🎈The Holidays🎈

In the holidays I went to my niece and cousins birthday. They both had the same birthday but my cousin had hers a day after my niece. For the two birthdays my uncles and cousins made an Umu a traditional underground oven. Islanders make Umus for special occasions. We put yam and different kind of meats. The food was cooking underground while two pigs were cooked on the top. This is another traditional way of cooking pig. But first of all my uncle took out the guts and the stomach that was in the pig and also cleaned it. While the men and boys cooked the meat my aunties and mum made salads, goodie bags, set up the table and the barberque. At 2:00 pm the party started a lot of family members, friends and church people came to the birthday they brought shoes, clothes more presents, food and a lot of money for my niece and cousin. It was a tiring day but I had lots of fun. The birthday was held at the backyard of my aunties. 

😄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.

😲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..👍

Syndicate Assembly

Yesterday the senior block had a syndicate assembly. 

The class hosting it was Room 10. 

At the assembly we had songs, certificates and quizzes. 

Tyron and Tupouseini got certificates for reading to a higher level. 

The quiz was about Samoa and Tongan questions and Room 12 answered the most questions so they received a certificate.

 It was fun.

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. 

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. 

Joseph Parker outpoints Razvan Cojanu to retain WBO world title

Parker out-pointed big Romanian Razvan Cojanu in south Auckland in a frustrating first defence of his WBO world heavyweight title. The judges scored it 119-108, 117-110, 117-110 in a fight where Parker couldn't find the knockout blow. Parker out-boxed the big Romanian to win his first defence of the belt                                                          in Manukau on Saturday night. The Romanian           heavyweight didn't take kindly to questions about Parker v Anthony Joshua.

Air-born: Flight crew helps deliver baby on board

A pregnant passenger suddenly went into labor at 42,000ft – but fortunately, the cabin crew were all incredible.The crew members all pulled together to help deliver the baby, A little girl who was later named Kadiju. Nafi Diaby gave birth to the girl on a Turkish Airlines flight from Conakry in Guinea to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Crew on the flight all worked together to help bring Kadiju into the world and once the flight had landed in the West African country the new mum and baby were taken to hospital to be kept under observation. Turkish Airlines later confirmed that the mum and baby were both doing well.

Flood in Orakei cemetery (Submerged)

More than 150 graves in a cemetery on Tamaki Drive have been submerged. 

A large flood pool surrounds the Okahu Bay Papakainga Urupa, with only the tallest headstones showing above the flood.  Sharon Hawke, of Ngati Whatua Orakei, said shocked family members had turned up at the urupa all morning. Ms Hawke said they would find out why the pump system had not worked well. 

Giant gold coin worth millions stolen from Berlin museum

A Canadian gold coin named big maple coin was stolen from a German, Berlin museum. The coin, taken on Monday night, is made out of pure gold, weighs about 100 kilos and has a face value of around C$1 million (NZ$1.06). The coin was stolen last night, it's gone," museum spokesman Markus Farr said.Police said it was probably stolen by a group of thieves who entered the museum undetected through a window. They then managed to enter the building and went to the coin exhibition.

"The coin was secured with bullet-proof glass inside the building. 

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. 

Everyday theatre

 Today two students came in today to share a families story by acting and to encouraging us to call for help when we feel Hurt, Sad, Angry and confused.Caitlin and her partner then started acting as a family. We learned alot and also had some fun to. We got to act as Dave, Mariah and Tee. They were an incomplete family. We also acted out photos of them. At the end of the play we got  free games master card and a special badge for us to put on our uniform. Then we asked them personal questions. Rm 11/12 had alot of fun today. 

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UPDATE: Dive squad called into Lake Rotoiti search

The Police National Dive Squad is on its way to Lake Rotoiti to help look for a person who was seen to "go under" on Lake Rotoiti yesterday.

Police have confirmed this morning they are still looking for a 48 year old man but said they were unable to release specifics to the media.

A police media spokeswoman said this morning a witness had seen someone "go under" at about 3.45pm on Lake Rotoiti yesterday.

The Rotorua Daily Post went to Lake Rotoiti yesterday and saw the Coastguard and other boats in the area between Curtis Rd and Lake Okataina Rd."We have had three more divers join us from Wellington today, making the total six."

The family of the missing man was later on happy to hear he was found 

Coastguard search on Lake Rotoiti this afternoon. Photo/Ben Fraser

Technic- Craft

Last week on Wednesday  Rm 11 and 12 had to combine classes while half of room 11 and room 12 went to softball trials with Mr Reid. While they were gone we did some work on narratives. After working on narratives we got ready to go Technic-craft.
 When we arrived to Tamaki College I had to lead the year 7's to Mr Grundy's workshop. When we arrived to his work shop we started on our workbook,  after completing our work book we started on our mold.

 We had to sketch our picture we wanted on the mold then had to use this wood cutter machine to cut of round our sketching. After cutting we had a look at some pendants some other students made. 

When it was 1:00 Mr Grundy shouted times up so I led the year 7's to the bus. It was so cool seeing the year 8's cooking. I'm looking forward to next week because we are starting filling our mold with melted pewter.

This is the pendant I will be making