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Speech reflection

On Monday, I did my speech. My speech is about why kids should have healthy food in their lunches. I felt really nervous at the start but when I started to talk, I felt less nervous which was good. When I said my speech, the teacher timed me and my time was 3 minutes and 50 seconds. The speech needed to be around 4 minutes so I did quite well. Overall I think I did pretty good since I was quite nervous.

Have you done speeches before? If so, how did you feel while presenting?

Thursday sport

Every Thursdays, Kaupeka and Tumu hub go to Hagley park for Thursday sport. We had 4 choices on what sport we wanted to play. The choices were Netball, Football, Rugby and Hockey. I chose Netball because I love netball and it was the only sport I could play. I trialled for it and got into the Netball A team. In my team their is Emily, Hannah, Tiana, Liana, Kama, Ashley, Val, Ella, Niamh, Bella and I.

What sport would you choose?

Maths

For the past few days, my maths group and I have been recording a maths video to show people how to do reversibility, place value or repeated addition. I chose reversibility because that strategy wasn't too hard and wasn't too easy. This is the video where I show people how to do reversibility.
What strategy do you like the most?

 

GRIP conference

On Wednesday 22nd of November, the Year 7's of my school went to the GRIP conference. GRIP stands for generosity, responsibility, integrity and people. GRIP is all about leadership and having integrity.  The day at GRIP involved meeting kids from other schools, and having conversations that connected with other growing leaders.

We had three sessions during the day. The first session was about transforming and becoming a leader. The second session was all about being a strawberry and not a watermelon. This is a metaphor which means that strawberries are mostly the same on the inside and outside but watermelons are different on the outside to the inside. You should be true to yourself as a leader. The third session was all about integrity and what leadership is like.

My favourite part of the day was the games and how we got to meet new people. I also enjoyed the loud noises where we got to scream as loud as possible.

I want to become an librarian and join more leadership groups because I want people to know myself as a good role model and I also want the badges so I look presentable. Maybe next time for GRIP, we shouldn't have questions at the end because everyone looked bored and only the people who have questions should go up and ask.

Do you want to become a good leader and role model?

Community PBL

For term 3, after every lunch time, we have to go into groups of 4 people for the rest of the term. We eat our lunch while the teachers come around the class and tell us what the question is. One of the questions were "If you were in the Olympics, what sport would you do?" I said gymnastics because I love gymnastics and it looks really fun to do. I think that the new lunch change is okay because you don't have a chance of talking to your friends but you also have a chance of making new friends.

What do you think about the new lunch changes?

Think Make Solve

Today after the maths assessment, we got to do think make solve. Think make solve is when you have packets of Lego and try to put it together to make something really cool and exciting. I was put in a group of four with Amber, Jorja and Petra. We made a firetruck/Jeep and it had a flag with lights, horns, a seat and lots of other cool stuff. I used the skills of problem solving to show my imagination and creativity. Those skills are important to have so you can have a good childhood. Making it was really fun and I would love to do another one.

Have you ever made something really cool out of Lego?

New Changes

Kaupeka has some new changes for Term 3. We are now having bread with butter, peanut butter, Marmite, Vegemite or just bread at 9:30. I normally have Vegemite and it's really nice. We have morning tea and lunch different now. When the bell rings, we go out and play and when the bell rings again, then we go back inside to eat for 15 minutes. The new change is really different and better because we get to have more play time instead of getting changed, eating then playing.

What do you think of the new changes?