New Zealand Democratic System

New Zealand has a democratic system of government when people vote for who they want to lead them.Every threes years we have an election. We are given two votes in new zealand  and it is called mixed member proportional also known as MMP. In new zealand you must be a NZ citizen and 18 plus years in order to vote. I think it is good to have democratic system in new zealand because we can choose our leader and if we don't like what their doing we can change them at the next election.

Seven Stages

There are seven stages which a bill is gone threw.First step is the bill is introduced to the house .Second Step a member of plament debate about the bill.thrid step A select committee of MPs carefully considers the bill. They read and listen to the views of the public and interested organisations.forth step is the second reding: The bill returns to the House, along with the recommendations of the select committee. Members consider the recommendations and decide.fifth step Members debate the bill part by part in a detailed examination.sixth step thrid reading the final debate MPs look at the bill tink if it should be a law or not.seveth step The Governor-General signs the bill on behalf of the Sovereign, agreeing

Three Branches Of Government

New Zealand’s government is made up of three branches they are called Legislation, Executive, Judiciary. Legislation means laws considered collectively.Executive means relating to having power to put laws into effect like the police and the prime minister and Judiciary means the judicial authorities of a country - which means they judge people who break the law.

why is it important to hold on to your languages

It is important to hold on to your languages and culture because it will help you with talking to your grandparents and other people. to understand what their saying and to teach the future kids the language.How we can hold on to our language in nz . One way to hold on to our language in nz is by 
learning it everyday.

how I did speking in front of the class

Today i presented my presentation about way italians moved to new zealand my strengths was speaking and  understanding some of the words and my weakness was not knowing some of the words and laughing to much. one way i can improve is to stop laughing and learn to say the words.

jacinda ardern

The new story describe how our prime minister jacinda ardern respond to the mass shooting that took place in Christchurch. How she respond she were traditional clothing and a fast respond to the gun law.

Jonathan Empaty

Empathy means to understand and share the feelings of others Why should we show empathy so we can make the world a better place by helping people with their problem and making there life happier.it is good for your mental health. in christchurch people has been upset by the shooting because their family and friends has been shot and killed. Many might be feeling depressed and when we give empathy they don't feel alone anymore and they feel like they are cared for .By showing empathy we can being a closer bonds with other cultures and religions.

Kowhaiwhai Designs

This year we focused on Kowhaiwhai designs for Pt England School. I designed the Koru version of it. This will be our gift as we leave in Pt England school so in the future we can come back and see it.

Here is step 1: In this step we grabbed a piece of paper and practiced what we would be doing.

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Here is step 3: In this step we color it in.

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Step 4 - (Last Step = In this step we do the same thing but on a wooden board

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Writing for an audience

WALT: Writing for a range of audiences

ART RUBRIC

                         ART RUBRIC:

                          LADY PINK 

This Art project is made by Lady Pink

She made the art project a girl as a sign to show that Women can do anything.

In this project I think she used Color, Line and Shape as her elements

Animation

WALT: We are learning to create animations using HyperStudio, we are making animations based on never giving up, what do I possibly mean? well in my animation it shows a person missing but he dosn't give up and keeps on trying, eventually you would get used to failing, learning your mistakes from them then accomplishing you're goal.

How the Unicorn got his horn

How the Unicorn got his horn

In the dark, narrow forest there lived a Unicorn named Rico, Rico was the guardian for the forest. He was known for his strength,curiosity

and bad sense of humor.

Rico was sleeping in his treehouse when his alarm strucked BEEP, BEEP Rico turned his alarm off as he got up and did his morning routine. A few moments later he went downstairs to call his teammates.

Hours later Rico waited in his headquarters for his teammates arrived. Who was in their team you may ask? Well they don’t have names but I’ll tell you anyways - Rhino, Lion and Tiger. Their team name was Team Fighters. Moments later Rico’s team arrived  “What did you call us for?” asked Rhino

“Well I’ve got a mission for us” Replied Rico

Rico didn’t explain what they were going to do, but they still got ready and went of to Rico’s mission van. “Here’s the map.” said Rico

10 Minutes later, Rico and his teammates was nearly at their destination. While Rico was driving he spotted 2 animals silhouetted into the shadows “Do you guys see that?” asked Rico

“See what.” replied Lion

“Over there, just ahead of us” said Rico

The 2 animals noticed they got spotted and ran away deeper into the woods, while Rico also drove down the dark, dirty road with flickering lights.

