; CrossCountry

Splish Splash was the sound of my shoes as I made my way down the track , covered in thick boggy goo. It was a hot sunny Friday day ,  Pt England School were having their annual event , School Cross Country. Many people believed it was going to be a COLD and UGLY Friday , but instead it was a NICE HOT day.

As I made my way around the corner of our school field , I entered a swampy pile of mud. ‘ YUCKY ’ I said surprised by the goo running down my shoe. When will this nightmare ever end. My friend Tule said , ‘it’s just the beginning -.- . What a nightmare .? The heavy gooey mud caused my legs to drag along the grass.

Trying to make my way through the bush walk,  the mud caused me to slip and I landed on my bum splat,’I just sat there laughing like there was no tomorrow , but as soon as I stood up it looked like I had had

an accident in my pants. I didn’t really care because I knew

it wasn’t real. So I kept up with my friend Tule. We still couldn’t stop laughing about it’ but we got through it.

SLIP SIDE , SLIP SIDE . Was my motto for the day, because thats all I did while , trying to make my way down the track. I ran past everyone, trying to make it down to the finish line. Once again I slipped, but this time I fell like a big pile of floppy jelly. Well my legs were like that. I just wanted to lay there and sleep, but I could see the finish line. So I got up and ended up running my fastest the rest of the way.

. NEK MINUTE .

That wasn’t the finish line, so I made my last track around the field, with all my might, run pass a group of year 7 boys, and girls I stopped just to get the best side of my face for the photo. As well I stop to take at least a breath or two. I stood there for about 5 seconds waiting for my friend TULE, there was me yelling out

“COME ON TULE I BELIEVE IN YOU”

The finish line looked a pretty long way to go, so I jogged over the bottom  field, over the playground. I grab Tule’s hand and ran over the finish line with her, coming 4th and 5th.I could barely

breath because my throat was parched. I drop down to the

ground like I was dead. I let out a huge sigh of relief.

‘Thank-you , Jesus for getting through that track,’ I said as I stood up.

I had the biggest drink I could have in all of my life -.- That was a good run for me to get ready for College.

But I am grateful I was rated in the top 8, and making my

way to interzones. My goal was that my mission was to finish

the track without stop, only once and once only. One day that

goal will come true sometime in my life, if i keep training, to accomplished my mission. If I had the chance to do it again I would at least try one more time.

                                     

Valerie Adams

Tonga Time

Every Friday we have Tonga Times It means we have a teacher
that takes you and do activities with you. I have Mrs Nua as my tonga time teacher what we do is we draw on paper to see what we going to do on our picnic tables, some other groups have their group activities outside and others have their in the street.

We had to do something that represent our school and our culture and put it all together
on to this big piece of paper. When finished we draw that same thing we drawed on to the paper onto to the tables we have outside the class.

My highlight for camp

My highlight for camp was going to Mr Harris for old school games.
When we went to Mr Harris we had to tie a string to our ankle with a balloon on the string after we had done that we all went to the field to play
balloon stomp.

Everyone was stepping on each others balloons.After we had finished playing games with Mr Harris we played a game that we did not want to play but we had to so we had to get into groups of 2 me and my friend cecilia were in a group and other people were in a group we had to thought the egg to the person that was in front of you,

Maranda Goals 2012

My achievement I was most proud pf last year in the classroom was:
My reading because I had moved to a higher level.


The thing I was most proud of last year outside of the classroom was:
I got a job that I liked a little bit.


In reading my leaning goal is:
To move to a higher level then the stage that I am in right now:

To achieve this goal I need:
To listen and focus well because when I don’t focus or listen I don’t think straight.

In writing my goal is to:
write properly and use proper punctuation and other things like more interesting words.


To achieve this goal I need to:
Lean more new words and to listen when people are trying give me some kind of good idea.


In maths my goal is to...
Learn my times tables and other things I need to lean to get better at.


The leaning area I think I need to improve in most is:
My writing because when it comes to writing I don’t do my work but sometimes when im in the mood I do my work.


My goal for this year around the school is to:
Be a good role model for the little kids and not get in to trouble.

Having our Net books back

I feel very happy to have my Net Book back
but I didn't like it when I got my net book, it had already have been re imaged
it, had all my movies and my musics. but I think they had to re image
it because it was like some kind of safety for us.

Three Interesting things about me...

Three interesting things about me is...

1. In my own time i like to write my own songs .

2.I like kicking back with my family at Tatt'd up barbershop.

3. I like going to the Cook Island because thats were I come from and like going to Samoa.

Tennis

Brain Strom:
Tennis ball
Raket
Nets
Classroom
People

Title: Tennis

Last Tuesday we went out as a class to play some Tennis. We had so much fun. We had to get into pairs. There were 4 Tennis nets, six people, and three of us had to stand on the other side of the tennis net.

We played a game called king and queen. It was a good game because people were happy and
had lots of fun while they were playing. I didn't want to play tennis because it was boring for me and my friend. We said to our teacher we did not want to play a game, but our teacher said we had to try at least one single game. We said we already did but really we didn't because we didn't like it. We said to our teacher that its not our sport but she just smiled at us .

After we finished playing king and queen we had to go back in to our class room because we had finished. It was time for another class to lean how to play tennis and how to use a tennis racket. Some of us did not know how to hold a tennis racket or to hit the ball even, so the tennis person showed us how to hold a tennis racket. The teacher showed how to hit the ball from and to the ground it was a cool day to play tennis.

My class had so much fun when we went out to play tennis it so fun because we know how to play tennis and now we got some new silk that we got to do with our partners I really think that I had a really good time when we went out to play tennis I enjoy myself even though I didn't play most of the games when we went out to play tennis



THE END!!!

