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Blood Moon on the Horizon

Created on September 22, 2015

A Blood moon known as a ‘tetrad’ will take place on September 28th, which is just the fourth lunar eclipse in two years.

The rare event will make the moon look up to 14% larger because it is as close to the earth than it will ever be in its elliptical orbit. However there is a chance that the eclipse won’t be visible from New Zealand and as always viewing always depends on weather conditions.

So why will the moon be a ‘blood’ red color? When the earth eclipses a full moon the direct sunlight is blocked, but the suns rays still light up the moon. However this light has already traveled through the Earth's atmosphere first, and hence causing the totally eclipsed moon to look red or brownish.

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The Rugby World Cup Presentation

For the past few weeks we got put into groups  to make a presentation for the Rugby World Cup. My group was Maranatha, Pallas, Akanesi and Aydrian. I thought that it was good that we got to be a group because we worked really well together. My favorite slide on our group presentation was the haka slide. Pallas was the one who came up the idea for our haka page. I liked watching the haka's that the All Blacks did at the Rugby World Cup. 

(Cindy&Josh)- Point England Play

Today after morning tea some of the students from room 9,10,11 and 12 got the opportunity to watch a play. The play that we were watching was a similar story to Cinderella. Instead of the name Cinderella it was called Josh and Cindy. There were different  schools there to watch the act. My favorite part in the show that I really enjoyed was the dancing at the fake gym.  At the end of the show Suliasi said a little thank you speech . I was lucky that I got picked to go and watch the show.

Cinderella { New Look} By Kawiibrit

Are You Smart With Your Media?

When searching for  images to use online  you have to make sure to use the search tools. Click the search tools and  you will see six buttons. Click usage rights and  labeled for noncommercial reuse. Noncommercial means that you not going to make money using the image. Choose the image from the noncommercial then visit the page  that you got the image from. Check that the image has a creative commons license.  The attribution should have the title, the author and the license information linked to the source.

Titanoboa By Matt Thompson (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Myron Simpson

                                                Myron  Simpson

Today at our assembly we got a very special visit from the one and only Myron Simpson. He was here to talk to us about why it is good to read and how it helps you in life. Myron also told us when he first started his career and who inspired him to  ride a bike. It was really awesome of him to let some of the children wear his equipment and one that could ride his aerodynamic bike. I was really surprised when he said that his bike costs $15,000 . My favorite part i was when he got the opportunity to  give out the Duffy books out to the students. I enjoyed Myron coming to our school as our Duffy role model.

Teenager on Holiday finds A bar of Gold!

A 16 year old teenager was on her vacation to Germany. She went swimming at lake Bavaria's  Koenigsse on Friday. While she was swimming she saw 2 gold bars at about 2 meters deep. The believed that the gold was worth $24,000. She didn't want to keep the gold so she gave it to the police to discover who threw the gold in the lake.

Little friend guarding £1 Million Bullion gold bars BY Craig A