My 2025 Goals

What am I looking forward to this year?

This year I am looking forward to having new classes, build more friendships, do more activities and pass NCEA

What changes would you like to make last year?

The changes I would change this year would be to know more about the subjects and do do even more fun activities.

My option classes are P.E, Photography and Business studies.

My goals for them is to try and pass them and learn about the subjects.

what would I like to achieve by the end of the year would be to pass almost all classes and have a great year.

Reflection Blog

Year 10 has been a very great year, its been fun and I’ve gotten to know a even more things about my friends and classmates. The classes I’ve been in have been really fun and to try new things, Some lows from the year are being away from my friends in separate classes and them not coming to school.

I have enjoyed doing Metal work, health, Science and many more.

My goals for next year will be to get better at different areas in different classes.

To My future self if I make it to year 13 I hope school was fun and each class you do is good.

Recapping Mathematics

1. What was the most enjoyed part of the year?

My most enjoyed part was doing a bunch of different things in mathematics but I really liked doing algebra. I liked to do the quiz’s at the end of the terms and doing card games each Friday.

2. What was the most memorable moment in mathematics year 10?

The most memorable thing in mathematics this year is doing the card games and having fun times.

3. What did I find the most challenging?

The most thing I found challenging would maybe be test or just some other maths tasks.

4. What is my feeling moving into NCEA level 1 maths next year?

I think it will be great and a harder challenge.

Medicine and Health Issues Assessment

Medicine + Health Conditions

1. WSM is short for Western Scientific Medicine

WSM is a system where doctors, surgeons and other health care professionals treat symptoms and disease using drugs, radiation and surgery. What WSM wants to do to help your body is to prevent diseases, slow them down or possibly curing it.

CAM is short for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

CAM is used to describe a medical product or practice that’s considered mainstream, conventional or traditional medical care.

TM is short for Traditional Māori Medicine.

TM involves a use of native plant based remedies, a spiritual healing through prayer.

2. The health issue I have chosen is depression.

3. Three states on how to cure depression is psychotherapy (CAM), medication (WSM) or support group (CAM).

4. The four areas on depression for your hauora.

For your mental health you struggle to make decisions.

For your physical health you could harm yourself if its really bad depression.

For your social health you will want to be alone and not want to talk to anyone.

For your spiritual health you might feel like you’re disconnected or cut off from God.

5. Three negatives on depression is that you may gain weight or lose weight, trouble concentrating or making decisions and lack of energy.

Three positives on depression is that if gives time for people to reflect more deeply about there lives, life purpose and hopefully find a way to make important changes in there lives that will serve them better overtime.

 

 

Stoneman Syndrome

Stoneman Syndrome

Stoneman syndrome is a rare condition that turns the body’s connective tissues slowly into bones. out of 1 in 2 million have the rarely disease, its caused by gene mutations and mainly starts from the shoulders and neck and goes down the the legs. When the disease happens a second layer of bone grows over your first set of bones in a  process called heterotopic ossification.

If you have surgery to try and fix the disease is it unlikely that it would cure the disease because it might trigger immense bone growth because of invasiveness of the surgery.

The impact of your hauora if you got this disease is that you wont be able to move your body and wont be able to do many things and will probably make you upset.

How can this disease Occur?

It’s mainly by chance if it happens it starts to develop in your first ten years of life.

How many people have gotten stoneman syndrome?

There has only been about 700 reports of stoneman syndrome.

Is it painful to have stoneman syndrome?

It is painful because of the bone growth causing mild fevers, inflammation, swelling and discomfort.

Stoneman Syndrome: A rare disease that gradually throughout life turn tendon into bone : r/Damnthatsinteresting

School strike 4 climate

What is climate change? 

Climate Change is long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns which has sped up over the years.

What is causing climate change?

The cause of climate change is that people are cutting down forests for materials and it is bad for us because we are slowly losing oxygen from all the trees getting cut down. Fossil fuels,coal, and oil are being burnt polluting gas into the air and since there are people cutting down trees they won’t be able to get rid of all the greenhouse gases.

As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the heat, it traps the the sun’s heat and makes global warming and climate change. The temperature is making the world warmer each year and making a risk for humans each year.

School strike 4 climate

Friday 15th 2019 tens of thousands of young people marched through towns and cities throughout Aotearoa New Zealand they were protesting for climate change and wanted people to know because they were concerned on what could happen in the near future for Earth. more than 40 events were being held across New Zealand. Some of the things the organisers wanted to do was pass a zero Carbon act laying out to get Carbon neutrality by 2050. Another one was that that they wanted to stop all exploration and extraction of fossil fuels.

