HHS Athletic Sports 2025

Hello readers, On Monday this week we had athletics day.

My Kahui: Mohua
My Age group: U15
My events: Long jump, 100 M and Discus.

  1. Long jump
  2.  100 M
  3. Discus

Results: None (I was a timer and I was timing the runners)

One experience during the day that I enjoyed: Was being a timer and having fun with the other timers. I really liked hanging out with my friends, after I was done timing I hung out with my friends. I think that it was awesome to see how fast everyone was going while running and that the timers have a really important job to get it correctly.

One thing that I would do differently next time: Make sure I can hear and see the gun going off to let us know to start timing.

My Taha Tinana was impacted by all of the standing around. Running after the runners (the people I was timing).  Just walking around and jumping around because of how happy I was with the other timers.

My Taha Whanau was greatly impacted from having fun with the timers. Talking to all my friends. Having fun with the teachers and really having a good time.

My Taha Hinengaro was impacted well from all the emotions I went through on that day. Like when Mohua started to get back into the race with their comeback. When all my runners (for my lane that I was timing) some of them managed to get into the finals. I was really proud of all of them.

My Taha Wairua was also impacted by my beliefs. I believed Mohua would do a great job this year and they did. I am very proud of the Kahui I am in. I was also praying they’d get back in the race faster than ever. Me and my friends were betting on the relays, I bet Mohua and I’m still waiting for my money.

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(Toroa) Water Pong

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Questions and tasks Sentence starters (if needed )  
  • Explain what the activity was that you participated in
 Today we played Water Pong

The way in which you play this game is you set up the cups and bounce the ball into the cup or throw it.

The main rules of this game are don’t cheat and be honest.

 
  • Explain how your Hauora was affected by participating in the activity

Your answer needs to include other key concepts (slide 2) and where possible interrelate areas of Hauora. 

 When I participated in Water Pong my hauora was affected (positively/negatively). My Taha Tinana and Taha Wairua were impacted (positively/negatively) because me and my team lost. The wind kept moving the ball to the side.

During the game our strategy was to try and align our hands with the cups to make sure it would hit it. (Taha Wairua and Taha Tinana) and Interpersonal was fun because it greatly impacted my walls of Taha Whanau and Taha Hinengaro because my friends always make me laugh.
  • Explain how the values of social justice were/were not shown today. 

Social justice values:

Fairness  

Inclusiveness 

Non-discrimination

 The social justice value of Fairness was shown/not shown when we were all trying our best and not moving our cups back or forth to make sure they couldn’t get it in.

Inclusiveness was shown when we all included our teammates and had a great time while playing.

Non – Discrimination we weren’t judging anyone by skill, race, gender or age we all including each other and that is a big part of the class.
  • Describe how the participation of individuals and groups can impact a class’s Hauora during an activity.  
 I believe the participation of individuals and groups can impact a class’s Hauora by just playing this game this is because we all had a lot of fun while trying to win and everyone was really happy about this. 
  • Describe how all the Key Concepts (slide 2) interrelate. 
 The Key Concepts interrelate by coming together as one, the few concepts we have are

Short term
Less than 3 months.

Long term
More than 3 months to forever.

Personal
Affecting an individual person.

Interpersonal
Relationships, or communication between people.

Societal
Affecting groups of people, cultures, organisations, and governments.

Influence
Something that has an effect on behaviour, attitudes or well-being.

Consequence
An effect/result due to an action.

Strategy
A plan of action to achieve a goal.

Hauora Wellbeing (5 areas)A state of being physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually healthy. Connection to the land (whenua).
Te Whare Tapa Whā
All 5 areas of hauora work together. These 5 areas interconnect. If one area is weak it will impact your entire wellbeing.

Social Justice
F- fairness
I- Inclusiveness
N- non discrimination

The thing with all of these is that they can affect anyone and closely relate with people.

 

Zombie Punnet Squares

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Aim: The reason was to see if we could properly predict inheritance while using Punnet squares

Method: I had a worksheet to help me with deciding what my zombie would look like while predicting its inheritance.

