. They believe that pests are NOT good for our country and the more that the pests are coming, the more our Native animals like Kiwi's will die and possibly vanish from our country Aotearoa.
*We also checked out this Document and Presentation, Here they are:*
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*Here is the Document*

Here is some evidence about this issue:

	The Government group Predator Free 2050 is calling all New Zealanders to help get rid of pests such as possums, rats and stoats by the year 2050. Predators are said to kill millions of native birds every year and carry diseases that can affect other animals such as beef cattle. Animal pests come from outside New Zealand and are a danger to the country’s wildlife.
	The Morgan Foundation wants New Zealand to be free of all its predators by the year 2050. They have upset cat owners because of their website called ‘Cats to Go’. This group wants New Zealanders to own only one cat and not to get a new pet, if their cat dies. They state that cats are “pests” which are “wiping out our native birds". Cats hunt birds, lizards, insects and other wildlife.
	Dr. Jamie Steer, in the magazine Spinoff, says we can’t keep New Zealand completely native. He believes we need to get better at living with a mix of animals and make sanctuaries for those that need extra protection.
	The Department of Conservation (DOC) website lists 31 pests, for example: DOC also lists wildlife that need protection from pests, for example:
	Dr Jane Goodall, a well known anthropologist, believes New Zealanders should change the way they talk about animals that are not natives to our country, such as calling them “pests”. One of her reasons is that the term “pests”  does not help people to show respect and kindness to all animals.

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I have learnt that most people think that we should give the predators another chance but I disagree. Here is an example of what one person has said about this situation:

This is what I replied with:

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In the end I have learned that we all have different opinions and I believe EVERYONE should get a say even if they are kids!

Kia Ora
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TPS Athletics 2018 - Reflection by Aumau

On the 16th of November 2018 we had School Athletics. Our school athletics was placed on the Tamaki Primary School field. The events that happened on the field was Long Jump, Standing Jump, Running, Shot Put and Discuss. My favourite event that happened on the school field was Shot Put because it was fun being competitive with the other houses and being able to try throw it as far as I can. We had different types of races, there were 50m, 75m, 100m and 400m. There were also team relays.

A school value I showed at the athletics day was Whanaungatanga because I was building relationships with everyone in our house team, I got to meet people I haven't talked to. Another person I have captured showing the school values was a member from the community. He saw that there were lots of people waiting to buy the sausage sizzles and Ice blocks so he decided to pay for the whole stock of food so that it is free for everyone. To me that was a really good thing to do and to give back to the community, I hope 1 day people can do the same and pay it forward.

Something that I learnt about myself is that I am able to complete tasks when I put my mind into it and give it my best. another thing that I learnt about myself is that I am able to communicate with others well throughout the day.

TPS Athletics 2018 by Hevani

WALT: blog a reflection about Atheltics

(Tripoli house chant)
Tripoli were number one!!
(Repeat)
Defeating your teams one by one!!
(Repeat) 
We're gonna finish number one!!
(Repeat)
Go back home we've already won!!
(Repeat)

Friday the 16th of November was the day were all houses came together to compete in different activites/events. Every year T.P.S always has an event that happens in November on the second week, it's called Atheltics. Atheltics is were we have our different house groups come together and compete with each other. 

Each student gets put into different houses and Triopli is my house group, our colour is blue and did you know that each house is named after a street/road around our area?
This event took place at T.P.S on the school field, before we started the event each house group had to shout their house chants while walking around the bike track, the Tripoli house group was the first to lead the rest around the bike track followed by Benghazi, Alamein and lastly Tobruk. 

The first block we had the field events happening. There were different feild events such as: Shot put, Discuss, Long jump, High jump and Standing jump. Only the senior classes took part in these 5 field events. 

Classes from room 6 to the Kia manawanui syndicate went to a field event, because the Kia manawanui syndicate is such a BIG CLASS we got split into two groups so I was put into group 2 and we had Discuss first. Here is a list of what class went to which field event:

Kia manawanui/Group 1 - High jump 
Kia manawanui/Group 2 - Discuss
Room 8 - Shot put
Room 7 - Standing jump
Room 6 - Long jump

We had a chance at every field event and was very competitive. I think that I did well with Shot put, Standing jump and long jump but may need some practice with Discuss and High jump.
After having the field events we had morning tea, luckly we had an early morning tea so it was a bit longer than our ususal morning tea. 

Later on after having our first break we got straight into the races, we all raced by age and not but year. Here is yet another list about who was racing in what race:

5 yr old girls - 50m run
5 yr old boys - 50m run

6 yr old girls - 50m run
6 yr old boys - 50m run

7 yr old girls - 50m run
7 yr old boys - 50m run

8 yr old girls - 75m run
8 yr old boys - 75m run

9 yr old girls - 75m run
9 yr old boys - 75m run

10 yr old girls - 75m run
10 yr old boys - 75m run 

11 yr old girls - 100m run
11 yr old boys - 100m run

12 yr old girls - 100m run
12 yr old boys - 100m run

13 yr old girls - 100m run
13 yr old boys  - 100m run

I ran with the 12 yr old girls for the 100m race and places 2nd in my first race and placed 1st in my second race. After having our races we then moved into the 400m run which is basically around our bike track and straight to the finish line. I was soo tired from my races that I didn't have enough energy to run the 400m run, but I did anyways. Although I didn't come first I am still proud of Grace who placed 1st in the 400m run (GO TRIPOLI!!).

