reading reflection on the nightfall

My first book that I read this year was called nightfall, the book was about The world has 14 years of sunlight and then 14 years of complete darkness, and the people that lived in Perdedo township had to try and get their boats ready for when the tides turn. The main character in this book is Line, his parents died and him and is his little brother got sent to their grandfathers so that he could take care of them.
Line and his brother where getting mistreated by their grandfather so they left and got their own house which left Line all by himself to look after his seven-year-old brother. :)

NIGHTFALL

Today I read a book called Nightfall and the Authors name is Jake Halpern. So far the name of the story suits the book because already the nightfall has almost begun, there is a main character called lain and he is the hero of the story. the tides have turned wich means that the people will have to leave the island and move with the sun or the thing hiding in the dark will hunt them down and kill them

4js run comes to a end

this year we did an every morning activity that involved a lot of running mental grit and fitness.
but that is what I loved about it, also when I do the run I can recognize every corner that we run around which is a big motivator as it helps me know where I am and tells me if I have run faster. the 4js run is a massive part of my fitness, it helps me do better in a sport like rugby league and other sports that I play like touch. to me, the 4js run will be something I miss most about paroa school, it has helped me in so many ways but mostly my fitness. the run can also be a competition with your friends by seeing who has the best time, for me my competition would have to be Declyn as he pushes me to go faster and faster. I also hated the run at the start of the year but as you do it more your attitude gets better and better and better, you feel so good when you get a personal best time but that comes to an end after today which is the worst thing I have ever had say, my only fitness throughout the year has vanished off the fase of the earth for me that's gonna be a massive drop-in fitness for the next seniors to come
into this class and it sucks that they won't get to experience what we got in the 4js run, things like finishing the run with your best time getting motivated by you friends getting the rushing adrenalin
once you finish making you want to do even more fitness, to me that sounds like opening a Christmas
present and getting really happy and pumped with adrenalin to get outside and test out the new thing that I got. but that all disappears after today 

I think that some of the teachers should go on strike mostly kumara school.
Because of the fact that there is only 35 kids in the school, greymain should not go on stike
because of the fact that there is round about 350 stuidents that makes the pay higher for those teachers.

What I think should happen next is that there should be a pay raise so
that teachers can take care of thair family Well enough.

mining on conservation land should not be banned

Mining on conservation land should not be banned.

My dad has been mining for over 30 years and is very experienced for driving diggers.
and is the whole reason why all of the screens at his work have dirt going through the top, and gold
going out the bottom wich they sell and make money off. which ends up going towards dad's bank
account which helps keep a roof over our head and dinner on the table and also clothing to wear.
Now you just think how hard biffing 30 years of experience away and getting a new job.
That would have to be the hardest think ever in the world, it would take him so long to get used to a
new job that he would have to get and also how long it would take for him to get one.
Mostly because of the fact that he is almost in his fiftys.
People will be looking for someone who is young and fit ready for many things thrown at them.
No matter how strong and experienced dad may be they will still not listen to him so if I were you
I would stop trying to get rid of mining on conservation lands because it wont just be my dad in trouble
there will be many many many others aswell.

reflection on debating

NYLD 2018

Paroa School's student leaders ventured over to Christchurch for the National Young Leaders Conference earlier this week. It sounds like they learnt heaps and are energised to make a real impact on our school. Thank you to Miss Boulding for organising and Trish for driving!  

Paroa School WPCA Challenge #2 - Rafting

Paroa School WPCA Challenge #1 2018 - Caving Cave Stream!

caving

exciting ready to go could not wait to get to the crazy fun challenges of true nature the best and hardest challenges around. arriving in the cave me almost bursting with excitement wanting to see what was around the first corner. Well, I will tell you what it was, roaring rapids

every push for the water flowing through the cave pushing me to go further with even more excitement. three small waterfalls that were almost as challenging as trying to run through a football field with every person on the other side have their targets set on me getting smashed by every one of them that is what it felt like trying to get through the waterfalls but it just would not stop tackling me. and honestly, I did not even have a favorite part we were going through a cave for peat sake, the whole thing was exciting, But if I had to choose it would be getting in the cave and the part that I hated the most was getting out of the cave. And that story I just told you is what inspired me to keep wondering in all of the wpca 

challenges, to keep wondering what was around that first corner     

1985 rainbow warrior gets bombed

In 1985 there was a ship called the rainbow warrior that was a protest against nuclear bombs and nuclear testing. To a lot of people, the rainbow warrior was a hero and a great success.

It was so successful we still know about it today. At the time the rainbow warrior was on its

Journey to stop the nuclear bombs they came across the French testing their bombs no uninhabited islands. The rainbow warrior was straight into the action ready to stop the French. They put the flags up as the sun fell just in case they reached the destination of the French at night time. the french dived under the boat and placed a bomb on the hull of the ship, And the hit was successful sinking the ship fast as a rock dropping from your palm. One crew member died from the explosion. His name was Fernando Pereira and he was the cameraman and they say that he was the only one awake at the time of the explosion. As the ship sunk the crew escaped and were saved and the French were caught red-handed. A couple of days later they ended up arresting secret service dgse agents as they were sentenced to ten years but they let out one other agent out after two years because she was pregnant and the other went back to France.

1981 spring box game

In 1981 there was a aparthied going on for 56 six days people described this crazy avent as a splitting of protesters and rugby supporters. The supoosed to be an amazing game tured into a violent scene and very quick as people had made sines saying no rasism here and also put on locel busses whites only. But the games still went on wich made the protester make a move and breaking the hitting women and injuring children. This avvent got so bad that the rugby supporter

Put a fence around the stadiam but the protesters riped it down and they also started droping flower bombes on the rugby field.

Programming Concepts 2

In class we have been demonstrate programming concepts and on the game code combat I was learning to use the while loop.
I can write code efficiently in class. I can also reflect on my strategy used for the code
in class and I can also add 2 files. The 'for' loop has become our friend and we are discovering that instead of writing code over and over we can write smart code or efficient code and that helps a lot.

programing consepts

I am using a python trinket to work out a challenge
we are learning to demonstrate the programing concepts we have also been using to make some
intresting desighns using python trinket. I am using python trinket to work out a maze challenge.
I can also use the for loop to write smart or efficient code.

This is what the code looks like
For i in range(0,3):
  myPen.forward(70)
  myPen.right(90)
  myPen.forward(120)
  myPen.left(90)
  myPen.forward(45)
  myPen.left(90)
  myPen.forward(120)
  myPen.right(90)
And this is what the challenge looks like

Working with python trinket

As a year seven student at Paroa school I am learning to use python and pygames to design a simple turtle game. I have also used trinket to work with the turtle game. I will learn how to import the turtle graphics and then programme the turtle to do various activities by creating variables. I will be using a python IDLE window to run my game.

class debate

Hi, I'm Alex and today I'm going to be telling you about my class debate.
A class debate is not easy at all because you have to make sure that you can cite your sources and make sure that your debate is strong and makes sense. normally in a debate your arguing against or with someone. there are two teams of four and there is a pro and a con side I'm always on the pro side I have not been on con yet. And in this debate, i was in pro. Now I will tell you about my class debate in this debate we all got put into to teams by the random name picker there were two teams that had the topic of boys or girls. I was on the boy's team and was happy with what Got after about five to ten minutes of waiting for the teams to be picked it was time to hook into the Chromebooks and get some research. I was talking about how boys deserve to win in the first place but that other team did not think so duh I was thinking in my head. Our team of the boys put up some good fights and some good words that made the other group feel burnt. Mate from theother team burnt Konnah three times I will talk about one Konnah said to mate site your sources and said I already did cause if you did not heat you must be death or something and he left Konnah speechless. Eventually the debate was coming to an end wich means my reflection is coming to an end thank you for reading my debate and I hope you enjoyed thank you



 from Alex the end

my debate reflection

This week we did a debate and it was so challenging because you would have to find evidence for what you gotto say the other team that you were against so they keep on asking you for your evidence and that really gets you on the line. You have to go onto a site that is not a .com or Wikipedia but the good thing is that you get a group #sonny and ollie. In debateing, you have got to have a really really strong point or you will be crushed like peanuts like peanut butter and make shore that when the other team is saying thair part you got to try make up a comeback.


I will post my debate soon

By alex

At first i thouhgt to my self what will hapen will i get injurd or will i get Scared well i tell you what it was non of them it was awsome that would be the only anwere for me because it was all adventer rapids team work and the awsome sights Of the cave itself the. In the cave i got to go with mate and his dad we helped each other Going through currents and more the cave had so many ways to go and they led to the same place there was even a bit that you went up and you could see everyone walking right beneath you. Now on to the currents at first the currents were easy to go through and then we started going up with made the current more stronger we got to what seemed to be a real challeng Witch came to team work the only thing that can get you throurgh most of things that you attemed and it worked. The curren was now litrelly lifting people of thair feet there was one point when the person helped me with going up the water falls had his hands full so i had to be strong so i attemded going up the water fall and at first i thought to myself i will never do this but all i had to thingk was this should be really really easy and you know it was easy as pie. Cavestream was So fun because no one through up on the way there was no one panneking and everyone listened to the ralls i hoped you liked it because thats the most you will get out of me about traveling

Rugby Report

kumara goes wild in room 7