This term is P.E we have been learning how to play touch rugby.

Touch rugby is played with 6 players on each teamon the field at one time.

A touch rugby field is 70meters long and 50meters in length

The equiqment needed for touch rugby is a rugby ball.

5 rules in touch rugby.

1. Passing: People with the ball may pass, knock, throw to people behind them, you CANNOT pass to people in front.
2. Scoring: Players cann place the ball over the line or on the line to score. They have to be holding the ball when scoring.
3. Touch: Players can touch the person with the ball, a legal touch is touching on the body.
4. Touches: After 6 touchs, the team with the ball must pass over to the other team.
5. Dummy: Dummy can not be touched nor be score a goal.

One thing I improve at was passing the ball making my passes more straight and clearer.

One thing I enjoyed was getting to play the “actual” games.

I could keep working on my ability to look at open spots when having the ball. 

I always brought my PE gear to school.

I enjoyed playing on the same team no one really because I don’t have an personal opinion and was just fine with everyone.

Out of 10, I would give myself a 8 for effort because I always feel like there was more I could of done.

We have to do an research assessment, I think im going to do mine on Anti-war movments. I haven’t decided on what one do to do it on yet.

That’s all for this blog, goodbye.

In this little essay I will be writing about the two best things I did in the holiday, which wasn’t alot but it was enough for me.

My hoildays weren’t anything special, like most, I didn’t really do anything and the only times I went outside was to get food, other than that I stayed inside and slept until 2pm on most days and then stayed up playing games on my ps4 and whatnot then finally going to bed at 5am at best.

That is the end of my essay, I wrote this essay to explain what I did in about staying up late and only going outside for food.

How has your term been?

Not good, I’m not enjoying this, I’m going a little more crazy everyday having to be here.

What can you do next term to make things more successful?

By not coming. (I don’t have a choice.)

 

For P.E I have to write a blog about my experience doing Athletics, on the actual day it was raining so this is just what Athletics training.

The sports that I participated in where –

• Long jump
• High jump
• Sprints
• Discus

I felt good when I got a decent score in shotput.

Something that surprised me was how high I managed to jump in long jump.

My friend Adriana did well in Dicsus.

One thing that I could have done is actually trying in Discus.

The highlight of my day was not actually getting to do athletics.

My goal for athetics is getting a higher score in Dicus.

Next year I hope to get an even higher score in long jump and maybe actually manage to do tripe jump.

That’s all I have for this blog today, I hope you learning about my for Althletics, personally I wasn’t a big fan of it but I still did it.

In Science we having been learning about Natural Selection, yesterday we did an activity for natural selection, we worked in groups and had 2 plates one had our “beaks” which was spoons, popsicle sticks and scissors. The other plate had the “food” we had to get with our selected beak, the food were things like rice, beads, flour, etc. We had 10 seconds to get the most food out of everyone in our group, though all the times the person with the spoon always go the most.

The first food source we had was rice. The best beak for a bird to have would be one that is shaped like a spoon . This is because a beak shaped like that would make the bird better at picking up the food and eating it. Being better at eating the food means that the bird is better suited to the environment . which means they are more likely to have children and pass on there alleles to the next generation. This is a example of natural selection.

Having a specialised beak shape is an example of behavioural/structural adaptation.

In Social Studies we are learning about Mohandas Karamchand Gandi, a Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and polictical ethicist. He helped India fight for Indepedence againest the British rule. So before we actually get into it we have to learn a little bit about India, so heres a inforgrahpic that I made on India.

That’s all for today, bye.

In Health we have been learning how to do hula hoop challenge, basically there are four hula, two place on either side of eachother but there a not excalty touching eachother there place a little to the side of eachother. Two people will jump in the hoops then jump to right side having one foot out, then jump back in both and then jump into the others hoop, it’s quite hard to explain h0w to do it but it’s quite easy, its even easier if you have people that actually play instead of standing to the side, which is harder to get than you think.

This game will affect your physical wellbeing and your social wellbeing which is good all around, your jumping around and there’s commution involved, so it’s a good and game just to get up and get out there with someone else and the game can go on as along as you want it too which is nice.

 

In Social Studies this semester we are learning about “Freedoom Fighters”. This is about people that fought for there freedom, such people as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and much more. We will be researching and discovering the all the things that they did.

Keywords

• Colonization – To settle to control people and land.
• Independance – Getting your own self governance 
• (British) Empire – A former collective term for the territories under the leadership or control of the British crown.
• Passive Resistance – non-violence action to force change
• Segregation – Separation of people into racial groups or other racial groups in daily life. 
• Integration – Bring everyone together regardless of color. 
• Racism – Believing one race is better than the other. 
• Discrimination – the unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories 
• Passive and Peaceful Protest – nonviolent resistance (NVR), or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence
• Equality – They’re guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education.
• Apartheid – separating, setting apart. The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
• Slums – a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people. Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of a dependent territory.
• Confiscation of Land – About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land. Founded in the mid-1860s, Parihaka was soon attracting dispossessed and disillusioned Māori from around the country.
• Invasion – An act of invading. especially : incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. : the incoming or spread of something usually hurtful.
• Occupation – The use, settlement or possession of solid areas of the earth’s surface
• Reconciliation – The restoration of friendly relations.
• Suffragettes – A woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.Petition – A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause.
• Overstayers –  a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired.
• Deportation – The action of deporting a foreigner from a country

Matahama Gandi 

Name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Born: 2 October 1869

Place of Birth: Porbandar, India

Job: Was a Lawyer before he came a civil rights activist.

