Kiwi sports

                                                      Kiwi sports

On the 22nd of October on Tuesday some people went to Kiwi Sports zones. First in the morning we went to the Nikau room and we sorted out stuff, we put our zones cloths on and our uniform in our cubbyholes then we went to the Nikau room to make sure we had everything like our hats lunch etc and waited for Miss Law to tell us what to do and how long it took walking to Hillsborough park. When the bell was about to ring we put our names on the board so the teacher would know that we are here today, after the bell rang we all went into the Nikau room to see everyone's here then we went to the park. 20 minutes later when we arrived we sat down in a line in our school, there were a  lot of schools and activities and there were to leaders in each activity that came from Hillsborough primary, a teacher told us which place we were going first Waikowhai and Hay Park were going to the Hoopla station.

The leaders told us how to play then we started the game was there are people standing in a hoop and there was a tagger the tagger has to chase the other person but if he can't tag him or her he can tag someone in the hoop to tag him or her. After the bell that rang every thirty- minutes to swap we swapped to the Rob the Nest game we waited for the leaders to say go and tell us how to play, after that we started playing the leaders called out one so all the number ones in the group has to go and get the toys in the middle, when all of the toys were gone she will say rob the nest and she will call out a number and we had rob each others nest, and when she calls something that I forgot we had to all rob the nest. After second bell went we went to our lines and got our lunch out to eat our morning tea, after our morning tea we went to the cricket station. She told us what to do then we started playing first we were the fielders and the other school is the batters and one person had to throw the ball at the batter to hit it.

 Fifteen minutes later we were the batters we hit the ball and went to the back and past it all the way to the front for the next batter to bat, after when the bell rang we went to the Scatter ball area we had two hoops on the ground and three balls in one hoop we had to throw the balls in different areas and the other school had to get the ball to the hoop and before the put all three of them in the hoop we had to run to both of them every time we went on one hoop we get a point at the and our school won. After that the bell rang and we went to the T-ball area, again they told us what to do and then we played. I was at the back so I kept on getting the ball and throwing it to the front, after the bell rang we ate lunch and when we finished lunch we could play so I got my ball out and played catch with Bjorn and my friends Bjorn was on the other side of the field and I was on the other side he had to throw the ball and we had to get it and throw it back. After lunch we had tug of war we were first a teacher had to hold a rope then when she drops it it starts when it started it was very painful I wan't to stop but I couldn't but after a while we lost.

 When all the schools versed each other we sat in our lines and listened to the teacher. The teacher said the we were 3rd and 2nd I forgot and 1st is St Therese.

Novel book work

                      Novel book work

In term two the Te Waka Ako reading groups each got a novel to read. The Blood Bottlers my reading class has four groups Magenta my group,Cyan,Orange,and Maroon. Magenta had Cool, Orange had Bow Down Shadrach,Cyan has The Secret Of Jelly Mountain, and Maroon has got A Friend In Paradise. After we finished reading our novel we had to do two comprehension questions about the book and one activity about the main character. Every term we get new novels to read because we have already done everything. The novels are different but we have the same tasks to do. All the senior pupils enjoyed reading the novel that were given to their group and they also enjoyed doing all the tasks.

Bye! by Ethan
                            here are some photos

Senior Camp

                                Senior Camp
                                                 
Day One

On Tuesday the 20th of August we went to camp. In the morning we went into the junior classes and waiting for the buses to arrive. When the bus has arrived we gave our bags to the bus driver and went to the parking area and lined up into our colour groups. After that we went to the toilet we went to the toilet so we don't need to go when we are in the bus.


 so we don't need to go when we are in the bus. After a few minutes we went into the bus and sat down, the parents waved goodbye to the students and the students waved goodbye to the parents. Some people cried because they missed there parents and if they have one there brother or sisters, then the bus started to move we rested for little bit because we had to wake up at 7 and arrive at 7:30. When we arrived at the Hamilton gardens we went to the main area where the water fountain is, we spent a few minutes resting and having our morning tea.

