Awards!!

Today early in the morning we received our awards from last week's cross country, relays and sprints. I was given the bronze certificate. I came 3rd in the race. Others also received bronze, silver and of course gold!. The next award was for completing patrols this year

Athletics day at Ruapotaka School

Athletics has been past and im sitting here happy and nervous free. On athletics day the years 1-8 ran on the track and the fastest people did relays. The year 8s and 7s ran 200m and 800m pheww!. It was such a exhausting day. Tired legs and a dry throat. I ran 3 of them and came 3rd. I was proud of myself. It was such a hot burning day.  Here are some photos.

Room 12's Film

Room 12 made a fantastic and fun video on some advice and tips on rugby. The film was called rugby values. Everyone participated in the film. It took a lot of filming and editing. I enjoyed acting. The film was also played at the Hoyts Sylvia park cinema. I had two little kids to look after. I had to take care of them, so that we couldn't lose anyone. I enjoyed acting as a coach/referee.  

TECHNICRAFT

Yesterday Wednesday the senior block from Ruapotaka School went to Tamaki College for tech (technicraft). For technicraft there are 4 stations with different projects for example wood craft, food craft😋 and drawing craft. There are also 4 different teachers who are Mr Grundy, Mr Pineda and Ms Tuipiulotu. The station im at, at the moment is wood craft. I enjoy making different things. My project right now is making a stained glass blue clear crystal diamond🔷. There are steps to making this. The steps are Cut,Grind,Foil,buff and tin. I really can't wait till my project is finish. 

 Here is an example picture of how my stained glass will look like. 

😄Skipping Demonstration😄😌

 Ruapotaka School had the skip off competition and the demonstration. I felt very nervous and excited at the same time. Parents and families came to watch. The juniors had their skip off first. Reality came 1st place, Otolose came 2nd place and Jacob came 3rd place. After the skip off the juniors went back to the junior block. When it was finally our turn to perform I felt scared that I was gonna mess up but I told myself that I shouldn't worry. As I did the double dutch I failed two times but managed to do it on the third attempt. I was very proud of our group and class. I am relieved and happy that it has finished.

Tapa Drawings

On Friday afternoons Room 12 group 1 and 2 did art. For art we drew tapa cloths on paper based on our learning about "The Pacific Study". We used colors and pencils to draw Tongan or Samoan patterns and many island pattern. The patterns I drew was a flower and a traditional Tongan pattern. I used a black pencil to darken the outline and used a pencil to shade the inside of the flower.

😲Skipping Is Coming Up 😮

Next week Wednesday Ruapotaka School will start skipping. There will be competitions on who skips the longest. In room 12 we all split in groups to figure out what were going to do with the ropes. My group and I decided to use long ropes and do double dutch. My groups are Teremoana, Meafou, Vika and Vaimoana. We all have things to do. Some of the other groups have tricks to display. I feel nervous and excited at the same times. Hopefully it all goes well.😳Parents can come to watch..👍

Daily Fitness Routine

Everyday, Each morning rooms 9/10/11 and 12  run around the school block for about 10 minutes. It helps us stay fit and healthy, each lap is tiring. The sounds of puffing and huffing is surrounded by me. The Jogging warms us off when it is a cold morning. 

National Milk Day

Milk produced by Fonterra farmers is being consumed everyday by people everywhere.
Nutritious  Milk available to all primary school kids national wide . School books, writing pads, wall cladding, and roof tiles are just some of the things that can be made from recycled Fonterra Milk for Schools packs. Students and schools are happy to know that every single milk pack is recycled into new and useful products to be used by someone else around the world. 
 we celebrate the 16th annual World Milk Day on 1 June 2016.

The Inter schools (Soccer)

Yesterday Wednesday the year 7 and 8's and the year 5 and 6 went to the Pt England Reserve to play other schools , we were playing soccer. I was excited and nervous at the same time.We played 5 games and made it to the semi finals. We played Tamaki Primary, Sylvia park, Glen Taylor,St Patrick  and lastly Stonefields. We sadly lost against Tamaki Primary and won all 4 games.  We also drew againest Stonefields. Overall we came 1st place. Our team were very proud of our selves.
Scores 
Glen Taylor     won 1-0
Tamaki            lost   0-1
Sylvia               won  1-0
St pats             won 7-0
Panmure         won 4-0
Stonefield        D     0-0

Mother's distress over damage to babies' graves

Flowers, wooden crosses and other decorations had been broken and strewn around the children's area of the gardens. Mother Brookie Himiona emailed Auckland Council about the damage on Tuesday afternoon after her daily visit to her daughter's grave.  "I went back early [Wednesday morning] and it was still damaged." Brookie said. Flowers and decorations and the most of the other graves in the children's section were a mess. "We do take full responsibility and will work with all our teams to ensure this does not happen again." Auckland Council says. 

Robert Rakete

Yesterday afternoon we had some famous visitors visiting our school. They were Robert Rakete and Henry. They both introduced themselves then shared some interesting stories about their childhood. Robert shared about himself as a Tv presenter, Wiggles actor and being on the radio. They both encouraged us to read.

Shots fired during Mangere dairy robbery

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Several shots were fired during a dairy robbery in Auckland's Mangere dairy. Two men allegedly stole the store's till after firing a firearm at around 2pm on Monday after driving off . The car was later spotted in Manuwera, but a police chase had to be abandoned after the offenders shot at one of the police cars.Three men, aged 21, 26 and 29, were arrested after being tracked down with a police helicopter.The victims were shaken but are being supported by police. The officer who was shot at is also being supported. Police are continuing to investigate the incident that had happend. 

Room 11s syndicate assembly

On Monday Room 11 hosted the syndicate assembly for our assembly we had song competitions. We picked all sorts of students from each class to sing their song. Most of them picked How far ill go by Moana. They all had beautiful voices. The judges Dakbai and Teremoana thought Room 12 was the best.