Lime Scooters lose Auckland Contract

Auckland Council has announced they have dumped lime scooters from Auckland City. The Council has announced new four operators that have been purchased,

Beam
Flamingo
Neuron
and Jump.

The new companies are allowed to put 3200 scooters on Auckland streets between them.

Kebab shop could face legal action from McDonalds

A kebab store in Geraldine may face legal action from McDonald's.

The showcase of the problem is the Kebab shop has registered to take action of stealing McDonald's logo sign. A sign promoting Kebab world included an upside down version of the well known golden arches.

McDonald's have given the new shop one week to remove all signage.

Kiwis maybe fined for not completing census

Statistics New Zealand has revealed people not filling in their 2018 census form which can lead them to a $500 fine. Filling out the census is required to be under the law which says people who chooses to not fill the form will be fined to a $500. The agency has been trying to collect information by doing meet ups and door knocking for the past few months.

Manaiakalni Film Festival 2019

Yesterday our whole school travelled on a bus to go to the Sylvia Park Hoyts to watch and learn what we and the other schools filmed. Schools that were apart of the Manaikalani films were Glen Brae, Glen Innes, Glen Taylor, Panmure Bridge, P.t England, Stone Fields, St Pius, Sommerville, Tamaki Primary, St Patrick's, Te Kura Kaupapa Maori School and lastly Tamaki College.

In my thoughts my favourite film from all of the ones I've watched was Tamaki Zombies from Tamaki primary school because I liked how they put emotions and feelings into the film and how they dressed up like superheros.

Kiwi Can Jam 2019😎

 On Friday afternoon me and some of the Ruapotaka students travelled in the bus with Glen Brae school to get to the Manakau Vodafone Center to show case our performance. There were about 14 schools coming to show and entertain audience with their performance they've been practicing in the last 14 weeks.

For our group we have showed cased a skit based on Avengers coming to save the people with the cookie jar, a girls dance and a group dance for last. For me what our group attended I think we did our best even though we mucked up we still tried. It was solid watching other schools perform as well they did a really good job.

Hearing from our principle, Mrs Hamilton: we did a great job from watching through the sides.

That will be a night to remember 😋

Smart relationships

Smart Relationships- First of all you have to be very careful on being online social media, the reason being is something might happen which might not be expected to for example chatting online. Be careful of who you are communicating with or interact with because first you might not know the person, second of all they might be a stranger to you and third they may approach you. To those who may have been doing it I'm telling you to STOP IT! because this may lead to destruction.

These things are very bad to people who are especially under aged it can also include adults. Remember when you are online think before you do something and watch out for yourself when you are on social media.

Halloween

Everyone has all sorts of things that they find scary or they are afraid of, people are trying to avoid these kind of things.

One thing seems to save us what.. our friends. when your friends are with you you seem to become not scared and more brave. Friends help encourage you to face those scary things instead of avoiding it, they also help to not let the bad fears or the bad scary things that are happening to not come. A good friend like this is a actual true caring friend.

Remember to always face your fears and the things your afraid of because i'll tell you right now they don't exist , they are fake and they're not worth it.

Facial recognition for Sheep!

A Dunedin company has announced their developing a facial recognition for sheep. The project has received $40,000 grant from Callaghan innovation, this company is aiming to prototype the software of this year. Sheep face images are collected to be fed in a machine learning model which identify sheep by finding recognisable features. In the future the technology can assist with tracking animal locations to prevent hustling and monitoring animal behavior.

Fire Breaks out in Sky City

A major fire has hit Auckland's convention center. Large flames were quickly heading to the very top of the building but the fire fighters thought that it was very difficult to get inside to the top. The fire was starting on the seventh floor before spreading to the sixth.

One of the St John fire fighters has says one of the person that was part of the incident has sadly got sent to the hospital for a serious condition.

These are the kind of incidents you need to be careful with because you won't know what would happen to you at the end of the day if you've got hurt, so my advice for you's out there that are going to go the city sometime is to be careful of yourself and of course be safe.

Wellington Airport Colours Segulls To Track Them

Did you know that Wellington Airport has a hundred of coloured seagulls to help with safety. The seagulls were coloured with food dye to deal with the risk of bird strikes endangering flights. Wellington airport has said that the seagulls has become such a problem so they have decided to put 3 landfills around the city to see if everything going okay when there are flights happening. This is only happening because the cause of  dangering  the seagulls have made, this is just only for people's safety on air.