 When our morning tea was over had to do a photo hunt because the bus driver needed to go to the closest petrol station to get fuel. We had a few pieces of paper with photos on it we had to find the photo and see which garden it is there were like 20 photos. An hour later we had to come back some people finished it and some didn't. When we were back to the main area Miss daily grabbed her drone out and took a few photos.

 Then we went back to the bus and went to Otorohanga to see the Ed Hillary walkway. There were posters of facts about New Zealand there and we had four sheets of paper and there were questions about New Zealand that we had to answer. It was a bit hard because there is heaps of people in one spot so we had to wait, 2 we had to read everything and find the answer. Thirty-minutes later we had to stop and eat our lunch for ten- minutes.

 After our lunch we went back into the bus to go to the Jim barker memorial playground. The playground was very big, there was 2 small trampolines, a big and small slide, there a skate park there, there is a monkey bar, a flying fox,a Tyre parkour thing, and another thing. Miss daily also took a photo with the drone. The next stop was Taumaranui school, we spent around thirty- minutes playing in the two big playgrounds and playing basketball, netball, and cricket in the massive court.

They had some of the same things that we had in our playground like the chain climbing thing, rock climbing, fireman's pole, zip line, and other, But the things that are the same as ours are much longer and they had multiple of them. After that we went back into the bus it was 4:45, and this time we didn't have anymore stops we were having about a 2 hour ride to the Crossing Backpackers where we were staying. Everyone was just sleeping looking at the cows and animals, playing games, and taking photos. In the middle of the trip nearly everyone was starting to get a bit tired, and cold because it was getting darker and the temperature was dropping because we were a bit closer to mt Ruapehu.

 We weren't close to Ruapehu it is like an hour away but we are closer than just now, it was so cold that the windows were foggy and the temperature was like 14 degrees. When we saw the place everyone was shouting we finally reached to the crossing and at the end someone didn't feel well and I was right in front of him so I quickly went behind him and a few seconds later he vomited. So after that a teacher had to give him a bucket us a big cloth and cover it so everyone can walk past it and also some wet wipes to wipe his hand and stuff. When all of that was sorted we went out of the bus and looked for our, Nearly everyone had the main building but a few other people including me went into a small building we looked for our rooms, me and my buddies rooms was all the way at the back room 21.

 After that the bus driver put the bags out and the teachers took it and put it in the side of the hallway. We came to see if it's our bags so we could take it back and sort things out, some people took a long time because there bags were deeper inside. When we all finally got our bags we put it in our room and went to the dining room to get ready for dinner, but first they introduced themselves and told us what to do and not do, then we had dinner, today we had salad. There was potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes ,onions and other, and also the stuff are optional so if we don't like that or allergic you can just say no thank you.

 Five minutes after dinner we had desert we had a rectangle shaped ice cream, and the flavour is Oreo, there is little bits of Oreo. After desert we went back to our rooms and we had to two by two go and take a shower and after that we had to brush our teeth. When everyone one was done we had free time we could stay in our room or go to the game room and play ping pong or some board games, or relax. You could also go into the secret cabinet and watch the movie that is played. Another place you can go to to play board games is the dining room.

 An hour later we were all supposed to go back and spend five minutes changing into our pajamas and getting ready for bedtime. Two minutes later the adults came in and told us to prepare our ski gear for tomorrow. After we prepared our ski gear it was bedtime we went on the beds and in to our sleeping bags, I slept at the right side at the bottom and my friends slept above another beside and another one at the left side on the top. The parent staying next to our room offed the light and closed the door, then we all went to bed.




                                                                  Day Two
we woke up at six and everyone was very tired. We woke up at six because we had to take around thirty minutes to go to a place where there was shuttle to send us to the snow. We had to use a shuttle because normal buses can't go up big hills and mountains. When we woke up we got changed and brushed our teeth, after that we had to go to the dining room for breakfast.

