Intro:

As there has been a huge problem in our environment no one has been fixing it. This has been happening now for more than years. Humans impact the physical environment in so many ways like overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Changes like these have made climate change, poor quality of air and undrinkable water for humans. But out of them the main ones is Air pollution and Climate Change.

 What is Climate Change? 

Climate change refers to long-term temperature and water patterns. You can know when it is hotter , more severe storms and increased drought, a warming, rising ocean, loss of species, not enough food,  and more health risks. It means it is Climate Change. Climate change is the biggest health threatt. This is happening because human activities have been caused by climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, cutting down forests and farming livestock. 

What is Pollution? 

Pollution is the process of making the environment pollute the water and the air by adding harmful substances. But despite that this also affects us too. Many factories depend on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas for energy. The burning of these fuels generates emissions, such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides which are one of the main problems that also create pollution in our ecosystem. Not only that the things our daily routines depend on are our vehicles. Our cars often disclose all the burning gasoline and diesel fuel which creates air pollution around us and our surroundings.

How it effects our environment

Our environment is surrounded by a lot of pollution, toxic chemicals , burning fossil’s fuel and deforestation. But how? Pollutants in the air can be toxic to sensitive plants and trees, while pollutants in rainfall damage habitats by depositing acid or excess nutrients in our ecosystem. Not only that it also harms our animals that live in our habitats just in forests that mostly burn during the climate change. And never get help because of all the pollution.

Conclusion 

Despite that we all know that we are still and maybe always going to be surrounded with pollution but that doesn’t mean we can’t stop working hard to make our ecosystem clean. Every single one of us needs to inspire others to take care of our local streams,lakes,drains and our ecosystem habitats. But not only inspiring others to help cleanup our locals, we also need to work together and work hard to make our environment a hygienic environment.

The amazing J.R.R Tolkein

JR.R was a brilliant author. The books like Lord Of Rings, The Hobbit were written by him. He was an English writer and philolgist.

Who was Tolkein

JR.R Tolkein was born on 3 Jan 1892 in Bleomfontein, South Africa. His full name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkein. In 1892- 1973 he was an major scholar of English Language. He was also a professor of Anglo-Saxon (old English) at Oxford University. On 24 September 1914 Tolkein writes his first identifiable Middle- Earth fragment. His first story called Middle- earth got really popular to.

Childhood and Youth

Tolkein great- great grandfather John Benjamin Tolkien came to Britain with his brother Daniel from (Gdańsk) in about 1772 and rapidly became throughly Angticised. But at the age of three his mother brought him and his younger brother Hilary back London. Despite on 15 February 1896 Tolkien’s father died soon afterwards in South Africa.

Education

In June 1915 Tolkien achieved a first class degree. At that time he was also working on various poetic attempts, and made in the King Edward’s school chronicle. In 1911 Tolkien went to Exter college, Oxford where he studied classics, old English, Germanic languages. After 3 years Tolkien published his very first poem which is called From the many willow’d margin of the immemorial Thames.

conclusion

In JR.R Tolkien had an accomplished career, even though his works became most popular after he died in 2 September 1973 ( age 81 years). The drafts he wrote were than published by his son Christopher Tolkien from 1977 to 1983 and 1996. Christopher his son also published his most famous and popular series of work based on his father’s extensive notes and the unpublished manuscript including the Slimarillion.

Stanza 1.    1. The stars shimmer shine around the world 

2. The night is like curd
3. Where the wind swirls 
4. And hurls

Stanza 2.     1. The clouds thunder around the lightning stars

2. All the way up to the planet of Mars
3. The Earth is a welcome home
4. With clouds like white foam

Stanza 3.       1. The home of stars rummel with excitement 

2. Where the sun is the world’s flint 
3. With the curl of rays
4. As we are the predators for the prey

The Alarm has ringed and it was 5:00 Am. It was the day to go to school after 12 weeks, after my incredible holiday to India 🇮🇳. My name is Kanishka and I am an year 8. I study at The Gardens School. It was my first day of becoming an year 8 student, I had woken up really early and had an bath straight away. After having an quick bath I  started dressing up for school and make my breakfast.

After getting ready and packing all my stuff I jumped into the car and took off to school I was extremely excited to meet my friends. When we reached to school we had to go straight to our assembly hall where we will meet our teachers and friends. Everyone had settled down and our principal Mrs Folwer allowed the year 7/8 to go first in our classes.

The year 7/8 sat outside where our teacher’s announced which class we are in and, which teacher we had. My teachers name was Mrs Van Tonder. She is a really kind and generous teacher. After meeting our teacher we all started naming our stationary which I didn’t had cause it didn’t arrive early enough. But I asked my teacher and she said it was okay and I could help someone else in naming their stationary. Besides that it was a really fun and happy day.

