Sports Day At Tamaki College!

On Friday the 27th of November nine students from Room 12 went to Tamaki College sports day only if they have been enrolled there.

As soon as we arrived we were split into four teams in colours. Our first sport was touch we played for 20 minutes and then we got into football (soccer). We played for 20 minutes and I got only one goal. YAY!

Next we went to obstical course blind folded. We started and already I had an accident a deep cut and a lumpy bruise. We had morning tea chocolate muffin and milk.

We went into the Recreation centre and played bull rush. We finished early and had lunch. After we lunch we went and played NFL mixed teams and then later we went in our teams and played tug of war. Our team came second  but we were still excited to come after 1st place.

Later teachers were talking about when we start and the motto RISE. Finished. We went back to school and did work.

Touch Rugby Training!

                                                     Touch Rugby

Stepping around the small orange cones, sweating to death, running up and down, small amount of wind blowing swiftly into our faces, passing the bouncy touch rugby ball around and around. Is there anything that we can’t do...?

Last Thursdays touch rugby lesson was awesome, very hot and with a swift wind blowing. Everyone felt excited to learn and gained some new skills and learnt new rules. I played and helped other students to get better than before. At Touch rugby we have an experienced, qualified, coach who is old and short, and whose name is Trevor.

Coach Trevor is coaching our senior block for the school Touch tournament. He taught us to be 10 metres back after a touch or else you're offside. As soon as you get touched you place the ball on the ground so the dummy half can scoop it up and pass it. 

Later on we played games, first was zig zag and pass. My team lost the first round but we got better than before and won the second round. Soon, we changed to another game that relates to teamwork and speed. We all had to get into a circle formation so we could pass the ball around clockwise. I came second in the first game and I lost in the other.

After the 45 minutes we felt we had an extraordinary touch session and we all wanted to play and learn more.

Writing Test!

Pressure starts to kick in, nervousness appears, my hands shaking and 45 minutes on the clock…

Last week's recount test was horrifying and stressing. All year eights had to do the test to know what level class we will be inserted in at college. We had our test in class but we all had to be separated incase anyone cheated. I’ve just started The time starts I wrote swiftly as my teacher walked around and glazed her eyes on our work and looked very suspicious, students looked at each other like they were very confused.

Ten minutes later nothing was going through my head except my results afterwards. I thought of more academic words to add to make it more interesting. My teacher crossed out thirty minutes so we were left with fifteen minutes so I enumerated more language features.

Three minutes on the clock I rushed to finish my recount with an extraordinary conclusion. I was struggling to think of my ending so I thought and thought BAM! I had one just in time to proofread. STOP! all the students in shock put their pencils down and sighed as in mean finally it’s finished. I was very pleased with my outcome of my whole entire task.

                                  I can’t wait for my results on my  emotional writing.

Poetry Recital

Last Friday the 6th of November we had a school Poetry Recital. This was our first year attempting to recite our poems. I was very nervous to how the poetry will go but I was wrong. Three students from each classroom were chosen to participate in the Poetry Recital. All the poems were very fascinating to listen to. At the end the finalists were awarded with a certificate. I was proud of all the finalists who gave their best. We hope to do it again next year.

Caught Being Good Award!

Last Monday we had a school assembly. I received a caught being good book because I was being a positive and good student towards my teacher. My teacher was deciding who to choose for the caught being good as always and she finally chose me because of my behaviour and attitude.

Sports Day(;

Children running around, boys playing touch and parents yelling to encourage their teams.

 Firstly, last Friday afternoon we had a church sports day. My family and I went altogether in a my mums Nissan Murano. It was held at the Papatoetoe High school gym located some kilometres from where I live. We finally arrived and felt excited. I sauntered towards the gym and saw plenty of equipment to play with. At our sports day we were divided into four equal teams that had to represent a country such as New Zealand, Australia, Israel and Samoa. I was placed into the New Zealand team. It started at 5 o'clock. The four teams were stretching and warming so no one would feel sore.