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Finally Rico arrived and died, people say that someone throwed something sharp at him

THE END

My Weekend

On Friday, I went with my friend to an unusual place that I wouldn't normally go to. My friend Ephraim asked if I wanted to go to his youth, I said yes. Now I wanted to go because youth was new to me although I was catholic Ephraim was Christian I still went. I also went cause one of my favorite sports was one of their games they would play, I'm talking about basketball. Ephraim - Ephraim is my teammate and my rugby "College Rifles" he's also a good mate of mine. I first met him at my first Rugby Club "Varsity"  Along with Kurtas, TJ and Ajani.

I finally arrived after a boring drive, I didn't see Ephraim around so I waited  around with my mum as she was texting Jonathan which was Ephraim's Dad. After a few minutes of waiting around Ephraim finally arrived. Ephraim and me was just hanging outside talking about what it would be like inside, when I had the confidence to go inside I told Ephraim to come with me cause I was shy.

We just got into the courts and I met up with the Youth Leader his name was Jack, Jack introduced me to some of the other Youth Leaders and I even got to meet the younger brother of David Fusitua or well that's what Ephraim told me. I also got to 1v1 Ephraim in a basketball match.

As Minutes passed finally Jack called us in for the starting prayer for the day. After that we got into groups I was in group "Mean Machine" while the other group was called "Top Guns" Ephraim was
also in my team. The first game we played was called "Travelous?" Or something like that I couldn't remember it. It was a game where we have to listen to a song and guess what was it called. As round 1 started the DJ played a song and it was crazy I couldn't even hear myself everyone was trying to figure it out.

An Hour passed, and my group wanted to play another game, this game we were playing was Soccer but not ordinary soccer we played with a big soccer ball, we also had to start with three people ringed up.... it's hard to explain but we had to bind up with our arms and from their on we had to try to kick e the ball into the goal, if your group unbinds you're team would be disqualified. After that me and Ephraim took a break.

The last thing we did was called Praise and Worship I didn't know what it mean't because I wasn't christian. It was where we would sing songs, and praising god. After that Jack introduced the new people to the Revelation it was me and this other dude. Finally the last part we did was talk about how we can increase our faith in god and change the world. Their was 4 people who did incredible speeches that affected me to now on try to change the world with kidness.

After everything was done we played a game of Basketball and I again 1v1ed Ephraim.


That was all the fun things I did in youth it was a really fun experience and I hope I could come back, although I can't because I have rugby. We are going to Tauraunga/Rotorua. This also helped me learn more about god.

Thanks for Reading,

Jonathon Fifita

Learning a new skill

Introduction:
Hello fellow readers, My name is Jonathon and for the past few weeks me and my class has been learning a new skill, we were doing how to juggle. Juggling was really hard to get used to
but I got used to it and was managed to learn how to juggle 3 balls.
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New Skill:
But that has passed and my class are going to be learning a new skill, I grouped up with Leatham so we can both help each other overcome these challenges. Our skill we are going to be learning is to do front flips, and if we finish that we will try to do a back flip.
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Other Options:
Our other options we have if we don't make progress are Line dancing, Tai Chi (Chinese Traditional Martial Art) and Uni cycling.
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My feelings about this new skill

I'm feeling a bit nervous about this I haven't really thought about doing flips, I could remember 1 time when I was a year 6 obsessed about flips, I would always watch clips on how to do a flips. So yeah it's going to be interesting. Right now I can do a flip just can't land it so just need to used to landing. I feel Leatham can overcome this challenge (My Buddy) I think that because he is always happy to learn new things and he's quite good at it he got used to juggling in like 3 weeks, like honestly what the heck? But yeah I think Leatham is going to be helping me a lot for this new skill.
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Exercise song

WALT: We are making a song with new words such as Aerobic and Cardiovascular, just words we won't usually write in a normal writing. My song I picked is Twinkle Twinkle, The song may be out of tune. In other words we are using new vocabulary in our writing

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are

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Aerobic, Exercise good for me

Eat the right food for your heart

Running above the mountain so high

Fights cardiovascular disease for you

Aerobic, Aerobic, makes me fit

Eat the right food for your heart

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Song - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - (

Thanks for reading!

Benefits of physical activity

The Benefits of Physical Activity

Have you ever wandered the benefits of physical activity, or why it’s good to go for a run daily? Maybe you want a good health, or maybe you just want to look better, or maybe you don’t want to run or get your heart pumping. Firstly, you might think running is a waste of time but have you really thought about it? Well stay tuned in cause i’ll give you a few tips and why we really need to exercise.

Firstly, exercise improves mood and sleep, for example say you have a game today you might feel exhausted. Think back to what you did the day before. If you are like me you either played Fortnite till 2 in the morning, or you just couldn’t sleep cause you still got a lot of energy. Have you ever heard of the term “The little things matter?” those little things such as going to bed on time, eating the right food and staying away from your PS4. You may be thinking why should I listen to this guy…. Well you should listen because I was that guy who always played till midnight, sure I pushed myself not to but then when I started to sleep on time, I could feel my body is ready, and I have a lot of oxygen. Fun fact is it can also reduce stress and anxiety. Problems in these areas frequently cause or contribute to cognitive impairment.

Secondly being physically active reduces your odds of developing heart disease. The benefits of physical exercise, especially aerobic exercise, have positive effects on brain function on multiple fronts, ranging from the molecular to behavioral level.

Lastly, exercise affects the brain on multiple fronts. It increases heart rate, which pumps more oxygen to the brain. It also aids the bodily release of a plethora of hormones, all of which participate in aiding and providing a nourishing environment for the growth of brain cells.

Well there it is a few tips and answers to your questions, but If you don’t like doing the dirty work such as running and weightlifting doing household chores can count as well, such as raking the leaves, taking out the rubbish or anything else that will get your heart pumping.

Thank you guys for reading goodbye!

The Official 2018 Expo

As Isaac Newton quote "Each action has a equal and opposite reaction" well till July the 2nd Team 5 had a Expo which was held in the street, usually the students get into groups and decide what to do this year. I was in the Fortknights group yeah yeah it's a cringey name but when you get used to it it'll be fine.

So our theme this year is called Forces of Motion which was invented by the famous Isaac Newton but Forces of Motion is just a law Isaac Newton has 3 laws and we decided to do the last one which is called "Action Reaction" The science behind this theme is "Each action has a equal and opposite reaction"

My group which was Me,Justus and King came up with an idea representing action reaction Justus said " Wait why don't we grab stack of cups and stack it up" I asked him whats the science behind that he explained to me that it was also the third law of Isaac Newton's three laws.


PLANNING DAY FINISHED
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Well the time finally came the expo was just at the corner of our street. I got my table set up, got music for comfort and got the most important part of all Nerf Guns. It wasn't long till our first visitors came and asked us what we were doing but when they do come they usually get out saying "Best group ever" I didn't know that our creative fun based idea worked I thought others would be lots more interesting, Here is our staff management Me as a guider which means -  the person who explains our group and what are we doing then we already have King who just was the guy who annoyed us, and Justus our demonstrator.

We were really suprised the numbers of kids that came in it was like we were the most popular group, and the numbers of teachers came in Mr Wiseman,Miss Salu,Miss West,Miss Tapuke and this one lady I forgot the name. I reckon my group was the most successful group in the whole group, having number of kids coming in then going out with happy is really cool. Why I think we were the most successful group is because we weren't like a nerdy boring group, instead we had 1 smart person - Justus and 2 fun workers - Me and King well not really King I'll take him as the annoying person who made us angry.

But yeah this year my group was outstanding

Thank's for reading

Camp Recount

The time came again…… the time were we go through adventurous and unusual activities and to step out of our comfort zone we are talking about the year 8 camp. This happens every year on May the 24th. It was an camp when we step out of our comfort zone and act like a true leader this includes Mihis,Thank you’s and Karaikias even if you weren't a team leader. I reckon I stepped out of my comfort zone.

