Return of the N.Z Warrior

Information Resource - Nick Willis                                                                                      

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Return of the N.Z Warrior

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By Isaac

23/08/16   Cost - 50 Cents

Early Life Nick Willis is a New Zealand representative of the sport running, He has been an active olympic member since 2004. In 2001 he was found by a Scout in lower hutt after he broke the record and created a new time of 4 minutes and 1.33 seconds for a mile and then left for the university of Mississippi. This photo was taken at the 2016 World Indoor Championships when Nick Willis placed 3rd behind future Olympic champion Matt Centrowitz and Jakub Holuša.

Career Four years later he was able to participate in the Golden League series in Paris and there he broke the 32 1500m year record from John Walker, then just a year later then won a gold medal in the 2006 Commonwealth Games which he completed in 3:38.49 minutes. At 18 Nick willis began his professional career and became successful Olympian runner and became New Zealand’s golden boy of running.

Injury- Comeback In 2010 Nick.W had unfortunately suffered a knee Injury and had to undergo surgery but against all the odds he managed to place 5Th as a defending champion then place 3rd in the following event. Recently Nick Willis placed 3rd in his division for the 2016 Olympics and also became the oldest male olympian who still receive medals. His plans for the 2020 Olympics is to change the distance he runs from 1500m to 5000m and hopefully he wins another medal.

Choices, Judgement and Life after Death (word find)

 
WALHT: Describe the relationship between the person one becomes in life, and ones's life after death.

In our lives God given us the freedom of our own choices and at the end of our lifes god judges us deciding if we go to Heaven or not.

Saint Nicholas

Making Decisions

Making Decisions

scenario

A. List Options: I not sure

2 I stood on the Line

3 I didn’t stand on the line

B Say what is right or wrong about each option.

Option 1 Wrong because he knew the truth

Option 2 Right because he's telling the truth

Option 3.Wrong because he’s is lieing

C.  Say what would be the consequences of each option for everyone concerned.

1.There could be evidence

2.He would feel disappointed for not making it

3.Kicked off the team

S. Say what values you think lie behind each option and tick those that reflect gospel values -  the values of Jesus.

1.Lying

2.Truth

3.Lying

E. Say which option you would have chosen and why.

I would've chosen to tell the truth because if i lied at least one person could have seen me and I wouldn’t risk it.

Fraction Word Problems

Walt: Solve word problems using fractions

Reading to Learn: Satellites

I have been reading to learn more about satellites. Using close reading skills I read across the text to connect information to help me understand more,I take notes about the key ideas and then use these to write a summary. After that I read another article about the same thing and then I compare and contrast information from both articles and write a synthesis.

Venn Diagram

Commitment,Perseverance, Excellence, Respect and friendship is what the players of each of these sports have. Their commitment is shown when they put in  years of training to complete their goal.

Walht:compare and contrast information from two articles to identify similarities and differences and then using that information to synthesize the key ideas that link to the values and skills of their sport codes.

Creating and analysing data displays

Walht: Create graphs using a speadsheet and to analyse data in those displays

In this Graph it shows the rainfall in mm over the period of a week 

On Monday there was 0 mm rainfall

On Tuesday there was 7 mm rainfall

On Wednesday there was 0 mm rainfall

On Thursday there was 5 mm rainfall

On Friday there was 4 mm rainfall

On Saturday there waas 2 mm rainfall

On Sunday there was 6 mm rainfall

Spiders

Spiders are from the Arthropod family,they can live from 1 to 25 years of age. Their Scientific name is Araneae. The largest Spiders can eat frogs, mice and even birds.

The Biggest spider on earth is call the Goliath Birdeater.

If you are looking to find an Araneae they can be found in every single place on earth except for the Antarctic area. The approximate population of spiders on earth was calculated around 40,000. They have eight legs which connect them to the Arthropods.

Araneae have a really sensitive skin so their hairs can sense danger and when it does the hair stands up and acts defensive to protect the spider. Two more interesting facts about spiders is that the female Spider can lay 3,000 eggs and the life span of a female is much larger than a male.