Finally it was time to begin. All the children started racing and playing games and sports such as Modified touch, indoor soccer, netball, basketball and Volleyball. It had been five minutes already and some people were injured so they had to rest on the sideline. I played with my friends and chose modified touch to play. Samoa and New Zealand were in the finals for Men’s volleyball. There were ten seconds on the clock so the setter set the ball to the middle and spikes over the net and was still in the court so New Zealand won in time and we won a big Shield.

It was coming to the end of the sports day. All of the four teams had to clean up the gym and later on they head on home for a rest.

Syndicate Assembly!

 On Monday the 2nd of November we had a Syndicate Assembly hosted by Room 10 students. At the Assembly the Room 10 students had to share their work and showed the audience their outstanding art works based on what they wrote. We sang a few songs and later the teachers gave out certificates to students who deserve it.

Rugby Union Speech

                                                        Rugby Union

1. “Dan Carter dummy cuts Ma’a Nonu and he grubber kicks down the field Julian Savea chasing after it and finally pick up the ball with a funny looking facial and dives on the try line! some good technique.

2. Talofa, malo lelei, bula vinaka, Obviously I’ll be talking about rugby. Rugby was invented by a man named William Webb Ellis in 1823. One day William was playing a game of soccer and he decided to pick up the ball and run towards the goal and that’s how rugby was invented.  In New Zealand we have 5 super 15 rugby teams are Auckland Blues, Canterbury Crusaders, Otago Highlanders, Wellington Hurricanes and Waikato Chiefs. A few players that play for those five teams were chosen to play for the All blacks to compete and represent our country this year at the Rugby World Cup.

3.There are lot of rugby legend that made it through the All Blacks such as Jonah Lomu, he was an All Black legend who could run players over and score tries too easy and they needed a nickname for him they called him CONQUERING THE BEAST, next is Jerry Collins he was a strong man who throws people toward the ground and they called him the TERMINATOR he who just passed away a few months in a car crash R.I.P. When the super 15 season is over then  they move on the the ITM cup. There are 14 teams who participate in the ITM Cup and they are Counties Manukau, Taranaki, Canterbury, Waikato, Hawke's Bay Magpies, Tasman, Northland, Bay Of Plenty, Southland, Otago, North Harbour, Manawatu, Auckland, Wellington.

4. There are specific rules how to play rugby. In rugby there has to be 15 aside and some subs which means reserves. There has to be 2 rugby equipments such as mouthguard and rugby boots. To play rugby you need a referee plus two flag men. In rugby there are two sets of groups forwards and backs. The positions in the forwards are,  (hooker, loose-head, tight-head) second row ( second row, blindside flanker, open head flanker and number Eight.) Backs (half-back, first five eight, second five eight, centre, left wing, right wing and fullback.).

5. If the referee sees a high tackle, tacking without using arms, or fighting the referee gets to decide if they get a yellow or red card will be sent off the field in other words SIN BIN!  A try is only given 5 points and the conversion is 2 extra points. A penalty kick is a bonus of 3 points. To kick the ball you need something to support and hold the ball while you are getting ready to kick and it is called rugby tee. My favourite two rugby players is Rene Ranger because I enjoy watching him play and he plays very hard. He inspires me to play rugby and how rugby is a strong sport to play. AND THEY CALLED HIM THE BEAST! and my other favourite rugby player is Julian Savea because he also can bump players over and over again. He plays wing for the All Blacks and Super 15 Hurricanes.

Thank You!

Nearly At The Finish Line

Nearly At The Finish Line!

                  Stretching and focusing for the long run, get ready legs, steady….. GO!

Firstly, the bell rang and everyone rushed to their class lines and got ready to run. Year eights started off with a steady pace running up and down the hill. Some students dawdled or jogged towards Hinaki Street.

All of a sudden I saw students strolling during the second round. We jogged up Torino Street, past our school and back to the start.

At our cross country there were Rooms 12, 11, 10, 9, 7 and 6 who participated in our jog. Most students in Room 10 and 6 couldn't be bothered to run and they loathe running. When Mika and I were running past students strolling they were talking and weren't doing enough jogging.

We kept jogging till our third lap. When we got back to the start I had a little jog towards Mrs Golder and she was wondering ”Are you the last people?” and we replied, “No.” So Mika and I kept running till we got to the bottom of the hill and had a little rest to catch our breath. We reached Hinaki Street and Mika and I decided to sprint to the finish line, and we made it.                         

