How things have changed coming back to school.

 Today is our first time back at school ever since lock down which is around 3 months.At first I was a bit anxious and paranoid but now that I am back at school I feel more confident about coming back to school.What do i think about coming back to school?I personally like coming back to school because I feel like I am more productive and I complete more school work then I would at home.At school there are new changes put in place to be more hygienic and also to help stop the possibility's of catching covid-19 or the delta virus.Some of the changes are wearing masks , social distancing and finishing school earlier.What are my thoughts about the changes?I sometimes forget about the changes and get annoyed about wearing a mask but I personally like the changes because it has good benefits that would help us students and staff not catch Covid and also to be safe in level 3 stage 2.

Tokelau - Social studies

What do I think should be done to help the people of Tokelau ? 

I think that people should hold work shops for people to get the opportunity to learn how to speak Tokelauan. I also think that people should spreed more awareness about Tokelau being at risk.I believe that if more people would learn how to speak Tokelauan then the language can continue to spread and it won't be at risk.

Social studies

 

Current events

Aim - Understand that people move between places and how this has consequences for the people and the places.

On Sunday August the 1st Jacinda Ardern put a mat over her head asking for forgiveness.She wanted to ask for forgiveness because of what happened in the 1970s where police men would go to random Polynesian houses at dawn and take people who were over stayers.They would go to different houses and ask for proof that the people living in the houses were legal in New Zealand.If they weren't legal the police men would put the "over stayers" and their white van and make them catch the next flight to what country they came from.This is known as the dawn raids and the dawn raid has impacted a lot of the older generation and has left them traumatized and in pain.I think that it was very thoughtful of Jacinda Ardern asking for forgiveness and apologising for what has happened. The police men would know who was a over stayer by looking at there visa.

Jacinda Ardern held a Ifoga (forgiveness ceremony).A Ifoga is where the person asking for forgiveness puts a mat over there head and if they other person forgives them the will remove the mat from there head.

Examine onion cell slide

Today in science we had a practical experiment where we got to look at onion slides.

Equipment

The equipment you will need for this practical are Onion ,forceps ,knife, iodine ,cutting board ,microscope, cover slip ,slide and Dye

Method

1.First we got a cutting board and knife and cut the onion into 1/4.

2. Then each group got 1/4 each and we got the first layer of the onion.

3.Then we used our forceps to peel of a thin layer of the onion cells.

4.Then we put the layer of onion cells onto a slide.

5.Once we put the onion layer of cells onto the slide we put a few drops of iodine and dye onto the slide.

6.Once the iodine and dye was on the slide we put on the cover slip.

7.Then we let the slide sit for 1 minute.

9.Once that was done we put our slide underneath the microscope and took a look at the cells.

Results

                  (Microscope)                                     (Onion layer of cells on slide)

             (Slide on the stage)                      (Cells underneath the microscope)

Parliament

 3 things I learnt about parliament

They are different ways people can become government.

You get to vote who do you want as your government.

Some people used to chose people who where stronger/richer to become government.

1 question I have about parliament.

Why do we have to vote every 3 years?

1 change you would make to our system.

13+ should be able to vote.

Yr 9 Camp

On Monday the 24 of May Year 9 went on camp at Camp Adair. We all woke up packed our bags and went to school before 8:00am. Then we all got onto the bus around 8:30 the bus ride was about 1hr long.Once we got to camp we packed our bags into our cabins and made our beds.Once we did that we had some morning tea and went to our first activity.

 Our first activity was rock climbing , rock climbing was one of my favourite activity.I enjoyed rock climbing because we got to challenge our self and chose a point to get to and I enjoyed it because I went past the point that I challenged myself to get to.

Then we went to our next activity which was chariots.At chariots we would get given some peaces of wood and then we would have to create a chariot where we could pull someone across a little obstacle course.

One of the most challenging activity was the confidence course. The confidence course was challenging because most of the activity that we did at the confidence course contained mud and it was also cold so that is why I found the confidence course the most challenging. One advice I would give for the year 9s going camp next is to bring clothes and shoes that you don't care about for the confidence course.