Inquiry Reflection: Global Warming

Inquiry Reflection- Global Warming

Over the past 2 months, the senior hub have been focusing on things that affect us, and natural causes
we face today. My partner and I chose to do Global Warming and we presented our learning through
a emaze.

I am quite content with the way our presentation turned out because we were able to give a good
source of knowledge that provided information towards our topic. Throughout the process of creating
the presentation, I detected more about Global Warming and how it really affects us. We gathered and
accumulated information using journals, YouTube clips, and Google. We explored lots of links and sites
that we could use that would be child friendly to others. We had help from our teachers, and we had
feedback from the rest of the hub which was really encouraging and supportive.

If I were to change anything, I would change the app that we had used. Although it was a stabilised app,
I thought that we could have chosen a more in depth, detailed app that would have made our
presentation stand out more and become more bulk. To modify our work, we could have added and
supplemented more information and data that would have given us a better view of what it might
be like in other countries apart from ours.

Overall, I think that my partner and I, did a really good job and I’m really proud of myself with
what we were able to achieve. We provided worthy information that was able to be understood by adults,
and younger students which made it definitely worth it.

Commonwealth games 2018: Scotland

For the past 2 weeks, The senior hub has been looking at the 2018 commonwealth games. We had to pick 1 country that was competing in this years commonwealth and I chose Scotland. We had to choose a country that we aren't from, but a country that we don't know much about. At the start, I didn't know much things about Scotland but as I kept researching, I learnt more about the country. I now know a lot of things about Scotland and it was really fun doing this project.

Tapa cloth reflection

Tapa Cloth Reflection

 

• Are you pleased with your accomplishment? Why / Why Not?

Yes, Because I had never made a Tapa Cloth before and it

was nice to try something new and different. Also because my tapa shows translation, rotation, and reflection.

• What were some of the most interesting discoveries you made while working on your Tapa Cloth? About the task? About myself?

One of the discoveries I made was that, I never knew tapa cloths were an islander type of art and that people in the islands make it out of barkcloth.

• What were some of my most challenging moments in making my Tapa Cloth and what made them so?

The most challenging things for me was ruling my grid lines 3cm apart and making sure they were all even. The other part was when I was bleaching, colouring, and dying my paper, because I didn’t want to make any rips or holes on my tapa cloth.

• What would you do differently if you were to make a Tapa Cloth again?

I would think more carefully about what shapes that I was going to use, and where to put them. Also to not press too hard on the paper when bleaching because then it’s going to rip.

• What / who helped you with your Tapa Cloth?

Miss. Paton showed me how to rule my lines and how to make the Tapa. Ferah also helped me with my bleaching and colouring in with the vivid.

• What could you modify / alter on your Tapa Cloth?

I would add more designs to my Tapa and I would also draw my designs a bit bigger so that they would be more clearer to see from a distance.

• What aspect of your Tapa Cloth are you most proud of?

I am most proud of my design as it represents my culture and I like the way I dyed the cloth because the colour wasn't to light, nor it wasn't too dark.

Writing: Cadbury

Should Cadbury keep their factory in Dunedin?

When you think of Cadbury chocolate, there’s always a thought in your mind of where it came from 

and where it’s made. Well, the answer to that is Dunedin, but, not for long. In 1868, a man named Richard 

Hudson came to New Zealand and opened up his very first bake house. He was the first person to create the chocolate chip cookies. 16 years later (1884), Richard opened the first chocolate and cocoa manufacturing plant. Later on in 1930, Cadbury partnered up with Richard and they created the very first Cadbury dairy milk bar. 

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Cadbury factory when it opened.  Tragically on 

March 29th 2018, the Cadbury factory closed down. This would have been a very hard time for the ex Cadbury workers as they would have lost their jobs. When you get to a certain age at the point where you are 40+, it is very hard to find a job and there wouldn’t be many employment opportunities. The workers wouldn’t be getting paid any money and it might be hard for them to pay the bills. They might start having financial problems paying for off mortgages, food, electricity and general household bills.  I am simply perplexed and appalled by the 

closure of a well known kiwi foundation. New Zealand is such a small country and yet again, we are having our products and institutions taken away from us.Too many of our possessions are being assembled and produced

in other countries. The more buildings and properties that get taken down in our country, the more people 

are losing their jobs. This has a huge consequence on us as it can result to, people living on the streets,

shops closing down because they don’t have enough employees, and even people getting kicked out of their

homes because they don’t have enough money to rent them. Now that Australia owns the Cadbury factory,

it causes New Zealand to have money issues. We now have to pay more for it to be shipped and imported from overseas. The prices for chocolate in supermarkets/ dairy’s, might be put up and become more expensive.

My thoughts and opinions about this closure makes me absolutely devastated and gutted. We are losing 150 

years of history! That’s a pretty long legacy that is now just demolished. If the chocolate is made overseas in 

another country, the recipe could change, the packaging might be different, and they might take some of our

chocolate away and swap them with new ones. Cadbury is a well loved chocolate and was a great factory in Dunedin, let’s just hope that Australia carries on with our 150 year old legacy.

 In writing, my class and I looked at the closure of the Cadbury factory in Dunedin. It was a real shock for cadbury lovers including me. Such a strong, long lasting company/factory that is now gone. My opinions stated in my writing, shows that I was completely against the closure. It really is just disappointing that a well loved institution, is taken from us.