Assessment piece-Wood work

Manufacture of a Sawhorse using Hand tools for my Building Construction  Industry Trades Organization qualification.

In Term 1 of 2021, I learned how to use hand tools to manufacture a Saw Horse to a specific size from a set of drawings. This took about 6 weeks (24 hrs) I will explain how to make a sawhorse in this blog post

Here are the parts of my finished project.

To make a sawhorse I carried out the following processes.

• This project was made by using hand tools only. No powered tools were used apart from a battery-powered drill to drill the holes for the screws.
• We followed a printed out instruction manual so that we could create our sawhorse project.
• We were given a 600mm piece of wood for the top of the Saw-Horse.
• We then marked out the joints for the legs which were 150mm in from the ends and then at a 15* angle we marked out to the outer edge of the piece for the joint.
• We repeated this process for the other 3 joints.
• The width of the joints was 55mm at the bottom and 45mm at the top.
• The joints were then cut out into sections using a saw and then we cut out the joints using a chisel.
• We used a chisel to smooth out the joints to make them flat.
• We marked out the legs using a pencil and a sliding bevel and cut and planed them down to the correct size.

• We replicated this process for the other 3 legs.
• The position of the screws was then marked on the legs.
• We then screwed the legs into the joints using a screwdriver and a power drill.
• Supports were then cut for the 2 ends and the plates to support the legs and the short beam underneath and were screwed to the sawhorse.

In this assessment, the tools we needed to use to make a sawhorse were:

- Tenon saw

- engineered square

- pencil

- ruler

- Sliding bevel

- marking gauge

- hand plane

I carried out the following processes to make my sawhorse

• Marking out the top.

• Cutting the joints

• Hand sewing the leg ends.

• Marking out / planing the legs

• Fixing the legs

• Attaching the end piece and supports.

I enjoyed learning about new tools and ways to create new things to help in the future.

I found creating the hole for the joints the most difficult part. I overcame this by asking for some help and guidance.

School lunches

 This week at Hornby High School  We got the chance to have free school lunches from the government. Big thanks to the people at the cafe making all the food for all students and teachers from year 7 to 13.

I enjoyed the food I ate this week. My favourite was Pita bread pizza,  I had a meat lovers pizza which was filled with flavours, My friend had a vegetarian pizza. He did not like the Pumpkin and cheese on his pizza.

 Here is the menu we had for this week

Note to self

 For the last two weeks, our class and I have been looking into emotions that visited us.

I have and excitement and joy as my main two emotions because of my family and school

we learned about quotes as well. 

Here are two of my favorite emotional quotes

Wānanga Time

 2021 Year 11 Team 1 Week 3

My start to the year 

Well been a tieing start but happy for making it into the indoor football team mixed grade. Been going to class to Claas it has been a rollercoaster of emotions from happy, sad to enjoy it has all be good tho opening up and asking for helping in class so then I can pass level one 

Note to self

Need to bee finshed

buldingBasic tools

 Combination square      

sliding bevel

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Engineers square

marking gauge

Marking Gauge is used for marking a straight line for cutting when working with flat hard material, you would measure how far in you would like to scribe then set the gauge to the point of length that you would like to mark. 

Carpentry pencil

 Carpentry pencil is flat, rectangular in shape because it stops it from rolling away and this is one of the reasons why it is this shape.

To be finshed

Timber in NZ

Explain with a graphic the different parts of a tree’

Main roots spaind qaut fair when it come to older trees

the trunks of trees are reseleins agenst meany forse

Show and explain the different parts of the cross section of a trunk.

Briefly explain how trees become timber-Wood is cut up in to smailler bites

Describe explain the different types of cut ( eg  quarter sawn) picture 

• Miter cuts
• Bevel cuts
• Tapers
• Dado
• Groove

Give an example of defects in timber

cracked wood-knots-rind galls

Give examples of timber used in NZ 

ruim

matia

black pine

tawa

Home ec- engilsh brecfist

In-home economics we had to pick a country of our choice and make a dish so we made a load of info on our slide and a photo of our dish here is our slide show.

What is a reading skill/strategy?

 In English, we were learning about What is reading skill/strategy? here is what I and my group got done in 1 period. 

Reading skills:

Identify Main Idea & Details

Determine the Author’s Purpose

Identify Cause & Effects

Compare and Contrast

Draw Conclusions

Determine Fact and Opinions

Fluency

Describe ploy

Identify the point of view

Sequence Events

Summarise

Why are reading skills important? 

Reading skills are important since they help expand the mind. These skills help put you a step ahead and complete your objectives by being able to customise the way you read. It helps with your vocabulary and spelling

How can you benefit from reading skills?

You can benefit from reading skills because it can enhance your reading process and help achieve your goals. 

Reading strategies:

Make Connections

Ask Questions

Determine important information

Monitor comprehension

Visualise 

Story Maps

Predicting

Using prior knowledge/Previewing

Why are reading strategies important?

Reading Strategies are important because they help expand a person's confidence in their ability to think and to analyze text, it also helps make thinking visible and audible.

How can you benefit from reading strategies?

You can benefit from reading by developing more words so you can understand what other people are saying.

You can also be benefited by this by expanding your brain's way of thinking and making out images, as well as your imagination.

https://www.whatihavelearnedteaching.com/reading-skills-strategies-posters/

Importance and Benefits of Reading Skills in Communication

reading strategies provide, makes thinking visible and audible.

Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Work Sheet

Difficulties when making a treatys

Creation of a class treaty

In social studies, we have been trying to make a class treaty the problems are that people were not understanding each other or having a say so we are the teacher told three students to get in a group and make the treaty so it's easier for some people. It is also difficult for people to disagree with things when there is a lot of people as people have different opinions

 

Soft Material

Sweat shirting

So far in Soft Material I have drawn & cut out my stencil for my jumper. 

It was hard to draw the stencil but I had help and I got through it.

My next steps are to pin it to my chosen fabric then cut it out.