Stormbreaker Review

Cliff hanging, chest pounding. These are a few words to describe the dramatic ‘Stormbreaker’ book by Anthony Horowitz. In P4 we have been reading this exhilarating novel .

Stormbreaker is about an average 14 year old boy, Alex Rider that lives in suburban London with a pretty average normal life. However, his parents are dead and he lives with his rather antisocial, sort of boring fitness frantic Uncle Ian Rider. Alex knows karate, being an expert. Tables turned one early morning when police arrive and his Uncle on a trip around Europe for his drab job as a banker, but Alex discovers that his uncle is dead and is much more than a lousy banker. Ian Rider was a spy for Britain’s MI6. Alex goes to his Uncles funeral, still not knowing the truth, and notices to much things don’t go together. Something fishy is going on. When he finds out the truth via the suspicious actions of his fellow work mates, Alex gets hired by MI6 to go on the same daring mission his uncle took on and died. Alex gets sent to Sayle Enterprises, Port Tallon to investigate into the suspicious Herod Sayle and his diabolical new invention.

My favourite part was when Alex was going for a walk from the factory to the town, and Sayles sidekick, Mr Grin, hires two people to kill him on the luscious walk. Alex hears roars of engines and it turns out to be two assassins on quads, with cheese wire between them.  I really thought he was going to die in that part, but he uses his trusty karate skills to defeat these people. I like it when he fools one of the people on the bikes to go straight into the electric fence and plunges to his death over the craggy cliffs of the Cornish coast.

I highly recommend this book and series if you enjoy action stories, or even if you like the cherub series. This book does have its ups and its downs, however it always keeps you amused the whole few hundred pages.

Guess the Character

The Self Inflating Baloon

In week three, We were all thinking of cool experiments to do in our lab groups. My lab group investigated into 'the self inflating baloon'. I found out that the thing that triggers the inflation is the acetic acid in vinegar.
Lemons also have acetic acid, so we formed a hypothesis and a question. Our hypothesis was that the vinegar would still end the fastest to inflate the baloon, which ended up correct.

The Graph for the Knowledge Quiz

Interhouse General Knowledge Quiz Results for our Class

My Minecraft Debate

Intro

Whatever happened to playing with the ball and cup? Jacks? Or going outside and helping dad cut down the trees and mow the lawns? Well, my answer is what children of our age are doing in their rooms 24/7. No, not searching up silly things on the internet but playing games like minecraft, a game invented by Markus Persson. It started off as a small game bringing in barely any profit, however, over the years minecraft has become a game played worldwide by millions of people.  In Mokoia School, we have been experimenting with this new craze of a game.

Into the Curriculum?

I highly disagree with introducing this game to schools. First, it has no educational side to it what so ever, and second, children nowadays play it enough at home. Did you know that 50 percent of our New Zealand children don’t exercise every day? This is all due to kids playing silly computer games like minecraft. If we introduce this into our curriculum, the children not guilty of playing this abomination of a game will soon become addicted, making that percentage climb.

Fighting in school

Throughout Mokoia, the controversy rate has climbed at school due to silly students TNTing other people’s houses. This game makes students brains turn to mush, making them do even more silly things on this game.

Conclusion

This game should not be allowed into the New Zealand curriculum, as it just doesn’t do anything good for our hard working students. I believe it shouldn’t be in the curriculum, but that’s only one person in about a million.

• Courageous Kids Run for Kids Cancer

On Friday the 7^th of June the children of Mokoia Intermediate ran a gruelling cross country around the lush hills of Rotorua. A bunch of generous children decided they should gather sponsors for the cross country and donate all the money given to those children to the child cancer foundation. 26 students took part in the sponsor run, along with the whole school. One of the kind donors, Flynn Baxter, won the cross country. It is expected to have around 400-500 dollars raised.