Discussion: What is a Gene? A Gene is a thing that is passed down from one or both of your parents.

What is an Allele? an Allele is a different version of the same gene ex: blue eyes vs brown eyes.

What is a Genotype? a Genotype is the two inherited alleles the internal appearance. What is a Phenotype? a Phenotype is the physical and outward appearance. (Basically what you look like)

For the past few weeks we have been learning about punnet squares.

Punnet Squares are used to predict inheritance. I don’t really know how to explain it so here’s a video By: 2MC, VIDEO

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Extracting DNA from a banana.

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This term I will be learning about DNA.

The History Of Bananas - Blog
Strawberry DNA extraction activity - Institute for Molecular Bioscience - University of Queensland

Extracting DNA from strawberries and eating it

Aim: See DNA

Method:
1. Mash some banana (no skin) in a zip lock bag with a splash of water and a small teaspoon of salt.

2. Strain the solution into a beaker through a cloth into a beaker.

3. Add a squirt of dish washing liquid and stir

4. Pour in a test tube

5. Place the test tube in a beaker filled with warm water

6. Leave for 10-15 minutes

7. Use a pipette to slowly pour 5mL ethanol down the inside of the test tube

During this experiment me and my peers mashed the bananas, and we kind of didn’t like it.

We got the beaker and messed up the first time because the cloth slipped but we poured it back into the bag and tried again and it worked!

After that we put a squirt of dish washing liquid in and stirred it.

We poured it into a test tube and then placed it in the newly washed beaker filled with warm water.

After 10 minutes, our teacher Mr. Penrose put 5mL from a pipette to add the ethanol into our banana solution.

One thing I had learnt was learning that you can extract DNA from a banana and see it as DNA which kind of looks stringy and gross.

Two things you can use DNA extraction for are, Forensic science where they investigate evidence from a crime scene to use for a trial or to prove someone innocent or not. There’s one where you can be developing treatments and drugs, by using DNA they can help make a cure for a disease or an infection and create something to counter the disease and infection.

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(Toroa) Water Balloon Game

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Questions and tasks  
  • Explain what the activity was that you participated in
 Today we played a Water balloon game

The way in which you play this game is you catch the water balloon without making it break, if it hits the floor and not broken it’s fine. If the balloon is broken you get a negative one point.

The main rules of this game are under arm and being a good sport.
  • Explain how your Hauora was affected by participating in the activity

Your answer needs to include other key concepts (slide 2) and where possible interrelate areas of Hauora. 

 When I participated in the water balloon game my hauora was affected (positively). My Taha Tinana and Taha social were impacted (positive) because my friends were really funny during the game and catching it was good for my arm strength.

During the game our interpersonal relationship came out and we did a good job as a group to win (Taha Whanau, Social). Our strategy was simple and it was well thought out. (Taha Hinengaro, mental and emotional)
  • Explain how the values of social justice were/were not shown today. 

Social justice: fairness or inclusiveness and/or non-discrimination

 The social justice value of fairness was shown when we all were honest about the points even if we had dropped it.

We included everyone in our group and so did the whole class even if we were a bit shy to talk to them.

We weren’t discriminative about anyone’s race, gender or age. Everyone in my team was amazing and I believe the whole class thought the same to their group.
  • Describe how the participation of individuals and groups can impact a class’s Hauora during an activity.  
 I believe the participation of individuals and groups can impact a class’s Hauora by Taha Whanau = Social, this is because we all came together as a group to work together.
  • Describe how all the Key Concepts (slide 2) interrelate. 
 The Key Concepts interrelate by coming together as one, the few concepts we have are

Short term
Less than 3 months.

Long term
More than 3 months to forever.

Personal
Affecting an individual person.

Interpersonal
Relationships, or communication between people.

Societal
Affecting groups of people, cultures, organisations, and governments.

Influence
Something that has an effect on behaviour, attitudes or well-being.

Consequence
An effect/result due to an action.

Strategy
A plan of action to achieve a goal.

