Week 3 Term 1

This week has been really exciting for most year 8's.  We found out the new House Captains, and Class Councilors.  I didn't get house captain sadly, but I did get Deputy Class Councilor.  I'm really happy that I got the position, as now I can help out with all the school activities, which I really wanted to do.  Class Councilor went to Cheng-Yu.  Some of my friends also got roles as House Captains, Hadlee got House Captain for Puniu, and Caitlin got deputy.  I'm really excited to start getting involved in the opportunities available for the student council this year, as we get to organise things like disco's, mufti days, student assembly, and lots of other activities like that.

Week 2 Term 1

The past two weeks have been busy.  There have been lots of things to sign up for, and get involved in.  We have had tech arts, in which us year 8's are doing wood.  We're making speakers, and it has been really challenging and fun making them.  There was a band evening for those who wanted to play an instrument, or learn more about after school lessons.  For those who couldn't make it, and for people who went to the band evening and put their names down, there was a meeting at school the next day, and Mrs German wrote our names and the instrument we wanted to play.  I'm going to play clarinet, and I'll find out what time my lessons are on Monday.  We had Minor Games on Friday, our first house competition. We will hopefully hear the results soon.

Week 1 Term 1 2016

Welcome back to my blog for 2016

Today we have our first session of tech arts for 2016.  Us year 8's are doing Wood while the year 7's are doing fabric.  We also have house meetings today, and all the year 8's that are going for house captain have to say a speech and try to convince everyone why they would make a great house captain.  I'm going for house captain, and I'm a little nervous, but I know I'll be fine.  For house captain you also have to write a letter about yourself, and fill in an application.  There are also class councilor positions to go for.  For class councilor you have to write a letter for your teacher.  I'm also going for class councilor because I figured that I may as well try for as many leadership roles as I can because the worst they can do is say that I can't be house captain/class councilor, and even if that happens I can just try and find ways to make myself better, and then try again.  Class councilors get announced in week three, and I think it's the same with class councilor.  I can't wait till then!

My review of my first year at intermediate

Week 8 Term 4

Bonjour,

This week has been fun.  We have been doing discussions for half the week, the first discussion was about minds.  We had to think of the definition of mind, how it was different from the brain, and then we were split into groups to think about different things, and decide if they had minds.  It was quite challenging and quite fun.  The discussion we started yesterday (Wednesday) was about art, and what art is.  We did the same thing with the art that we did about minds.  Another thing that has happened yesterday was my finger, I was doing cartwheels with Grace, and I did it weirdly, and failed, and ended up landing on my pinkie finger.  Mum bandaged it up, and its not broken because I can move it, but it's still really sore.

Au Revoir!

My Song Lyrics Moving Image

This video is similar to my poetry moving image, except it's with a song.

Week 7 Term 4

Bonjour,

It's week 7 already, almost the end of the year!  The disco was this week and the theme was 'Pray For Paris'  To support the terrorist attacks happening there at the moment.  I didn't really have anything related to the theme, so I just wore my french top, not from Paris, but it has french on it.  The bands paid a visit to the primary's on Thursday, and one of those primary's was my old school, Te Awamutu Primary.  I remember last  year when I was still there and the intermediate came and preformed, it was so cool, and it inspired me to learn to play an instrument.  I play keyboard/piano, but I'm not in band because they needed a experienced player, and since it was my first year playing, I couldn't do it.  Keyboard is the only instrument in band that you have to have experience in to play, all the rest you can be in your first year and still be in band.  I could've chosen another instrument and been able to play in band, but I really wanted to do keyboard.  Next week is the start of December which means under one month til Christmas!!

Au Revoir!