A Farewell to Staff Leaving WIS

 Hello, coming to an end to this year and celebrating Christmas we also need to ceebrate the time Mr Nigel Davis, Lesia Wallis and Frank Haioti. They are leaving the Wesley Family, they have been an inspiration to the students of Welsey Intermediate. 

Mr Haioti is a great Teacher who cared and loved the students he had with him, He was excellent with preparing and teaching sports to doing stuff in the classroom. He has done so much and we all appreciate his effort and love to the Wesley Intermediate Community. We thank you for everything and wish you well.

Ms Walliss recently joined early this year, she loves to Cook and do Art!, She teached students how to create new things and give a great oppurtunity and possibly inspire students to have jobs relating to those topics. We thank you for all the food and Amazing art you have taught throughout the Year, we will most certainly miss you.

Mr  Davis has been a past pupil at Wesley Intermediate and later on became the Principal 24 years ago. He has provided oppurtunities for all students and is very dedicated to Wesley. We thank you for all you have done these past 24 years and we wish you well on your future to come.

Poems

We thank you all for everything you have done, you have made people better and we will always have the memory of you with us always.

We wish you all well on your future.

He Pai te Mahi

 Thank you for your wonderful attitude to learning and perseverance with all tasks. Your determination and commitment to your future is outstanding.

Fun Afternoon of Kilikiti

 Hello, today we played Kilikiti a sport with similar rules to Cricket orginating in Samoa. Kiliti is for all ages and can have from 10-20 players, it's a family friendly game for everyone to play. The main rules are you must hold the kilikiti bat with both hands at all times, no stepping off the pitch and if you aren't recieving the ball your kilikiti bat must be on your shoulder. 

Overall we all enjoyed the game and we didn't want to stop, hopefully you can try the game one time and see if you like it.

Wear your Mask!

 Hello, today was my first day back at school since the Prime Minister announced us moving into Level 4 Lockdown. I was nervous to come back but I did, I made a poster informing people to wear their mask when they come to School. I really like this poster it explains what to do and what it does compared to if you didn't have a mask. Maybe next time I will try design something like this instead of using a template. Hopefully you like this it didn't take too long I used a website called Canvas, they give you templates to use.

It's a simple clear message to Students and Teachers to wear a mask.

Blog you later.

Jack and the Beanstalk & Covid-19 Media

Hello, today in our google meet session Phil joined and we were shown a poster about Covid-19 testing and we were told to explain where you could find this type of media. We came up with a few different ideas like TV adverts, Billboards, Youtube adverts, Radio/Podcasts, Posters, etc. We all disccused about the purpose of the this form of propaganda and who we think designed and made this media for the general public. I stated that it maybe the Health Department who designed the Covid-19 testing media to spread the message to as many people across the country as possible so they would recieve the message. This form of media not only pursuades the public to get tested if they show symptoms of Coronavirus but also to educate them. 

Jack and the Beanstalk

After we had a brainstorm and had our discussion based on Covid-19 Media we moved onto the Book Jack and the Beanstalk. We read the book (if you don't know about the story here Jack and the Beanstalk ) moving on we were given a group of questions like, why did the author portray the Giant as angry and grumpy. Was there a reason the Giant had a bad relationship with humans? well that's for you to find out yourself!

Alternative ending ( 100 WORDS CHALLENGE!! )

The Poor substandard Jack conqured his way up the Magical Beanstalk collecting gold coins to provide comfort and stable shelter for his frail old mother. Jack  procceded to grab what he needed, Jack was a kind and thoughtful little boy. He took what he needed and left the rest as his faith in humanity. He used to gold coins to help out his mother and those before him. Once he grew older he lived a peaceful and happy old life with his wife and 3 kids on their mothers farm. Jack grew up a hero giving back to the community.

Media Consumption Per Week

 Hello today we filled out a form regarding Media Consumption, we use media everywhere we go and sometimes we don't realise we are consuming quite a lot. We filled out a form that was given to us which had questions like "How much time do you spend watching netflix weekly" it had answers like less than an hour, 2-5 hours, more than 5 hours etc. We then had a look at the form results and were suprised by some of them and it makes you realise how much time people actually consume media. 

Have a look at the results from some of the questions and comment what you think about it and if you can relate to the majority of some of the results.

It appears people perfer digital and online media for reasons like easier to access. But when you really look at some of them you start to think about how much time you are spending and feeding on all the media. (The last graph "signs" is referring to adverts and billboards)

I hope you found the data interesting to see and I will post more soon! stay safe and hope you have a good first week of school.

Ka mau te wehi mahi

Congratulations John. Thank you for attending google meets when you can we all understand the different pressures we face during lockdown.