Dark side of chocolate

Everybody enjoys chocolate, the sweet taste in your mouth. All these different flavoured chocolates. But does anyone know where and what's happening behind the scene. Do you know the issues about how chocolate is collected. The problem with these chocolate company's is that they a trafficking children to do the work for them.

In Africa (Mali) there are kids under the ages of 10 - 15 being smuggled or trafficked away from their homes to do the dirty work for these companies. These kids are being illegally forced to work, which could cause a long term effect towards their health when they are grown up. Also to be working in hazardous places causes concern. These children vulnerable with their rights.

The C.E.O of the company does not confess that there are child labours working in there company. He tries to hide the fact that there are children underage working for them. But to be working you'd have to get paid right, Most of these kids get paid nothing. Once the journalist went into where there workers are, he found children underage working. After all that, he went back to the C.E.O and had a conversation with him. Where he then confess that there are child labours. No one has the right to be under slavery.

My opinion towards this problem is that if these kids a working at such a young age, and also been Trafficked. My opinion is that these companies get shut down. They are taking the rights away from these kids. The right to and education, The right to have free choice. The fact that they know that child labour is illegal and still continue with there work just makes he angry.

Tamaki College Reading Programme

Will smith's Well-Being

Describe what is happening in the video with links will smiths's well-being.
Dimension:

Spiritual:
This story relates to spiritual well-being because he could have killed uncle phils son. He could of lost his soul and he will no longer be on this earth. It affects all dimensions because he physically won't be here, Mentally won't be communicating, and everyone would talk about him. Which relates back to social. 

Physical:
When will smith explains what happen with the drugs, Uncle phil then explains that his son could of died because of wills actions. Uncle phil then explains that they both could of died. Drugs could affect how you think, and act. Changing everything about you. Worst is getting yourself killed.

Mental:
Will smith's Uncle phil gives will a ticket to go see a basketball game, But then turns down the ticket. Reason being is that will was holding onto a drug that almost killed Uncle phil's son. But then uncle Phil then gets really mad and calls his family in. Then asks will to explain what happen, While will explains he breaks down while telling them what happen. Which affects the mental well-being because his feelings then overcome him. Uncle phil then becomes really angry and takes it out on will. It affects the family.

Social:
Carlton could have been dead, which could of caused a lot of people to worry. Either way holding drugs is a bad thing. Once someone knows that your holding onto drugs you then become a seller to everyone. Where as you have to socialise with others. But During the video Uncle phil calls his family in to the living room where will is. He tell will to explain what happen with the drugs to the family. This relates to social well-being because hes sharing a story to more than one person. He was being offered drugs at school.

Coconut cookies

Today during period 3&4 we where assigned to make Coconut cookies. It's a pretty easy cookie to make. First of you start by gathering the ingredients. S.R flour, Sugar, oil and coconut. First you mix the dry ingredients together & mix the wet ingredients. Then you pour both into one bow and fold it in. You then make little balls with it. Next you squash it down with your palm so that it can look like an cookie. Then you put it in the oven and hope that it looks nice.

Chocolate Muffins

Today during period 1 & 2 we have been working on making our muffins. We have currently been making muffins for a long time. But In a way I enjoy making Muffins. I like seeing the muffins rise when they have been sitting in the oven. The end results we kind of funny!. Some of our muffins rised to high, and some stayed small!.
Here is a picture of our muffins:

Goals

My goal for 2018 is to pass all my subjects with an Excellence. To get an Excellence I will Need to focus in class, Not waste time in class. For me to achieve this goal I would Need to be on time for my classes, Studying in my own time and answer all my questions with debt, meaning a lot of meaning. Also to complete this task, I would always need my Learning materials, the right attitude and apply my listening skills.

