Teachers going on strike for the first time in 24 years

Teachers going on strike for the first time in 24 years



During the past days I've been at school, I´ve been investigating
on the issue of teachers going on strike. Teachers are wanting
more resources, less stress of work and a pay rise. Teachers can´t
teach if the resources they need aren´t supplied and if the amount of
money they are getting isn´t suitable for the amount of work they are
doing. Lynda Stuart who is the President of the New Zealand education
institute has spoken, "We have a government we know are listening.
We are in a situation that if we don't fix this now we absolutely
will be in a disaster.¨ Another former teacher of New Zealand and is
now teaching in Canada has spoken about the differences in teaching
between New Zealand and Canada. In Canada, the amount of money
paid is suitable for him plus the amount of work he gets. There´s no
NCEA/NZQA, no standardized assessments and it´s a straight forward
curriculum.¨I will go back to NZ but not to teach¨, he said.

How does a Bill become an ACT

How does a Bill become an ACT?

A Bill goes through 7 stages to become an act. These acts or Laws protect

our rights, property and us. 

1. Introduction

The introduction is when the bill is introduced to the house.

2. First Reading

The first reading is when members of the parliament(MPs) debate on whether

or not the bill should move onto the select committee or if it should be denied.

3. Select committee

This stage is a select committee of MPs that carefully examine the bill. They

listen to views of the public, interested organisations that recommend ammendments
to report back to the house.

4. Second reading
The second reading is when the bill is returned back to the house along with the
recommendations of the select committee. Members consider it and decide
whether it should move on to the committee of the whole house.

5. Committee of the Whole House
MPs debate the bill and examine each part carefully bit by bit.

6. Third reading
In this stage members of the parliament study the consequences if the bill becomes a
law.

7. Royal assent
The Governor General signs the bill on behalf of the sovereign to become an Act or LAW.

Why we need LAWS?

Why we need LAWS?

A LAW is something that sustains us from doing wrong. We need laws
to protect us, our property and our environment. If we had no laws, imagine
a world with complete chaos. It wouldn't be a safe environment for you and
everybody else. But if we did have laws, consequences will be given to people
who do wrong and it provides a secure environment. Laws are very important
on earth because it equals out everyone and no one is above or under anybody
else.

Greens target foreign land buyers bottling NZ water in review of Overseas Investment Act

I definitely agree that foreign land owners should not be allowed to

sell New Zealand bottled water overseas. Why? Because foreign

land buyers are extracting New Zealand's natural resources(water)

for the benefit of earning money.It doesn’t do any good for New

Zealand citizens except wasting it on other countries. So I simply

agree with the green party, they’ve made many reasonable reasons

for why foreign land buyers should not sell bottled water overseas.

Including Marama davidson who quoted "We need to ensure that we

are not giving away this resource to international corporations to reap

profits from at the expense of New Zealand's best interests," as well as

"Water should not be for sale to the highest bidder. Changing the law

is a key step towards protecting it for the generations ahead," Greens

co leader Marama davidson said.

Cybersmart Assessment

Cybersmart

1. What it means to be cybersmart and why is it important

Cybersmart means being safe online. It’s very crucial to be
cybersmart because you could come across some cyberbully,
virus or hacker that could affect you in some way.

2.Two things you learnt about being cybersmart and how you
could apply it to your own life

Two things I have learnt about being cyber smart is double
checking what I write before pressing the send button and
how being cybersmart could affect my future. For example,
if I choose to do the wrong thing it could affect me from having
a job. Since all they know of me was all the bad things I did online.
Applying this to my life would mean not to comment or post bad

things about someone.

A personal strategy a young person can do to help themselves if
they are being cyberbullied

    - Talk to a friend

    - Ignore the bully

    - Talk to your parents or a Social worker

A interpersonal strategy a young person can do to help their friend
who is being cyberbullied.

