Interview with Gavin

Gavin Martin

Last week Gavin came in to talk to Room 10 about his exciting and rare job as a panel beater fabricator/certifier of modified vehicles. During his day Gavin would be cutting rust off cars, preparing them for a paint job and doing safety checks, he also fixes 80-90 year old cars and builds custom guards for them.

He dislikes getting dirty but loves knowing that he has built a car out of pieces for someone to drive. Maths, technical drawing, design and reading are subjects and skills that help in the job. The job suits someone who loves cars. Gavin learnt the skills from his father and was also partly self taught, but these days you need to have qualifications in maths and welding from Polytec.

He said the job is harder to get in to because it is a dying art and you also need an eye for detail and be good with your hands. Gavin also told us that one of his cars has won over 35 national titles.

By Oliva

Week 5 Spelling Rule

Chris Roberts Police Detective

On Monday afternoon, Chris Roberts came in to talk about his interesting job as a detective in the Organised Crime Unit. Chris told us that there was never a day like another. One day he would be at the computer, doing paperwork and taking evidence to court, the next you might be investigating a grusome crime scene.

Chris Roberts - Police Detective

To get into this job, you have to be a calm, open minded, hardworking and a little bit nosy.
It also helps if you are good at P.E, Maths and English.
To become a Police Officer Chris had to have a NZ Drivers license, be fit and a citizen of NZ or Australia, and spend 2 years at the Royal NZ Police college in Porirua.
With the pay of 40-50k, for your first year constantly rising, it is a job to look forward to.

Written by:Brooke Redwood

Week 4 Spelling rule

Next reading choice

Week 3 Spelling Rule

Week 2 Reading options

Week 2 Spelling rule

Changing "y" to "ies"
When the word ends in a vowel + y just add ‘s’
key → keys
delay → delays
trolley → trolleys
(because we can't have three vowels in a row delaies x )

If the word has a consonant before the ‘y’:
take off the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’
baby → babies
company → companies
difficulty → difficulties

Watch these videos to help..

Week 1 Spelling rule

Passion projects Round 2

Samson teaching the moon walk

Cullem showing his group how to draw some cartoon characters

Charlotte demonstrating how to draw one line pictures

Abby teaching German

Vanessa giving her group a trumpet lesson

Annameika showing her students how to play a song on the keyboards

Ken sharing his language - Thai

Asha getting the girls singing