The Galapagos Islands and Evolution

This term at school we have been learning about evolution and the Galapagos. My favourite part of learning the topic were the David Attenborough documentaries because they were very interesting. We also learnt about how all the islands on earth formed and about the dinosaurs. I very much like this topic and learning about adaptation and all the amazing animals though i wish we could have done more work on the evolution of other animals from other parts of the world asides from the Galapagos islands My suggestion for what we should do for our next topic is either ancient Greece or ancient Rome or maybe WW2.  

Responsibilities

This year I was able to get 2 responsibilities around the school which were house captain and sports leader. To get a role or responsibility you had to write a letter to the teacher about why you would be the best for the job.

I really enjoy being a house captain because we can help out arranging school events with Mrs Taylor and the other house captains. Some of the other things we do as house captains are: counting up the house points from the other classrooms and read them out in during assemblies.

My second role I have is being a sports leader Every day a different group of sports leaders have to take the PE cart from the shed and roll it down to the courts were people can get out sports equipment. We also have to pump the balls if they are getting flat and coach younger students for sports tournaments such as rippa rugby. I wouldn't change much about the role apart from finding a way to make taking down the cart easier because sometimes  it gets a bit tricky.

ASB get wise

On Wednesday we had a person from the ASB get wise program come to our school and he taught some classes in our school about how to get better with managing our money. His name was Vane and he was quite funny and entertaining. I think that the talk was worthwhile and I learnt what PIN means and the difference between between an Eftpos card and a Credit card. I think that I do manage my money well and one think that I could improve about it is keeping my money in the back so I can receive extra interest. My favourite part of the entire thing is when Vane gave us a few minutes to plan a small business with a partner. Me and Thomas decided to make a business to grow and sell tomatoes and we called the business "Walmart" which was really funny. Over all I found the talk worthwhile and I learnt a lot from it.

Mission Fair 2015

Last Friday we had Mission Fair! For mission fair we had to get into groups and set up a stall to run for an hour to raise money for Vanuatu after cyclone Pam. In my group we had Sam, Frankie, Max, Thomas and William and we were running a Pizza and drinks stall.

I think that our stall when well apart from Dominos being really slow with delivery. All our pizza sold out in less than 10 minutes so that was a success. Something I would change about our stall would be ordering our pizzas earlier and ordering more pizza because many people were asking us if we had any left after we had sold out.

In conclusion Misson Fair was a big success and we raised over $2300 for the rebuild in Vanuatu