Cyclone Gabriel

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On 12 February there was so much rain all over New Zealand. It looked like it was going to be a big storm. I was quite scared that there was going to be a storm. But in a few hours we heard an emergency alert about a flood on my mum’s phone. I turned on the tv and went to the news and I saw so many people speaking about the storm that is going to hit New Zealand. I got so scared after hearing the news. So after the emergency alert lots of people got frightened. So in a few hours I saw the news again and I saw so many people going to the shops to get their groceries and important things like a torch.

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So I asked my mum if we could go and get our food and groceries from the shops and my mum said” to me that is not yet because there is heavy rain. So then she told me that we will get our groceries tomorrow morning.  A Few hours later the rain stopped ! I was so glad that the rain had stopped. So I went outside and saw a really big and beautiful rainbow. It was so pretty that I took a photo of it and sent it to my friends. After all that stuff it was night and dinner time. After I ate my dinner I did some of my homework and after my homework we had family time. So when we were having family time the rain started so heavily and didn’t stop. All night it was raining so hard that I couldn’t sleep.

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The next day it was Saturday and when I woke up it was still raining! I was so sick of the rain already. I just wanted to have a relaxing sunny day but I could not. After I ate my breakfast, me and my little sister played inside. I was quite bored that I had nothing to do. So I went on my IPad and went to google classroom and saw what I had to do and when I saw on google classroom I had already finished my homework. I was so frustrated that I just read a book and after reading the book I felt like sleeping. So I went to sleep for 30 minutes and woke up again. I one’d the TV and saw the news. The storm was getting worse and some water got into people’s houses which was so sad. I asked my mum when the storm was going to finish?But my mum did not answer me.

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After 3 days the weather was getting quite better than the first day when the storm came. But still people are telling us that you should get candles, torch because the light can go at our home. I told my mum that and then we went to the two dollar shop which was close to our house. When we went to the two dollar shop I could not find a torch. I asked a lady where the torch was. But the lady talked so quietly that I could not even hear her.

TGS SPORT

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On Tuesday I had a softball tournment. In the morning I woke up and saw the time and it was 7 AM. I was shocked so I ran to the bathroom and changed as quickly as I could. My mum told me to get ready really quickly and I did. So after getting ready I ate my breakfast and ran to the car when we were going to school there was so much traffic! I was really angry and worried that I would miss my softball tournament. 

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So finally I arrived at school and the bell rang! I ran really really fast and saw the girls go inside the car for the tournament. My friend told me to change quickly into the pe gear so I went inside the hall and saw the boys there. The boys told me that I had to go to our teacher Mrs Watson. So then I saw Mrs Cosford and she asked me “ am I going to the softball tournament?” And I said” yes. 

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So then l kind of got sad that I am late and then I started crying. Mrs Cosford told me that it’s all right. So suddenly I saw Mrs Watson and Mrs Watson saw me and said” O Kanishka you’re here today and I said yes. So then Mrs Watson gave me the TGS pe gear and told me to get ready quickly. So I ran to the bathroom and changed really quickly. After changing I ran to Mrs Cosford’s car and sat down. But then Mrs Cosford asked me if I had my hat with me and I said” no. So I ran inside my class and got my hat out and ran back to the car again.

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Finally we were going to the tournament and I was kind of nervous, excited. Finally we reached the park for our softball tournament and I saw a lot of schools participating in the game. After taking the roll we went to find a place to sit and then we found a place to sit down. So after sitting down we put some sunscreen on our face and legs and shoulders.After putting some sunscreen on we went to practice   ballling and batting. After practising we went to the boys and saw them playing with another school. They were doing so well that I could not do it like that.

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Finally! It was the girls softball game . I was very excited to play softball with another school. Our teacher Mrs Dissmyer told us to be in a lime I was 3d. When two people went it was my turn and I was quite nervous doing the batting. But when the girl was balling I just concreted on the ball and when she threw the ball I hit  it and ran as fast as I could. But sadly I got out. I was quite sad but also I was really happy that I hit the ball because I was really bad at batting in softball. So after batting the teacher told me that I did really good in batting and that made my day half nice.

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After everyone’s turn the score was that we lost. Which made us a little bit sad but still we were really proud of ourselves. After the game we had a break to eat our food. I didn’t feel really hungry so I just ate my apple. After our break we had another game and it was fun. We were first standing and watching out for any ball. But there was no ball coming our way so it was quite boring in the second game. After playing 2 games, we finished our softball tournament and I was so tired that I could not even walk. After having some rest our teacher Mrs Watson told us to sit down on the grass so we sat down and the other schools sat down.we heard it was going to be an assembly. So we clapped and clapped. After the assembly it was time to go to school. I was actually really happy that we are going to school. Finally we got back to school. I Changed into my school uniform and went inside to my class and saw my friends.

