Personalized Passion Project

 Yesterday we presented our personalized passion project in our wananga class, we also bring it to the library for the other student to see. As you may know, we started doing out personalized passion project last term and spend most of our wananga class finishing it. While doing the human sized sculpture we experience some problems but got a solution eventually. Since we are making our sculpture using cardboard it's hard for them to balance and they're not standing. After lot's of tries my group finally made it and finish the project. We made a presentation about our project.

Personalized Passion Project Reflection

Last week we continue our personalized passion project. We started attaching the different parts of the statue that we are making. We also started the second statue that we are doing, since we are in a large group we assigned people to do different things so it's more easier for us to finish the work. Some of us were cutting the cardboard, some of us were sticking the hair of the statue and some of us were putting the different parts of the body together. We did a lot of work last week because we don't have much time to be able ti finish the work so we need to use our time wisely. We still need to finish a lot of things and put the pieces together. We are more than half way in our work and we only have this week and 3 weeks next term o finish it. This week plan is to finish attaching the hair in the statue and start putting it together.

Personalised Passion Project

In wananga class, we have been doing our personalized passion project. For this project we need to be able to create something that we can share. Me and my friends decided to be in one group to create something, we will be creating a human size statue using sustainable things such as cardboard, newspaper, and other materials. The inspiration that we've choose to used is Japanese sculpture called "Beast King Kabuki". 

For this project we also need to create a driving question about our project. We spend most of our time creating our driving question. Our driving question is "How can we use sustainable materials such as newspaper and cardboard to create life size statue. 

The purpose of this personalized passions project is to help us to express those passions that we have and to be able to try and learn something new and share it with other students. We also need to create a presentation that we can present at the end of our personalized passion project. 

At the moment, we are done measuring the different parts of the body of our statue. We still need to focus attaching those pieces to complete the statue. We are planning to make two statues but for now we are only focusing on doing one because we don't have much time but we will do another one if we finished the first one we are currently working on. 

Wananga Reflection

 On Wednesday we had our badminton competition. Our team played against Christchurch Girls High School. We went to their school to play with them, when we reach our destination I was really shocked because their school is really big and it's really pretty. After we get there, we did some warm up first and started our game. At the end of all the game our team won and we don't have any lose game. I played 1 games in single and 1 game in doubles. It was really fun playing with them and going to their school to meet them.

Wananga Reflection

Yesterday we celebrate our 2021 Salu-Salo. If you didn't know what it is, it's a celebration of Filipino Group here in Hornby High School. You will see a lot of performance from different groups of Filipino students in HHS. Yesterday was really fun because there are a lot of cool performance and games happened during salu-salo. Also, every year in salu-salo we are having a shared dinner. Every family can bring foods for the dinner, also for the guest and staff. Their performance is really great because they spend a lot of time practicing, also they have these cool outfit from the Filipino culture. My favourite part of the event is the fashion show, when the students do a introduction while wearing the different cultural outfit in our country. 

Wananga Reflection - Matariki

Today in our wananga class, we watched some videos about the story of Matariki. Our reflection for this week is about Matariki. Our school bell this week is also about Matariki. Some of us might not know about Matariki and what is the meaning of the 9 stars. Those 9 stars have different meaning base on their name. They said that those nine stars are the mother, the twins that the rest are the sisters. 

The 9 stars of Matariki

• Matariki
• Tupuarangi
• Waipuna-a-rangi
• Waiti
• Tupuanuku
• Ururangi
• Waita
• Pohutukawa
• Hiwa-i-te-Rangi

                                                                The Story Of Matariki

In the beginning of time there was nothing, no earth, sea or sky just, Te pō,  darkness. In this Te Kore, nothingness, Ranginui the sky father and Papatūānuku the earth mother came to be. They lay together in a tight embrace. Together, they had many children who were all male. The sons lived between them in the darkness. As the children grew up, they wondered what it would be like to live in the light. Tūmatauenga, the fiercest of all the sons, shouted to his brothers, “Let’s kill them!”  The brothers disagreed. Tānemahuta, the god of the forests and birds, had a solution to the problem, “We will push them apart, Ranginui will be in the sky above us and Papatūānuku will stay below us so she remains close.” Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated food, tried to push his parents apart. He pushed and pushed with no success. Then Tangaroa, the god of the sea, and Haumia-tiketike, the god of wild food joined him. Together they pushed and pushed but still their parents would not let go of each other.

