Week 2 Term 4 Reflection

 Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog.

Today for prep I finished my recourse template. The recourse template is a template that you put down your resources, their cost, where to get them from, and what quantity of that resources

For my Christmas decorations Get a log and cut a star shape through it and then, slice them and glitter on the edges. I will do the cutting at home and the glitter and glue at school.

The sustainable part of my project is that the wood that I use should Sustain a good life.

Thank you for reading this post, Bye

Product Logo

Hi I'm back again for week 2 of prep. This week we made a logo for our product.

 Here's mine:

 I wanted it to be simple so I just put my product on it. 

About Me - Charlie W

 

Prep 2020!

 Hi. This term the Year 7 and 8's are doing something called prep. In prep, you have to make a product to sell at the end of year market day. All profits go towards the Saint Vincent De Paul charity. I am going to make Christmas tree decorations. Here is my reflection for week one.

What went well today for you and your team?  Think about your teamwork, and your group’s product idea. I am by myself but thinking of good ideas.What was difficult?  Why do you think that was?  I think it is difficult to Manage myself because I was working around my friends.    What is a new business term you learnt today? I learnt that advertising your products is key for any biusnesse to thrive                                                                                                                                       What do you need to work on in preparation for the PREP lessons next week? Not much because I have heaps of time..

I hope you enjoyed this as I haven't posted in a while.

Term 4 - A thing of the past

Kia Ora! Welcome to another blog post. I just want to say, term 4 has been EPIC. Oh, that's why I'm writing this post. Anyway, let's dive straight into the action.

This term our inquiry topic was Culture City! Culture City is were we study different cultures from around the world. In MLH we have been making almost information reports about countries. But our main focuses within culture city have been the arts. Dance, Drama Visual art and Music.  Each week there is 2 countries and you choose 1 each week to research🌏. I had a slow start to finishing projects but I finished strong.💪

My Mexico Project!

Another thing we have been doing this term is... Just dance and furniture olympics. Just dance is when there is a dance on the projector and you copy it. Furniture olympics is when you have to make an object out of people and all of the people have to be touching.👫    

Another AMAZING thing we did this term is the Turanganui schools haka festival. But I don't need to tell you much about that. Click here to see my awesome post about the Kapa Haka Festival.

A few Songs/Chants

Just to add on to the awesome stuff we've done this term, we've done our school athletics. That was real cool 😎. And with the house groups, it was even cooler! Everyone was cheering for their house. Me personally, I'm not a big fan of athletics and I'm not the best at it either but having everyone smiling and dressed in there house colors made me smile.😊

I'm the person in the green tee-shirt and at the far right in both pictures

 Now, maybe one of my favorite moments this term, the intermediate visits. My intermediate is Campion and I visited there. We took a bus there (I'm going to have catch it next year). And explored the school. All of us visitors did science and art classes. We went to the church, learnt a bit about that. I liked joining in with some of the present student's games.  For the day we basically became students of the school! I think I made a good choice for my intermediate.

But choosing intermediates also comes with a catch - leaving you're primary school! (Dun Dun Dun!!) I am sad to leave Wainui Beach School but I am excited for a new adventure. This could well be one of my last blog posts so if it is goodbye my friends! 😭😭

Kapa Haka Festival 2019!!

Kapa

Haka

Festival 

Haramai a Paoa

On Wednesday, 20 of November we (Wainui Beach School) went to and performed at Turanganui Schools Maori Cultural Festival. As my Puipui brushed against the black curtain side stage, nerves built up through Nui syndicate and I, as we waited to be cued on to the stage. The kapa haka festival was being held at the immaculate A&P showground stage. This was it. 

Utaina Haka

We strode proudly onto the stage, as the crowd cheered. Hunter marched forward, beautifully singing Tu Mai Ra, our school song. The front row of boys followed, and once a triangle was formed, we (front row) knelt down. When we finished Tu Mai Ra, next on the agenda to sing (well, chant) was Haramai a Paoa. Our group formed into a square and sung chanted Haramai A Paoa. Then came Puria Nei and Ka Pioioi, our action songs. After that, maybe the best part... Utaina. Utaina is where the boys transition to the front to do the Haka. Utaina was phenomenal. For the first part of Utaina, we (Nui Syndicate) sung it as a collective. For the second part the boys did the Utaina Haka and the girls sung Utaina again. The haka has amazing. We (The boys) did Ka Mate and our School haka. We boomed all the words to the crowd and got a huge round of applause.  Then we sung Wainui e. It was fantastic! We got the biggest applause. Our final waiata was He Honore.

My favorite part was Utaina and the Haka/s. The melody of our singing was amazing and the volume of our chants and hakas was booming. I did think that we went quite fast for a few things. Our performance was 13 minutes. It felt faster and slower in  different times. We put lots of effort into our performance. 
I thought that the Kapa Haka Festival was awesome! I really hope I can do it at Campion next year.

He Honore

Inter school Rugby

Our forwards

Gidday,

This term I have participated in the Inter school rugby. Our team started out as a bunch of soccer players and a couple of rugby players. We came a long way as we got 2nd in our division. I played either left wing of Fullback/sweeper. Playing for the school was really fun and I am going to play rugby for a club next year. Here are some photos. Our coaches were committed to make us a better team and I really acknowledge them. I did this by saying "Thank you" after every game and training. Rugby wouldn't have happened for us if Richard and Tom (Our Coaches) hadn't have volunteered their time for us.

My first touch of the ball