Hydro Electric System

Our Expectations of Graphics Technology.

At Graphic Mr. Pineda asked us to create a Google drawing to share our expectations of Graphics Technology.

Live Electricity Prevention

Title	Live Electricity Prevention
Short Description	Live electricity running through your cable cords. Are you safe around electrical appliances?
Identify	Did you know that electricity is alive and if you come in contact with it, it will fry the whole of your insides.
Detail 1 / Cause
Detail 2 / Effect	Death, amputations, hospitalised, scars, injuries, disabilities
Detail 3 / Prevention	Keep out of reach, keep electrical appliances away from water, turn the switches off when you're done,
Conclusion	Have your children been badly hurt? start being electricity wise before it happens again!

Live electricity running through your cable cords. Are you safe around electrical appliances?

A total of 28 people from the age of 15+ are dying each year from electrical injuries. If you come in contact with live electricity it will fry the whole of your insides and your internal organs will stop and cause your body to shut down.

Cause

There are many ways your child can get injured in your household even though you think it may be a safe environment for them. Parents sleeping in a room while your toddler is awake and roaming through a messy house while electrical appliances are out. Commonly toddlers like to suck on long cords that are plugged into power sockets and you may wake to a dreadful sight.

Adults can die from careless use of electronic devices. Some may not even be their fault, or they might die from electric malfunctions. Adults often die from carelessness of use and combine electricity and water together as entertainment.

Effect

Electricity  can make you get hospitalized, get amputations, scars, disabilities and most importantly death! Amputations can be made which can affect your career if you're an athlete and you'll have to wait for a prosthetic leg to be made.

Prevention

• Don't plug a whole bunch of cords into one power outlet.
• Stay away from places with danger signs around it.
• Turn the switch off before taking the power plug out.
• Don't yank any cords out of the power outlet
• Fly kites far away from power lines and sub stations.
• Keep electrical things away from water.

Water Sustainability is Important

The Pump House Theatre

Laughter, giggles and smiling faces.

Yesterday afternoon some Ruapotaka students were lucky to observe the humorous performance of Tim Bray’s Production. The broadway show was great!

Through out the whole show a lovely lady named Kelly was on the side interpreting the actors roles in sign language. She had awesome expression on her face whilst she was translating.

I’d like to thank Mr and Mrs. Becroft for paying for us and giving us the experience of watching the show. They decided to pay for us and other schools so we could have the experience they felt the first time they sat in the Pumphouse Theatre.

We sat comfortably in our seats, enjoying Grandma Mcgarvey’s adventures about her life changing events and Grandpa’s  stuck up ways about him not having to wear new clothes and even going to the beach.

By Mira and Damien

My Role as a Manaiakalani Ambassador

The sight of my picture exposed on the projector signaled it was my time to speak. Eyes concentrated on me and waiting for me to begin. I took a deep breath and began presenting my speech loud and clear.

I wasn't really shy, thanks to the encouragement of my teacher and principal who helped me overcome my stage fright.

Hearing a whole selection of new subjects I didn't know existed was great. The other students there informed me well about what they did and I also enjoyed the humorous speeches and videos. I am looking forward to presenting my next speech.

Here’s the link to my speech. Check it out and give me a feedback on something I can improve next time.

Here is my speech

Kia Ora my name is Miria and I am a year 8 student who attends Ruapotaka School which is a full primary school located on Taratoa Street.

This year my class took on the task of hosting our Senior Syndicate Assembly. This meant we had to negotiate with each other and organise roles to present. The displaying of our work was to be included in our assembly. Making a selection of songs also needed to be added. This was difficult because we all had to agree with the song choices and they had to be appropriate for school-aged children.. We asked for requests from other teachers and classes and what they wanted to sing. We made a decision about a couple of songs as a class.

Next we made a Google document and shared it with everyone who was participating and contributing to the hosting of the assembly, so they had access to it and we could then begin our collaboration.. Then we inserted a table and laid out our parts of the speech. We had to decide what items we wanted included in our assembly and who was going to say what and in what order they were to be said. We inserted the links to the songs the google document so they were only a click away. We argued, agreed, disagreed, negotiated and finally came to a compromise on the schedule.

When this was completed, we had to memorize our speeches and present them loud and clear.

Finding students in my class who wanted to showcase their Independent Inquiry learning about Water Sustainability and Wastewise was simple.

Five students including myself volunteered to display our visual arts and google presentations. Each of us had a WALT to state that was relevant to our artwork, and we obtained these WALTs through our classroom’s daily planner.

Our teacher went over what we decided and double checked everything made grammatical sense. Our teacher provided us with her opinions and we made changes as a group. In our classroom we are independent learners.

The assembly was under way and I thought it went better than I expected. Teachers complimented us on how well we had done. Our teacher, other classroom teachers as well as an observer who had come to watch our learning were impressed by the  collaborative work we had done together and the co-operation that was needed in making this work for us.

Our assembly was done and dusted and each of us hostesses and hosts went into our Google drive and wrote a blurb about what we did to take part in our assembly. Our photos were taken while we were hosting the assembly and uploaded them to our class site. Each of us took a photo and inserted it into our blog.

Damien's Water Sustainability

Elizabeth's Wastewise

Miria's blogsite

Senior Syndicate Assembley

At the Senior Syndicate Assembly I displayed my water symbol. I was the second to announce one of our many Visual Arts WALTS. We also explained how and why we drew our symbols.