T-Shirt Competition!

Welcome back to my blog! The past week we have been talking about greatness. At our school the teachers came up with a idea. If you do the right thing and/or are kind you get a little slip of paper that you take to the office and put in the jar. At assembly's someone will pick out a name and the winner will get a t-shirt. The best part is the t-shirt is made by us! Everyone had to design a t-shirt and winner will get theirs made. Here is mine: 

Question of the day: Have you ever designed something? 

Thanks for reading bye!

Terrific Tech

Hi and welcome back to my brilliant blog!

When you are a Year 7/8 you get to go to tech!! Tech is really fun and we all look forward to it! We go to another school and we get into our tech groups. There are 4 subjects for Year 7 and four for Year 8! My group is doing wood works at the moment. There are also food, plastics and sewing/fabrics for the Yr 7s. The Year 8s get to do Metal, Electronics, Food and Fabrics. My group is working on making a box out of pine wood. This box has to do some things that we wrote. Mine is going to keep my phone in it. I am really proud of what i have done so far.
Question of the day...
Have you ever done wood works? 

Brilliant Biography

Welcome back to my blog!! This term we have been working on a biography. We had to chose a person that we think was great. We then learnt all about biography and how to write them. I chose J.K Rowling for mine.   Here's mine;

J.K Rowling 

J.K Rowling. J.k Rowling also known as ( Joanne Rowling) was the writer of many great books. Her
most famous series of all is Harry Potter. She also writes lots of books under the name of Robert
Galbraith. Her parents names are Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling. She has one sister named
Dianne. J.K rowling is great in many ways. 

She was born on the 31st of July 1965, In England. Joanne attend St Michael's Primary School, and
Wyedean School and College. She was the head girl at her school and received high marks in English.
Her former teacher, Steve Eddy remembers her as being smart but not one of the top students. She has
written some of the greatest book series, she has also donated so much to charities. She is a great role
model to everyone. She used to be a billionaire before donating nearly half of her money to charities. 
Here are some of them:

Book Aid International
Catie Hoch Foundation
Children with AIDS
Dyslexia Action
Gingerbread
Haven Foundation
Heifer International
Lumos
Make A Child Smile Appeal
Multiple Sclerosis Society
PEN
Raisa Gorbachev Foundation
Women's Fund for Scotland
XP Support Group



(Credit Further down)


One of the first big things that happened in J.K Rowling’s life was in 1990. She had just moved from
London and was looking for a flat in Manchester when she came up with the idea of Harry Potter.
She was on a delayed train headed to Kings Cross Station, (You may recognise it) by herself when the i
dea of a boy attending wizard school came to her. Also in the same year J.K’s mother sadly passed
away from Multiple Sclerosis. It took J.K 6 years to finish the first book. Also in this year she started
planning all the other books in the series. A fun fact is J.K wrote most of the book on scrap paper. 


In 1995 Jo finally found a publishing company that wanted to publish her books
. In 1997 the first harry potter book was published. When it was first published they only made
1000 copies. 500 of which were sent to libraries. A year later it won multiple awards. Then Harry Potter
had been bought for movie rights. After that the Queen made Joanne a Officer of the order of Britain.   
A year later Jo published to more very popular books that tie in with the Harry Potter series. 
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch through the ages.
After this she released 2 more books. One of which becomes the fastest selling book of all times. 
This book was Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. 


After all of the harry potter books had been released Jo sold so many copies that she decided to write
under a pen name.  Her reasoning for this was she wanted people to buy the book because of how good
it was, not because she had written it.  Even after donating so much money to charity Jo still has an
estimated 700 million pounds. She has a few houses, a few cars and 3 kids to look after. 


She has won about 100 awards. Almost half are for the Harry Potter series but many are for other books
she has written. Over all I think J.K is an amazing person. She is a great role model and teacher. She has
brought joy to so many people's lives and doesn't do it for money.  At the moment J.K is working on more
books and relaxing. 


Overall J.K has a very interesting life. Many people say that she went from rags to riches.
  It took her along time to write the books but it was worth it. Here is a famous quote from J.K rowling; 
“It is impossible to live without failing at something… unless you live so cautiously that you might as
well not have lived at all - in that case you lose by default. “
-J.K Rowling 


Here is the links to websites I used to get my info: 

Website I used  
Another Website
Charities She Has donated to. 

Thanks For Reading! I Hope you have learnt something new! See you next time!

What Is Greatness?

This term in the Kaupeka hub the big question for PBL is...... What is greatness? To answer this question we have to make a digital project that fits in with the Digi awards guide lines. Then after they have all been completed wee are entering in the Digi awards! Digi awards (Digital Awards) are a competition for students from the age of 5-13! There is lots of different categories that your entry has to fit into. We were able to do this in groups. My group is Ella, Ruby and myself. We are making a website!

Have you ever made a website?

Swimming Lessons

This week and next week we have Swimming lessons. This year we are doing them at QEll! We are all really exited for this because normally we go to Graham Condon. We are all hoping to learn some new skills and improve from last year. This year I am in the top group. I hope that I will be faster after swimming lessons.
Question of the day!
Have you ever done swimming lessons and what is your favourite stroke?