The Midnight Gang Book Review!!

Talofa! Since all the schools are closed our teachers gave the students work to do from home. So in this blog post, I will be reviewing a book by one of my all-time favourite authors!

The title of the book is The Midnight Gang and David Walliams is the author. I chose to read The Midnight Gang because all of David's books are filled with humour and colourful illustrations. Also, his books are filled with the wackiest of stories that makes me, and probably other people too, want to read it more!

My favourite part in the book is right towards the end. Sally, who is 10 can't leave the hospital due to her condition but all she wants is a normal life. All of the other members of The Midnight Gang and Porter work together to make her dreams come true.

Here are all of the characters in the book
- Amber
- Tom
- Robin
- George
- Sally
- Porter
- Nelly
- Cod

I would recommend The Midnight Gang to anyone who's a fan of Roald Dahl and Geronimo Stilton. All of their books are filled with made-up words and their own humour. The illustrations are also amazing! All of their books have a hook that makes you keep on reading.

Also, there is a movie based off of this exact book and David Walliams even stars in it! I rate both the movie and the book a 10/10. Ciao!

Mexican Week Challenge

Hola! For food tech this week it was Mexican week! We Mexican mince dip and quesadillas using tortillas with chilli beans and vegetables. I work with the vegetarian group so our mince dip obviously didn't have any meat in it.

Mexican Mince Dip
The Mexican dip tasted really nice. There were the right amount of vegetables and I could really taste the taco seasoning. Also, the cream cheese made the meal even better, it just added a good amount of creaminess. Overall, it was really good and it's something I could possibly make for my own family.

Quesadilla
Now onto our second meal. Preparing it honestly wasn't even as hard as I thought it would be, really simple in my opinion. Anyways, I liked some of the chunkiness of it and I feel like the sauce and the red onions we used helped bring out the real flavour!

CARR Values Screencastify

Hola! Yesterday a couple of friends and I made a poster about Hornby High School's values. But today we made a screencastify reading out what we had written. Hope you like it! What are the values at your school?

Haiku Screencastify

Aloha! For homeroom, we got given the task to create a document explaining what a haiku is. Then we had to video ourselves reading what we had written including our own haiku about anything we wanted. Here's my video!

Rice ball challenge!

Kon'nichiwa! On Wednesdays and Fridays, my class takes part in Food Technology. 2 weeks were in Italy so for our 2 sessions we made pasta! But last week were in Japan and made sushi! Here's some information about mine.

What was the texture of the rice?
- It was fragile.
- It was also very soft.

What did it smell like?
- It smelt like the vinegar our teacher put into the rice.
- The smell of the nori was also strong.

What did it taste like?
- I put wasabi in mine and you could really taste the hint of spice.
- Out of all vegetables, the capsicum stood out to me the most.

What were the flavours
- There was a range of different flavours from the vegetables, the vinegar, and the nori.

What was the colour of the rice ball?
- All the ingredients were covered with rice but at the bottom, some carrots peeked through most rice balls.

My Athletics Reflection

Kamusta! Last week on Friday it was athletics day. People competed against each other if they had chosen or some people competed for fun if they had chosen social. And like last year I chose social. 

I competed in every activity there was but my timing and results weren't counted. Discus and shotput was my favourite. They're both easy to throw and I know the right techniques to make it go further. 

While waiting for athletics day to arrive in PE we did 60 or 100-metre sprints, shot put, long jump, high jump, and more. I wasn't amazing at all the activities we did but I was okay at most and was pretty proud of my results. I wouldn't like anything to be different than what it is now, I liked how we split the groups and weren't always a big bunch. 

My Goals For This Year/Term

Hola! At the start of this year all year 7, 8s and 9s wrote down their goals for this term. You had to explain your short term goals (for the term) and long term goals (for the year). At the end of the term, we will revisit the document again and reflect on whether we achieved our goals or not.

Graduate Profile DLO

Hola! At Hornby High School we have a thing called the Graduate Profile. A few days ago our teacher gave us a task to make a DLO about it. The Powtoon we made explains what the Graduate Profile is and we chose 2 areas in profile to talk about. Here is the DLO!