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 

Hoilday.My holidays wernt the most intersting holidays they were just filled with family which is not a bad thing I guess the funniest part of my holidays was going to my Nanas and taking her dog Rusty down to the beach.

This week we have not been in class we have be over in the tec block either doing woodwork or cooking i was in the cooking grouup with 11 others.

i will upload some photos next week of what i have done in cooking

Our maths we have been doing for the last week

In maths for the last few weeks we have been learn about angels and doing a little bit of geometry.
Here is somethings i've done from last week enjoy.

This is some angles that i had to draw with my protractor.

Thisis some of my work were i had to draw and name the angle.

Just a we reminder how to use a protractor.

So in the end maths this trem has been super fun and i hope we learn a bit more about geometry as i think i no about angles alot already.

Fishbone goals

This is my fishbone diagram that we done in class a we while ago.On this fishbone diagram i had to write some goals for myself on what i need to focus on or improve on my man focus was to take risks and i needed to improve on speaking up in tasks as a class or group.

In class today i was on a mission to find out how to work tagxedo so i could teach the class and this is what i ended up with it looks so cool.I choose to use the fair-trade logo because it tells you as a consumer what the words in the picture are about.

So in this picture it has the words that mean the most to me about fair-trade.

So mother means mother nature what would we do with out mother nature.

Earth we wouldn't be here if earth wasn't made.

and then most of the other words are just products that you can get through fair-trade.

So in this topic it made me want to buy fair-trade products more not products that are done through child slavery. It all so made me think how lucky some of us are being able to learn and have friends and be able to achieve are goals so go on, buy fair-trade.

My child slavery message to you

                                                          Child slavery

I believe child slavery should be banned all it does is hurt the kids and not let them have and educated life. Why do people even have kids if there just going to send them away to do there own work its not what there here for there to love and cherish. Don’t have the money don’t have the kids full stop!

Imagine if we didn’t have and education we wouldn’t be as smart and intelligent as we are now we pretty much wouldn’t have a life so that’s one of the reasons why I want to make a different and let the children have an education so they can go further in there life. I believe every child deserves and education.

Do you think its fair that parents don’t get a fair pay. Which leads to not being able to afford medical care and them getting sick and needing to get a loan to try and keep them selves alive which then lead to the children not having an educated life and having to work 16 hours a day for a 4 dollar income at the end of the week just to pay off the family loan this happens between the ages 4 -14.In my opion parents should be getting paid more so they can keep them selves on there feet and succeed their dreams

Secondly imagine if we were slaves slaving around for 16 hours a day just for a four-dollar income at the end of the week. Would you like that no so help me make a different’s by buying fair-trade not just once but all the time help the children who aren’t aloud and education like us.

What is fair-trade you may be wondering fair-trade is an organized company that produces there food without slavery so the food you eat now is most likely to be made by children who could be learn but instead is being a slave so buy fair-trade it doesn’t hurt the kids that way even if it costs a little extra it worth it.

Some of the fair-trade products you can buy are cocoa, coffee, chocolate, bananas, sports gear and much more even clothing so buy fair-trade even if it’s a little extra on price you just have to remember it doesn’t hurt the kids that way.

So don’t forget on you next shop to town buy something fair-trade not just once but every time because now you no what that fair-trade logo on the packet or boxes means so help me let the children who have had to be slaves have and education.

By Taliesha Hair 

Winter hits southland with a wicked wether bomb heading our way so far we have had alighting and thunder last night in Invercargill so its not to bad but we hope that the students who went to a leader ship course today can still make it back in this weather.

This week in class we have started to work in a art project which we had to choose a song that had something to do with the war and use the lyrics to come up with some sort of art work which linked to them I choose te song I do t wanna talk about the war.

So so far I have cut out six love hearts and writing theses words in the middle love,peace,freedom,war,happiness,and a picture if the world I have also written some dye lyrics that relate to the song around the outline of the love heart.I will updated you on why else I have done sometime next week .

 

This week we have not been in class  we have been over in the tech block making a mess just kidding we have been making something to either eat or display at your home.

There are two tech groups, group 1 went to Mr Wormot who does woodwork and  group 2 went to Mrs Munro who does cooking.

In group one they had the choice of making Yachts, photo frames ,bed sides tables and bird houses
I choose to made a photo frame the shape of an owl.

In group 2 they were focussing on making different sorts of breads like chocolate bread yummy.

Fair trade products and child labour

In class this week we had to choose out of these two focuses to research on one of them was child labour and the other was a fair trade product I choose to do a fair trade product my product in cocoa beans.

Here is a photo of Brooke and Ashlee research about their topics.

Brooke's focuses was a fair trade product called Molasses
And Ashlees focuses was on child slavery

In class this week we done are e-astle tests, which is an online test on reading maths or writting to see what level we are at from the strat of the year and through out. In my reading test i got a 4A which meanas im at level four and advanced for that level which is a really good score for the strat of the year I cant wait to do the maths test and hopefully get a good score.

In class last week Ms Mynes introduced us to a new topic, its called a childerns art for peace project that we are doing with are friends in Americia. In this project we look into to music lyrics about war and peace ,the frist song we looked at was called One Day it had some very strong points in the lyrics.If u want to click on the link bellow and tell me some strong points you found in the lyrics and comment what they were.

Click the link to liseten to the lyrics
http://vimeo.com/61453753

So in one of my pervious posts I told you that in class we have been learning about The Treaty of Waitangi so from what Ive learnt so far Ill tell you what I understand.
So in 1840 the British crown was sent by the Queen to go to New Zealand to get the Treaty of Waitangi day signed over 500 maori reafushed to sigh but over 40 maori lead by Ngāpuhi’s Hōne Heke Pokai signed the Treaty of Waitangi.That pretty much somes up what i no about Waitangi day.

What im still want to know is why did the British crown lie about giving the land back?
I also want to know why they wanted more land as they have heaps already?

If you have soem of my answers or want to ask me a question please comment.

In class we have been finding out what are main Mutible intellinges are here is mine in order from a test that I done online.

Nature Smart
Music Smart
Pepole Smart
Self Smart
Body Smart
Visual Smart
Maths Smart
World Smart


Your probably wondering what they mean so Ill tell you a little on each of what they mean.

Nature Smart means:You love being outside and studying nature and love animals.
Music Smart means:You love listen to music and playing insturments.
Pepole Smart means:You like working in groups and like being around pepole.
Self Smart means:You like your own time and working by your self.
Visual Smart means:You love drawing and doing all sorts of art.
Maths Smart means:Your good with numbers and love maths.
Word Smart means:You love doing word puzzles and reading.

Do you want to know what your smart is find out here.
Whats Your Smart?

School starts again a new year with new adventures.So far in class we have been learnig about mesurment ,Waitangi day and we have also written letters to Ms Mynes our teacher and are now starting to draw a picture of our own face to go on the wall.

This year im looking forward to going to Deep Cove and getting to no Ms Mynes better.