Prep Visit

On Wednesday all the people who were going to prep next year went to the new boys day.
When I was there my mum signed me in and I got my stationary pack, it even came with a compass.
After a briefing from the head teacher, Mr. Knott the parents left and we were all taken to the classrooms to do some testing.
First, we had maths, it was especially hard. Then reading then writing. After the tests we had afternoon tea and played some games.
By the time we were back at school it was already lunch time.

Tree planting

We went to piper's reserve to plant trees. I was in a group with will and liam I planted about 6. There were lots of worms and there were some trapdoor spiders too it was tiring but we all had lots of fun.

 

Red Cross

On monday a red cross health person came in to teach us how to save people in emergencies and we should be aware of anything that could be dangerous.

Summit Walks

Really we weren't really summit walking after we found out that we were geocaching. Geocaching is a worldwide treasure hunt. Geocaches can be located using a GPS. Inside some people put in small treasures to be replaced with yours if you want to. Some geocaches are multi caches witch you need to answer some questions to get the coordinates. The main rule is: Watch out for muggles. This means not to spoil it for others.

Firstly, we went to the grampians to warm everyone up. The were extremely unexpected places were they are put. We found 4 of them. All spread around the area in the most bizarre places but don't bother digging for one, They cant be  underground, its against the rules.

The next week we went to the centre of New Zealand but instead of taking a turn to the top we were  herded to the next geocache. To get to it we dodged gorse while sliding down a massive land slide. That was the funnest one ever.

Then we went around town. It was especially hard to keep it secret from others. There was a multicache there but we put in the wrong coordinates.

For our final geocaching trip we went to the marina. I found one here called "cant take the strain"

I have enjoyed my time at passions and I hope hope that it continues next term too.

My Speech

Cars Are Killing The Earth

Do you want the earth to stay healthy? Let's start with transport.

People spend too much time in their cars and often when they are in them they are alone. You can save other peoples fuel by inviting jimmy's soccer mates to come with him to soccer.

Whenever you see a car you can think about the gases it lets out. These include:

Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Monoxide

Sulphur Dioxide

Oxides Of Nitrogen

Those are some of the major gases let out by a car.

In year 2000 already 400,000,000 cars were on the road. Nowadays, there are over 750,000,000!!!
It is estimated that in year 2040 there will be over double the amount of today!!!

If cars were more expensive then more people would choose public transport. Also with the expansion of families car dealers are getting more and more profit only to clog up the the roads and turn earth into venus.

saving fuel is a good start to saving the earth. here are some simple ways to save fuel:

• closing your windows at speeds over 55mph to maintain a good aerodynamic profile
• deflating your tires by %10 will increase rolling resistance
• warming up Your engine will consume less fuel and is will stay warm for half an hour

20% of all the gas is taken in by the sea. Another 20% is taken in by mother nature leaving 60% to hack away at the o-zone layer scaring it and embracing the greenhouse effect.

If in 2040 the amount of cars will be doubled traffic will become extremely overcrowded and cars wont get you anywhere. If we use public transport it will rapidly decrease traffic maybe even lower than it is now. By that time If cars were for the rich than bus ect. would probably be cheaper to ride on because of all the profit they'd be making.

Hopefully you now know the dangers that cars bring and i leave you this last question.

How could YOU contribute to the earth's survival?

Speech ideas

so the speech comp is coming soon so i put down some ideas..

why school uniforms should/should not be compulsary
trees must not be cut down
why kids should be able to drive
pollution must be stopped
cars are taking over the world
social networks should be allowed
why my sister was born annoying
people are losing intelligence
why I should be prime minister
my life
extinct animals
people are getting no exercise
help the homeless

What has and has'nt stood the test of time

what things have stood the test of time:

1. sports, back in the early days of sport rugby balls were made out of pigs bladder.
2. art, art used to be done on walls now we do it on mostly paper.
3. fashion, If you look at some of the clothing they used to use it is a whole lot different.
4. theatre, there was a lot of stuff that they did in the coliseum.
5. conflict, over the years conflict is very much the same as it was.

what things have not stood the test of time:

1. the titanic, the titanic didn't last one trip over the sea.
2. the apple pippin, the apple pippin was a complete fail.
3. the brick cell phone, it was replaced with much better tech
4. the apple lisa, another one of apples fails

they reckon that in 20 years time the world will be relying on electronics.

