Year: 2022

Formal and Informal Language

LI: identify the style of a piece of text informal/formal.

This week for writing we have been learning about the formal and informal languages and the ways we use them by. Before we created this DLO, we changed informal text to formal using our skills we have (e.g. give me my money back is informal, so it could be changed to I would appreciate it if you could receive my money back).

In this ativity we gave examples of what could be used in formal and informal. I think it is important to know what should be in both texts, as we wouldn’t want to write it informally in an important email.

I enjoyed doing this activity because it helped me to identify how we can identify each formal and informal language.

CARE Awards | Gold Respect

LI:To strengthen my connections to our school CARE values

I am currently working on my Gold Respect badge. To achieve this my challenge is to complete 5 tasks that help me strengthen my connections to the PBS CARE value of Respect. Researching a person who is a well respected Aotearoa leader helps us to know more about them and what challenges they have come across. My challenge in this task was to complete a presentation on a respected Aotearoa leader. I created this DLO to show my understanding of the task.

I enjoyed doing this activity because learning more about a person who has shown respect to New Zealand, gives me pride, since they are representing a country not many people know about and also where I live. 

CARE Awards | Gold Respect

LI:To strengthen my connections to our school CARE values

I am currently working on my Gold Respect badge. To achieve this my challenge is to complete 5 tasks that help me strengthen my connections to the PBS CARE value of Respect. Writing this letter helps me show appreciation to the teachers that have taught me to be a great student in my years at school. My challenge in this task was to write a thank you letter to a teacher or other staff member. I created this DLO to show my understanding of the task.

I enjoyed doing this activity because its good to show acknowledgement  to the teacher who taught me for 2 years. 

Paper Airplane and Measurement

LI: To design and make a paper plane that will fly the furthest.

Our team challenge was to design an airplane to fly the furthest in the distance. We analysed our data of the paper air planes we flew. The planes we designed were tie fighter, deltry, the bird, and lastly the dart. Our group designed multiple planes to verify which of the planes flew the best. The plane that went the furthest was the dart. I personally think the dart flew the furthest because of the shape and the point. Lastly we versed group by group and measured the flight distance accurately. 

I found this task interesting because sometimes the dart wouldn’t go further than we thought, as the cause might be how we throw it. 

Something we could improve on with our plane is having more weight on the plane, because it was pretty light. 

2022 Manaiakalani Film Festival

Today the whole of Panmure Bridge School attended the 2022 Manaiakalani Film Festival. This was our 15th annual Film Festival. Our school had 4 showcases from Room 7, Room 5, and 2 videos from Learning Space 1. We also watched 10 other schools films which were awesome! One of my favourite films I saw was PokeBlade because this incorporated Pokemon and BayBlade which are two common animes that people know about. It also paints a bigger picture of how bullying is not acceptable.

I enjoyed watching all these films because it showed how each video represented different topics for others to see.

If you would like to watch the other schools films that they have created, click to the link below:
https://sites.google.com/manaiakalani.org/filmfestival/2022

Transportation

LI: To identify the 4 different modes (types) of transport and their changes over time.

The 4 different modes of transport are air, land, sea and rail. We explored more about the types of transportation and how they have evolved over time to build an understanding of how humanity makes changes to vehicles like cars, boats, trains and planes.

An example of air, land, sea and rail based vehicles are air plane, electric car, sailing boat, and steam trains. Most of the vehicles that are used daily carries goods or people to place.

I found this task interesting because I learnt more about the different types vehicles in each category.

 

Positive Attitude

LI: to design a ‘be positive’ poster to encourage others.

This week for PB4L, we have been learning about the positive attitude, and creating a list of positive words or phrases to encourage yourself and other like positive quotes for others, having these quotes also means having encouragement towards others. Having postitive attitude towards learning allows you to have a good mind-set, respectful to others, and focused. This would give students with their learning and improve on things that they are working on.

One of the quotes that we had was prioritise yourself, as its important to not always think about others but yourself. It also includes focusing on yourself and beliving that you are a great person, instead of judging you from peoples social media posts.

I enjoyed doing this activity because most of these quotes come in handy, and these quotes relate to us when things are going hard.

PB4L | Correct Uniform | Flight Attendant

LI: why it’s important to wear the uniform correctly. 

This week for PB4L, we have been learning about the importance and how it shows that you are ready for work or school, also showing respect, and representing the place you have come from in public, or anywhere.

Seeing the different types of uniforms divides up which people goes to the different group, and it allows everyone to easily identify the people (e.g. if there are two schools who went to the zoo at the same day, and get mixed up, it is easy for adults to divide the group into two, and collect the right students).

I enjoyed doing this activity because it allowed me to  have a better understanding on why its important to wear uniforms correctly.

RFE Poster (International Literacy Day)

LI: to raise awareness of international literacy day.

On the 8th of September, it is the international Literacy Day where everyone around the world celebrates the day and takes their time to acknowledge literacy. Being able to read and writie gives people a huge advantage. Literacy enriches lives, word knowledge and creates opportunities for people to develop skills that will help them provide for themselves and their family.

It is estimated that if people read for 20 minutes everyday, they are seeing 1,800,000 words per school year, whereas people who read books for 5 minutes everyday, are only getting 282,000 words per school year.

I found this activity interesting because it persuades me that reading is important daily, and it builds our vocabulary words each time we read. 

Queen Elizabeth II

LI: to research the reign of the royal family.

Today we have been looking at the history of Queen Elizabeth II. We thought of questions that we had in mind, to research about and get more information into the Royal family. We did this research to give respect to our well honoured Queen who has been in the longest reigning monarch for Britain. Each group looked at her background, example: at what year or age she became the Queen of England.
A new information I have found was how she was only 25 years old when she was crowned as Queen.
I found this activity interesting because it allowed me to get more knowledge on the Royal family, and some interesting facts about Queen Elizabeth.