Hauora Wellbeing (5 areas)A state of being physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually healthy. Connection to the land (whenua).
Te Whare Tapa Whā
All 5 areas of hauora work together. These 5 areas interconnect. If one area is weak it will impact your entire wellbeing.

Social Justice
F- fairness
I- Inclusiveness
N- non discrimination

The thing with all of these is that they can affect anyone and closely relate with people.

 

Sensory Imagery

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Today’s task is to write about the five senses and how it may interact with this picture.

The feeling of the cool breeze tickles your skin, the smell of damp moss everywhere. The sound of hurried footsteps trampling through the forest. Tracking through the Forrest quickly as they arrive at their destination. The perfect camping spot, the homey smell of s’mores, the laughter in the air, the feel of the warm mug in your hands. This is heaven at least for now. The taste of burnt marshmallows dull the tongue.

A gunshot goes off, scattered eyes shoot at the sound as if they were looking for prey. It’s deer hunting season.  Most of the deer have already fled the scene while the campers begin to pack up.

The end of the trip. :3

Animal Therapy

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In Health we have been learning about service and therapy animals. We have learned about so many things and ways service animals and therapy animals can help us. Autism (How it can be helped with Service animal, Gigi and Nate (A real story about a boy and his service animal)  ,Muscle Dystrophy (How it can be helped with a Service animal)

1. What is a service and therapy animal?  What are the similarities and differences between service and therapy animals.

A service animal is an animal trained to help their handler with everyday ta

sks they cannot complete due to a disability or mental instability.

A therapy animal is a trained animal to help comfort and provide safety. Usually they are used as emotional support and to help calm someone down.

The difference between the service and therapy animals is that Service animals are usually allowed anywhere while therapy animals aren’t. Service animals can really help their handler and benefit them more than therapy animals can due to the fact they can help with daily tasks while most therapy animals are comfort and for a sense of security.

2. What are the conditions that are eligible to qualify for a therapy/service animal in NZ?

There are many conditions that are eligible for a therapy or a service animal in NZ, like for a therapy animal if you were to have picked an emotional support therapy dog the conditions you may have to be able to acquire one would be: “from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression and anxiety issues.” – Therapy Dogs NZ.

For Service animals it could be anything from a physical disability to anaphylaxis and many more.

The laws around animal therapy is “Ill treatment or neglect of animals is a crime, and this is also defined in the Act. The Act contains provisions to prevent ill treatment and inadequate care of animals. It also regulates the use of traps and devices that have the potential to cause pain or distress to animals.” – Animal Welfare act

A service animal can help enhance all 4 dimensions of hauora by going on a walk with them (Taha Tinana), providing comfort and security (Taha Hinengaro), Being able to strengthen their values and beliefs getting more courage inside of their handler (Taha Wairua) and  Listening to their handler (Taha Whanau).

A therapy animal can help with supporting all 4 dimensions of hauora by being able to calm them down (Taha Hinengaro), providing comfort (Taha Hinengaro), Being able to strengthen their values and beliefs by getting courage inside of their handler (Taha Wairua) ,  going on walks with their handler (Taha Tinana) and Exercising with the handler (Taha Tinana)

The four most interesting things I have learned from this unit, 1. The amount of work that goes into training service animals and therapy animals. 2. The things a service animal can do for their handler. 3. How much a therapy animal can help someone recover from any condition they suffer with. 4. How many different kinds of therapy there are.

I found these points interesting because 1. a lot of work does go into training a service animal usually a very long time to get them adjusted to help their handler, depending on the type of animal this can vary and the same goes for a therapy animal. 

2. A service animal can help their handler with a lot of things, this video here where a service dog realises his handler is about to go into a medical episode so the dog grabs the pills to help assist them.

3. A story I had heard from someone who has a therapy dog during a visit to our school to show us a therapy and service dog talked to us about was when she talked about how her dog Penny was put next to an elderly person. At first they didn’t notice the owner of Penny at first but they noticed the dog and began to speak about their experiences back in their days.

4. Therapy Dogs, Therapy Cats, Therapy Horses,  Therapy Rabbits, Therapy Bird and Therapy Snake. There are many more kinds you can have but most of these are not allowed in New Zealand.

