😁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. 

😔 How This Year Is Coming To An End! 😔

Finally no more tests and no more frustration for these last two weeks. As soon as I thought that this year was coming to an end and how everything has gone by so quickly I really feel depressed and happy at the same time. Half of me feels sad and the other half of me feels happy. I am really looking forward for next year as I am turning into a Year 8. 

😨Tired From Doing Athletics😨

This week we had athletics, I was very scared at first but once I finished my run, all my frustration was gone. We were all training up for it.  All year 7's and year 8's had to do 100, 200, 400 metres. First we had to do 400 m since it was stupendously hard, we had to do two laps around. After that we did 100 metres, it was fun doing that one because all you have to do is just run straight. My legs was pumping constantly, as I was running. The 200 metes was kind of easy and hard because you have to sprint the whole way round. I am pretty happy with myself of what places I came when I was doing athletics. 

😀 My Achievements At Athletics 😀

Today certificates was handed out to the people that tried there best at athletics. I was one of them, I came Second for 100m and Third for 200m. I tried  my best at every single one but I was proud of myself. Even thou it was tough I still believe in myself that I can make in the athletics team.

🎥 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.

🏉Scotland vs Tonga 🏉

On Monday night , there was a game between Scotland vs Tonga. Tonga started off with the kick off and, Scotland when up running to get a try. Tonga went up to them and started to tackle really hard. Scotland had really fast runners to run up to them, but the thing about Tonga was that they had really good players from the rugby league and new players too. The total score was 4 - 54 to Tonga, for over all the winners of the game was Tonga. Congratulations to Tonga !

😀First Tests For Term 4 !😀

Today we did, tests. We did our "MATHS" and "SPELLING". For maths we did our basic facts, which was addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For spelling we spell't year 3 - 9  words and, I spell't most words all right to year  3 and 7 but it just got harder when it got to the year 8 and 9 words. I feel most confidence in my spelling but not so much on my maths . I hope my results, becomes better than term 2.

😁Designing Food Boxes !😁

On Wednesday we went to tech and made take way boxes, we had to design it so that we can make our own restaurant. We designed it by during pictures relating to the topic of our restaurant. I dured a burger and fries on it so that people notice that there food are in it. I like designing food boxes with Mr Penida.

How Do Colours Change ?

This week our class, did a science experiment based on colour change. By combining two or more colours can change into one different colour. To make the change of the colour you need it to be placed on a spinning wheel. You need two different types of colours to make the two colours into one. The result of the science experiment will be one colour when it turns out right in the end. 

Orienteering

 Today we did "Orienteering", inside because we had to use our brain to match up the symbols on the map. We had to get into groups of 4, so we can play relays with each other. First we had, two groups on one side, and the other two groups on the other side. From each two groups from each side they had to go against each other. The game we were playing was matching up the symbols. Who ever wins goes again, until theirs an a official winner.

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. 

Our New Rotation

At tech we rotated to another class which was art. I felt really excited about our new class because I heard we were doing art. We were told to draw our names in different letter writing. 

I started off using some block wirting for my first letter of my
word. I felt really happy with myself when I drawled the first letter of my name. Once I finished my first name I moved on to my last name, I started my last name with some bubble writing. When I finished I coloured everything in.

When I finished my whole name I showed everyone and they said it looks incredible. 

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. 

The First Day Of School

Today was our first day of term 3, we had learned alot from coming back from the 2 weeks holidays. When I first came to school I was keen to start learning more and becoming better than before. What I've learnt from the past few hours and minutes was maths and reading.  It was cool to finally get the day that we were learning because now that I think that it makes me want to read more and do more maths.

Daily Fitness🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

Every week we always do circuits and running for our daily fitness. We do all kinds of fitness, at each station when we do our circuits like one of them are called static stretches. 

When we do our running we always get timed 10min run. When I run I felt tired and sweaty also when I do my circuits. When I do circuits my buddies in my group help me force myself to do every station. 

What I think about daily fitness is quite hard and focusing. When you do fitness you really have to think about focusing on what you are doing to your body and if you want to get fit or not.  

Samoan Singing

Every Friday's we go to Samoan singing to learn the songs of Samoa. We sang a couple of songs, but the first song we sang was Le Aute. Then we sang the same version but a different song which was Le Pua. The teacher that was teaching our Samoan songs was Mrs Folu. When we were coming back to class I learnt how to sing the songs of Samoa and I learnt there language.  

Tapa Cloth During

                                     What did we do for art ?
For art we drew a Tapa cloth to create the patterns of Tonga, we used our imaginary mind to thing what we might do. For my art I dured a big flower in the middle and small flowers in the four corners. Also I did patterns in the outsides of the flower and the outsides of the paper. I used a black pencil to darken the flowers and the out lines so that it can stand out , I also shaded the flowers in so that you could see the darkness more. 

Why did we have to draw a tapa cloth ? 

The reason why we had to draw a tapa cloth because it was Tongan language week.

Skipping

Every afternoons we do skipping practice to get better at it,we practice doing forward skipping, backwards skipping,zigzag forward and zigzag backwards, every each of them we do 10 times first round and 20 times the second round. We have been doing good at those moves lately. After that we go get the long ropes to practice our display with our groups. Each one of our groups will be presenting there display in front of all of the audience. Wednesday 5th June 2017 is when we are going to do our skip off and that is when we are going to present our display with our
groups.