End of year refilction 2013

​Something I have accomplished this year is improving in my co-operation towards others and working on my leadership skills with not just friends but others something that helped my leader ship skills was holding a secrch for stars compition were I met new people and learnt more about them and worked As a team.My biggest improvement this year would have to be my spelling and English I accused this by doing my action English activity sand practicing my spelling words.My favourite subject this year would have to be writing as we got to express are own felling in our own ways.my least favioutre subject would have to be maths as it's not my strongest point.My goal this year would be to get more involved in activity and believin myself more.

In class the past week we have been learning a bit about algebra so far i have learnt what the letters mean and how to find the meaning of the question her is some work we have been doing.

Wow what a mind blasting camp!!!

Deep cove 

Deep Cove was and amazing camp with fun games and amazing views and walks it trunt out to be my faviourte camp with friends and even some parents here is a video on what we got up to on deep cove.

This is my armistice day essay


Armistice Day.

Taliesha Hair, Year 8 Winton School

The field was empty, no gunshots or men were to be heard or seen. The

trenches were silent and you could now hear the many mice scattering along

the muddy floors.

It was the day war was put to a halt, the 11th

There was joy and happiness all around. But for some families it was to

be further devastation when news of their family members or friends

was not to return. There were over 100,000 soldiers from New Zealand

who fought in World War 1. Over 16,700 of them died, and 40,000 were

 day of the 11th

 month, 1918.

Curtis D. Bennet, in his poem “Remember Me” describes what it was like

when war came along. He also touched on what it was like when the war

ended. In his poem it creates an image in ones mind about how he and

others didn’t want to go to war. An Otago man named Archibald Baxter

also refused to go to war and ended up fighting his own war for his beliefs

in New Zealand before being forced to train as a soldier and shipped out to

Europe under protest.

Many young men and women like Archibald Baxter and Curtis Benet refused

to go to war. Many were forced to fight and trained to become solders.

They lived and fought in bloody, drenched and infested trenches, witnesses

to the deaths of many friends and foe around them. For many if not all,

these images were imprinted in their memories, never to be forgotten and

impossible to erase.

On the 11 day of November, 1918 the German Kaiser fled and the new

German government put a halt to the war. The Armistice amongst Germany

and the Allies (also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location

it was signed) was an agreement to end WW1. When signed it brought

joy and hope to soldiers from many countries that were left, barely alive,

knowing that they would now see their families and loved ones. For many

families though across the oceans, which were celebrating the end of the

war and waiting the return of their husbands, sons, sisters, brothers and

daughters, were never to see them again. Instead the devastation of the

receipt of personal possessions was returned instead. I can only image

it would feel like you had just been shot with a bullet to the heart, and

you cried, not blood, but tears. It was a spitting image of what war had

created and a memory that could never be forgotten.

The Ode of Remembrance taken from Laurence Binon’s poem “For the

Fallen” is also recited on Remembrance Day to say “we will remember“.

Armistice Day is the day when we give all our time and thoughts to

remember those who fought for us in WW1. We wear a Poppy which is a

symbol of the flower that grew within the bloody lands of Flanders field

where the bodies of many of our loved ones lye. Two minutes silence

became a part of Armistice day after the first anniversary of the war.

In London on the 11th

magical effect on the nation. A weary woman wiped away her tears and

a man beside her bowed his head and removed his hat. Cars, trams and

people stopped and a wave of hush swept the city. Some say the silence

was the inaudible pain felt amongst survivors and their families. These two

minutes are a mark of respect for those solders who sacrificed their lives

and for those that fought and returned.

The month of November is a time of year, where ceremonies all over the

world take place and red poppies are worn in memory.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

them, nor the years condemn.

 November 1919 when the clock struck 11, it had a

Age shall not weary

 At the going down of the sun and in the

We will remember them." (Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)

We must commemorate Armistice Day. It is a time where our communities

come together to remember those who fought for us in the Great World

War. Their story is our story and should be your story to always be retold

and never forgotten.

Lest we forget!

By Taliesha Hair

Winton School

Year 8, Age 13

This is my Maori Rugby's player profile that we had to make as a reading active about an article called Maori rugby in this article i learnt allot about Maori rugby back in the day and now this is my outcome on my profile on George Nepia

This is rooms 11,7 and 5 performing the Sasa at Polyfest

This term we had the challenge of  writing a speech that was going to persuade  someone we got the choice on what are topic was going to be on.I choose to do mine on Horse slaughter as i believe that its cruel and should be put to a stop.So heres my speech i hope you enjoy and learn something that you did no.

How do you feel about horse slaughter do you think it’s painless and innocent and okay to do? Or do u think it’s cruel and needs to be put to a stop? Well im here to convince you that the second option is the right one and also the true facts behind horse slaughter.

 Horse slaughter is inhumane and should be put to a stop. What sort of horses go to the slaughter house you probably think only old, sick, wild and dangerous horses go to the slaughter house, but you’re wrong any type of horse gets Slaughtered from famous eventing or race horse that apparently retired but probably got injured or replaced. Foals who don’t even get a chance to show there abiltes.Wild horses who have been abused or traumatised from there first encounting with a human. And there’s the unlucky horses who people can’t afford anymore and think by sending them to the slaughter house is going to put them out of their misery but really there putting them threw misery by sending them there just like the other horses who get sent their.

 If the USA can make horse slaughter illegal in some states why can’t we make it illegal in New Zealand and have more rescue homes made instead were any horse can go injured, retired or untamed or the ones who need a new home.I mean theres other ways instead of slaughter,Because how would you like it if you got shot in the head with a stunner gun which is not always accurate, and could still be a live by the time you get your throat slit all the way down and then your left to drain out all your blood until you’re ready to move on to the next station which I like to call amputating your legs of, and then you get skinned and processed into dog or cat food or sold for human consumption.

 The way they get to the slaughter house in another story and well im going to tell you it.Most of the horses are transported in a cattle truck which is half the size of them on each leave which leads to the horses having to bend very low which then leads to losing circulation and then not being able to feel their legs but that’s not the worst of the transport some horses are loaded up in very poor condition some have to be dragged onto the cattle trucks and die before they get to the slaughter house but still end up going through the same process as all the owners want is the money and meat for dog and cat food but manly human consumption.

 Did you hear about traces of horse meat found in burgers at a burger king in Ireland you probably think that the horse meat didn’t come from New Zealand, but your wrong thirty minutes down the road from Winton is a place called gore they sell horse meat for human consumption as they are the only licend horse slaughter house to sell human consumption in New Zealand they ship many amounts of horse meat to Europe and many other places. Now does that Put you of burger because you don’t know what’s really in them?

But there’s still more that the horses have to go through before being slaughterd. They are put into holding pens with no water, no food, no fresh air, no daylight and only the smell of blood and the sound of the other horse screaming with fear. How would you like it if that was you?

 I mean think of what horses have sacrificed for us they were are transport still are they are some of our incomes they thought for us in war they died for us they made some of us famous there always there when you need them and have no one else so why do we put them through torcher and traumatise them when they don’t deserve it.Is it because of the money is 200 dollars really worth there life’s after what they have done for us? So really think about it do you think horse slaughter in painless and innocent and is okay to do or do you think it’s now cruel and should be put to a stop its your choice on what you believing but im telling you the second

Option is better because imagine if that was you……

By Taliesha