Why should we protect our earth? Our earth has been experiencing lots of problems recently including Climate change, droughts/floods and changes in weather patterns. These problems happen in every part of the world. New Zealand’s main problem is the ozone layer about us has a hole meaning New zealand is slowly heating up and there’s no signs of it ever stopping.

You may wonder what climate change is and what it has done overtime. Climate change can be where there are changes in weather patterns. For example in places like a desert where it’s pretty much always hot could randomly start experiencing more rain. Or changes in temperatures for example Antartica go from negatives to positives in degrees. The main problem with changes also come in with water levels rising which bring bigger risks of disaster. The main reason for climate change comes from the overuse of vehicles and the gas that is released from it.

New Zealand is also experiencing temperature problems and is slowly getting hotter because of the hole in the ozone. You also may wonder how else this is a problem? Well the sun will slowly expose us to UV radiation which can affect our immune system and affect our skin. This is mainly done by the amount of greenhouse gases that we release into the atmosphere which we can stop if we reduce the amount of greenhouses we have.

Our world also experiences problems with tree reproduction as with the amount of chopping down trees the ratio of human to tree slowly depletes as trees just aren’t able to reproduce as fast as humans can destroy leaving us with less and less oxygen as time passes. All we need to do is plant more, cut less and care more about what is keeping us alive.

With all of these problems our earth is having it is crucial that if we don’t do something now to stop even one of these problems then it looks like we have a dark future ahead of us.

Introduction

Have you ever watched The Hobbit? or maybe your a big fan of the Lord Of The Rings. Well the real question is who is the director of these great films. The legend of these great movies is a man called Peter Jackson.

Childhood

Peter Jackson, son of Joan (Nee Ruck) and William “Bill” Jackson was born on the 31st of october  1961 in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand at a small seaside town which wasn’t far from the capital of the country, Wellington. As a child Peter really liked watching cartoons, with his favourite being a show called Thunder Birds. All of this got his imagination booming with ideas with the more shows he watched like King Kong. He got to a age where he wanted to create his own short films. He spent two years getting 75$ a week to finally get a 16mm camera which he would use to make motion animation to try make his first short film movie. Peter spent most of his childhood making short films getting ideas from one of his favourite creators called Ray Harryhausen who made really realistic monsters in his films. Peter went to Kapiti College were he dropped out at the age of 16 and the Job of a new paper photographer. He also made a film called Toungee in which took him 4 years to make as he spent lots of time doing editing. all his contemporaiers were off to university while he stayed to labor weekend to record more films. After another 3 years his life finally started turning around.

Career

After years of recording short films Peter Jackson finally on the 11th december 1987 he released his first movie called Bad Taste which was a low budget movie about aliens haversting on new zealanders.  Two years later his second movie in 1989 Meet the Feelbes, also known as Frogs Of War which is a puppet filled parody. His 3rd movie made in 1992 called Brain Dead was a zaombie comedy which was the best of the three. overall he made 40 movies in total with his lord of the rings and the Hobbit being the best.

Statistics

-Peter Jackson was knighted in 2010.

-Peter Jackson became a official billionaire in 2021 November after selling a lot of his Weta Digital Effects to Unity Software.

-Peter Jackson has made a appearance in every single one of his movies.

-Peter Jackson earned 6 billion worldwide from his Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Conclusion

Peter Jackson will always be a great movie director, a person the followed his dream and became successful and be the person to make some of the best movies.

These first days in Kahu Have been Overwhelming because of all the new students and all the preparing we have been doing for this new year of learning. also I was recently named as the Head boy of 2024 and also with my fellow head students we have been starting school assemblys and also being asked a lot of question because im a head student and a person that anyone can ask a question to.

These couple days I have done lantern art with my friends and also have been applying for job the one I applied for were Road patrol, Pe shed and techie.

I hope these days continue to get calmer and funner.

Objective of softball   (Draft)

The objective of softball is split into parts. The first part is for the batter team. The batter teams objective is to pretty much wait for the pitcher to throw the ball and then you wanna hit it as far as you can, continuing with you running to first base or more.

The fielders’ job is to try and catch the softball in the fall and if not just try and grab it as quick as you can. The reason is that you wanna get the ball is that you wanna get the ball back to one of the fielders on each base which I will explain more in a second. 