The Apple Pippin

for one of our projects we had to pick some king of toy or technology that failed and didn't exist in the test of time. After a brainstorm we had a discussion and decided that we would do the Apple Pippin.

ICAS exam results

Computer Skills:

General Skills:                  4/4   
Word Processing:             5/9   
Graphics/Multimedia:       6/8   
Internet/email:                    4/7   
Spreadsheet/Database:   4/7   
                                                      
Total Score:                       23/35

Science:

Observing/Measuring          4/6
Interpreting                            5/10
Predicting/Concluding         6/11
Investigating                          3/7
Reasoning/problem solving1/6
                                                      
Total Score:                                

more results coming soon.....

term 3

it is finally term 3. Our topic is "test of time" Some of the things we are doing include:
looking at how product's sales slowly go out of style.
discovering the human causes for some extinct animals.
changes through ages.

Debaits

Drilling more into the possible hoax about the moon landings. We were put into random groups to make a debait i think the moon landings were real but i had to make one on it being fake. Luckily though we had done a lot of research so i wasn't stuck on what to write.

Moon landing

Was the moon landing a hoax?
the answer is, no.
Motion
 People believe that that it was just a video put into slow motion. In 1969 there were no high speed film cameras so if the video were to be put into slow motion it would look like a rushed stop motion.
No stars?
actually there is stars but they used a different type of camera. if there were visible stars in the photos then the photos would be too bright and you wouldn’t be able to see anything.
evidence
recently a video was posted on youtube about artificial moon dust and how it could be heated up and create water. now, how would they be able to make artificial moon dust if they never went to the moon?
The flag(waving?)
the video show the flag waving but solar winds cannot reach the moon it is scientificly proved that all flags will quiver when placed down in a zero gravity zone.

Ant size humans

ARE YOU REALLY AS BIG AS YOU THINK YOU ARE!!! 

watch this short video and find out your true size.

So is being some metres tall really that big please leave a comment. 

My rocket

for homework we got given 6 weeks to construct a rocket out of anything. I decided to get mine from recycling.

My wool graffiti

After getting permission from our principle we got into groups and got ready to bomb the fence with a spacey mix. Maccrae and I did a NASA rocket

Space presentation

The Amazon

space explanation

why is there life on earth but not other planets?

First of all where is earth? Earth is located smack-bang in the middle of what we call the goldilocks zone. This means that it's not to hot and it's not too cold just like baby bears porridge!


The goldilocks zone is not the only thing keeping us alive. There is aalso something called photosynthesis. Plants go through photosynthesis when they suck in gas(carbon dioxide) and release fresh air(oxygen)the sea also takes in gas.


To our luck we also have something called the Iron Core. It is so big that it casts a big magnetic force field over earth protecting it from to much sunlight and also space storms.



One very good reason is something called the O-zone(a layer of gas spread over the Earth)protecting us from ultra violet sun rays and global warming.


How come meteors hardly ever hit the earth? You can thank mars and Jupiter for that. Jupiter is over 1000 times the size of earth.


The Moon puts a great deal of work to stir up the current and control it.


Our atmospherwe luckily supports the water cycle and evaporation so we have an endless sorce of water.


Our Sun will live for a long, long time therefore Earth will too.

At school we have been taking photos and experimenting with the features of pic monkey. Here are some photos

reading competition

At school Mr. A announced that we would be having a reading competition. So we are recording all the chapter the books we have read to see if they match certain categories for prizes.

1. Captain Underpants And The Attack Of The Talking Toilets.  by Dave Pilkey 138pg
2. the 13 storey treehouse. by Andy Griffiths 139pg
3. Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman. by Dave Pilkey 175pg
4. The Singing Caves. by Margaret Beams 138pg
5. Captain Underpants And The Preposterous Plight Of The Purple Potty People. by Dave Pilkey 175pg
6. Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants. By Dave Pilkey  153pg