Academic Progress

My Contributions

In term 1 I participated the 20 hour Famine, Staffroom Duty and the Writing Workshop. In Term 2 I was in the Coca-Cola Netball, Extention Music, and the Science Fair. In Term 3 I was involved in Zone Netball. In Term 4 I went to the Turners and Growers Stadium for competitive athletics. I have had 5 Merit Mentions and 2 Sports Mentions.

My Letter

At Pukekohe Intermediate School two year 7 classes (including mine) are studying Maui’s Dolphin and have found that they are critically endangered.

Maui’s are the smallest and rarest dolphin in the world. Every year, approximately 250 dolphins die from polluted waters, nylon fishing nets and boats that speed around the dolphin’s habitat.

Maui’s are very slow breeders. They only have 1-3 dolphin’s in their 20 year lifetime, so the population does not grow very fast. We only have around 30 years to save the Maui’s dolphin before they become extinct. There are only 111 dolphins left.

The main reason the population is declining is because the Government is not doing anything about the fishing nets. Maui’s are attracted to the fishing nets and when they get stuck the dolphins cannot swim backwards. Some ideas my class and I have thought of are put up signs around the beaches where the dolphins live, saying no fishing nets or you will have to pay the fine, go slow in your boat around the habitat and use eco-friendly re-usable bags instead of plastic bags.

A lady called Victoria from WWF came into our class, to talk about how we can make a difference. She told us some locals from Auckland found a dead pilot whale beached and when some scientists cut it open, they found 500 plastic bags that it had eaten from in the water.

I would hate to see something like that happen to the Maui’s.

P.S. Congratulations on becoming Prime Minister.

Maui's Dolphin

In term 3, 2 year 7 classes have been researching the Maui's Dolphin. They are native to New Zealand and are becoming extinct. We only have approximately 30 years to save them before it's too late.

Computers Galore

In my classroom we have 16 Apple Emac brand Computers. We use them everyday for publishing work and researching. Throughout the year we have been learning how to use the very tricky Apple Programs. We have Firefox, Seamonkey, Itunes, Iphoto, Imovie, Garageband, Keynote, Pages and Apple works 6. In term three we downloaded Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excell and Microsoft Entourage. There is one between 2. Our class was purpousely built for the digital classroom. It was built to increase ICT Skills and for my classmates to carry the skills through to year 8.