Child Labour

Child labour is children under the age of 15 years old who are working long hours in hazardous conditions which leads to psychological/physical harm to the brain.

An immediate effect on a child who works under age is getting tired from working long hours and not getting an education or daily meals. And a long time effect on child labour is their income-earning potential as adults.

The reason why there are millions of children working as child labourers is because families or parent's who are too weak or too old can't work anymore to pay off their debts. So they "bond" a child. Bonding a child is giving your own child to work off the payments so eventually at the end debts will be paid.

To me child labour is out of hand. There should not be any more child labourers around the world period because education is our birth right, so against child labour we must fight.

The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is located in South America. South America is on the equator which makes the temperature for some countries really hot. The Amazon Rainforest is known for the cradles of biodiversity because it is the home to many species of living plants/species/animals. This Amazon Rainforest are the lungs to the world because they have many trees that provide clean fresh air and clean out carbon dioxide and the negative CO2.

One Tree Hill: Maungakiekie

This is my brainstorm about One Tree Hill. As you may have heard One Tree Hill is a hill located in Auckland and it was best known for the tree standing on top of the hill. At the end the tree had to be cut down. If you wanna know some reasons why, well I suggest you to read or scan through my brainstorm.

My Significant Place

The place that is significant to me is the cemetery. The cemetery is a place where I go to with my family to be reunited with my mother or loved ones who had past away when I was a little child or as I was growing up.

Another  reason why this place is significant to me is because it makes me reminisce all those good times and bad memories I had with that person but, I never got that chance to do that so it just brings me closure to my mother’s presents and helps me think about things like how my childhood would’ve been if my mother was still alive.

A third reason why this place is significant to me is because I like visiting my mum and other close family members who had past away. And I don't like to make them feel like they've been forgotten because they haven't to me. And they been soo much to me even if they're dead.

Party Choices

In our social Studies class we have been looking in to the New Zealand Party election and some things about the Mp and Parliament. As a class we have made our own Party election so we know what they do when you have to vote in the New Zealand election and what Party has the best Policies for when they win the election. Before all this I was voting for the Labour party because they had some good policies like when they win. They would stop the state house building and help out the ones that don't have a home and they're living in the streets. But now I am thinking of choosing the Maori party because they have some good policies too like helping out in the Education and the family in needs. And so I vote Maori Party for local MP.

If I were a Prime Minister for a day

If I were a Prime Minister for a day I would make the prices for everything in New Zealand $0.00 so then people wouldn't worry about buying food for their families, getting a new car, buying a house or like paying off their housing bills. But that's only going to be for a day. And I hope that will make some people like the homeless enjoy a day for once in their life time. So that means they can go to malls get some free clothes and probably get heaps of food for them selves.
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Government

The government in New Zealand sorts out important stuff like our taxes, funds, citizenship's for people and housing problems for people that live here in New Zealand and other important stuff like that. I know that when it comes to elections, people from 18 and over have to vote or else they will get a fine. A fine to pay because they didn't vote in the elections.

I don't really know that much about the New Zealand Government but I can say that they are doing a good job. I know that there are 6 or 7 different parties in the government. There is the Labour party, Green party, Maori party, ACT party, New Zealand first party and I forgot the last one or two but that's all I know about the New Zealand Government. Thanks for reading this blog post I hope you learned something from this. And I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and goodbye.

Push & Pull Factors

In migration, push factors is when you forcefully push people away to a different place or country. And Pull factors is when you have to leave where you are currently staying to a new place or country. 

My grandpa's sister & husband was in a situation like this. They were pulled into New Zealand which is called pull factors. They were pulled to New Zealand so they can live a happier better life then living in Tonga. 

But then my grandpa's sister left New Zealand because her mother just recently died in probably her late 80's or something. So when she left she also left behind her husband called Fine. This is a true story about my family members so I can't tell you everything that happened but, later on a few weeks later Fine flew back to Tonga because of some important issues that happened and because he wasn't allowed to live with me after what happened to me.

So at the beginning of the story they were pulled to New Zealand for a better happier future but, then at the end of the story one person was pulled back to Tonga and the other person was pushed back to Tonga.

My Social Studies Exams Reflection

Last week starting from Wednesday all the way through to Friday the whole school of Tamaki College began our middle of the year school tests. The tests were about what we have been learning about and all kinds of things. On Friday we did our Social studies exam. I thought that I went okay with our Social studies exam.

I think that this went okay because during the Social studies period I was doing my work, listening to my teacher and actually working my butt off for everything. Of course I didn't get everything 100% like how we were supposed to write what we learned back in Term 1 but I know I tried my best and that's all that I could do.

For my exams that coming up next I will have to work hard and keep trying and finish my tasks so I can improve on my tests.