I become exhausted after the event and almost fainted, I am proud of my house group and I think that every house group did an amazing job!! Congrats to BENGHAZI who won this year. 
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Questions:

Do you have Atheltics day at your school?If so, then what did you place?
Would you prefer Long jump or Standing jump?
Would you prefer Discuss or Shot put?
What house group are you in? What is you house group's name? 
What colour is your house group?
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The Earthquake Beast

The Kia Manawanui syndicate studied different natural disasters around the South Pacific in Term 2. One of our writing tasks was to describe the causes and the effects of a natural disaster through poetic writing.
Here is a poem written by Constance:

THE EARTHQUAKE BEAST

When the faultline breaks, the tectonic plates move.

Awakening the beast, as it gets ready to groove.

Rattle, rumble

Rush and ROAR!

Drop, cover, and hold to the floor.

Tremble, troubles

Shock and shake

The beast is too groovy, it caused an earthquake.

There are cracks on the road, we have nowhere to go

The buildings have collapsed, all in a row.

People are running, people are screaming,

Hoping they’ll survive, as much as they are believing.

The earthquake has stopped, and majority people are alive,

All screaming in happiness, because they’ve survived.

They are all relieved as the beast fell asleep,

Now we are waiting for the rescue team.

When they arrive, they start helping us all,

Rebuilding buildings, to help a bit more.

We’ve experienced enough and hope it was the last

As some of our families couldn’t risk it all.

This is the DLO that we used to help us start the crafting of our poem.

T.E.A.M

We kick started the year by building our class culture that focuses on strengthening the school values and the key competencies. Some students in the Kia Manawanui syndicate put together a chant called T.E.A.M which helped us show the school values and the key competencies at Camp Raglan in Term 2. No only has this chant helped us show T.E.A.M at camp but it has also helped continue to build a positive class culture throughout the year. 

How our T.E.A.M chant was created

Two weeks before camp we were required to work as a group to put together a chant that included a positive message about working as a team. All groups enjoyed working together as they put their group chant together. After showing our chants to our class we then voted for the best group chant as a syndicate. Once we agreed we all started learning the chant together which helped us get into the spirit of participating and contribiting as a TEAM which also helped us prepare for camp. 

T.E.A.M means:

Here are the words of our chosen chant - T.E.A.M

Before we went to camp we recorded our syndicate chant about T.E.A.M with our music specialist, Mr Caleb. We decided as a syndicate that our camp chant will be made into a movie for this year's Manaiakalani Film Festival. Press Play to watch our syndicate chant about T.E.A.M.

T.E.A.M from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Tamaki Values:

Biosecurity by Edith

🛡️Biosecurity - Reading task🛡️

Talofa lava unicorns, aliens, viewers or who or whatever you are and welcome back to my blog!

For Reading we have been learning about Biosecurity, and from my understanding I think Biosecurity is defined as a security which helps protects us from pests, diseases and unwanted creatures. Biosecurity is very important to New Zealand and we need it so the human population in Aotearoa don't get sick! Here is the link to the text we read - Click to read about Biosecurity! - For my Reading I have also included a screencastify of me reading my work outloud.
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Here is my Screencastify:

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Here is my Document:

Biosecurity - Follow Up Questions!

What is biosecurity?

Biosecurity is a security that helps us to keep us  protected from diseases, pests and
unwanted creatures. Without Biosecurity we would have a lot of diseases spreading around
and they would be affecting our agriculture, our health and even our human population!

Why is it important to protect our environment?

It is very important to our environment to have biosecurity because since we already have our
native animals, plants and fungi we have to keep those things safe. We now have a few
predators on our land which has made New Zealand more unique; unfortunately this also
means that our species don’t have as much of defence as they should which causes some
diseases, infections and pests to come onto the border.

Explain 2 different kind of technology of technology involved with Biosecurity.

The first kind of technology we use which is involved with Biosecurity is a scanner. We us a
scanner to detect whether or not a certain person or yourself is carrying a certain disease
with them that could affect others.

One other type of Technology you can use people use within biosecurity is a microscope; You
use a microscope to look inside of the little disease's inside the blood that they take out of
an/some animal(s) with a syringe with a needle. This is how they see if their are diseases
in animals.

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I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post/follow up questions about Biosecurity and I would enjoy if you guys would tell me something new that you learnt about Biosecurity!

-Kia Ora😃

🐟Fish Pie - Cooking🐟 by Edith

🐟Fish Pie - Cooking🐟

Kia ora unicorns, aliens, viewers or who or whatever you are and welcome back to my blog!

Another Thursday has arrived and now its time for a few students to learn how to cook a new delicious meal at the Tamaki College Technology programme. Today the Cooking class had made a Fish pie. At first I was not that appealed but as I read the recipe I thought it would be nice! Today I had a different buddy and it was none other than one of y new friends, Fine! I was really excited to work with someone new and I thought it would be a great idea to work with Fine since she is my new friend and I am trying to get to know a bit more about the people in my class.

