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I am a year eight student at Ngatea Primary School. I like to play netball, swim and do art. My teachers are Mrs Hull, Miss Boberg, Miss Coles and Miss Williams. Feel free to leave comments. I hope that you enjoy my blog!

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Current Events

Current Events

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/company-release-hoverboard/


A company has released a hover board. If you’ve ever seen Back to the Future 2, then you will remember the flying skateboard which Marty McFly uses to fly through the air. A company in California has created a real life hoverboard.There is no air used to lift the board. The company has used magnetic technology to keep the board off the ground. In the future this technology could be used in earthquakes and floods to lift buildings so they don't get ruined.

My Opinion:

I think that the idea of using it for getting buildings out of the way of earthquakes and floods is a good idea because it will cost the people who own the buildings nothing! But for people I will make us lazy we will stop walking everywhere and human race will be wiped out.

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Tuesday 22 March 2016

Current Events


Current Events

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/dominos-trial-robot-delivery/

Domino's has announced that it is going to be trialling a robot that will deliver pizzas to New Zealand customers. The robot is called DRU. The company has been working with the government to get a permit to use this robot to deliver pizzas to hungry customers. Simon Bridges said that using the robot is an exciting opportunity. New Zealand is one of the first countries to be able to use this DRU for testing this pizza delivery robot. No date has been set for when it will be tested, but I hope it comes soon!

My Wonderings:

Wouldn't someone be able to steal the pizza out of it? How would the pizza stay hot? Would it go on the road? How many pizzas could it hold?


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Hockey Big Day Out 2016!

Yesterday Ngatea Primary School had their Hockey Big Day Out! In my team there was Me, Sophie, Brooke, Alex, Hamish, Logan, Matthew and Osten. My whole team was so excited to play our four games throughout the day. I was in the team Ngatea Lions, we played amazing together we won all of our pool games but then it came down to the final to win all of the games that we have played. We were playing against Ngatea Jaguars, we were all set for our game waiting for the bell... RINGGG🔔 RINGGG🔔 we've started the game. I was in defence with Sophie and Hamish we were defending the goal so that it would either be a draw or we could win by a goal buuuuuuuut Liam just slipped the ball into the goal. The were some really big hits in our game. Liam got another goal but it wasn't counted. I was a rough battle for the win but unfortunately we didn't score a goal. So the win went to the Ngatea Jaguar's instead of the Ngatea Lions.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Tech Project

Every  Thursday at 10.30-12.30 we have tech at HPC for my first four weeks of trial tech I did fabrics with Mrs McCormack. At the start we got a booklet to learn how to thread up the machine and how to sew properly. Then we sewed on a piece of paper with no thread to make sure that we can sew straight lines, my lines were quite straight. Then we did our drivers licence which was the same but with corners, we started to use the sewing machines and took the drivers test for the sewing machines and sewed on a little piece of fabric to practice before we started making our pencil cases. I got my sewing drivers licence. Then we moved on to our designs for our pencil case. We had to chose the colour of the zip and the colour and kind of fabric that we want. For my pencil case I chose a turquoise zip and yellow fabric but we were only allowed to use the cotton fabric because that was the only fabric that was suitable for the sewing machines that we were using. On the last week we sewed on the zip and sewed the two pieces of fabric together, and the zig zag neatened the fabric so it wouldn't fray and cut of the extra threads and then we were finished.

Sunday 13 March 2016

Current Events

Food Delivery Service For Lazy People

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/77734710/food-delivery-service-expanding-first-stop-hamilton


Do you ever crave food that you don't have, but don't want to put your on pants and face the world? If you are from Hamilton here is your answer. There is a business that has just been created which is called Food Courier for the Hamilton citizens. If you want chocolate, sushi, pizza, a burger or a strawberry milk basically anything the Food Courier will get it for you, any food or beverage at you door in ten minutes. You can only get deliveries between midday and midnight.

