Friday 31 August 2018

A few of our Speeches for 2018

Title: Why we shouldn’t have plastic bags!

I block drains and litter roadsides, beaches, and paths. I kill approximately 100,000 marine animals and 1 million seabirds every single year. Most people use me once every day then throw me away. I let off dangerous, poisonous gasses that could kill people. I can also cause pollution. I can come in many different colours but usually transparent. The wind can blow me super easy except for when people put things inside me. What am I - I am a plastic bag. Image result for plastic bag gif

There is one thing that most people didn’t know about plastic bags and that is … how much harm plastic bags do to nature. It can continue to harm nature for a 1000 years after people stop using it because that is how long it takes to decompose. Plastic, plastic, plastic! It’s everywhere.

Plastic bags are the number 1 substance that kills animals. For example: Turtles eat jellyfishes. However, when people litter the plastic bags in the ocean, the water moves them around making it look so much like a jellyfish. When a turtle appears, it will mistake the plastic bag as a jellyfish and eats it! Oh no! That means that all the dangerous poisonous gas and chemicals from the plastic goes into the turtle’s body and kill it. And that's only one of the many reasons why plastic bags are so dangerous.  

Another way plastic is dangerous is how it gets into our food chain. A food chain is something where people litter plastic bags into the ocean and the little fish comes along and eats the plastic bag.  Munch, munch, ugh! Then a bigger fish comes and eats the little fish, (munch, munch, ugh) so the plastic is now in the big fish’ stomach and it goes on and on and on. After, if the fisherman catches the fish that has the plastic inside and sells it and if we didn’t notice, we might end up eating the plastic as well. That means that the plastic could end up inside our stomach Gross!

But there is a way to help stop this. You should buy one reusable bag or reuse the plastic bags you already have when you go shopping. Why? Because it doesn’t harm nature at all!  And it doesn’t waste your money! How? Because in some supermarkets and stores you have to pay for plastic bags, but if you buy a reusable bag you buy it once and you do not have to waste your money on another plastic bag. Plus, when you buy lots of groceries or other things and you put it in your plastic bags, it will just rip because they not strong enough. But when you have a reusable bag, it is more stronger because of the fabric. It just makes good sense to use reusable bags. If you go to the supermarket and they give you plastic bags SAY NO !!!!!!! Tell your friends and families to STOP using plastic bags and use reusable bags instead. That way we can make the planet better.                

We all know why plastic bags are bad We all know that we should not litter, we should pick up plastic or pieces of rubbish that we see even when it's not ours and always use reusable bags.  I want to challenge you to stop using plastic bags today. Can you do it? Will you do it? All the sea animals will love you for it. Future generations who will get to see the turtle will love you for it. The planet will love you for it. Make the change now!

My Speech by Zoe
Title:  3 weirdest sports in England


Think about it, what does shin kicking, toe wrestling and cheese rolling all have in common? You might think there is nothing at all but have you ever heard of them? Well, you probably have not but they are all sports! Sports that I would not think to be popular but they are.  Hi my name is Zoe and today I’m going to tell you about the 3 weirdest sports in England and I think they are the 3 weirdest sports in the WORLD!.


England is known for a sport called shin kicking. Shin kicking, also known as hacking or purring is an ancient sport part of the annual Cotswold Olimpick games.These games probably began in 1612 and straightway skin kicking was very popular.
How to play this weird game is easy, all you have to do is kick your opponents shins until they fall to the ground in pain, then you win. TIP: stuff your pants and socks with straw the pain does not go to your shins as much.
England is known for another sport called toe wrestling. It was invented by four drinkers in Ye Olde Royal Oak Inn, in Wellington, Staffordshire in 1974. They were moaning about the fact that the United Kingdom struggled to have any world champions in any sport. Having already tried ear wrestling and push of war with a scaffolding pole, (sounds dangerous), they thought of toe wrestling. A rule board was made by the sign writers at the Yorkshire Evening Post and even a small trophy was made.
Toe wrestling is quite a simple game, all you have to do is get two pieces of wood and put them not too far apart to make a space for each person foot, like an open ended box. Then you put your foot in the middle of them and get someone to do the same on the other side. Next put your feet together and try to push the other person's foot onto one of the sides of the box, the wood. But at the same time the other person is going to try and push your foot to the opposite piece of wood so its not as easy as it sounds.


The last weird sport England is known for, wait for it, cheese rolling! Competitors take part in the annual Cheese rolling event at Cooper's Hill. This ceremony originally took place each Whit Monday before it moved to the spring bank holiday.  Two possible reasons why it started have been suggested for the ceremony. The first said that it evolved from a way for keeping grazing rights on the common, an area of shared land in the middle of the town. The second idea is that it is from a pagan custom of rolling objects down the hill.


