2015 Reflection

My Reflection

Over the past four terms I have attended  Point England School it has been a really huge experience. I am feeling proud that I have managed myself and made it to the end of 2015!! and the end of year eight. If I was to give myself a grade out of 10 for been awesome I would pick 9 because I have tried my best at everything and have been working hard to get every task finish on time.

One thing that encouraged me to do better was our  year eight leadership camp, because all the year 8’s grew stronger and stronger and became more mature with things. Each year eight student has changed in a huge and awesome way.

I like contributing to team five by learning and listening to the teachers when I'm supposed to. Helping out around the senior block and contributing to sports around the school because it is helpful and respectful.

Throughout this long year I have achieved one of my main goals which is playing and learning many sports and encouraging other to join sports. Sports is one of my favourite hobbies to do because you exercise and become fitter.

Things that I would like to change throughout next year would be to communicate and interact more with people and be a lot more confident with myself. For next year’s teacher I would like you to know that I am going to try my best at everything I might trip but hopefully I get back up. And I am going to join as much sports as I can.

I found a lot of things difficult like literacy because I really don’t like writing and reading but this year I am trying to become better with literacy so that I can have a better future for myself. Things I found satisfying was maths and sports because I love things subjects and hobbies. Maths is my favourite subject and I love any type of sport.

Things I would like more help with would be being more confident in front of other people and learning more with my literacy so that I can become better with it. To show my teacher to understand these things you would have to read this reflection and show some photos from this year.

Algorithm

This week we have been learning about algorithm this is my presentation that we have been learning about in Miss Clark's maths class.

Envy

This is my poetry that I have being learning about ,the word I picked was envy because I wanted to pick something I wasn't familiar with. We were making our poetry with senses  and feelings I really liked that everyone in my literacy class made one each and we all had different words 

Touch Game

As I got into the hall I suddenly felt butterflies in my stomach I was wishing they would go away. I could see everyone’s faces were getting more and more anxious. When Miss Vaafusuaga was calling out the roll I had struggle trying to say yes. I was nervous that we were going to a year 7 & 8 mixed touch tournament on Dunkirk Road. When she finished the roll it felt like the tournament was just minutes away.

First ,  everyone got into lines to get ready to walk to the tournament. As we got closer and closer to the fields . I felt like my heart was going to burst out I was so scared that we might lose our first game. I could smell sweet flowers coming from the side of me as we were walking towards the fields so that cheered me up a little bit.

Then we finally got to the fields and our coach Tyson told our team to do warm-ups. I could already smell body odour going through my nose it was horrifying. First we did settle which is when the wing, link and middle work together to try get closer to the try line. Then it was game time our first game was against tamaki primary cowboys. Boom before you know it we already had scored a try.

Altogether , we had six games each game was fifteen minutes and we didn’t have halfs. Our second game was against tamaki primary tigers when we got onto the field I was feeling really because there team looked really hard and fast. But I was also confident about our team to because we had just won our first game against there other team.

After that , I was even more excited to play the next team because we had just won our last two games. I was killing inside because butterflies were getting to me it felt like I had a huge  knot in my stomach. But I faced it then bang! our fifth game was already on we played against glen taylor this was on decision game because if we won this we were automatically in the finals that game went so fast.

BANG! we won everyone in the team was so excited that we were going to the finals. I wanted to burst out a fantastic smile but I kept it in because we still had one more game to be crowned first place.

Suddenly , we see glen taylor walking onto the field so we all had a great feeling that we were playing them in the final. But it was anyone’s game I was so terrified I asked to sub off first and just watch for a little bit. We were halfway through the final and still no one and scored in was intense then all I see was Asena score on the right wing everyone cheered all I could hear was “GO ASENA” .

Then I jumped on the field I was so scared I wanted to run off and scream. But no I couldn’t let the team down then we scored again and again BANG! the timer goes off and we had won the tournament their team looked shattered because they came second place.

My Rhyming Poem About Our Block

This week we are learning about rhyming poems and we had to get into partners and make up a poem. This is my poem about starting school. I also put my rhyme scheme in it to show my endings.

