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Information features – Why kids shouldn’t drop out of school

Writing informational texts 

Instructions: 

Select a topic of your choice – Mr Beast, Carey Park Christian Camp, Pt England School etc –    See your teacher if you need help with this.

Research your topic

Write a one page informational text about your topic making sure you use informational text features: Title, Heading/subheadings, Bullets and bold print, Captioned photographs,  Maps, Diagrams, Charts, Graphs

Why children shouldn’t drop out of school

Why do kids need to stay in school

  • We only live once 

 I’ve heard one saying a lot and that saying was that we live once, but that isn’t true. We live everyday and instead we die once. So it’s better if we live to the fullest in our lives, that way it would be memorable for us growing up. I think that if some kids were to trouble themselves it would make their lives worse growing up. Education and learning can help other kids like me be successful and be something great.

There are doctors,nurses,firefighters,police officers and so many other great people that started where we are. They didn’t just grow up really rich or have no education and get a job, they actually worked hard and kept climbing to the point where they achieved what they wanted. 

  • What’s the point of school?

 

 Children need education, it’ll help a lot as students start to grow older. It’ll also help them learn new things and be able to obtain knowledge about different cultures and other communities . School teaches kids how to communicate with others and be able to make new friends

  • Why do specific subjects matter? 

There are lots of subjects in school and college. But the one most people would normally get would be maths,reading and writing. Maths involves understanding numbers, shapes, and equations that are difficult to solve. Reading, there are difficult words students sometimes don’t understand,this is why teachers and school help students learn the meaning of them while at it. The last subject is writing, writing helps improve students’ spelling, punctuation, descriptive language and so much more. 

This is why education helps students understand subjects and collect knowledge that is useful to us. If school didn’t exist all these amazing things in life wouldn’t be here, thanks to teachers,principals and builders and so many other people for what we have today. All jobs have a purpose to do something exciting,dangerous or just adventurous. They all have a purpose for things we need.  

Writing

Gaming has become a popular hobby for people of all ages. While some people may think that gaming is a waste of time, there are actually many benefits to playing video games. In this essay, we will discuss some of the ways that gaming can be beneficial.

First of all, gaming can help you improve your problem-solving skills. When you’re playing a game, you often have to figure out how to get past certain obstacles or challenges. This can help you learn how to think creatively and come up with solutions to problems in your everyday life.

Gaming is also a great way to make new friends. You can play online with people from all over the world and connect with them over a shared interest. You might even meet some of your best friends through gaming!

Another benefit of gaming is that it can improve your hand-eye coordination. When you’re playing a game, you have to use your hands to control the character on the screen. This can help you develop better hand-eye coordination, which can be useful for other activities, like playing sports or playing an instrument.

Gaming can also help you develop better focus and attention skills. When you’re playing a game, you have to pay attention to what’s happening on the screen and react quickly to different situations. This can help you improve your focus and attention in other areas of your life, like school or work.

Lastly, gaming can be a great stress reliever. When you’re playing a game, you can forget about your worries and just have fun. This can help you relax and feel better when you’re feeling stressed or anxious.

In conclusion, gaming is not just fun, it has many benefits too! It can help you improve your problem-solving skills, make new friends, develop better hand-eye coordination, focus and attention skills, and it can be a great stress reliever. So, the next time someone tells you that playing games is a waste of time, you can tell them all about the awesome benefits of gaming!

My Goal for Term 2 is…..

My goal for term 2 is speaking up, the reason for this is because I am nervous when I am talking in-front of a crowd. I think I’m scared that people would judge me for how I say things or correct me for my wording which is why I’m scared of doing things like this. I hope to accomplish this goal by stepping up for things but I think I’ll take this nice and slow since it might take me a while to build up confidence to speak up.

 

Another goal that I think I should focus on is responsibility by charging my Chromebook and waking up early for school. I hope to finish all my work in time so I don’t have a pile of work to finish in the weekend that I have to worry about.  I think I can accomplish this by focusing and working hard through the year!

