Trimester 1 Reflection

 Reflection for Trimester 1 - 2021

Make a Difference

This class was focused on social science and religious education. We looked at social issues and related those to things in Jesus' time. In the last part of the module we started an achievement standard, I did mine on emotional walls. If you want to look at it here it is: Emotional Walls AS

The thing I enjoyed and did well in this class was the research aspect of my achievement standard, it was fun to look for information, compare and build my own opinion on the topic. I think I could have done better at writing and composing the essay itself, I could have put in more effort to make it easier to read. 

Amazing Spaces

This class was focused on technology and art. We designed our own house and build models out of wood. We also made architectural drawing that we painted by taking inspiration from famous artists. I enjoyed making the drawings because it was fun to use angles and to try make it look as close to reality as possible, here's my best attempt, including the painting: 

 I think I could have done better at making the model, I did not put enough effort in making it perfect and made impulse decisions that led to a less-than-perfect completion of the model.

Shake it up with Shakespeare

This class was focused on Drama and English. We studied the Shakespearean play Macbeth first and then were given the task to create a lesson of our own to teach to the rest of the class. I partnered with Beatrice Fawcett on the play 'Much ado about Nothing'. I enjoyed teaching the class and helping them learn about the plot of the play. here is the program we made: Much Ado About Nothing

I think I could have put in more effort while preparing for the lesson because I think Beatrice felt I didn't do enough.

Friday Wellbeing

This class was focused on teaching us about important issues and letting us do administral work needed by mentors. I enjoyed learning about bullying and sharing my own opinion and views with others. I didn't enjoy the work we did with goal setting or blog posts, it was boring and I didn't see a lot of use in it.

Drama - Impact Project

This was an impact project focused on drama. I got the role of 'Gen' or 'Genevieve La Difference' a brainy nerd best friends with the main character 'Bobby'. She's seen as bossy by the others because she's passionate about women's rights and feminists, she is ecstatic when she meets Cleopatra for the same reasons. 'Gen' also plays wingman between 'Boppy' and her love interest 'Lochie' even though she doesn't like him very much.

By Lien Ruelens

Game of Life - 8/04/2021

 Game Of Life

Positive - I learned about a variety of jobs that would suit me in the future, there is a lot of behind the scenes managing and finance. There is alot of jobs i'm interested in but this event helped me discover what I DIDN'T want to do.

Minus - There wasn't a very good amount of people who were involved in tourism, I didn't see any therapists and there wasn't a lot on business management. I wish that there were more people with a variety of jobs than just a very specialised thing, but you can't have anything.

Interesting - It was interesting to see people genuinely passionate about their jobs and sharing it with others. I hope this event is repeated because it was amazing to see all the jobs.

Resilience - Wellbeing Year 9

Resilience

1. Kindness

kindness

/ˈkʌɪn(d)nəs/

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noun

1. the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

   "he thanked them for their kindness and support"

A time I have used kindness is when someone was sitting kind off alone at lunch time, I sat next to then and started a conversation. This person is now a close friend to me, they are an actually amazing friend and we still talk often. I could have just ignored them, but I stopped to make someone else's day just a little better. I always like to check in with all my friends to see how their doing and if they have anything exciting going on.

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2. Love for Learning

Love of learning is a disposition to seek out new experiences and novel opportunities for learning. Love of learning can rescue a person from feelings of boredom and repetition. The most common example of someone that loves learning is a child. For the child, everything is fresh, new, and interesting.

A time I have used my Love for Learning is when every morning no matter what the circumstances I am always at school, ready for learning. I enjoy challenging myself and helping others who are struggling. I display my Love for Learning by making sure to catch up on work, try my best to be on time and asking for help if I need it. Some people may hate school but I'm not one of them, I will always appreciate being able to come here. Thousands of kids my age can only wish to be in my position so I try to be as grateful as possible. 

3. Humor

humour

/ˈhjuːmə/

noun

noun: humor

           the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

1. "his tales are full of humour"

A time I have used humor is whenever one of my friends is down or just a little put off I use humor to try and brighten their mood. Cracking jokes and teasing my friends (in a loving way lol) is one of my favourite things to pass time. The only reward that I need is a smile or giggle at one of my dumb jokes, though I seem to get a lot of eye rolls and response like "That was so bad" to conceal that they know how great the joke was :))).

