Police visit

On the 16 of November we had two police officers come in and talk to all of TK house. They talked about what there jobs are in the police force and the jobs of others. The main four jobs they talked about were. 

- Criminal Investigation Branch ( CIB )

                                               - Scene of Crime Officer ( SOCO )

                                               - Environmental Science & Research ( ESR )

                                               - Electronic Crime Lab ( ECL )

They talked a lot about ESR and how there job is to help understand things like :

• DNA - Where they are finding samples of the root of hair, blood, clothes, saliva- sneezing, drink food, bite, even cigarette butts.
• FIREARM- They work out the trajectory, work out the direction of the bullet where is came from and finding out where the gun came from - which Country or  store.
• PHYSICAL IMPRESSIONS - Foot wear impressions, tool marks, fibers / paint, glass a and tire tracks.
• BLOOD PATTERNS- Where the offender attacked, the distance between them and the victim, what weapon was used.
• LUMINOL - Helps to see where the blood is even if the criminal tries to clean it up.
• DRUGS / ALCOHOL- Blood alcohol levels, determining it is a drug, toxicology - victims or offenders.

After that we went through a Police Crime Scenario where there was a mystery. Up on the projector it would show pictures and videos, we would then have to write down things that we thought could be clues. At the end we had to figure out who it was and if we could arrest them or not.

Here are some photos:

Scary movie - haunted drama room

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For drama tech we had two lessons a week one doing drama and one in our class 

making a movie. My group did a scary movie about a haunted drama room. In my group 

there was Sahmara, Rebecca and Eva. 

Sadly our movie got deleted (the I-pad self-destructed) so here is our trailer. 

Enjoy 😄

School athletics

Last week HNI had their school athletics where each House is to wear their colours-  Blue, yellow, red, or white/black.  We all competed in Nerf throwing, 100m sprints, discus, long jump, shot put and some people did high jump.  For each thing you did you could earn a point for your house depending what you placing was, and the house with the most points wins athletics.

After we had the individual sports we had the top runners run 100m, 200m and 400m. Once we found out who won we went into relays where everyone ran 100m.  Four people ran then there was a big relay with 32 people running, 16 boys and 16 girls. Like the first relay they ran 100m. Not sure who won yet but it will be close

Persuasive writing - You should add exercise into your weekly routine

In class we had to write a persuasive speech, it had to have something to do about about healthy body strong minds. So I choose " you should add exercise into your weekly routine."

Do you want to work, sleep, think and live better? You should add exercises into your weekly routine. Just by doing a little bit a day is helping you help yourself.  

Doing exercise regularly is very important because if you don’t do enough your muscles will become flabby and weak And your joints will be stiff and become easier to injure. Not doing any exercise is as much a health risk as smoking.

Humans are meant to move, by doing exercise it will keep your body fit and healthy. It also reduces the risk of you getting diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. There are many ways to reduce the chance of you getting any of those. All you have to do is around  30 minutes to 1 hour of exercise a day. Now some of you may think that that seems like a lot but it’s not. You are doing exercises everyday just by walking or biking instead of going in the car. lots of people do sports which normally takes around 30minutes to an hour for practice or a game. So just by playing the sport that you like fills in that time where you should be doing exercise.

Doing exercise keeps you healthy and fit but it can improve your appearance and delay the aging process. Most adults may not like the idea of it but everyone ages. And the perfect body website says that there is one natural way to delay the aging process. Exercise they think that if you already do exercises you would have already sampled that slow-down in aging process. And if you have not yet started now is as good as time as any.

Now most of you will know it and it’s true exercise does help your weight. Health24 mentioned that you should do exercises energetically for at least 30 minutes a day.And if you start to work out make sure you do it consistently and keep to your plan. you can’t decide to do it one week then leave it for a month and start again keep doing exercises regularly.

If you really focus and take the time to try anyone can do exercise. wouldn't you rather reduce the risks of getting cancer, high blood pressure and other horrible disease then just be lazy and inactive.  like I say doing exercise is helping you help yourself.

Websites used:

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/

http://www.kidshealth.org

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

http://www.perfect-body-toning.com/

cross country

On the 14th of August Havelock North had our school cross country. We ran in four groups the year 7s got split into boys and girls and the same happened with year 8s. The year 7 girls ran first and once the first around 20 girls came past the finish line the boys started. And the same with the year 8s but the boys went first.

To practice for the cross country we had to take our pulse before we started the run and after then we wrote down are time and the distance. We kept track of it on a table this is my one.

Date:	Rest: bpm	Pre-run: bpm	Post-run: bpm	Distance:	Time:
20 / 7	68	48	80	900m	Didn’t get timed
21 / 7	68	60	80	1.92km	13:00
22 / 7	76	68	110	2.4km	15:53
23 / 7	60	didn’t run	_________	__________	_________
24 / 7	76	Didn’t take it	98	2.4km	15.04
3 / 8	not sure	88	120	2.4km	17.34
4 / 8	76
5 / 8	80
10 / 8 /2015			28x3

In the cross country I cam 22 out of the year 8 girls which I am happy with that because there was around 100 of us.

Here are some photos from cross country:

Hiroshima writing

Here is a article that I wrote about the bombing in Hiroshima.

The disaster in hiroshima

August the 6th, 1945 bomb dropped on Hiroshima city of Japan. Known by the name “little boy”.

This bomb was dropped by an American B-29 superfortress known as Enola Gay. When the bomb was dropped it exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet.

The casualties from the bombing are in the tens of thousands.

