The Olympic Message

The Olympic Message

Since the beginning of the Modern Olympic Games, the message has been: “The most important thing about the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part...just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle”. ( Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
                  
What the Olympic message is trying to say is, that people think that winning is the most important thing in life. In my opinion I think that the struggle is more important, because if you fail you can get back on your feet and strive forward as many times. Eventually all of your struggles in life will lead to success and triumph if you work hard to strive to succeed.

Many of the greatest athletes in the world have struggled in life and then excelled to become one of the greatest inspirations in the world. You may know Michael Jordan. He is the best basketball player who ever played the sport. He quotes in his inspirational speech “You may think that I would of made basketball look easy but my failure was my success and my pain was my motivation”. What Michael said really inspired me because when people put others down, they can advance to the next level of success because they can keep on developing on their weak areas in life.
 

I agree with the Olympic message because it is a really inspiring message. In parts of it, it that the olympics are not about winning but to take part. Athletes who strive for gold but don’t achieve their goal get really upset. It is good to aim high, but they should be proud of themselves for actually making it to the Olympic games to represent their country.

by Joshua

Art Alive

The term our topic was Art Alive. Team 5 studied the life and art of 5 famous artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Daniella Hulme. Students had to take photos of their 'special place' and use it to provide inspiration for their artworks. They also attempted to paint their 'special place' in the style of an artist that they selected.

Please take a look at their individual blogs to find out more.

                                          Shoal

                                           Huelo-ata

                                         Stephanie

                                                   Toreka

                                          Makerita

                                            Joshua

                                         Shawn

                                          Niuma

'Another Hitachi Day' movie competition

This is our entry for the 'Another Hitachi Day' movie competition. It was put together by Joshua and other Year 8 students in our class: Toreka, Selena, Matthew T, Toko, Aidan and Joe (from Room 22).

They had to show how they would bring the outdoors inside. The students chose a beach scene with volleyball, swimming, surfing and sunbathing etc. They used green screen effects to recreate their scene. The top prize is $10,000 and the top 5 schools can win a heat pump for their school.

You can also watch it on Youtube on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRFZn_SvJw

Please click on this link to vote for our entry: http://www.hitachiheatpumps.co.nz/

Follow these instructions to vote:

Once you are on the website, click on the competition page.

Go up to the top of the screen and click on the 'enter' tab.

Go to 'create new account'.

Your username can just be your first name (make sure that you can remember it).

Put in your email address.

Put in a password that you can remember.

Don't put in a YouTube URL - our school has already got a video entry.

For your 'entry type', just click on the third option which is ‘voting only’. 

Then click on 'create new account'. 

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Next, go to the 'voting' tab up the top. 

Go down to 'schools' and click on it.

This will give you a list of all the entries. 

Scroll down and click on 'Pt England school'.

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Voting ends next Sunday 3rd of June. 

This screen recording will also help you to vote if you get stuck. Thanks for voting!