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Ema-Rose Stewart Room 23 Fairfield intermediate 261 Clarkin Road

Hamilton

Friday October 16, 2009 Mr. Noble Fairfield intermediate 261 Clarkin Road Hamilton

Dear Mr. Noble Kia Ora Mr. Noble, my name is Ema-Rose Stewart; I am a year eight student in room 23 here at Fairfield intermediate. It seems like yesterday I was entering the gate as a year seven student, but already I am leaving and moving onto high school. This year at Fairfield Intermediate, I have been placed in laptop class with Miss Crawford. Since being here at Fairfield Intermediate I have made many wonderful friends. My previous school was Woodstock primary school on Fairfield road. It was a great school and I wasn’t ready to move on, but I am glad I did because Intermediate has been the best two schooling years of my life. And I am sure I have achieved my goal of two years and six months.

This year in mathematics I have learnt about addition and subtraction strategies, multipacation and division. At the moment we are learning about fractions, decimals and percentages. I have improved on my basic facts due to every morning after break we come inside and write down the answers to 30 mathematic questions. I get 28 or 30 right most days. After that most days we play math game warm ups such as P.V races (place value) or a game of bowling for numbers and we would have to make a math question to knock out a number. Last year as a new year seven at the start of term one I was hopeless at my basic facts; but now due to the starting warm up I find them much easier now. This year I have achieved my goal of developing  my knowledge of basic addition and subtraction strategies, so I can solve simple equations.  The ways I achieved this goal was getting more math homework and paying more attention during guided math lessons.  This year in the last IKAN maths test I have been able to score an amazing 30 out of forty I have gotten nine more correct than the start of the years test. I have also recently done the basic facts math test. This time, I a got and amazing 111 right out of my hole test. This is a big achievement for me because I have moved up at lest 20 mark.

 This year in writing I have improved and it was shown though all of the different pieces of text and reports I have made. The first piece of text we wrote about was ourselves in third person grammar. I was able to use different types of describing tools in my text. Here is a snippet from my text. //“That shinny brown hair is as dark as a tree trunk, as smooth as a leaf.”// this year also in term one following the first letter made out to you we wrote an informing piece of text about obesity following the topic subject of active schools. In this report I explained and wrote about things to do with the food industry and ways to prevent or help with being obese. Here is a snippet from the report I made. “ Child obesity has become a global problem. Approximately 46% of men in England and 32% of woman are overweight. If you think about it that’s just about 50% of the men in England are over weight. But what’s worse, further 17% of men and 21% of woman are obese. Obesity in adults has roughly doubled since the mid 1980’s. About 28%of men and 27% of woman aged 16-24 in England are obese or overweight.”  After having the final copy finished I compeered it with a report similar to last year and marked the changes on a rubric, it had just proven that I had improved in my two years six months. Last term after coming in from lunch break we also had the option of type/writing a story besides the option of reading. From term two I had worked on a story that is now thirteen chapters long. I have taken me a while but as I worked and fixed up the grammar and punctuation to made the story more interesting than before.

All though Fairfield is already a great place of learning, I think that there still should be a change made, am I am sure that many other students around the school with me. The change that I am talking about is possibly changing the bell times ten or five minutes later in the morning. I know that if you decide to change the bell times there wouldn’t be as many lateness’s as there are at the moment. This would allow time for children to properly get ready in the morning. Allot of children miss breakfast in the morning just to get to school on time, because of this matter children will not be as focused during school hours. I sometimes find it a challenge getting to school on time because in the morning I have to help out with getting my three brothers ready in the morning, it also sometimes takes longer because one of them is autistic and my other brothers sleep in. I am sure that there are many more other people in this school with the same problems as myself; this is why I ask for the small change.

This is now the end of this letter, and I thank you for reading it. I am confident that I am having achieved two years six months in my learning through out these two past years. If you did decide to change the bell times in this school it would benefit on a lot to all the children here at Fairfield. And once again thank you for reading this letter. If you have any further questioning for me, my name is Ema-Rose and I am in room twenty three.

Yours Sincerely,

Ema-Rose Stewart 