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When I went to my friends I told them all about my softball tournament. I also told them that it was really fun and we must try it again next year.

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On Friday 3 March I was running late for school. When I got to school and tried to open the door but it was locked I tried to open it again but it didn’t open so I went to the office door and tried to open it and it opened so I went inside school and I didn’t see anyone their in the Kahu also I could not hear anything.

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So then I went upstairs to the Tui’s and saw nobody there. I felt quite nervous not seeing anyone there. So then I went downstairs to the Kahu’s and opened my iPad to see the Wataka and on the Wataka it said that there was going to be Athletics Day! 

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I felt really sad and ashamed because I didn’t remember that there was Athletic’s day today. But suddenly I thought about what I would do at school!? So I thought for a minute and thought I should make a toast at the breakfast club. So I went to the breakfast club and made a toast and a smoothie because I didn’t have anything in the morning to eat. After I ate my breakfast I went to see what I should do. I thought I could do my homework but I had already finished that so then I thought a lot and could not find anything to do.

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Suddenly I got a thought that there is nobody at school and I could do anything I wanted to do. I was really excited by that thought. So I jumped on the couch and had so much fun that I got so tired. So then I had a break from jumping and went outside to get a drink of water. After having a drink of water I went inside and got my iPad from my trouter. And then played some games which was really fun! After playing some games the bell rang and I got my lunchbox and went inside again and turned on the TV and connected it and watched some YouTube. After I ate my morning tea I thought I should go outside and play. But I noticed one thing that there was no fun without my friends.

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After I played outside I went inside and saw the time and it was 11:05 AM. I thought I could do some reading so I went to the library and got a book. After I got my book I heard some noises of jumping, screaming, laughing, and stomping. I thought the TGS students and teachers came back from Athletic days. So I went outside to the field and saw so many people there and I was so happy to see everyone at school. But also I was feeling quite embarrassed that I did not go to athletics day and came late to school.

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So I ran as fast as I could and then said” hi to Miss Rowland. And Miss Rowland said” what are you doing here? she said” I came late to school and forgot that there was Athletics day. So then Miss Rowland told me that she will talk to me later. I felt quite nervous and sad because I thought that I would get growled by Miss Rowland and Mrs Fowler. But then my friends called out my name and said that I had missed out on Athletics day. And I said” I know that and I came late to school so that’s why I missed Athletics day. 

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Next we went inside school and got to do a blog about Athletics day. And then Miss Rowland asked me to come into the breakout room and talk to her. I felt very nervous and scared. When Miss Rowland asked me what I was doing in the school alone I said” that I was doing my homework and reading Newsela. I got so sad because I was lying to Miss Rowland and not telling the truth about what I was doing at school alone.

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So on the next morning at school we had assembly and after assembly we went back to our home whannu place. And then Mrs Fowler came and asked me to come with her. I was so nervous and scared that I would get growled at by Mrs Fowler. But then Mrs Fowler opened her laptop and showed me the CCTV cameras recording and on the recording it was me in the kitchen and in the Kahu’s place. She asked me what I was doing in the school alone? I had no words to say except sorry for doing this.

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So then I saw Mrs Fowler’s grumpy face and she said to me that she could email my parents for doing this in school. But I said sorry to her again for doing this thing in school. And then Mrs Fowler told me that she forgives me for doing stupid things in the school. 

Ambury farm

Wednesday I had a great morning because we were going to the Ambury Regional Park farm to see lots of  things like cows, sheep, ram and chickens and we would learn lots of new things. It was going to be really fun. I am very excited to go and see all the animals.

First we went to the bus. It was very big. The bus came a little bit late but it still came. So when we went there there wasn’t a lot of traffic on the road and on the motorway. It took us 25 minutes to get there. Then finally we got to Ambury farm. We saw a man who led us to the farm. First we were in groups and I was in the goats with Mrs Haywood and Silva. When we went inside the farm we first ate morning tea which was really yummy for me. After morning tea we went for a walk to see some of the animales. First we went to see some of the chickens which were really cute.

After we saw the chickens we went to see the cows which were actually a little bit annoying for me and the others because they were just mooning. But it was quite fun watching them drink their milk which the farmer had given them to drink. Even when the cows were drinking their milk one cow had left her milk and drank others so it was really cute and funny.

I asked Silva if we can go and see the goats and then she said” sure we can. So then we went to see the goats and they were so cute we even saw some of the goats running around which I got a little bit scared but it was really cool watching them run around. After we saw the goats it was time for lunchtime so we went back to the little garden and got out our lunch boxes and ate our lunch. After we ate our lunch we went for an activity which is called carding wool where we were carding the sheeps wool. We had to be in groups and I was a partner with Samarya. We both were carding the wool and after we carded the wool we twisted it around and around and then one of us had to pull it and win it. So it was really fun doing carding.