GO ALL BLACKS GO!!

The All Blacks have scored 9 touch downs to beat Canada, this is the All Blacks 2nd record for the 2019 world cup.

The All Blacks were too strong to beat Canada by winning 63-0

Back to School!

Getting back to school for term 4 is not my type, we have to do a lot of testing before we hit college and that is not fair. Well it can be fair because when we start college no one's there to help you. You have to try figure your way up, to lead you to the very top. But for me getting back to school is kind of fun at times cause you get to hangout with your friends, get in trouble and obviously learning (depends on what subjects we do)

But yeah guys here we are back to the coolest place ever 😉😭

Penguin swims from NZ to Australia !

A Fiordland penguin was found struggling  against rocks in the shallows at Kennett River, west of Melbourne just by swimming back from NZ. It was taken to Melbourne zoo to get checked on it balance of fluids and nutrients until it was well enough to eat. The penguin has been released back into the wild in hope it will make its way back to its home (NZ).

The penguin had travelled 2500km.

Prime Minister Ardern meets with the Twitter CEO

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has met up with Jack Dorsey the twitter CEO. She has said if he could extremely get rid of the groups on the social media site. The reason why Prime Minister Ardern has had a meeting with Jack Dorsey is because to keep people safe online and to get rid of the extreme views.

My thoughts on this is Twitter shouldn't be banded. People should just be careful on social media and know what their doing before they do it. It is very important to think before you actually do things your going to do!

Measles Outbreak Hits New Zealand !

There have been a number of cases where people have gotten measles in Auckland, 937 have been reported nation wide. A lot of children have been diagnosed under the age of 5 years and 15-29. Auckland Regional Public Health service says that New Zealand has now lost immunity against measles which is great to hear. Measles appear as little spots on the skin and is highly contagious.

                        It is important to keep away from others especially if you have measles.                                                                                                

Netball 2019

Yesterday my Netball team and I went to the AMI Courts to compete against other schools. Our team did the best to make our school proud. We lost 3, drew 1 and won 2 games out of the whole 6 games we played. We were a little bit unlucky by coming 13th out of 20 but we did good.  For me I was happy to leave school from doing work to have fun out there. My favourite part of the day was eating junk food and representing our school.

Well done team!

Scary Newss

A US woman is terrified of spiders and one has been in her ear. She had noticed that she had a sore ear and went to the doctors to find out what was sore about it. She got the doctors to try and pull the spider out of her ear. If that highly venomous brown recluse spider had bitten her then it would've caused itching, muscle pain, nausea, headaches and sweating. She has said that from now on she's going to sleep with earplugs.

It is important to take responsibility of your own body especially when a spider comes visiting.

Dunedin airport installs body scanners for domestic flights

Dunedin airport has installed body scanners for them to detect concealed objects that aren't supposed to be in their clothing. Out of the country they're the first airport to install body scanners, the same scanners have been installed into Auckland airport International Terminal as well. The only reason why they are installed is because the airport security can be in live with what happens oversea. 

LAST COOKING SESSION!

Today my partner and I made Mince Gravy with Potato Salad.

If you would like to try make it here are the ingredients you need and the steps to make it...

Ingredients-
- Potato
- Mince
- Onion
- Gravy (Bisto & flour)

Steps
- Boil the potato until its cooked.
- Fry the mince and onion until it's cooked.
-When the oil is bubbling in the pan add the gravy (Bisto & flour) and mix.
- When you finish mixing the mince and the gravy together add the veges in and mix.
- After you keep mixing pour out the water that's in the potato pot then get some mayo add it on the potato and mix.
- When that's done and dusted serve your mince with potato salad.
-Enjoy:)

Warehouse creates New Zealand first online shopping mall

The Warehouse group has started to create a online one stop shopping mall for everyone around Auckland to access whenever. It has been discovered that it's New Zealand's biggest online mall.
Last Thursday the market has launched over 1500 stores on it.

To have a New Zealand online shopping mall is much more faster and easier to buy stuff instead of wasting your petrol. I just want to thank the Warehouse Group for creating a New Zealand shopping online mall for everyone to have a look and buy things.