 The breakfast was you can either have toast or cereal, for cereal you could either choose peaches or either pears or both, and for the cereal you could choose rice bubbles, corn flakes, and granola, and you could also put some weetbix in your cereal, after we chose our cereal the parents poured milk in our bowl and we got our cutlery and sat down. When we finished we stacked our bowls at the front and put our cutlery in a little bucket of water and went back to our rooms and put our ski gear on and went into the bus. We also brang some money to buy hot chips at the happy valley cafe. An hour later we arrived, some people were very excited because they have never touched snow before or because they get too ski, but at the start we didn't have free time first, we went to a place where you could rent ski gear we lined up to get a helmet, check the size of our feet to see which ski boot fits, and get our skis.

 We also wrote down the number of our boots and ski on a card so we would know which ski we had and boot we had and the teachers also gave us ski passes which allows us to go through the gates and to the ski fields. After that we went outside and waited for a teacher to come. When the teacher's came she told us to go through to gate and wait for the others, While waiting everyone was just siting down having snowball fight or making a small snowman. Awhile later everyone had finished we lined up into our colour group and waited.

When the ski and snowboard teachers arrived each colour group went with one teachers and went down the hill to a more flatter and open surface. when it started we learnt how to ski and stop with one foot, and then when we are better we did it with two feet some groups were still learning how to stop and some of them already learnt how to go on chairlifts. after 1 hours of ski lessons we had lunch we sat outside the cafe. Before we had hot chips we had to eat the sandwiches the crossing provided on the first day one of the sandwiches had ham and cheese and the other one was egg.

We also had snacks the snacks were cookies, fruit, or a muesli bar. as soon as we finished our morning tea we had free time on our skis for about and hour, we skied down the big hills and went on the chairlifts and did all sorts of stuff we had a lot of fun. The only annoying thing was was the weather the ice kept on hitting everyone's faces and it hurt a lot so when I was skiing down the hill and the kept on hitting my face I had to cover my face and leave a little gap to see where I was going, but after some time the ice started going into the gap. So I covered my face and every three second I would make a gap and see where I was going but one time when I covered my whole face I crashed into Tyson on the ground. One hour later we had lunch again then we put our skis at the storage part of the bus and went in to go back to the crossing.

 When we arrived we had to to put our boots away and put our ski pants and ski jacket, and ski gloves into the drying room and the track pants we had to hang in our rooms. Then we had to go to the dining room and wait for the rest to come so we could have our dinner. When everyone came we had dinner, I'm sorry but I forgot what we had for dinner so I'll have to skip that. After dinner we did the same thing we had to brush our teeth and five minutes later we went to sleep.
 Sorry I am not writing anymore because I have wrote two much so I will just add photos.

Beach Clean

                            Beach Clean

On the last day of school before the two weeks holiday, the seniors went to the Waikowhai Beach to pick up rubbish so the animals won't eat it and die. First we took our climate change sign and went in front of the school to take a picture and show it to the drivers, then we walked to the waikowhai beach. When we arrived we put our signs in Miss Najak's car and waited for Miss Sands to tell us what to do how far to go. She told us to go all the way to the end and she said the we are staying in the beach for around one hour and thirty- minutes.

 After a few minutes we went down the stairs onto the beach, we found some rubbish some people even found coconuts shells, it was me Atreyu and Tyson. When we were half way through the end of the beach there wasn't much rubbish either, it made me think that nearly everyone that goes to Waikowhai Beach puts there rubbish in the bin or picks rubbish up. The beach was very cool because there are heeps of creatures like crabs when you go closer in the water, When I looked back from where we came from I was very surprised of how far we went because it felt like a very short time. An hour and twenty-minutes later we walked back close to the stairs and played a bit, when I went back I saw five boys trying to get a big Tyre outside of the sand, we were close to getting it out but we couldn't so Miss Sands said leave it she will call the council to do it and when we went away from the Tyre Torian found a shrimp and I found a five cent coin on the ground, it was very rusty. After that we gave our gloves back to the teacher and walked back to school and had lunch.