Term 1 Reflection

Reflecting back on term 1 it's been a great term. First of all, I've settled into the roll of being a year eight well and accepted the responsibilities that come with becoming a year eight. Secondly, I'm also really enjoying reading and writing in different genre like reports and poems. Another great part of the term is the camp we went on two weeks ago to Wellington. Also this term, there were our inter house sports, the summer games, which our four houses Waikato, Waipa, Mangapiko and Puniu all gave teams for sports that included, table tennis, touch rugby, softball, danish rounders, indoor bowls, outdoor bowls and many more. This term we had first round of auditions for production which will continue for all those with callbacks during the holidays. This term has been very busy and term 2 will surely be busier. Overall this year if it is anything like this term will be great.

Term 1 Wellington Camp

Our Wellington camp was great. There were quite a few places we went to in a week which included Weta Workshops, Capital E's Media lab and ONTV studios, Te Papa, Parliament, snorkeling, Zealandia and quite a few more. I learnt a lot from this experience especially about Weta Workshops, Capital E and Parliament. I learnt a lot about the process of creating props and costumes for a movie and saw some of the final costumes and props that were in many movies that included District 9, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong and many more. I also learnt that to create some of the monsters, aliens and creature are based of many parts of animals and mythical creatures. In parliament I saw the debating chamber and learnt quite a lot on how laws are passed and how debates are structured. I also met Andrew Little. At Capital E's Media lab I learnt how to create basic android apps and later at ONTV we created a video.

Creating android apps