I was so nervous when I got to camp I couldn’t really tell why, my group was called Thames which was the name of the place but that’s not why you guys are here to read so i’ll skip to my nerve-wrecking activity.

Kookakodadoo the chicken screeched across the field as me and my friends got up and did our Monday routine. “Our activity today was Go-Karts” said Prince* I felt agitated. As we walked on the rocky pathway I could hear the roar of the Go-Kart I thought in my mind “Uhhh Ohhh”-

As I entered the field it looked like a bedroom that hasn’t been cleaned in a year and it also smelled like rotten food I felt disgusted. We got in line I was 2nd because I was too nervous to go first “First one up” said Tyson* the first one up was Taraia VROOM VROOM roared the engine I think Taraia is trying to show off.

The time camed…….. It was my turn I could almost taste draught “Next up” said Tyson in a tauntingly way as if he knew I was nervous. As I walked to the Go-Kart I shakingly put on my helmet “Don’t forget to put on your seatbelt” said Tyson.

RRRAANGOOOO as I sped with the Go-Kart as tears came down my cheeks as I kept my foot on the accelerator “ARRGGGHHHH” I kept bouncing up and down because of the unstable field. When I got to the corner I quickly turn the wheel as fast as I could to try to the a drift SCREEEECH as I turned but didn’t quite do a drift instead I did a donut. It was my second lap and I was going as fast as I could to try to beat Taraia’s time I quickly went around the field normally instead of trying to drift.I got to the finish line I got the timer of exactly 1 minute.

“Here’s your score guy’s” said Tyson “Okay you’re bonus points to try to finish exactly on the finish line and not go over” said Tyson Kosini was the first one to go have a try and made it and scored my team 30 points. Germaine was next but unfortunately didn’t make it he just stopped before the finish line. Then it was me I did my 3 laps and around the corner I stopped early so I can just sit in the middle of the finishing line as my kart was nearly at the finish line until I had this stupid idea to slightly tap it, but it was the worst Idea I tapped it then went over the finish line it was game over for me unfortunately.

Conclusion:

Well that is it, that was my nerve wrecking activity it was fun at Yr 8 camp and I loved the food my favorite food was the Shepard's Pie, Macaroni and the best of all the lava cake it melted in my mouth. Although there were foods that I didn’t like I hated the apple crumble and I couldn’t eat the porridge their was so much milk in it and it killed the taste. My favorite activity has to be the Go-Kart because I pushed myself to do it and it gave me a big laugh at the end my least favorite activity has to be the Railway Jiggers it was boring and went slow I recommend the owners of Kauaeranga Christian Camp should atleast make a few adjustments to fix the rail’s because it was a bit rusty and sometimes the cart would fall off. I really think I pushed myself and gained a lot of confidence. Unfortunately we missed 2 activities we missed flying fox and paintball I was sad to see because flying fox looked really fun watching other groups on it although i was 50/50 with paintball I didn’t want to play cause of getting hit, but wanted to play as well because of the number of game modes their were, but still it was fun. The camp came out with a bang I really enjoyed it

Free writes

My    weekend  - Jonathon - part 1

On saturday the 25th of February my mom woke me up to go to the mangere market centre, but I was still tired when I got out of bed I had to get ready Eat,Brush my teeth, shower and change my clothes. When we got ready we got into my van.

When we arrived at the market me and my mom walked to the market while my dad had to get the my brothers ready. In cause if you're wondering I, my mum, cousins and my aunties are making Tongan keke. Then I got ready my mum was doing the keke but I did something different I did the otai.

A few moments ago we opened our shop and then a lot of customers came but not for the otai only a few people came for the otai but I had another place I could go to my aunt's one which is selling soap.

After doing my otai job I went over and did the soap job but I didn’t really do it I just sat down with my cousin and play games on his ipad.

Then we had to clean up cause the market is now finish so we all had to clean the gazeebo's and pack it in the van.

And that’s the first part of my weekend

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My weekend - Jonathon - Part 2

On saturday the same day I did the market I asked my aunt if I can go over to their house they said yes I was excited cause I love going to my cousin's house it’s always fun their cause they have a lot of stuff.

