What Do You Value Most As A Student?

What do you value most as a student?

One thing I value a lot as a student is my learning. For example, in my spare time I like to check if my classwork is up to date and completed in the time given from the teachers. Another thing I value is my peers. Making sure that my peers are doing their work has been something I have valued for a while now, but the only thing that actually stops me from doing this is when they don't listen to me, or even the teacher. That's 2 of many things that I value as a student.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2018

Yesterday, the Year 9s and 10s attended the annual Manaiakalani Film Festival for 2018 held at Hoyts Movies in Sylvia Park. We watched different films from many different schools such as, Glen Taylor School, Tamaki Primary School, our own school (Tamaki College) and many more. I think our whole school really enjoyed all of these unique films and we would watch them again at any given time.

Food Technology - Mince Pasta

Today in food technology we made mince pasta. Some people couldn't finish their food but the pasta still recieved some good comments.

Here is the method we used to make out mince pasta:

Step 1 - Boil pasta with 2 cups of cold water until it's soft.

Step 2 - Drain using colander.

Step 3 - Fry the mince with onion.

Step 4 - When it's cooked add sauce

Step 5 - Combine with pasta sauce and top it with cheese. Fry 180 degrees C 15 mins

Making mince pasta was a very fun experience and I hope that everyone in this class is now able to go home and make this for their family.

Food Technology - Chocolate Cake

Today in food technology myself and my class baked a chocolate cake. Although some of them came out burnt it was still an awesome experience baking these cakes for the first time.

When our cakes came out of the oven we brought out the whipped cream and the chocolate sauce and decorated our cakes with them.

We all enjoyed making these cakes and they tasted very nice too.

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Food Technology - Nachos

Today for Food Technology we made nachos.
Here is the method we used to make it.

Step 1. Dice the onion and fry until soft, then add the mince and fry until it's cooked.
Step 2. Add bake beans, sauce and cheese then boil for 4 minutes.
Step 3. Serve on top of the corn chips and enjoy.

Making the nachos was a good experience and I think that myself along with the rest of my class really enjoyed eating and making these nachos.

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Current Events - Kauri Dieback

Kauri Dieback is a disease caused by the Phytophtora agathidicida which affects the native New Zealand tree, Kauri.

In Warkworth they are trying to prevent kauri dieback from reaching into their kauri park and killing their kauri trees by building a new boardwalk and new cleaning stations but they are still concerned about the disease reaching their park.

I think that they are doing the right thing by trying to prevent the disease from reaching their park because it is a community kauri park and if the kauri trees are diagnosed with this disease and they are dead then that would defeat the whole purpose of the park.

Food Technology - Chocolate Muffins #2

Today for Food Technology we baked some chocolate muffins for the second time as an attempt to improve our baking skills and perfect our chocolate muffin recipe.
Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
Self rising flour
Sugar
Cocoa
Oil
Milk
Egg

Method:
Step 1: put 2 cups of self rising flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of cocoa, 1/2 cup of oil and 1 cup of milk and 1 egg into a bowl and mix together.
Step 2: scoop the mixture and put it in the muffin tray
Step 3: bake at 180°C
Step 4: Take out of the oven when ready and place muffins onto a cooling tray and eat when the muffins are cooled down.