I am a year 9 student in the Uru Mānuka Cluster. This is a place where I will share my learning. Please note that some of it will not be complete, it will be my first drafts. Remember to be positive, thoughtful and helpful when you leave a comment.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
some random science blog post we had to do...
Hi, this is random but here are some random questions we have to do for a blog.
1. List 4 environmental factors that plants are sensitive to.
- Light
- Heat
- Weather
- Sun
2. Which senses are most important in the deep ocean?
- Hearing
- Touch
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Term 1 Athletics Blog Post
This year I did athletics at school, it was my first time doing it since primary school because at my intermediate it was an option because they thought what's the point in making them do that if they don't like it.
Alright, I did High Jump, Discus, 100m sprints and Shot Put.
A technique for sprinting is to hold your chest up it helps with breathing and gives you more energy, High Jump is to scissor kick, Long Jump is to not run at full speed jog at a good pace, Discus hold the discus with all of your fingers on the hand you want to use, Shot Put is... to get strong I'm extremely skinny.
I didn't do competitive because I'm bad at athletics, I did social so the only thing we need to do is participate. Long Jump - 2.77m, High Jump 1.1m, Discus 5.9m, Shot Put 43.4m
I bring my P.E gear to almost all sessions except the first or two I was still getting used to the school.
I participated in P.E each week, at my last school no one would pass the ball to me for half the sessions, the other half was one or two times. In my last P.E session I got involved more than my whole life at Kirkwood Intermediate.
I had fun dressing up in my Kahui colour I'm always in Gold/Yellow (and it's been shuffled three times). This is the first time I'm in a different house I was in Riroriro and we wore blue.
(That's not me we had to put in a random picture of someone doing athletics).
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
What Causes Stress?
When you have a lot to do you start feeling like the world hates you.
Your brain goes into the red zone and stress is supposed to help you get out of the situation for a little amount of time, but if you have a lot to do you get stressed even longer.
Monday, March 8, 2021
Heart Dissection ($6 Heart from the Warehouse) Just kidding it's not $6 or from the Warehouse
Heart Dissection
Aim: To look at the structure of the heart.
Method: Gloves, Scalpel, Tray, Scissors, Tweezers,
Cleaning Supplies, Newspapers and THE HEART.
Steps
Put newspaper on the table
Put on gloves.
Get a tray.
Then get the items to dissect the heart.
Results
We cut it in half and stabbed it.
My First DTE Blog
Hello my name is Nolan and I am in Year 9 and I’m 13 years old. I don’t have a blog yet so this will probably be uploaded in 13 years. My favourite colour is Red. I like playing video games like Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft and Clash of Clans.
The work was fun because it wasn’t like normal Maths, Reading and Writing it was different.
We did code.org, Typing.com and Nitro Type.
Anyway, we did an infographic about Relevant Implications, here is a screenshot of the work.
Here is the work on code.org I didn’t have an account so I had to restart every time I didn’t know we had to make one.
Dissecting A Chicken (My First Blog Post in Years)
Hi, it’s Nolan I don’t know if this is my first blog post or not but this is me dissecting a chicken… Sorry if I’m rusty, this is my first time posting on a blog since primary school, so I’m quite bad at this. Anyway, I don’t know how to show the photos seeing that they’re on my phone.
Ok now to the juicy bit of the chicken… literary juicy. We were learning about chicken bones. We used those knife things to peel off the skin but we couldn’t even peel it off. It was that hard so we just started stabbing the chicken.
Bone - Give us structure and protection.
Muscle - Moves our bones.
Tendon - connects muscle to bone.
Ligament - connects bone to bone.





