Family Notices.

All around New Zealand, Important people have recently passed away. Some of these stories are really heartbreaking. Here’s some of the stories I’ve crossed over with.

Selwyn Olney.

On 27 July 2016, Mr Selwyn Dudley Olney passed away in Whangarei hospital at the age of 94. He was diagnosed with cancer a while back and did not succeed to fight it. He told his family that his time had come and he is now resting easy in heaven.

He was a beloved Father of Jan and Lez. Beautiful grandfather of Logan, Portia, Tyler and Kade and most of all he was the caring,loving husband and best friend of Ms Mary Olney.

Mr Olney’s memorial service will be held in the Chapel of Morris and Morris Funerals Whau Valley in Whangarei on Monday 1 August, 2016 at 1:30pm followed by a private cremation. Mr Olney’s family and friends are sending donations out to the Cancer society. If anybody wants to send out more flowers or lieus, send them to P.O. Box 8043, Whangarei.

Robert Cortesi.

Mr Robert Antonio Cortesi passed away on 27th July 2016 after short terminal illness. He was a much loved husband of Karen. Beloved dad, grandad and great grandad to many. Family say that Mr Cortesi was a caring man and had a big heart. He tried his best to keep his family happy and was loved so much.

His farewell gathering will be held at 55 fairview road, Rotorua on Monday August 1, 2016. He has much love from all his family and friends.

Gwen Jacobson.

Mrs Gwen Margaret Jacobson passed away at Fraser Manor on 28 July at age 93. She was the sweet and dear wife of of Bill, Loved and caring mum and mother-in-law of Les and the late kathryn, Elaine and Andrew sutherland, Peter and Haidee, Robert and Ann. She was a caring and thoughtful grandmother and great grandmother of 36.

Her service will be held at Elliotts Rosebank Chapel, 25 Ninth Avenue, Tauranga, on Monday 1 August 2016 at 1pm also followed by a private cremation. Please pay your respects if near by.

All these stories are sad and true.Thanks for reading my information report about this week’s Family Notices. Remember if you have a family memebr who hass recently passed away go to www.nzherald.co.nz

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Progress with Ms Pine

Today in Room 9, we received a special visit from Ms Pine, our math teacher. She got us into little groups of 3-5 and we discussed word problems based on the activities we’re going to be doing at Camp. The main focus of these problems were about chocolate snacks for the students . We had to divide chocolate bars to make sure each child get an even amount. In my group there was me, Toni and Raena. The problem we were given to solve was:

“The teachers were planning the student’s school camp. For their activities students were put into groups of different sizes depending on the activities for that day. They were given bars of chocolate as a snack.

• Seven bars to the four children going kayaking.
• Nine bars to the five children going to the swimming hole.
• Fifteen bars to the eight children going orienteering.
• Eight bars to the children going on a bush walk.

Was this a fair way to share out the chocolate bars?

How much chocolate did each group get?

Which group got the best deal?

We had the orienteering problem, At the end we had solved the equation. Here is how we did it:

1. 15 - 8 = 7
2. 4 of the 7 bars were / into ½ which meant from that point on, each child had 1 Whole and ½ of a chocolate bar.
3. With the 3 bars left, we divided 2 of them into quarters. And from that point on each child had 1 Whole, ½ and ¼ .
4. Finally with the last chocolate bar left, we divided it into eighths which meant every one of the eight students had 1 Whole, ½, ¼ and ⅛.
5. The final equation was 15 / 8 = 1 Whole and 7 eighths.

Above is just some the progress we made during our session with Ms Pine. My favorite highlight of today was being able to cooperate with all my peers in a positive and orderly fashioned way. I really enjoyed the session we had to day. Hopefully next time she hits us with some more hard problems and hopefully next time I can make progress with more of my peers.

Thanks for taking the time to read my reflection on my math’s session. If you may, please drop a comment below, Kia ora.

Joruney of Raglan

This year I got the opportunity to go to Camp Raglan.

I have proven to my teachers that I am a reliable and trustworthy student who does deserve to to Camp with the rest of my fellow peers. I have worked hard for this opportunity really hard and I am really honoured.

Thanks to Ms Komor, Ms Aireen and KElly for believing in me.

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