September 2025 – Carson @ Karoro School

Outside Maths

Ruru

Maruāpō(night) bird of stealth

Feathers softer than pillows

While others sleep

Eyes won’t blink

Nocturnal and mighty

Camera of the night

360° neck

Turns full circle

Morepork, colossal, powerful

Doesn’t want to sleep

Or be preyed upon

Preponderant appetite

Mice, Rats and grasshoppers

More delicious than

hamburgers and chips combined

Eyes of a demon

Stare colder than ice,

Warning…

Don’t walk past me at night.

Te Marama shines on me

Maruāpō needs me

Without me the night would be

too quiet and alone

With me you explore the night

I am cold

I am twisted

I am the bird of the night

My nickname is “Midnight”

I fly through night skies

Sharp and dangerous

Just like a knife

My glare is scarce and mighty

Once you look into my eyes

You’ll be scared, frightened

Even Maruāpō is scared to have

A staring contest with me

That’s how fierce my stares are

Ruru, ready to shine

I’ve spent my time

Lurking in the shadow.

Carson

Extremism

We strongly agree with the article because cybersafety is a real thing and if you can make a stand and agree with the writer you will be making a big difference in the cybersafety infiltration too. The cybersafety threat involves us too because this day and age is all technology and threats do come on to people’s phones. If you stay safe and try to defend yourself against cybersafety, the government will keep trying their best to keep everyone safe. You will have to defend yourself until the government gets everything under control. Technically we can’t stop cyber atlacks because we don’t know who they are and where they are from or why they are doing it. When new phones and computers are brought, they should have a special chip so we can block certain contacts from tracking us.