Butter Chicken

Today at tech my partner and I made Butter Chicken.

If you would like to try to make some for yourself then here are the ingredients and the steps to make it.

Ingredients-
- Chicken
-Onion
- Butter chicken sauce+Spices+Cream

Steps-
- Dice the onion and chicken.
- Fry it until it's cooked.
- When it's cooked add butter chicken sauce, spices and cream.
- Stir for 10 mins and serve with rice on a plate.
-Enjoy

Kayaking !

Today we were lucky to have another opportunity to go to Wero Whitewater Park.

Today's lesson was all about kayaking. When we arrived there we all had to get dressed and then the tutor had to explain how to kayak and use a paddle before we hopped in our own boat. When I was in my boat I felt comfortable and I was ready to go out there to have a lot of fun in the water paddling, getting splashed and falling off the boat.

Today was really fun and I mean really fun, especially getting wet out there and bumping into each others boats. I have experienced and learnt a lot of things (beside kayaking).

I just want to thank the sponsor once again for giving us a second chance to be there.
I hope to go there again if you would allow us.

Mince Wrap

Today at tech my buddy and I made Mince Wrap.

If you would like to try and make it here are the ingredients to get and the steps to make,

Ingredients-

 - Onion

- Mince

- Pastry Sheets

- Flour

- Water

Steps- 

- Dice the onion and fry it with mince until its cooked.

-  Add 2 Tbsp of flour and 1/2 c of water.

- Stir for 5 mins and take it off the stove.

- Cut 1 whole piece of pastry into 4 equal parts.

- Fill up the pastry that you've cut into 4 with mince.

- Close the pastry with another 4 pieces of pastry on top of the bottom one.

- After get a fork and seal the edges.

- And bake it for 20 mins.

- After 20 mins take the baking tn out and let it cool for 5 mins.

- Get a plate and present your Mine Wrap you've made.

- And Enjoy

Chicken Wrapper

On Wednesday at tech my partner Storm and I made a Chicken Wrapper.

If you would like to try and make it here are the ingredients to get and the steps to make it.

Ingredients- 

- tortilla

- Lettuce

- tomatoes

- Chicken

- Mayo

Steps-

- Dice lettuce + Tomatoes

- Get the tortilla and add mayo, cheese. chicken, tomatoes, lettuce

- Roll it up, present it on your plate and

Enjoy :)

New Zealand passport ranked in the Top 10

The New Zealand passport has been named in the world's top ten most powerful.

The Kiwi passport has become apart of the top 9 but eventually the top 10 spot was taken by Japan and Singapore. The passports were ranked on how many places they had visa-free access. At this moment New Zealand passports have access to 180 countries.

Last year the New Zealand passports was ranked at number 8 with access to 182 countries.

Mini Quiches

Today at tech my buddy and I made mini Quiches.

If you would like to try and make it, here are the ingredients to use and the steps on how to make it -

Ingredients -
 - 4 eggs
- 1 cup of milk
- Ham
- Cheese
- Pastry

Steps -
- Whisk 4 eggs with 1 cup of milk.
- Dice and slice ham.
- Line up the pastry into the muffin tray.
- Add cheese, ham and the bowl of eggs with 1 cup of milk (spread it out evenly)
- Put muffin tray in oven and bake it for 180c for 20 mins.
- When it's baked take out of the oven and
Enjoy!

WORLD CHAMPIONS - Silver Ferns win thriller

                                   
  New Zealand are the new Netball World Champions.

The Silver Ferns have defeated Australia with 52-51 to claim the Netball World Champions.

Australia had been the Netball World Champions since 2003.

Australia fought back in the final quarter and won by 3 goals but New Zealand did enough to hang on.

I'm so glad that the Silver Ferns made us happy, I just want to say keep up the good work and I hope you win some more games. 

Tamaki Estuary

Yesterday the whole school and 3 special guests from the zoo went to see the Tamaki Estuary River.

Us year 8 and year 7 students had to partner up with someone to help collect rubbish that has been found. My partner was Ray Ray. We had found and collected a lot of rubbish and had fun walking around and admiring the view.

The main reason we went to the Tamaki Estuary was to experience and help make the sea healthy by collecting up rubbish. Us students from Ruapotaka School didn't want to make the sea unhealthy and didn't want our sea creatures suffering and dying from the filthiness.

