2021 REFLECTION !!

 This year has been a crazy but fun year for us. However, we were able to do a lot of fun things and make a lot of memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives, such as year 8 camp, sports, vacations, Fiafia, and much more. Here are two of my favourite moments from this year.

Year 8 Camp:

As it was the last year, year 8 camp was a lot of fun and provided a lot of opportunities to bond with the other year 8s. During camp, I was able to gain a lot more confidence, as well as the ability to function as part of a team. It encouraged me and my friends to step up and out, and we learned a lot about each other as a result. Ax throwing was obviously one of my favourite activities. It was new to me, but I eventually got the hang of it:)

FiaFia:

FiaFia was undoubtedly fantastic. We were able to have our families watch us perform, and each of us students was able to demonstrate a few of the various traditional dances.  Like Tongan, Hip Hop, Fijian, Bollywood and many more.  I had the good fortune to be a member of the Tongan Girls. I was able to witness how others danced and learn a lot of new moves from all of the sessions, which was a lot of fun.

I had many memorable moments during my time at school, but these are the ones that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that Covid-19 disrupted several planned activities, we were able to complete the year with plenty of memories and friends.

Literacy Planet

Over the past few weeks we've been using Literacy planet. Literacy Planet provides a lot of fun things for us to enjoy. Literacy Planet is sort of like Maths whizz, we have to complete a decent amount of task and however much question we get right our prize is Gems and points. 

Gems + Points: Gems and points help us to do more tasks, and get a bit competitive aswell. Our teacher has access to see how many points we have and how well we did on our task. It's really cool because we all want to get first place, and to do that we need to do more task. 

Comprehension: Literacy provides us with heaps of tasks. Comprehensions being one of them. Literacy Planet will give us books for us to read, and 12 questions to answer. It really fun because we usually do is get one of our classmates to do the answers first, and submit answers that way we can see the right answers and get 100%.

Spelling:This site also gives us a decent amount of spelling tests along with a couple of games like Code Phrase, Battle Rocket and more. We each have to hear what word the person is saying and try to spell in correctly. I usually get it correct which is why its fun.

Grammar: Some of task gives us a focus for example Direct Speech, Metaphors, Question/Interrogation and more. It gives us questions like ' which is the only true statement ' & match the first part of each sentence with the second, its really fun.

More Task: These were just a few task Literacy Planet provides us with, theirs also Sight Words, Arcade Game, Phonics and we even get to design our characters which is fun. It also provides us with levels, for year 1's all the way up to year 11. Literacy has helped me with my grammar and more.

Attitude Talk !

 Today Team 5 were lucky enough to have a few people come and talk to us about Puberty. Jannah talked to the girls while Robbie and Charlie talked with all the boys. Jannah talked about how and when our body's develops and why it does. She also gave us a few tips on how we could prevent Bio and smelling weird. This was a very helpful talk as we are growing up and heading into our college years. We also played a few games, wrote questions on a piece of paper, just in case some of us were to shy to ask.  She also provided us a few things that may come in handy.