    - Talk to them

    - Ask them to see a social worker

 - Support them if there having trouble

A personal strategy a young person who finds themselves bullying
other young people can do to help build their self-esteem and change
their behaviour
 - Make them realize that what there doing is bad
 - Help them change some habits that make them this way
- Tell them to see a social worker about all the problems that make
them a bully

Perspective on banning plastic bags

Today in Social studies, I read an article about Simon bridges 

thinking the banning of plastic bags is a big distraction and 

won't make any difference. 

I definitely agree that it is a big distraction plus a waste of time.

Supermarkets are already making a difference by putting a price

to buying plastic bags and by banning it won't make that much

of a difference. It also makes more issues for the prime minister

while she already has enough on her shoulders. 

It will have an impact for New Zealanders because they'd have 

to buy Recycles bags for when they go shopping and this is a 

big impact because plastic bags are what most stores use in New

Zealand on an everyday basis.  This applies to Jacinda because 

every problem with the banning of plastic bags, she would have 

to deal with it. Even when she has a baby who is only a couple 

months old. 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

What problems did you face? 

• Wondering how we would survive
• Making peace with new survivors on the island
• Thinking about all the solutions for our problems and seeing which one was best
• How we were going to respond to the pirates

How did you solve problems? 

• Debating on what we thought was best to survive 

Who made the decisions?

• Everyone in the group

Was their one person who made most of the decisions? If so why?

• Yes, because with one person in charge of the decisions then it wouldn't be much harder for the group. Since everyone might disagree with one another. 

How did you decide on who would be the leader?

• We thought about who can care for our well-beings, is kind and thoughtful to others and who knows best about surviving on the island. 

Why did we complete this task?

• To discuss with one another about all the decisions and it gives an example about our next subject, which is to do with the government. For example, being on an island means caring for one another, communicating, finding ways to survive and making sure everyone is fed. While being a government also means caring for your people and seeing which decisions are best for the country. As you can see, they both have some kind of connection with each other. 

Migration Model

In this migration model, explains why people migrate.

People migrate for either push and pull reasons. Push

reasons are reasons that are pushing them out of their

country to migrate somewhere else. Pull reasons are

reasons that lure the person into that country for better.

In this migration model I have done, shows how much

migrants who travel from Tokelau to New Zealand. As

you can see, the arrow on top is more thicker than the

arrow down bottom.This is because people migrate to

New Zealand more times than people migrate to Tokelau.

This is a pull reason because people migrate to New

Zealand from Tokelau because its for better education

and for a better life. A push reason in this scenario would

be leaving your family behind . This is why push reasons

have a negative impact while pull reasons have a positive

one.

Chocolate muffins - Cooking class

Today in Cooking class, my partner Ana and I made chocolate muffins. I did the cooking and she did the cleaning. The ingredients we needed were 1 1/2 of self rising flour, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of oil , 1 egg, 1/4 cup of cocoa, chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence. I added all these ingredients in one bowl and mixed it altogether. I then put it inside the muffin trays and placed it in the oven. It was set to 180 degrees and left in there for 15 minutes. When it was done we added some chocolate sauce as toppings. In the end, it was very very sweet because there was so much chocolate sauce on it. But as you can see there's no picture to show what we did, but I bet if we did then it would make your mouth watery. :)

Cooking Class - Omelette

Today in Cooking class me and my partner made omelettes. The ingredients we used were eggs,cheese,bacon,purple onion and capsicum. First we mixed the eggs then diced the bacon,onion and capsicum into small tiny pieces. We then put oil into our pans and waited for it be hot. We placed the egg into the pan and put the diced pieces onto one side of the egg. Then we flipped the other side of the egg onto the diced pieces and waited for it to be done. In the end we had a bit of sides with it including lettuce, bbq sauce and mayo. 

Ana + Kuraia 

Climate change

In this google drawing, I have drawn a mountain with icicles and ice

melting. Since the climate is changing and becoming more hotter ,

the north and south pole are liquefying making the sea level rise higher.

