Cross country

This Week we did cross country. Since we are year seven and eight we have to run 3km in this event that's 3 laps around Walter park after the we race we have to Marshal I was so lucky because I was next to a bench in the shade so I deiced to lay down and relax. over all it was a fun day and I really enjoyed my self and glade that I had a good time.


have you done a cross country before?

Speech

This week we had to do a speech on discrimination so I chose Elitism. This is my speech and have a read and see what you think.




Do you know what Elitism is? Well elitism is when a small group of people think they are better than others because they are richer or more educated or more powerful and then they have an advantage over everyone else.


We know enough about our past to be able to say that most cities in the world have elitism.
Elitism can happen in the workplace, in sports or anywhere really. But now I will be talking about Elitism in the workplace like men getting a higher pay than women or even in job interview and how if your not rich your not good enough. I know this sounds a bit like sexism but the two sort crossover.

The more I have learnt about Elitism I realise just how big it is and how it happens in our everyday life.writing this speech has been really interesting I have learnt so much like some stories that I have read stories.  In politics if you had or have an family member who’s done politic you have a higher chance to get in because they would know the finely and think they will be the exact same, it makes it so unfair and just wrong. Well i was looking for other story’s I found this one, 2 people were hired for a job on the same day one has been to uni and got his masters the other person hasn’t been to uni but has all the skill and experience to do the job. The manager went  to the same uni as the guy with the masters and later promoted him because he believed this guy was better than the one who could do the job just as well, just because they went to the same uni.


With the sporting side What I find most annoying thing is golf a person from New Zealand about a month ago won a golf tournament and didn’t get anything because he was a rookie and 3rd place wasn’t so he got the money. Our world has came a long way but still has lots of problems like elitism, without noticing it can come a long way to too putting someone off or even make them uncomfortable in what they are doing like trying to prove they are better than them in sports or trying to prove them self in a group. It can go so far without you knowing it,sometimes it can lead up to hurting someone so they will respect you. You know the saying money doesn't make you happy, that bull can I get a show of hands who here would be happy winner the lotto be honest they made that so Elitism would stop a bit but it is a lie money does make you happy. It’s sad to say but my speech sadly has to come to an end.

Did you know what Elitism was before reading this speech?

What our PBL is about

This term our driving question is how can we speak up to discrimination so we have been talking about what make up discrimination so far we have talked about sexism and human rights. there are lots of types of discrimination like sexism, racism, favouritism, elitism, religious and lots more this term we will have to do a speech and choose what discrimination to do in our pod cast, drama, Ted talk or poetry slam.


Have you done a speech before?

reading follow up

This is  my reading follow-up we had to find words that we didn't know and then find the meaning and put it on this chart. As you can see in the first column we put the word in, in the second column we put if we have seen the word or not, in the third column we put that it means and in the last column we put where we put were we got the meaning from

Did you know what a word investigation chat was?

Digi awards poster

As you know this term we have been lerning about Digi Projects we had to send out a invitation to our families and friends so they could come to our Digi awards.  This is my invitation.

Hope you like it! If you want to know what was used It's called canva you can make posters and much more awesome things on it.


Have you used canva before? Tell me in the comments.

Values

This blog is going to be about our school values and what we have learned about them this term. They are respect, Passion, integrity and service to other schools they mite not mean alot but at this school they mean alot to me and I think alot of people will agree with this that respect means the most. I think respect means not just doing the right thing but caring and showing kindness to people and people's property and many more.



Is one of these values in your school? If I miss any thing out about respect comment in the comment section!

Canterbury

For swimming I went to Canterbury for all my strokes That's backstroke, freestyle and relay I did pretty bad in freestyle but i mad it to a finale for backstroke it was so exiting Sadly I got dq I was on my stomach for to long and didn't turn properly but I'm still glad i mad it in to Canterbury's and got into a finale.



Have you made it to canterbury's?
Bye