The World's Worst Natural Disasters

For Humanities at St Peters College we have been learning about Natural Disasters. Here is a graph to show my findings and learning.

St.Peters College

A new year, starting a new school it does feel weird. St.Peters college an all boys school, private, right next to Auckland Boys and Catholic. That’s my new school, that I would be attending from now onwards. It sent a shiver up my spine even thinking about a new school. Orientation day, the day where I got to meet some of the other year 9’s that were starting at St.Peters college this year too.

“Good Morning Boys!” exclaimed Mr Neville. Mr Neville is our Dean (which means he’s in charge of all the students in year 9 level) “Good morning sir!” We answered. He told us all about the college and its principles to follow by. We followed him around the school and saw most of the classes which we were going to be in. It was a junkload to take in, I was still trying to figure out which classes I would be in?

My favourite subjects include, Maths, French, P.E, Art, Humanities (History and Geography). Some of the other subjects I find a little more challenging like English and Science. This year has taught me to become more independent and organised for example catching the bus to school, learning to move class by class and getting my stuff ready for the next day.

This year one of my goals is to do well in school academically and also in sports. I hope that this year will be a good year.  

Prize Giving 2013!

Every year we have an annual event called prize giving. It’s when parents and their children comes together to celebrate this year and hand out awards to kids who have done well in some subjects this year. “These are the awards for Team 4!” Mr Burt announced, everyone was clapping and cheering for the kids who went on stage. After the awards were handed out Mr Burt said “Now it’s time for the Team 4 Item!”

After Team 4 had finished it was time for our awards to be handed out. “These awards are for Citizenship, 100% attendance and effort” Mr Burt said. As some people were going on stage parents and older siblings were coming up to the stage. More awards were being handed out and as time went on it started to heat up and my back was starting to ache. Then I heard that Mr Burt was handing out the sports awards.

“These are the awards for rugby rep” Mr Burt said. I knew I was going to get an award because I played for Bill Mclaren. My name was called and I walked to Mr Telea to get my certificate and medal. Then the Academics was announced 3rd place was Shoal, 2nd Makerita, 1st Vivienne. After all the awards were finished Mr Burt called up the Team 5 Item.

“Stand by me! Ohhh Stand by me!” We all sung. That was the last part to our Team 5 item. After everything was done Mr Burt said a prayer then everyone was free to leave. I went around talking, chatting and taking photo’s with people. At the end of the night I was really happy.

Year 8 Highlights From Camp!

The sun glistened through the glass windows as we headed down to Rotorua. It was finally time for our Year 8 camp, we were heading to Camp Keswick down in Rotorua. The bus started up and we started our journey. It felt so long on the way down, two hours had passed and my body ached. We had a short stop for lunch, I got up and went outside for fresh air. Another hour passed and then the smell kicked in the smell of Rotorua was egg. I looked around and I saw a sign that said Camp Keswick, we had finally arrived.

“Okay now get into your cabin and set up where your each going to sleep” Mrs Nua said. I was just about to race into our cabin when I just remembered about grabbing my bags. I did a quick turn and went back to the bus to get my bags. I was the first in my room all my other roommates Waata, Crusader, Kington L, James and Raenan were just arriving.  

The first day we got there  The hike was an hour and a half and it was so hot, my skin was burning from the heat. Sweat covered my face as I ran down the hill, the wind blew into my face. My feet felt numb, but the momentum of going down hill kept me going. I could hear a big group of people below then I knew I had nearly finished. As I got closer I could see that there was a big line just waiting for everyone else to arrive.

My favourite part about the whole trip was going down the Luge. We arrived to see the bottom of the hill it seemed like it was going to take forever just to get to the top. The gondola arrived and we hopped in quickly it shook a little bit and then after a while it balanced out. Going up I looked around and I could tell that some people were scared. After 15 minutes had past we were at the top where we jumped off at the top.

We only had one free ride and when I was going down I was really nervous because I didn’t want to crash. I was going down the track as fast as I could without crashing, we finally reached the end after a long drive.

Yr8 Yearbook

Darius Yr8 Memories from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This is a short snippet of the main memories I have experienced here at Pt England School.

* How long have I been at Pt England School?

I have been at Pt England for 8 years

* Who were my teachers in each year level?

Year 1 - Mrs George

Year 2 - Ms Wood

Year 3 - Ms Mackinlay

Year 4 - Ms Garden

Year 5 - Ms Squires

Year 6 - Ms Garden

Year 7 - Ms Squires

Year 8 - Mrs Lagitupu

* Who were my friends?

Waata, Crusader, Kingston P, Kingston L, Samuela, James, Starford, Xavier, Raenan, Potaua, Jesiah.

* What was my best memory from school? My worst memory?

Best memory: When we went to Kawau Island in year 6.

Worst Memory: When we had Cross Country in year 7. It was really hard going through the bush walk because the ground was slippery and had sticks and twigs on the ground.

* What was my best/greatest achievement at school?

My greatest achievement was when I became a prefect and in year 4 when I got an academic award for 3rd place equal.

* What will I miss about being at Pt England School?

What I’m gonna miss most is the way learning at Pt England is using digital learning.

* What are my goals for the future?

To go to University and become a Lawyer, or become rugby league player.

* What advice do I have for other Pt England students?

Is to always have respect for your teachers.

SER Self-Explaining Roads

Observation:

What I observed is that younger people have very different answers and sometimes are not very co-operating. When I was interviewing them some were very shy and some were really good at talking. I observed that the younger kids also would mostly say don’t know? So I had to try and change my language so that they could understand and try to answer the best they could.

Hypothesis: 
I predict that

The things that I have learnt from this afternoon was that kids have very different perspectives. The age difference has a big effect because of the response’s

Conclusion:

What I thought about the whole survey was that it was hard sometimes because people wouldn’t answer my survey when I sent it. So what I have learnt is that people do like walking around with the Islands in place.

My Podcast

This Podcast was one of my latest podcast's. With my good friend Kingston.