It is important to keep our environment safe and clean not dirty.

Kumara Frittata

Today me and my partner Storm made Kumara Frittata.

If you would like to try and make it here are the ingredients the steps to make it.

Ingredients-

- Kumara

- Eggs

- Milk

- Onions

Steps- 

- Peel the Kumara and grate (cheese grater)

- Whisk 4 eggs with 1 cup in a big bowl

- Mix with Kumara and pour into a baking tin

- Bake 180c for 15-20 minutes in oven

- Once it's cooked,

Enjoy

Wero Whitewater Trip!

Last Friday Room 12 and I went on a trip to Wero Whitewater Park. It was my first time that I've gained knowledge and experienced new things from rafting. 

The best part that made my day was, rafting, swimming around the river and eating.

I just want to say a big thank you to the instructor who took care of my group, 

I had lots of fun and I hope we can organise another trip there.

I really appreciate you guys heaps!

Spaghetti Carbonara

Today at Tech my partner and I made Spaghetti Carbonara.

If you would like to try make it, here are the ingredients to use and the steps on how to make it -

Ingredients-
- Spaghetti
- Carrot
- Onion
- Zucchini
- Bacon
- Cheese
- Cream

Steps-
- Boil Spaghetti with 3 cups of water in a pot.
- Bake your bacon in a metal baking tin at 200 degrees Celsius.
- Scrape Zucchini, carrot, onion.
- Mix spaghetti, vegetables, cheese, cream.
- Scoop it into your bowl with a tong/wooden spoon.
Enjoy!

Fungal Disease Killing Kakapo

A deadly fungal disease is the reason why seven Kakapo have died in the last few months.

One of the Kakapo that has died was 100 years old. He was one of the sickest ones who had been treated in the New Zealand Center Conservation Medicine at Auckland Zoo.

There are now 35 Kakapo in three hospitals around the country. 160 birds remain alive in New Zealand.

The sick birds have been provided with their favourite native plants to eat and have been medicated twice a day.

It is important to keep our native animals safe and healthy.

Silver Corn Beef

Today at Tech my partner and I made  Corn Silverside soup.

If you would like to make it, here are the ingredients and the steps to make it.

Ingredients -
- Meat
- Cabbage
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Onion
- Cauliflower
- Broccoli
- Tomato

Spices 
- Salt
- Pepper - Chilli powder

Steps -

Step 1 - Slice your meat
- Wash cabbage & slice 
- Wash broccoli & slice
- Peel onion & slice
- Peel and wash carrot & slice
- Wash cauliflower & slice

Step 2 - Put all the veggies and the meat in a pot and boil until the potatoes are soft.

Enjoy Your Lunch!

English Breakfast

Last Week Wednesday was our first Session of Cooking Class with Mrs Tuipolotu.
My partner was Storm and we made English Breakfast.

If you would like to try and make it, here are the ingredients and the steps to make it.

Ingredients -
- Sausage
- Bacon
- Eggs
- Baked beans
- Bread & butter

Steps to make it -
- Toast the bread in the oven for 200 degrees Celsius (using a flat baking tin)
- Fry sausage, bacon and egg in a frying pan with oil.
- Tip out oil and heat up the baked beans with a clean plate.

Enjoy your food.

Tornado Hits Northland And Damages House

Around a dozen houses in Northland have been damaged by a tornado and strong winds this morning.

Cooper's Beach area has been damaged by roof tops getting lifted up from the tornado. There has been no reports of serious injuries which is good. However Cooper's Beach residents had said that it was a frightening experience but they had saved themselves by ducking into a motel from the tornado that had nearly hit them.

From me I hope that their safe.

Ski Season Opens For 2019 🎿

The open of the Happy Valley Ski at Mt Ruapehu marks the start of Ski Season for 2019. Another Ski place you could go to is Mount Hutt, the closest field to Christchurch which is expected to open on the 7th  of June.

Teachers Take Strike Instead Of Teaching Us!

Teachers went on strike yesterday to get a better pay. In total around 50,000 teachers went on strike and failed to turn up to school. That means around 750,000 students couldn't be taught. The government has offered 3 percent rise over the next 3 years due to low payments.

There might be another teachers strike according to the news but they shouldn't because they should be teaching.