Here is the recipe:

1. Peel the Potatoes and then wash

2. Put in boiling hot water on oven

3. Once soften, sift the water from the potatoes from the pan into sink

4. Then put potatoes in baking bowl and mash

5. Make the mashed potatoes the base and put a mixture of Tuna, Mayo and Creamed mushrooms onto the potatoe base.

6. Add cheese on top and bake at 200℃ for 15 minutes.

7. Take out and enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed this blog and please comment what you think I can improve on!

-Kia Ora😀

Food Technology Reflection by Akanesi

Fakalofa Lahi Atu and greetings to you all...

WELCOME BACK TO MY BLOG!

So as always, KIA MANAWANUI have Technology every Thursday at Tamaki College and each group gets a 8 or 9 sessions of doing the Tech at the college - so there's Cooking, Graphics, and Hard Materials. My FAVOURITE one is Cooking because not only do we cook but we also get to eat the delicious/sometimes yuck food we make as long as we follow instructions carefully.

By the way - ONLY year 7 & 8's get to go to Technology at Tamaki College like the other school in the Manaiakalani Cluster so at first, it will be SO cool then as the next year comes ... it will still be cool but not as exciting as before because how it was your first time the year before (Year 7).

But anyways, we cooked Tuna Fish Pie! There was a recipe for that and a recipe of a Chocolate Cake on the board ... to be honest, I was REALLY hoping we would make Chocolate Cake but then I realised we won't since we made Chocolate Muffins last week but still, I wasn't too excited to make Tuna Fish Pie!

Ingredients: 

Tuna Fish
Mayonaise
Mushroom Sauce
Potatoes
Shredded Cheese



Here is the Recipe :

1. Peel the Potatoes and then wash!

2. Put in boiling hot water on oven!

3. Once soften, sift the water from the potatoes from the pan into sink!

4. Then put potatoes in baking bowl and MASH!

5. Make the mashed potatoes - the base and put a mixture of Tuna, Mayo and creamed mushrooms onto the potatoe base!

6. Add shredded cheese on top and bake at 200℃ for 15 minutes.

7. Take out and enjoy ;)

Result of myself and Cerenity's FISH PIE!

This turned out and tasted DELICIOUS, I hope you learnt something NEW!

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for MORE blog posts!

Kiwisport - Term 4 - by Akih

Flag Football - KiwiSport!

Today in Kia Manawanui Syndicate we finally have kiwi sport!

 This is the first time we have kiwi sport for Term 4. For our kiwi sport we had flag football, what I could say is that, rugby and flag football is the same. We walked into the field where 2 coaches were, their names were Coach Will and Coach Carl. So we had to be in a circle and they taught us how to jog then jump which is called chopping on the spot, so what u have to do is when they call out? (I forgot) u have to jump then jug again as fast as u can, for me I think that was like our team chant or something which is I don't know..  

After that they teaches us how to hold the ball,how to catch and throw, before they teaches us, the girls and boys has to be splited up in half, then three girls has to line up in one of the cone and same for the boys but it has to be four boys in one cone unlike the girls it's three because it was an even number, the girls was in the right side and the boys was in the left side. Also I forgot to mention that both sides had one coach, so in the girls group we had Coach Will and in the boys group they had Coach Carl. So one person has to be a the front and 2 person has to be at back which is Edith and Coralee, and so the team. After that two coaches started to teach us how to hold the ball, how to catch and throw.  

First they taught us how to throw the ball and hold the ball. For me it was very challenging because how the bottom of the ball or the point has to face the front to have a good and high throw, for me it was very challenging but as I tried and tried I started to find it easy and the coaches also helped us by looking how we throw. For a couple of while it started to rain at first we ignored but then it started to rain more and more so that's when we headed inside the hall. The coaches we're worried because of how small the space but they solved it out. So we continued learning how to throw the ball and hold the ball.

 About 5 minutes or 6 minutes later we we're learning how to catch the ball, I found it more challenging but I tried my best. Me and Edith swapped places because she saw having difficulties to learn catching the ball and she was a good mate, so we continued. I saw another girl team and they we're really good at catching,throwing and holding the ball, I was very impressed by how they show teamwork. What I could say about my group is that we all tried our best and we didn't complain about how we throw,catch or hold the ball. 

Our lesson was done but we still had 3 minutes or 4 minutes left? So we decided to play a game of football. What I loved about playing the game is that they where no out's and u can throw the ball as how u throw to be. One of the coaches saw that it wasn't raining outside so played the game outside but only 2 rounds of game, then the rain has come back again, so we have to be at the hall again. Also the coaches had to even the teams and playing the game was like netball because when u have the ball u can't run or walk u have to throw to someone. What I found difficult playing the game is my height because I'm short and lots of my classmates are tall and fast but my friend cheered me up, so I cheered myself up. 

That's all and if you wan't check Edith and Faa'fiu blog post (CLICK HERE - Coralee)
(CLICK HERE - Edith). You can comment and give them a feedback. If you have any questions fill free to leave a comment down below. 

Many thanks!