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Positive impacts service animals have. (TITAN)

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For this unit during this stage of the term we have been learning about Service animals.

NGĀ MAHA/TASK

 

 

Questions I have/things I want to know Answers
How do service dogs help with Epilepsy Lying next to someone having a seizure to prevent an injury, preventing them from hitting their head on the ground.
What kind of training do service dogs go through? a service dog must be trained to perform work or specific tasks to assist with a disability.
How can a therapy dog help calm someone down? “Dogs can lower our blood pressure through touch and contact” – Therapy Dogs New Zealand.
How do service dogs help blind people? “helping them navigate situations or obstacles they normally would not be able to.” – Nationwide Pet Service.

 

What are the positive impacts that service and therapy animals have?

  • Cover all 4 areas of Hauora
  • Include short term (0-3 months) and long term (3 months onwards) impacts
  • Cover an attitude or value within your answer
Being able to calm the owner down – Taha Hinengaro (Mental and Emotional)
Listening to the owner – Taha Whanau (Social)ST & LT

Taking the owner to church – Taha Wairua (Spiritual) ST & LT

Walking the with the owner – Taha Tinana (Physical) ST & LT

Exercising with owner – Taha Tinana  (Physical) ST & LT

Dogs are friendly to others – Taha Whanau (Social) ST & LT

First meeting the dog being kind of nervous – Taha Hinengaro (Mental and Emotional) ST

Getting used to the dog as a companion – Taha Whanau (Social) ST

Going on outings with the dog – Taha Whanau (Social) ST & LT

Letting the dog do some of the chores – Taha Tinana (Physical) ST & LT
Having fun with the dog – Taha Hinengaro (Mental and Emotional) ST & LT.

Dog attitudes are positive and they are very obedient when trained well with a good owner who treat them well. Not just service dogs but Therapy dogs too, both are good listeners when it comes to Taha Hinengaro (Mental and Emotional) and Taha Whanau (Social). They’ll watch your behaviour and try to calm you down and be the best dogs they can for you.

 

Tuberculosis

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We have been given a specific task to research either, a medical profession, a sickness or a mental health issue.

I chose a sickness which is Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis: a problem with persistence | Nature Reviews Microbiology  How does Tuberculosis affect Haoura? (Short term and Long term problems.)

This disease is a very horrible sickness and it impacts Haoura negatively. A long prorogued cough is a symptom of TB (Tuberculosis), it affects Taha Tinana negatively as it is a problem for Physical health. Chest pain is a symptom and a negative for Taha Tinana. Weakness (ST) or Fatigue is both a negative for Taha Hinengaro and Taha Tinana as it poses a problem toward mental thinking and physical actions (LT). Weight loss is a symptom and a negative for Taha Tinana and both a positive. Often (LT) these symptoms are mild for many months, this disease can spread from coughing,sneezing,talking and even sharing the same air with someone.

Three questions I want to know about Tuberculosis:

  1. How does Tuberculosis start?

When you inhale the air of an infected person.

2. When was it beginning to become a major problem?

Between 18th and 19th centuries.

3. Will there ever be a cure?

“Tuberculosis is treated with a combination of antibiotics, which need to be taken for at least 6 months. Sometimes longer courses are needed, such as for tuberculosis meningitis. People usually begin to feel better 2 to 4 weeks after starting treatment. They are no longer contagious after 2 weeks of antibiotics.” – HIS (Health Information Services).

(Sources!: 1st question: World Health Organisation, the World Health Organisation has a lot of information about serious outbreaks in history, diseases, mental health issues and on going problems in the medical world. 2nd question:  Science Direct, Science Direct is an online platform that has information about a variety of things. Some questions are to do within science itself and books about science recently published. 3rd Question: Health Information Services,  Health information Services is a very amazing digital platform to use in order to learn about symptoms and health issue advice to help you figure out if you should see a doctor. You can also call them 0800 611 116.

One interesting fact about TB: Did you know about one quarter of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria.

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