Year 11

Year 11.
Its underlined, even bolded.

What do you think of when it comes to the word 'Year 11'?.
NCEA? 80 credits? Not Achieved? Achieved? Merit? Excellence? what about... Exams, Internals and Externals?

It's currently the 6th of November; Exam month.

A whole lot of Year 11 students are on their first study leave. But on my perspective, they're either at the beach or making plans with friends. It hasn't hit us it yet; the realisation of being on study leave.

Our holiday isn't here for us yet. Y E T

I entered 2019 as a Year 11 student, excited that I have 2 more years left of high school; yay. But 2019 also came with Internals, Mid-term exams and trying to at least achieve 80 credits by the end of the year. Year 11 put a lot of stress and pressure onto me, trying to reach the standards of my teacher's expectations. Was I prepared? Absolutely not. But I endured it and gotten used it.

TIP: make sure you befriend your teachers.
You didn't hear it from me.

As it is coming to the end of the year for me, I at least achieve 71 credits. Close. Now it all depends on my exams whether I passed NCEA Level 1.

During this year, I joined a lot of groups. It helped me to have more confidence within myself, it gave me a sense of achievement and it also gave me the pathway onto being a leader to represent my school. Tamaki College. Joining groups also helps you expand your friendship circle, although they say to keep your circle small. But this helps you to become more familiar with meeting new people and this also boosts your confidence.

Yeat 11 comes with ups and downs but it's something that you can look back at and start being proud of yourself. This allows you to know what to do in certain situations and being mature about it.

Year 11 is just the start of everything.

Mid-year exams

Mid-Term Exams...

This week, our Mid-term exams was held. Our exams covered Science, English, Maths & Social Studies. Within those topics, I was prepared, even though I stuck half-way through, I still managed to recall some of my notes when I studied. Some were easy, but it wasn't what I was expecting. Some of my exams went well, because it goes to show that my studying has finally paid off. The thing that I can work on next time, is my time and self managing my self. I need to work hard next time when it comes to exams. 

Jump Start - Grammar Activities.

This term we were focusing on Grammar Activities for English. I was given a subject to work on which was Conjunctions. This presentation includes everything about conjunctions and how you may use it in a sentence. There are some example for you to understand on how to use conjunctions. 

Sitting my Mid Year Exams.

Sitting my Mid Year Exams:

Some of my exams were pretty much easy like English, Science and most likely Social Studies. Maths i was kind of expecting a lil bit, but other than that I was prepared. My maths I didn’t study that much, and I wasn’t ready. Sitting my exams for 2 hours, I was expecting that, but the main thing I finished early. I was excited for these exams just to get it over and done with. Like I said, it was pretty easy and I was prepared and I expected it to happen.

For my Social Studies I had to write about my mid year exams. Here's a paragraph about how I felt during my exams and how it went.

My Digital Footsteps

This is my digital footsteps. These photos represent of what I've been doing for at least 48 hrs. These photos are what I do in my every day life. So what every thing that I leave on social media is left on my digital footsteps. The reactions are used on Facebook to reacted on posts that my friends make. The You-tube logo are for the videos that I watch on YouTube. The TFC logo is what I watch on there like Filipino's movies and that what makes me want to learn their beautiful language. The Google Drive logo is what I do my school work and what I can finish off. The Facebook logo is what I go on almost everyday just to keep up with the new. 

My Well-Being

This presentation is based on my well being. I have made this presentation so that I can show what they mean to me. My well being is very important to me and that its for me to take of. Each one of these well being is based on me and that they show every part of my life. This is my presentation about my well being and that they mean to me. 

Hauora - whare tapu wha

Hauora is important to my health because PHYSICAL is when I pay sports and when I play with my family. MENTAL & EMOTION is about your emotions and controlling your emotions. SOCIAL is when I hang with friends and family. SPRITAL is my beliefs and what I truly believe in like the person who I stand by which is GOD

2016 Review

Since it is our last year for the year 8's we made a review to show case what we have been doing for the past few terms in 2016. As a class we had a very fun time collaborating a playing our activities as a class. This year we made new friends and met new people around the manaikalani schools. Having to leave this school made us very sad but having memories with us made us happy and joyful. We are going to see what is coming next for us in 2017.

