Building Academy

 Hello I am Faith Phillips I am a 17 year old that is currently attending the Building Academy at Bay of Islands College. I have been in the Building Academy since the beginning of 2022.  There can be up to 16 of us that work around the school and build/fix that is needed.

The projects we done last year is: Deck, fence, stairs, cupboards and the future p.e shed. We went out on site a week but towards the end of the year the end i went out twice a week with two different company's. On the site I did things like: jibbing, putting doors in, framing, putting windows in, ect.

The projects we are planning to do is: Retaining wall, building our class room, welding room for metal work and I am building a cabin.

What is Media?

Media is the portrayal of news and new information via a range of methods, it is a ever changing format, from the town crier in the medieval times to a telegram in world war 1, making its way on to channel 1 news in the time of television, and finally our generation settling on the internet to display out evolving world via satellites and hundreds of sources that lay all around it, but with that power comes corruption, corruption in the form of propaganda (fake news) the proprietors of propaganda use the availability of our new format the world into a worse place, in a constant battle for influence, a battle consisting of real and fake news. 

Future planning

 For the last few weeks we have been doing our Future Planing. We had to do our dream job, housing and all thing needed to live in the modem world. 

For example say my dream job is beekeeping. Beekeeping pay is $700 per week, minim. So you would have to calculate power, water, rent, food, phone bill, ect and see if you can live comfortable, with how much you get payed.  

Camera shot

Yesterday we were learning about camera shots. Here are some of them:

Extreme wide shot

Long shot

Social Media

Today on Tuesday 29 October in Social Studies we have learnt so much about media. What media well if you don't know media is  media is a type of website that everyone can communicate either with other countries on either snapchat and more. Did you know that we had social media before the internet happened. This is an image of all the social media.

What I enjoy

What are three things that I like to do:

1. I really enjoy going to diving/swimming 
2. Drifting with my older brother 
3. Hanging out with my friends               

What are three thing I want to be able to do before I leave school:

1. To be able to land a 360 on my skateboard.
2. To do a better drift than my brother  
3. Also to go to a different country

Here is my slide:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gTQRp3ZACSEzBDD4dSUdw7-1mo1w4qqAZ2ETZjQ1BZM/edit#slide=id.p

Globalisation

In Social Studies we have been learning about globalisation and specifically at looking at New Zealand export. So we all decides to track something that was on the top ten export things from New Zealand, so I decide to do wood. New Zealand make 3.6 billion USD each year.

My Class Marae

On the 4 September Whaea Monika, Whaea Kerry and Whaea Tara visited from Waitangi. We stayed in our normal SST class all day. But instead  of what we normally do we made a Marae where we put Poupou and our Pepeha in. We first did our Poupou and Pepeha. For our Poupou we used SculptGL and for our Pepeha we used Paint3D. Some of us stood in front of the green screen and had our photo taken by Poppy. At the end of the day some people made the deck, trees, the back bone and the entrance.  We all drew something that identified us then Reyhan put it on the Poutokemanawa. Ben said thank you, to Monika, Kerry and Tara for coming. I really enjoyed it and everyone had a great time.

Waitangi day

On 14/8/19 most of my class went to Waitangi treaty grounds. We learnt about 3D drawing, sculpGL, green screen and versatile reality plus more. The half of the class went and did an invigilate story of then self. The other half went with someone or a group (that is what I did this, with iri), we had to make it on the school. In it we did the school pepeha, the teachers, sport in the school and what subject we do. We also went and saw the kapa haka performance, plus we went to the waka and talked about it.

Poetry

In English we been learning about poetry. Poetry is divide in to four defendant things and each one has more in it. Here they are.

IMAGERY: Simile, Metaphor, Personification.
SOUND DEVICES: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Assonance, Repetition, Rhyme.
RHYTHM
POETRY EXERCISES

End of the Second Team

This is what we learnt in team 2. We first learnt about Nga Waewae Tapu, then Latitude and Longitude and at the end was Migration. For Nga Waewae Tapu we got 4 work sheets and we had to answer question. When we did Latitude and Longitude we did a slide which you can see in my Latitude and Longitude blog. In migration we did "migration to a different country" I did the USA.

Latitude and Longitude

In Social Studies we been learning about latitude and longitude. Latitude is a line that goes around the earth. Longitude goes up and down the earth. There is all so the Equator is the middle longitude.
The Northern Hemisphere is on the top half of the Equator. The Southern Hemisphere is the bottom half the Equator.
This is my Latitude and Longitude slide.

 

Migrate to New Zealand

Do you ever wonder why people would want to migrate to New Zealand? I think it's because how peaceful it is here and it so far away from everything. Plas there are no wars here.
There was something Honorable that happen at Christchurch, New Zealand. Christchurch terrorist attack, kill 51 Muslim.  this made New Zealanders sad that something had happened in our country. One day our school desired to wear a white t-shirt.

Pink Shirt Day

On Friday the 17th of May, it was pink shirt day. Every one was allowed to wear a pink shirt at my school, to raise awareness about bulling. We also played games at lunch time and you could win some free food.

Pink shirt day started when this girl asked her friends to weer a pink shirt the next day so they could share awareness for bullying.

My Anti Bulling Poster

Photo of me

About Me

Kia Ora  l am Faith I go to Bay of Island College. I used to go Oromahoe for two terms and Opua for 7 years and two terms. I live in Paihia. I have 11 brothers and sisters. I am in 9M.

My favourite class is SST, I like it because our teacher is very nice and we all learn stuff. I like Netball and Rugby. I like to be better at English.

Nobody very much inspires me because I think that to be inspired by yourself and nobody or nothing else. I’m look forward to knowing more about school and what it is very like.

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