Physical Education Renegade Hockey

Currently at BOIC ( Bay of Islands College ) our junior students ( yr 9, yr 10 ) are getting a taste of what the new year of schooling will bring them. I am one of the many Bay of Islands College students participating in this as I am still a junior. The way it works is we move our junior students to the timetable they will have the future year to prepare them for what may come. This is called Jump Start. We do this every year on the last 2 academic weeks of school we have left. I have also changed timetables, meaning I am currently taking the classes I will have when I am an NCEA student. One of my new classes is P.E. I have had a taste of this subject and we are currently learning skills for a game called Renegade Hockey.

Today in Physical Education we were able to put all the skills, in the game Renegade hockey that we had learnt from our previous lessons to the test. During P.E we were able to play a full court game. This was our first real game or Renegade Hockey as a class. Afterwards we were tasked with writing a reflection about what we learnt and how our day went. This was an exciting experience as it allowed us to see what we all took out from the few lessons of learning we had. It allowed us to work in a team and cooperate with new people, as we have only had a few lessons in this new P.E class. We all did well and demonstrated the skills we had learnt through our individual performances.

This is my reflection

Today I would give myself 4/5 for effort and participation in this training because today I found it hard to adapt to the full court play. I struggled with putting what we learnt from the previous two lessons into a full court game with all members of my class. My effort was lacking in the beginning of the game as I didn't really participate for a small period of the first half due to me starting to get used to the game. As time went on I felt the need to participate more and as I did I managed to score a few points. I tackled a few balls and got more into the game as time went on.

A skill I worked on improving was tackling. Tackling in renegade hockey is when you attempt to steal the ball of the opposition by either taking it from them or knocking it out of their possession. I improved this skill when we were doing peer coaching by attempting to tackle while me and my partner were still working together and when one of us was with Whaea Ruth I practiced my ball handling skills. I did this so when it did come to tackling instead of just knocking the ball away from the person I could possibly steal it and be able to control it to use it to my advantage and continue playing.

Today I helped the people in my team as I contributed to the work whilst playing our full court renegade hockey. Me and my team helped each other by playing as a team and when it came to having our half times, we all came together as a group, subbed out our goalie and gave each other tips on how we could improve our individual performance. As we worked together we ended up communicating and playing even better as a team after our half time. We had realised that a few particular people were doing a lot of work so we all took it upon ourselves to contribute a bit more to spread the load. My team was named the whareware’s and we all cooperated well together and ended up winning our full court match. As an individual, before our game I helped my partner when we were doing peer coaching, by giving them a recap of the rules and skills we had learned in our previous lessons. We both demonstrated that we understood and were listening to our partner teaching us as we were practicing the skills before our game and displayed the skills individually throughout the game.

Someone who helped me learn was my partner. During today's learning my partner was Ngapua. During our peer coaching we each demonstrated the few skills we had left to learn as we came back from our small session with Whaea Ruth. We each displayed the skill properly and retaught what we learnt from Whaea Ruth. We both went over the skills we learnt in our previous lesson at the beginning of our P.E period. We both showed that we were listening to what the other was teaching as we displayed the skills during the game. Before we were split up into teams we practiced all the basic skills we had learned. Pulling each other up when we knew we were doing something wrong was a part of it. We both went over the rules and displayed what we had learnt throughout the week in our full court game. One skill I can guarantee he taught me was how you catch the ball with your stick. This is the one time we were allowed to bring the stick above your head as we needed to control the ball to the point that it was playable. He demonstrated the skill for me as he explained the purpose, while we were doing our peer coaching. That is the most important thing I have taken away from him helping me, was that particular skill. It is important as doing this wrong could possibly harm a person on your team or the opposition, as they could possibly come into contact with your stick whilst you are doing this skill. So it is important that he taught me how to do it right.

