House of Hauora

For Health Education Year 9 we have been learning about the four dimensions of "Hauora:"

For revision on the subject of Hauora, we had to create a "Whare Tapa Wha," which is a house that has four walls and a roof. Each wall represents a dimension of Hauora, and it symbolises the human body as if one wall collapsed, or one dimension was not balanced, the house would topple. For the roof, we were instructed to write the definition of "Te Whare Tapa Wha."

Having finished the project, we ended up with:

Maths Inspiration

For the last couple weeks, we have been looking at a series of videos based around having an inspirational week of math that shows everybody can be good at maths and that everybody looks at math and solves problems in different ways.

Along with these videos, there were a set of worksheets to complete using the values and problem-solving techniques shown in the videos. These worksheets often require creative problem-solving and outside-of-the-box thinking.

These videos taught us that anybody can learn maths if they put their mind to it, that speed is not important in math, and that there are many ways to solve one problem in math.

Science Experiment

Aim: Measuring how high a table tennis ball bounces back from different heights.

My hypothesis: I think that if we drop the ball from a higher height it will bounce back higher and the lower we drop it the lower it will bounce.

Method: Dropping the ball from different heights

Rise of the Black Panther

Rise of the Black Panther

Today I was reading a book called Rise of the Black Panther. So far I can tell that the book is about the king of Wakanda finally meeting outsiders/humans. The black panther is also out to get revenge for dad that got killed by humans

There are 6 books and I am reading the 6th book. it is hard for me to tell what is going on in the story so far just because I haven't read any other books. I am really interested to see how the rest of the book turns out because I have watched the movie and I really liked it

The Way Cars Are Made

The Way Cars Are Made


Today I read a book about cars and how they are designed and the history of them. History of cars, In 1817 the first tire was made also the first ever Grand Prix was raced in France in 1914. In 2010 there were 1 billion cars being driven on the road.

How cars are designed. The way that car is built is to make them comfortable for the driver and others in the car they also have reinforced bars on some parts of the car to protect people inside from collisions. The front seats can have up to 4 airbags

Overall Thoughts of Passion Projects

The Passion Project I chose was Science Discovery. There were many other choices but I got that one. In my group, there was me, Caleb, Greg and Jack we had decided on making a Lego gun that shoots rubber bands and shoots them fast.

While doing this I learned how to make a trigger mechanism and how it works. The way that it works it you would pull the trigger then it would rotate all the gears thee the rubber band would get launched forward.

The part I enjoyed was making the gun because it was easy but also challenging. 

Something that I disliked was having to put the gun back together after it broke.

Next, I did something like this I would choose something different because I don't want to make another Lego gun or something like that.

Overall I thought that it was a fun experience because it was my first time doing something like that and I enjoyed doing it. 

EOTC Week

For 4 days the year 8's went on our EOTC week. While we were doing the EOTC we did many different activities but because of the rain, we didn't do our first day. On Monday we were supposed to go to omaka scout camp and do some water activities but we didn't.

For Tuesday We went to Rehua Marae in Christchurch all we did there was listen to people talking about the history of the Marae and some other things that have happened. It was really interesting for me because I had never been to a Marae before and it was helpful learning some of the meanings of carvings on the walls.

On Wednesday we went to Adrenaline Forest and Spencer Park. I really liked adrenaline forest because I like climbing trees and having to do the obstacles to finish the different stages.