Batters

Let’s talk more about the batter’s job. One team of batters one at a time must go onto them in front of one of the pads and face the pitcher. When you are watching the pitcher wait for him to throw and as soon as they throw the ball they try tryna get it to a backstop who is right behind your bat. You have three goes to hit the ball but sometimes it can be out of range if you see that it doesn’t swing and it’s called a ball which if the pitcher gets 3 balls you can walk to 1st base but if they get 3 strikes you are out. If you are able to hit the ball then you have to start running to the next base which I will explain more about bases now.

Bases

If you’ve read the last 3 paragraphs you must have heard me talking about bases. Here I will explain what the bases are and how each time I use them. The base is put into different bases which are aligned in a square. There are 4 fielders which go on each base and then a back stop that goes behind the batters bat. What the people at the base have to do and the fielders is when the batter hits the ball is if they don’t catch it on the fall they have to throws it to one of the base for e.g, if the batter was running to base one if the ball got the the fielders hand and he steps on the bases again the batter is out but it can be different if there are 2 batters which you get the one closest to getting a home run. The final thing I will tell you is that if you catch the ball on the fall that means the batter is instantly out which give you a chance to get out another batter too. For the batters pretty much they wanna get as many home runs by running as fast as they can to a base to be safe but a rule is that if the batter hits the ball and runs for 1st base the person on 2nd base if there was someone there has to go to 2nd and same for if someone was on 3rd and 4th.

Conclusion 

Softball is a very good sport as it combines techniques and strength into batting and also includes running and stamina when it comes to running parts and lastly you need to have good hand eye coordination. 

We played VR which is like another metaverse where you choose what you wanna do and you actually can do it also you can do it with friends. we got to see all kinds of sea life and other things and that’s you today. I’m going to tell you about what we learnt and how to take care of our waterways and sea creatures.

We learnt the difference between a protected water area and an unprotected area which made me surprised how much of a difference there was. We first looked at a protected area which had so much sea life. Also the water was very clear which meant you could look through the sea and could see very far also there were lots of seaweed which meant there was a lot of food/nutrients. The reason it’s protected is because of a couple rules it has which are that you cant feed the fish, number 2 is that you cant fish which lets the food chain continue. The unprotected area was very different because since it wasn’t protected people were fishing all the big fish which meant all the kinas were eating all the seaweed. All the small fish that were left had no food and shelter. Also the water was not clear at all and the blue sea was murky with rubbish and all the kinas were just gonna hibernate until the seaweed came back then ate it.

We saw different kinds of seacreaturs . There were jellyfish, stingrays and all kinds of  other animals which looked very cool. We learnt about different types of fish,for  example sea sponge which cant move and eats by sucking up the water around s/her and finding bits of food that is left over or that just fell off or meat. I loved looking at all the fish and seeing how it was looking at them all. My friends were screaming because they said it feels so real because they have never used it before.

From this we have learnt about overfishing and some ways to solve it. A couple of ways to fix it is by fish only what you need. you need to fish only sometimes so that they have time to breed again. Also, don’t fish baby fish because that means they can grow older and breed again leaving us with more fish. We also learnt how to stop pollution by using reusable items and also don’t litter which you shouldn’t do anyways.

I think everyone would enjoy vr blake especially if you like sea creatures.

Have you ever been to an ambury farm? Well on the 15th of November my hapori was going to Aumbury farm for a trip to learn about fabric and see all kinds of animals. We got on the bus and we were in the bus for about 30 minutes and as soon as we arrived we were able to have morning tea before we went to do our first activity.

It was time for our first activity and my group and group 2 went it’s this building and we sat on this fake grass mat in the middle surrounded by lots of different stuff that could be used for all kinds of things. There was this man who looked like he was in his senior years that was talking to us about what girl animals are called, what boys are called also what baby ones are called. We also learnt about different things we use each animal’s hair for. Lastly we had to get in groups and match the hair and the animals together which was quite fun. 

If you have seen sheep shearing in movies or something, usually it looks quite nice and is not being hurt at all, however when we went into the sheep shearing shed the first thing I noticed was that it was so smelly. I could see the sheep getting Shawn and I must say it looked very brutal. There were bleeding rams and they looked like they were in a choke hold, however the teachers said that it was normal and it’s just like being nicked a bit. I really wanted to leave

Moments after we had to go back to the building and we had to use sheep cotton to make rope. The way you do it is first you have to use this hair brush looking thing from the bottom the flip. After that you have to spread it out on your leg and you and one other person spring from one side the opposite way of each other.

