Puheke

This week we had to make either a storybook or slideshow of a Maori legend from around the far north area, Mine is about Puheke.

camp 2018 at the farm

              Ahipara school camp 2018

                           the farm

Last week on the 30th of October rooms three and four went to the farm in Whangaruru, at the farm, there are lots of activities like horse riding, motorbike riding, mud run/kayaking, campfire night, waterslide and bush crash. My favorite one was the mud run/kayaking so that’s what I’m going to write about. It was the second day being on the farm and it was Halloween It was the last activity my group was going to do for the day. When we were going to the mud we had to walk through the bush on the way we had to look out for blue dots called on-ons that showed us the way, when we saw one we called out ON-ON and we walked to it. When we got to the mud I was the first one to jump in the mud was about as deep as a small swimming pool and it smelled like rotten eggs, we could throw mud at people but only at their backs. Near the end, there was a small bit of mud called the shoe monster because people always lose their shoes in it, and once again I was the first one in but I went too slow and had to crawl out. Then we had to walk out of the bush to the kayaks when we got there we played around a bit while we waited for the kayakers when they came we started kayaking and washed off most of the mud, the kayaking was tiring but not that hard. When we got back I had a shower straight away and cleaned myself up.

By Kaleb. A picture of me (on the right) and Rapata (left) after the mud run.

             

NRL

Yesterday half of our class was at Kapahaka so we couldn't do our writing or we would be too far ahead. So instead we made DLOs about something we are passionate about, mine is about the NRL.

My favorite book

Last week I had to make a book review on a book that I have read I done it on my favorite book and here it is.

Why men and women should be paid equally

This week my class and I have been presenting our speeches, and here is mine.

Men shouldn’t get paid more than women
Have you taken any notice of how men are paid more than women even if they do the same job, Now tell me do you stand for that, or do you respect the women’s rights.

The problem is that most men think that they are more important than a woman and that they should be paid more. Well, I think that `that is not true and women have just as many rights. Take a look at the Black Ferns they used to get paid nothing and had to work to create a living while the All Blacks got paid heaps, the black ferns get paid now but not enough so they have to work still.

Many women in New Zealand work in jobs that are 80% populated by females and they tend to get paid less than jobs that are more dominated by men. In New Zealand, if a woman was to do a job the exact same as a man the same hours and the same efficiency and she got paid $1,198 the man would get $1,310.612. That’s because the gender pay gap is at a crazy 9.4% difference. Did you know that men earn at least $3000 more than woman every quarter, that’s $12,000 more than women every year?

In New Zealand, the gender pay gap coexists with an ethnic one. In 2012, the HRC found that while the between the median hourly wage of a European male and a European female was 12.4%. Between a European male and a Pacific female, it was 24.4%. Now think about it if you were a woman in that position would you be happy?

My name is Kaleb thank you for listening to my speech.

Why reading is important

In class, we have been creating infographics. This one is about why reading is important here is mine.