                                       

                                                        We at last reached the finish line.

Credit: Mika, Estah, Elizabeth, Miria, Kolotina, Sini

Squares And Cubes!

At first, we needed to know our multiplication and multiples to get the answer for the squares and cubes. I thought they were going to be hard, but I listened carefully and now I know what to do. 
Then we had to get into groups and we needed to build a 2D square and a 3D cube. My partners and I tried very hard to build a 3D 6 x 6 x 6 model. We started off slow but got the hang of it. 
We were so fast that we finished on time.

Origami Objects

Firstly,  we had to make paper origami dinosaur and butterfly. After I finished my origami dinosaur I had to make something else to challenge myself and I made a green dress. Origami comes from Japan. My teacher Mrs Golder decided to put my dress with Mika's bow and cat together and now it looks like a project that Mika and I made.

Syndicate Assembly!

The first three days we had to organise our syndicate assembly. We needed a leader to organise people to host our assembly. We worked very hard to plan our lines and our own particular job to complete. It was our turn to host and we did extraordinarily well and sang cool songs. We had to display our daffodils sitting in a red vase and explain how we made them. WHAT A DAY!

Daffidals

First off we had to follow the instructions on how to make a paper origami daffodil. We made our daffodils to represent cancer and we also did it for a school competition. We followed the steps and made it look charming and made smaller ones to challenge ourselves. We all made our daffodils with yellow and orange paper to start off with. Later on I was searching on the internet for an easy way to make an origami vase for the daffodils and Sini followed the video instructions and made a big vase for the daffodils to sit in. Me and Mrs Golder were really impressed.

It Should Not Be Shared

                                             

                   I have personal things that I don’t share with anyone except my friends.

Most people have different types of personal things which they do or do not want to share on social media or around the community and local. We can share our identity with people who we care about us like our friends and family because they are the closest. It’s most important to speak to others, because we share our identity and feel better to speak to a person who cares, encourages us and supports us.

I have amazing friends who are from different cultures and they lead and carry on the traditions passed down through their family. My friends have different personalities and opinions and that makes them who they are. Those people who are from different cultures should be proud of their identity because it forms an important part of our character and personality and also it represents your family and culture.

Church makes you who you are as well. It might change your beliefs and religion. You hang out with different friends and learn different things from them. It proves that church could affect your personality as well.

I have an identity that won’t be shared with everyone except the people that I am around with or hang out with. I have personal things that my mates might not like or they might laugh about it.

Netball Tournament

Schools all ready, referees steady, the whistles blow like a confetti. We versed heaps of schools. We won all our games but unfortunately we lost in the finals against Sylvia Park School. Even though we didn’t come first we were all overjoyed. We came second. Yay!   At the end of the day we did our school proud.

Tautai

                                                         Summary Frames

Sentence 1 I was walking to school heading to my friends and his friend Alex yelled “Stinky” come on over. We heard that you are planning to travel to Samoa these holidays.

Sentence 2 Yes I will go to Samoa on a 737 flight. Lagi and his dad sold their car to receive the money and spend it on Lagi’s flight to Samoa. Lagi was very excited and hi five his dad.

Sentence 3 Tigi’s parents discussed about Lagi going to Samoa for his grandmother's 60th birthday by himself and they approved. Later on Lagi started to stroll to the library and look for plane books to read. Later on Lagi and his parents arrive to the airport. A flight attendant wearing a red uniform walks ahead to Lagi and says my name is Tracy, Lagi smiled shyly so his dad push him forward and shook her hand. HE WAS FASCINATED!

Sentence 4 They are finally in the plane and Tracy leads Lagi to the pilots. The pilot was greeting lagi to the pilot's room. They were talking and talking about the planes. The pilot was very blown away from Lagi's  information. Soon they fly off and Lagi was shaking on his chair. The pilot speaks out to the passengers and talked about Lagi and said “reach out for the sky” and Lagi knew it meant his name.

Preventing Electrical Injurys

Many people and little kids have been getting injured and dying because they have been playing around with plugs and playing near ovens.