The Coliseum

This is a presentation I did a while ago the book that our reading group was called The Coliseum. The Coliseum took ten years to build and was made in the year 80 builders started building it in year 70 it has been around for a very long time.

Bok Choy

This is a presentation about talking points. Talking points is when you pick answer answer and come up with a reason why you have picked that answer. The book that we are justifying our opinions with is call Bok Choy hope you like. 

Rhyming Poems

This term in literacy we have been learning about rhyming poems. This is my presentation that I have did with Elizabeth. These are the rhyme schemes we have done and we made our own poems on the last slide hope you like.

My Poem

Imagine a disgusting room filled with cockroaches everything broken and is incapable to live no one bothered to clean it. Gross right well here is a poem that I wrote about a photo I saw. Over the past weeks we have been learning about poems and schemes within the poems.

The room starts to rumble

The ceiling began to crumble

Smelling mould

I start to get a cold

Everything’s broken

And it can’t be spoken

Disgusting floors

Covered in paint

Broken draws

I wanted to faint

Reflection over the year

This year has been epic this is my last year of intermediate and it has been my best year yet. I have just started this school this year and I am really happy I have met really good people. I really like my home class because we all bond together and we have a wonderful home teacher Mr Wiseman!!

One of my favourite things that has happened this year is going out of sports days and having sports every Friday. I like that Miss Va'afusaga our sports teacher is really nice and caring. She helps everyone improve in everything and always has a smile. you can go visit the sports blog 

My favourite subject is Maths because I like working with numbers and moving to a different class and working with other people.  My favourite thing of maths is algebra because I like working with the alphabet and numbers together. 

Thinkboard

This week we are learning about bedmas and this is my think board I struggled with my word story because I couldn't find any but I hope you like.

Extra For Experts

This is my extra for experts this is for my maths group octagons. Everyone does this when they have finished everything.

Algebra

Last week we were learning about algebra and how it is used this is my presentation for what I had to do. My group did this I was to busy to post it last week now so I am now.

Word Problems

This week we are learning algebra and word problems Miss Clark gave Octagons and Hexagons a presentation to figure out and highlight our answer and this is my presentation.

Thinkboard

 

This week my maths class are learning about algebra and our question is 193 + ? = 853 

Think board

This week we are doing our think board the question is 215.5 x 20 = , can you figure out the answer?

What is a theme?

Last week we had to write about what is a theme? In literacy we had to make our own presentation and explain what a theme is , and show a year 5 or 6 person to see if they could understand it.

Themes

This week we are learning about theme's another name for it is "moral of the story" . The author doesn't show yo what it is it just shows clues in the texts to try find out what the theme is. My literacy teacher Mr Wiseman has given our literacy class question's to try find out what the theme is.

Fractions

This week we have been learning about fractions , and division . This is my favourite subject this week has been testing week and I am really nervous for my maths test.

No one's Race

This week we are writing about recounts there is a photo we have to write about and write of one of the contestants and there perspective.

As I walked to the starting line a hard long running track I already had sweat dripping down my face it didn’t help that it was a hot sunny day. A huge crowd around me at the panathenaic stadium to know who would win the race.

My stomach was filled with butterflies aching just wanting this race to finish already. The smell of body odour throughout all the contestants it  was horrifying  , Also hearing their heartbeats pounding and pounding . 

First the gunshot went off and everyone started to run gently trying not to slow down and let anyone past. Then we all began to run a little faster wanting to get past the finish line I was coming second pacing and pacing myself.

Then I began to speed up because the contestant behind me was slightly beginning to overtake me.But I wouldn’t let him the finish line felt like a mile away so I tried to catch up with the contestant coming first.

After that I was coming a tie with the contestant who was coming first. Fifty meters away hearing the loud footsteps coming from behind me so I speed up and then I saw the contestant I was running off starting to slow down.

Finally I sprinted all the way past the finish line I felt really relieved because I made it and I came first. The  crowd yelling my name was awesome and all the contestants were still happy they actually made it too.

I was surprised that I came first but also relieved because all the contestants had done it a one kilometer run we all clapped hands and yelled “We did it” .