Fiafia -Writing

Today we have a full day of FiaFia rehearsal and practices, we are getting ready for our Fiafia performance and that’s happening tomorrow after school! Today we have intense practise because we only get to do things like this every two years. This unfortunately will be my last one, so I will make it worth the practises and hope to do my best. We have eighteen group in total to perform on stage for tomorrows event, I am thirteenth out of eighteen to perform on stage, the group I’m in is called the Tongan girls, I don’t think I was ever in a different group other then this group. Today’s schedule is just all about FiaFia and each group showing their talent to the rest of the school.

 

I’ve been doing this for four years and I’m still nervous to the stomach to this day, as nerve-wrecking as it is, I try and dance,smile and practise everyday for things like this. It doesn’t happen every year but I try and make the time I have at school left worth it. FiaFia is something my school does every two years, It’s been going for as long as I can remember. Fiafia is an event that each group in my school take part in to show their talent on the stage before the school holiday. I find it important to participate and enjoy the time we have on stage and with our friends, especially if it’s out last one.

 

Task Description:

Today for this task, I had to write about Fiafia itself, and today we have a very busy schedule which is all about Fiafia. Fiafia will be tomorrow and it is also the last day of school. I’m nervous but excited for tomorrow’s performance, I hope I do my best at practise today and tomorrow, I hope you enjoy reading!

A Spell to far

A spell too far

I never thought I would ever see this in my life, a broom flying mid-air in the sky. That’s totally not strange, I walk past and then I see a green woman, am I dreaming? I walk and walk and see more strange things, a shop that’s a mall, a bird that’s a radio. Could it get any weirder than this? I sat on a bench and then it started moving like a train, it had rails and it moved fast. I held on to the back of the bench as my heart raced not knowing it could do this, then it stopped at a train like station and I got off. I don’t know where to go, I don’t know what to do, this has to be a dream.

 I’m too nervous to go up to someone and ask, do they even know I’m here? I slowly walked up to a robot like a human and asked “Do you know where I am?”  They had turned around and politely said, “You’re in the city?” With a confused look they had left. Now that I know I was in the city I tried to find a way out or at least someone who looks normal. Walking down the street I fell down a hole, “Ahhhh!” I screamed, It felt like a never ending fall, butterflies just flying all around my stomach as I feel like I’m going to puke soon.

 I land on dirt, well that hurt, I get up and it looks like I’m the Alice in wonderland, this feels like the matrix. Repetitive, the clock is ticking, all I can hear is ticking from the left to the right. It’s making me crazy, all I hear is ticking everywhere, I walk around until I find this tower. As I walk in rows of stairs that appear in front of me, this’ll take forever, I walk and walk, day and night. How did they make this tower? I’m still walking to this day and I’m starving and probably have dehydration. I never thought the walk would be this long, no one knows I’m here, I walk towards one of the windows, and jump out falling from the skies I feel free. I felt happy then I hit the ground, waking up from what had happened. I’m in the clouds, I feel warm and comforted. Where am I? I look up, I see the gates, I see a light, Am I in heaven? 

 

Task Description:

Today for writing, we had to do F.I.O.P and this was a story I had to finish off, I do hope you enjoy reading this!

Land Wars – Summary

The New Zealand Land wars happened between 1845 and 1872. The battles happened at different times in different places, while the wars were all separate. They all started because of the same problem, the biggest problem was that they were selling lots of lands, forcing Maori to move from their homes. Pakeha was making deals with the Maori to buy land, they might trade land for guns or other items, Governor Grey was the pakeha man in charge at the time. Kind of like the prime minister, he ordered the British troops to rule Wellington.

North Island Māori saw how much land was being sold and wanted to stop or slow down the land sales. The Governor ordered troops to attack. There was a series of battles, some won by Wiremu and some won by the British troops. However, the British troops were forcing Māori to retreat and leave their land. In 1861 a truce was signed between the two sides. This meant that they agreed to stop the fighting.

