My Tongan Pepeha

Ko hoku hingoa ko Meleane

Hoku fâmili’s anepô huafa Pi Nelson-Latu

Sai Mei Tonga and levin

Hoku mo'unga Pi he Tararuas

Hoku vai'tafe Pi Manawatu

This is my Tongan Pepeha.
My name is Meleane
My Family's name is Nelson-Latu
I come from Tonga and Levin
My Mountain is the Tararuas
My River is Manawatu.

Dance and Drama reflection.

I found reading the lines easy.

Today I found it very difficult as was partnered with someone who I had not been practising with and then they said my lines instead of theirs.
Our group needs to get better at remembering there lines.
Natasha said pointed out we forgot our lines and we could not improvise well.

I found out!!!

Hi,

You might be wondering did you get in well guess what I did.

Here is a screenshot

Screenshot of the email I got

As soon as I saw the subject in my emails my heart dropped I was so nervous but I got in! Can you believe it I was one of the 20!

I am so nervous!

Hi,
A few months ago I applied to go to Christchurch to go on a exhibition/summit. It is apart of the William Pike Challenge, the William Pike Challenge is about pushing your boundaries and putting yourself out of your comfort zone.  Hundreds of children applied from around New Zealand and my chance was pretty slim to getting in.

Here is some information about what I applied for:

Antarctic Heritage Trust is partnering with the William Pike Challenge Award to bring the spirit of Antarctic exploration to a group of year 7 to 9s from around New Zealand.

Over the weekend of 21-22 September 2019, approximately 20 students will travel to Christchurch, New Zealand’s gateway city to Antarctica, to spend the weekend with Kiwi legend William Pike at the Young Inspiring Explorers’ Summit. Successful applicants will engage in a weekend of exploration and learning; meeting husky dogs and penguins, camping out overnight; being challenged to step outside their comfort zone; and finding inspiration in the legacies of historic Antarctic explorers.

The weekend will encourage and empower these young, modern-day explorers to meet the challenges of life head-on by connecting them to the inspiring feats of early Antarctic exploration.

You must have a natural curiosity, and a desire to work alongside fellow explorers to learn about the remarkable world we live in. A willingness to share the experience with their community is important, as students will document their journey and tell their stories through a variety of channels when they return home.

Students will receive a certificate of achievement at their successful completion of the programme. They will also become members of the Antarctic Heritage Trust Alumni Programme, which includes Inspiring Explorers like William Pike and Brando Yelavich. As part of the Alumni Programme students will receive all the latest updates and info about alumni events and future expeditions. 

I have been waiting very anxiously to find out whether I got in or not. So the question is did I get in?

Come back for more next week.

Here is the link to the information: Young Inspiring Explorers' Summit 2019 

Flying Rockets

For the past term we have been helped by a lady called Laura. Doing what? Well we have been making rockets and then flying them. Something I have learnt

; Don't go over 60 PSI as the rocket or pump may explode.

The people in my group were Sam,Taison and Karley. It was good combo and I enjoyed doing this.

Harold-Life Education trust

This week we went to Harold. You may ask "Oh what did you learn about" I say back "Drugs"
We heard Jason, Amy and many others stories about using drugs and what it did to them and it even made me sad learning about this as we have drugs in Otaki and through these stories I saw what drugs did to these people like Jason hardly gets to see his children. An important thing to take away from this is Don't use or abuse drugs.

2 weeks ago we got given a Special object mine was a chess piece.

Three facts about the chess piece-

The longest game of chess lasted 20 hours and 15 minutes

The second book written in English was one about chess

The king is the most precious chess piece in the game of chess. It can move right, down or diagonally. It is only allowed to move one square at a time.

Look through someone else's eyes

This is my Poster for our Inquiry it was: What would it be like to look through someone else's eyes!

My awesome trip to the circus!

This is about my trip to Wellington with my classmates.

My Card to christchurch:(

This is my card I made for the Muslim Community in Christchurch. Not all Muslims can speak English so I translated the front into: Turkish,Indonesian and Swahili.

By Meleane

We should always be able to listen to music in class!!

Why should we be allowed to listen to music in class?-Meleane

I feel that we should be able to listen to music. You may ask why, well this is why you're reading this.  I will tell you 5 good reasons on why you Ms.Mclean should let us listen to music in class. It has been proven that music can help the brain. Music would technically make the class quieter, how you may ask it would mean that people spend less time talking and more time working.

As you can see, it does make people who are sad happy. It really does help you focus. Music lets people connect with each other.
 I am not saying that there wouldn’t be restrictions, we could make a clean class music list together. What I am saying is that it helps people focus and calms them. Please Ms.Mclean let us listen to music in class.


By Meleane