The protest caused some some controversy in some places around the country, with people questioning whether the striking was a worthwhile use of learning time. The prime minster at the time (Jacinda Ardern) released a statement acknowledging the strike saying “Climate change is my generation’s free nuclear free moment for them its literally their future”

The Strike began in Sweden on August 2018 when a 15 year old girl took the day off school to protest outside the Swedish parliament holding a sign that said school strike for climate. since then the school strike for climate has become a worldwide movement to protect the future environment.

Safety and medicine

Medicine safety 

Point 1-  Make sure you use your medicine on time. If you don’t use your medicine on time it might not work or would cause some sort of sickness

Point 2-  Don’t mix your medication up. If you mixed up your medicine with some other medication it could not work or could make you sick from using the wrong medicine.

Point 3- Take the right amount. if you take more than the right amount it could cause illnesses or be bad for you to use more then the right amount.

Point 4- Use your medicine on how its attended to be used. Don’t consume medicine for fun

What do you currently do to be safe with medicine?

Follow each points and and take medicine when I need to.

Testing pH Template

Aim: why did we do this experiment?

We did this experiment to see what pH level of some household chemicals are at.

Equipment:

  1. Safety glasses
  2. Litmus paper (Red and Blue)
  3. Universal indicator
  4. Spotting tile
  5. Household chemicals or other substances
  6. Pipette (dropper)

Method:

  1. Gather your equipment and put your safety glasses on.
  2. get your equipment ready and use your pipette to drop around 3-5 drops of your household chemicals into the spotting tile.
  3. put your blue and red litmus paper into the household chemicals and see what colour it changes to or stays the same.
  4. put some drops of your universal indicator into the household chemicals to see what colour it changes to.
  5. after you see what the colours are you can clean everything up and put every back where you found them.

Results:

Discussion:

Why did different household chemicals change colours?

The household chemicals we used has different of bases and acids

How did you know if these chemicals were acidic or basic?

we used tiny pieces of litmus paper and put them into the chemicals to see if they turned red or blue

Why might Universal indicator be more useful than Litmus paper?

Universal indicator can be used many times than litmus paper only be using once a piece. It can also be useful to show more variants of colours then litmus paper only showing 2 colours only.

Conclusion:

Did the experiment work?

The experiment worked quite well and looked very good after we finished.

what could you do to improve science next time?

do it more quicker.

Model Atom Blog

Our atom is neon

Aim: I want to find out how to build a model atom

 

Equipment:

  1. Paper
  2. Coloured pen
  3. Scissors

 

Method

Instructions:

  1. Draw circles around your piece of paper.
  2. Cut around the circles and start putting dots around the cut circle.
  3. Cut more circles bigger around the smaller circle and put dots.
  4. Put tape to make it look like its a real model.

 

Results: we failed very badly.

I don’t think theirs even a photo for it

 

Discussion:

How many protons, electrons and neutrons does neon have?

  • Protons – 10
  • Electrons – 10
  • Neutrons – 10

Where do you find each of these particles in neon?

In neutrons and protons

What is the mass and atomic number for neon?

Atomic number 10

Mass 27.1797

 

 

This term in PE we have been studying Football

The history of football is that is was originated in Britain in the Greek and Rome century and played it through the medieval times and have playing it since. The person who invented football is named Walter Chauncey Camp

This term in PE we have been learning about Football

The Following words are used are used in football.

  1. Offside Means that the opponent is closer to the goal than the second to last defender.
  2. Onside Means the position where you are allowed to kick, throw or receive the ball.
  3. Kick off is the kick that starts the game to play.
  4. Dribble Is the player that is kicking the ball close to him trying to score and protect the ball.
  5. Pass is when you pass the ball to your other teammates to dodge the opponents from getting the ball.
  6. Throw in is where the opponents or your team is the last one to kick the ball out making the ball go to the other team and getting the ball.
  7. Goal kick is when the goal keeper saves the ball from scoring and the goal keeper kicks the ball away to another teammate.
  • Man-to-man.
  • Coverage shells (cover 2, cover 3, etc)
  • Zone blitz.
  • Blitz.
  • Tampa 2.
  • 46 defence
  • 5-5-1 Two- level defence

Football is played with 11 players on each team on the field at one time. The field is 68 meters wide and 105 meters in length.

The equipment needed is Shin guards goalkeeper gloves, soccer cleats, a ball and goal post like cones, polls etc

The 5 most important rules of football are Don’t touch the ball with your hands and arms but only the goal keeper can, no contact to other players, 11 players max, have the right football gear and the team that scores the most points wins.

One thing I have improved at was defending the ball

One thing I enjoyed was playing the game and kicking the ball

I need to keep working on my attackers

I enjoyed playing on the same team as people I know because we know how to corporate together.

I always bring my PE gear to school

Out 0f 10 I would give myself a 8 for effort because I know how to play but sometimes slip up and give the opponents the ball.