Nelson Mandela Biography

Nelson Mandela has become well known and respected all over the world as a symbol of the struggle against apartheid and all forms of racism. To aboriginal Africans he is their icon and hero of African liberation.

Not only is Nelson Mandela known well for the struggle against apartheid but also for preventing less racist violent policewomen and men against citizens and also because he played a major role for the battle of South Africa's Independence.

In the late 19th century Nelson Mandela became the first black President of South Africa. He became actively involved in the ANC also known as the African National Congress in his middle aged 20s in 1942. He served South Africa for 5 years from 1994 to 1999.

Nelson Mandela was born on July the 18th 1918  and died 2 years ago on December the 5th 2013 at the age of 95 years old. Nelson Mandela died after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection. Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg. Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, Tranksei South Africa.

Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlala Mandela . Rolihlala in the Xhaos language literally means "pulling a branch of a tree", but more commonly translates as a trouble maker.

Although Nelson Mandela has done many great things in life he has once been sent to jail. Did he do anything wrong? No he didn't but only stand up to the apartheid. Why did he go to jail though if it's just protesting you guess? Its because back in those days when the apartheid were in control that was apart of their law. Whomever protested towards the apartheid had to pay a price, which was Nelson Mandela's price, sentenced to prison for 27 years.

Once Nelson Mandela became in charge of everything being President of South Africa he managed to change everything. He gave everyone equal rights so therefore everyone could speak their minds to everyone and anyone.

In 2009 Nelson Mandela's birthday was declared "Mandela Day" to promote global peace and to celebrate the South African Leader's Legacy. Nelson Mandela has changed people, countries, laws and the world. He's also made many inspirational quotes, sayings and many more things.

  

Pt England's Dress Rehearsal

Monday the 21st of September 40 children from the senior syndicate were selected to be able to go to Pt England's Dress Rehearsal. We were there to watch their own made up performance called "Cindy and Josh." It was very entertaining and full of talented Pt England students dancing and singing. We all enjoyed the show but unfortunately it came to an end. We were all lucky to go and watch their Dress Rehearsal and all appreciate them inviting us. Thanks Pt England!

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Great Effort on Coming 3rd Place

Everyone crowded, pushing each other while trying to fit through our school gate. After all the pushing and bumping each other we finally made it through. During the time we were running we could feel the pressure and perspiration forming on our bodies. Everyone was cheering while coming through to the finish line. We felt relieved. At the end of the day we were all proud of ourselves and others who tried their best.

Places:

Mikayla at 1st place

Ofa at 2nd place

Miria and Elizabeth (tie) 3rd place

By Elizabeth, Miria, Mikayla, Ofa

Learning Square and Cube Roots

Recently Room 12 have been learning about Square and Cube Roots. To help us understand and learn more efficiently we used uni-link blocks. We learnt how to build a 2 Dimensional square and 3 Dimensional cube. At first it was a bit complicated but in the end we got used to doing it and were faster than ever. To me the uni-link blocks helped a lot. To not forget what square and cube roots look like we display them in class. It was very important of us to understand square and cube roots so next term they will help us to solve other equations.

Our Paper Creatures

Lately we have started to do origami for our visual arts. As well as doing origami we had to understand the definition of the word "origami". While finding the definitions we also found out what country it came from which is 'Japan'.

Syndicate Assembly

Yesterday, Monday the 7th of September 2015 Room 12 once again were assigned to host the Syndicate Assembly. 
First we had to have someone to be the ‘Master of Ceremony’ which in other words is the ‘Chief Host’. Miria volunteered to be the organiser. 
For our main attraction we had a Talent Quest performed by a group of people from each senior syndicate class. 
We had four judges including Kolotina, Mika, Miria and myself. 
Sini and Melelose represented our class. 
At the end of the Talent Quest it was a tie with first place Room 9 and Room 11. In second place Room 10 and Room 12 at third. It was really fun and it seemed that our audience enjoyed our presentation.

Aware Who You Are?

Introduction

Your church. Your Beliefs. Your DNA. Your Fingerprints. Your Traditions. Your Fashion. Your Characteristics. Your Personality. Your, your and more of your. Because it’s your personal identity.

Clarification

To be able to know who you are you have to understand your own individual personal identity. The first step to knowing information about personal identity is to clarify it.

Personal Identity has many definitions relevant to many different subjects and categorised information. Since personal identity has many categorised information my explanation and also information report is roughly about the Characteristics in personal identity and the usage.

Community

Your local community, suburb, city and country form are a major part of your personal identity. It tells you where you live, came from, had your childhood, where you met people or possibly even died. You can have many bad and good memories.

Communication

You communicate everyday of your life. Talking, texting, messaging, codes and some people using sign language. Everyone uses communication on a daily basis. Social media is becoming a big problem as a form of communication.

Traditions and Cultures

Having traditions and cultures display what your family religion such as ancestors do with the future generation created in your own family. Your cultural heritage not only presentates what culture you are but also being a citizen of two or more countries. Don’t be embarrassed when people ask what culture you are. Be confident and love your culture.

Church and Beliefs

Your church and beliefs are what you believe in, inside and out of church. If you believe if God is real or not, or if you believe if Heaven and Hell isn’t just a myth or fable and is real. Sometimes that question might come up somewhere and you have to answer it with evidence. Maybe you don’t have evidence but in the end you could just say “I believe in it and so does my church”.

Fashion and Foods

Your fashion and foods are the type of clothing you wear and variety of foods that are eaten by you. Sometimes your clothes can be cultural. For example; a lavalava. There are many types of foods that are eaten mostly only from polynesian aboriginal people. For example; chopsuey, green banana and coconut cream.

Personality

Your personality are your characteristics and qualities that form your individual distinctive character. They are also a set of emotional qualities, ways you behave and also what makes you different from another.

Fingerprints and DNA

Your fingerprint and DNA are very unique. Everyone has different DNA and fingerprints. People might say that twins are identical but that’s only in their appearance. Really they don’t have the same DNA and fingerprints as each other.

Identity Thieves

Be cautious when it comes to emails, messaging or any other kind of communication because sometimes the messenger might be an identity thief or should be marked as spam. Once an identity thief has personal information they can use it in a variety of ways like; eft post money and sometimes change the billing address on your credit card so you no longer receive the bills as they continue running up charges on the account.

Identity Usage

You use your personal identity almost everywhere. At schools, applying or registering for jobs, joining clubs or the library, credit cards and also social media. It is very helpful in many ways.

Conclusion

All of these information is equally important and linked .Your own individual personal identity is unique, special and priceless.

Paper Mache Daffidols

Last week for daffodil day each and every class was assigned to individually create daffodils and to present it in or outside their rooms. All classes worked hard and each person put effort in making daffodils. Room 12 (us year eights) also made a vase made out of paper which was a neat touch to its appearance since we made our daffodils out of paper and paper only.