So after we did the carding we went for another activity which was called felts. It was so fun because first we got three colours which were purple,blue, yellow. We first had to make a burger with the wool and next we put some hot water on the wool and patte it softly. After we patte the wool the lady gave us some soap and hot water. I did not know why we needed it but then something happened! The lady had scared me and Mrs Haywood and others with a huge bang on and felt it was really funny how Mrs Haywood got scared. After we put some hot water and soap on the felt we washed it up and soaked it and there was our felt. 

Conclusion

So overall it was a great trip. We had lots of fun at Ambury Regional farm. We learned lots of things about fibre and sheeps and wool. It was really fun. Even my most favourite 2 things that I saw there was a peacock which I loved and the sheep.

By Kanishka and Janvi

On Thursday 24 November, there was a science fair at school. We went to check it out. There we saw lots of different things like cardboard houses, lava lamps, volcanos, first aid, fibre and fabric, preserving food and making butter in a jar.

Cardboard houses 

We saw some cardboard houses. They were really cool. Their houses had nice designs. We saw that they had toilet paper as insulation and glued it together. They had to cut out and drawed a template, first on the ipads then had to measure them. Then they started building. We took a look at them and we were interested.

Volcanoes from the Kahu’s

At the science fair there were volcanoes, not real volcanoes but made with wood, newspaper and glue. They looked really cool. They had really nice details, the volcanos that the kahu’s made were all New Zealand volcanoes. At the science fair there was a board which they had written. On Friday 25 November there would be an explosion for one  of the volcanoes. It seemed really cool and fun for everyone when they heard the news from the Kahu students.

Preserving food

When we saw the preserved food like cucumbers, lemon, apples, marmalde and eggs. They were really nice. At their preserving section we saw some recipes about how to make them and what are the ingrients of the preserved things. Even some of the food that they were preserving in STEAM was on sale so that people could tell how it tasted and some parent’s tasted and said “it was really nice”. Whatever they were preserving in their STEAM group can last a really long time for like 3-12 months and it would still be fresh and yummy. 

Magnetic fishing

Next we saw magnetic fish which the pukeko class made. They were really fun to play with. Everyone needed to have a turn to get a fish, whoever got the most fish in the bucket wins. And lots of people loved playing this game.

On Friday it was mufti day. It was a really fun day for me because it was mufti. In the afternoon when I was playing tag with my friend I was running backwards and even a boy was running backwards we both bumped into each other and I fell on the concrete it hurted. In my left arm I felt it was broken so I felt so sad. So then my friend called the teacher for help and the teacher told my friend that she has to take me to the office. When we went to the office my friend said that she fell down and hearted her arm and then the office lady gave me an ice pack to put on my arm. I felt little bit better by the ice pack but my left arm still hearted a lot so then the office lady ringed my mum and said that I got hearted and next my mum ringed ours neighbours and said “  that Kanishka has hurted her arm can you go and get her please and my neighbours said “ sure and they came to the school to pick me up. The office lady told me to take an x-ray for my arm. 

Next I went to my house and my mum came to me and gave me some heat with a bottle of water. She asked me how it happened. So then I told her how it happened and then she said” to me that we will go to the doctors after your dad comes after work. So when my dad came we went to the doctors and the doctor told me to take an ezra. So we went to the Ezra place and got it done and the person said “ that I had a broken arm. I was really upset. Then after the ezra we went back to the doctor and the doctor said that you need to get a cast on your arm so I got a cast on my broken arm. After 2 weeks we had to go back to the Ezra place to see my arm was getting better. And next he said the cast is not put in right so then we went to the doctor and the doctor said “that you guys need to go to Middlemore because they will help you. So then we went to  Middlemore.

So when we went to Middelmore they told us to wait for 10 minutes. Then we waited and then a doctor came and said to sit in this room to wait for the nurse. After 15 minutes the nurse came and cuted my cast off and next another nurse came and she said to my parents that we have to put some injections to find her nuse so finally they found my nuse and said to me that we have to do an operation for your arm. So a really kind doctor made me feel a little bit. Then I went to the operation room and the nurse and doctors gave me an injection which made me go to sleep. I felt really dizzy and after I felt dizzy I went to sleep. Then after 1 hour I woke up and I saw lots of people around me and I saw my arm in a new cast. After that a nurse came and she gave me a really yummy cold ice cream to eat so that I don’t vomit but I did not really like eating the ice cream. After all that, my family and I went back home. The nurse gave me a cup if I vomited in the car.

Conclusion 

After I went home I felt that I should  say thankyou to all the doctors who really helped me and thank you for making me feel better when I was having an operation on my arm and thank you for giving me an ice cream after my operation.