Wood Work @ Tamaki College!

Last term The year 8 students at Pt England school walked down to Tamaki college for tech. We have different subjects like woodwork, japanese , and food for each term, and so last term I was in “Woodwork” .What have I learnt at wood so far? well I have learnt lots of new things, like tools that I had never heard about. Last term we at wood , we had to make boxes or a bird house.  I made a box because it was simple to make. We were marked by credit and we all got folders for us to complete. The mark we got  for our project was five and the mark for our paperwork was 15, and so we mostly had to work on our paperwork to get more credits. What I really liked at woodwork last term was getting to make my box and using the new tools that I have never heard or used before.

I am so grateful for having this opportunity to go and explore different subjects and to find out more about those subjects. I also can’t wait for college.

A Freaky Week!!

Four nights ago it started, seeing the shape again now made me shudder.

 I slowly crept back under my blanket wishing to not see it again and that I was only dreaming!

The wind was blowing and the trees were swishing. The wind made a creepy noise as it blew

across my room. It was a dark night and I was all alone.

I then slowly got out of my bed and went to have  a look at what the creepy shadow was. The

freaky shadow was just standing there looking into my window. It was just a dark patch shaped

like a man and so I couldn’t see what it really was. As I stood there I felt fear from the bottom of

my toes to the top of my head! I quickly ran back and jumped back onto my bed, hiding under

my blanket. I did not move a muscle. I then said to myself, “maybe if I just went to sleep, my fear

would go away and maybe tomorrow the scary shadow will be gone. I tried to make myself go to

sleep but I just couldn't!

The next night I went to sleep , I went and peeked through my window curtain and looked if that

freaky shadow was gone, but it was not!  I thought that someone has been watching me through

out the whole week. I went back into my bed, wishing that nothing bad will happen to me. All of a

sudden a car coming down the road (who had their flashlights on) shone their light on the dark

shadow. It was hard to believe but to my amazement it was only

just a mailbox.

That night I was really happy to go to sleep knowing that I had nothing to worry about.

Thanks to Mr Wright, from Oakland University, for helping me with my voice over and my writing. 

First Game For The Season!

Yesterday was a very tiring and exhausting day at Netball!

It was our first game for the season and it started out with bad weather. By the time we got to the netball court it was pouring rain!  Me and my team all went with Mrs va’afusuaga and the first thing we did when we got there was to find shelter to put our bags down. The courts was full of other girls playing and so we had to stick together so we don’t get lost.

We waited a while for our game to start and I was freezing cold by the time our game  started. The team we challenge was St Cuthberts. It was a very close game but unfortunately we lost 6-7. Although we lost we still had fun on the court and that was our first grading game.

I can’t wait until our next grading game next week.I am really looking forward to it!

Vincent Van Gogh

This term we have been studying different artist and Vincent Van Gogh is one of the famous artists I have been learning about.

Vincent Van Gogh was a son of a pastor who was brought up in a religious country.Before Van Gogh became a painter he was working unsuccessfully as a clerk in a book store, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage. It was about 1860 and 1880 when Van Gogh then decided to become an artist. Van Gogh's life was very sad, He suffered from Mental illness and did lots of bad things to him self, He even cut off his own ear and sended it to some random girl .Van Gogh did lots of self portrates of himself

. He only sold one painting when he was alive, worth only around about 500 dollars.
Van Gogh was only famous after he died by shooting himself with a shotgun.

A big thanks to Athena Vili for helping me edit this piece of work!

Alexander Dale Cardiac Arrest

Our class has been learning about a man who has died at a very young age . His name was Alexander Dale Oen, his death was highly unexpected as he was 26 years old, and a fit man. The cause of his death was a cardiac arrest. A cardiac arrest is the failure of the pumping of the heart. Alexander Dale was a champion swimmer and so his death was very shocking to hear about.

Thanks to Athena Vili for editing my work!