Hi there!
My name is Phyu Sin and I’m currently a Year 8 student at Glen Taylor School.
My family comes from Myanmar but I was born in New Zealand, living with my mum, dad, older sister, and my cute cat Lily.
In school, my favourite subjects are Maths and Art because I’m good at them.
I like playing with my cat, watching geology videos, and drawing pictures of game/show characters. I am a very, very, avid cat enjoyer.
The sun is up, a land filled with trees
I close my eyes to reminiscence about my house
over the river
Gigantic golden towers glisten in glory
An elegant attire and a regal dance can tell a story
An abundance of rubies and other valuable gems
Busy villages with cycles zooming past
In the sparking temple we pass our offerings and robes
In sacred structures wrapped in yellow and red
But with peace comes conquering and war
States turn against each other,
the smell of gunpowder and ash
Stripped of resources and land
Through the forests and bushes people escape
On the top with India and China and on the tip of the tail next to Thailand
I open my eyes for the freedom of Myanmar
Since the Paris 2024 Olympic is near, I wrote about the sport events in the Olympics.
Olympics
The Olympics is an international athletic event where athletes from different countries compete in various sporting events. The types of sport depend on whether it is a Summer or Winter Olympic game. However, sporting events that are still present today were in the early years of the Olympics.
Ancient Olympic events
Various sports such as discus and javelin (metal spear throw) were held in ancient Olympic games. Equestrian sports like chariot riding were part of the Olympics in a Hippodrome, a stadium for horse racing. A combat sport named pankration, which means ‘all force’ combined boxing and wrestling completely unarmed, but was eventually removed to be too violent for future Olympic games.
Summer
The first Summer Olympics was held in 1904 in St. Louis, USA and began the tradition of awarding Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals to the winners of certain sports. In these events, well known sports like aquatics and ball sports are played during the Summer Olympics. There are a total of 42 sports, with 10 now retired.
Winter
Created from the success of the Summer Olympics, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. It features a place in the ice and snow and brings many international athletes to compete in the pinnacle of winter sports. It is held quadrennially bringing figure skating, ice hockey, skiing etc.
Olympic sports have retired and emerged over the years, with athletes specializing in all sorts of unique sports and remembering that: “The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.”
This is something from a punctuation book that has its first chapter say ‘Enrichment of the sentence.’
Exercise 1
Write the following sentences, putting at the end of each the correct punctuation mark. State after each sentence the type to which it belongs.
(a) With growing interest we listened to the story.
(b) How thoughtless you are!
(c) Tall green trees lined the avenue.
(d) Who owns the house next door to you?
(e) Running across the road the boy fell in the path of the on-coming car.
(f) Bring your book to me.
(g) Could you please direct me to the station?
(h) What a sweet voice she has.
(i) Be careful where you walk!
(j) Hopelessly the lost dog wandered through the bush.
Why should we wear uniforms? Why shouldn’t we wear mufti? What does mufti even mean? The word ‘mufti’ is an Arabic term, but is slang for ‘non uniform’, or civilian clothing. Children should still wear school uniforms instead of wearing something different. Here are the reasons why.
School uniforms protect us from bullying. Wearing clothes with elements like cartoon characters or quotes (because they didn’t have anything else) could make people get bullied more, so they worry about what they will wear the next day. Some argue that uniforms are expensive, but it’s even more expensive to ask your parents to go to the clothing store to keep up with the trends, which is peer pressure and for some families, a financial burden.
The uniforms show where a student goes to, and gives a sense of belonging, belonging to their school. At school, you should focus on your learning, not your clothes. Wearing a uniform brings safety, as if someone not from your school comes on site, they are distinguished from the crowd as a visitor or an outsider. Children wearing uniforms can easily be spotted, as their emblem or logo is most likely on it.
In the future, when students get jobs, they may be in a situation where they have to wear uniforms, like doctors, baristas, construction workers, like many jobs have to. Formal interviews also expect a uniform being worn, just like in school. Uniforms are present in many things, so it prepares you for the future that you want to put yourself in.
Even though wearing a uniform may restrain creativity and personality, there are always positives to wearing a simple piece of clothing that is worn by everyone else in the school or job someone goes to.
From the start of Term 2 phones have been banned in schools, colleges, in New Zealand because of the National Party policy. The cause is pretty self explanatory, people being on their phones rather than being face-to-face with people, cheating with your phones, distractions. And what do I think about this? I will probably not have a phone until I turn 14 or so, but it could slightly help with people on their phones, and give them a break.
What is blackout poetry? You extract a piece of text (credit them), find words that join up to make sentences, and black out the rest. Here is my blackout poetry about cats.
Camp was way back in Term 2 but this writing got accepted for Toitoi, a book that gets published every season to show the writing and illustrations from kids around New Zealand. This is my writing about camp, the sport of abseiling. The picture is upside down for some reason but you get the picture.
illustration pdf.
Writing:
An extremely scary sport at first glance
Burning sensation in my hands
Sight below made me shake
Everyone was cheering me on
I could barely hold the bottom of the rope
Like the trees were encouraging me as well
Instructor believed in me
Now it was someone else’s turn
Genuinely the most frightening experience ever
Many parts of speech exist in the English language. Adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, nouns, and verbs are some to name a few. If you don’t know what some of them are, an adverb describes a verb or an adjective, like for example, slowly walking. A conjunction is a word that connects parts of sentences. ‘And’ is a conjunction. Prepositions tell what time, location, direction an object is. ‘The cat is beside the girl.’ A noun is the name of an object, place, date, or person. A verb is an action word that describes what something is doing.
A prefix is an addition that comes with a word. The prefix comes before the word, because pre- means before. For example, a prefix is the word pre-. Pre-school, pre-diabetes, preliminary. The prefix/suffix must have a root word to stick to. If you do a word like con, the word con means a fraud. But the root word is n, and n is only a letter. Words like co-pilot will be better. A suffix is a word that comes with the end of a root word. An example of a suffix is -ful. Wonderful, Teaspoonful, and grateful all have the suffix -ful.