Tuesday Volleyball

Tuesdays are the days we have Volleyball. We've been practising with Renee, our coach. She taught us how to do a lot of hard and easy moves. The hardest move for me would be the spike. It's hard because you wouldn't know when to spike the ball and where. So ever since we've been practising I've improved in spiking the ball. Now I know how to spike the ball, but not properly just a beginner spike.

By the way the class learnt something that day. We also have to learn one move each day, so that we don't have to get mixed up learning two moves at once.

Kevin And Hunter

Today we had to say farewell to four visitors. There were two students named Kevin and Hunter and the teachers name was Miss Cheng. When they arrived at Ruapotaka School we had a special assembly to welcome them. While they were here, they enjoyed there time with some classes, doing sport and a lot of maths.

Sadly we had to say farewell to them because they had to explore the rest of Auckland. So when they were leaving we had another assembly, the prefects handed each of them some gifts. In the end they left with their gifts and headed home.

Kahurangi

Wednesday 1st of August we had an amazing show being shown by the people of Kahurangi. There were six of them, they started off
there show with a dance. Through out the whole show their were bits where comedy was involved and it was funny, there was a scene where one of the girl actors dressed up as a boy and pretend married a lady. She even had the moustache and everything.

Going to the end there a part where the actors chose three people from the audience to come up to the front. The tree people that was chosen was 2 students, Kingston and Texas, then the last person was a teacher, Mr Reid. All they had to do was follow the instructions the actor gave them, some moves looked funny, but what was funny was when he made the noises.

They finished the show with questions and then a student prefect had to say a thank you speech to finish the show.

My Syndicate Assembly Award

Yesterday we had a syndicate assembly. It was hosted by Rm 9, they had two songs and a awesome game. The game was to use your mouth only to pick up the box from the floor, in the end me and a friend received a certificate for things we did. He got his certificate for being a reliable student and trustful. I received mine for being able to control and welcome two new students. In the end Rm 9 finished their assembly off with a thank you and sent the classes off.

Tonga VS Samoa

In the weekends there was a rugby league game being held in Australia. It was the Tonga vs Samoa game. There were some new players in the Tongan team and in the Samoan team too. During the game a few Tongan players were injured badly and some just hurt a little. Either way the game was awesome. There were some tries that were out of the box and some tries that were just fine. Nearly everyone in the Tongan team tried, but some just missed out on their chance. I was happy when Tonga was presented with the Victory in the end.

My Basket And Heart Weaving

Last week we did weaving with our teacher. He sent us an e-mail to a tutorial video about weaving a basket. The video looked easy to make, but when we made it, it was a hard weaving to make. One of my friends made it quickly because it was easy for him, and the rest of us were on it for 2 to 3 days. After we were done we had to put our baskets at the back of the class.

Hip Hop With Jess💃

Today we had Hip Hop with Jess. Jess wanted us to first start off with a warm up and then started dancing. In the warm up we did some stretching and some head movements, we also had to practice  doing the wave starting from the tips of our fingers. 

After that we played a game of musical statues, when the music stopped we had to either sit down, do dance moves and more. As soon as we finished playing our game we moved into our groups that we were put in to finish our group dance. In the end Jess called us out to do our dancing in front of the class, my group was up first.

Later on, the last group was up to do their dance and it was pretty cool, they had some Fortnite dances and made up dances in their dance. Some of the groups were shy, but they made it through strong.