Current Events

Walt: read and write about a current event

Title of Story : Nico Porteous and Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
react to their bronze medal wins Date of Article : 22/02/18   

Link to NZ herald (choose a current events story from the NZHerald link -

answer the questions below)

* MAKE A COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT   **  CHOOSE A CURRENT EVENT NEWS STORY  ***   COMPLETE THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES.

Do Now : Term that you don’t understand (choose 4)

Term	Definition
Sentiment	A view or opinion that is held or expressed
Surreal	Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre
Rapt	Completely fascinated or absorbed by what one is seeing or hearing

STUDENT ACTIVITY

Read the story and answer the questions below

Topic / Subject of the Story ;	New Zealand skier’s Nico and Zoi getting bronze medals
Where is this story based ?	(local, regional, national, international ) The story is about two 16 year-old New Zealanders getting bronze medals for skiing. The event is based on the Olympics.
Why is this story in the news?	Eg is it a story of conflict ? Natural disaster ? Interesting or Unusual ? Shocking ? Tragedy ? Controversy ? Humour ? Overcoming ? Victory ? etc    (Give a reason why ) The news is about their victory in the olympics and their big achievements at a young age.
Who are the individuals or groups involved in the story ?	.
Write down 4 facts from the story	Nico Porteous vomited multiple times before his run at skiing. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott & Nico were the youngest medal receivers. Both of these athletes represent New Zealand in the Olympics Nico and Zoi’s scores were around the same digit’s with Nico at 94.8 and Zoi’s at 92
Give two points of views mentioned in the story ?	For Nico’s run he was really shocked at his score and he described his experience as “insane” and “crazy”. Zoi’s coach said that it was an exceptional day for New Zealand and was really rapt with how everything went.

Future Me

In careers we've been learning about ourselves and what our interests, abilities and skills are. After we learnt about ourselves and what we wanted to do for our future, we had to create this 'vision board'. As you can probably see, a vision board shows what your good at, what your ethnic background is, where you see yourself in the future & basically your vision for your future. Can you figure or learn something about me by looking at my vision board?

Winter Learning Journey 2016

A.I.M Talk

This morning; team 5 were given an inspirational speech from a former Pt England student; Raenan who came in with Mr Andrew Patterson. As Raenan was talking to us he was also being interviewed by Andrew Patterson. Most of the questions that Mr Patterson asked him was about school and how he felt when he started college.

One of the most inspirational quotes that Raenan had given was; "Take advantage of the opportunities in front of you". This was something that he learnt from Mr Patterson during the last four years that they've bonded or known each other.

Raenan shared with us his biggest goal that he kept with him since his first year in college. Which was to become the head boy in year thirteen at Tamaki College. In their school prize giving he got the job of being deputy head boy for 2018.

Today's speech has inspired me to do my best in school and to hold on to my life goals. After the speech that we were given today I will make sure to grasp any opportunities that come my way and make the most of them.

Time Word Problems

Walt: use our known strategies to work out time lapse problems



It's week eight and there's only this week and next week left of school! For this weeks task our teacher only gave us four equations and they were about time.

 Here is an example of the questions that we was given to us; Julius walked to Elijah's house at 10 a.m to spend the day with him. It is a 15-minute walk from his house to Elijah's house. As Julius was making his way out he stopped to help a little girl to get her cat out of a tree which took 10-mins. What time did Julius reach Elijah's house?

If you can solve this problem please leave a comment and share your thoughts on what you think the answer might be.

Perspectives and Opinions

Walt: I am able to identify the ideas opinions of author and share my own in comparison 

For the past few weeks in literacy our class have been focusing on the perspectives of authors and writing our own opinions to compare with the authors. If you go through this presentation you will find that I have agreed with all the articles that I read.

Orchestra... music to my ears

As part of our amazing topic for this term; room three have been learning about an Orchestra and all the different instruments in an Orchestra. First we had to get into groups of two or three. In these groups we had to create our own digital learning object using a presentation showing our learning and research about an Orchestra. If you would like to visit partners blogs than click on either of the hyperlinks on the presentation and it will take you there.