Sports Science

 Aim: What is the point of this class? The point of this class was to see where we are at in fitness in general and how we could try and improve.

Method: What were the tests? There were about 11 tests and it included:

- Strength - We had to hang on bar to see how long we would last

- Muscular Endurance - We had to do plank

- Cardiovascular Fitness - We had to do a beep test

- Body Composition - We had to measure our height and weight to see if we are overweight, underweight or average for our age

- Flexibility - We had to try and reach our toes or how far it could reach past our toes.

- Agility - We had to time ourselves on how fast we could finish an agility obstacle course

- Coordination - We had to throw a ball on a wall with one hand and catch it with the other

- Reaction Time - We had to drop a ruler and try to catch it and see how fast we could catch it

- Speed - We had to do a 30m sprint

- Power - We had to jump as high as we could

- Balance - We had to balance with one leg on our toes

Results: 

Social Studies Run Through

Hello everyone today I will be sharing a few work that some of my classmates and I have done during the past term for social studies.

One of the first things we've learnt that's about human rights was the story of Iqbal Masih and how he was a victim of child slavery to pay off a debt that his family had.

Below is an activity we have done about Iqbal Masih and we had to fill up the blank spaces in the story.

Here is the template for the activity if you want to give it a go. Link

Iqbal Masih’s story

Iqbal’s mother received a loan of 5000 rupees in Iqbal’s name  from his employer, (about $NZ200) after Iqbal had been working in a carpet factory in Pakistan for two years.  To repay the loan  Iqbal had to work up to 12 hours a day, six days a week on a carpet loom.  He was malnourished and often beaten. After six years of hard labour the debt had increased to 13000 rupees (NZ$518). In 1992, when he was 10 years old, Iqbal attended a meeting of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF). Where, inspired by what he heard, he gave an impassioned speech about his life.  During the meeting he learnt about his rights and, with the help of a BLLF lawyer, drafted a letter of freedom, which he gave to the owner.  He never returned to the carpet factory. Instead, freedom inspired Iqbal to campaign for the human rights of other children caught in the trap of bonded labour.  For the next two years, he spoke out, campaigned and lobbied for an end to bondage, estimated to affect more than half a million children in Pakistan alone.

As Iqbal’s campaigning and profile increased, he started to receive more threats to his life. Such was his dedication and commitment, Iqbal refused to stop his campaigning.  In April 1995 while cycling near his home town, he was shot dead.

The suspicious circumstances surrounding his death fits a pattern of collusion between powerful business families, political groups and local police authorities, which has resulted in other threats and killings.  Despite an initial invistigation, Iqbal’s murder remains unsolved.

Freedom	Six	Beaten	Political	13000
Powerfuloo	Campaignoo	Loan	Bondage	Rights
Meetingoo	Investigationoo	Cyclingoo	Twelve	Drafted
Bondedoo	Inspiredoo	Millionoo	Threats	Refused

                                                                                                         

Along the way we have also been learning different techniques to help us note down some important things. One of the techniques we've learnt on how to note was called the 'Dot Jot Method'. To do the dot jot method all you have to do is have bullet points and note down the key or main information about the topic you are focusing on.

We've also learned about referencing and how we should give proper credit to the people, websites, articles, ect. that we get information about a certain topic from. Here is the website that we've been using to help us reference.

Here is a slide that a few of my classmates have made about human rights, it is only a few of the human rights and it is still unfinished but the human rights included in this slides are all very important.

             

Another group task that we had to do was to make our own political party that would help the people. The name of our political party was 'Youth Workers Party' and there we focused on how to help students with their school life and how everyone should get a job.

Here is the doc of our policies that our party focused on.

Social Studies has been fun for me this year since I had the chance to learn about the things that has happened throughout history including the 'Black Death' and the 'Invasion of Parihaka'. It has also been fun learning new techniques like how to note, map and reference. 

Science Report

Aim: The aim of our project is to draw our own house and plan and figuring out the total current of our house.

Method: Each bulb contains 25ohms so to find the current I had to divide the number of voltage which was 200V by 25 since a bulb contains 25ohms. But in some of the rooms had more than one bulb so the number of volts had to be divided depending on the number of bulbs a room has. So to find the current I first had to divide the number of volts by how many my bulbs were ,for example if I had 4 bulbs in a room I would divide 200 by 4 and that would equal to 50 now to find the current you now need to divide 50 by 25 which is the number of ohms a bulb has and that would equal to 8. So if a room that has 4 bulbs that contains 25ohms and 200 voltage running through the house the current of that room would have 8amps.

Results: The total current running through my house were 24Amps while having 5 rooms and 12 bulbs in my house.

ESOL

For this term in  ESOL we have done a lot of fun and interesting things and one of the lessons that I enjoyed was when we watched this movie called Penguin, it was a story about a family and a bird named Penguin I liked it because it was very entertaining though some of the parts were very emotional which made me a little sad. One of the things I also enjoyed doing in ESOL class is when we get to read short stories because you could learn quite a few things and it was as well entertaining. Playing tons of kahoots was also one of my favourite activities we've done in ESOL because we could see how much we've actually learned about the topic we were focusing on and it's also fun to compete with your friends and try to be on the podium.

If I would ever be proud of a work I've done in ESOL it'd be the presentation I made about Paralympics and some paralympians with some of their achievements this is because I am really into sports and athletics. But if there was one thing I could do differently to do better in ESOL is that I should listen to the teacher more carefully and finish the assigned works for me. 

BADMINTON BLOGPOST

For the past few weeks we have been playing badminton and we are learning the rules and how to play the game so on this blog post I will be sharing with you all the things that I've learned during the last few weeks of playing the game.

You can play badminton in singles or pairs and you will need a racket for each person to hit the shuttlecock which is the ball. Hit the shuttlecock to other side and when it hits the ground on the other side you will get a point but if you don't get it over your side your opponent gets the point and they will also get the point if you hit the shuttlecock more than once. You will also lose a point if you hit the shuttlecock outside of the box but if your opponent does this you will get the point. And to serve you must hit it the shuttlecock with your racket to go to your opponents side but if you fail to get it over your side your opponent gets the point.

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 What are the three elements of music? Melody, Harmony and Rhythm

What music element is a chord? And name two instruments that can play chords. Harmony, Guitar and Piano

What three parts make up a chord and what are their functions? A root, third and a fifth. The root names the chord, the third and the fifth finishes the chord

Name thee of the four types of note we've learnt about. Whole note, half note, quarter note and 8th note.

 Yamate Kudasai