Elections! Who do I vote for 2017

Political party

In Social studies I studied Political party policies of Education, Housing and health. The education policy that I best supported was the Maori party because they provide free schooling for everyone in primary and secondary schools. They provide free after school care and holidays programmes for the kids. So if your parents a going work They can drop their children of to after school care. I like the idea of giving children free education so that there parents don’t struggle working for there kids. It lets all kids around the world have the opportunity to learn. For the housing policy I chose Maori party because it’s aiming to end homelessness by 2020. Therefore everyone gets to live in a house. There will be more house for people to move in to. There’s a higher chance that people get to live in a house. The health policy I chose Nz top’s policy because then we get to see our younger generation grow healthy. We get to see them playing around on the parks with other kids. Getting to make New friends. We know when Our kids go out there safe. We don’t have to worry. The area will be safe.

The party I vote for in 2017 is Maori because there policies keep our younger and homeless people safe. Ending the homeless and keeping our kids safe. I am a Maori party Supporter.

Survival

Survival Activity

My group worked on a project about survival. We all got Hyped because we were flowing with ideas. My group was told to do steps on how we were to survive on an island if we got lost.  We were confident in our work.  

We chose our leader carefully, but instead of having one leader, we decided that we all would become leaders. The reason behind this was because we all had equal ideas.

During our work we had a little bit of struggles, because we had to many ideas on what we could do. We could of wrote a list of what we could do, but we pulled through an only included the ideas that were important to the situation.

I think our group completed this task because we were all focused and had loads of thoughts to put in the tasks. Lasalle made good decisions on our plans. Ben made good decisions on the battlefield, Ben had ideas on how to defeat the pirates and the formations we stand in. and Taki made good decisions on how we should build our hideout. He had a lot of ideas.

Social Reflection

SCOTLAND

In term Two I conducted a social Inquiry on Migration. My social inquiry focused on the movement of migrants from Scotland to New Zealand. The push reason why Scottish left their country of origin was the war that broke out in Scotland. The war was causing Scottish people to come to New Zealand. They all settled in Otago, Where they were able to get better futures and live freely. While they were in Otago they got jobs as Farmers,miners from fife and being shopkeepers.  Also some of the Scottish where orphanages that came to New Zealand. By 1936 the number of scots increased, That was the highest it’s been ever since 1886. The Pull reason to why Scots came to New Zealand was because they were able to find themselves better futures. Almost half of the scots that moved to New Zealand in 2013 were all professional workers.

CAMP HIGHLIGHT

It was a nice morning to wake up to. I was so excited to go camp for 2 days. Once we got to school I walked around looking for people in my year group so I can hang out with them. After waiting for a while I finally found My friends.

It was the first day of camp, Everyone was excited to get there. Once the time hit to go we all got on the bus and headed to our camp site. Once we got to the camp site we had to go for a 10k hike. I found this fun because everyone were wearing there good gear and all of it was getting dirty. There were a lot of mud pools which we had to walk through. We walk all the way to the top of the mountain. We finally hit the top, we had a little lunch break. Then we started to walking again. We hit the part of the mountain where it goes straight down. This was fun because we got to run down the stairs.

Mr Robertson Story

In our past Social Study class We had a Very special guess come in and talk about her Migration. This Special Guess Was Mrs Robertson. She talked about When she came to New Zealand and why she came to New Zealand. Mrs Robertson came to New Zealand In 1962 to full fill her dads Dreams. Her purpose of coming to New Zealand Was so she can work For money to get the supplies to build a Pakeha house In Samoa. The only Problem was when she came she never understood English. So she would always ask questions On what to do. She said she would always go to the Library.

Interview Question

This is my question For the people that have Migrated to New Zealand when they were still young. I find my question not that intersting.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

What year did you come to N.Z?

Why did you come to New Zealand?

Did you want to come?

Where you forced to come to New Zealand?

Would you see yourself going back?

What’s the reason you traveled To New Zealand?

When did you get your Visa?
Did you have family In N.Z When you came here?

Did Migration affect your family?

Did you understand the language when you came?

Migration Model

This is a model which represents the facts of why Tokelauns come to New Zealand. We called them Push and pull facts. I got Facts To why Tokelauns Come to New Zealand and Why they find New Zealand an interesting Country to come to.