The Landlady – Letter from Billy

Task Description: Today for literacy I did a letter being Billy from a story called “The landlady”. I Had to act like Billy and write a letter to his friend. I chose a nice name Christopher Montgomery to be Billy’s friend. We’re learning about suspense and tension. We are also learning about foreshadowing, foreshadowing is when you add hints or clues to a story and then later on in the story something exciting, dangerous or scary will happen that will surprise the audiences. Here’s the letter: 

Dear Christopher Montgomery, as I am writing this letter to you, I am currently in Bath city in a hotel called “Bell and Dragon”. I feel quite nauseous and I am feeling like a headache will come. Something tasted off about the tea I had recently, But I drank my tea as a polite gesture of kindness to the lady who gave it to me. I feel really sick and ill at this time, I don’t know if I’ll be able to attend work tomorrow. I think this situation is a misunderstanding, maybe she has expired milk, since she can’t even remember the years her other guests had come over. Perhaps I shouldn’t assume the worst of this situation since it’s tea. 

The lady that had let me in had also talked about how she had stuffed her deceased pets inside a recreation of other animals. I found that a bit weird considering the fact she couldn’t smell it either, I felt surprised when she said it with such a normal reaction. I’m sure she’s gone crazy already. 

The lady was looking at me like I was a new human or something. I asked her politely “Do you know where Christopher Mulholland & Gregory Temple are?” I asked in fear, shaking. “Yes dear, they’re both on the third floor but trust me don’t go in there” She laughed mysteriously. I was so scared that I went up the stairs into my room and thought about whether I should go on the third floor or not. It was late night 12:00 pm, I went slowly out of my room to go to the third floor. As soon as I knew the old landlady was standing there looking like a demon screaming to some people. I was really afraid that she might take me next to the third floor and kill me! 

She had also complimented me on how tall I was and my age. I didn’t find that weird or anything since I’ve seen a lot of elderly women like her say this kind of thing. But then it got weirder when she then started to talk about how she didn’t see a blemish on Mr Temple’s body, I was taken back by this. “What?” I questioned, how could she say that, unless she has seen his whole body. I was now anxious about this place, what if Mr Temple and Mr Mulholland were the same people? What if they never left? What if they were the same person and this lady was the one that kidnapped them. 

She looked at me like a vulture in the sky circling their prey, she stared at me ever since my arrival. I also feel uncomfortable with this, though this is the cheapest place to stay, she had even stared at me while I was drinking my tea. It was the caring look either, it was very disturbing to me which scared me as well. I think I’ve fallen into her trap, I think I now realise that she put something in the tea I was drinking. If I do not send another letter within five days. Please investigate this place, I have a feeling I might go missing like Christopher Mulholland & Gregory Temple. 

Kind Regards, Billy

Cast out

Cast out

Walking out from a scene in the dark of night, from an abandoned warehouse with limbs torn to pieces with thick red liquid splattered all over the place. A white mask and black clothes, not much information to who’s doing this. They’d always leave a purple hyacinth on the bodies that lay dead in the dark of night. It’s now a foggy morning as the police station is as busy as ever figuring out who is on the run of murders. 

(Fun fact: The hyacinth that the killer leaves on the dead bodies they had killed, symbolises forgiveness, saying sorry for killing them) =)

“Found anything yet?” questioned Aayan, “No,” replied Nivera. “You’ve been in here all night, how are you not tired,” Aayan asked. “Purple hyacinth is still on the run, how could I possibly be resting now?” Nivera replied. “I just think that it would be best if you rest since me and Blythe are on night shift today. “Fine,” Nivera got up from her station and headed out to the cafe that was nearby. 

As she went to sit down a stranger had sat down with her, she sat in silence for a bit. The stranger had rattled on about how beautiful she was, her hair was as red as the roses in gardens, her eyes were as fiery as the sun that shone above all. She had got annoyed and had gotten up from her seat to leave, the stranger had then grabbed Nivera’s hand by force, “hey, we were just starting to have fun, why are you leaving?” He asks, she then grabbed his other hand and twisted it until he had let her wrist go. He let go of her and she walked out, she had seen her friend, and their hair was as blue as the sky and their eyes were as gold as treasure.

 “What happened?” Blythe had said. “Nothing,” Nivera had replied. (A few days later) “I’ve got it.” Nivera said, “The purple hyacinth is a meaning of forgiveness, but why?” Nivera questioned herself. “I just don’t understand, why would the murder do this,” Nivera said. 