Eventually, Tāne tried. He placed his shoulders on his mother and his feet on his father and pushed hard for a very long time. Rangi and Papa called out in distress, “Why are you doing this?” “Please don’t separate us.”  Tāne continued to push with his strong legs, until finally Rangi and Papa were prised apart. The children were excited to finally have light and space to move. Tāwhirimātea, the god of the wind, was angry about the separation. He could not stand to hear his parents in pain, or to see the tears coming from Ranginui. āwhirimātea was so angry that in a rage he threw his eyes up into the sky. His eyes are now known as the stars of Matariki. 

Wananga Reflection - Wellbeing

In wananga, we have been doing a assessment about our wellbeing. This include the 3 weeks plan, for this plan we have our 3 different factors that we want to improve. The 3 factors of my wellbeing is physical, family relationship and managing emotions. We our own table that we need to fill out everyday base of the 3 different factors that we chose. This plan is really helpful because we can maintain those things that we know that can be bad for our personal wellbeing. Also the 3 factors that I chose improve a lot because of the 3 weeks plan that we did. 

Wananga Reflection

In ESOL, we have been reading a book called Skink Gully. The story is about two boys called Dylan and Nimish, who spend their holiday on the farm with Dylan's dad and their dog Zeb. Nimish is a boy who grew up in the city, so he doesn't know the life on the farm. When they are on the farm, they started to discover a lot of weird and spooky things. They also met Tamsin and her dad Stuart. We just completed reading 1 - 3 chapters of the book at the moment. 

Chapter one most of it is just an introduction of the characters and telling us how they ended up spending their holiday on the farm. Chapter two is when they heard a gunshot while relaxing and did an investigation about it. The last chapter that we've read for this week is chapter 3. For this chapter, they started to find things like animal's dead bodies and more weird things.  

I'm enjoying reading this book because I learned a lot of new words from it. I will be doing more reflection about this book.

Wananga Reflection - Bullying/Cyber-Bullying

What is bullying? 

It is about hurting someone physically or mentally in many different ways. Bullying someone smaller or weaker than you. You can call it bullying if you can that there is an imbalance of power. It is bullying when it is happening over and over again, however, it's not bullying if it just happened once. Two people can be involved in bullying, you can be the victim or the bully.  

• Victim - The victim is the person that got hurt, most of the victim in bullying is someone who doesn't have any friends or someone weak compare to others. 
• Bully - This person is the one who keeps hurting or saying a lot of mean things to another person. Bullies can bully someone not just in person but also online. This is called "Cyber-bullying". 

What is Cyber-Bullying? 

Cyberbullying is bullying online, most of these issues are happening on social media. You can get mean texts saying anything to insult you. Cyberbullying is common now since most teenagers have social media. Same with normal bullying, you will see an imbalance of power. If you are experiencing cyberbullying do the 3 simple steps as soon as you got the message. Block, report, and tell an adult. 

If you think you're getting bullied telling an adult will be the best option to do. But, if you think you are the bully and you're bullying them online or in person, you should stop. We never know what they are going through and bullying them is not helpful.  

Wananga Reflection

This week we have been doing some activities about self - esteem. I decided to search up a poetry that I can use for my reflection this week. The poem that I chose is also about confidence and comparing to others.  This poem that I choose is telling that you should't compare yourself to others because they are not you and you are not them. It's also saying that we are all different in our own way, they might be good at something but there is somethings that we can do that they can't. For me, I think this poem is very helpful to give those teenagers a lot of confidence and to help them to have a strong self-esteem. I can tell that this is meaningful because as you read it you can already know that you can learned some lesson from it.