Tennis With Pete

Yesterday we had tennis with coach Pete. It was such a horrible and rainy day that we had to play tennis in the multi-purpose room. He taught us some outstanding skills like rallying with another opponents and controlling the ball when your hitting it with the racquet. It was so hard to learn tennis because I've never played before, but now that we are learning I now have a few tricks up my sleeve.

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei, As you guys know it was TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK. We used the Tongan greeting to say good morning when our teacher called out the roll. In my class a group of Tongan students wore some Tongan designed costumes. They've explained the details and talked about what they wore to classes 1 to 12. TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK is a major week
for those people who are Tongan. KEEP CALM AND HAPPY TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK!!!

Speeches Is Almost Coming Up 😬

I am very nervous and terrified for "SPEECHES"! . Speeches is right around the corner and I need to choose a topic to talk about quick. What is a topic I could think about ? Hmm? Let me think, well my teachers said specifically not to talk about friends, family, teachers, and pets. I think I want to talk about technology or maybe education. Now that I have made a decision of what I'm going to do, I am going to try my hardest to create a speech.

Receiving My First Duffy Award!

Last week I received a Duffy award, for my reading. I was so surprised that my teacher had chosen me for the Duffy book award. The book I had selected was called "PIRATE SPACE CAT ATTACK" written by Geronimo Stilton. I am so proud of myself that I am doing well in my reading! I'm going to try to read more.

Buddy Reading With Room 1 💥

Today we were at buddy reading with Room 1. I was with Kain working with a year 1 who was reading to us. We  asked some questions to her and Losaline had answered it really quickly. Also Losaline could sound out the words if she didn't know them as well. My favourite part about doing buddy reading is that I like teaching the year 1 students how to read the words out loud and clear.

😁 "Hip Hop" 🙌

Today we had hip hop with a dance instructor. Her name was Jess. 

We had to learn some basic moves before we moved on to the harder moves(for me that is). It was quite difficult, because there were times when I could not do the moves. I tried my best though!

The choreography, which was created by Jess had these amazing, sensational moves. I was pretty puffed out and tired at the end of the session! Would I do this again? Maybe I will,  maybe I won't!

😁Syndicate Asemmbly😁

On Monday, Room 12 year 8's and year 7's hosted the Syndicate Assembly. We did a wonderful job, placing  people where they should go. It was quite challenging hosting assembly, because we had alot of people to put in places, but we still managed. 

We did a "Syndicate Got Talent" based on how much talent people can show off. Two people from each senior class had to represent their class by dancing or singing.  Overall, the winner for the talent show was, Room 9. 

We had a great time together and we were proud and happy to represent Room 12 in the assembly. 

👍 Creating Charity Logos At Tech 👍

Today we designed a charity logo for sports funding for people who need help with sports gear. I finally completed my assignment.  I designed my logo with some PE (Physical Exercise) items on it, like rugby balls, baseballs etc. I really like what I've made here. It captures the objective of the lesson. I hope it will make a difference to my mark.

🎥 Maniakalani Film Festival 🎥

Ruapotaka School was very lucky to go to Sylvia park, because we had an opportunity to be apart of the Maniakalani community. Every schools from the Tamaki area, made a movie for the film festival. Maniakalani is an every year celebration for all schools in this area to make a movie. Our movie was about Rugby Values, it was all about how you can corporate with others and have teamwork with others. We had two people that had confidence from our class that represented our movie who were Vaimoana and Meafou. 

My favourite movie was Tamaki primary, because they had inspirational people that could sing and dance. 

Hope you enjoy our movie  !    

Finally Our Last Test For The Week !

Today we had our last test for the week, which was reading, we had to replace words with a similar one. We had academic words that, we didn't know. The meanings of the words can be similar to words that we dont know. Also I felt very pleased about doing it, and hopefully I get a better result.

Cross Country Running

 This morning everyone from the senior block had to do running around the streets including some year fours this was because it was our practice for cross country. When we first started I felt like my legs were going to fall but I still carried on running with my buddy Meafou. We had to do 2 rounds, when I did my first round I started getting tried in my second. When we stopped I was so happy and exhausted. 

Netball

Last term from Monday to Friday, Mr Reid had sorted out the netball team for this year. Some players are new and some are old who played last year. This week we started our netball practices. So far our practices has been fantastic and everybody is starting to play with their skills also having to play with speed. I enjoyed our practices. 

Our Pasificka Study Performance

Today at our assembly every class performed an item relating to the traditional of Samoan and Tongan. The performance started off from room 1. Followed by 5, 6, 7, and then finally the seniors room 9, 10, and 12. My favorite performance was room 1, they performed an traditional Samoan dance called the Sāsā. There actions that they performed was very active to the Samoan dance that they were doing. When it was Room 12's turn we went up and sang HOW FAR I'LL GO. I thought it will be hard because there was a whole lot of people staring at me, but when I stood up I started to become less scared and more confident.