My learning journey

As a year 9 student at Tamaki my journey here has just begun. My grades are doing well and I'm doing
fine during class. I may get distracted here and there but I always find a way to finish my work. As a
year 9 i’d say i'm not proud of learning my times tables during primary, but i’d say im improving. I
socialize a lot more with my classmates, which makes it comfortable to work in class. While in l
lockdown I tried my best to go to classes and do the set tasks because I knew that they would help with
my learning. During classes we sometimes get treats which is like a gift from the teacher to thank us
for working hard. Everyday I prepare myself to learn by showing up to school on time and doing
homework or work that I haven’t finished. When I finish my journey at Tamaki I wish to have good
grades and a good reputation as I prepare myself for the next chapter in my life.

Blog : Life after Lockdown in Level 2 :

One thing I know for sure that I'm looking forward to is going shopping again. I really missed shopping because I like shopping for clothes. I also look forward to seeing my friends because these past few weeks have been a little lonely. But I have mixed feelings about school. The reason being is because it's really easy to do school online like I can just wake up and go to school and no one would have to know. But it is harder to ask the teachers questions because the question may not make sense and its hard to explain. So I think going into lockdown would be a good thing for me, and my grades.

Social Studies: Current Events COVID-19

So from this news article, I've learnt that Counties Manukau has been given the most
warnings and most youth referrals, but Canterbury has the most prosecution. But yes
Manukau has been seen as the worst offenders for alert level 3. The story talks about
how people have been breaching the guidelines.

I feel that since I am used to staying at home, I don't really feel like going back to
school. I also feel that since the weather has become colder I feel like working in my
bed. But I have a problem, I always get distracted which is really bad for my education.
I am also sick of staying at home all the time and the only time I usually walk is to and
from school. So yeah I have mixed feeling about going into alert level 2.

Social Studies - Key Concept: Haka

Imagine you need to write an English version of a HAKA to include the many different nations in N.Z - what would it say? Don’t forget to post this to your blog!!

We live, We die, We fight, We fight We Are United As One We live, We die, We fight, We fight We are the people of New Zealand

My perspective on the haka is that being someone from New Zealand I think we have the right to do a haka before the all blacks game. Why you may ask is because as the country had been found by the indigenous people of Maori descendants and I think that to represent our country we should you something more ancient and mean a lot to the people of NZ. Should the All Blacks be allowed to perform the haka at games? Yes, I think that they should be allowed to perform the haka.