Brian O'Driscoll.

Brian O’Driscoll?... If you don’t know who that is, he is the outside centre for the Ireland rugby union team and also their captain. He was born in January the 21st 1979 and now he is at the age of 34 and still playing professional rugby for his country. O’Driscoll made his International rugby debut for Ireland in 1999 against Australia in Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane.

  O’Driscoll is the second most capped player in rugby union history. He has had 128 games for Ireland (83 as captain), and 8 for the British and Irish Lions. He holds the Six Nation record with the most scoring 26 tries. This centre is so stunning that he was chose to be the Player of the tournament for the 2006, 2007 and 2009 Six Nation Championship. The Six Nation comp has the 6 teams. Ireland, France, England, Italy, Wales and Scotland.

  Brian O’Driscoll known as the number 1 centre in the world to have ever played the game of rugby union.

   

Netbook reflection 2013.

 Having this opportunity with my netbook has been significant this year. Connecting to the internet has helped me a lot because it makes things easy to access. This learning tool has also helped me improve in my subjects, especially in maths. Xtramath has got me far in terms of my basic facts. Xtramath?.... If you don’t know what that is, it is a maths programme that can help you gain confidence in your quick basic facts. The fastest time that the question’s will appear on your screen is 1.5 seconds. Without connection I wouldn'’t be able to access maths programme’s and improve in them.

   Math whizz is another math programme that helps me see which things in maths I understand and what I don’t understand. My teacher has made a next step presentation for every student in the class to help them if they are stuck and need strategies. But it is my responsibility to go on and follow the links if I want to accelerate and learn these new strategies.

   Out of class I really love going on rugby sites and just read information about a rugby team or a rugby player. I go on rugby sites because I love playing sport and grew up playing rugby.     

My highlight's of the year.

This year has been a great year for me competing in different sports. Sport’s has been my favourite highlight of the year because I love playing and enjoying sport with my mates. The best sport event that I have competed in this year was the Auckland champs Rugby League tournament in Cornwall Park. Unfortunately we finished 3rd overall but we tried our best.

   Having the opportunity to use netbooks as our learning tool has been awesome. With this learning device I think I have improved in my subjects. I love using this learning tool for maths because it helps me a lot to improve my quick basic facts on xtramath and other things on maths whizz.

    My favourite highlight about camp was going on the Luge rides. It was my favourite because I got to race against my mates and have a lot of fun. Laughing on my way down hill, Starford was trying to ram into me. It ended up the other way around me ramming into Starford and making him crash.

Keswick Camp.

      Tuesday the 3th of December, year 8 student's from Point England School headed off to Rotorua for our camp. It was about a 4 hour drive to our location by bus. We arrived at(Keswick)the camp site at 2 o'clock.

    My favourite highlight about camp was going on the Luge rides. It was my favourite because I got to race against my mates and have alot of fun. Laughing on my way down hill, Starford was trying to ram into me so I can crash. However, it ended up the other way around me ramming into Starford.

  The lowlight for me was going on long walks up the mountain. It was so tiring that I gave up walking. But the only thing I enjoyed about it was walking with my mates, singing songs and telling good riddles.
   

   

   

 

   
   

Interzone Athletics Day.

On Friday the 29th of November, athlete’s from our school and from Tamaki Primary headed off to Lloyd Elsmore Park in Pakuranga to compete in the inter zone athletics. The events that I was in was the 100m, 200m and the boys relay.

   We had a few helpers that came along with us to help out. They were (Miss V), Miss Va'afusuaga, Miss Takere, Lorenzo, Ryan and the Tamaki Primary sport co-ordinator. It was going to be a tough day I thought to myself.

   It was about time for me to make my way to the start line as I was getting ready to race in the boys 200m final. In the final I knew a couple of boys that I am mates with from other school’s. READY SET GO! running in lane 1, I was trying to beat my opponents. With 50 meters left I was coming 6th place until 20 metres to go I overtook a Saint Kent's boy and finished 5th place.

   At the end of the day I was proud of my results.

Te Reo Mihimihi.

Kia Ora tatou

greeting to us all

kua tae mai nei

who have arrived here

ki tenei wahi

to this place

ki te kawe mai

to bring

i te aroha

the love

ka nui te koa

great is the happiness

mo to koutou kaha

for your support

ki te aro mai

in attending

ki te awhina

to support/help

i nga korero

the discussions

e pa ana ki tenei hui

concerning this gathering

Future Aspirations.

Last Thursday there were some special guests who came over to our school to explain what they do and to inspire us. There were 5 guests, Mosa Mafileo, Emma Brown, Tristan Pang, Aysha Hohaia and Caine Warren. Mosa Mafileo the 18 year old inspired me the most out of all the five. His job got me very interested in because he was the Junior adviser for the Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

   My future aspiration is to become a rugby star and to be a mechanic person. The goal I would hope to achieve out of the two would be to become a rugby star but if I don’t make it my backup plan is to be a mechanic person. To achieve my goal of being a rugby star is to work hard and to be determined.

   Waata’s future aspiration is to be a game programmer  His one and only goal is to become a Video game programmer. Waata would like to work for Infinity Ward to make games like Call of Duty. He want to go to university to study computer science and mathematics. Making a game that people can enjoy and have fun on, is what I want to do for others.

