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These are blog comments to a classmate, PBS student, Our class blog, and Manaaiakalani cluster blog! The whole purpose behind this was to help us make a proper blog comment without any negative or wrong spelling!

Tamaki College Visit

Today Miss Bunce and and Mr Dunn came to our school from Tamaki College to talk about a few things. First we had Mr Dune come up and talked to us about the Samsung scholarship for those who are coming from this school into Tamaki College. These scholarships were only for those that were going to Tamaki College and have good grades. These scholarships were sponsored by Samsung and will be presented at Prize giving. Then we had Miss Bunce come up and helped handed out the certificates for our participation towards Technology with her. We had to create a moon rover that will have traveled further than 3 meters. They came in and presented the certificates for our work.

Why Math is important!

This is a video that some of my classmates and I collaborated on. We made this video about why Maths is important. We went for a relaxed and funny comedy video, since more students went for a serious approach. 

Flag Votes graph

This is graph and information about the flags that our school voted for.

Choosing the new flag

All the pupils in Panmure Bridge School voted for which ever flag they liked best, in the options above. We had 4 minutes to read each flag's meaning behind it independently, 3 minutes to get with a partner and talk about your reasons for why you like the flag you're going to chose, 2 minutes to find a new buddy and talk with them about it, and then 1 minute to find a group of 4 to discuss your own perspectives on each flag. We did this because we work better together. 3 of the people in our group chose the last flag in the picture, for reasons such as: I made personal connections to it, It represents multiple cultures and also because it is instantly recognized as New Zealand's. 2 of the people in our group chose the first flag for reasons such as:  I liked the design and because it's easily recognized as ours due to the Silver Fern. Although they are very alike, we still had reasons for choosing the other flag. The 3 of who chose the red flag, liked it because it represented blood, yet some of us chose the black flag because it represents our history and the night.

The flags we chose are above. The first flag is the flag that 2 of the people in our group voted for and the last flag is the one that 3 of the people in our group voted for. 

Basketball: Year 7 n 8

Today the yr 7 and 8's have had their last session of basketball. We had another game of golden child and also had a game of basketball. 

Why we should have maths in school.

This is my Writing Sample about 'Why we should have maths in school'. I am going for this because if you read it, it will give you my reasons. 

Get 1! Give 1!

This poster is basically about our maths strategies from around the class. Our class has shared the best maths strategy to each other and also gave one back. That's how we got the title. After all that we looked at our results and chose one the best strategies from our list and use it next year. 

Alan Duff DLO

Today we had a very important visitor that came to our school today and his name was 'Alan Duff'. He was the creator of Duffy and he came to our school because 

Aretha Franklin RESPECT

I researched about the very well known song ‘Respect”by Aretha Franklin for a CARE Award task Respect. I found out that the song was originally by artist, Otis Redding. Aretha Franklin's song won two grammy awards as it was said to be one of the best R&B songs of the era. Franklin’s song focuses on female empowerment and is about a strong confident woman, wanting respect from her partner.

The Lyrics to the song can be found at this link: RESPECT LYRICS

And the song can be found at this link: RESPECT SONG

Working with my Critical Friend

Today, Room 5 and Room 6 students collaborated together, to alter and edit copied documents of their writing samples from Term 4. I worked with Samantha on this, and first we worked on my document. We used the rubric to help us see what stage our text was at, and the next steps in order to move our writing to the next level. Our critical friends help us by seeing the mistakes in our writing that we don't see ourselves. Me and Samantha went around the class and videoed a few people and ask them how their work was going. That was a really great lesson and the rubric was very helpful to our writing samples. 

Term 4 response

Learning Intention:

To reflect on personal goals set in Term 1.

Dear: Term 1 Shantay

Did I do well? sometimes I think I’ve been the WORST ugliest student Mrs Anderson has ever had. In fact I’ve done well in my test. Mrs Anderson says that I’ve gone up in Writing(not being cocky) but yeah I have enjoyed this year as much as you expected to be. Thank you for giving me the advice on how to pass my goals and YES! I’ve received 2 certificates (Kiwi Can and Self Managing) Mrs Anderson is a very polite kb teacher!! She knows how to keep us in line with work and stuff... even though we don’t listening (us naughty children) but yeah! I like my class with Mrs Anderson! DID YOU HEAR? I have finally reached the end of this year but out of blues I got told I was sports leader!! I was pleased to be the next leader for Panmure Bridge School. Anyways enough of that, I think I’ve been a one of a kind student to Mrs Anderson and Miss Donaldson. But yeah Thank you for giving me the chance to set my goals for this year.

From: Term 4 Shantay