Today was another session of tech. Our tech teacher was Mr Grundy. For tech most of us continued to use the backsaw to cut a piece off the wood. Today I managed to use both the chisel and sandpaper for the 2 pieces of my wood. Some people were using the benchook, mallet and chisel to cut a piece off their piece off the wood. As usual we added our names to the board for help from Mr Grundy. Next week I will continue sandpapering, until the lines are removed.
I am a Year 8 student at Panmure Bridge School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Learning Space 2 and my teacher is Mrs Anderson.
Showing posts with label Tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tech. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Tech
Today was another session of tech. Our tech teacher was Mr Grundy. For tech most of us continued to use the backsaw to cut a piece off the wood. Today I managed to use both the chisel and sandpaper for the 2 pieces of my wood. Some people were using the benchook, mallet and chisel to cut a piece off their piece off the wood. As usual we added our names to the board for help from Mr Grundy. Next week I will continue sandpapering, until the lines are removed.
Friday, 30 August 2019
Tech
Today LS2 completed their last session of their rotation at Tamaki College. Since Mrs Heka was back we finished our last session food tech = cultural food. This week we made Thai fish cakes. This theme is all about cultural food. Each person had their own roles to complete. While Avalon was doing the dishes I was making sure that the food was all prepared, but in the beginning Avalon was dicing the onions and adding it into the bowl. The equipment that we used were: sharp knifes, measuring cups, large bowl, cutting boards, frying pan, mixing tool, and measuring spoons. The ingredients that we used were: fish, ginger pace, chili, fish sauce, brown sugar, coriander, onions and oil. The best part about this was getting to eat the food with my friends. Thank you to Mrs Heka for an amazing cooking session.
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Food Tech,
LS2 2019,
Mele 2019,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Friday, 5 July 2019
Chop Suey/ Food at Tamaki College
Today LS2 completed their last session of their rotation for Term 2. Our teacher was Mrs Heka, who takes care of food tech. Today we cooked Chop Suey from the background of Samoa. This rotations theme is all about cultural food. Since there wasn't an equal amount of students in food class, there was a group of 3: Avalon, Joel and I. Each person had their own roles to complete. Joel and I worked together to make sure that the dishes were done, and that the main ingredients were prepared to be added in, while Avalon was dicing the onion, chicken, and garlic. The equipment that we used from our trolley was: medium bowl, measuring cups/spoons, knives, cutting board, big pot, strainer, fork, and serving spoon. The ingredients were: mixed vegetables, chicken, soy sauce, boiling water, oil, vermicelli, and salt. We were told to remove the pot from the heat every 2 minutes, because of the stickiness from the chicken and vermicelli. At the end of the session, as always we cleansed down our top/bottom benches, especially the stoves/crum tray. While we were cooking our chop suey, Mrs Heka was getting the rice prepared.
Friday, 21 June 2019
Tech
Today was another session of Tech at Tamaki College. Our tech teacher is Mrs Heka. Since there was only 5 of us, Mrs Heka decided to change it to Cottage Pie. Nyjah, Avalon, and I worked together to get this done. The ingredients that we used were cooked potatoes, BBQ sauce, mince, onions, vegetables, salt, and pepper. We all had a role to complete. Nyjah was peeling all the vegetables, while Avalon was cutting the onions, and I was mashing the cooked potatoes. The challenging part was when we tried to divide the cottage pie in to quarters, because it just went everywhere.
Friday, 31 May 2019
Gymnastics
This week LS2 completed their second session of Gymnastics with Steve. Steve works at the Eastern Suberbs Gymnastics gym. Their were 3 courses. There were 3 rotations, as usual. Each group had about 10 minutes at each course. We did forward/back rolls, handstands, beam balancing and building strength. We learnt how to dive into a forward roll. As usual we went through our stretches and a game of gymnastics stuck in the mud. My favourite part was doing the diving roll, because I got to use the trampoline. The most challenging part would be trying to keep my legs straight, while swinging into a L shape. Everyone managed to give everything a good try. The 1 rule is to try everything out. Thank you to Steve for another session of Gymnastics.
