Year: 2025

Hello there!

Today my blog is about a really important thing that everyone should give and gain – Respect! Respect isn’t just for your elders, it’s for everyone! 🙂 When you show respect, people will trust you and like you. If you don’t respect others, they might not respect you, and could even think badly of you without you even noticing. Sometimes you might not agree with someone, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t respect them. You don’t always have to agree with others, We just have to respect them.

Why should we respect others?
Respect is about more than just helping people or smiling at them. It’s about really listening to others, showing that you value them, following instructions, and helping out when someone really needs it.
How we can respect others:

– Being a good listener

– Understanding someone’s feelings

– Saying thank you and using polite words

– Keeping personal information private when someone shares it

–  Valuing what each person does well

– Using kindness in your words and actions

How can we respect others?
You can show respect by being kind, showing happiness, caring for others, and most importantly by listening. Even if someone is younger or different from you, they deserve respect too. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. This means respecting classmates, teachers, family, and even new people you meet every day. Being a respectful person makes school, home, and your community a happier place.

Respect yourself and others will respect you!
It’s also important to respect yourself. When you respect yourself, you believe you are valuable and worthy of kindness, just like everyone else. This helps others see your confidence and respect you back.

Thank you for reading my blog! Keep respecting others, spread kindness, and remember – respect is something we should all give and share!

Kia Ora!

We have been reading a book called – the giant peach.

 Kia Ora!

This week in maths, the Year 8s learned how to use spreadsheets for budgeting. We did this because our topic was financial planning. Financial planning means looking at your money and budget, thinking about saving for what you gonna buy in the future, and making a plan to reach them.

We used spreadsheets because they help us organize money easily. With a spreadsheet, you can list all your expenses, like food, bills, and fun stuff, and also your income, like pocket money or jobs. This way, you can see how much money you have left, make sure you don’t spend too much, and save for things you want.

Learning about budgeting on a spreadsheet makes it much clearer and helps us understand budgeting and saving.This was a way easier for us to get the answear cause it was really fun and easy to understand.

As you can see that this challenge was in our oxyford owl book and most of us didn’t really get the question so the teacher lorrain helped us use spread sheet to make this clearer for us and I really did find this really helpful and I enjoyed this cause this was way easier to get that answer cause it helped me calculate the answear!

Thank you for reading my blog!

Kia Ora!

This week, during Wednesday engineering, we learned all about electrical engineering!

What’s an electrical engineer?
An electrical engineer is someone who works with electricity to make things like lights, machines, and devices work. They design and build things that use electricity – such as batteries, computers, and power systems – and make sure electricity is used safely and efficiently. Electrical engineers also create amazing new inventions and improve the technology we use every day.

In today’s session, I felt really excited to learn how electrical engineers make things work. We also learned about circuits – and even got to build one ourselves!

If you don’t know what a circuit is:
A circuit is like a path or racetrack that electricity follows to make things work. Imagine electricity as tiny runners moving along the track. For these runners to make something happen – like turning on a light or powering a computer – they need a complete path that loops back to where they started. This is called a closed circuit.

I felt so much joy and excitement when our team managed to get our circuit working. We were one of the very few teams including the teacher’s who got it right!

What we used:

• LED lights
• Copper tape
• Coin-shaped batteries

It was a really fun day, although a little tiring. The copper wasn’t lining up properly at first, and at one point, our circuit even stopped working. Thankfully, some kind people from another group kindly let us borrow their copper, and because of their help, we were able to finish our project successfully.

This was such a fun and memorable experience for our group – we learned a lot, worked as a team, and had a great time doing it! We also made a slide show about it – if you wanna know more about engineering, read the slide show made by me, Aisha,jannay & skylah!

Thank you for reading my blog!

Kia Ora tatou!

In week 4 of term 3 the year 8 of room 10 and 9 have been learning algebra. Algebra is quite difficult and tiring for me honestly,  So as a year 8 I do find algebra with all those letters kinda challenging. Algebra is one of the topic in maths that uses symbols, also letters to represent numbers and relationship between them.

A basic example of algebra is solving the equation like  b + 2 = 5. Here b is a variable(an anknown value), The goal is to find the value of x that makes the equation true. So the value of B should be 3 cause 3 + 2 =5 but right now lets talk about timing – In algebra if there’s a questions like – 5 x j = 5j cause in algebra the times symbol really doesn’t matter in a few spots but this is Simplifying, To expand we delete the brackets.

Ex:Lets expand the expression : c + 6 ( a + 4).

Kia Ora!!

In this week’s engineering, the first thing we did was environmental engineering. The first task in environmental engineering was to carry water across the court in a bucket with a hole. The few rules were that everyone needed to have a turn doing it.

Our group’s strategy was to cover the hole with our thumbs. We also thought about going slow so the water wouldn’t fall, because the faster we go, gravity makes it gather on one side and makes it fall. I think that our group was pretty good at this, but some people had some amazing ideas.

The second thing we did was civil engineering. In civil engineering we had to make ideas on how to make our land safe from drowning and the water rising over, and the only things we could use were clay, tape, sticks, straws, and scissors.

As you can see in the image below, we used blue popsicle sticks to make a border from the water coming in. We also made two bridges by using popsicle sticks and clay to make the bridges. To add more details, we added some drawings of boats, fish, and people.

And then we ended our day with some talking about engineering and watching videos about engineering. Then we left the hall, and that was all we did for this Wednesday’s engineering. If you had to do the bucket challenge, what strategy would you use?

Thank you for spending time to read my blog. 🙂

Hello!

Today we spent few time in the hall doing enginnering. We started off our day with coming into the hall, after a few talking we got told to make teams with the amount of 3-4 people, Me Tashifa, aisha, and stephanie ended up in the same team. First we had a task to make towers with jenga and there where around 12 team with 3-4 people. after that we did the samething again but with a cloth under the tower.

After we had to make bridges in our same groups. We made a parker shaped bridge with w shaped supporter and we made the bridge wide so big car and trucks and go on. We ended up adding this cylinder chaped supporter to so the bridge can car the load of trucks and car.

If you could make a bridge with only card tape and scissors what kind of bridge well you make.

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This week our topic in our task was compare, order and convert between fraction, decimal and percentage. It wasn’t that hard but it wasn’t that easy.  You can compare fractions, decimals and percentages easily but before that we did the equivalent fraction. Equivalent fractions are fractions that have the same value, even though they look different because they have different numerators and denominators for example 1/2 = 12/24 because they equal the same decimal and percentages. now try to find the answers to these questions – 1/6 = ??  1/8 = ??? and 1/100 = ?? and if these questions are easy lets get on to ordering and convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.

Kia ora!

This week’s blog is about our 3D toangas that we printed. We needed to make this in Tinkercad, and after we went to print them out. The hours it took to print was 4 hours. I picked the shape of toki for my taonga. The toki was used for a variety of everyday jobs and had to be strong to endure the cutting and scraping motions of its use. Because of this, the pounamu toki pendant has become a symbol of strength (particularly in times of adversity), courage, and fortitude. They were also worn by elders as a symbol of power, wisdom, and authority. The reason I picked this shape is because I’m going to be gifting this to my mum, and the toki symbolises strength, and my mum has lots of strength, so I picked this shape.

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