First Tech of 2026

This week LS2 and LS1 went to tech for the first time of 2026, some being for the first time ever.

First off, LS2 hopped off the bus entering Tamaki College, seeing old classmates and seeing our possible teachers. Year 8 was split into two groups, A and B; I was in A. We made our way to the class with Miss Roy, I was doing sewing.

I then, sat in our assigned seats and I was given a sheet of paper which will be used for the rest of the terms rotation class. I wrote my name, school and answered some basic Health and Saftey questions.

I then had to find all the danger inside of a image which would then allow nus to finally start using the machines.

Lastly I completed the task and started on the machine, I was then given a recap on how to use the sewing machine. I used a peice of paper that had curvy lines and sharp lines to practice on my sewing skills, I was very quickly refreshed on how to use the sewing machine.

Vision Board – Agents of Change

For the start of this year, I have created a vision board to see my possible goals and accomplishments for this year.

For the first part of this task, I thought about what I would like to do later on in this year and what I would like to accomplish. I am hoping to sign for a football club somewhere near.

I then added images showing logos and the things I would like to do, for the customization I added a clean color scheme with a photo of my self.

I then added the words “Agents of Change” meaning to set my goals and up my behaviour. I lastly added a Maori flag and my name to indicate it was my work.

Ko Wai Ahau

Kia ora, my name is Easton. I am in year 8 at Panmure Bridge School in New Zealand. My favorite hobbies are things such as soccer and basketball. My goal for 2026 is to work hard so I can get into a good college.

Turbo The Dog

This week for My Summer Learning Journey I have learnt about a amputee dog, due to that I have added some prostectics to help the dog walk again.

I first watched a video about “Turbo The Dog” who was born without his 2 front legs. I then saw that the dog was apart of the chihuahua breed. I looked for a simple image of that breed to start the task.

I found a simple clipart photot and began tracing everything but the front two legs (Later on I will add the prostectics). When I was finished tracing the tail, body, face, back legs, and details I then used some creativity to think of what prosthetics would be most effective.

Then I thought and thought and thought… until, I remembered these robot dogs that you could buy in real life. They use a metal leg that replicates a dogs, including joints, a battery, and stable feet plant at the bottom for the dog to stand.

I added the image and traced it, matching the body of the dog. I then finished my task and bloged it.

This is the final project, I hope you enjoyed this Summer Learning Blog post, and the finished results.

Legs Tally – Step it Up

This week for The Summer Learning Journey, I have done the step it up from the “legs tally” task.

This time for this task, instead of using mathematics questions to teach me about the centipede it gave me a text about the centipede to find facts off for my task.

It gave me pretty much everything about a centipede is inside of that task, and something that was really easy was that the questions were in order from the information being in the start of the text to the last part of the task.

For the last part of this task I just answered the rest of the questions and just bloged my task.

Legs Tally – Kick Start

LI: Learn more about centipedes.

This week on The Summer Learning Journey I have finished a template about the centipedes.

It used math to explain the body nof the centipede, but a fact that I found out on the next task was that centipedes don’t actually have 100 legs normaly,  but actually 30 on the regular.

It asked me questions like, “How many pairs would a centipede have if it had 100 legs”.  The next question used fractions using fractions like 1/5 of 100 to 1/2 of 40.

This task on the summer Learning journey really taught me some things about the centipedes anatomy and also using fun mathematical ways to teach me about the centipede.

Art In The Web

LI: Make a spiderweb and explain how spiders create them.

I have created a drawn spiderweb with a pencil and paper whilst explaining how they are created by spiders for my Summer Learning Journey task.

Let’s state how they start the web creation, they first create liquid protein silk. It is then dried by the air creating a strong sticky silk thread. They make what they call a “bridge web” used as the base.

It is then ‘anchored’ to whatever they are connected to for the wind to not deform it. Then the web that creates the beautiful design is added with the silk making Y shaped spikes in-between the lines. Used for catching insects making the big gaps little holes.

The web is now finished and is now in full effect for bugs and catching the eyes of humans.

Diarama – Pele

This week in LS2 I have created an diarama of a legendary football player, Pele. I chose this moment in history due to the legacy he had on brasillian football and the astonishing record he holds which is three world cups.

Pele grew up in the poor streets of Bauru in Sao Paulo, Brasil. He would play with makeshift balls using fruits, taped up peices of plastic, and even just rocks. Unfortunately, when he was just a kid his friend died after a failed robbery as a kid for money. After an unexpected landslide when hiding in the jungle.

He then made his debut for Santos FC at 15 years later just to win the world cup for Brazil 2 years later at 17 years of age. H replayed for Santos for most of his career then moving to the New York Cosmos when his legendary career was a coming to an end.

Sadly Pele passed away on December 29th 2022 at 82 years of age after dying of natural causes.

Museum Trip

This week Panmure Bridge School took a trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum to finish off our learning about volcanoes. We visited the WW1 section, the hall of memories, and lastly we visited the dinosaurs.

First, I arrived with my class to the side entrance of the museum, it had a big circular mat for our school to sit in. We sat down and one of the guides spoke to the class below us about the class (will be talking about that later on). But as the guide stopped talking we walked to the hall of memories, it was a big cream colored hall that consists of all the names of the fallen ANZAC soilders that didn’t return. But the most intresting thing to me was a big book I closed in a big glass case, It was a big book of names which from distance looks about 16 cm thick. Someone also changes the page every day.

 

Next, we sat back down for morning tea. After that, we walked to the WW1 section, It had guns and artifacts from the war. Our teacher, Miss Andersons husband actually used one of the guns that were showcased in the section. Known as the 25-Pounder. After that I wrote in a book that wach group was given at the start of the trip. My task was to draw an image of a intresting artifact. Then we arrived back to the mat to eat lunch.

 

For the last part of our trip, I explored the dinosaur and a class about volcano.  First came the dinosaurs, me and my group had a task to draw a dinosaur and its habitat. I also explored a bit with my friend, we saw the extinct bird the Moa, and even massive eggs. We went back to be guided to the class. It had a red light and a hyper-realistic mini volcano. They showed us rocks and we were even given a challenge to pick out of a couple items if a eruption was to happen.

 

Shamefully Stain On New Zealand History

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation.

This week for Reading I created a DLO of two opinions, I used a story that me and my class read together in groups,

First, I read the story with my group. The story is about the dawn raids and how much of a mark of racisim and trauma it left on Pacific Islanders.

After that I completed the slides of the week (Kupu O Te Wiki), I then created a DLO showing two sides of the opinions. The agree had a valid answer whilst the disagree had a less valid answer due to both me and my partner agreeing with the questions.

Lastly I bloged my task.