Finally it was time for us to eat our lunch. I was quite hungry after everything we had done but at least we could now eat so I got my lunch and then we ate and we even were able to play tag for a bit before we had to go and do our final activity which was felts

We got to felts and we had 3 fabric colors that we had to make a sandwich and right after that we had to do a whole lot more step which went getting them wet then rub with soap then tap it the squire out the soap and you have you felt that one of my friends mum thought was for the dishes which I think would work to be honest.

We all went on walks in groups and we went to go feed the lamb with random grab for quite a while because we just thought it was so cute they felt as fluffy as a pillow.Moments later we went to this insect garden just to find bees. I was sad because I wanted to see actual scary insects, however I was fine with that. There was this bird area which had all kinds of birds like turkeys, chicken, pigeons and way more that I can’t list. Ending it if we decided to go look at the pigs which were just sleeping. And then as soon as we thought it was over there was a black pig that had escaped through the drinking fountain and was just tryna scratch its back on anything it could find and I thought It was very funny. He went back into his are and we head back to school and 3 days later I’m writing this for whoever reads it

I loved ambury farms and I would recommend that you go there if you like animals.

There was a man called James who used to have a great life. He may have lived by himself but he still didn’t mind because he kinda liked it but sometimes it could be lonely. He worked for the business Microsoft and was getting paid a lot, but one day everything changed. 

He got a call saying that he was fired because someone had framed him and edited the camera to make it look like he had used the Microsoft bank account and stole very precious items there. He’s was also sued for all his money and his house which means he was gonna be homeless which was very bad for him.

It had been 2 weeks since he was kicked out of his house and now he was very hungry and he had no money. He lived near a gas station and he decided to go inside and ask for food even though he didn’t expect anything. instead of nothing he got food for like 3 days and a drink for free. He was so thankful for the worker and the worker also gave him a free lotto ticket and said to pay it forward one day. The homeless man was so happy and he scratched his lotto ticket and then, HE WON! He was so happy and went back to the gas station and said to the worker thank you so much and the worker was so happy with him and gave him the money and the homeless man left and was so happy. 

It had been about a year since he won the lotto and he was doing great again and he even got a new job. One day he decided to go to the exact same gas station that he couldn’t have been wealthy without. When he got there he saw that it wasn’t there and he was wondering what had happened so he decided to look around and on the corner of the path in a corner it was him. The same exact worker that helped him last year, he was so happy to find him and asked why he was on the side of the road and the worker said that his place was burnt and he had nothing else. He was so surprised so he decided to give him money and a place to stay until he could start again. The worker was so happy and he accepted but didn’t think he needed to do it. Years later the worker was starting his life again but they decided to be friends and their life continued in a great manner.

(HYBRID: Cheetah + Wolf + Hyena)

By DR TK

We had to make a hybrid of any animals or creatures that you wanted to use. I decided to combine a cheetah, wolf and a hyena.He has a wolf Bodie with hyena dots in him and has legs and dots like a cheetah and has more hair because of malfunction .

Wolfeaters naturally live in 1 jungle where you will find most of them living because they love the tall trees because they can climb them and are able to jump from tree to tree and that is because of the Cheetah DNA. The second place that you can find them is at snowy biomes because since there are lots of wolves here they like being in snowy biomes which you can tell is wolf DNA. The final place you can find them is at desert forest biomes which fits with the Hyena DNA. 

 The Holf Eaters diet has a lot of meat in it as it is a meat eater. The Holf favorite food to eat is wolves or Cheetahs, for some reason it doesn’t like to eat hyenas. The reason scientists think that it doesn’t eat hyenas is because it looks exactly the same pretty much, but sometimes he still does. Other than that they can pretty much eat any other meat. They also eat fruit which includes berries, lettuce and tomato.

The Holf is very intelligent which comes from the wolf and can also be playful if you are somehow able to tame this animal which is nearly impossible. Holves are also very very fast which they got from the Cheetah which also makes them one of the fastest animals/hybrids out there. It also has a large head with a long, thick, muscular neck and powerful jaws that gives it the strongest bite of any mammal.

A Holf is very hard to tame. The easiest way to tame one is to capture it and get it into some kind of cage or is comfortable in and then day by day you can just feed it and try to touch it day by day but be careful when trying to do that. Another way is just believing yourself and trying what comes to your mind but don’t do something you would do to a predator. Just know if you try to tame one, it can be super dangerous and you could get seriously hurt. 

