self report part 2

self report part 1

my athletics rubric

Corporal Punishment

   Corporal Punishment

Imagine you are sitting in class working your brain and some one flicks a pen at you. “Ouch! Who did that? You ask. But before you get an answer the teacher, eyes like fire: burning with rage pulls you by the ear dragging you to the front of the class. By then you are crying; trembling with fear while the teacher pulls out a long leather strap, tells you to bend over as he starts readying his shot and without any fuss whacks you on the back of the legs leaving a huge mark like a tigers stripe. Do you really believe this should be the way for kids to be punished? I don’t and these are my reasons why.

A classmate of mine did really bad at school, one of the reasons was because he had dyslexia. He couldn’t read as fast as the other students in class and the teacher would always tell him off or hit him on the back of the head and tell him to read faster. Sometimes He couldn’t couldn’t do his homework and the teacher would call his parents and tell them that he was not doing his homework and they needed to make him work harder on his homework. After she did that she, she grabbed him by the ear and dragged him to the front of the class and grabbed a long leather strap from her draw and told him to put his hands out so she could whack him on the hands, and that is what she did. It was horrible to watch. His hands were as red as a boiled lobster. Can you imagine that; being beaten for your disabilities.

Secondly I think there are better ways to solve bad behavior like writing lines or just getting told off. I know in some cases getting told off would not teach someone a lesson so I go by a saying “Easy come easy go.” So if you do something that is not worth being beaten for, you should get a punishment worthy of your behavior, while doing doing something terrible should be met with a bigger punishment. But still it is no reason to hit children for what they have done.

On one side of the issue children that get beaten get more violent and angry at the teacher. One day they will stand up and hit back and release all their anger on the teacher which encourages other students to fight back and not be afraid of the consequences that might follow. So if we don’t want this to happen I think it will be reasonable to abolish Corporal Punishment from every single school.

Still some people think that Corporal Punishment should be applicable in schools so it can show the children what would happen if they were naughty. I still think that should not be the case because it will make the children scared of the teacher and put more hate between students and learning which won’t be very good for the parents and the school itself. Also when children are scared, their brain doesn’t work as well when as you would when you are happy, this also helps me prove my point that scared children (knowing a teacher is about to beat you) wouldn’t boost your love for learning.

In conclusion, I think Corporal Punishment is wrong because of how unjust it is for someone to be beaten for something they haven’t done. Corporal Punishment affects your learning because no wants to be in a school knowing you are just a punching bag for a teacher. Thats why I stand by on what I said about children being scared of a teacher. If we abolished Corporal punishment, schools would have better learning for children that are happy to know that they are not going to get beaten by a teacher 

Sincerely David Balayan   

My problem challenge

Dare Evaluation

The DARE Programme Helped me a lot with my knowledge about the use of drugs, it helped a lot
because before i had no idea that drugs could destroy your body in few weeks if you get addicted (which isn't that hard) also Constable Julie Taught me that ONE! Little word can be so powerful.
Just by saying no to drugs you can live life knowing that it is so easy to say no that when the time comes you can say no with pride. I think the DARE programme had a great impact on me that i don't
want to see any type of drugs near me

Words of wisdom

The reason I like this page is because it has a lot of great quotes and they have great meanings.

great things about Being our age

The reason i chose this page is
because it is colorful and you can write
stuff about the great things of being the
age we are.

Dare mindmap

Romeo and Juliet love letter

my Lichtenstein art

My love poem movie

Dear Abby letter

Dear Abby 

I’m the Prince of a fair town named Verona, it’s an admirable village, but what really troubles me are the two families living in it. The Montagues and the Capulets. Both of these families build up aggression for each other which leads to innocent lives being lost everyday. Every time I look into their eyes, I see nothing but hatred between the two families. Every time I visit the village I have to bellow at them to stop this treacherous habit of theirs. I can’t sleep, nor eat when I’m thinking about the two families. For instance today I came to visit the quiet streets of Verona, as I entered through the gates, it felt like a deserted wasteland, there were dead bodies lying everywhere. I really can’t explain my feelings that day, the emotions I felt inside. I had butterflies in my stomach, I didn’t know what to do. When is this nightmare going to end, when is the violence and the bloodshed going to finish. Please Abby I need your help.

Prince

Dear Prince 

This sounds like a crucial problem for you to handle and I think that this situation is very important for your village, I understand how you feel but you need to pull yourself together and make a set of rules for those two families and  for the whole town. If that doesn’t work out, you should ban one of the families out of Verona for good, you’re the Prince. Take charge.  

Yours truly Aunt Abby

Mini olympics Strength

STRENGTH 

EQUIPMENT:

1. Bars for two teams of twelve 

2. Stop watch

3. Chairs

4. 8 minutes required 

5. Two teams of twelve

The aim of the game is to hold on to the bar for as long as you can.