…..What should they have done?

..Firstly, there should be an adult supervising a child who is playing near or close to an electrical system so that they won’t get electrocuted. There is a lot of kids that think lights can not electrocute people then they see for themselves if it does and they get electrocuted.

Secondly, remember when you go to a gas station always turn off your mobile phones because the engine can send a spark to your phone that can travel to the fuel and can explode your car. There have been silly people turning on their mobile phones on at the gas station  and do not care if their car explodes.

Lastly, remember to turn off the switch when you leave the house or take the plug out before it starts a fire or lose power. Remember stay away from electricity.

REMEMBER TURN OFF YOUR PHONE BEFORE YOUR CAR EXPLODES

Keeping Our Bodies In Shape.

Good personal hygiene is one of the most effective ways to protect ourselves and other from illness.

                  

Chew healthy foods and drink the right liquids to help your brain and body grow. When we are taking care of our bodies our body parts can be cleaned out from all of the junk food and the bacteria. Unhealthy food and unfit people can suffer from pain and be sick or die.When we all eat the right foods we don't only feel better and have more energy but we provide our bodies with nutrition and vitamins.

Without eating and drinking fruits, vegetables and water we can get dangerous diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and most of all, a STROKE.

One way to clean your body is to always have a shower, wash hands, clean nails and especially brushing our teeth.

Exercising is a very important active sport that the All Blacks do to be in the team such as Charles Piutau, Israel dagg and Kieran Read. They do a lot of practice to help their bodies grow. My advice for everyone who is eating bad foods and who is not fit should experience being healthy and strong.

That is all the information about Keeping Healthy. And remember if you wants to play for the All Blacks you have to be healthy and fit.

                               EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE MAKES A HEALTHY BODY!

You Turn

       You Turn

For the second time again we had two special visitors from the “MADD MESSENGER” who had come to talk about what we should do for our education plus our future. The two visitors were Petia and Caroline. They talked about You Turn. Caroline said that experience in education will affect your future and we can and should push ourselves to learn, so that we can plan our dream. Later on Petia chose a year 7 person, Aydrian  to demonstrate positive ways to react to  bullying. Lastly Petia sketched Wonder Woman and everyone was blown away by his skills.

BROKEN BONES... KA POW! OUCH

                  BROKEN BONES…KA POW! OUCH

                                An accident that I don’t want to remember …

Finally I get to explain what happened a year ago ...,

On one sunny day I was riding my skateboard down the road enjoying myself when I saw a rock rolling towards me. I lost my balance, turned left and hit the curve with a huge smash and collapsed on the ground. Then I saw a deep cut which was bleeding like a fountain and saw my flesh. EWW!

I got up quickly as I could limping like nothing happened so no one could see me crash, but a few people who  I saw giggling at me were my cousins. I could see them in fits of laughter through the window saying, ”SHAME... PLEASE DO IT AGAIN.” I was really embarrassed and angry.

From that day on I hated skateboarding and I will never ever ride a skateboard in my whole life! So I threw my skateboard away because it reminds me of my embarrassing accident.

The Word Spreads!

We walked up to Room 8a and saw two special people who could change our personalities. The man's name is Petia who came to talk about our negative issues and to talk about helping other people. I have learnt a lot of things about feelings and how people think of us, and how negative words can hurt people in many ways. In the end Petia picked one of his favourite superheroes “Iron Man” to sketch because he has a feeling that superheroes are his role models.

Preventing Electrical Injuries

Many people and little kids have been getting injured and dying because they have been playing around with plugs and playing near ovens

…..What should they have done?

,..Firstly, there should be an adult that should supervise a child who is playing near or close to an electrical system that they won’t get electrocuted. There is a lot of kids that think lights can not electrocute people then they see for themselves if it does and they get electrocuted or electrified.

Secondly, remember when you go to a gas station always turn off your mobile phones because the engine can send a spark to your phone then travels to the fuel and can explode your car. There have been silly people turning on their mobile phones at the gas station  and do not care if their car explodes.

Lastly, remember to turn off the switch when you leave the house or take the plug off before it starts a fire or lose power. Remember stay away from electricities.

