Austrlia opens it borders

 Three states in Australia have just   now opened their borders to New Zealanders.

Yesterday, South Australia joined New South Wales and Northern Territory in opening its borders to New Zealanders.

Now New Zealanders can go to the country without being put into quarantine . 

It is hoped the move will enable family members to reunite and even provide tourists for some states.

Livestock Ship Protest

Hundreds of people in Napier have been  protesting  after another livestock ship left from its port

Animal rights group said the "demonstration was intended to send a message that"New Zealanders are against livestock transport.

The protest follows   demonstration in Timaru earlier this week when around 8000 Stocks  were loaded onto a ship going to  for China. 

  

Tech Term 3

IT is not back to school with it being level 2 in Auckland, and now we have tech again, but this time we swapped groups. The group I am in now is hard materials. The thing we do in this tech class is something called Pewter Casting.

How it works is. We get a picture of something we like and get a silhouette stock image of it from google, then after that we put it on our workbook (if you have a chromebook) then when we have 12 (4 for different people).

Volleyball Tornament 🏐

Last wednesday. Some of the year 7 and eight went to represent our school in a volleyball tournament.

The first school we versed was panmure district. When the game was over the score  was 10-14 with us getting the win for the first round. 

the second round was against Panmure Bridge, we didn't know how much was the points but we won, 

the third round we lost to glen brae  :(

but the forth round we versed tamaki Primary the score by the end of that game was 12-26 

The next game it was Our school (Ruapotaka) vs Glen Innes. We lost by 4 points :(

But then for our final game we versed Point England and we one by 3 points.

At the end of the volleyball tournament we got 4 wins and 2 loses. 🏐 

Tech blog- Making a light bulb circuit

Equipment. Battery, Bulb circuit and wires

Method: First I put one wire in the positive side of the battery then put the other wire in the the negative side of the battery, then I got the bulb circuit then I connected the wire to the positive side and connected the other wire to the negative side of the outlet.


The outcome: It lighted up making a tiny light source.

Tech Blog- Light bulb switch

For this week of tech, our class learnt about light bulbs. We first turned on our light bulb by connecting the wires to the positive and negative side of the battery. After that we got a switch we had to connect to the light bulb circuit so we can control when it turns on or off.

When we finished connecting the switch to  light bulb we also got given a voltmeter to show the amount of volts we used while we had the light on. My light bulb only had 5 volts when it was on.  Following on with the light bulbs we then learned about the 3 types of light bulbs(compact fluorescent  light,  incandescent light and a LED light) we then got taught which of these 3 bulbs were the most useful.

24 hour digitial Footprint

For cybersmart we had to show our 24 hour digital Footprint. This is my 24 hour Digital Footprint

Auckland Airport Runway Gets Shorter

RIght now Auckland's runway is getting shortened by a kilometer  but is still in use. On Sunday night The workers started to get to work on the runway trying to fix the the panels in the touchdown area which were damaged before.


Before repairing the runway they got a lot of criticism because of that for the last 12 months. They need 280 slabs of concrete to fix the runway. They planned it later on in the year but the drop in air traffic because of lock down made them start early.

2nd Week Of Tech

On the 2nd week back at tech we were taught about the different types of plastic. We learnt the different types of plastic that are Reusable plastic and One use of plastic.

We were also learnt that having Biodegradable plastic is actually pretty good to use. There is also so many different types of plastic out there. One of them being  high density polyethylene, which is just milk containers and any other type of bottle.  This type of plastic is called HDPE.

2nd Rotation Of Tech 2020

Today we swapped groups and now I am in the group called steam.

the definition of steam is, Science, technology,  engineering and mathematics.
We Learnt about the sea by watching marine biologist. The First lesson of steam is was exciting. 
 

Back At School

After a long 2 months of lock down, we finally back at school. It was fun at first in the morning but then as the day went on we all kinda got back into our normal routine. First day back was a solid 7 out of 10.

It did take a while to get to school because of the traffic. It is different though because of  covid-19 im still hoping to have good year.

First Kiwifruit harvest of 2020 sent to japan

The very first shipment of kiwi fruit s now being sent to japan.

The shipment is scheduled to reach Tokyo in March.

The ship also when to Gisborne to pick up over 330,000 trays of sungold Kiwifruit

New Zealand Shut Down

By tomorrow on Wednesday the 24 of March, all of the stores and schools will be shut down.

They are all going into shut down because of  covid-19.  Jacinda Ardern said "we are at level 3" and said they are going to level 4 in 48 hours. The duration of the shut down is 4 weeks. In that time she hopes nobody will get infected.

Hope all of you stay safe, and make sure you keep your hands clean.

Drones vs Pest

The Department of conservation has set up drones to fight off pest.

The drones cost 750k  and is a key step for New Zealand predator free by 2050.
Drones have a very high rate to get rid of pest so this is one of their choices they made to get rid of pest.

New Zealand Announces measures against covid-19

New Zealand prime minister has created measures against Covid-19. As of Midnight everybody(besides people coming from the pacific) will be isolated for 14 days

At Jacindas conference she said "we have two choices as a nation, one is to let covid 19 roll on, the other is to stamp it out and let the power slow down"

COVID-19 In New Zealand

There are currently 3-5 confirmed cases on the  coronavirus in New Zealand.


The Coronavirus has affected many countries around the world, because of this the Coronavirus is well known all around the globe. It is also very sad because New Zealand refuses to get any postage from china because of the Coronavirus.

Trip To Hamlins Hill

On the 28th of February 2020 all the year sevens and eights went to halins hill to look at the pest and the trees. We also learnt alot about why the pest are so bad. It was actually a very fun time at Hamlins Hill even the walking was actually fun.

Food Tech 2020 Noodle Salad

On the 26th of February all the year seven and eights went to tech. At food tech we made a  noodle salad.

Ingredients:

Noodles

Lettuce

Cucumber

Carrots
Balsamic Dressing

Partner: Agueer 

How we made it was, we put the noodles into the pot and filled it with water. We then boiled it until soft. After that we had to get the chicken and shred the chicken up. We also had to cut the carrots into finger size and slice the cucumbers thinly.

Blog Profile 2020

Blog profile.

Malo e lelei, Kia Orana, Hello and welcome to my blog, I am updating my
blog profile from three years ago...

Let me tell you a little about me

My name is Frank and I am writing this blog post from my school and
getting to post it. The school I go to is still Ruapotaka and my teacher is Mrs Cardoza. My school year this year is year 8 and it is my last year at this school.

I am Samoan and Maori. I have 2 siblings that live with me and my niece
lives with us too as she goes to the same school. I also have a Mum and
a Dad (thankfully) and all together there is five people living in my house.

I like to just be lazy and sit around, but I also like playing games, I do
some volleyball but I suck at it. My favourite subject is Maths just for
the fun of solving numbers .

Thank you for reading my post and hope you liked it.