Beifith/Faith: Spritual humanism

What did he want for India?: Independence

How did he go about getting it: using non-violence ways. Leading things like the civil disobedience movement and the Salt March.

Rosa Parks

Name: Rosa Parks

Born: 4 Febraury 1913

Place of Birth: Tuskegee, Alabama.

Job: Civil rights activist.

Belief/Faith: Freedom and everyone should be treated the same.

What did she want for America: Equal rights.

How did she go about getting it?: By not giving up her seat to a white man.

Why is she a big part of the freedom fighters?: Because she was a big part of the civil rights m0vement, starting the whole Montgomery bus boycott.

Birmingham

Who was Martin Luther King? 

Martin Luther King was a key leader in the civil rights movement and key figure in the southern christian leadership conference.

Who was Eugene “Bull” Connor?

Eugene “Bull” Connor was a commissioner of public safety in birmingham. A racist.

 Why did the Civil Rights campaigners choose Birmingham? 

The most segregated city in the USA, nicknamed bombingham due to all the unsolved KKK bombings that had 41% of the consumer population.

What were the local aims of the Birmingham Campaign? 

They wanted to desegregate all public facilities.

What were the national aims of the Birmingham Campaign? 

They wanted to force the President to make laws forcing desegregation of public facilities in the South.

What happened in Phase 1? 

Small groups start marching, they are arrested including Luther Martin king Jr.

What did the SCLC do to get the movement going again? 

SCLC leaders suggest using highschool students in marches. 

What happened to the protesters during Phase 2? 

Protesters were injured  when firemen used high pressure hoses and police dogs would bite them. 

What happened in Birmingham as a result of the campaign? 

White and colored  signs removed

Lunch counters open to both races and began hiring black workers

Libraries, schools and public builds were eventually desegregated. 

What did this teach the campaigners?

Showed the community that nonviolent methods worked and paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Name: Martin Luther King Jr.

Born: 15 January 1929.

Place of Birth:Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Death/When?: 4 April 1968, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Job: Civil rights activist, Philosopher.

Belief/faith: peaceful protest for civil rights would lead to sympathetic media coverage and public opinion.

Who inspired him and how?: Mahatma Gandhi’s model of nonviolent resistance.

What did he want for America: For everyone to be equal.

How did he go about getting it?: By doing nonviolent protests, marches, boycotts, etc.

Why is he a freedom fighter?: He played a huge part in the civil rights movement.

Neslon Mandela

Name: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Born: 18 July 1918

Place of Birth:  Mvezo, South Africa

Job/s: Political activist, social activist, peace activist, revolutionary, statesperson.

Belief/Faith: Equality of all people, he was a Christian.

What did he want for South Africa: To get rid of the decades of white surpemacist apartheid rule.

How did he go about getting it?:  He lead negotiaitons with the government to end apartheid

Why is he a big part of the freedom fighters?: because he put in the work to give equality and overall make South Africa a better place.

We did an assessment I got 24 out of 29, wish I did better it is what it is.

Te Whiti-O-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi

Name: Te Whiti-O-Rongomai 

Born: 1830.

Place of Birth: Taranaki 

Job: Maori spiritual leader and founder village of Parihaka.

Belief/Faith: temperance and peace

What did he want for Parihaka?: Sanctuary and peace for Māori; wanted to make Parihaka ‘Israel’, the new kingdom for Māori.

How did he go about getting it?: patience and non-resistance

Why is he a Freedom Fighter?: He proved himself to be a great leader, one of peace and “fought” battles with the crown using only peaceful methods. 

Name: Tohu Kākahi

Born: 22 January 1828.

Place of Birth: New Zealand.

Job: Māori leader, a warrior leader in the anti government Hau Hau Movement 1864-66 and later a prophet at Parihaka.

Belief/Faith: Peace and love for all.

What did he want for Parihaka?: A safe place that Maori could live.

How did he go about getting it?: Like Te Whiti, peace and temperance.

Why is he a Freedom Fighter?: His display alongside Te Whiti– though they weren’t so buddy-buddy– was a impressive display of peaceful resistance. 

Kate Shepard

Name: Kate Shepard 

Born: 10 March 1847

Place of Birth:Liverpool, England

Job: Political leader for social reform from 1887 to 1902.

Belief/Faith: Women should take part in society and politics, rather than stay in the home.

What did she want for New Zealand?:  For woman to have rights, such as voting.

How did she go about getting it?:Organised petitions to Parliament asking for women to have the right to vote.

Why is she a Freedom Fighter?: Because the work that she did and the amazing things that she did so woman could do the most basic of things. 

Polynesian Panthers

Name: Polynesian Panthers.

Location: Ponsonby, then the heart of the Auckland Pacific Island community.

Formed:  16 June 1971, Auckland.

What did they want for New Zealand:  To stop the racism and oppression experienced by Pacific peoples.

How did they go about getting it?: They way they help was by aiding in community betterment through activism and protest.

Why are they classed as Freedom Fighters?: Along with there courageous to help stop the rascim at the time the Polynesian Panther also helped get legal aid, and other social resources, such as ESOL classes and youth community programs.

Kia Ora,

For this Social Studies lesson we have been learning about the polynesian panthers and Dawn Raids.

Here is the link to the work we did today – Polynesian Panthers work