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Ema-Rose Stewart Room 23 Fairfield intermediate 261 Clarkin Road Hamilton  Friday November 5, 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 twenty three 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 am on my way towards achieving my goal of two years and six months.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This year in Mathematics I have learnt about addition, subtraction multiplication and division strategies. 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, with mixed facts. Most of the time, I get at least 28-30 questions correct. 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. This year I have achieved my goal of developing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">my <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">knowledge of basic addition and subtraction strategies, so I can solve simple equations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The ways I achieved this goal was getting more math homework and paying more attention during guided math-group lessons. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> This year in the last IKAN maths test I scored an amazing 30 out of 40, I have improved 9 questions compared to the start of the year test. I have also recently completed the basic facts math test. This time, I a got and amazing 111 right out of 132. This is a big achievement for me because I have moved up at lest 20 marks! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> This year in writing, I have improved and it was shown through all of the different pieces of text and reports. 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 an example from my text. //“That shinny brown hair is as dark as a tree trunk, as smooth as a leaf.”// This year, in term two 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 an example 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 it was before. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All though Fairfield Intermediate is already a great place of learning, I think that there is room for improvement. I am sure that many other students around the school agree 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. A lot 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 are carried away sleeping. 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 this change. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am now coming to the conclusion of my letter, thank you for taking the time to read it. I am confident that I am taking steps towards my goal of 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. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Yours Sincerely, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ema-Rose Stewart <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">