Mihi mihi

E te mauri mai tāwhiti

To the souls which ascend from afar

E te whare, te papa, te kainga noho tēnā koutou

The community house/classroom/ancestral house, people of the community, greetings

Ki ngā anahera, kua rere hei taki, hei tuara mo te hunga ora, haere

To our dearly departed, who continue to provide us with direction, we acknowledge you

Ki a tātou, he mihi nui

To the living, greetings

Ko Maungarei te maunga

To the great mountain Maungarei, the ancestral mountainKo Te Wai o Taiki te awa

To the flowing river Te Wai o Taiki, the ancestral watersKo Ukutoia te papa

To the land in which I stand Ukutoia, the area in which we dwell

Tēnā koutou

Greetings to you all

Ko Philip tōku pāpā, nō Tonga ia

Philip is my father, he is from Tonga

Ko Adelina tōku māmā, nō Tonga ia

Adelina is my mother, she is from Tonga

Ko Melvin tōku ingoa

My name is Melvin

Ko Pt-england tōku kainga noho

I live in Pt-england

Tekau mā rua ōku tau

I am 12 years old

Nōreira, e ngā manuhiri tuārangi, ngā tauira, kaiako, kaumātua, he mihi nui, he mihi aroha

So therefore, to our distinguished guests, students, teachers, elders, a warm and heart-felt greeting

Anei he kōrero a te kura, “Whaiā kia eke”

Here is our school’s motto, to illustrate our intentions, to strive to succeed

Nōreira tēnā koutou katoa

So therefore, greetings one and all

Auckland vs Syria

Melvin: I woke up in the morning with the light of the sun on my face. I continued to lie down in my warm bed. As I was falling asleep again, all of a sudden my dad came in shouting “Get ready for school”. I moaned and kicked the blanket off me. As I got up I heard my dad eating like a pig by himself in the kitchen as usual.

Marvin: The sound of people screaming woke me up every morning. Hopping out of my cardboard box in the abandoned building, I walked along the hard stone floor to eventually arrive at my mother’s room three floors down. I had always wondered why people were screaming until I walked outside and saw people getting shot everywhere. “Why are these people doing this”

Slowly I walked into the kitchen with my arms hanging down beside me. I stared at the eggs and bacon for a second. I asked my dad if I could have some, but he said no and told me to wait for my mum. So I moaned even louder making me a bowl of weet-bix instead. I poured the milk in the bowl making the weet-bix soggy.

I then arrived at my boss’s house to finally see what job I was going to have to do today. “Water collecting” he said to me. “Ugh” I said to myself. I was sprinting around town gathering all the buckets possible then filling them up. Delivering was the most hardest part but I wasn't going to give up. I had finished my job for today and finally I could go home.

As I left my school at 3:PM I was feeling hot as the sun shined on me. I felt my back lifting me down because I just finished Athletics training. When I got home I walked in seeing my mum having afternoon tea with my brother and sister. I wasn't hungry I just wanted to go to sleep. But I had to do my chores which was mow the lawn, pull the weeds, water the garden, clean my room and mop the bathroom. But at the end I had play outside and had fish and chips for dinner.

I was making my way home and right behind me was a little boy that looked like he had no home. Almost arriving at my house when he told me a very very sad story. He said to me “My parents died from some bad people cause they had a bomb”. Arriving at home and saying to my mum “this boy has no parents can we live with us?”. “Yes” she replied. We then lived happily ever after.

The greatest 5 jobs

Police: Well I’ll have to attend a police academy and work out more but to attend the academy I’ll have to do good at school with my levels and P.E.

Astronaut: I need to get a degree in uni and learn about NASA.

Secret spy: I’ll have to be intelligent and assassin trained but do a good application on-line.

Motorbike engineer: I’ll have to learn the basics and dynamic the get a degree and get a engineering job.

Security: Grow some muscles and shades then find a bar/club to work at.

New island

A major earthquake has hit  Pakistan, causing  a new island to rise from the sea just off the country’s southern coast. That earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to create a small island about 600 meters away from the coast of Pakistan in the Arabian sea. The officials say the rate of the earth-quake was unknown but 45 people has die and it may just increase.

Maths WK1

This is my maths mural about rotation,reflection and translation!

Mahia is an artist. She has been commissioned to paint a mural on wall of a company's warehouse. The company wants the mural to be abstract (not representational) and they want it to show the colours of their company logo. They have specified it needs to have 1/3 blue,  1/6 red, 1/12 yellow, 1/12 white 1/12 purple and 1/4  green. They want it to have 2 lines of symmetry (reflection)  and  a rotating and translating pattern somewhere.