Kia ora.

I tenei at I matakitaki matou te roopu kapahaka o “Te pu o Te Wheke.” He roopu tenei mai Te pito o Te Ao a ko te taitokerau tera. Engari Kia tino whai kiko no Kaikohe ratou. I haere e toru nga roopu mai i Te taitokerau a ko Te kura kaupapa maori o Kaikohe tetahi o aua roopu. Ko Te wahanga pai rawa o ta ratou tu ko Te haka me te mahi kaea o ta ratou kaitataki tane. Ki ahau nei whakaaro i ahau pararahi ta ratou reo waiata engari tu atu i tera i pai ta ratou tu me ta ratou whakanui i te mana o Ngapuhi.

During this lesson I learnt how to find the radius of a circle.

before doing anything I had to get a ball and a piece of string. After I had all the equipment I wrapped the string around the ball to find the circumference which was 67 cm. After you fing the circumfrence you divide it by 2, so it’ll be 67/2. Then you decide the answer from that which is 33.5. After that  you dive 33.5 by PI which would give you 10.66 and that is how you find the radius. and if you want to get the diameter you’ll just time the radius by 2.

And that is what I learnt today in maths. I think this is quite a helpful skill to have ion life because you never kn0w when you might need to measure a circle or a ball.

Through out our Kotahitanga unit we have done many activities. But one of the most unique activities was when we done the building a structure only using six balloons, six straws, six cups, and two chopsticks.               Although it was quite a difrent type of activity it was a good way to connect people and see diffrent leaders step up to the challenge and help out, such as Kobe Taylor. Even though we ended up coming 3rd and our tower ended up falling at the end I think my team won in sprits. because we would have came first but then the tower fell last second.

All up I think our team put in the most Kotahitanga out of all of them.

Over these last eight weeks we have been doing trig for maths. At first it seemed quite confusing and annoying but after a while I got the hang. During this I learnt about the SOH, CAH, TOA method to calculate angles. This was probably the hardest part of this section was figuring out what tht meant but once I found out it was pretty smooth sailing. Even though I now have quite a good idea on trigonometry and think I’m pretty good. I also learnt that Pythagoras’ theorem is used to find the hypotenuse and shorter sides, and trigonometry to find lengths and angles in right angled triangles.  I don’t really see myself using this in the future, but you never know I might become a math teacher some day.

Aku rawhakata. Te tini me te mano o nga mahi i mahia e au, engari na taku koretake ki te mahara i nga mea katoa kua wareware e au. Engari kua maumahara ahau ki wetahi aku tino mahi i aku rawhakata. A me mutu taku tapetape e pa ana ki nga mea kua wareware, engari me korero e pa ana ki aku rawhakata.

I te Paraire te mutunga o te kura i noho ahau ki te kura mo tetahi kaupapa tino hirahira ara ko tetahi wananga poirewa. Ooowi te tino pai o taua wananga, i te po tuatahi i haere ki te whare hakinakina ki te whakaharatau. Whaimuri i te whakaharatau i hoki atu ki te marae mo te kai o te po.  Mmmmm te tino reka hoki. I te ata o te Rahoroi i Kai i te parakuihi me te whakarite mo te whakaharatau tuarua, I waenganui i toku whakaharatau i tae mai toku Papa ki te tikina i ahau mo te wananga kura reo ki Otaki.

I mua atu i ta maua haere ki Otaki i haere ki nga whira whutupaoro o Mid Northen ki te matakitaki i toku tuakana a Hikairo e takaro ana i tona kemu whutupaoro ki a Kerikeri. Te tino pai o taua kemu, ahakoa i ruihi a Midi Northern i pai tonu ta ratou mahi. Muri mai i taua kemu i haere totika ki Waiouru ki te moe mo te po. I taku haerenga i Waiouru, kaore ahau i taea te noho tike na taku tino hikaka ki te kite i te hukapapa, engari i taku tiro atu ki  te huarere kei Waiouru e ai ki a matua kukara he 3degrees nareira e kore taea te hukarere te heke mai i te rangi, me taku pouri hoki. I ta maua taenga atu ki Waiouru i pa mai te makariri ki taku tinana katoa engari na taku tino kaha i hikoi tonu ahau. Ka whakaputa i te hawhe tuarua o taku Korero e pa ana ki aku hararei a tetahi atu ra engari mo tenei wa me poro poto i konei na reira koina te hawhe tuatahi o taku hararei.

Different leaders.

Leaders come in many different forms some better than others, some worse than others.

But every leaders has their certain trait weather it’s their social skills or even if it’s the brains a leader is put in that position for a reason.  

What abilities does a leader have.

Well as I said in the previous slide all leaders have different abilities and some leaders are just better than others, but there are a few traits they have in common. 

One of the traits is the willingness to take the opportunity that is in front of them. What I mean by that is if they see an opportunity they will take it.

Another skill that a leader should have is motivation. Motivation to be the best they can, or to always try when they are given a job to do and do it to their best ability.

Now to finish of my speech with a couple quotes.

The first quote is by J donald walters who was an American Hindu religious leader, yoga guru, meditation teacher, musician, and author. One of his famous quotes of leadership was “Leadership is an opportunity to serve.

t’s not a trumpet call to self importance.” What I think this quote means is that leadership is not a title but it is more so a role to serve the people.

The last quote is said by my Papa who was the chair of foundation North which is one of the largest funding organizations in Australasia. His not so famous quote is “ Whakatutuki I to korero.” I think this quote is quite straightforward. What the quote means is if you say you’re gonna do something you better back it up. And here you may be thinking why did he save the more basic quote for the end. Well the difference between a good leader and a great leader is their determination to back what they say.

And that’s all I have got for today so thank you all for listening.

My understanding of tuakiri is that it is your culture your identity. And it explains a lot about your life.

My understanding of turangawaewae is that it is like your place that you call home, the place you grew up and for some families it is there family land.

Taonga tuku iho can be a lot of things like your land or a taiaha, it is usually something passed down between generation through generation.

I think tuakiri, turangawaewae, and taonga tuku iho all relate cause toku ahurea is all linked up into you life.

I learnt quite a bit about Aotearoa and how unique it actually is. Kiwi icon was probably my favourite topic as well cause I was sort of gathering information about things I want to know about.