My Maths DLO. Add/Sub Year 8 Strategy 1

2.44 + 3.09 =

What I did to solve this problem was I subtracted .09 from the 3.09 to make a tidy whole number. So the 3.09 becomes a 3, then I move on to 2.44 and add the .09 that I took away from the 3.09 and the 2.44 becomes 2.53 and when I add the 2.53 and 3 altogether I have a total answer of 5.53

Michael Jordan DLO.

W,K,S DLO from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

   The purpose of our DLO was to show the awesomeness of Michael Jordan. We were trying to achieve the maximum potential with a movie about  Michael Jordan when he did the free throw line dunk in a slam dunk competition.

   Positives was we finished our DLO on time, did a animation of Michael Jordan doing a slam dunk and Waata having a clear voice when doing the voice over. One positive was that we really worked well together when we had to finish the animation. We were proud of our DLO but we think we could've done better.

   There were quite a few things that we needed to work on to improve our movie. What let us down was that we didn't have enough details in our animation. The part where Michael Jordan was going for the slam dunk was a little too slow, and the time being animated in the background was too slow. We had different sized people (not in proportion). Last but not least we would've made it better by talking a bit more about the actual event which was about Michael Jordan doing the slam dunk.

  We had some interesting things with our DLO that we were happy about. The interesting was we showed the awards that he achieved in the sport of basketball. Another thing was that we had a mixture of animation, images and a video clip of Michael Jordan doing a free throw line dunk.

   

Maths DLO #2

For maths I am creating a DLO that shows that I understand my group strategy and that I am ready to move on.

   The question is. There are 563 sweets which need to be shared equally between 7 jars. What is the maximum number of sweets that can be placed in every jar ?

How many jellybean's will be left over ?...
 
So to start off I say how many times does 7 go into 5 which is 0, then I move on and ask myself how many times does 7 go into 56, well I already know that it is 8 because 7x8 is 56 so I put down 8 and move on. Last but not I figure out how many times does 7 go into 3 which is 2 because 3x2 is 6 with 1 left over and I use the 1 left over as a remainder.

   So the total answer I came up with was 82 r1.

   

Rainbow Warriors.

One breezy night while the Greenpeace activists were celebrating a birthday party, underneath the ship were two suspicious spies planting 2 limpet bombs. Suddenly out of nowhere boom ! the Rainbow Warrior ship was completely filled with water as it tilt to one side which killed 1 crew member.

   The french spies chose to explode the Rainbow Warrior so they can stop protesting about the nuclear testing. It was the french government that ordered these two spies to go on a mission on an undercover operation to plant the limpet bombs in the Rainbow Warrior boat.

   In French Polynesia, France was testing their nuclear weapons in Tahiti and New Caledonia to see how they worked and the various conditions. When they were testing the them the radiation of the nuclear bombs were effecting the people around that area by getting cancer.

My Maths DLO 2013.

 
 I am going to explain to you a quick strategy of what I’m thinking about this word problem. As you can see it say’s that 6 people need 24 marbles to play a game at school. How many marbles will be needed if 8 people play the game?.

 Well my strategy to solve this problem is to draw a line on a piece of paper and write people on top which equals to 6 and marbles on the bottom of the line which equals to 24, so then it becomes 6/24 and on the other side of the line put down 8 with an question mark because that’s the second question which is how many marbles will be needed if 8 people play the game?.

   Then I figure out what times 6 to get 24 which is 4 then times 4 again to the 8 on the other side to get a denominator which is 32.

   So the final answer for how many marbles will be needed if 8 people play the game is 32 marbles.

   

My Next Step.

For maths, individually we had to choose an area around maths to help us accelerate and learn new strategy’s. So for the area for maths I chose decimals, percentages and fractions. I chose this area specifically because I know for myself I kind of struggle around these areas. So I am going to try my best to focus and pick up some good strategy’s.

Here are some video’s to help you with some strategy’s about decimals, percentages and fraction.

Strategy 1

Strategy 2

Strategy 3

Strategy 4

My Maths Goal For Next Term.

Maths isn't what I'm good at, but I'm going to try to improve to get better next term which is term 3. My maths goal would be about subtractions. I chose subtractions because I always have trouble working with them in a programme called xtramaths, and being able to know them. On xtramaths I am on subtraction 1.5 second recall. I am having a lot of trouble doing this but to improve I need to be able to stay on task, be focus and practice a lot and learn new strategies.

S.C.S Nelson Mandela.

Samuela/ James Rock Climber/Success.

For literacy with Miss Squires we had to partner up with a buddy and write 3 paragraphs about rock climbing.

Samuela Decimal Screen Recording.

Samuela Screen Recording from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Protein Song.

Today, my friends and I created a song. The lyrics we came up with were about protein. We sang it to a song called 'Beautiful by Miguel and Mariah Carey. These are the lyrics that we came up with. Hope you like it.

You  know.... you need protein,

Many foods contain protein...

but the best sources are... beef and dairy products.

ohhh ohhh.

Protein builds,and replaces the tissues in your body.

With Muscles like that

Oh, you’re killing me.

Oh you’re Healthy...And you know you are, yeahh

You’re healthy.

Samuela Decimal Rate Game.

Maths, Great At.