Our team is starting to work well and cooperate together to improve overall team performance. Our team, as mentioned before, won our game of renegade hockey. To a lot of people who saw it would say it was because of a particular individual performance. I think we won because of our team work. The effort we all put in was a big part of how we won. Another, was how well we cooperate with each other. We all worked together passing the ball, tackling, generally working as a team. I found that our communication and the way we spread out amongst the court improved our overall team performance. We worked well and succeeded with our communication throughout the game. In my opinion all the cooperation and working together our team did created a positive atmosphere for the members, causing us to participate and work together well.

Something I really enjoyed was playing our full court game. The reason why I enjoyed this is because all the practice and learning we have been doing was to build us to play a full court game. Me, being the person I am, love to play sports and other games, so being able to play a proper match was pretty exciting. I found it very interesting to put all our learning and mini games for practice ,to the test. We each displayed the skills we learnt through peer coaching as we played our game. This gave us all the opportunity to play a proper full court match and to see who was listening and willing to put the skills to the test. My team cooperated well throughout the game, as well as improving in the second half. At this point I think we were used to the game and playing together. As we moved throughout the game I found that our cooperation and team work improved. All showing the basic skills of the game we had learnt, such as, trapping, tackling, flicking and so on. I, as an individual , had a lot of fun playing this game. The game was new to me but I had fun regardless. I even managed to score a few goals throughout this week of learning.

My Chromosomes Video

Before the beginning of Jump Start my class, 10R, were tasked with creating a short clip on the topic of one of the areas of our Genetic subject that we had learned about. I chose the topic of Chromosomes. This is my video below.

Task 2 - Resources

 This term in 10R we have been looking at Managing the Environment. One of the things we are looking at through this topic is resources. We have been looking at different kinds of resources. We have been tasked with giving a brief response to the resources we researched.

A resource is something people use to meet their needs. Renewable resources , Non - Renewable resources and Human resources are examples of the categories specific resources fit into. Renewable resources are things like water where they provide hydro power to create electricity. Non - renewable resources are things like fossil fuels that provide gas. Human resources are people who provide a service to help you with your needs.

Hydro power is an efficient way to create energy. It is a renewable resources which is an energy source that are able to supply a continuous source of clean energy. Hydro power is quite an efficient way of creating electricity as we have many water resources around the world. The only way that this will stop is if we run out of water. So as long as we have water we will be able to create electricity through hydropower which is an example of a renewable energy source.

Reading Response - Short text

 

NZ Herald / Link for article

Moerewa home badly damaged by fire

This article is based on a house fire that was located in Moerewa, down Otira RD on Saturday Morning.  The blaze was immense, you could see the smoke from Kawakawa. This gave an impression that it was a rather large fire so when fire brigade was alerted they called on Pahias brigade for backup just in case. The house took a lot of damage but everyone who was inside got out of harm's reach. ‘The family was alerted when they saw flames. No one was hurt. The cause was not immediately clear. Firefighters were also trying to confirm whether the house had working smoke alarms’. 

A key message in this article is that you can never be too safe at home. The family were alerted by the fires and were able to get out in time but something that could have helped notify them earlier was the smoke alarms. The firefighters afterwards were checking to see if the smoke alarms were working. They can never say this enough ‘ Always check to see if your smoke alarms are working’. You never know what could happen while you're at home and this is something to take into consideration.

One thing that interested me was the location of the fire. This house fire was down Otira Rd in Moerewa. This is also the town where I live. On that Saturday morning my mum was alerted by social media of a house fire in Moerewa. I went outside after hearing this and realised that there was quite a bit of smoke around the town. My cousin even told me that not so long ago she heard sirens. Giving me the conclusion that what we heard on social media was true.

The location was what fascinated me about this article. The article didn't have much information but I would recommend others to read it as a warning to check your smoke alarms and be aware of what's happening around you. 

SST Future Planning

We, in 10R are nearing the end of this terms social studies unit. This term in we have been researching the topic 'Future Planning'. 

This topic is preparing us for the future as we have been researching careers, entrepreneurs and enterprises, these being our key concepts. We are closing the unit by exploring and researching our key ideas and creating our own part time businesses with the option of carrying them out.