Positive Digital Footprint

It is important to have a positive digital footprint because when you are doing something negative online you leave footprints on the internet and you don't want anybody to see what you were doing so you should always think about everything twice.  Also if you think that when you delete your history on your computer or phone or something you might think it's deleted forever and nobody can see what you have deleted but, really somebody (hacker or somebody good with computers) can just be stalking on you at that very moment. So remember everything you do online you will always leave a digital footprint. I just want to stay make sure you have a positive digital footprint online. Thank you for listening and hope you have learned something. Good bye.

About Tokelau

This week in Social Studies class we have been watching a documentary video about Tokelau. Tokelau has been changing over the past few years like their tradition/culture has changed, how Tokelau has gone global now, food is changing, education is also changing, they are living in a good position at the moment, they are citizens of New Zealand, and that the council there are finally listening to woman's side of story and what their perspectives are to things and what they have to say. I would like to tell you why Tokelau is changing but I guess I wasn't listening very carefully to the video. And that's all what I've got for today.

Our Vinegar & Baking Soda Experiment

 Hello there. Today our class were doing different kinds of experiment. Some groups were experimenting food and drinks but, our group were experimenting which vinegar has the best reaction with baking soda. You would learn more if you watch and learn our presentation. Have a nice day. Thank you for watching, goodbye.

Fair Testing

"Do your guys know what a Fair Testing means?" "I do." If you want to know what it means then you can read my google drawing which tells you what it means. I hope you enjoy.

Daffidols & Lillies Group Notes

In the morning our literacy class has been learning about the different kinds of matter. There are three kind of  states of matter Liquid, Solid & lucky last but not least Gas. Did you know that everything on the earth is made of matter and that is so cool. I hope you enjoy and learn things about matter from our group notes.

Thinking Space

Hello there, as you can see this presentation shows words that I don't know from the story that I just read about. The story that I read about is called Half A Bit Of Butterflies and it is about this girl that has Cerebral Palsy which is a disability and she is part of a dance group that is tour around different places. I hope you enjoy

Tamaki College Experience

This week on Tuesday the year 8 students went down to Tamaki College to experience the life time there and any other college's .  We have learned so much about classes and how their day goes and stuff. Here is some paragraphs to tell you how it went.

Yesterday in the morning the year 8 students from Point England School went down to Tamaki College.  The reason why we went there was because us year 8’s have to know now what we are going to do next year when we go to different college’s.  When we arrived there, there was students that recently attended at our school last year and the year before that but, now they go to Tamaki College. They were our guidance leaders.  

While we were waiting in the auditorium (hall) Mrs Moore one of the deputy principals welcomed us and told us what we were going to do.  After when Mrs Moore welcomed us and everything we went to our first high school classes which was Social Studies & Maths.  In Social Studies we learned about how we get to school and how other kids around the world get to school.  In Maths class we had a teacher called Mrs Dunn.  She was very kind and I liked how she teaches Maths to kids because she explains it very clearly and she waits for us until we get the strategy of something.

During the day we went to some more classes like English and P.E and learnt heaps more of information.  Also they provided morning tea and lunch for us which was pretty nice of them to do.  What we had for morning tea and lunch was a water bottle, a fruit, muesli bar, Subway and burgers, they were so delicious.  We finished the day off with some fun games in the Rex Center (sports hall). I had a fun day at Tamaki learning things about college.

      

Ratios

This Week in our Maths class we are learning about Ratios. This presentation is just filled with simple easy questions about Ratios and there is also some videos in the presentation that shows a little bit of information about Ratios. So it's just like a warm up presentation. I'll also publish another presentation that is kind of challenging but I'll try my best to get the right answer for all of the questions. I hope you enjoy my presentation about Ratios. Goodbye.

Algorithm 2

This week our Maths class have been taught by our teacher how to use algorithm. At first I was kind of struggling to use the algorithm strategy, at the end of the week I now know how to use it from the help of my friends. Algorithm helps me to solve problems really quick. My working out is in my maths book if you want to know. I hope you enjoyed this little moment of presentment.

Algorithm

This week our Maths class have been taught by our teacher how to use algorithm. At first I was kind of struggling to use the algorithm strategy, at the end of the week I now know how to use it from the help of my friends. Algorithm helps me to solve problems really quick. My working out is in my maths book if you want to know. I hope you enjoyed this little moment of presentment.

Article

Hello there, as you can see here there is a presentation. The presentation is about an article that my reading group has been reading and the article is talking about a famous Olympian Runner called Brenda Martinez.  If you don't know who Brenda Martinez is you should probably start investigating her more and get some information about her.  So when Brenda Martinez was a young girl she couldn't afford to buy a new pair of running shoes.  The shoes that she wore to school is the same shoes that she wore to her practice (Brenda Martinez was poor when she was little).  Now Brenda Martinez gets running shoes from her sponsor's, New Balance and she also gives free running shoes to young runners. I hope you enjoy my presentation.