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Dedicated To Ruapotaka Y7/Y8!!

On Friday afternoon, Ruapotaka Y7 and Y8s got one last lesson with Madd Messengers, Petia Wilson and Caroline. They inspired us by telling us that we could aim for our dreams or our ambitions and to be successful. They told us we were unique and that we could become anything we wanted to be if we tried our best.  

This video is a dedicated to Petia Wilson and Caroline, our Madd Messenger tutors:

How To Prevent Electrical Injuries.

What does it mean?

Electrical injuries is a physical reaction that results in an electrical current going through the body which can leave you with scars and burns and it can also lead you to death.

Electrical injuries affect the mind and the body of a person. One way of not getting electrocuted is to wear rubber. This can help you avoid electrocution. The reason why people are getting electrocuted is being forgetful, being careless with the electrical appliances around the school and homes, the lack of caution, water combined with electricity, and live electrical wires.

These can lead to scars, burns, disability, paralyzation, amputation, and it can damage the inside of the human body, and it can also lead you to death. There can only be one way to prevent electrical injuries in homes and in school is to inspect every electrical appliance in the area, replace or repair damaged appliances or put them away in a safe place.

Make sure to read the caution label that comes with your electrical appliances because it is really important for you and family. Protect your kids by using outlet covers to cover the power source. This helps prevent babies and children to go near it.

Safety is as simple as ABC- Always Be Careful      ---Unknown

Preventing Illnesses.

The condition of being ill is something that affects your mind and body.

Common Illnesses:

1. Flu
2. Ebola
3. Chickenpox
4. Measles
5. Cold

The causes of these common illnesses is first by poor hygiene. Poor hygiene can cause a lot of severe conditions in your body that can stay with you forever just like diabetes and diarrhea. Some other causes that can affect you from illness is a sore throat, headaches and not washing hands because they can spread germs to other people and it can also spread to the world around you and that can be a real disaster.

To prevent these illnesses you can:

1. Wash your hands
2. Exercise regularly
3. Wash fruit and veggies thoroughly
4. Eat healthy
5. Wear appropriate clothes in the right season

To stop you from getting ill you can:

• Exercise
• Sleep early
• Eat healthy
• Keep away from eating fast food
• Go to visit the doctor

Please use these tips on how to prevent or avoid getting ill.

And remember When ‘I’ is removed and replaced by the word ‘we’

Even ‘illness’

Becomes ‘Wellness’

Water Sustainability.

In the past week Mrs Golder(Teacher) prepared a reading activity for the students to do at home for our homework. That activity was to make a new presentation for our topic Water Sustainability.

This following video is my presentation I made on we video.

Addition And Subtraction

During Term 2 Room 12 have been working on different kinds of strategies to work out different kinds of equations. Each of the students have stepped up a level in Maths by learning all the strategies. So far we have learned five strategies. Here are the W.A.L.Ts to all the strategies.

Strategy 1: Use standard place value. Addition that adds up to nine.

Strategy 2: Use tidy numbers and compensate.

Strategy 3: Increase one number and decrease the other number by the same amount.

Strategy 4: Use standard place value partitoning (expanding) place value.

Strategy 5: Regroup to combine compatible numbers.

When we had finished completing worksheets that were based on these strategies our teacher got us to make-up our own word problems according to our topic about water:
Here is what I wrote as my word problem: I used strategy 3 to help me with my word problem.
S3 increase and decrease

Everyone in the Southern Hemisphere uses up to 15 litres of water to bathe and everyone in the Northern Hemisphere uses up to 45 litres of water to bathe.

How many litres in total does everyone around the world use? 

This is my caculation for the word problem:

15+5 + 45-5

=20 + 40

=60 litres of water 

A Grade Certificates!!

We were overwhelmed that our names were announced by Mrs Golder.

We worked really hard to achieve at least five or more A grades in our homework. We shook our teachers hand proudly and the audience applauded us. We were pleased that we were awarded with A grade certificates. Our parents are very glad that we worked hard in Term One.

Our next goal is to get A grades for the rest of the year and to succeed so that we can have a better education. Every week we get Year 8 homework and usually we get A or better. Only six students were awarded with A Grade Certificates who were

,  Elizabeth, Ofa Miria, Cypress and Damien

Be better Than Before!