How Te Hapua got its name

For writing, we had to retell the story of how a place in Muriwhenua got its name I choose the story of Te Hapua because I think Te Hapua is a mean as place and I wanted to know where the name Te Hapua came from.

Camp

In week 3 room 3 and 4 went on a school camp to The Farm in Whangaruru it was mean fun and it was a really good experience.

5 Rs

For topic, we had to create a display about the 5 Rs for reducing waste. It is really important to reduce the waste we create - if we don't, we could make all sorts of problems for planet Earth. What things do you do to reduce waste?

Persuasive Speech

In class, we have been working on our speeches. Mine is about Woman and men equality about the gender pay gap. It was hard to come up with the main points for the paragraphs but once I got them it was easier to write.

Men should get paid more than women

Now if a woman gets a degree attends universities and becomes an expert in their career and does the job just as well if not better than the male. Then why is it fair that a full time working women earns less. They should ABSOLUTELY get paid equal salaries.

New Zealand’s gender wage gap is currently one of the lowest in the OECD currently at 9.4%. The gap can be larger or smaller depending on the state someone lives in. In Louisiana, for instance, the gender pay gap is 30%, the biggest wage gap in the nation. Twenty-nine states in the country currently have gender pay gaps that are larger than the national average. Most states have implemented laws against gender discrimination and the 1964 civil rights act protects women at the federal level. Even though New Zealand has one of the lowest pay gaps it's still unfair that men are paid more than women.

Occupational segregation refers to the clustering of female and male workers in particular occupations. For example, women are over-represented in nursing while men are over-represented in construction-related occupations. Female-dominated occupations tend to be lower paid than those dominated by men. Vertical segregation refers to the fact that a higher proportion of men than women hold senior higher-paid positions. Which in my opinion holds a big effect on the gender pay gap.

It's unrealistic to think that equal pay is a one and done fix. There is no finish line to equal pay. More importantly, equality cannot be an afterthought. It must be part of the company's DNA and the tone must be set from the top. The solution is complex. Addressing the causes of the pay gap requires sustained action over time including changing societal attitudes and beliefs about women, men, and work. This requires action from a range of people including workers, employers, careers advisers, business leaders, employee groups, and the government. If the gender pay gap was fixed then maybe we wouldn't see many women struggling financially.

We cannot wait another 100 years for pay equality to become a reality. It's up to every business leader to take action and make sure that every employee is treated fairly. So even though women have been paid less in the past, it doesn't mean they have to be paid less in the future.

Flash fiction

In class, we made flash fictions. a flash fiction is a narrative that is fast and paced. the prompts were rose, music, and chain. I think it was cool to write, but it was hard to come up with ideas.

Anna

I'm sitting in the lounge staring out the window wondering about my dead niece, Anna Rose Gilbert, who was murdered last year. Then out of nowhere, the T.V switches on. It’s a news report about a girl chopped up and murdered. This girl looked familiar to me, but I just couldn't figure out who she looked like. And that's when I instantly flash back to the day my niece was murdered.

She was playing on the swings, like all the other kids. I only turned my back for a second and she was gone! I started calling her name but she was nowhere in sight. Then I started hearing music almost like voices coming from the forest. It sounded like Anna was calling me. As I got closer, the voices started getting louder and louder. Then the voices started turning into screaming. I could hear chains chattering and I could see blood everywhere. It was all over the ground like a big blood pool. It was dripping from the trees. I looked up, there she was hanging. She had been murdered.

As I sit at her grave, I think and wonder to myself - I couldn’t protect you and now I’m next.

By Kahu
Yr8

Zero waste

In class, we have been learning to reuse and reduce plastic waste. I have created an infographic to persuade people the plastic is a problem and it's killing our sea life and our environment. Single-use plastic bags take 10-1000 years to break down while things like plastic bottles can take over 450 years.