How A Bill Becomes A Law

How A Bill Becomes A Law 

For the past couple of weeks, we have been learning about Bills, Laws & the Government, but we also learned how bills can become laws. I have learned things such as the 7 Steps of making a bill a law and how exactly 

The 7 Steps are :

1. Bill Is Introduced - The bill is introduced to the whole house 
2. First Reading - The members of parliament debate if the bill should be further discussed or if it should be rejected.  
3. Select Committee - A selected committee of MP's read & listen to what the public points of view of the public and interested organizations, recommend suggestions (changes) & then report back to the House. This takes within six months.  
4. Second Reading - The bill is returned to the House and with the recommendations of the select committee. The members consider the recommendations and decide if the bill should be taken forth of the Committee of the whole house. 
5. Committee Of The Whole House - The Members debate the bill partly by part in a detailed examination that usually takes several days & that is the last chance to change anything on the bill. 
6. Third Reading - This is the final debate, in which the MP's take a look bill as one whole and discuss what will happen if the bill becomes a law.  
7. Royal Assent - The Governer- General signs of the bill on behalf of the Sovereign, agreeing that the bill will become an Act Of Parliament and pass into a law. 

The Branches Of The NZ Government

Recently in Social Sciences with Ms. Pugh and Ms. Robinson, we have been learning about the New Zealand Government and its different branches such as Legislative, Executive & Judiciary. Each of these branches has something to do with the government and they split the parliament into those three parties. The meanings of these words are :  

• Legislative - Is having the power to make laws and making sure that they get followed by the people of the community. 
• Executive - Is the branch in the government that makes sure people NZ know the laws of the government.  
• Judiciary - Judiciary has the power to fine you in court for not standing by the obligated laws and guidelines that we were given by the Government. 

Memorising Together - Activity

Today I social sciences we had an activity with Ms. Apelu, Ms. Robertson. During this activity, we learned about the different words that relate to the government or anything to do with the parliamentary business. In this activity, we memorized words such as Political Party & Member Of Parliament, After memorizing we played a game and it was that each one of us would be asked if you remembered a word and right after that learned the Definitions/The meaning of the word to play a different where we were asked if we remembered what the words meant. This was activity was a great confidence boost when helping those who weren't up to speaking to other people or a group of people.

Samoan Language Week

This is week Samoan Language Week and I have learned so many facts about this wonderful language, their culture and how they have maintained their language. Most languages in NZ are starting to die out which is making people forget about their heritage. It is important to hold onto your language so that younger generations can know where they came from. In NZ they should let different languages be apart of a students school day.      

Introduction to Science

For this term, we have had an Introduction to Science and in this introduction, we learned about things such as :

•  Layers of the Earth - which was about the inside of the Earth, I learned different types of facts such as the inner core is the hottest layer out of the rest of the layers. We also learned about the three other layers of the Earth. 
• Plate Tectonics - in plate tectonics we learned about how tectonic plates move, they move in three different boundaries such as Transform Boundary, Convergent Boundary & Divergent Boundary.    
• Volcanoes - we learned about how the different layers under the volcanic crust of the Volcanoes and how it erupts. 

What Makes Up A Community

In Social Science, my group and I created this presentation about what makes a community. In this presentation, we brainstorm all the ideas about what makes a community. One of the ideas we came up with was that a community is "A place where people live and a place where people meet new people and make new friends. In every community, there are places like local shops such as Parks, Libraries, Townships, Doctors, and Barbers which all provide services to your community. In my community, there are places such as dairies, real estate dealerships, parks, and libraries. 

History Of Te Reo Maori

The History of New Zealand 

In New Zealand, the indigenous language is Te Reo Maori spoken by the indigenous people of Aotearoa but during the 1900s the langue was starting to dying out.
In schools, Te Reo Maori was banned as a language taught in classes because New Zealanders had gotten a mistaken idea by thinking that European history was more important then Maori history. This was because of the most the indigenous people moved to the countrysides and cities which made people forget their original roots. Now attitudes have changed and now people are fond of the culture and history and now Te Reo Maori is proudly taught in New Zealand schools.

This summary is about the history of Te Reo Maori and how it was about to die out because of the Maori people remembering how they are and where they come from. I learned so much about culture and history.