The Secret Garden - A Classic Movie

The Secret Garden
Movie information:
Young British girl, Mary Lennox, born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's home. Her uncle is very distant to her and her cousin, Colin, due to the loss of his wife ten years ago. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked. Aided by one of the servants' brothers, Dickon, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers other secrets of the manor.
Our Review:
It was an interesting concept but moved a bit slowly at times. The Secret Garden is still an instant classic. Great performances from all the actors -especially Maggie Smith, who played Mrs Medlock. It’s a family friendly movie and even though it starts out sad and with darker themes of death, it ends up happy and with new life and joy.

Reviewed by Sameen and Cynthia

Gaming- What's it all about?

Want to know why Gaming is so popular? Here is some information about three popular games.(and we don't mean Rugby)

Minecraft

Link for video to be added later (sorry)

The SIMS

The Sims is a Pc/Mac game. It is also available on other devices.  It takes you into a virtual world that holds virtual people and animals. In the base game you have the choice of playing in the neighbourhood called Sunset Valley you also have the choice of playing in Riverview. You have the choice to either make new Sims or play an existing household.

There are ten soon to be eleven Expansion Packs to the game and nine soon to be ten Stuff Packs.

The expansion packs expand the game and stuff packs add more content to build with and furnish your houses.

The Expansion Packs are:

World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Super natural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise and Coming Soon: Into The Future.

Kate Sheppard - A Canterbury Heroine

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Katherine Wilson Sheppard, also known as Kate, (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (the movement to allow women to vote in New Zealand) movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette. She also appears on the NZ ten dollar note. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, Sheppard's work had a considerable impact on women's suffrage movements in other countries.

Born in Liverpool in 1847, Kate emigrated to Christchurch in her early twenties. In 1885 she joined the new Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which advocated women’s suffrage as a means to fight for liquor prohibition. For Kate, suffrage quickly became an end in itself. Speaking for a new generation, she argued, ‘We are tired of having a “sphere” doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is “unwomanly”.’

Kate travelled the country, writing to newspapers, holding public meetings and lobbying members of Parliament. Opposition was fierce. As Wellington resident Henry Wright wrote, women were ‘recommended to go home, look after their children, cook their husbands’ dinners, empty the slops, and generally attend to the domestic affairs for which Nature designed them’; they should give up ‘meddling in masculine concerns of which they are profoundly ignorant’.

Another QR code to check out

Olly, Sung Jae and Adriel

Earthbound - another game

Earthbound is a fun 16-bit RPG with many awesomeness!!!

The Cat Photo and a Poem - until I sort out glitches (now sorted)

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.' 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

sourced from Poemhunter

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ozymandias/

I Am Not Esther Interviews

YAY! MOST TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SORTED - LAST FEW QR CODES TO BE ADDED.

Hey there, these are the interviews in class about I am not Esther we did a few weeks ago. Links and the QR codes are down below for viewing. If you are using a smart phone, scan the QR code and it goes straight to the recordings! Enjoy!  ( We realize these recordings are not perfect but we will improve the quality for next time- Ms H)


Adriel, Olly, And Sungjae
to be added
Levi, Matt, Jordan
to be added

Trent, Monty, Paige
to be added

Bryn, Emerson, Curtis

Olivia, Caitlin, Mirie

Shaun, Charlotte, Chloe
to be addded

Natalie, Taylah, Tarah, Sameen, Cynthia, Helen, Jackson