Amazing Space Planning

This Trimester I was assigned the task of creating an original tiny house. With no prior experience with architecture I was quick to do some research. These past 6 weeks I have been working on a full plan, though I have not yet created a floorplan, I do know exactly how I want it to look. 

First I listed all things I wanted to add into my tiny house and created a mood board. With the help of @SophiaSeaton. 

All Planning & Reflections So Far

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

The teacher later decided to discontinue these planners.

Woodwork Room Work

 Side Angle (ft Beatrice)

 Bird's eye view

Elevations 

The elevations for my original tiny house.

 Elevations (north, east, south, west) 

Year 9 - Wellbeing Course

Reflection

This year has only just started and I can already tell it's going to be a long one.

 I have a class called 'Make a Difference', where I made a website that I am fairly happy with. It displays all work I have done and shows the progress I have made during class time so far. This is where you can take a look: Make a Difference - My Site. 

I have another class called 'Amazing Spaces' , where I create original ideas for houses and spaces for the NZ housing crisis. It gives me practice for what I would like to do in the future and gives me time to work on graphics, which I really enjoy. 

 

This is the planning I did for making my tiny house floor plan.

I have a class called 'Shake it up with Shakespeare' where we study Shakespeare's plays and reflect upon them. I made a video where I explained the top 5 of Shakespeare's plays and a little bit about his life. This video turned out pretty good and I'm proud of it. If you would like to watch it, it is called 'Facts about Shakespeare' on Youtube.

In Numeracy I'm working above level so I still challenge myself. Mr Lockwood gave me a book of exercises from the NCEA standard in England. This helps me extend my knowledge and keeps my brain working with harder questions than i'm used to.

In Literacy I have been improving my writing and challenging myself by using more advanced words. Like in the 'Alphabet Challenge' I wrote a story i'm very proud of. It is a story about a young woman who is sick of the same routine of going to work, so she calls in sick and spends the day walking around in rainy London.

For my Impact Project, I am doing the Drama Production. Drama gives me room to express my emotions and relax. I enjoy my character though I wish I had a little more lines. Mr Sparks obviously is very good at his job and I know he will produce an amazing show.

Finished Song Almost Famous

 This is my (semi) finished song for my almost famous class

Song Mp3

Almost famous - My Song So Far

 My song so far task for Almost Famous class

This is my plan for my end product song

Evidence Almost Famous - 9/11/202

 This is al the progress i have made towards my song in my red book.

Campion Play estimations

 Campion Play Estimations

Actors

 We need 20 actors, 3 lead roles, 8 medium roles and 11 small roles.

$100 per show per small role, $250 per actor per medium role, $500 per actor per lead role

$1,500 + $2000 + $1,100 = $4,600

Director 

$500 per show 

Makeup 

$200 per night

costumes 

$50 per costume for 20 costumes

Theater (includes lighting + sound)

War memorial theater $1,500 per show

Posters

500 posters = $250

 Tickets

$100 for 500 tickets

Genre - 3/11/202

 Genre - 3/11/2020

genre

Learn to pronounce

noun

1. 1.

   a style or category of art, music, or literature.

   "the spy thriller is a very masculine genre"

4 Bar Polyrhythm

 4 Bar Polyrhythm

This is the polyrhythm for my Almost Famous Class.

https://www.soundtrap.com/studio/ee63sbzlTlSipAoc2Qsdzg/

I had a bit of struggle trying to make it sound good but I got there eventually

I had a lot of fun while creating this and i think it really gave some depth to my understanding of music. 

 Campion Drama Production 23/10/2020

Today we rehearsed the play 3 times today and made a business card for the drama production.

 

Recycle a song - Almost Famous

 Recycle a song - Almost Famous

I chose Demons by imagine dragons as my song to recycle.

I am going to keep the melody but change the lyrics

I put the song on a document and worked on the lyrics from there.

Campion Drama Reflection - 25/09/2020

 Campion Drama Reflection

- 25/09/2020

Today we got our roles, I got The MC! I have lots of lines to remember so I'll probably practise in the holidays. It seems The MC is the only sane person at the wedding and I love it! 

Today we practised the entire play 4 times, and it was well performed. I think the person that play Kylie still needs a lot of practise because she said so many of her lines wrong. During the holidays me and a friend are going to meet up and practise our lines together.