Labels:
Food Tech,
LS2 2019,
Mele 2019,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Friday, 24 May 2019
Tech - Metal Work
Today LS2 completed their last session of their rotation. For the previous weeks Mr Naicker hasn't been with us, so Mr Dunn has being teaching us lately. We continued, by polishing our pizza cutters/ cake servers, and finishing off our worksheets. Today we all maintained to finish our designs, so we tested it, by using pizza and cake. Each person got up and tried if their designs would be able to work. We managed to share both the pizza and cake equally with everyone's working designs. The best part of it was getting to file and polish our designs. Last week we drilled our own wholes into the center of our circles.Thank you to Mr Dunn, Mr Naicker, and Mr Tom for an awesome term of metal work. Next week we might be moving to food tech with Ms Heka.
Labels:
Cake Server,
LS2 2019,
Mele 2019,
Metal Work,
Pizza Cutter,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Friday, 22 March 2019
Tech
Today LS2 went through another week of Tech at Tamaki College. The year 7's are with Mr Grundy, the year 8A are with Ms Fergsuon, while the year 8B are with Mr Naicker. For tech most people continued on, by fileing the edges of their handles. Jack, Te Pounamu, and I were fileing the blade of our pizza cutters. Previously I had been using 2 types of sandpapers to make the edges of my handle smooth and flat. To make it better I polished it when finishing using the sandpaper.
Labels:
Fileing,
LS2 2019,
Mele 2019,
Metal Work,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Thursday, 21 March 2019
Tech
Today was another session of tech. Our tech teacher was Mr Naicker. For tech we continued, by filing down the edges. Jack and I started sandpapering our handles to make it feel nice and smooth. I am currently using 2 types of sandpapers to make the edges of my hand base smooth. I have chosen to make a cake cutter, which will be a great thing to make. I have finished making the top of my handle smooth, but I need to work on making the sides of it nice. The year 7's are with Mr Grundy, while the Year 8A is with Ms Ferguson.
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Fileing,
Mele 2019,
Metal Work,
Tamaki College,
Tech,
Year 8B
Friday, 8 March 2019
Tech
Today was another session of tech. Our tech teacher was Mr Naicker. For tech we continued, by filing down the edges. Jack and I started sandpapering our handles to make it feel nice and smooth. I am currently using 2 types of sandpapers to make the edges of my hand base smooth. I have chosen to make a cake cutter, which will be a great thing to make. I have finished making the top of my handle smooth, but I need to work on making the sides of it nice. The year 7's are with Mr Grundy, while the Year 8A is with Ms Ferguson.
Labels:
Metal Working,
Mr Naicker,
Tech
Friday, 1 March 2019
Tech with Mr Naicker
Today was another session of Tech at Tamaki College. Our teacher was Mr Naicker. Mr Naicker teaches us how to do Metal Working. At the moment we are still creating our handles for our cake servers/pizza cutters. Most people are still filing, while others are using sand paper to make the edges of the handles smooth and soft. I am currently using sand paper to make the edges of my cake server handle smooth. The year 8A is colouring in fruits, while the year 7's are doing their woodwork designs.
Labels:
Metal Working,
Sanding Paper,
Tech
Friday, 22 February 2019
Tech with Mr Naicker
Today was another session of Tech at Tamaki College. Our tech teacher is Mr Naicker. This term Year 8 B is doing metal working, by completing a cake server or a pizza cutter. I decided to make a cake server. Today some students were gluing their projects together, while others were filing theirs to make it smooth. We started off by creating the handles of either our pizza cutter/cake server. The handle is suppose to be smooth and soft. We filed the sides of the handle and the top of the handle. The year 7's are with Mr Grundy doing wood work, while the year 8 A is creating clocks with Ms Ferguson.
Labels:
Fileing,
Metal Working,
Tech
Monday, 18 February 2019
Tech with Mr Naicker
LS2 has started their first sessions with their new tech teachers. Our first session was great, as we got into our new groups for tech. It was very new to me, because the year 8's were given 2 groups, which meant that there was year 8 a and b. The year 8 A is with Ms Ferguson and the year 8 B is with Mr Naicker. I am with Mr Naicker, which means that I get to do metal working. For our first session we completed the context of creating a cake server/pizza cutter. We were to say who we'd make it for and why.