Mrs Robertson Story.

1. How many years has Ms Robertson been in NZ ? (think about what year she arrived in NZ)

Mrs Robertson came to New Zealand in 1962

2. What sort of work did she do when she first arrived in NZ ?

Mrs Robertson worked in the hospital. She was boarding there as well.

3. What do you remember about how Mrs Robertson was brought up by her parents ?

Shes would get a hiding if they don’t listen to her parents. The whole family listens only to her parents.

4. What was the main reason why Mrs Robertson was sent to NZ ?

So they can build a Pakeha House in Samoa.

5, What did she do with her first Pay packet ?

  She sent it back to Samoa to her parents. So they can build the house.

6.What things did she need help with  when she first came to NZ ?

She needed help with her english. She always asked people question because she never knew what to do.

7. What did you enjoy or find most interesting about Mrs Robertson story ?

She worked hard to make her father's dream come true. She brought some of her family along to help her pay to biuuild the house. Shes helped her 3 kids, By taking them to the library every thursday. She always took them to church. I like that she’s a hard working lady.

EXAMS

Sitting My mid Term Exams Was Good. Sitting in the room for 2 hours just doing work. I’ve never done this before. I found Exam Week Great because No one was talking or copying each other. I never felt anything really. There was one exam I felt I wasn’t going to get a good mark and this was maths. But When I got the results I was one of the people that was on top. There was one I felt confident with, this was Science. I felt Confident because I study all the subjects the night before.

Key Board Warriors

What is a keyboard warrior? 

A keyboard warrior is someone that does not express his anger in person so he uses the internet to release his anger. This person that can not handle his problems face to face.

Why are there key board warriors?

I reckon there a keyboard warriors because they do not want to handle there problems face to face. So they got and use the internet to abuse the other person they a angry at.

What can we do to help stop key board warriors?

We can help them by taking them to the person they a angry at, and let them talk to each other. So this way they know how to settle there problems properly. Also to see how they feel if someone abuses them online. Just to tell them that it's not alright to be bulling online.

Clean Foot Print

Today we were working on how to keep our footprints clean. We were told to make a post with tips on how to stay Cybersmart. We watched videos on how to keep us safe as well. Here is My Poster:

Foot Print

Did I hear Digital Foot print?

Well Digital foot print is basically sites that you've been on. My picture represents all the sites i have been on, in the last 48 hours. This could be social media, Like if you go to school, main sites you'll be on is google drive. Social media is sites like Facebook and such. When you use these sites or use a phone you might want to use a SM. This way you can store all your private things in it. SM is a very helpful tool if you want things to be hidden. Private?? You can never be to private, Your texts, sites you've been on. Not private, If people actually want to, they can track your information. You can never be to private.

Be Cybersmart !! :)

Hauora

Hauora is just like the 4 walls of a house, But this is 4 walls of your body. The first one is Physical,spiritual, mental health and social. This is the 4 walls the keep your body running.

I like to play rugby, this is part of the physical body. It helps keeps the body going and lets your body be fit. Food also is part of the physical body. It helps your stomach stay full. It helps you stay alive.

I m a christian, this links to the spiritual body. Going to church is one the most important things in my life. It helps he stay in place.

Most of the time i am hyped, This comes in link with the mental and emotional body. It helps me feel the pain or the joy other give to me. But I want to feel the joy most of the time.

I like to spend time play with my friends and family, this also comes to link with social health. I like to spend time with my family because they make me feel happy. It helps me communicate with my family.

Sponsors for Year 8 leavers Gear

Greetings Glenbrae school community,
I am a student at Glenbrae school and we will be volunteering to clean the Glenbrae Reserve for our Year 8 leavers T-shirt.We will give our 120% to make sure the reserve is clean. We will also be holding a sausage sizzle in our school on the 2nd and 9th of December 2016. We a hoping that our community will sponsor us.