The 12 hour relay disaster

Mrs Mill's jaw gaped open and her eyes rolled skyward. Fighting jets covered the sky towering down over the students that were running. They stopped for a while then we heard "FIRE," bullets came down on us like flies that were fit by fly spray. We were toast "RUN!!" ordered the teachers none of us knew what was happening or where we were running to. Adrenalin kicked in I didn't want to die at this age. I ran as far away as I could went through the bamboo out to the reserve through Merrivale and up to Greeton it was a very very long run. As I was running I heard the sirens screaming past. There was no explanation for this to happen I mean everyone was fine until then. One thing that did happen though is we won have won heaps of aims games and Otumoetai wasn't to happy about that but i'm sure that the fighter jets weren't necessary but they went OTT. This was not on the army was practicing their salutes near by i'm sure they will have a tank or something. I ran over as fast as I could I explained the situation and they said sure they would help we went back to their base and got the tank it was a war between intermediates. When we arrived it was empty absolutely nothing.

Drug Investigation

This term we have had our Life Education sessions. One of our topics we are learning about is drugs. Everyone in our class has made a presentation about one individual drug so that we can extend our knowledge. I made my presentation to a class member and they have given me feed back below.

Success Criteria:

• Confidence when they deliver presentation 
• Their knowledge is genuine
• Information is in their own words 
• No reading of the page
• Not to much text
• Images match content
• Visually appealing
• Not to long or short

Blog Post

A letter to Mr Diver explaining one change you would recommend at TIS.


Wednesday 30th October

Dear Mr Diver

Your school is an amazing home to many students over the past two years I have been lucky enough to be one of those students. Today I am writing to you to because there is one change I would like you to consider for the school. I think that the astro turf should be free for people to play sport on at lunch.
I do hope you take that into consideration.

From Aimee

12 Hour Relay

12 Hours

Hours of fun
Open to all
Under 14yrs
Running all day

Rowdy cheering
Exersice
Long day
All day
You are proud

Aunt Agony

Dear Aimee

I've got some older friends (I'm 13 they're 14/15) who have invited me to a party on Saturday night at someone's house. I'm pretty sure everyone there will be drinking alcohol before. I've never had alcohol before. I'm going to tell my parents that  I'm staying the night at my friend house. I feel quite nervous, cos I know it's bad. What should I do?

From Anonymous


Dear Anonymous,

Well I guess you need to tell your parents the truth so they know whats going on. They might not let you go to the party but at least they know what your friends are doing. You could make an excuse and not go to the party like oh my family is taking me on a surprise holiday. Something like that and you will be fine other wise if you go to the party you could just not drink or you could pretend your drinking and just tip it behind you.

From Aimee
(Aunt agony)

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Veterinarian

Life Ed

In life ed you can learn about health, safety etc. We are learning about drugs and alcohol on Friday we got taught acronyms and we watched a video the video was about people who regret taking drugs or smoking we also learnt about GIB and GAP. GIB is Greater Impact on Brain and GAP is Greater Absorption Rate.

Below is Reach Wits it help you get out of trouble.


Reason
Excuse
Assertive
Change the subject
Humor

Walk away
Ignore
Tell someone or toughen up
Say no

Advice

Dear Aimee

I found out my two friends smoke. I'm only 13.
I don't know what to do. I am really confused. Please help.

From Anonymous



Dear Anonymous,

I hope your ok you really should tell an adult even if you don't want to loose them as a friend. If an adult finds out they can help them through it. If your confident enough you should have them over sit them down and talk about it with them and ask what you could do to help them out. If all fails you could call 0800 WHATS UP (942 8787) its a helpline for teens and kids and they could give you some good advice best of all its private and its only between you and the helper. You could also go on their website http://www.whatsup.co.nz/. It is definitely a tough situation your in but do not panic.

From Aimee

Cory Monteith dies of over douse

"Glee" star Cory Monteith died of drug over douse earlier this year. The 31-year-old Canadian actor was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room on the 13th of July. Cory had checked into the hotel on 

6th of July and when he didn't check out on 13th of July as he was supposed to , hotel staff entered his room and found him unresponsive on the floor. Two empty bottles of champagne were also found in the room.The coroner came an inspected the room and found that Cory Monteith had an over douse of a mixture of heroin and alcohol. At the Emmy awards earlier this year he got honored by silence. Cory had been talking a little bit about a addiction but didn't say much all he in 2011 he told Parade Magazine he was "lucky to be alive." Before his death he had an interview and he said "I was using marijuana and drinking by age 13, and his drug use was out of control by the time I was 16, anything and everything, as much as possible," he said, "I had a serious problem." 

Teenagers, Drugs and Alcohol

Teenagers, Drugs and Alcohol aren't a great mix I have done some research towards this and I found a website "http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools" This website had some startling results they asked some teenagers about drugs at school. They said that more than 60 percent of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school. An interesting fact is that young people who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than teens who never drink. A result that I have also found that I found appalling is that around 28 percent of teens know a friend or classmate who has used ecstasy, with 17 percent knowing more than one user. By the 8th grade, 29.5 percent of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15.5 percent have smoked cigarettes, and 15 percent have used marijuana.

What are Class ABC drugs?

What are class A,B,C drugs?
A, B and C drugs are put into classes. Class a drugs are the most harmful and C are controlled. Class A drugs are very illegal and you can be fiend a lot of money or years. For possession of the drugs Class A drugs it can lead you to 6 months imprisonment and/or $1,000 fine. For class B 3 months imprisonment and/or $500 fine and class C 3 months imprisonment and/or $500 fine. If you are the seller or the grower you can get a different fine for Class A Life imprisonment Class B 14 years imprisonment Class C Indictment – 8 years imprisonment. Summarily – 1 year jail and/or $1,000 fine. Letting people use your vechiles to carry drugs you can still get a fine Class A being 10 years imprisonment, Class B seven years and Class C three years imprisionment.