This becomes a negative impact on small islands as well as islands

that are only metres above the sea. This will mean that there will be

more climate refugees travelling to different countries. Climate refugees

are people who move from their main home because of the differences

happening to the weather, this includes tsunamis,pollution,sand storms

,hurricanes etc. The sea level rising is only one impact caused from

climate change,just imagine how many more changes will happen in

the next few years coming.

A trip to remote Tokelau

Returning back to tokelau , I noticed the changes happening
around the sea as well as what's happening above me. It was
always pouring so I’d spend most of my time lying down looking
at my study books ,wondering how proud my family would be of
me. But then I realised that if it’s bad out at sea then how bad
would it be on land, wondering if my family's ok. I easily get motion
sickness so with all the rocking on the boat, it didn’t help at all .
My favourite part on the trip was when it hit dusk, everyone would
receive a hot cup of Milo and it would always refresh me. As we
got closer to tokelau, I could see the small island from more than
10 yards away. As I observed the full island I look at all the changes
I’d have to adapt to since I was so used to living in a modern world
while I was studying. I noticed all the sea walls against houses and
palm trees as well as a crowd of people waving at us with joy. When
I got off the boat, I knew I was finally home.

Life In Tokelau - Perspectives

Life in Tokelau are hard for some people but as for Tolise and puka they've

gotten different perspectives in the way they live. Puka knows how to fish,

weaves baskets,build boats and traditional tokelau houses. He believes that if

he doesn't keep the old ways alive then how will people be able to live if they

can’t fish there own food, build boats and even construct houses.

Tolises life relates to what puka believes. When she returned back to tokelau

to take care of her family, her ways of living in New Zealand was way much

more different in tokelau.So she had to adapt to it quickly in able to take care

of her family. From tolise’s perspective she thought it was hard trying

to get into the old ways of how they live in tokelau as well as puka who tried

keeping the old ways alive so people know how to do this and that, so

everyone wouldn’t be in  a crisis of food or having no shelter.

Key concepts - Globalisation

During my lesson in social studies I have been learning

new vocabulary related to my subject about Globalisation.

Two words that I have learnt are sustainability and Migration.

Sustainability means being at a certain rate or level that

is stable . As an example , your on a lever and you need to

be in a certain place to be stable . That certain place

would be the middle of the lever and there you will find

sustainability. The definition of migration means moving

from one place to another . Birds always migrate due to

the weather changing so they’d have to adapt to the new

place, just like humans when we move to different

countries. As a result I have clearly understood the meaning

of these words and hopefully I would be able to use these

words in the correct order in any writing that relates to my topic.

Hot cakes

Today in cooking class we made hot cakes. The ingredients needed in this process was flour, eggs, milk , oil and sugar. We needed 1 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk and 1 egg . Whisking it altogether we made the pancake mix . Then we cooked it and ended up with this as our result.

Ana - Kuraia

Anzac day

Anzac day

Anzac day to me means honouring and respecting all the soldiers who died in the war as well as those who survived . Supporting them by wearing poppies is just a remembrance for all those men and women who served in WW1 . It’s important to commemorate Anzac day because as I said, it was a day of remembrance for all the people who died in the war and also to show respect .  In New Zealand we honour Anzac day on the 25th of April with a dawn service as it was the time that most of them had landed on gallipoli. We honour Anzac day by wearing poppies and the reason for that is because during the war poppies grew around the area . We also honour it by making Anzac biscuits as well as small donations .

Science

During the lesson of science with Mrs Kuruvilla , I have learnt about the structure of volcanoes and why they erupt. I’ve also learnt about earthquakes and what causes it to happen. I have been refreshed with the water cycle and all the layers inside earth as well as facts related to it. I’ve also gotten a little idea of how to calculate speed but I’m not fully confident in how to do it. So in the past weeks I've been to science, this i what I've learnt.