Labels:
Metal Working,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Friday, 2 November 2018
Tech Reflection
Today for tech was our third session of Tech. Today our teacher was Ms Ferguson. Today we did something a bit different. Today's task was set on a piece of paper using a pair of compass, ruler, and a pencil. For this task we were to draw one of the followings: flower, cube, or a star. I decided to draw a flower, because it was easier for me to draw, since Ms Ferguson drew it. Drawing this helped us practise how to use a compass. The shapes that I used to draw my flower was circles. After drawing our flower we were to colour it in by using colouring felts, or colouring pencils.
Friday, 26 October 2018
Tinkercad Phone Stand Design
Today was our second session of term 4 at Tech at Tamaki College. Today our tech teacher was Ms Ferguson. Today at tech we were to carry on with what we did last week. Today I carried on with my phone stand design by using tinkercad. Last week I only had the character and the phone stand, but this week I changed it up a bit. I decided to make the character stand by making the phone stand when it leans. This will help the phone, because the leg protects the phone from falling. Above shows the different angles that I took of my phone stand design.
Labels:
Phone Stand Design,
Tech,
Tinkercad
Friday, 19 October 2018
Tinkercad Design
Today for tech was our first session of term 4. Today our tech teacher was Ms Ferguson. Before going on Tinkercad we were to plan our design on a piece of paper. The designs that we chose were either from thingiverse or drive. At the moment I am not finished, but I have imported my character so far. On tinkercad we also used different types of shapes, files, and holes.
Labels:
Graphics,
Tech,
Tinkercad Design
Friday, 24 August 2018
Tech Reflection
Today was my fourth session of Digi tech at Tamaki College. Since Ms Anderson was at a Hui presentation, our teacher was a releaver teacher.This week at tech some students were finishing off uncompleted work. Most of them were working on there animated stories about the Tamaki neighbourhood. As I said last week that some students were drawing there sprites on google drawing, while some students were just using sprites from scratch. At the moment im still working on my codes. Today was our second to last session of Digi Tech. In 2 more weeks we will be switching tech groups.
Labels:
Animated Stories,
Digi Tech,
Tech
Friday, 10 August 2018
Tech
Today was our second session at Tamaki College Digi Tech. Our instructor today was Ms Anderson. This semester Mrs Anderson tech group was starting to create there animated stories. Today some people were creating surveys for others to fill out. Since I wasn't at tech last week I catched up by completing my 3 designs ideas like: story ideas, sprite ideas, and the backdrop ideas.
Friday, 8 June 2018
Tech
Today was our second session of term 2 at Tamaki College Tech. Our tech teacher today was Mrs Anderson. This semester we have been learning how to code to make our own animations. Today we used a website called scratch that helped us create our own animation using tools and techniques.
Labels:
Digi Tech,
Tamaki College,
Tech
Friday, 25 May 2018
Thank you Mr Grundy
Today for tech the year 7's created a thank you letter to Mr Grundy. The reason why we wrote this to Mr Grundy is because we appreciate his help for teaching our how to make our own pewter castings. In this thank you letter some of the year 7's worked together to write a helpful letter to Mr Grundy. Everyone took a photo for the last day of our pewter casting orientation.
Friday, 18 May 2018
Tech
Today was our second to last session for term 2 at Tamaki College Tech. Soon we will be changing topics. Our instructor today was Mr Grundy. Mr Grundy's class learnt all about how to create a pewter casting. Today everyone was finishing off their workbooks to get good marks on their reports. Jack, Marieta, and myself finished our projects off so we got to take it home to show our mothers. After finishing off my workbook I decided to make a presentation box for my mum. Before we got to take our pewter castings home Mr Grundy took a photo of our pewter castings. He did this to help him mark our reports and look at our project at the same time. This is my completed project and I am really proud of all the work I have done to impress my mum.
Labels:
Pewter Casting,
Tech
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