Child Abuse in New Zealand Report

Save Our Children 

Do you know, have or even are a child? Child abuse is a sad reality, a real and big issue which affects lots of children all over New Zealand. Can you imagine you or any child bruised  and broken, thinking they are stupid and dumb? Why is this happening to the younger generation?

Raw Child Abuse

Child Abuse is sub categorised into 4 sections; Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Neglect and Emotional Abuse. Physical Abuse consists of  beating, biting, kicking, punching, burning and throwing. Sexual Abuse is: being forced into sexual activity (rape) or touched in a sexual way also photographing inappropriately. Neglect is failing to provide the necessities such as food and water or leaving a child unattended for long periods of time (days) it is also medical neglect (Failing to provide the medical help needed) and emotional neglect (Not telling the child that  you love them.) . Emotional abuse consists of getting bad thoughts into the child's head and making them stay: e.g Telling the child that they are stupid, dumb, not good enough, irrelevant.

Who Can Help?

There are a lot of organisations in New Zealand that are working towards a happy place for kids to live. The main group is Child, Youth and Family (C.Y.F). Visit C.Y.F’s website: http://www.cyf.govt.nz. There is lots of other companies around to help such as Every Child Counts and Child Matters . All companies are working towards a child abuse free New Zealand although this may never happen the least we can do is lower the child abuse rating as we have the 5th highest child abuse rating in the world. 

Help Us Stop Child Abuse

My group consists of Renee (Year 9), Brooklyn (Year 8), Rachel (Year 9) and Me (year 8).  One of our first ideas we decided was to include ‘handouts’ in out display, we also agreed that we should spread awareness of how terrible child abuse is. For the handouts we would put how to get help if you suspect child abuse, the handouts would be hand shaped and painted red and blue. The next step was to decide how we would get the stats and information across, it needed to be an expression of creativity. Finally we decided to create a book, a big book. Another idea was to create a persuasive video, we decided to this as well. Our next question was; will our Video and Book rise awareness of Child Abuse? We finished the video and decided to do something else the other thing came in the form of a backdrop, the backdrop was a sad house with ‘help us’ written on the wall. Our last added idea was to tape our mouths shut and write on the tape ‘Stop Abusing Us’, ‘Abuse Can Be Silent’ or ‘Why Abuse’.  Our intention was to spread awareness and persuade others to report Child Abuse. 

Final Thoughts

I believe that no child should be abused because, why should it hurt to be a child? Although we can’t help every child but the least we can do is report child abuse, don’t be the person who hears a cry in the middle of the night and turns out the light. Be the person who hears the cry and picks up the phone and calls: 0508 FAMILY (0508 326 459).

Free Rice

http://freerice.com

Free Rice is an online trivia game with a twist.
 For every question you get right you donate 10 grains of rice.
Here's a challenge: Donate at least 100 grains of rice then do more and comment below with the number of grains you donated.












Every post I will do a 'Blog Of The Day' here is todays:

Brookes Blog

I really like Brooke's blog because she her posts are regular and interesting, I also like the new background and font. You can see she take pride in her work through her blog.

P.S. Thank You to Mrs Hogg for keeping me motivated with my blog. Check out Our Class Blog Here.

Soccer

On Friday we played sakkaa.

English: Soccer/ Football
Japanese: Sakkaa

Lots of people in my class play soccer and so does my brother and sister. Rachael plays for the Tamahere Tornados and Paul plays for the Cambridge.... Ummm well here are some shots of them playing:

Science Fair Sum Up

1. The First Step of science fair is deciding your topic.  Make sure you choose one you are passionate about and will enjoy doing. 
2. Once you have decided your topic craft your aim. Start with - To investigate- then add what you are investigating. 
3. Next write a background statement, say why you choose the topic (Make sure to elaborate on why).
4. With your hypothesis make sure you have done research on you subject before jumping to conclusions.
5. Write a base of a method then CARRY OT THE TESTS. Make sure to take LOTS of photos along the way and confirm your method along the way ( I found this much easier than writing it before.)