When I arrived at their house I saw Jono my cousin we have the same name except that he’s Jonathan mine is Jonathon after that we went into Jonathans room and played on black ops 3 we 1v1 each other and I won 17-20 snipers.

A few hours later it was 9.pm I was still awake but everyone is asleep and then I just stayed up all night, playing black ops 3 and roblox on his laptop.then it was 11 in the morning and Jonathan woke up and then we ate breakfast.

Then it was 8 pm then my mum picked me and Jonathan. When we arrived we got into the house and then went upstairs to go on my playstation 4, and play black ops 3 1v1 again

The End

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The   island   of zombies and monsters - My family - Made up story

One day a family of 5 were planning on a trip to a island their names were Jonathon-11 years old, Jaxson-4 years old, Jabal-5 years old,Tolati-2 years old and Nona-42 years old.

Their were thinking which island the’ll go to and they couldn’t decide so they just watched tv then on the television there was this ad, it was a trip to a island called Unknown island, and the price was $10000 for a family of 5.

After the ad finished the family of five got ready. After that they got into we lamborghini and then drove to the airport. Then they arrived at the airport so they got out and went inside the airport. A few minutes later they got into their plane and there were no people their just them, and of course the pilot.

Then they arrived at the island and there were nothing there were no houses and no people to greet them the only thing their was just a road for the airplane to land. When they got out they grabbed their gear and their bags.

Then they said their goodbyes to the pilot. Then they were finding a place to set camp then Jonathon spotted somebody so they followed it, but it was making a zombie sound the family was scared because they were thinking if it was a zombie. Then Jonathon went to it and tapped on its shoulder and then the zombie turned around and they were right it was a zombie.

Then they ran far away but the zombie was chasing them and then when they turned back they saw more zombies chasing them. Then they found this cave and went inside of it to hide from the zombies.

After that they walked around the cave to see if there was a way out then Nona spotted a button and called her sons to come “ Look at this” said their mum Jonathon pressed it and then it opened a secret base and then went inside.

When they got inside the door behind them shut they were wondering what is this place and why were there zombies. Then they found this computer then went on it, but it only had a video on it “ Play it” said Jonathon so they played it and a woman showed up “ Hi my name is Jessica If your watching these then you’re probably on the island and wondering why are their zombies the truth is their were these scientists who tried to create powers but it failed they were so selfish they tried it onto themselves then turned into zombies then killed everyone at the nearby hospital the only way to stop this is to go to the nearby hospital and kill the scientists whose controlling everyone's mind and soon they are gonna control mine there’s this secret armory with guns the bullets are the cure shoot the zombie and then when the suns shines they'll turn human the password to it is 2  9 5 6 7 good luck”

After that they found the armory and putted in the code to open it. When they opened it they grabbed pistols, snipers , sub machine guns and assault rifles and put on their gear “ Jonathon stay with them and guard the door” said Nona “Ok” said Jonathon so Nona ran all the way to the nearby hospitals and shot every zombies that was in her path then she got into the hospitals and founded the scientists she ran out of ammo and had to use the pistol she shot them, but they didn’t turn into zombies straightaway so she kept on shooting them and it didn’t work so the scientists grabbed her and was sucking her mind. Then they dropped her the scientists were dead but Nona was thinking how did they die and then she looked back and saw Jonathon from the cave he sniped them.

Then it was sunrise and everyone was safe and made it back to New Zealand but they forgot somebody it was jessica……

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Goals

                            MY GOAL

A goal that I want to focus on is to finish all my writing work how am I going to do this? Well i’m going to make more decisions about who’ll i’ll sit with and focusing on when the teachers is speaking.

                                       MY 2ND GOAL

My second goal is to try and make it in the hot camp. If you are wondering what do you mean by camp? So we have 3 different kind of camps hot,warm and cold the hot camp is the people who are always onto it finishing their work, and only 3 people out of 30 are in the hot camp, warm camp the warm camp is when the people are like “hey i’m going to do my best today” while other days their like “meeh this sucks,” cold camp are when people chicken out everyday or mostly not onto it, doing their own thing except of doing what the teachers asks. So I am going to do this by changing my behaviour when the teacher is speaking.

WALT: Write measurable goals to help us achieve                        more