Flexagon

Today for spec 1&2 we made a thing called a flexagon. A flexagon is a piece of origami designed to rotate an infinite amount of times within itself.







I found that after some usage the corner folds begin to rip and tear but that is to be expected with any origami.





In the end the flexagon was a pretty fun toy and work well as a desk toy.

Athletics

Yesterday my school had an athletics day.

The events were 100m, 200m, 400m, High jump, long jump, Discus and Shot put.

For the events we were split up into groups, there were Yr7 girls, Yr7 boys, Yr8 girls and Yr8 boys.

First we did the 100m and 200m sprints, then we went onto our field sports.

My group started with shot put, then discus, after discus we went on to high jump followed by long jump.

I enjoyed athletics and can't wait to do it next year.

B.E.D.M.A.S

This week our class learnt about B.E.D.M.A.S.
B.E.D.M.A.S is strategy to work out questions like 
72÷(3x2)-(10+1)=
B.E.D.M.A.S is an acronym for:
Brackets
Exponents
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
B.E.D.M.A.S has steps to solve it, they are called priority's, here's what they look like









For this task the teacher emailed us a slide full of questions like the one above, this is what that slide looked like.

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori

September 9th to the 13th was the official Maori language week.

The week started of with an assembly and went on normal with Maori activities in between.
We had slides to do relating to the Maori culture.  One of the slides was about a cockatoo named Cocka Tumeke, He is trying to learn more Maori than the average kiwi.

The week ended with an assembly and Maori performances.

Tongan language Week

Tongan language week was on from Monday the 2nd of September to Friday the 6th of September. The week was a big week because most of the population at the school was Tongan.

We had a big assembly on Friday and we even got a visit from Diamond Langi herself, winner of miss universe New Zealand 2019. There were some performances and a Tongan speech competition.

Cook Island Language Week

Monday 5th August Cook Island week started, We had an assembly at the start of the week where we were told that it was happening and there was a short video and some Cook Island speakers; The assembly ended at 10:15 where we went to morning tea.

Friday 9th August we had another assembly where all the classes performed a dance or something cultural in front of the school.

Aesop

Friday 16th August we talked about Aesop, the writer in 620 – 564 BC who wrote short fables with a moral that means something probably really important.

One of his fables is called the lion and the mouse where the moral is kindness is never wasted; here is that story about a lion and a mouse.

In the story the mouse is trapped under the lions paw and the mouse is screaming to get out, the mouse says to spare him and he will surely repay him.

Later in the story the lion is caught in a poachers net and roars shaking the entire jungle, the mouse hears the roar and rushes to help him. The mouse aggressively chews through the net setting the lion free.

Life Education Caravan

Life Education

Monday the 3rd of June the life education caravan came to our school.

The life education caravan is a caravan that goes round to schools in Auckland and teaches them life skills.

The first day we learned things about reacting and responding.Reacting is where you don't think before you do and responding is where you think about what your about to do and make a decision whether to do it or don't.

The second day we learnt about different parts of the brain and what they do.We also learnt about which part of the brain will take over depending the situation.

The third day we watched a short video about different emotions.

Samoan Language Week

Monday the 27th to Friday the 31st of May was the New Zealand Samoan language week.
Samoan language week is a week where every body in New Zealand tries things relating to Samoa.
At the start of the week the whole school had an assembly followed by morning tea.The day went on as normal.
Throughout the week we did some house competitions.

PINK SHIRT DAY!!!!

Friday the 17th of may was New Zealand's annual pink shirt day.

What is pink shirt day:Pink shirt day is the day where everybody in the country dresses up in pink to stop bullying.

Today the School had a formal assembly where a male,female and a teacher got picked for the 2019 Wesley int pink shirt day award,
After the award was given the teacher and students had a dance off.

The day went on normally until after lunch where all the houses picked the strongest members to have a tug of war.It was a close challenge but my house managed to pull it off.

That brings us to the end of the day where I happen to be writing this story.

By:Lukas

The Game Of Awesome

5.10.19
Yesterday the whole class played the game of awesome.Now you might be wondering what the game of awesome is and how it's played.

The game of awesome is played where you have a master and players,The master gives the players four idea cards each, the players all look at their cards and then the master puts down an awesome card.
The idea cards have things on them like fart gun, jumping into an volcano,the relief teacher or an evil scientist, while the awesome card will have something on it like embarrass, evil,daredevil or soldier.
The master picks an awesome card and the players have to pick one of their cards the will best match up with the card(eg:jumping into an volcano will best go with daredevil.)
Once all the players have put down their card the master will pick the best.You keep playing until there are four four pairs on the table.
When there is four cards on the table the players will have to write a story including all the cards on the table.
Once everybody is done he master will pick the best story then the winner will become master.

When we played with the class we writ our story, typed it onto a google document and then edited it.
Here is my story and edited version.

ANZAC

Monday the 29th of April through Thursday the 2nd of May our class was studding Anzac.
Monday the class did an ANZAC word search.All of the boys were trying to race and beat our friends.
Tuesday everybody made two poppies each.After we made our the teacher would put them on the wall outside our class. They ended up looking like this.

Wednesday we had a reading comprehension test where we were on a website full of information and a page full of questions to answer.
Thursday we had a ANZAC math sheet where we would answer questions and then color in boxes to make a shape. The shape ended up being a cross.
That brings us to the end of the challenges and almost the end of the week.

My Pepeha

MY PEPEHA