Samoan Language Week 🇼🇸

This week is Samoan Language Week.
A number of events are being held across the country to celebrate the Pacific Island culture.

This year's theme is weaving an environment for a better future.

Here are some Samoan phrases, 

Welcome - Afio mai, Susu mai or Maliu mai


Hello - Talofa Lava, Malo or Malo soifua

How are you - o a mai oe

Goodbye - Fa,     Tofa or Tofa soifua

Please - Fa' amolemole

Sorry - Fa' amalie atu

I love you - oute alofa ia oe

I really appreciate what my culture does to inspire me and that it will never end.

New Phone Number For New Zealand Police

On Friday the 10th of May, there has been a announcement pronounced by the police. They said that they've changed their contact number to 105. They said the number 111 hasn't been replaced yet, that contact is for anyone who has emergencies.

My opinion is that they could've left as before because if they had changed it than I would've had a feeling that it would be difficult and confused for others but it isn't my choice it's their choice.

But remember if u want to dial the police - 105
If you have emergencies than dial - 111

Football Tournament ⚽

Yesterday we had a football tournament at Pt England Reserve. This year there was a year 7&8 girls team competing with the other girls from other schools. Liza and I were strikers and the rest were attackers and defenders. I had fun kicking the ball around and trying to get a goal for our team but especially eating 🤣.

I just want to thank my teammates for trying hard to make our team and our school happy. You girls did a really good job.

Prince William Comes To New Zealand!

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Prince William had spent some time in Christchurch supporting families of the victims who died in mosque attack.

The second day of Prince Williams visit, Christchurch had met up with about 160 survivors and family members. He said that Christchurch and New Zealand's response to the shooting was an example to inspire the world.

My class and I had a talk about the mosque attack saying things like praying for the families and survivors who had been injured and had 2 minutes of silence.

It is important to love one another no matter what if you don't like someone because of their religion or their personality. We are all the same
SO THINK TWICE!

KiwiCan 🥰 🙄

Today Room 12 and I had the opportunity to have our first session with Kiwi Can.

 Miss Tuia and Mrs Mac were with us today, and as we know they both work for the KiwiCan company.
Firstly they introduced themselves and explained 5 rules we should benefit from.
They were:
1. Respect others
2. Ask Questions
3. Listen to the speaker
4. Don't be shy give it a try
5. Have fun

They were also talking to us about what these 2 words mean (highlighted in bold down the bottom for you)

Our theme for this term is Integrity = Being honest and strong
Our Topic for this term is Honesty = Being truthful

Next we played 3 different games:
First was = Bang
Second was = Changing Places
Lastly was = GKQ = stands for General Knowledge Questions

I've really enjoyed my first session of KiwiCan and getting to know the 2 tutors that had come today. I hope they had fun with us and keep KiwiCan going at least for a year!

Measle Outbreak In Christchurch!

A widespread outbreak has hit Christchurch!
20 people have been confirmed to have caught the measles. Canterbury District has been forced to buy supplies that they need to help those who have been affected.

Measles could be a very contagious disease which could easily spread out to those around.
It's very important to not catch these kinds of diseases otherwise it will SPREAD!!

Smart Learners (Passwords)

Passwords. Passwords are one of the most essential things to learn about if you don't know how to make the right decisions.

Sharing your own password is a very childish thing to do. Passwords are meant to be a personal thing, which means it's just for yourself and not for others. It is not safe to share your password with anyone because they could steal your identity and create problems for you.

I'm encouraging you now that it is necessary to not spread or share any of your personal information!
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Vector

Last week Room 12 had an electricity lesson with Estah from Vector.

We were discussing how electricity works and other things related to the topic.
 I learnt about a lot of things like:

1. How electricity works,
2. How solar panels work while in the sun,
3. How weather destroys land and how it kills people
and lastly,
4. The different types of energy we have.

I have now have more knowledge about how electricity works.

Back To School for 2019l!

It's a new year and it's precisely 2019.

Mrs Hamilton has adjusted to being the new principal of our school.

This year will be very busy and hard for me, I will be pushing myself further to achieve my goals. I am looking forward to finding a suitable college that is good for me to enroll in. I also hope that I can expand my knowledge and become smarter, so I can achieve other things that are too complicated for me.

I hope this year goes well!