The rest to follow in another post......

Science Fair

Science Fair was a fun experience in which I learnt lots here is a collage about it:

Child Abuse in New Zealand

Topic:

Child Abuse In New Zealand

Group:

Rachel, Renee, Brooklyn and I

So far we have finished Tuning in and have continued on to Finding out. We have found some good websites but not finished taking in all this information:

http://www.everychildcounts.org.nz/resources/child-abuse/

http://www.childmatters.org.nz/24/learn-about-child-abuse

http://www.3news.co.nz/topics/society/crime/child-abuse

https://womensrefuge.org.nz/WR/Domestic-violence/Child-abuse.htm

http://newzealandchildabuse.com/

This is a heavy topic and very sad.

Our mentor is Ms Mears we have not meet with her yet but will organise a date to do so.

Science Fair

Water Water Everywhere....
But is there a drop to drink?

My science fair is going well so far, I have finished my testing and currently writing my conclusion/discussion.

Aim:

To investigate if I can drink the water from our drainage ditch? and if not what is the most effective way of purifying the water so it is safe to drink?

Background statement:

According to the United Nations, dirty water is killing more people than war or violence in general. In New Zealand we are lucky to have easy access to clean water, but what if a natural disaster happened? Earthquakes are devastating, this much is evident but the lack of clean water is just deadly. After the earthquake in Nepal Health workers said ‘they feared a major health crisis was unfolding among survivors of the quake who are living in the open or in overcrowded tents with no access to sanitation or clean water.’  Did you know that there recently has a fault line discovered under Hamilton? If an earthquake happened how would we get clean water? We have water in a drainage ditch on our land but is it safe to drink? and if not can I make it safe to drink? I also enjoy watching Bear Grylls and his adventures so I wondered if one of his methods could give us access to safe drinking water? I have decided to investigate the best method of purifying water so it is safe to drink.

My results show that the control water has Coliforms in it. So I filtered it through a Lifestraw, Boiled it, filtered through a sock and used an Aquatab.

If you want to see which is the best be at the Science fair on the 22nd of August.

  

Food Tech

Tuesday 16th June we had food tech here is my reflection:

We worked well as a team over all but could of communicated better when getting the ingredients.


Here is my stakeholders feed back:

I liked it I could have eaten more!
However a couple of points to improve would be a slight burnt taste in the onions, slightly smaller pieces of broccoli would spread the taste better and slightly deeper filling so that it's not quite so much pastry.
Overall though I would not have sent it back had I been served it in a restauraunt and I am quite fussy so well done.

Cooking

Cleaning up

Finished

Yummy

Reading

Ordit

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Total Comments:61

Countrys that have visited me:

Food Tech

During Food Tech today (22-5-15) we made soft serve ice cream using Yonanas.

My group: James, Aryan, Ethyn and I.

What is Yonanas?
Yonanas is a machine that mashes up frozen bananas and berries to create a soft serve ice cream.

Reflection:

It was a healthy dessert that was also yummy. Even Ethyn who said he did not like bananas ate it and liked it!

Over all it was fun to make and the produce was really nice but it did not look like the picture.

Here is a picture of the box:

Poems

These poems are Pantoums and here they are:

The Beach

As I meander along the beach
The waves beat the sand
Ships glide past
Sand in my shoes

The waves beat the sand
 As Orcas lazily glade past
Sand in my shoes
The smell of the sea breeze

As Orcas lazily glide past
White horses gallop
The smell of the sea breeze
Sea spray in my face

White horses gallop
Dried seaweed on the shore
Sea spray in my face
Waves creeping up the beach

Dried seaweed on the shore
Dolphins jump and dive
Waves creeping up the beach
A stretch of endless water, blue

Dolphins jump and dive
Ships glide past
A stretch of endless water, blue
As I meander along the beach






Wish On A Star


An endless of stretch of stars
Countless twinkling lights
A blanket of darkness
The moon a torch

Countless twinkling lights
A shooting star
The moon torch
Make a wish

A shooting star
The heavens above
Make a wish
As others sleep

The heavens above
Soon morning but for now
A blanket of darkness
An endless stretch of stars





Which is better?
Comment on what you think.

