The Purpose Of The Greyhigh Website

Structure and design of my survey

I have been reflecting on the key points needed for designing my website survey.

This poster shows the key points from Stats NZ website which shows the methodology of a website.
http://archive.stats.govt.nz/methods/survey-design-data-collection/writing-questionnaire/instructions.aspx#gsc.tab=0

Writing good questions for my questionnaire AS91263

-Open and closed questions.
-Make it easy to complete, keep questions short.
-Simple language.
-One idea per questions.

The objective of the survey is to find out the types of people visiting the GreyHigh Website
-Age
-Ethnicity
-Gender
-Income
-Connection to school
-Interest in the school
-NZ

English and P.E week 3

This week in P.E and English we learned about the Maori games Ki O Rahi.
Ki O Rahi is a game where everyone wears ripper rugby tags and there are two teams, one team runs around the outside of the circle and try to touch as many poles as possible without losing their tags.
Once they have touched at least one pole they have to run to the bigger circle and touch the ball on the ground to get points.

When I played learned that you have to be able to communicate with your teammates to be successful,
this also applies to the real world as in the workforce you have to be able to communicate with your co-workers.

Kabaddi and Lacrosse Week 2

This week in our joint P.E and English classes we studied Kabaddi and Lacrosse.
Kabaddi is a contact sport a bit like ball rush and Lacrosse is an American sport where you use nets that are on sticks to catch the ball and throw into goals, it was hard to get used to using the Lacrosse nets I would always pull the net to far back making the ball fall out of the net, also when the ball was rolling on the ground it basically turned into a game of Hockey, so after we got used to using the nets and how to scoop the ball off the ground the game looked more like the real sport.

Kabaddi has easier to adapt to as it involved tackling and stepping people, one player from a team would run to the other teams half and try to tag one of the other players and run back without being tackled, if the person successfully does this than the person that got tagged is now out and the tagger team gets a point.

Palin Reflection Week 1

This week in our joint P.E and English classes we studied Palin.
In our first class we found out how to play the game and where it is from (Chile)
We also went down to the beach to get sticks to play the game with as it is similar to Hockey, we didn't use Hockey sticks because when they played it they used sticks that had a bend at the end.
When we played it I had rolled my ankle so I couldn't play but I still learnt a lot by watch everyone else play.

Mandarin

When we first started mandarin I didn't really want to do it but now that we have done a few lessons its a bit better then I thought it would be.
We also made some comics

Electrical invention

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8YCqYNmFHqgNFJEOE9hNFo4Y3ZfaW9QQ2hQQU84RG1BTGUw/view?usp=sharing

Positive: we didn't have to do the test
Minus: Someone didn't no what they were doing
Interesting: It was interesting how the fuel meter worked when we poured the water into the beaker

Kade,Bailey and Connor

Last week my goals were to learn how to use both hands on the piano and playing chords.
I feel like I can almost play with both hands on the piano so I am really close to my goal.

Music Techniques

Today I need to learn how to play chords on the piano, and play with both hands on the keyboard.

Chords

Today we learnt about chords, chords are made up of two or more notes major chords are happy sounds and minor chords are sad dull ones. Sam and I played our chords on the keyboard.

Music structural charts

Today we learn how to make and read structural charts.
We learnt this because it will help us make music and our own song        s

Harpsichord and Piano difference

On a harpsichord the strings are plunked and on a piano the strings are hit with hammers

Baroque and classical music (Bailey and Sam)

• Baroque music is more upbeat than classical music.
• Classical music is slow which makes it sound depressing.
• Baroque music was originated from 1600 to 1750.
• Classical music was originated from 1730 to 1820.
• They are both a western type of music.

Year 8 Challenges 2016

Tramping at Mikonui Reflection

I arrive at school ready for the tramp I'm so excited to get going we get in the cars and off we go we get to the start of the tramp but the cows were on the track so we had to wait. When we started walking the pack was really heavy and made my shoulders hurt but after a while, I got used to it.

That night at the hunt we did a solo, wich is when we get left in the bush for 20 minutes and all we are allowed to do is sit there and wait, we had a notepad to write and draw on, it was kinda scary but I got through it.

Overall it was an awesome trip and everyone had lots of fun

My Debate journey

We just had our 6th class debate! Debating is really fun, you have to be really good at thinking on the spot.


Debating taught me to Think ‘on-the-spot’ and form counter-arguments/rebuttals during the debate, and also collaborate with my teammates to organise our arguments.
After all I really like debating and I'm looking forward for the next one.

Skiing at Temple Basin [Reflection]

This trip has defiantly been the best trip so far I learnt to never give up, skiing was a great experience and I hope that I will be able to go skiing again.

I was disappointed that I couldn't ski the first day, it was so annoying I really wanted to be able to ski but a couldn't everyone else knew how to stop and turn and I was still learning to stop.
The second day me and a few other people had a late start and had less time skiing but when I got out there I learn to turn and stop I was really proud of myself and I started going up the tow rope and skied down the mountain. Now was one of the hardest part of the trip using the nutcracker so I could go even higher up the mountain, I fell off about five times before I got the Nutcracker on the rope and even then I wasn't very good at using it so I kept trying and after about another six tries I could just fling the Nutcracker over the rope.

W4T3 [Reflection]

This week on Thursday the ICT crew and I went to do a film making course we learnt how to produce a film and edit it there was people from all different schools but I was surprised that there was only 7 people there and 5 of them are from Paroa it was disappointing that there was only 7 people there as it was a really good course.

W3T3 [Reflection]

This week we did speeches, I am really excited and nervous about doing my speech.

I feel like its going to be a really good speech my speech is about believing in yourself My goal is to get to the cotary speechs.