It is now the dead of night and another murder has been done, the investigators search the house as to where the crime had been. “Another body on the ground, guess what evidence we found of it.” One investigator said. “A purple hyacinth,” they said. “There! The murder is jumping from one another on the roof!” A stranger had said. 

Nivera, her friends and the rest of her group ran as quickly as they could to get to the murderer. Then the squad had come between two paths, Nivera knew that they would lose the person who was on the run. She had climbed up one of the buildings close by and kept running, while the other officers had splitted up between the two paths. Running as fast as she could, the murder was just too fast for her to catch. 

Then the person had jumped down from the roofs of houses and went down into an abandoned alley, Nivera followed as close as she could before they had been at a dead end, “I’ve got you now, you can’t run now,” Nivera says, while panting. In silence the two had circled each other, then fists fought one another, blood splattered on the ground. Until their eyes met and the figure fell over, surprised Nivera, came up close and pointed her gun directly at the figure’s head. “Take the hood off now,” She says. As the figure took off the hood, a male who had golden eyes, with the dark blue night sky for hair. “Join me,” He says. “What?” Nivera replied. “You heard what I said.” He replied. “What’s your name? 

“Why should I tell you? You just tried to kill me.” Nivera said while still pointing the gun to his head. “You know what, you’re not worth my time,” As Nivera was about to arrest him he went bouncing on to the roof. “We could have been friends, oh well” He says. “We both want revenge on the same group, so if you’re interested meet me here, at midnight tomorrow.” As he threw the card down, he left and so did Nivera. “Oh you came,” The murder said, “My name is Kieran,” “well my name is Nivera” Said Nivera. “Well we both want to destroy the black fox. We both want revenge for what they did. I don’t know why but my eye just caught yours, so don’t take this personally.” Replied Kieran, “Well, we’ve got to make a few rules if we both are in on this.” Said Nivera. “And that is?” Kieran Questioned. “No personal questions and No looking in on each other’s information.” Said Nivera. “That’s alright with me,” replied Kirean. “Ok then it’s settled.”

Dead Line

Dead Line

As soon as my mother left the phone rang, I didn’t find it odd or anything but I guess the timing was strange. I got up off the couch to answer the phone but to my surprise the caller cut off. Now that was something strange, a few minutes later I heard a soft voice in the distance “Hey,” repetitively, I peeked out from the curtains just to find empty street lights. I feel my heart racing, I lock all the doors and turn off the lights as I head to my room.

Closing my door and getting ready for bed I hear knocking on the door, could this get any worse than now? “Kate! Let me in, it’s cold out here” I heard my mum say. As I got up from my bed to open the door, I heard a ringing sound from my phone. As I grabbed the phone to answer it my heart dropped to find that “Mum” was the title of the person who was calling me. How? Isn’t she outside? I answer the phone and speak quietly, “hey hun I’ll be home soon because they cancelled work today.”

“Mum don’t come home,” I whisper to her through the phone. “Why?” she asked, “someone at the door and says there you” I replied. She had gone quiet for a few minutes and then the power cut out. I stayed on my phone but I had no wifi or data, lucky I had charged it not long ago but it was only fifty percent. I better not waste any of this, I used my phone as a light through the night, staying up all night scared and alone in my bed. I wait, longing for my mother to arrive yet still no sign.

It’s now the next day, and no sleep, tired and in bed. Mum still isn’t home yet but the weird person is now gone, I’m now worried that mum hasn’t made it home yet. I look back outside and everything seems fine, I see cars going past, people walking down the street and kids playing with each other. I got changed and went outside, walking down the street observing each house I went past. Still no sign of mum, I feel tired but it seems normal. I see a white hat on the road. I picked it up looking left and right but then I ended up in the middle of a railway track and my life was flashing before my eyes. I woke up in bed, hearing someone humming in the kitchen, getting up and walking as quietly as I could. I saw my mum, how? Was this all a dream? Or was this a prediction for a day that could come? Was it today?

 

Task Description:

For today’s task we had to do a free choice activity for writing, the activity I chose was called finish it, I had to chose one of the story prompts and finish it with my own style of writing. I decided to go with a horror type because I guess that was the feeling I was getting with the prompt. The prompt was ” As soon as my mother left the phone rang” I hope you enjoy this story!