Parihaka - Spiritual Songs

Spiritual songs were sung by African slaves to give them hope and sometimes give secret messages to help them communicate without having the bad people listen. They used songs like 'wade in the water' so they can tell the people when they run go to the water and so the dogs can't track them when they run. These songs were also used by Harriet Tubman who was an enslaved woman who escaped and that used these songs to tell others that it's safe and to go to a certain place. She used the underground railway to which was a connected tunnel and safe house that was used to move more slaves up north where they would be free. Wade in the water is a popular one now for it was sung a lot. 'You don't believe I've been redeemed, Wade in the water, Just so the whole lake goes looking for me, God's gonna trouble the water'

Music Through Time - Social Studies

 For the past week, we have been learning about the slave triangle and what happened to the people in South Africa that have been taken and chained to the ships. We started by talking about how the African people were treated by the Americans when they were forcefully taken from their homes and sold to be slaves. They were traded for goods and chained to each other and the floorboards of the boats. They were very close and malnourished causing some of them to die. They weren't taken out so if they died the people next to them would have to lay there with a dead body next to them praying they didn't die down there next. Here is my map of the Slave Triangle that has more information about the topic.

Science - Model Atom

 AIM - To make a model atom.

Method -

1. Choose an atom to make (Between Hydrogen and Neon)
2. Work out how many protons, neutrons, and electrons has.
3. Hydrogen to Berylium uses the big beads.
4. Boron to neon use the small beads.
5. Assign protons and neutrons to a particular color bead. 
6. Get a ball of blue tac and stick the protons and neutrons to this to make your nucules.
7. Cut out the appropriate electron shells and draw on the electrons with a vivid.
8. Connect the nucleus and electron shells with a piece of string.
9. Create a label to go above the model so people know what you have created.

Results - 

Home Economics - YR10 2020

Inventions We Want In The Future

An invention I would want in the future is a microchip that would let us know everything we need to without having to go to school. It would be so helpful and would be named smarties like the chocolate. This would not only let us have more people doing jobs but also fewer people dropping out of school or not getting good enough grades to get a good job. People will become better than us for they would know more. The chip could teach us things like taxes meaning that we would learn more helpful things with the chip than we would at school. This also means we wouldn't have to go to school which is another bonus to this great idea.