1. This is a game of strength involving two teams of twelve 

2. Everybody in each team holds onto a bar on the y5 and 6 playground 

3. Team 1 and 2 hangs onto the bar until they are to tired and want to stop 

4. Wait until all contestants have finished too.

5. Every 25 seconds you hold onto the bar you get one point.

6. Then add up the scores. Whichever team has the most points wins. 

7. Then team 1 and 2 move onto the next event.

By Lois Sutherland, David Balayan, Jacob Waterworth and Flynn Giles  

Romeo Character description

Romeo is a kind, passionate, and loyal husband. He is a dreamy young man who cares for me and his friends. When it comes to fighting Romeo is a peacekeeper and he is a lover not a fighter. At the age of 15 Romeo stole my heart and since then it was love at first sight.

Romeo is a handsome, good looking man. He has short thin straight hair, sparkling blue eyes, skin as creamy as vanilla, and he is the man of every girls dream.

Romeo belongs to the family of Montagues. His mum, Lady Montague and his father Lord Montague. He’s the only child in the Montague family. Romeos cousin goes by the name of Benvolio, he is a good, caring, kind cousin who always stands up for Romeo. Although not all families live happily, my family hate the Montagues, they have held a grudge for each other for many, many years, which has led to meaningless violence.

Romeo’s interests are to write love poems about me,some of them say really romantic things like "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." they make me fell special about myself. He also likes to do stuff with his friends. I think Romeo likes to dream about Me.

Romeo is a nice husband who I am happy to of meet at the party, if it wasn’t for him I would of had to mary Paris.  

MINI OLYMPICS

Play Ground Junior Side Obstacle Course 

EQUIPMENT:

1. Obstacle course
2. Stop watch
3. At lest 8 minutes required
4. Two teams

1.This is an event involving strength with two teams of twelve 

2. Team 1 starts at the beginning of the obstacle course over at the y5 and 6 junior side playground

3. Teams decide what side of the obstacle course each person go on 

4. Then team 1 does the obstacle course with TEAM WORK as fast as they can

5. If little kids cannot do or reach an obstacle course, help will be required from bigger people.

6. If someone cannot complete one of the obstacles they have to wait for 5 seconds and then walk past the uncompleted obstacle and move onto the next one 

7. When finished wait for team 2 to complete the course

8. When each team finishes Team 1 and 2 gets told what time they got

9. The team that gets first place will instantly get ten points and the losing team gets two

10. Then each team moves onto the next event

By Louis Sutherland, Jacob Waterworth, Flynn Giles and David Balayan

Drew's and my Olympic brainstorm

science fair self evaluation

Technicraft

Clay extension

On Friday Mrs Allen chose three people from our class to do a clay extension class with
Mrs Lenniston also three other students from the other classes were chose to participate.
We had a lot of fun creating and learning other ways to use clay. I created a monster with
one eye and worms coming out of his mouth with huge hands and a straight mohawk.
I had a lot of fun and i really enjoyed my time.

Buddy time

My Buddy george is a very nice buddy who is smart talented and a great buddy to have.
I like George Because  he is a nice buddy he gets 10/10 in spelling every time, he reads
Fluently and is a very funny fella. we did a lot of fun stuff like the easter egg hunt and
the butterfly cut outs. I can't wait until next term to do more exiting things with my buddy.

Mask making

The Carbon Cycle

The Water Cycle

Cross Country

Mind map Take Action For Air

basic facts

Handwriting Sample

About me

Goals for Term 2

Writing- I want to get better at punctuation and spelling, to do this I will have to work hard and practice my spelling at home and take more care when i am proofreading my work..

Maths- For Maths I really want to improve my understanding of adding fractions and ordering decimals. I will practice at home and try to work harder on them. I will go on Matheltics at least 4x a week.

Cross country- for this year I really want to come in top 5 for running. To achieve this I will run every day  in my own time and eating healthy lunches to not make me lose my fitness.

Science fair- for the science fair I really want to take my time and work really hard on my project so it will be the best work that I have ever done. I aim to get a 4 or a 5

Te Whiti Art

Te Whiti -O- Rongomai biography

Te Whiti -O- Rongomai


Te Whiti -O- Rogomai was born in 1830 during the musket wars in a little village called Ngamotu Taranaki. Te Whiti was the son of a minor chief named Hone Kakahi, his mum was Rangiwau daughter of Te Whetu. Te Whiti was educated at Reimenschneider’s Mission School at Warea. There he showed remarkable skills in bible studies. Later he was identified as a teacher. When Te Whiti left school he started a job at a flour mill at Warea.