Tennis

holiday highlights 2011

Tattooist
Hairdressing
Barber

The tattooist person was my auntie friends brother and the boss was my auntie friend as well my uncle and that had to paint the shop black and gold because the other colour was pink and cream they didn’t like that colour because there were going to be a Baber and a Tattooist that was going to work their with my auntie and her friend they are all Tongans.


The Tattooist had some mean pictures people wanted him to give them a tattoo but they had to wait tell Tuesday because the had just moved in to their shop so the had to make his space so that he can work with the people who wanted a tattoo.


The hairdressing people was my auntie and her friend they are both Tongans they ask as if we wanted to do our hair but we said no because we had to help the barber and the tattooist out and my auntie we wanted to get our hair done but we had to help to clean up so they can open the shop so people can get their hair done and get a tattoo from the tattooist.



The baber had some hair cut that he was going to do on some of the people that was going to get their hair done some of the people that were going to see him on Tuesday. They ask him if he could give them nigger lines.And other things that he can do.It was so cool because we can get what ever we want.

Scotland

This is my presentation about Scotland.

Feelings slideshow

Asttle Writing

Tuesday was an exciting day. We had a lot of fun doing silly sports on the bottom field. We had to get ready for silly sports. Some of us had school uniform and some of us had spare clothes. Our class was playing ball tiggy with our teacher (Mrs Lagitupu). We had so much fun. My team won the game. We had bands. Our teams colour band was green and some of us had spectacular skills and that’s why we won some of our games.

The other sports that we were playing was slingshot with Miss Tito. We had to get the ball in to a hope so that we will get a points for our class so that we can play water fight.There were two boys from our class that had to hold the slingshot up so that we can put ball that we had in our hand and put it on the slingshot and pull down and then let it go and it will fly and it had to land in a hope so that we can get a point of our class if we got the ball in the pink hope we would of got 100 points to our class so that we could go out and play, water fight.

After we were done with Miss Tito we had to go to Mr Harris we had to get a partner and then we had to get a string to tie it to our leg and get the spoon and the tennis ball. We had to walk with the spoon in one hand with the tennis ball on the spoon and if we dropped the tennis ball we had to go back start again. There can only two people that can win the game and compete with room 19, 20, our class and 22. It was kind of fun but I didn’t want to play because it was boring.

The last game was with Mrs Nua. We had to sit down and we would get a number and go to a bucket. My group had 7 people in our our team. What we had to do was we had a bucket in front of us and in that bucket was a sponge. Then we had to go under us and go pass us and we had to get from the front to the back we had to fill our bucket up so that we could win the game some of the people in the other team was making the other person in their team get wet. We did really well and had won our game 2 times that was so close to wining we though it will be the yellow team that were going to win the game I think we had about 3 times to play that game with Mrs Nua.

Sonny Bill Williams

Sonny William Williams (born 3 August 1985), better known as Sonny Bill Williams, is a New Zealand rugby union player and a heavyweight boxer. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the New Zealand Kiwis and the first to do so since Karl lfwersen in the 1920s. He started his professional rugby league career with the Canterbury Bulldogs in the Australian NRL.

Dan Carter

Dan Carter
Born on the 5th March
He is a New Zealand professional rugby union player.
He is currently the highest points scorer in test match rugby and is regarded as one of rugby's greatest ever fly-halves.
I think that Dan Carter is a good player because he scores lots of points for the All Blacks.

Ireland

We have been learning about the Rugby World Cup. I have been finding out things about Ireland who is one of the countries playing for the Cup.

Holiday highlight

In the holidays I went to Hastings to see my family. When we got there it was dark. In the morning we had to get ready for a wedding, because the bride is my auntie and she looked so pretty in her wedding dress. We went to a 21st birthday the next day.

My family and I had to do a Tongan dance, then we did a Cook Islands dance too. We had to do the dances because the groom was a Tongan and the bride was a Cook Islander

The bridesmaids wore pink dresses because the bride liked pink, that is why we had to wear pink too. I did not want to wear pink. I wanted to wear blue because it’s my favorite colour.

I had so much fun when I was there. I got to meet the grooms family, they were nice people but some of them were boring. My mum had to make a big dish of potato salad, Cook Island style. Everybody enjoyed it. I did not get to eat any, but my mum made some at home. It was really nice.

Final Design

I chose this design because:
It might help people do the right thing.

Evaluation:

* Does your sign meet all the specifications and requirements of the brief?
If so, how? Yes because my sign is about getting rid of rubbish in the street

* What is the purpose of your sign? Do you think your sign will help eliminate a problem in the school or street? If so, how? to get rid of rubbish.

* What did you do well? finished most of my project

* What difficulties did you come across while making your sign? filling in the planning log and thinking of ideas

* What can you do next time to improve your project?
focus properly and try to finish it off properly and on time

Design 1

PMI

You need to come up with at least 2 different possible sign designs and complete a PMI for each. This should include some feedback from an adult or a peer around the school who would represent the stakeholders.



PMI:

Plus: Has a picture of a bin.
Minus: Has no block writing, no colour
Interesting: Its cool

Brief Development

Brief Development: 1st Brief

Conceptual Statement:
(What is the concept or idea behind your design brief? e.g “To produce a sign with a message that helps eliminate the issue of...”)

To produce a sign with a message that helps eliminate the issue of rubbish

Specifications:
(The measurable must haves ie. the things that are important to designing an effective sign e.g. sign must be easy to read etc...)

1.Big paper
2.Put it in the street
3.has to be colourful
4.have to be big writing

Constraints:
(Musts that are beyond my control e.g. Must be completed by the end of the term)

1.must be completed by the end of the term
2.must be completed properly
3.must be done
4.have to Stand out

Resources:
(things I need to make the sign)
*paper
*ruler
*colour
*glue
*pencil
*cardboard