Hank Zipzer Part 3

We are learning to justify our ideas.

BBC Hank Zipzer Season 1, Episode 2

In the episode Hank miraculously seems to play better when he is wearing the 'lucky socks'. Do you believe in the power of a good luck charm?

Why or why not?

Hank Zipzer Part 2

We are learning to justify our ideas.

BBC Hank Zipzer Season 1, Episode 2

Do you think that the yellow and blue house are sorted fairly? Why/ why not?

Hank Zipzer part 1

We are learning to justify our ideas.

BBC Hank Zipzer Season 1, Episode 2

Some people, like Hanks Dad, believe that people should focus on winning sports games and competitions. Others, like Hanks mum, believe that it is important to participate in a range of games and that it is the taking part and the learning that matters the most.

Which character do you agree with - Hanks mum or his dad?

AND

Why do you hold this opinion?

Garage Sale

As part of our fundraising for Year 8 camp, Team 5 have their annual garage sale and this year we had it on Saturday 24th March. What a beautiful day it turned out to be with students turning up at 7.30am to help put their stalls together.

We had a long table filled with deliciously home made cakes, pineapple pies, cup cakes, muffins, cookies and some wonderfully made otai to quench the thirst. A candy floss stand was also a favourite for the kids. Parents got to enjoy some yummy seafood chowder made by Roz while our students were being great sales reps at the cheese toasties and hot dogs dogs.

It was great to see Josephine Bartley and Mrs Tele'a join us along with our Pt England babies.

We could go on and on but take a look at our video below to see more of our fun filled day.

A huge THANK YOU to our Pt England families and the wider community for coming down and supporting our students in their fundraising efforts.

We raised $1700!!! This is absolutely fantastic and will go towards our Year 8 Camp in Thames Valley.


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Charles' Animation

This is my animation about what actually happens when someone litters 

and what happens to the litter. Check out my animation I made

and see what happens (:

Should we stop using plastic bags? By David K

There have been many debate over plastic bags whether we should keep them or stop using them for the sake saving our environment. Grocery stores like countdown are planning to completely stop using plastic bags by the end of this year, and there are going to be encouraging customers to bring their own bag while shopping. I disagree with this because if you shop with your own bag for example a school bag it will look like you are shoplifting

 

However plastic bags harm our environment because they end up in our creeks and it can lead to pollution and death of our sea animals but overall I think we should keep plastic bags but enforce strict laws on littering.

Should we ban the bag?

Today our literacy class attempted our first ever debate using the topic: Should plastic bags be banned?

After reading texts about the topic, we had to gather a range of facts that supported our view regarding the ban. Although almost all of us agreed that a ban would be a good idea in the beginning, some students decided to argue against a ban to support the debate.


The affirmative side (the students who agreed with the ban) brought up lots of environmental issues that are caused due to plastic bags. They also noted that people have been told countless times what to do with plastic bags, but they are still being littered and only used once, so it would be safer to ban them.

The opposition noted that it is cheaper to manufacture plastic bags than it is to create bags out of other materials. They also made the rebuttal that perhaps people should be fined for littering and forced to take accountability for their actions rather than placing a blanket ban on just one environmentally unfriendly item.


We still have a little work to do on using the structure of a debate, but it was a great first attempt with strong arguments being made from both sides.

Kiwisport

Our Kiwisport this term is Ki-O-Rahi! We wanted to teach others a little more about this fantastic game, so we decided to make a video about it:

We hope you learn something new!