Rippa Rugby

Yesterday was our last day to do Rippa Rugby with Coach Cory. First we had to get into partners to play cat and mouse. I was partners with Winne. I was the cat and she was the mouse, when Coach Cory called mouse I ran after Winne and took a tag off her. Then she took all of my tags.

Next we played a game we didn't even know how to play called over the river.
We got into two groups and we had a ball for each team. When you kicked or threw the ball over to their island then the person thats near it is out. When everyone was out it was just Alamoni and I. Alamoni had a ball and I did. The last person that kicked it over won, and I won by dogging his. My team was proud of me and I was proud of me too.

It was exciting and a fun time.

Teachers On Strike

On Thursday the teachers went on strike. Teachers from primary schools and secondary teachers were walking up Queens Street and holding signs saying we need more teachers and pay rise. Parents, students were supporting the teachers too.

So the government offered to the teachers a pay rise for three years, some teachers agreed some did not. I hope that we get more teachers in the future because if we didn't we wouldn't  have any schools.

Kiwican Week 1!

Today my class did kiwican with Miss Tuia and Mrs Mac. Mrs Mac covered for Mr Matt.

We focused on being respectful to others around us, don't be shy and give it a go. Our  topic we focused on was integrity and honesty. 

Then we got in a circle one by one told them what our names were. When that was done we played a game called bang. (How to play).  A person calls out your name and then you duck down, then the people on the side of you gets to say bang. The first person to say bang wins and the person on the side sits down. I didn't win, but that's was okay.

We played another game called change places if. So a person says a question, like if your favourite colour is blue then you change places. If your the last one standing up you have to do five star jumps.  I had a lot of fun and can't wait for next week Tuesday.

Shades And Highlights With Paint

At Tech in Miss Ferguson's class we did shades and highlights with paint. I was actually excited.

The colours we used first was blue, yellow and red, primary colours. First we learnt how to paint smoothly and not use big blobs of paint. Then we mixed the colours together, like mixing yellow and red together to make orange, blue and yellow make green, and blue and red make purple, secondary colours.

When we finished painting and mixing the paints together, we went on to how to do shades and highlights  with black and white paint. Now, I was nervous on this bit, because I didn't really know how to do it but I tried.

Softball

On Wednesday we went to the interschool softball competition at Dunkirk. I was nervous but excited at the same time. When we arrived, there were already schools practising. We were all getting scared now. So we went into the shade and started practising our softball skills.

Then the siren went off for the first round of the game! The first team we played was Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Puau Te Moananui A Kiwa school. The leader from this school did a toss with   our leader, Jessica, to see who would field or bat first. Ruapotaka won the toss and decided to field and we started the game. Our team didn't win but it was a really cool day.

Me! - Technology Lesson on Me

                                Today we did Technology at Tamiki College! I was excited because
                                it was my first time doing tech. Our teacher was Miss Ferguson. We learnt how to                                  make an avatar and did something we liked about ourselves.


                           
                             
                             

Being A Prefect

Kia orana, my name is Madisyn and I am a year 7 Prefect at Ruapotaka School. Being a Prefect is stressful because I have a lot of responsibilities and leadership. The other prefects and I have to be great role models to all students. I am grateful for this opportunity. I have a lot of goals as a Prefect.  I am excited but at the same time nervous.