Manuka Honey. New Zealand's yellow gold

Soane has been learning about our famous Manuka Honey as part of our New Zealand Places and People project. He has shared a lot of great information in this presentation. Well done Soane for this great work. 

An interesting read in currents events discovered by Soane

 It was a normal day in England when all of sudden an unusual situation caught the eyes of big amount of people. On August the 27th , a bunch of animal rescuers and fire fighters encountered a unusual situation in the lands of England. A adorable hedgehog was found horribly trapped in a parking lot drain nearby the Seaford, East Sussex parking lot. A brave crew from the East Sussex Fire and Rescue service was called to help out in the scene of this poor hedgehog. A few minutes later of trying to rescue this animal it finally came out free. After getting out the poor thing they took it back to their community to check if it had any health issues. Once they took care off that they let it go free back to its ordinary wild life.

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Current events reading by Arman

Today I read about the the Paralympics swimming event. Kiwi swimmer Sophie Pascoe has won the first swimming sliver medal for NZ after placing second after being beaten by Ireland’s Ellen Keane in the 100 m SB8 Breaststroke Classification. She was out-touched by just .39 seconds. 

A little kindness goes a long way

This week, our school are working on showing kindness to our whanau in our bubbles. Here is Marshall's act of kindness.

Image analysis by Sione

Sione is a really deep thinker. Here is his analysis of what this poster is representing. Have a look at what has written about the poster and add a comment to add your thoughts to the discussion. Great work Sione.

Character descriptions by Sione

Sione has expressed his understanding about the main characters of the Refugee book by Alan Gratz through these slides.  Leave him a comment if you are able to gain an understanding about the book through his character descriptions.

Short, powerful words, echo a lot of meaning

This is the start of Ali-Jon's poem about the situation Josef was in from our novel of study Refugee by Alan Gratz. He is still working on the rest of his poem but here is a taster of the masterpiece he is working on. 

Refugee should care for each other

Unlike Hitler, the dude who didn’t bother

His attitude so bad

It made a lot of people sad

The Nazi’s didn’t care

Life became a roller coaster called the Stratofear

Soane sharing one of his tasks for our Great Books unit

 This is a task Soane has completed for his Great Books project. He had to analyse some videos and make connections between the videos and the Refugee novel our class has been reading. His discussions are very well thought out and has made some very good connections between the novel from Alan Gratz and the videos. 

Our class having a Covid Lockdown drill

Today we had a lockdown drill in case we go to Alert Level 4 and have to learn from home. We had to check if all class members have a device with a working charger, then we all had to log into our class meet link and wait for Mrs Tofa to accept us. We also discussed meet etiquette which some of us might have forgotten. It was a good experience especially for our new class members who have just joined our class. We also hope we will not be going into Alert Level 4 because we love coming to school. 

Social Studies task in our Architecture unit by Mahdieh

Mahdieh created this task using google slides. The task required her to discuss how buildings reflect the cultures of countries they originate from. Mahdieh has done a great job also describing what culture means and has included some facts about different cultures including her own. 

Taylor presenting 10 buildings which are of interest to him