Update From Rippa Rugby

For the last session, Coach Corey had a new activity for us. You had a chance to win a prize for your whole class. The prize was three rugby balls. To win the prize, the class has to pass to each other as quick as they could... but the class had to make two lines facing each other. Then we had to pass it in a zigzag formation to one another.

The class that won the prize was Rm9. They won by milliseconds! They had a time of 19.24 seconds and Rm10 had 19.38 seconds... so Rm9 was lucky. I was surprised that they won by milliseconds.

Rippa Rugby

Yesterday we had our last session for rippa rugby with coach Corey. It was sad knowing that whilst we were playing it was the last time playing with him. But, for the last session we played some new activities.

We played a game called "Over The River" and it's a fun game. There are two sides of the field with one team each. The aim of the game was to throw the ball across the river to the other side and try to get them out. If the ball touches the ground on the other side then the closest person to the ball is out, or if the ball falls in the river then the person throwing or kicking the ball is out.

I hope we get to see Coach Corey again and do some more rippa rugby with him.

First Tech Day With Sir Grundy

Yesterday all the Tech classes switched classes. My group moved to Mr Grundy's class.

For our first day with Mr Grundy, we learnt a lot of things about a wooden joint. A joint is two pieces of wood glued together strongly. Mr Grundy also wanted to present us with his train he made of pure wood. He had made an elephant to put it inside his little train. 

We also had the chance of making up a design for ourselves. My design is........

Come back next week to find out what it is. 

Teachers Go On Strike

Yesterday 50,000 teachers went to Auckland City to walk up Queen Street to protest for better pay and other conditions. Before they went marching up Queen Street some teachers had to organise where they were going to walk, so they can block up some roads so no drivers can go through.

Not only marching for a better pay, but the teachers were also protesting for more teachers. Reason being is because some teachers at Ruapotaka School has been saying that New Zealand needs more teachers. They are so worried because that because, if they are going to retire in the next few years then there will not be enough teachers to teach the children.

I think that if there will be no more teachers then there would be no more doctors, police, pilots and all other jobs. But, some people would think that being is a bad job, but what they don't know is that there would no other good jobs if there were no teachers to teach how to do that job.

Vaiaso O Le Gagana Samoa 2019 (SAMOAN LANGUAGE WEEK)

Monday 27th of May was the official beginning of Samoan Language week for 2019. There are Samoan events held across the whole of New Zealand. That means if you known some Samoan, share it with everyone. I'm going to attempt to write some sentences in Samoan.

Faʻafeiloaʻi i laʻu blog o loʻu igoa Leaaepeni. O le gagana Gagana Samoa pe a maua uma e tagata samoa le avanoa e faʻasoa ai a latou gagana.

Mt Cook Broke The Record

Not so long ago Mt Cook broke a record with the most people to visit the mountain. Mt Cook is the biggest mountain in New Zealand and during the past few years it has had a million people visit it. Nine years ago the Department of Conversation (DOC) upgrade around Mt Cook so that it can make it easier for the visitors. The DOC put more roads for cars, more passageways and put more toilets around the area.

I think that it's cool that a huge mountain hit 1 million reviews and I hope one day to visit it.

Welcome To Ruapotaka School

This morning, Ruapotaka School had a powhiri to welcome our guest from ERO. ERO is a company that visits schools to observe how they learn. ERO stands for Education Review Office community.

Our guests names were Richard and Pam. During the powhiri we greeted them with a few speeches by Tristan, Sosiua and myself... We also sang a couple of songs. Afterwards Richard had a go at speaking, but it was in his two languages. Maori and Samoan.

When the powhiri came to an end the guests and Mrs Hamilton gave us a hongi and a hand shake. All the teachers were impressed by the way we presented it and how it went as planned.