Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, director, actor and comedian. He has produced and/or directed a number of popular films including “Boy,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” As a child, Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore (a small town on the East Coast of New Zealand). When he graduated from secondary school Taika moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University. Despite moving away from home, he has never forgotten his family or his roots (where he comes from).

Speaking of roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family. His dad is Māori (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) and his mother is Russian-Jewish. I, on the other hand, am Pākeha (New Zealand European). Most of my ancestors come from England. When I talk about who I am, and introduce myself to others, I sometimes use a pepeha.

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DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

‘Lorde’ is a New Zealand singer who rose to fame in 2013 with the release of her song Royals. She currently has over 6 million followers on both Instagram and Facebook and close to 8 million followers on Twitter. Lorde has won many awards and influenced many people with her music and her original dance moves.

Lorde’s real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor and she was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. Her mother, Sonja Yelich, is Croatian and her father, Vic O’Connor, is Irish. Lorde’s parents encouraged her to read a lot as a child. They also encouraged her to follow her passion. Lorde started performing covers (other people’s songs) when she was at intermediate school and started writing her own original music as a young teen.



For this activity, we would like you to do some research and find out all that you can about Lorde. Once you have finished your research, please create a Profile Page for her. A profile page is a digital info graphic or poster that shares information about someone.

Here is an example of a profile page about Taylor Swift.

On your blog, post a copy of the profile page. Please include at least five interesting facts about Lorde on the page.

Remember to attribute any images that you borrow from the internet or from other people.

Making Chocolate Cake @ TC Tech!!

Today is our 3rd to last TC Tech rotation for 2019. The meal or should I say desert we made today was CHOCOLATE CAKE!! I have been waiting for this day since the start of our cooking sessions. The ingredient we used to make is delicious cake were:

• 2 cups of Plain Flour
• 1 cup of Sugar
• 1/3 cup of Cocoa Powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence 
• 1 cup of Oil
• 1/2 cup of Milk

Dry ingredients in red & Wet ingredients in blue

Our method we followed was:

1. Pre-heat  your over to 180
2. Add all the dry ingredients into one bowl the mix well
3. Add all the wet ingredients into another bowl then mix well
4. Boil 1 cup of water in a pot 
5. Next, combine all wet ingredients with the dry ingredients then mix well
6. Pour the mixture into a cake tin then insert it into the oven 
7. Cook it for 35 minutes then your cake is done

Genomics

Walt: create a presentation showing what we learn't for Genomics.

Task Description:
This week for Genomics we had to watch a couple of videos that explained what DNA is. After we watched those videos we had to create something to show what we learn't/understood about it.

Museum trip!!

On the first of November Pt England school, Team 5 got the opportunity to visit the Auckland museum with KPWG!! This day was extremely exciting as we arrived and got split into group's. And as we arrived we we're able to have the sight of sculptures.

This day all started with a bus ride to the Auckland museum. Once we got there we meet 46 helper's from KPMG, Not to long after all the museum rules we're set we got put in our museum group's with a helper from KPMG.

During this day we visited all floors of the museum and looked at old thing's from the past. And different sculpture's that we're throughout the whole museum, My favourite part of the museum was rolling down the hill, Also the winter garden.

My favourite part in the winter garden was looking at all the different flower's. And also going on a bush walk in the winter garden with people from team 5 that I saw at the winter garden. Also from here and there on our bus ride's they we're also both amazingly clingy.

On behalf of team 5 we would like to say a big thank you to  KPMG for your help and our tour's, Thank you to all our teacher's.

Genomics fun day!!

Genomic’s fun day!!



Today Team 5 got the opportunity to have a fun day with two different school’s, Glen innes , Glen brae. You may be wondering what we we’re doing, Well keep scrolling to find out more.

The day all started of with a mihi and karake presented by , Skye and Villiami. Then our principal Mr Burt welcomed Glen innes and Glen brae. He started of with a whakapapa. Before we started our genomic fun day we sang a waiata. After we finished singing our waiata we then got instructions from our team leader Mr’s Ilaoa.

Then glen innes and glen brae got split up into our remaining classes. In the instructions we had to get into 4 groups of 6,7 or 8 people. In my group we had a number of 8 people, Maiah , Lilo/Francesca and Candice,Rosie, Leilani, Angel, Calais, And me.

As a group we did different challenges and we also got asked questions and win spot prizes. And these different challenges were quite hard actually. Our group placed 1st with the hp girl’z for questions. By the way our name was Dynamite's.

Over all the genomic fun day turned out to be a success, It’s actually quite surprising. Thanks to all the teacher's for organising this genomics day. This day was well spent.

Chicken curry

Today at Tamaki college we made chicken curry. 

This meal is very easy to make at home. With these simple ingredient's. We had until 11 : 30 - 12 : 30 to cook this amazing tasty dish . / And I had an amazing time here cooking at Tamaki college. My partners today were , Tehillah and Angel. We worked together as a team.  

Step 1 - 

- dice onion 

- dice chicken 

- Chop potatoes 

- Fry until it is cooked 

- Add curry and spices 

- Add vegetables and potatoes