My opinion:

I think that this is a bad idea because the more people who use it the more lazy that the Hamilton citizens will get, because they can just call someone up and get food instead of walking to the car, driving to the store and walking into the store. It means that they will use their legs a lot less which means they will become LAZY!

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Any food or beverage request is possible, Food Courier says.

Thursday 10 March 2016

Leadership

This year, I have been chosen to be an House Leader, in the Arts team, School Ambassador team and one of The Book Nook monitors. At school we have four different houses Kapui, Orewa, Patiki and Weka I am the house leader of Orewa with Edell, what house leaders do is make the team do chants and cheer on the team. At the start of this year we made up a new chant here it is: What does Orewa do? WIN WIN WIN!! I can't hear you WIN WIN WIN!! Were going to throw you in the... BIN BIN BIN! I am also in the School ambassador team which means that when teachers come from other schools I either meet and greet them or I speak to the and tell them about our school. On Wednesday it was my first time being a School Ambassador and it was great fun I got to meet and greet them ( but none of them came to where we were standing, I got to listen to Mr Fraser, Mrs Hull and Morgan's speech I also got to show the teachers around our school so basically through all of our learning teams. Which was fun! I am also in the arts team but I all I can remember is that Emma is the leader!!

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Current Events

The Worlds Tallest Horse

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/worlds-tallest-horse/


There is a horse that is called Big Jake he is the worlds tallest horse. He is a 11-year-old Belgian gelding. He is 20 hands and 2 and 3/4 inches. He weighs 1.2 tonnes. Everything that Big Jake eats is absolutely huge! Big Jake eat and drinks 1 and a 1/2 hay bales and 40 quarts of oats a day. When he is transported his owners need to use a semi trailer. BIG JAKE IS COLOSSAL! 

My opinions:
He is a very big horse and I think that it would be very hard to ride a horse that is that big, I also think that the paddock that he is in would have to have very tall fences.

My wonderings:
I wonder what breed the horse is and how big it was when it was little.

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School, HP, TV Swimming Sports


This year I managed to participate in School, Hauraki and Thames Valley swimming sports. I entered into all of the events in the school swimming sports, and I had a fantastic day. I got into all of them for Hauraki Plains but I decided to drop the 1 length backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke. I did quite well in Hauraki plains I got first and second in most of my races I was really pleased on how I did. I even did pretty good in my 1 length butterfly. These photos are from Hauraki Plains and the School swimming sports. After the school and Hauraki Plains it is Thames Valley, I got in for 2 lengths backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. I came first in the backstroke and breaststroke and an extremely close second in my freestyle race. I really enjoyed all of the swimming sports that I did and I am very proud of how I did. I am not sure if I have made it into Waikato... but I hope so!!!



Thursday 3 March 2016

Current Events

Messi Sends Signed Shirt to Plastic Bag Shirt Boy

A five-year-old boy got a photo taken wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi  shirt made out of a plastic bag has finally received the real shirt and it was signed by Lionel Messi it also said that he loves him too. The boy says I love Messi and my shirt says Messi loves me. Earlier in February, the Afghan Football Federation told Al Jazeera that the boy would get a chance to meet his football hero but a date and venue had still not been confirmed. Speaking to Al Jazeera in a phone call earlier in February the boy said I love Messi and football. I will meet him one day. I think that this article was amazing, he made an makeshift Lionel Messi shirt and then he got the real one signed by him too I think that Lionel Messi is a great role model for other people.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/messi-sends-afghan-plastic-shirt-boy-a-signed-shirt/

I am curious of how they found where they boy lives and how they sent the shirt to him.

Humble: To cause someone to feel less important or proud.
Province: A principal administrative division of a country or empire.
Prompting: The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.






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Where do you fit and why ?  I think that I fit in level four because I help other people I don’t know for example I a man dropped some of his coins so I picked them up for him I also help mum and dad when needed. I have set myself a goal to become a level five before the end of the year, so that means to pick up rubbish when I see it even sports gear that has been left on the field (because Hitchie does NOT like it when there is sports gear on the field.)