By Lien Ruelens

Campion Play - Innovation

Campion Play - 18/09/2020

Innovative Ideas

What can we do to make our play better? We could make our own costumes or modify clothes we already have to use for costumes, add a fight scene, change lines to customise the play to our needs or use a few lines for the audience. We could have a interesting introduction, film the play, make props, have a curtain or try to put the play on at different schools. We could have fancy tickets or have coloured bands to show you are able to attempt.

Resources 

We would need lamps for lighting, costumes for make it higher quality, a stage to perform on and a script to for the actual play. Human resources: actors to perform the play, directors to make small improvements and correct people when their wrong , makeup artist to add more quality to the play, costume designers for paying closer attention to detail.

Cost and budgeting

To save money we could make our own recycled clothes to not have to spent money on that. We could host a few fundraisers and look for a sponsor to get money. All our workers are volunteers so we don't need to pay anyone like people for lighting, stage hens and make-up artists. We need money for snacks, to get our posters and tickets printed. We might need to credit the writers so they don't get angry.

Business Name

Happily ever laughter, Drama club, Drama peeps or break a leg. We decided on Happily ever laughter but I don't think it was a fair vote because there was a girl constantly telling people to vote for Happily ever laughter.

Target audience

Parents and students that are going to the open day.

Quality Product

practise lots of times and have lots of flawless playthroughs

The BFG

The BFG

The BFG is a curious character with outstanding qualities that no human can posses. 

He is a sweet guy that is passionate about his hobbies. He intended no harm to sophie and was nothing like the other giants. Roald dahl is teaching us that the ones who are different are the brightest lights.

 

Chernobyl 1986

The Chernobyl disaster was a reactor that exploded and let deadly amounts of radiation into the air.

3 fun facts about Chernobyl: 

1. Sweden was first to alert the nearby cities to evacuate.

2. Now 33 years after, the radiation is still deadly.

3. Nobody lives in Chernobyl

Do you have cool facts about Chernobyl?

Leave a comment if you do!  

My small inquiry

I did a one week inquiry and found out about the Taiaroa shipwreck.

Taiaroa Shipwreck 1886

Timeline

The Taiaroa grounded near the Clarence River. 4 lifeboats were launched but only one made it to the shore, the others collapsed into the water and their passengers drowned due to the icy water and enormous waves.  The survivors were so shaken by the accident most of them never set foot on a boat again. There were 42 burials of the drowned people, their families grieved over their graves. Most survivors were ashamed because they had failed to save all those lives.

If the disaster happened today you would have a better life vest to help support your weight and the lifeboats wouldn’t collapse into the water because they are designed not to. We have technology that helps with heart attacks and pouches to keep you from freezing to death. 

file:///C:/Users/lienr/Downloads/My%20Movie%202.mp4

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Survivors:

Campbell Ducan

Dalrymple Samuel

Grant Gordon

Harper John

Henderson Robert

Hutton Gilbert

Mackay John

McQuartier William Henry

Morrison Robert

Olliver Thomas

Quin William

Tain William

Thomson George Urquhart

Webb James

Those who drowned:

Anderson Mrs.

Brown Mrs.

Ferguson James of Taranaki

Fielder Joseph

Fitzgerald Mrs.

Galbrath Erskine

Game Jessie

Gibbs Mrs

Hansen Peter

Harbord Mr

Hawkins Mr.

Hill D.

Irvine Robert

Kane J

Martin Alexander

McDonough George

McMillian P.

McPhee John

Monkman Robert Boyle

Murray Mr.

Powell James

Smith Mr.

Spooner R.

Stratford George

Unwin R.

Vallance Robert Hugh

Ward Mr. 

West Mr.

Williams Richard

References

(n.d.). Retrieved from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH18860414.2.9

Taiaroa Shipwreck. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://my.visme.co/projects/6xmwn9gr-taiaroa-shipwreck   

4 pics

Try to guess the word by the 4 pictures. It has 9 letters.
We did this in Horrible Histories and you should try doing it yourself!
Have fun!

Little Poland

Polish refugees land in New Zealand

When they were welcomed into New Zealand they were given sweets and flowers but they didn't understand what they said to them. They were brought to a town called Pahiatua. New zealand wasn't the only country to exept the poles who were in slave cames in Iran and Iraq.