Homework Week 5

Hi Everyone...
This week marks halfway through this term...WOW...

SWIMMING SPORTS - MONDAY
Thanks to the 11 or parents who have offered to help with the fundraising for tomorrow - I hope that more come on board and start to help soon, or we will review if we do any fundraising as currently only about 30% of our parents have done anything to help out.

Please note, only 22/37 students completed their homework last week, which I found disappointing, so we have implemented a new system of reward/consequence.

For those students who dont do their homework, they go on a tracking sheet, together with their behaviour. 10 times appearing on that tracking sheet means that this term they will miss out on an end of term reward. NEXT term though, would mean that they would miss out on Ski Camp.
Why you may ask? Homework is not just a learning tool, but a study skills tool, that students need to be equipped with before College.

Remember that this is the last week of the current cycle of reading groups, so you may be required by your teacher to hand in your completed work.

Here are this weeks Quiz Questions...
KIWI KWIZ 2009
WEEK 5

Question One: Why did New Zealand invade Samoa in 1914?
a) Samoa refused to become part of the Realm of New Zealand
b) New Zealand was at war with Germany
c) Samoan chiefs insulted Prime Minister Massey
d) New Zealand accused Samoa of sinking three fishing ships

Question Two: In the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, why do the police interrogate the hero?
a) They think he robbed the Central Bank of Mumbai
b) They think he cheated on a game show
c) They think he’s blackmailing a Bollywood star
d) They think he’s working for the Bandit Queen

Question Three: The city of Auckland was built on the site of..?
a) 50 dormant volcanoes
b) the first Maori settlement in New Zealand
c) one of the largest gold deposits in the Southern Hemisphere
d) the original pink and white terraces

Question Four: In television programmes, which technique is often used to get suspects to confess to a crime?
a) Tickle me Elmo
b) Sticks and Stones
c) Good Cop, Bad Cop
d) Smoke and Mirrors

Question Five: What is the Government planning to do with 40 young people who continually break the law?
a) Send them to Australia
b) Send them to a military-style boot camp
c) Make them climb Mount Cook
d) Make them listen to classical music for ten hours a day

Question Six: If Adam is an optimist and Eve is a pessimist, then..?
a) Adam cries at sad movies and Eve laughs at romantic comedies
b) Adam thinks bad things happen to good people and Eve disagrees
c) Adam thinks the glass is half full and Eve thinks the glass is half empty
d) Adam is a middle child and Eve is the youngest in her family

Question Seven: What happened the second time the shepherd boy cried ‘wolf’?
a) The villagers ran to his rescue
b) The villagers ignored him
c) The wolf ate six sheep
d) The wolf warned the boy to stay awake

Question Eight: In Victorian England, a 'Tosher' was a person who..?
a) knew how to read and write
b) swept chimneys for ten hours each day
c) waded through sewage looking for coins
d) pretended to be a member of the Royal family

Question Nine: Which of the following events didn’t happen in the last fortnight?
a) A British nuclear submarine collided with a French nuclear submarine
b) A cruise ship from the Bahamas ran aground in Antarctica
c) A Russian tanker spilled 1,000 tonnes of oil off the Irish coast
d) The Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French agents in New Zealand waters

Question Ten: Why did the New Zealand Government expel Fiji’s High Commissioner late last year?
a) Fiji beat New Zealand at the Wellington Rugby Sevens
b) Fiji banned New Zealand tourists from staying at five-star hotels
c) Fiji expelled New Zealand’s High Commissioner
d) Fiji supported the dumping of nuclear waste in the South Pacific