Netbook Reflection

Having the opportunity to use a netbook is really cool. I've had my netbook for about 3 years and have learnt many things along the way such as maths, reading, writing and many more. Having a netbook at such a young age gives us a good start for the future. I enjoy using a netbook.

With a netbook that means no more scrunched up pieces of paper or work that has gone missing. It also helps us to work individually and not always rely on our teachers as much as we used to.

Learn, create, share is one of our main focus for this year with netbooks. We create lots of things like movies, music, animation and stories. We also get the chance to post it on our very own blog so that everyone in the world can see our work. If we had books the only people that see it, are our teachers, family and friends.

Google is the main site we use. We have our own google accounts which stores all our work. Our account gives us access to things like google docs, gmail,google sites and many more.

The things that I have mostly improved this year is using interesting vocab, proofreading and edit my work and pronounce words I didn't know how to. Netbooks are a fun and interesting way to learn.

Prizegiving

The hall was packed full of parents and kids, waiting for the 2013 Senior Prize giving to start. This was the last Prize giving for me and all the other year 8s. At prize giving we were going to perform a Item and some people would be getting awards.

The were awards like best effort, 100% attendance,citizenship,sport awards and many more awards.

My highlight of the night was watching all of the everyone perform.They year 5s were dancing to the Pitch Perfect songs(Price tag,I've got the magic an Who run the World girls). The year 6 item was my favourite item. They did Skrillex, Trouble maker and Bibles in the air.The year 7s acted and dance to Prince Of Bel Air. We dance to Like a boy,Started from the bottom and also sang stand by me.

I really enjoyed prize giving even though I didn’t get an award.

Year 8 Camp Reflection

My bags were packed and I was ready to go. Us year 8’s were going to a camp called Keswick in rotorua. That meant a 4-5 hour drive from Auckland.

As soon as we got to camp we unpacked our bags into our cabins. We also had a bit of free time to get to know the area before we went to a bush walk the was 3.8 km. It was very tiring but was fun seeing all of the awesome scenery.

A day had gone past and now we were well into our activities for each day. Our first activity was to go to a show called the agrodome. The agrodome was about the different types of sheep we have in New Zealand, we also saw tricks that involved the sheep, dogs, and ducks. We also went to see a geyser called Lady Knox.With our last activity for the day the Thermal Hot pools.

On day 3 we were going to swim in the blue lake. It was cold but after a while I got used to it. After that we went to the hot pools and swam again. At the hot pools they had a trampoline the we could jump on to get higher while jumping in the pool.

We came to the last day of camp which for my favourite highlight of the camp. We went to the luge were we went up the gondola. Going up the gondola was a bit boring because of the long ride up but the view was full of nature and nice scenery. Once we arrived up top we waited to go down the luge. The luge ride was fun and exciting, it was the best part of camp.

Year 8 Yearbook

Ashleigh's Yearbook from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This is my year 8 yearbook movie that I have been working on. Enjoy!

Narative Animals

I scanned the area and all I saw was the wreck from the plane I was flying in. ”Hello anyone here?” I screamed in my highest voice. My voice echoed but no one replied. All I could remember was the pilot saying we would be going through a rough landing. I was supposed to be going to Hawaii.

Exotic plants and distinctive smells surrounded me. I had no idea where I was. I grabbed things that would become useful from the plane and decided to explore this unknown place.

Things looked the same in every direction. I carried on walking hopping i would find shelter.Thinking of finding shelter made stomach rumble. Lots of things were going through my mind.

I stumbled on rocks and fell into a pitch black cave.My heart started beating I didn’t know what was going to happen. I fell to the ground with my face in my hands.All I wanted to do was cry.I sat there.After a while I got up and leaned against the wall.I hit a switch and saw a wall full of hieroglyphics. It showed my directions to different places in the world.I saw hawaii and read where to go.

All I had to do was follow a cave turn left and in about 2km I would have reached the edge of the island. I was full of excitement.All of that for nothing.But its was a good experienc

ONE DIRECTION :)

One direction is a boy band, created by Simon Cowell on X Factor.In 2010 they  made it to the top 3 but were sadly eliminated. There names are Louis, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan,Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne. They signed a contract with Simon Cowell record label Syco records.Their first song is called What Makes You Beautiful and have made many more songs.Most of their songs have been rated 1st best track in the world. They are also known as the top boy band in the world, winning many teenagers hearts.

Mihimihi

Kia ora tatou
Greeting to you all

Kua hui mai nei
Who have gather here

Ki teni huihuinga
to this gathering

Ki te kawe mai
to bring

I nga whakaaro pai
the good thoughts

Ka nui te koa
great is the happiness

Mo to koutou kaha
for your support

Ki te haere mai
in comming

Ki te korerorero
to discus 

I te Reo Moari
the Te Reo moari launage

E pa ana ki tenei hui
concering this gatering

No reira e te whanau o tenei kura, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra tatou katoa.

So therefore, greetings once, greetings twice, greetings thrice to the family of this school.