-DR TK

Do you know what halloween is? Well if you don’t you’re about to. Halloween started when an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. It started on November the 1st where the spirits came back from the dead and people would wear costumes and lit bonfires to scare them away. These days Halloween is celebrated pretty much everywhere. Halloween is on October the 31st and what you do is dress up and then go to houses around you neighbourhood and knock on doors and get candy by saying trick or treat.

Our school does something called Halloween disco every year before Halloween we’re you and your friends can come and dance and just hang out. The tickets cost 5 dollars each and when you get there you get free chips and a drink while the rest of the stuff like candy costs money so they can give it to the hospice. It’s really fun but sadly you have to go to the school to go there.

Before Halloween was when lots of people were getting a costume or already had one. Every night as you get closer you just get more and more excited and you want it to be Halloween already. Something I think  of is how Halloween is gonna go, are we gonna get candy or not.

Do you know what day it is? IT’S HALLOWEEN And it’s time for you to hang out with your family or your friends and go Trick or Treating and eat candy and celebrate. It’s one of my favourite holidays because it’s just so fun how you all hang out and can stay up for so long and just hang out the whole time.

When Halloween ends usually you’re very tired because of how fun it was and also you might have a sore stomach because of how much candy you had. Sadly the next day is school time and if you went to bed quite late you might not be able to learn anything.

I don’t  believe that is how Halloween started but at the same time I most definitely enjoy it.

Does your school do Athletics? Well on the 29th of October we had our Athletics. We Arrived at the Stadium in classes and walked to the Grandstand where we would be spending most of our time. As soon as we got there we sat down in our houses and got introduced to the Athletics 2022 then we all cheered house after house. Moments later at 9.45 first events started however we only had one event which was long jump while the Intermediates ALREADY had their 1.5K run which I would think would be last.

When the first events ended I had to go to my first event which was High Jump. When I got there my parents were walking on the side and I didn’t see them until I was in line at the high jump and I thought I was doing better than I thought I was going to. After that we all got told to wait since there were still kids who were doing the 400M race so we all sat down waiting for them. When they got there they had the turns but for some reason they were allowed to go higher while we were still waiting to go again which my parents were a bit confused about but didn’t mind.

Moments after we had done High Jump we had to go straight to the 100M sprint where lots of kids were waiting from year 4 and up. While we were waiting for it to be our turn to sprint we were talking and stretching until it was nearly our time to shine. I was nervous to run, my stomach felt hollow and felt cold, it might have just been the wind tho. We stood up and then CLANK we all sprinted and it was so close and for the first time I had made it into a final, I was so happy about it.

As soon as we had finished our 100M sprint we had to go to the 200M sprint so we went there right after we were done. We got there and everyone who signed up for it and was year 4 and up was sitting down waiting for the race to start. Sadly there weren’t enough of us so we all had to run in one race and some of us had to share lanes. We all got ready to race and then CLANK we all sprinted and of course it was double the length so we would have to pace a bit and that is what I did but as soon as I got to the straight part of the track I full on sprinted however I didn’t make it to finals but that’s ok because I still had the 100M finals.

100M finalists were called from each year group and we all had to go to the start of the sprint. We got there and everyone in my year that was there was all very quick and I was worried. This was gonna be way harder than the first 100M race, but I was ready to stand up and sprint as fast as I could. My stomach felt so much worse but I just had to ignore it. We stood up and got ready and then… CLANK we all sprinted so quickly we were in a squiggly line, it was so close but sadly I just lost and came 6th however I was still happy since I even made it there.

After a while it was time for the relay and the year 5 and 6 were first. It looked very close while they were running but as soon as the last people got it Julian from rims full on got to the end first. Moments later it was the teachers vs the year 8s, the race started and the year 8s looked like they were I. The lead but as soon as Mr Wong got the baton he sprinted so fast and got the teachers in the lead and then Cassidy sprinted quickly to and lastly Mr VT got it and he got to the end destroying the year 8s.

The races and events were all finished and we all sat on the grandstand and we read the house winners 4th was Kauri 3rd was Tara 2nd was Rimi and the winner of the Athletics 2022 competition was Kowhai, they even did a victory lap. Moments later they read the winners from each year and our year winner was Thomas Karl who I knew was gonna win that by how he did.

After that we all went back to school and right after we went home. I felt like this Athletics was my favourite one and I also saw lots of cheering and the everyone was participating and that’s why this is my favourite Athletics of all time.