Dear Mrs. Pascoe

I'm sure we were all very sad to hear, that after 12 years of working at our school Jaque Pascoe is stepping down from the position of principle at our school. 

I wrote a short letter to Mrs. P herself :)

Rising Rockets

 For inquiry this term we did the "Wonder Project" which is essentially were we had to design and fly rockets out of plastic bottles. 

Before actually creating anything we had to study physics and Newtons 3 laws, then we had to design a rocket that'd be aerodynamic and fly through the air at a high speed.

I was in a large group with Zoe Cowles, Olivia Ionita, Sophia Turnbull, Pandora, And Zara. 

We had our last flights a few days ago, and ended up coming 3rd. It didn't do very well because we had forgot to even out the weights in our nose cone.

Now we must create a video/skit explaining what we did through our experience and how, and once it's done I'll add it to my blog.

Have you ever designed a rocket with a plastic bottle?

Flying turtles

 Kia ora everyone, 

This year we've been learning coding. We have progressed from Scratch to Python and were challenged to create a psa showing a global  issue.

This was a simple- yet decent- animation, however the app doesn't give you the option to save your project due to some complications in their country, so I tried to create a basic storyboard featuring photos from it. As you can see these were the only proper photos I could get from it.

My psa is about trash and pollution. It isn't amazing because I made it 5 minutes

Here is my code script- it's incredibly basic compared to everyone- but who cares.

Kupu Playing Cards

 Kia ora everyone,

This term we have been learning a range of different maori games and sayings, one of witch is a playing and matching game. We learnt to ask "where are you?" which is "kei hea koe?" in maori. We then learnt a few different things we could answer with and then created a game which we could then play.

In this slide you will find out how to play, and the cards to play with (They must be printed out)

How is Nasa in our homes?

Kia ora everyone!
For inquiry this term we are looking at building rockets, but beforehand, we've had to learn a bit about space.

One thing we've had to investigate is how Nasa is in our homes and cities. I was expecting satellites- or something cool, but I suppose what I discovered will have to do.

Aurora / Polar Lights

Kia ora everyone,

For our matariki studies we decided this week to also looked at the Aurora lights (also known as the northern, or southern lights) and created art on the two mixed. 

For many years, the aurora lights had been confusing scientists, some people thought it must've been because of a certain type of fox, running at the speed of light, and leaving a trail from its tail as it did so. Chinese historians believed that they were dragons, battling in the heavens. In reality though, they are pieces and particles from the sun, that break through the earths atmosphere, and glow in the cold night sky.

Sometimes they are very dim, and sometimes they are crazy bright, and light up the land for miles.

So- how did we incorporate matariki with the subject, and turn it into art-?

Matariki Explanation Animation

Presented By Choi-Boi Stations

Kia ora everyone, I'm back with another blog post!

Animators: Isabella S, Pandora H

Script Writer: Felix C

Voice actors: Felix C as the farmer and Tāwhirimātea, Pandora H as the narrator and side characters, and Isabella S as essentially anything else.

Since Matariki is coming up soon, we were tasked to create a short film or book to explain to the younger students in our school a little bit about what has been said to have happened, and why we celebrate it today. It had to be intriguing for the younger kids, and since heaps of people were doing puppet shows, we decided to animate sock puppets. It's not done yet, but we will update or make a new post when its done.

*I will edit the post soon and add the movie*

Blurb: Tucked away in a small village, a farmer tending to his crops gets a glimse of an extraordinary sight- no one believes him of course, but little did anyone know, there was something a lot more sinister going on behind the scenes- and it was real, very real.