Key Concepts

Career

(Google definition)

A career is an expert way or occupation which you participate in for a long period of your life with multiple opportunities for improvement.

It is a profession and pathway used to earn money, experience and intelligence. For example, you could want to be a dentist but to gain qualification you will need to study for a few years. All that time studying will have left you with a lot of knowledge on the subject and in some cases other medical departments. There are many things you could base the choice of your career off of. It could be your interests, you could base it of the skills you have, a goal, the amount of money that career pays you with or it could be something a family member has done that you would like to try to.

Enterprise

An enterprise defined by google is a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky. Another way to describe this is a company or business, often a small one. Some enterprises can be very risky especially ones that have just started. You could have competition with your business, possibly not have enough buyers to profit or have problems with packaging and products. Having an enterprise comes with hard decisions to make. For example, if you have just made a business and it is quiet successful you have the option of investing the money you earned to buy more supplies or to possibly upgrade or give a larger selection of items. Entrepreneurs of these enterprises are well aware of the cons that come with creating your business but they also have the potential to provide a financial benefit. 

Entrepreneur

An Entrepreneur is the person who has created the enterprise and often the person who developed the thought. An entrepreneur makes the best of a chance to make profit, mindful of the danger and risks. For the most part they form a unique thought into somewhat of an operation to get benefit knowing the high danger factor accompanied with it. An Entrepreneur faces  challenges with their business continuously driven by the benefits they reap by the end of it. Although you receive most of the rewards becoming an entrepreneur is hard work, effort, time and money.

How do these three key concepts relate to the topic?

All three concepts associate with our present social studies unit. These all correlate with each other through a finical way. Career, Enterprise, Entrepreneur all intertwine with our futures as these things all have something to do with financial and monetary benefit which is a major part of our future. Career being the job path, Enterprise being the business and company and entrepreneur being the boss and mind behind the operation. In the near future we will work in an enterprise for an entrepreneur under a specific career. This is how they relate to the unit.

During this topic we have talked about a possible career you may want or have, the possible life you want and the financial risks that come with it all. This topic was built to prepare us for the near future when we have to endure labour to earn money. We talked about the job we may want and the amount of payment given to see if it fits our wants and needs.  This topic also is very helpful as we are all nearing our school jumpstart, where we all move up a year level to get a taste of what the new year brings. Before jumpstart we all choose our options we would like to take in the next year level. This topic is teaching us the values of finance and getting us aware of possible job opportunities we would like to endure. It is good as knowing the career we want will help us in our choice of learning for NCEA where we may need to take specific classes to be qualified to work in a specific career.

The purpose of this topic was to help us decide on a future career, learn more about the financial side of things and to give us a bit of knowledge on what may happen when we leave school. The challenging bit for me during this topic was to find a possible career I may want to have. Although it was just for a project and not set in stone it was pressuring to try think that far into the future. Deciding on a career that suited me and researching the sort of life I may want was the challenging part.

This unit was very useful for me as a year ten moving into NCEA in the near future. It gave me a chance to research a career, the meaning of our three key concepts that all relate to our futures and the benefits and risks with finance. This is all very important because at some point in our lives we will all experience what it is like to be responsible for yourself and to earn your own money. This topic has opened my eyes to some possible career paths and has made me aware of the multiple responsibilities adults have.

Karate Kid - Violence

 

Chillout App

 This week for robotics we have been focusing on the topic apps. We were tasked with creating our Project 1 app. This app is a sound app where we have put images of something and it will play the noise that the photo makes. I have created one with an additional sound that the kiwi makes. We created the app on the site MIT App Inventor. You created an app on this site and downloaded the MIT AI2 Companion app so you could use the app you created and have a chance to check it out. After creating you would go to a chromebook button and it will send your creation to the MIT AI2 Companion app where you could view it and play around to see if it works. My sounds where one of the Tui, Waves, A few Musical Notes and the Kiwi's call. You can examine your apps by chromebook, computer and phones.

Photo of app on the MIT APP Inventor site