Friday, 19 March 2021

Resilience - 19.03.21

Today in Our year 9 class Ollie Mount and I discussed in a group about resilience and how its good to have our Individual strength.


Here are the questions we discussed 


What are individual strengths?

Individual strengths are specific things an individual person is good at. 

Why is it important that people have different strengths?

It is important that people have different strengths because we need people to have different professions and jobs. 

What are some things to be mindful of when working with people who have different strengths?

That they won't always think the way you do and they won't always have the same opinion. 

How could different strengths be used to our advantage in group work?

You could use everyone's different strengths to create something really cool. 

How can we develop our strengths?

We can develop our strengths mostly by practicing and being resilient. 

How do our strengths help us reach our goals?  

Because you can use your strengths to your abilities and help you reach where you want to.  

Friday, 25 September 2020

PREP: My Logo & Product

Our Logo

 "Lowest prices are just the start”

Christmas Decorations R US

For my PREP product I will be making wooden crosses and pinecone Christmas tree decorations. The crosses will be round around the edges sanded and stained with wood stain. Unfortunately we haven't been able to get in the woodshop yet but we plan to get in the woodshop in a couple weeks.



Friday, 18 September 2020

PREP Reflections


This is a google slide of all my PREP reflections

Friday, 1 November 2019

Polish Refuges Land in New zealand

Polish Refuges Land in New zealand

Over 800 refuges arrived in NZ

733 were children and 102 were adults

1.7 million were sent to labour camps around the world

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Tangiwai disaster

Tangiwai disaster

Destroyed railway bridge at Tangiwai

At 10.21 p.m. on Christmas Eve 1953 the Wellington–Auckland Train flew off the tracks into the Whangaehu River in Tangiwai.

There were 285 passengers on board the train at the time 151 of those 285 passengers died. It is known as one of NZs worst railway accident. 

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/the-tangiwai-railway-disaster

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Death of poet James K. Baxter


On the 22 of October 1972 the most accomplished poet James K. Baxter died .
He died in Auckland at the age of 46 soon after leaving the commune he had founded
in Jerusalem several years before.
Most of his time was spent looking after drug dealers and alcoholics.





https://nzhistory.govt.nz/death-of-poet-james-k-baxter-in-auckland

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity








On the 17th of October 1997 Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast declared the Tiriti o waitangi  (The treaty of waitangi) worthless and a simple nullity. The treaty of waitangi was 'worthless' because it had been signed 'between a civilized  nation and a pack of savages who were not capable of signing a treaty.