Smart Values

Miss Kyla came into my numeracy class and started talking about Smart Values online. She talked about Partnership, Participation and Protection online. Here are the things I thought of and some of the things my class thought of. 

Technology In World War 1

On Wednesday after lunch our principal, Mr Burt came into the senior block and started talking to us about technology in WW1. Mr Burt talked about how technology is good or bad. He talked about the inventions in WW1 and how every time the New Zealanders made something new the Germans made the same thing but they upgraded it to be stronger. He said that when the New Zealanders made something they put it in the news paper.

Mr Burt talked about the ships, the weapons, the tanks and the planes from WW1. I really liked NZ's style of their tank but it was very weak and when the Germans made one it looked ugly but it was very strong and it was hard to bust down. He talked about his Grandfather and that he fought in the war and he also talked about how he was very close to his Grandfather. Mr Burts speech was very interesting but i got sore legs from sitting down on the ground.

My opinion about technology is that it is not good and its not bad. The reason I think its good and bad is its good because you can make good technology for helping people and the bad reason is because some technology can kill people or hurt them.

Future Aspirations

Today we have heard from Andrew Patterson, Louis Gordon-Latty and Marcus Winter, aka Sandman.

They chat to us about in life you don't have to copy each other and Marcus old us that when he was young he was very slow at handwriting and he thought that he was brainy because he was in the extension class, but when he left primary he found out that the extension class was for the kids who are slow and need to catch up. He also told us "If you get bounced - bounce back." I thought that was a very inspirational quote and I was very inspired by his choice of words. Marcus told us that if you have your mind set on something you will accomplish that in life, and he also told us he actually visioned himself performing street art with sand and he completed that but then he thought of something better like performing on stage so he signed up for lots of chances on stage but he always got bounced. Marcus never gave up and eventually he got a chance to perform on stage. He started performing on cruise ships and earlier this year he went to Australia and performs on cruise ships. He told us to have a clear end in mind. Marcus inspired me alot and after his brilliant speech I wanted to learn how to do sand art.

Louis Gordon-Latty was a man who loved basketball. He told us about a invention he made that involves an ipad. He told us that when the judges press a button the ipad starts recording, he also said that when the judges press another button the ipad sends an email to everyone who was playing basketball. After Louis finished talking Mr Burt asked us if we wanted to use this device and the majority of our group said yes.


Andrew Patterson was a very nice man. He said he would remember you if you went up and talked to him and in the future he might take you somewhere. Andrew was the one who brought Marcus and Louis Gordon Latty to our school. He said alot of quotes and they were very inspirational. Some of the quotes were: Do more of what makes you Awesome!!!! I found out that you don't remember what people said, you don't remember what they did BUT you do remember how they made you FEEL!!!!
Today was very inspirational and I loved meeting Marcus, Louis and Andrew.