Many of the deaths are from the giant heat wave that hit the city after the bomb dropped which caused peoples skin to fall off or for their clothes patterns to melt into their skin. Injuries of serious burns, cuts from glass and trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings also killed some. And from a week after the bomb dropped people started to die from a mysterious illness which we now know as radiation sickness.

The destruction of the bomb affected the people greatly but as you would suspect it also demolished the city no building left completely. Houses, schools, shops and workplaces all destroyed and now in big piles of nothing.

The bomb was 3m in length and 71cm in diameter and had the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. The purpose of this bombing was to make Japan surrender to United states to end the war. So Japan decided that after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to surrender. It was announced by imperial Japan on the 15th August and was formally signed on the 5th September.  

Term 2 Inquiry "movers and Shakers'- this is our Abacus presentation.

Last term’s inquiry topic was “Movers and shakers.” For our projects we were put into four  groups. Two of the groups were all girls and the other two were all boys. In our group was Eva, Rebecca, Destiny, Chloe, Lily, Cassia and Sophie. We were told to recreate an invention that had a significant impact on society.

We decided to create a giant abacus because the abacus was one of the first forms of calculators ever invented. To make this we used ten thin wooden poles, four blocks of wood and one hundred foam balls. Once we had the resources we had to paint the foam balls in four different colours. We chose red, black, green and yellow. We then had to make the frame for the abacus by drilling ten holes in one of the wooden blocks for the side of the frame. After that we then put the thin wooden poles which have the the foam balls on them into the holes. Then we finished putting the rest of the frame together by nailing the rest of the wooden blocks  around it.

Along with our invention we had to make a video. This is our video that we made for our giant abacus.

NYLD 2015 Conference

On Wednesday last week all of the house captains and class councilors of HNI went to Palmerston North for the national young leaders day.

There were 7 speakers there William Pike, Cam Calkoen, Marcus Winter, Zane ( Can't remember his last name ) , Colson Verdonk, Phoenix Pule'anga and Jamie McDell.\
here is a bit about each speaker.

William Pike came and spoke to us about his trip up Mount Ruapheu. Him and his friend went up mount Ruapheu to climb to the summit which is 2797m. Before they could get to the summit they had to spend a night in a small room away from the summit. The room was very small and cold but that was all they had. So they UN packed their things and went to sleep. But William couldn't get to sleep because his friend snored. Then he could here a rumble so he looked out side and the volcano was erupting wind was flying into the room and rocks were flying in. Rocks came in and landed on top of his right leg. His friend then got up and tried to help move the rocks of Williams leg but they couldn't get all of the rocks so his friend had to run down the mountain and try to get help. He did but William wasn't sure they would get to him in time but in times like this he said to remember "Don't let your worries and thoughts get in your way."
In the end they did save him but they couldn't save his right leg so they had to amputate his leg so now he has a metal leg.
A quote from William Pike: "Need to think passion no limits."

The next speaker was Cam Calkoen. Cam has cerebral palsy and he was telling us about his life how when  he was young the doctors told him that speaking and walking would be his biggest challenges. But even though he knew that they were going to be a challenge he kept persisting with it. He joined a  gym now he is in the Paralympics and a speaker that has spoken in a lot of different places.

Cam Calkoen had lots of inspirational quotes here are some: "All you can ever be is the best you, you can be."    " Difference is a good thing" "Inspiration is in everyone of us everyday.





The third speaker was Marcus Winter. As a kid Marcus Winter was a slow writer but like Cam he used his weakness to help him. He is now the fastest sand artist in New Zealand. For his speech he painted a picture he started by painting mountains and he said "make your mountains " meaning set your goals. Then he just started to paint a waterfall off the mountains down into a lake when he did that he said "find your flow" as in try completing your goal find a way to make it easy then he painted rocks and grass ( that's just for the picture.) Next he drew two trees and he said "you need to grow your support."
Through out his speech he also said some quotes that I noted down my favorite quote (which would be my favorite of them all ) "You hold the paint brush so you decide what you paint."

Here is a link to watch his video of him doing sand art Click here


Next was Zane ( can't remember his last name)  I don't have much to say about this guy but you should find someone who went to the young leaders conference and ask them because they will have a lot to say about them. But one thing that I can remember is that  he said "to always be honest".

Colson Verdonk was the 5th speaker I don't remember much about his life story but I know that is a boy at Palmerston North Boys High school. And I also remember three things he said                    
      1. " You don't have to be exceptional to do exceptional things."
                 
      2. "Success means inspiring, helping, caring."
                                         
      3. "Each and everyone of you aren't future leaders you are leaders now."



6th speaker was Phoenix Pule'anga he is a dancer in a dance group called the Krash dance crew. His and his brothers child life wasn't so good and but his brothers were part of a dance group. And Phoenix wanted to be part of it as well. Eventually his brother let him and they are now a very good dance group that has been to lots of competitions. And now he is going to be in a movie called "born to dance"
One more thing that I do remember is that he said "making the most of every opportunity you get."



And the finale speaker was Jamie McDell when she was a kid she didn't know what she wanted to do when she grew up when lots of her friends did. But everyday after school she would come home and write in her music book,she wrote about her day so it was like her diary but it was her music book.
Her parents heard her singing in her room every night. So they decided to sit her down and ask her if she wanted a carer in music and she said yes. So she got in touch with a New Zealand music company and they liked her songs and thought she could have a carer in music. So now you should all know Jamie McDell is now a famous singer song writer. She said "You don't have to know what you want to do yet, take your time & any opportunity that comes to you."


Now that was a bit about every speaker that was at the Palmerston North young leaders conference I would just like to say that it was a great opportunity and that I heard a lot of inspirational quotes that help me be a better leader.