Humanities 2021

STUDENT VOLUNTEER ARMY RESEARCH:

1. Who are Sam Johnson and Jason Pemberton?

Sam Johnson and Jason Pemberton founded a Volunteer Army foundation after the 2010 earthquakes in September, (VAF) was developed from the student clean-up movement.

2. Why was VAF group started?

It was created to address community needs in the recovery period of time of the Christchurch earthquakes.

3. How did they help the community?

They helped by cleaning up backyards on elderly people as they couldn't do it, they invited uni students who didn't have classes because of the earthquakes to volunteer and help clean up.

4. What obstacles did they overcome?

It was a difficult challenge to find where they were most needed after the earthquakes, but did manage to find and help clean those areas.

5. How did their work in Christchurch help people in Japan?

japan-bound USAR repayed chch workers in equipment and skills to finish tasks.

Something interesting that I found out about the Volunteer Army Research...

Was that they were really helpful to the community, and it just shows the kindness in people as the people in the group helped people for nothing in return.

NZ MUSIC MONTH

This month is New Zealand Music Month, & for this task, I'm going to find some information about two of the known bands in NZ.

Six60:

Six60 formed in Dunedin 2006. The members met at a Kora gig and discovered that they shared a love of Kiwi music and a passion of wanting to make music of their own. Six60 have been a group together for 15 years. Their first self-titled debut album was released on the 10 of October 2011 on their own label Massive Entertainment.

Stan Walker:

Stan Walker, was born 23rd October 1990, born in Australia and decided to make music in New Zealand. His first song was 'Black Box' 

Art - 2021

 What we did in Art:

First off we practised drawing manga and kowhaiwhai, we had to draw an art piece including manga and kowhaiwhai, first, we sketched it then we painted it. We were allowed to draw whatever only if it included those two art examples. My piece was split in half from the centre and drew two manga looking characters, one on the top and another one on the bottom, then I added in kowhaiwhai looking pieces to make it look interesting. At the start, we practised drawing different types of art examples, this was all in T1 (term one).

Next, we did another type of art. We made a frame out of thin cardboard, plastic and paper. On cubes of cardboard, we put all sorts of different colours to put on the plastic than paint on the paper with the colour covered plastic and make a colourful piece. 

We also got lino and drew a practice design. Then we got to draw on a piece of paper what we want to do on the lino, we use not sharp but kinda sharp tools to carve into the lino to make the design.

This is what we've done so far in T2 (term two)

Thanks for reading. :)

Digestive System Blog

 What Organs Do We Have in Our Body?

Oesophagus -

The Oesophagus is a muscular tube that goes from your throat to your stomach that is how you get food in your system.

Stomach -

The Stomach has 3 main functions, one is for temporary storage for food, two is for where it holds food for 2 hours or more, and three is the stomach mixing and breaking down food for digesting.

Small Intestine - 

The small intestine carries out most of the digestive progress, absorbing almost all of the nutrients you get from foods into your bloodstream. The walls of the small intestine make digestive juices.

Liver -

The Liver regulates most chemical levels in the blood and excretes a product called Bile.

Large Intestine -

The purpose of the large intestine is to absorb water and salts from the material that has not been digested as food and to get rid of any waste or leftovers.

The Siege of Kaiapohai Pa

When did the Maori establish Kaiapohai Pa?

in the year 1700.

Who was involved in the siege?

Te Rauparaha (one of the main leaders)

Why?

They claimed to be greenstone traders then attacked

Who was Te Kauparaha? Where was he from?

Te Kauparaha is one of the main leaders and he is from Ngati Toa

What happened to the iwi after the siege?

Te Kauparaha ended up killing over 100 prisoners then fled

What is a Pa?

A place where Maori live

Term 1 Athletics blogpost

The athletics events I've learnt this term are, shot put, relays, discus and high jump. I found it quiet helpful for discus that you can run up to throw the discus and use your legs to make sure it goes far. I made sure to bring my PE gear for every session practising for the athletics, I also participated in every practise for the athletics. I had fun running in the relays running in the 100m, and 200m sprints, high jump was fun also I wasn't wearing much colour on the day except for the yellow paint on my face. 

Getting ready for the apocalypse

 Humans aren’t normally ready for human-eating mutants roaming the earth, the apocalypse IS survivable, how the apocalypse might happen is because of miscommunication while reading information about a new virus. Testing that same virus on a human being causing that human being to turn into one of the walking dead, then escaping the lab and biting people spreading the virus (Space Spore) to others, creating a worldwide pandemic. 

You’d get one warning before the outbreak becomes critical you will be given 3 days to stock up on supplies, meds, food, water, and shelter, helping you have a chance of surviving the apocalypse.

It’d be best to find others when the major outbreak has occurred so you can travel in groups, protecting each other as well as sharing and caring for each other. Humans aren’t normally ready for human-eating mutants roaming the earth, the apocalypse IS survivable, how the apocalypse might happen is because of a miscommunication while reading information about a new virus. Testing that same virus on a human being causing that human being turned into one of the walking dead, then escaping the lab and biting people spreading the virus (Space Spore) to others, creating a worldwide pandemic. 

You’d get one warning before the outbreak becomes critical you will be given 3 days to stock up on supplies,meds,food,water,and shelter, helping you have a chance of surviving the apocalypse.

It’d be best to find others when the major outbreak has occurred so you can travel in groups, protecting each other as well as sharing and caring for each other. 

It’d be good to have weaponry, the best types are, katanas, sniper rifles, guns, and sometimes you can put together your own weaponry for e.g. grenades, using cloth,alcohol and fire you can make a molotov.

Sometimes you have to risk animals' lives for your survival, you hunt, kill, cook, then eat. You can also scavenge food, from abandoned buildings or you could get lucky and find the supermarket before it’s raided.

It’d be good to have weaponry, the best types are, katanas, sniper rifles, guns, and sometimes you can put together your own weaponry for e.g. grenades, using cloth, alcohol, and fire you can make a Molotov.

Sometimes you have to risk animals' lives for your survival, you hunt, kill, cook, then eat. You can also scavenge food, from abandoned buildings or you could get lucky and find the supermarket before it’s raided.

EOTC

EOTC - Education Outside The Classroom

Last week we had 3 days outside of school the year groups 7-9, the places they went to were first on Wednesday we had Adrenalin Forest then on Thursday we went to Jellie Park on the last day (Friday) we went to the city. In the city we went to Botanic Gardens, the Museum and our last stop was Margarete Mahy. At Adrenalin Forest, we were taught the safety rules, how to clip on and clip off the clips, how to go on the flying foxes. I went up to level 2 it was a really fun experience and a privilege to learn. At Jellie Park I spend most of the time on the hydro-slide with my friends, then I overcame my fear of jumping off the big diving board. In the city I was walking around with my friends and when we were at the botanic gardens we were doing a quiz, and on the way there I saw my favorite fountain on the way inside the Museum, whilst we were in the museum we learned a lot about past and how people lived back then, then we went into this house in the museum that is decorated with shells by this old couple then at Margaret Mahy we ate then played on the playground, and I had fun on the spinning swing.