Overall I think that learning about spiders is fascinating and learning things about it will make want to learn more.

How to be a better Basketball player!

How to be a better Basketball player!

Step 1: Always look and try find people to pass too

Step 2: Always encourage your teammates

Step 3: Try and improve your Jump Shot

Step 4: Take opportunities if you think you can nail it

Step 5: Train on certain points of your game

Finial Step: Try your best

My Scary Experience

My Scary Experience

On Wednesday I decided that I was going to watch the movie Exorcism. In the description of the movie it said that people over 18 were allowed to watch this movie which fed my craving to watch it. I sat down with a packet of chips and lollies in my left hand and a drink and a sundae in my right.

The movie was about a girl named linda blair who was possessed by a demon which took over her life I was thinking about turning the movie off because nothing interesting happened until a Linda’s friend was killed by the demon in a factory. I got more and more scared from that moment onwards.  

By the time that movie had ended I was unable to close my eyes and go out the bed thinking something was lurking underneath so I called my little sister(Angelina) to check if there was anything in my room. She disagree with me saying nothing was under there and when i got out my big sister(Joanna) jump scared me from underneath my bed,and now I check under my bed before i go sleep.

Discover what detergent does to milk!

Discover what detergent does to milk

Requirements:

Four different food colouring

Dark blue top milk

Detergent

Beaker

Eye dropper

Plastic plate

Steps:

Step 1:Measure 300 mls into beaker

Step 2:Pour into Plastic Plate

Step 3:Insert four different colour into each corner with eye dropper

Step 4:Clean eye dropper

Step 5:Suck detergent into eye dropper

Step 6:Add in to the middle

Step 7:Watch and observe

Batman

Today in multimedia class, I used Loupe Collage to make 

something about Ripper Rugby by using photos.

Values

Today in multimedia class, I used WordItOut to make something about  a virtuous person.

Ripper Rugby Superman

Today in multimedia class, I used Loupe Collage to make something about Ripper Rugby by using photos.

North Korea Test Bomb

As a part of our reading we work independently exploring news items that have a national or international setting.

1Article:North Korea Tests bomb 

Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

Kim Jong Un was the main person in this article which is also the leader of  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Kim jong un and the rest of North Korea have chosen to create a hydrogen bomb against the U.S

3. Where did this event take place?

North Korea

4. When did this event take place?

January 7 2016

The main problem is using the bomb against the U.S when the U.S has clearly not gone to war with them.

Mission Charism

We are learning about the values and virtues of our Mission Charism.

Sir Edmund Hillary

In reading this article I have been learning to combine close  reading and inference 

skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of people known as heroes or leaders.

Sir Edmund Hillary was a man with determination and was most definitely a high achiever. As you should already know he was the first person to ever reach the top of Mount Everest with his companion Tenzing Norgay. Edmund Hillary has his face on the New zealand 5 dollar note and was knighted by the Queen for his bravery and achievement.

He was an advocate for the people including the children of Nepal. This was shown when he spoke out to inform and encourage people around the world to help financially to build  schools,  hospitals, clinics, an airfield and bridges, to improve the standard of living for the people.  He founded the Himalayan Trust which became a charity foundation to help support the needs of the people.  He can be described as an  inspiration.

He believed in helping those in need. He used his fame to get financial support for the needs he had seen for the people of Nepal. He believed his idea of: creating the Himalayan Trust would last a long time and would continue on helping people in the near and far future.

Although famous worldwide, he remained a humble man, who encouraged others to reach out and help when and where they could.

The Number Pattern Mission!

WALHT I am learning to find a rule and use it to continue a number pattern.

A New Year A New Start

Hello, I'm Isaac. This year is going to be the hardest year that I am going to face
because I'm a year 8 and being the oldest year in the school means we have to
lead the younger generation. Having this be the last year of us being in this school
every-one will expect us to do good like our teachers, fellow students and the colleges
that were thinking of going to next year.So this year I'm going to be the best person that I
can be and leave this school as a role model to the generation to come.