Stone carving

For kete we are learning the arts, year 7 & 8 choose which classes they want and learn. I chose stone carving taught by Mr Mitchell. I've been working on this for 6 periods so far.

100 word challenge term 4

If I left New Zealand and came back in 65 years I’m hoping that we would have sorted our littering problem out, and that there would be healthy plants and healthy people everywhere. But what is more likely to happen is that we get worse, more drugs coming in which means more people dying, increase of smoking and littering making our environment worse, the oceans would be polluted. At the moment not many people are acknowledging what's going on, and until everyone understands nothing is going to get better. I have little hope for anything to change in 65 years in New Zealand.

Quail island trip

Quail island (Otamahua in Maori, also known as Te Kawakawa) is a small uninhabited island within Lyttelton Harbour. The island was given its European name by Captain Mein Smith who saw native quail here in 1842; although they were already extinct by 1875. It was often visited to collect shellfish, flax, bird eggs as well as stone for tools.

People that had caught influenza were also sent here, along with people that had leprosy and settlers who arrived in New Zealand with diseases such as Measles. They were forced to live on the island and inside the small houses that were built. They were not allowed contact with the general population.

Learning about all of the natural resources in New Zealand that has been ruined/ is going to be. Like the trees, and the birds and the ocean. We need to keep everything healthy in Quail island and everywhere else in New Zealand.

Successes - They got rid of most predators, except mice and deer.  They have already started native planting and native birds are starting to return to the island.
Problem - They still have mice and deer.  Many of the nesting boxes for the White Flippered Penguin were destroyed in the earthquakes and they currently have a Penguin Project underway for sponsorship to replace these.

It was a good experience going to Quail island, although it was a lot of walking and it was a hot day. I think that we need to stop littering and ruining our bush life and ocean because if we keep doing what we're doing right now there will no longer be any bush life in New Zealand.

Kaitiakitanga collage

Maths week 1 term 2

This week we had a task to put random numbers and symbols into a maths equation that you could understand. The numbers were 7, 8, 5 and 3. The symbols were +, = and x.
The equation is 7 + 8 = 5 x 3. Here's a video of me working it out

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B07pvtIdhNNeMEltWTdJeVh4ZWc/view?ts=590ba4f4

Music project

FOA 2016 Week 2