Reflection Blog Post 16-11-23

 What happened this week with our Power to the people project.

What have you achieved since the last post?

Our group interviewed two people (Ian and Colin from school) on Monday to ask about the schools heating bill and how many radiators/ heat pumps our school has. I did all the talking in the interview while the other group members took notes.

How effectively have you used your time in class?

My group and I have done work in class 3 quarters of the time, the other quarter we've spent taking breaks to keep our ideas fresh.

How have you contributed to your group's progress this week?

I started our Radiators slideshow, asked Ian and Colin questions and used my phone to record our vlogs.

Something going well in your group?

Everyone is working well together and we have all been in agreement over where our project is going.

Something not working well?

Our group gets distracted very easily meaning we're not doing as much work as we could be doing.

Everyday we've been filming a vlog and at the end of the project our group is going to post it on our blogs.

Power To The People Learning Reflection

 Hi everyone!

My group members Jessica, Jordan, Winter, Summer, Eunacee and I have started our PTTP project this week. The whole idea of the project is to get all the year 10s to work together, the teachers have combined English, Social Studies and Science to allow us to learn about all three of these at the same time.  The goal of this project is for us students to research and investigate something to do with sustainable energy in the Otaki community. At the end of the project we will present the project to an audience, my group is presenting our research onto a piece of cardboard while doing a oral presentation.

Our question for the project is how sustainable are heat pumps for the college instead of radiators?

1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?

We have organised three meetings with three different people and one of those meetings was yesterday (Thursday). Another thing we've done was making an outline of everything we need to do.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?

Very well, every period there was work to be done.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?

I set up an interview that we had on Thursday and also contributed to the list of questions we made for our interviews.

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project:

Everyone is working well together and we are very organised.

5. Grows: Something you need to work on:

Getting everyone to participate equally .

6. Where could you get help with this? 

Asking members of my group what they would like to do when we have a  lot of work to do.

7. What are the next steps for your project?

We have two interviews on Monday next week and after that we'll do some more research to put on our slideshows.

I'm happy how great my group is working together and I think our project is going to go really well if we stay happy with each other. I will keep posting on my blog giving updates on where my group is up to in our exciting project!

Matariki 2022

This is our Matariki presentation by Jeana,Jess,Jordan and Te Ao Marama

Word Art Personality Qualities

 This is my word art. We had to make it that we put our qualities  in it.

I just put things I like to do and things I'm good at. 

Zespri Challenge

Our school is doing the Zespri challenge. The challenge is that we have to do heaps of steps, eat healthy, get better sleep and spend less time on screens. Everyday my class goes for a walk around the block or plays games with other classes. Everyday we have to enter our steps and for bonus points we can put in how much fruit we've had, How many veges we've had, the amount of sugar we've consumed, how much sleep we get ,mindfulness and screen time. This is a picture of our data

We can also put activity in as well. There are over 65 activities to choose from. On this day I had dance after school so I put that in. Our class is walking around Japan right now. All of our steps get put together and that makes us go really far. Zespri is a really great challenge for our class to do.

My Animals

 I have a cat named Hokey Pokey and this is all the information about him!

His name: Hokey Pokey

Gender: Male

Age: 2 & half years old       

Breed: Ginger

Colour: Ginger

What my cat likes to do: Eating Temptations and sleeping on my head at night

What my cat dislikes to do: Getting woken up

Favourite food: Temptations

Habits: Catching birds and mice

Favourite place: Our roof

Special information:  He LOVES climbing trees. This is him

  

His name: Mac

Gender: Male

Age: 11

Breed: Doberman

Colour: Black & Brown

What my dog likes doing: Barking at everything

What my dog dislikes doing: Getting woken up

Favourite: Bone

Habits: Licking his leg

Favourite place: His bed

Special info: He runs into walls all the time

Jacinda Ardern

 I have to write a blog about if I agree\disagree on what Jacinda Ardern said about wearing face masks in public and social distancing.

I agree with what she said about wearing them when you leave your house. This Covid outbreak is called Delta and it's very easy to catch. If you're breathing the same air as someone who has Covid you'll probably get Covid. If you wear a mask your chances of getting Covid will go down, and social distancing will help even more! As more and more people are getting vaccinated everyday in New Zealand, that makes some people think that they don't have to stay home, social distance or wear face masks. But what it really means is that once again your chances of getting Covid go down. So in conclusion, if you wear face masks, social distance and get vaccinated your chance of getting Covid are really low, but if you do get Covid remember to stay home and try to get better.

I decided I wanted to do the disagree argument as well. But I still agree with Jacinda Ardern.

I think that if we wear face masks we don't need to social distance because our mouths are covered up. Actually I don't think we need to wear face masks either. They are really uncomfortable and when you talk no on can hear you or they'll think you said something else. Let's say you're shopping and you ask someone where the bananas are. They will think you said something weird like 'funarnas', what even is that, because I don't know! If you're vaccinated it means that you won't get Covid, so I think that all people who get vaccinated don't need wear masks, social distance or stay home. So in conclusion, I disagree with what the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.