How it works is, you have a round wheel of Double Gloucester cheese and you roll it down a steep hill. As soon as the cheese is let go, you run down the hill after it and the first person to get to the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.


Cheese rolling can be quite a dangerous sport because of the steepness of the hill. There have been several injuries including broken legs and arms. Once, when a sudden thunderstorm interrupted the race in 1982, four adults and children who were zapped by lightning. Ouch!


Wow, now you know 3 of the craziest sports in England and I think in the world! Which one would you like to try? I think when I’m older I might try toe wrestling.Image result for shin kickingImage result for toe wrestlingImage result for cheese rolling




Stop using Palm Oil by Bruno
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I’m a product that goes into lots of different foods like chips, donuts, soap and much more. People have to cut down or burn native trees to make me.. Lots of animals die when I’m made, mostly orangutans.  Have you ever heard of palm oil? That's what I am. My name is Bruno and I’m going to talk to you about why we should stop using palm oil.

The problem is that palm oil comes from palm trees which need to be planted but there is not enough space so people plant palm trees in lots of different forests like the Amazon and forests in Africa. The problem with this is that they burn down these forests before they plant the palm trees. This takes away the home of lots beautiful orangutans, those poor orangutans!

Did you know that 3.5 billion to 7 billion trees are cut or burnt down every year due to palm oil?  Wow thats a lot, that is about the size of New Zealand being burnt down. Here in New Zealand, we have a big impact on this because the food that we feed to our cows have lots of palm oil in it. Did you know that in the year 2000, 75 percent of farms feed their cows grass food but now its gone down to 10 percent? That means more palm oil, less native trees, and more dying native animals. Talking about dying animals this leads next idea.

One of my main concerns with all of this is about the orangutans and the other animals that are dying because their homes are being cut down. For the animals this means nothing to eat, nowhere to play and nowhere to live. This means that they are all slowly dying. It’s hard to imagine that this one product is killing all these harmless animals and destroying all these but beautiful forests. The Sumatran Rhino and Borneano Orangutan are super endangered because of palm oil.

You know about global warming? Palm oil is making it even worse, jeez, how bad can this get. It’s making it worse because when they burn down the rainforests the smoke floats up into the air. This makes the world hotter so Antarctica melts, then the sea level rises. Which mean those people living close to the coast are losing their land.

So after you leave school today, I challenge you to stop using palm oil. All you have to do is look on the back of a food packet and check if it has palm oil in it and if it does, don't by it. Can you do it, Will you do it? You can at least give it a go and help save the Sumatran Rhino and Borneano Orangutans!

Title:  Corgis are the best dog. By Adam


It's so short that its belly touches the ground, it’s the queens favourite animal, it's the cutest little thing in the world what am I talking about? That's right, it's a Corgi. Hi, my name is Adam and today I will be reading you my speech about why you should have a corgi.

Did you know that corgis were originally sheepdogs, who knew? Also, did you know the corgi means dwarf dog in Swedish? According to Welsh legend, fairies used to ride them.  Corgis have evolved into two types, the Cardigan and the Pembroke, which weren’t recognized as separate breeds until the 1930s.

Corgis are the 11th smartest dog breed according to professor called Stanley Coren. They are able to learn commands quickly, in 5-10 repetitions, and 85% of the time they obey commands the first time. Isn't that fabulous?

The royal family loves the Pembroke Welsh Corgis. Queen Elizabeth the second, has had over 30 corgis in her lifetime. Right now she has two corgis named Holly and Willow, as well as two corgi/dachshund mixes named Candy and Vulcan. The Queen got her first corgi when her father, King George brought a male dog home from a kennel in 1933. They named him Dookie and the future queen and her sister, Princess Margaret, fell in love with the breed.

The royal family got a second corgi named Jane who fell in love with Dookie and the canine couple had a litter of puppies. Two of which were kept. The Queen received another dog named Susan for her 18th birthday and ever since there have been corgis in the royal family.

Did you know Corgis have been used to predict the royal baby’s name? When Prince William and Kate Middleton had their second baby people took bets on the name. A gambling company in England called Ladbrokes used corgis to guess what the name would be. The company made an ad that had 10 corgis wearing vests with different names in a race to predict what the name of the child would be. The corgi sporting the name Alexandra won the race but this time they were wrong because they called her Charlotte.

I learned that corgis are very intelligent and are loved by the Royal Family.  And as you have already guessed, if I got a dog, I would have…… a little idebidy…... pug! Naaa, I'm just kidding, I would have a corgi.

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