On my way

In new Zealand a cup of coffee is about $4
In Tokyo it is $353.94
In Adelaide it costs $3.74
In Cape Town it costs $35.31

Here is a collage:

Lets Travel.

Around the world

Plan: Stay about 3 nights in each country using youth hostels which are about 35 to 40 dollars a night.

The Places I will visited:

Africa: Cape Town

Asia: Tokyo

Europe: Venice

North America: Las Vages

South America: Calama

Oceania: Adelaide

Budget: $18,500

Youth hostels: $1,000

Food: $5,000

Taxing: $1,200 and a lot of walking!

Flights: $10,000

Extra: $1,300

How I worked the flights out: Go to http://tripplanner.airtreks.com/ and plan your trip.

Count Out Three

Blogs I visited:
http://nicolef26kns.edublogs.org/
http://leprechaunsarebest.blogspot.ca/
http://zoez2015.edublogs.org/

Zoe wrote a really interesting post about suicide. Although it sounds bad it was informative and interesting.
The mane points she focused on were: Why and What for?

This caught my eye seeing that she put effort in and the end product was amazing. I really liked this post.

The Relax Game

The Relax Game is a new game I invented

Its a range of easy puzzles that you can do in your spare time.

Relax 1 Relax 2 Relax 3 Relax 4

Relax

To Relax,

Dont be like this..

Uno is one of my favourite games so I decided to write about it.

There are a few different versions but I play the simplest version:

Players:2 to 6

Objective: To have no cards left

Rules

1: To place a card it has to be the same colour or number. With exeption to the wild cards if you can not go pick up a card.

Wild Card: These are black, the plus 4 gives the player next to you 4 cards and the colourful circle is a change colour to the one you pick.

Plus 2 gives the next player 2 cards and has a certain colour. How ever if the next player also has a plus to they can add it on and make the next person pick up 4.

Stop skips the next persons turn.

Rotate rotates the way the game is played.

How to play:

Shuffle the cards then deal 7 cards each. with the remaining cards place in an upside down pile then turn over one and play!

Anzac Day

War is not like this
 

War is harmful and people get killed
this term we are studying Anzac Day

The Poppy Fields 

Gif from: http://giphy.com/

Our World

It is our job to protect the world. Global warming is a real thing and some people are ignoring it. Every where we are effecting the earth by destroying animals and there habitats so we can build more room for us. But do we really need it? Now days we can build UP using the same amount of resources but less space. 

Earth Hour is a program helping save the world. It is a great idea and everyone should pitch in to help the world. Earth Hour made a difference in lots of places. Watch this VIDEO

When: Saturday, March 28 (But I think we should participate all the time.)

Should we participate? Leave your thoughts in a comment.

We should Participate all the time by saving energy

Here are a few things you can do to start saving more energy:

The lights and television use electrical energy, so when you leave the room, shut them off. During the day, when it is brighter outside, open the curtains and use the sunlight instead of turning on the lights Don't leave windows or outside doors open when the heat or air conditioning is on. This makes the furnace and AC have to work harder to heat and cool the house.

When you have a sunny day, help hang the clothes outside instead of using the dryer. Don't leave the water drippingin the faucet. Turn off the dishwasher right before the drying cycle and let the dishes air dry.

Don't leave the refrigerator door open.Decide what you want BEFORE you open the door. Instead of cooking, once a week have a sandwich night. Not cooking saves gas and electricity. Plant trees and shrubs. Deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves) are best to block the sun in the summer and, when the leaves fall, they let the sun shine through in the winter helping to warm your house. If you are cold add a layer don't turn the heating on.

Waitomo

Waitomo: