Wednesday 28 September 2016
Friday 23 September 2016
My Speech: Money should NOT have been invented!
For the past 5 weeks, we have been working on our speeches. We were given some topics to choose from or we could make up our own topics. Our speeches had to intrigue the audience, make sense and be presented with confidence. The topic I chose was 'Money should NOT have been invented!'
Here is my video of me presenting my speech! Feel free to comment.
Friday 16 September 2016
The Best Opportunity!
The Best Opportunity!
For the past term, Yaldhurst Model School and about 100 other schools have been planning and creating movies, animations and much more, for the 2016 Digi Awards!
My group: Hannah, Prudence, Violet and I made a Digi Award in the Digital SandPit category.
Our Digi Award was called ‘Be The Change’ (which is not fun also the theme of the 2016 Digi Awards)
Our Digi Award was created using Minecraft.
About a week ago, Miss Blair got an email from the Digi Award creators, saying that they wanted our group to come to the Digi Award prizegiving.
When we found out that we were either going to get, 1st, 2nd or 3rd place, we were very excited because we didn’t think it was that good!
The Digi Award prizegiving came around the corner very quickly, last night was the night we found out what placing we came.
The prizegiving started at 7:00PM and finished around 8:20PM.
The night started off with a warming welcome. The first category they showed was Digital Art. One of our students from Te Pihinga won 1st place!
The next category was Movie Making. We had two entries for a placing in this category, a group from Te Pihinga and a whole class entry from Te Kakano.
The group from Te Pihinga ‘The Villain’ was about a bully changing into a hero. They won 1st place! The entry from Te Kakano won 3rd place!
The last category our school was entered in for a placing was Digital SandPit.
It was time to wait for our group to be called up to the stage with our placing. They called each placing up starting with 3rd, then 2nd and finally 1st!
At this moment we thought they brought us here for nothing because they hadn’t announced our group.
But then they said our group for 1st place! We all had mixed emotions. It all felt like a dream; we couldn’t believe we had just won 1st place!
We got out of our seats and walked onto the stage shaking of excitement. They presented our Digi Award on the big screen.
When we got back to our seats we opened the bag of goodies and realised that we had just won a Google Cardboard each!
If you don’t know what Google Cardboard is here is a link to a website that tells you all about Google Cardboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cardboard
After that we didn’t really pay any attention to any of the other awards because we were still in shock.
Until they did the prize draw. The prize they were giving away was a brand new ChromeBook. DRUM ROLL PLEASE… The Villain from Yaldhurst Model School! When they announced the winner we all stood up clapping and cheering! On the way home, we added up all of the prizes each school got and realised that our school had won the most prizes out of any other schools!
Here is our Digi Award
Hope you enjoy!
From the night, I realised some things we should've changed. E.g. re-edit some things to make sure everything is spelt correctly.
Some things we found challenging from creating our Digi Award were; that we had a tough time making each of our creations in the movie because we couldn't help each other create them.
Thank you for watching and feel free to comment down below what you thought of our Digi Award!
Thursday 1 September 2016
The HARDEST challenge of my Life!
The HARDEST
challenge of my Life!
Wednesday, 24th August 2016.
Today was the day of the competition; we had practice at break times, made exhibition art, and had a lot of fun.
A week before Cantamath, our classes had a task of making exhibitions for the competition. My group; Bella P, Bella N, Prudence and I decided to make a banner. It took about a week and a half to complete it (and got paint everywhere in the process!).
The banner is for supporting your school at the teams’ competition. It must be no larger than 5m x 2m. The banner can be hung from the top section of the stands at the East end of the arena - but must not interfere with the running of the team competition below.
There are two prizes in this section:
- Best Visual Appeal - as judged by the Cantamath committee
- Best Supporting Crowd - judged on the amount of noise on the night!
(We’re still waiting for an answer; whether we got a prize or not.)
We got to the Arena at 3:40 pm. We were nervous and excited.
Your team gets 5 points each time you get a question right. Our team got 20 points= 4 questions correct.
Although the Year 8 team got a higher score than us we still had fun!
I enjoyed practicing for Cantamath because it helped me have strategies for the competition.
My next steps are to communicate more so we have a better chance at getting more correct answers.
Here is the finished product!
This is where we hung it in the Horncastle Arena!
We still have a lot of extra cleaning up to do because of the paint all over the wooden seats, concrete and paintbrushes.
Hope you enjoyed my post.
Feel free to comment.
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