2016 Graduation

On Wednesday night December the 14th was graduation night for the year 8's, It was held at the pakuranga sailing club at 6 o'clock at night to 8 o'clock. Everyone went, the girls looked amazingly beautiful and the boys looked amazingly handsome. Everyone took photo's together and with there friends. We then all sat down at our tables together with boys and girls, ate altogether it was nice. then we were awarded. We then danced, chacha and rock and roll. With the photos Paige and I made a video. We are happy to share our Great time

The Labyrinth

Today we have watched the movie Labyrinth hopefully you've watched this. We had to study about the movie Labyrinth like the Character Intro, the Narrative Structure, and what was our Favourite part. 

Tahuna Torea

Yesterday at lunchtime we went to have lunch at Tahuna Torea. Once we got there we had lunch, everyone was having fun. Why we went to Tahuna Torea? because its linked to our topic for reading we are learning about Godwits. First we explored was the beach where the Godwits come after that we waited until it was our turned to explored the wet lands where the Godwits find there food. LS2 learnt a lot and where Godwit's migrate. Godwits migrate from New Zealand to Alaska that would take them 8 days to get there but they would need to go to Australia than Japan then Alaska. So they are really fast to fly to Alaska. It was really interesting learning about the Godwit and where they Migrate.

Hockey Yr 8's

Hockey

Yesterday afternoon, the Yr 8's went on had a session with Carly. To start of, we had game called Shark. This game is for practising our defending, to trap our ball, push, and hitting the ball. After that we had to switch our warm ups to practice pushing and trapping the ball. Later on we had a juggling challenge, we all had1 minute to focus on the ball and try bouncing it on our hockey stick. We all had an amazing day with Carly and learning new things about Hockey. 

PBS Athletics

PBS Athletics

Today our PBS students had an amazing day doing athletics. We were split into 3 teams for the Yr 8's and 2 teams for the Yr 7's. All of us were great at being supportive and encouraging our friends. We all had a fun time doing the athletics. 

Yr 8 Hocky

Yr 8's Hockey

Today, the Yr 8's had a lesson of hockey, which was held in our school hall. Our instructor was Mel and she taught us some valuable things. At the start of our lesson we had a game of Octopus which someone had to be tagger and the tagger had to call a category of what the person has. They gave us each an hockey stick and a ball each. After that, they gave us an activity where, they call out a traffic light which was Green - for dribbling, Orange - stop but just keep on dribbling, Red - stop, Purple - Reverse, Silver - Speeding your dribbling, Blue -  Dribbling in circles. After that, we were split into 2 teams and whoever calls a number, a number of people has to play hockey against the other team. We had a wonderful time playing hockey and having new things being learnt. 

The Shake Out

I would like to congratulate Latham and his team mates for making this excellence movie. You movie looks amazing and there movie looked liked hard work. Keep up the great and amazing movie making Latham and all the best in future. 

Jean Batten

Today Juanita and myself collaborated together to make this popplet based on Jean Batten. This is based on Jean Battens life time and what she did between when she was born and when she died. Hopefully you can see what myself and Juanita did and what we have proudly did ourselves. Our website that we used was click on this link and you can access this for Jean Batten. 

Smart Searching Challenge - Cecillia, Breeana & June

Cecilla, Breeana and myself colborated together to make this DLO. This DLO is based on what we researched on and what we wanted to know about our subject. We found interesting things about Volleyball. and they were pretty impressing. My favourite part of this challenge was when we had to generate a letter from a website and that part was funny.  

Scaffold Text - Paige, Breeana & June

Today for our reading activity, Paige, Breeana and myself collaborated together to make this DLO. Our group made this based on facts about the Wright Brothers. We learnt on scaffold text and that means building knowledge.

Narrowing Search

Yesterday afternoon I had to make a DLO on what we learnt with Mrs Ogivlie in the library. We learnt how to narrow a search and how is can help on what we were searching on. We were given a question which what Who is the best Football player on Europe, and there are some tips n tricks to help for your research. 

Isaac Newtons Law's

Evelyn and myself have collaborated together to make this lucid chart. This lucid chart is based on Isaac Newtons law. We put 1st, 2nd, 3rd laws and when we first saw the laws, they were pretty fascinating.