Toolkits 2016!!!

Talofa lava Blog World,

on Tuesday the 23rd of August, Hay Park School had a big conference called " toolkit". May Road, Owariraka , New Windsor , Christ the king , Wesley primary , Wesley intermediate and Waikowhai school was invited to our toolkits. This years toolkits was different from last years toolkit. For the first session I was presenting my toolkit which was based on Google Forms. My second session that I went to was " TinkerCad", tinkercad was so fun that I learnt so much. For my third session that I went to was called " Google Sites".  Although I do know about Google Sites. 

My Highlight from Yesterday ( 16th of August )

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Yesterday in school I wasn't in my class ( room 7 ), I was actually in room 8. I was in room 8 because that was my class for split class. Some went in room 8 and some went in room 9. And some went to a rugby tournament. Yesterday's highlight for me was doing a tech challenge. Our tech challenge was making a gadget that would reach 1 meter to pick up a fruit.  After when everyone has made their gadgets, everyone tried their gadgets and none has achieved the goal which was grabbing the fruit. One group was so close but the fruit kept sliding off.  Our gadgets was only used with paper, rubber band, paper clip, cello tape, ice block stick, earbud and a scissors. When my group tried ours broke. Well that was my highlight, what was your highlight for the day?  

Learning Conversation

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Wednesday and Thursday Hay Park School has been doing learning conversations. A learning conversation is when students and their parent attend to a learning conversation and what you do is you have a conversation between your parent and your teacher but you ( student ) is doing most of the talking. You would need to make a presentation which records your learning about all subjects in school like Maths, Reading and Writing. We have been doing learning conversations because so that our parents know what their child has been doing at school and what they have been learning and also what their child need help. And what they need work on. Here is a presentation of mine that I needed to talk about in the learning conversation:

Meeting Andrew Nicholson!!!

Talofa lava Blog World,

Something very exciting has just happened this morning! As soon as I herd that Andrew Nicholson is coming, I burst into red cheeks but I didn't know why because I don't even know him. Until I searched up Andrew Nicholson online and I herd that he is a speed skater. And I was thinking to myself, OMG a professional skater is coming to Hay Park School and is going to be talking to the seniors! As soon as I walked into the library that was going to be the space of our communication with Andrew Nicholson, I saw a man that was tall, who was wearing black shorts and a t-shirt that said " te aha matatu".  Until he ( Andrew Nicholson) started off with saying a warm welcome. He also said that he will be telling two stories, one of them is going to be about speed skating and the other would be about cycling. I have herd that he has been traveling around the world on a bicycle in 123 days. The reason why he has been wanting to skate and riding on a bicycle is because other kids has been doing bad stuff which causes a lot of trouble and he didn't want to be that kind of kid. He said that he wasn't really good at sports when he was a young age and he was short until his brother started to encourage him and he thought to himself of wanting to be in the Olympics so then he traveled, trained a did lot of things to achieve his goal which was competing in the Olympics. Here are some photos of this mornings talk:

Here is Andrew Nicholson explaining very badly accidents his brother have been through. 

Here is everyone and Andrew Nicholson trying to go down without putting the leg that is flying on the ground.

OMG Andrew Nicholson is down below in a 90 below angle!

NED Show!!!

Bonjua Blog World,

Today something very exciting happened. When I was walking to school there was a sign on the window at school saying " NED is coming..." I reacted with a very exciting face. I was wondering why NED was all in capital until there was a show happening after lunch. Later on, lunch is finished all classes are line up and is very prepared to see the NED show. As I walked into the hall I saw a lady and a table which had a speaker and a jumper. I also saw a big picture of a boy which looked like it was drawn by somebody.  Until the show was beginning. The lady started of with introducing her name and the boy's name. The boy was name " NED". She started off with saying a story about NED and during the story she did tricks with a yoyo, and it was pretty AMAZING and COOL! After the amazing story. She talked about what NED stands for.
Never give up
Encourage others
Do your best.
I thought that the meaning of NED was very helpful, positive and very thoughtful. To finish off the show the lady did magic with a tissue. She put the tissue in her mouth and everyone felt disgusted. When she takes it out it wasn't a tissue it was a very long string that was colorful. Here are some photos from the NED show:

Here is Manahal with the lady who was showing AMAZING tricks with the yoyo!

Here is the lady taking out a long colorful string out of her mouth. 

Here is Joseph who won two prizes which is a boomerang yo yo and a red clip which can hold the yoyo.