Later in his life he moved to Parihaka. By 1870 Parihaka became the biggest village in the country. In 1879 the Pakeha (Europeans) invaded the the Maori land and in 1881 the Europeans took over the land and Treated the maori cruely. While that was happening Te Whiti and his best friend Tohu were chosen to be the leaders of the Parihaka movement, they were chosen because they believed in non-violence. Both men were friendly to all races only if the Maori people could own land and the respect from the Europeans. They wanted to challenge the Europeans for taking the land unfairly, but Te Whiti and Tohu did not allow the use arms and discouraged greed and violence. By 1880 hundreds of men were taken to prison in South Island. While that was happening Te Whiti and Tohu ran a meeting with two European government officials. they were trying to win back the land but the Europeans refused and sent them to prison.

When Te Whiti and Tohu were in prison they learned how to use European technology. People believe that Te Whiti was the first person in the country who used a telephone, this was at a Christchurch railway. Also Te Whiti learned how to use a mechanical saw to cut plate steel. In 1883 Te Whiti and Tohu were released while others were still imprisoned. Their families tried very hard to get the men back but died of the poor conditions they were living in. Because Te Whiti refused to run the meetings he was assaulted and taken away to prison with his co-worker Titokowaru.
In 1888 before Te Whiti was released, his wife died, he was not allowed to attend his wifes funeral. Soon everything started to go back to normal. Parihaka was thought to be ahead of its time as they had lighting drainage and running water. Parihaka after the 19 years of imprisonment and all the prisoners were let out.

 Te Whiti died in 1907 being the age of 77 but we still remember about his great accomplishments.

I find Te Whiti an inspirational leader because he stood for what he thought  was right, fought for freedom without the use of weapons, never gave up even when all seemed lost he fought back and in the end he won the land back.

By David Balayan

Road trip By David Balayan

The reason i like this art is because
its peaceful, calm and beautiful.
next time i might blend the colors in
a bit more




By David Balayan

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

The person that I admire is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. He was born on the 18th of July 1918 where he started his life in terror and excitement. Later he became the first black president of South Africa, From 1994 to 1999. This is the story of the great Nelson Mandela.


Nelson Mandela was born in a little village called Mzezo, located in Umtata. Nelson Mandelas dads name was Gadld Henry Mphakanyiswa, he was the chief of the town Mvezo. His family then moved to a town called Qunu. In that village he had four different wife's. Later in his life his dad had 12 other children, 4 boys and 9 girls.


Nelson Mandela became the first member of his whole family to go to a school. That is where he got the english name Nelson that his teacher gave him at school. The teachers name was Ms Mdingane. When Nelson turned 9 his father died of tuberculosis which affected him badly. So then Nelson was given a guardian, his name was Jongintaba. Later in Nelsons life he attend Wesleyan Mission school at the age of 16. Later he attended Boarding school. There he got his Junior certificate in two years instead of a usual 3 years. In 1937 Mandela moved to Heald town at the age of 19. He attended the Fort Hare University, where he studied the students representative council. He was going against the university polices and was told to leave fort hare and not to return unless he elected the students reprasentative council (SRC). on the 5 of August


After the 1948 election victory of the african dominate party which spotted the apartheid PD of racial segregation  lead promptly in the African national congress (ANC)  1952 daffiness campaign and the 1955 congress of the people. Gandhi influenced Mandelas  approach, Mandela later took part in the 29th till 30th 2007 conference in new Delhi making the 100th anniversary of
Ghandi introduction of Satyagraha in South africa. 


On the 2nd of February 1990 state press F.W De Clerk reversed  the ban of the African National Cegress  and announced that Mandela was to be released  as soon as possible. Shortly after a few days Mandela was released from Victer Wester Prison in Paal on the 11th of february 1990. Mandela has been married three times, and has fathered 6 children, has 20 grandchildren, and a great number of great grandchildren.


Now Mandela is having a hard life at the age of 93, going to hospital a lot seeing how things have changed from when he was young. But one thing he shall always remember is that in South Africa he helped the black people enjoy life for what they live with. And that is Nelson Mandela has made people believe in what is right.








By David and Drew

Room 22

Muritai Road

Eastbourne

Dear Board of Trustees and Mr Bird

I am a member of Room 22, Muritai school and I am requesting new desks for our beloved class. Here are a few reasons.

Firstly, our current desks have been brutally damaged pointlessly graffitied and roughly carved into. We are ashamed to have desks in such state. 

Secondly we require desks with tote-trays, we are sick and tired of walking up and down just to get our stationery, whereas the rest of the classes (with ease) can obtain what they require. It would create a superior life for room 22.

Also, we would require desks of identical shapes and sizes, we don’t need desks of various appearances. Another thing. Chairs, we require chairs of identical class. We don’t want chairs that look like the desks. Untidy.

As a Green Gold Environment school it is a shame to have desks in such manner, we promise to look after our new desks, to make them pleasant to look at, and not make the same error again.

In conclusion we want desks which haven’t been damaged, graffitied or carved into. The same shape and size and ones that would suit our environment.

Your sincerely,

 David Balayan.