A BRIGHT LIGHT FROM THE SKY CAN HIT YOUR HOUSE WITH A STRIKE!

Preventing Illness!

 Preventing Illness  

An illness is a type of sickness affecting the mind and body.

How can illness start?

Illness could start off with the spread of bacteria or a sore throat. Wearing the wrong clothes at the wrong time, and eating the wrong foods can make you get sick. Eating the right foods can heal your body in two weeks because the right foods like fruits and vegetables have lots of vitamin C, A and B.

What kind of illness are there?

There are a lot of different types of illnesses and sicknesses that have not been cured. Most illnesses like flu and colds can be treated. The human body’s immune system can attack all the bacteria or germs that make you sick and it can cure you. But disease can be treated but not be cured.  

How do we prevent illness?

Some of the best things to do are to always wash your hands after sneezing, make sure to  sneeze and cough into your elbow. You can also exercise regularly everyday and eat 5+A Day.

Fight the germs and stay healthy.

The Waka Is Approaching...

Firstly we walked to Pt England for something special… Waka Landing.

While we were walking we saw other schools strolling to Pt England Reserve. When we arrived we sat at our spot and talked and talked to keep us comfortable until the waka landed. At the Pt England Reserve there were 11 schools that were attending and to give their support to the waka landing  on Wednesday 25 March 2015.

Later on when the waka landed a boy from Tamaki College blew a Pukaea horn to tell the people on board that we are ready. When they came we sang “He Honore” and “Nga Waka e” to welcome them to our country. After that we sang more songs and they made speeches about Manaiakalani and said that we are the “CHILDREN OF THE NAVIGATORS”.

Towards the end we did a hi five to the people who came from Hawaii.

Finally after that we walked back to school to have a little rest before doing our work.

Everyday Theatre - Diary

Dear Diary...

I'm having a very hard time  with mom's new boyfriend and now he is moving in it’s changing everything because dad and mum keep on arguing and arguing.

Brian has a bunch of alcohol stored in the garage but he never drinks it so I will give them to my friend, Jack because he loves beer. My mum decided to let Becca move in into my bedroom. Now I have to sleep on the couch every time and now I'm never going to be happy. 

Whenever I have my homework I go straight to Becca because she is smart but then she always says so. I beg and beg until she says. "yes", but no she doesn't.

I wish I had a normal happy life with just me, dad and mum.

I'm angry like someone lost their mom.

St Kents.

A enjoyable day at St Kents.

We jumped on the bus and were transported to St Kents along the bumpy road. We arrived and jumped out of the bus and walked to the hall.

Suddenly we were in our groups and St Kents greeted us before they announced the leaders. After that they put the leaders in their groups. Our group is Group 1 and our leader was Matt.

Next we decided to play basketball but before that we did a lot of warm up and learned more skills and did lots of new trick that we have not done before.

Later on we were ready to compete against Group 8 and we lost to them. We had good shooters Lebron, James and Nick Young . Straight after a good P.E day we walked back and hopped on the bus and traveled back to school.

The Deadliest Soldier

                                                 

                          

25 April 1915.

Dear Uncle  Ayden

I have been chosen to be in World War 1 and be in the ANZAC army force to represent my country, New Zealand. We got our weapons and other stuff ready to go and fight. When we arrived at Turkey we crept up the hill and heard gunshots already fired by the Turks who were hiding on top of the hills.  

After that  Me, Mika, Damien and Don ran far out on the side so they couldn’t find us. Then we made a big trench to hide in. We were hungry and had ANZAC cookies to eat and water to drink. Later we went to sleep and gunshots were still going on and people yelling.

Later that day we sneaked out of the trench and one of us ran out to look if there was anyone there and Damien volunteered to run out. He looked both sides and then was a shot fired by a sniper. Damien died and we said R.I.P.

There were still gunshots everywhere then we stood and ran and shot some Turkish soldiers. Suddenly someone threw a grenade, BOOM!  Don didn’t make it he lost his head and legs, R.I.P.

Me and Mika saw the ship and we went in. We two made it back home. We bought Damien and Don back as well for their funeral. Rest In Peace.

From  Simon.